CYTOSKELETAL F-ACTIN PATTERNS QUANTITATED WITH FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE-PHALLOIDIN IN NORMAL AND TRANSFORMED-CELLS
CYTOSKELETAL F-ACTIN PATTERNS QUANTITATED WITH FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE-PHALLOIDIN IN NORMAL AND TRANSFORMED-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.77.11.6624
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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POLLACK, R
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VERDERAME, M;ALCORTA, D;POLLACK, R
Actin in cultured fibroblasts is organized into a complex set of fibers. Patterns of organization visualized with antibody to actin are similar but not identical to those visualized with fluorescein isothiocyanate-phalloidin (Fl-phalloidin), a chemical that binds to F-actin polymer with a dissociation constant of 2.7 .times. 10-7 M. Fl-phalloidin reveals that transformed cells have fewer, finer and shorter F-actin-containing structures than do normal cells. Two-color fluorescence microscopy of single cells reveals that F-actin staining by Fl-phalloidin picks out the cytoskeletal cables more sharply than does antibody to actin, due to a reduced intracellular background fluorescence. This improved resolution permits sorting of cellular Fl-phalloidin patterns into 4 classes ranging in organization from 90% of the cytoplasm occupied by large cables to the absence of detectable cables. Reproducible differences in pattern distributions between normal and transformed cell lines were quantitated. Fl-phalloidin, together with rhodamine-based indirect antibody to SV40 tumor antigen, reveals a direct relationship between the degree of pattern change and SV40 nuclear antigen expression in intermediate transformed 3T3 [mouse] cell lines.