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Hormonal control of hyaluronic acid production in fibroblasts and its relation to nucleic acid and protein synthesis

✍ Scribed by David Moscatelli; Harry Rubin

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
799 KB
Volume
91
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9541

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Abstract

Whole serum and elevated pH previously had been found to stimulate both cell multiplication and hyaluronic acid production by chick embryo fibroblasts in culture. In a study to determine whether cell multiplication and hyaluronic acid production both respond to a single well‐defined substance, insulin was found to stimulate, and cortisol to inhibit both processes coordinately. It appears, therefore, that multiplication and differentiated function in fibroblasts respond to a common underlying regulatory signal.

Inhibition of ribosomal RNA synthesis by actinomycin D does not prevent serum stimulation of hyaluronic acid production, but inhibition of total RNA synthesis does. If total RNA synthesis is inhibited only after the hyaluronic acid production has reached a new high level, it continues at that level for the next five hours. The stimulatory treatment causes an increase in the activity of the enzyme hyaluronate synthetase. Inhibition of protein synthesis prevents any increase in hyaluronic acid production, and reduces the basal level of production.

Reduction of the availability of Mg^2+^ in the medium coordinately inhibits DNA synthesis and hyaluronic acid production. The results are discussed in the light of a model for coordinate control of growth and metabolism based on the availability of Mg^2+^.

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