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Enhancement of chemotactic response and microtubule assembly in human leukocytes by ascorbic acid

✍ Scribed by Laurence A. Boxer; Burton Vanderbilt; Stephen Bonsib; Ralph Jersild; Hsin-Hsin Yang; Robert L. Baehner

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Weight: 888 KB
Volume: 100
Category: Article
ISSN: 0021-9541
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041000112

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Abstract

The incubation of human leukocytes with ascorbic acid increased chemotaxis of the cells. In addition, ascorbic acid promoted the assembly of intracellular polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) microtubules as assessed by transmission electron microscopy. Prior incubation of the PMN with colchicine blocked the effect of ascorbic acid on promoting microtubule assembly. Not only did ascorbic acid promote the assembly of microtubules in vivo, but it enhanced the assembly of bovine brain tubulin into microtubules in vitro as quantitated by a glass‐fiber filtration assay and by promotion of viscosity changes. The enhancement in leukocyte mobility by ascorbate at concentrations achievable in normal tissues correlates with its ability to assemble microtubule organelles.

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