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Query: UMLS:C0027819 (neuroblastoma)
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Tumors of the mouse possess 2 isozymic forms of L-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (alpha-GPDH) (EC 1.1.1.8) that can be distinguished from each other by their heat inactivation and electrophoretic properties. These isozymes share certain structural features, since dissociation and reassociation of mixtures of the 2 isozymes lead to the generation of a hybrid molecular species. This finding suggests that the structural genes for these isozymes are closely related. A number of spontaneous and transplantable tumors of the mouse have been analyzed in order to assess whether the pattern of embryonic and adult alpha-GPDH isozyme expression is correlated with the degree of tumor differentiation. The results indicate that no correlation between the type of isozyme expressed and the degree of tumor differentiation or growth rate was evident. A striking correlation exists, however, between the physical form of the tumor and isozyme expression; all solid tumors possess, predominantly, the adult isozymic form of L-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, whereas all ascites tumors, including embryoid bodies from ovarian and testicular teratomas, possess the embryonic form. A solid tumor, the C1300 neuroblastoma, that initially possessed the adult isozyme, was cultured in vitro; this resulted in the disappearance of the adult isozyme and predominant expression of the embryonic isozyme. Reinjection of cultured neuroblastoma cells into a host mouse produced a solid tumor that possessed the adult isozyme. The exclusive presence of either adult alpha-GPDH in solid tumor growths or embryonic alpha-GPDH in ascites tumor growths after converting from one physical forms of the tumor to the other, strongly supports a genetic regulatory mechanism which depends on the reversible repression and activation of the structural loci for these isozymes.
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PMID:The reversible expression of an adult isozyme locus, Gdc-1, in tumors of the mouse. 95 97

To study the influence of cell surface-associated molecules on intercellular communication, C6 glioma cells were cultured both on plastic and on substrata of paraformaldehyde-fixed B104 neuroblastoma cells. By then comparing the phenotypic expression of these "cocultured" C6 cells with cells cultured on tissue culture plastic, the influence of the cellular substratum was determined. The beta-adrenergic-responsive cyclic AMP-generating system of C6 cells was compared on these various substrata. We found that fixed beds of dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP)-treated B104 cells uncoupled beta-receptors from adenylate cyclase, whereas fixed beds of similarly treated C6 cells did not. However, other cellular properties were not affected by growth atop fixed dbcAMP-treated B104 cell beds including the rate of C6 cellular proliferation and their rate of protein synthesis. The cell surface-associated determinant on B104 cells capable of uncoupling the beta-responsive cyclase system of C6 cells is probably a protein, as judged by its susceptibility to protease treatment. Other properties of C6 cells were also affected by the various substrata including basal and hydrocortisone-induced levels of glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH; an oligodendroglial marker) and the rate of RNA synthesis in these cells.
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PMID:Cell surface-mediated cellular interactions: effects of B104 neuroblastoma surface determinants on C6 glioma cellular properties. 629 40