Effect of cell spreading on cytoplasmic pH in normal and transformed fibroblasts.

AUTOR(ES)

Schwartz, M A

RESUMO

Growth of normal fibroblasts requires an adhesive substratum on which to spread, whereas transformed cells can grow in suspension. Since an alkaline cytoplasm has been shown to be required for growth, we measured cytoplasmic pH in individual cells as a function of spreading. The degree of spreading was controlled by coating tissue culture plastic with varying amounts of the nonadhesive polymer polyHEMA. Completely round BALB/c 3T3 cells were 0.15 pH unit more acidic than spread cells. In short-term experiments, cells were treated with the peptide Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser-Pro to induce rounding or by plating on fibronectin to induce spreading. When cells were induced to change shape, pH changed rapidly and reversibly. All of the anchorage-dependent cell lines tested behaved similarly, but 3T3 cells transformed by the plasma membrane oncogene src or ras were able to maintain a relatively alkaline pH even when completely round. Cells transformed by the nuclear oncogene myc behaved like normal cells. Our results suggest that the requirement for spreading may in part be mediated by cytoplasmic pH. Anchorage-independent growth due to oncogenes that localize to the plasma membrane is associated with loss of this control mechanism.

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