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Mol Cell Biol. 1982 March; 2(3): 320-330

The response of chicken embryo dermal fibroblasts to cytochalasin B is altered by Rous sarcoma virus-induced cell transformation.

ABSTRACT

The drug cytochalasin B (CB), which disrupts the cellular microfilament network, allows the identification of as yet unclassified structural differences between normal and Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chicken embryo fibroblasts. When exposed to CB, normal chick fibroblasts attain an arborized or dendritic morphology. This results as the cytoplasm collapses upon the remaining structural and adhesive components of the cell. Rous sarcoma virus-transformed cells did not form or maintain these dendritic-like processes in the presence of CB and, as a result, rounded up but still remained attached to the substrate. With a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus, LA24A, it was possible to show that these effects are completely reversible and dependent on the expression of pp60src. The cytoskeleton in these CB-treated cells was examined by both immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. After exposure to CB, the microfilaments were found to be disrupted similarly throughout both the transformed and the nontransformed cells. In the nontransformed cells arborized by exposure to CB, the extended processes were found to contain intermediate filaments in an unusually high concentration and degree of organization. The distribution of these filaments in the central body of the arborized cells was random. This lower concentration and random distribution was similar to that seen throughout the transformed cells rounded up by exposure to CB. The failure of these transformed cells to arborize in CB indicates that the structural component(s) which is necessary for the formation or maintenance or both of the arborized state is altered by the expression of pp60src.

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