scholarly journals Stimulation by defined parathyroid hormone fragments of cell proliferation in skeletal-derived cell cultures

1990 ◽  
Vol 272 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Sömjen ◽  
I Binderman ◽  
K D Schlüter ◽  
E Wingender ◽  
H Mayer ◽  
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We have reported previously that parathyroid hormone (PTH) acts on cultured bone cells to stimulate creatine kinase (CK) activity and [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA via phosphoinositide turnover, in addition to its other actions via increased cyclic AMP production. We also found that mid-region fragments of PTH stimulate [3H]thymidine incorporation into avian chondrocytes. In the present study of mammalian systems, we demonstrate differential effects of defined synthetic PTH fragments on CK activity and DNA synthesis, as compared with cyclic AMP production, in osteoblast-enriched embryonic rat calvaria cell cultures, in an osteoblast-like clone of rat osteosarcoma cells (ROS 17/2.8) and in chondroblasts from rat epiphysial cartilage cell cultures. Unlike full-length bovine (b)PTH-(1-84) or the fully effective shorter fragment human (h)PTH-(1-34), fragments lacking the N-terminal region of the hormone did not increase cyclic AMP formation, whereas they did stimulate increases in both DNA synthesis and CK activity. Moreover, the PTH fragment hPTH-(28-48) at 10 microM inhibited the increase in cyclic AMP caused by 10 nM-bPTH-(1-84). The increase of CK activity in ROS 17/2.8 cells caused by bPTH-(1-84) or hPTH-(28-48) was completely inhibited by either cycloheximide or actinomycin D, as was shown previously for rat calvaria cell cultures. These results indicated the presence of a functional domain of PTH in the central part of the molecule which exerts its mitogenic-related effects on osteoblast- and chondroblast-like cells in a cyclic AMP-independent manner. Since cyclic AMP formation by PTH leads to bone resorption, specific mid-region fragments of PTH might prove suitable for use in vivo to induce bone formation without concomitant resorption.

Bone ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1177-1185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoko Minamizaki ◽  
Yuji Yoshiko ◽  
Katsuyuki Kozai ◽  
Jane E. Aubin ◽  
Norihiko Maeda

1974 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-307
Author(s):  
P. EKER

Cyclic AMP (0.1 to 1 mM) was found to inhibit the growth of human liver cells in monolayer cultures. Significant amounts of degradation products were not detected in the medium indicating that the growth-inhibiting effect was associated with the intact cyclic nucleotide. DNA synthesis in the liver cell cultures, as measured by thymidine incorporation into acid-insoluble material, was markedly inhibited by cyclic AMP. RNA and protein synthesis were not significantly affected. Cyclic AMP induced a considerable increase in the cellular uptake of thymidine and uridine from the medium. When the liver cells were incubated in medium containing radioactive cyclic AMP, no labelled cyclic AMP could be detected in the acid-soluble cell fraction by chromatographic analysis. It is suggested that cyclic AMP does not enter the liver cells, but that its action on growth and DNA synthesis is somehow mediated through an interaction with the cell surface.


1974 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han van Rijn ◽  
Marinus M. Bevers ◽  
Roeland van Wijk ◽  
Wesley D. Wicks

The ability of N6, O2'-dibutyryl cyclic AMP (DBcAMP) to regulate a number of metabolic events in four lines of cultured rat hepatomas has been examined. Although dexamethasone induces tyrosine transaminase in all four lines, DBcAMP induces this enzyme normally only in H35 cells. A slight increase in transaminase activity was seen with MH1C1 cells and HTC cells, but no effect was detectable in RLC cells. In contrast, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity is increased by both agents in H35 and MH1C1 cells, but neither had any effect in HTC or RLC cells. DBcAMP caused a rapid inhibition of the growth rate and DNA synthesis and an increase in protein content in both H35 and MH1C1 cells but not in HTC or RLC cells. The effect of DBcAMP on DNA synthesis in MH1C1 cells could be reversed by deoxycytidine as is also the case with H35 cells. The resistance of HTC and RLC cells to DBcAMP was not due to reduced uptake or deacylation as judged by studies with [3H]DBcAMP. The cyclic nucleotide appears to enter the cells by passive diffusion as the intracellular concentration approaches that in the medium within 30–60 min. Possible explanations for the differential responses observed are discussed.


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