EFFECT OF RELAXIN ON THE PHENOTYPE OF COLLAGENS SYNTHESIZED BY CULTURED RABBIT CHONDROCYTES
EFFECT OF RELAXIN ON THE PHENOTYPE OF COLLAGENS SYNTHESIZED BY CULTURED RABBIT CHONDROCYTES
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DOI:
10.1016/0167-4889(88)90119-x
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发表时间:
1988-11-18
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CORVOL, MT
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BONAVENTURE, J;DELATOUR, B;CORVOL, MT
The effect of porcine relaxin on rabbit articular and growth plate chondrocytes in primary culture was investigated by measurement of total collagen production and analysis of the phenotypes of newly synthesized collagen chains. A 24-h treatment of monolayer articular and multilayer growth plate chondrocytes with 2 .mu.g per ml relaxin had no effect on total DNA and did not significantly modify the amount of [3H]proline-labelled collagen chains secreted by the cells. However, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis demonstrated relevant modifications in relaxin treated chondrocytes. A significant increase was observed in the proportion of type III collagen and in the intensity of the band corresponding to .alpha.2I chains. Two-dimensional peptide mapping of CNBr-cleaved molecules indicated that the band that was identified as .alpha., II on monodimensional gels contained a significant proportion of a1I collagen chains, as demonstrated by the presence of .alpha.1I cyanogen bromide-degested peptides. The intensity of this band was increased by relaxin treatment. Furthermore, total RNA analysis by slot blot and Northern blot techniques showed a dose-dependent stimulation of .alpha.1I and .alpha.1III mRNA levels after incubation with increased relaxin concentrations, but no change in the amount of .alpha.1II mRNA. These results suggested that when added to cartilage cells in vitro, relaxin modulated the expression of type I, type II and type III genes by amplifying the dedifferentiation process.