UMMS Affiliation
Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Center
Publication Date
11-1-1995
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Animals; Cell Cycle; Cell Cycle Proteins; Cell Differentiation; Cell Division; Cell Nucleus; Cells, Cultured; Cyclins; Cytoplasm; Osteoblasts; Osteosarcoma; Rats; Subcellular Fractions; Transforming Growth Factor beta; Up-Regulation
Disciplines
Cancer Biology | Cell Biology
Abstract
The representation of cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) was analyzed during progressive development of the bone cell phenotype in cultures of normal diploid rat calvarial osteoblasts. Three developmental stages were examined: (a) proliferation; (b) monolayer confluency; and (c) mineralization of the bone extracellular matrix. We demonstrate that the presence of cyclins and cdks is not restricted to the proliferation period. Consistent with their role in cell cycle progression, cdc2 and cdk2 decrease postproliferatively. However, cdk4 and cyclins A, B, and D1 persist in confluent cells. Cyclin E is significantly up-regulated during the extracellular matrix mineralization developmental period. Examination of the cytoplasmic levels of these cell cycle regulatory proteins indicates a marked increase in cyclin B in the late differentiation stage. The elevation of nuclear cyclin E and cytoplasmic cyclin B is not observed in osteoblasts maintained under culture conditions that do not support differentiation. Furthermore, treatment with transforming growth factor beta for 48 h during the proliferation period renders the cells incompetent for differentiation and abrogates the postproliferative up-regulation of cyclins B and E. Density-induced growth inhibition of ROS 17/2.8 osteosarcoma cells is not accompanied by up-regulation of nuclear cyclin E and cytoplasmic cyclin B when compared to the proliferation period. This observation is consistent with abrogation of both growth control and differentiation regulatory mechanisms in tumor cells. These results suggest that cell cycle regulatory proteins function not only during proliferation but may also play a role in normal diploid osteoblast differentiation.
Source
Cancer Res. 1995 Nov 1;55(21):5019-24.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cancer research
Related Resources
PubMed ID
7585545
Repository Citation
Smith, Elisheva; Frenkel, Baruch; Schlegel, Robert; Giordano, Antonio; Lian, Jane B.; Stein, Janet L.; and Stein, Gary S., "Expression of cell cycle regulatory factors in differentiating osteoblasts: postproliferative up-regulation of cyclins B and E" (1995). Open Access Articles. 372.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/372