Temporal sequence of cell shape changes in cultured rat sertoli cells after experimental elevation of intracellular cAMP.
Temporal sequence of cell shape changes in cultured rat sertoli cells after experimental elevation of intracellular cAMP.
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细胞内 cAMP 实验性升高后,培养的大鼠支持细胞中细胞形状变化的时间序列。
DOI:
10.1016/0014-4827(81)90414-6
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Kierszenbaum,AL
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作者:
Spruill,WA;White,MG;Steiner,AL;Tres,LL;Kierszenbaum,AL
The ability of FSH and pharmacological agents to induce changes in the shape of cultured rat Sertoli cells has been studied by using time-lapse phase-contrast microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Morphological studies were combined with an immunocytochemical method for the localization of cAMP in Sertoli cells and the results correlated with determinations of protein-bound cAMP in Sertoli cells. A variable number of Sertoli cells were converted from a flat, epithelial-like morphology into a stellate morphology after exposure to FSH, isobutyl-methylxanthine (MIX), dibutyryl cyclic AMP (db-cAMP) and an FSH-MIX mixture. The morphological changes followed a time- and biological agent-dependent alteration and recovery pattern. While a 120 min exposure to FSH induced shape changes in 38% of the cells, MIX, db-cAMP and FSH-MIX effected shape changes in 75 % of cells. The morphological conversion induced by MIX, db-cAMP and FSH-MIX persisted as long as these biological agents were present in the medium, whereas the effects induced by FSH alone were transient. The flat-to-stellate transition was preceded by an increase in intracellular protein-bound cAMP, a form of cyclic nucleotide which may account for cAMP immunoreactivity observed in morphologically responsive and non-responsive Sertoli cells. From these data and from previous experimental findings of androgen-binding protein (ABP) immunoreactivity in the cytoplasm of responsive and non-responsive Sertoli cells, we conclude that a surge of cAMP triggers a still undefined mechanism by which Sertoli cells modify their shape in coincidence with a progressive depletion of cytoplasmic secretory granules.