Myosin in primary cultures of hamster heart cells
[摘要] Primaryculturesofneonatalhamsterheartcellscontainedaheterogeneouspopulationofcelltypes.Musclecellsrepresentedonesuchtype,andcouldbeidentifiedbytheirabilitytocontractspontaneouslyincultureandbytheirmorphologywhenexamineddirectlybyphasecontrastmicroscopyorafterstainingwithphosphotungsticacid-hematoxylin.Overgrowthofmusclecellsbymorerapidlydividingnonmusclecellswaspreventedbytreatmentofthecultureswiththemitoticinhibitor,1-β-d-arabinofuranosylcytosine.Themusclecellsincreasedtheirspecificcontentofmyosinoveraperiodof5daysinculture.Theywerethen,however,relativelyimmaturewhencomparedwiththepredominatingcellsin1-day-oldhamsterhearts.Thestructuralandenzymaticpropertiesofpurifiedmyosinfromthecultureswerenotdifferentfromthoseoftheisoenzymetypeofthisproteinnormallyfoundinneonatalhamsterhearts,andnonmusclecellscontributedlittleofthetotalmyosin.
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