TUMORIGENIC-3T3 CELLS MAINTAIN AN ALKALINE INTRACELLULAR PH UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
TUMORIGENIC-3T3 CELLS MAINTAIN AN ALKALINE INTRACELLULAR PH UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.87.19.7414
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发表时间:
1990-10-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
PERONA, R
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作者:
GILLIES, RJ;MARTINEZZAGUILAN, R;PERONA, R
One of the earliest events in the response of mammalian cells to mitogens is activation of Na+/H+ exchange, which increases intracellular pH (pHin) in the absence of HCO3- or at external pH values below 7.2. The proliferative response can be blocked by preventing the pHin increase; yet, the proliferative response cannot be stimulated by artificially raising pHin with weak bases or high medium pH. These observayions support the hypothesis that optimal pHin is a necessary, but not sufficient, component of the proliferative-response sequence. This hypothesis has recently been challenged by the observation that transfection of NIH 3T3 cells with yeast H+-ATPase renders them tumorigenic. Although previous measurements indicated that these transfected cells maintain a higher pHin in the absence of HCO3-, whether H+-ATPase transfection raised the pHin under physiologically relevant conditions was not known. The current report shows that these transfected cells do maintain a higher pHin than control cells in the presence of HCO3-, supporting the possibility that elevated pHin is a proliferative trigger in situ. We also show that these cells are serum-independent for growth and that they glycolyze much more rapidly than phenotypically normal cells.