Changes in phenotypic expression in embryonic and adult cells treated with 5‐azacytidine
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cellular Physiology
- Vol. 111 (2), 187-194
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041110210
Abstract
We have previously shown that 5‐azacytidine (5‐Aza‐CR) induced the formation of biochemically differentiated myotubes, adipocytes, and chondrocytes in the mouse embryo cell line, C3H/10T1/2CL8 (10T1/2), and that the induction of the muscle phenotype was cell cycle specific. Here we show that the adipocyte phenotype is also induced maximally in cells treated during early S phase. During this period, the minimum treatment time required for the subsequent formation of myotubes was 5 min and the number of myotubes formed was dependent on treatment time. The incorporation of 14C‐5‐Aza‐CR into DNA during the cell cycle, however, was not enhanced during early S phase, suggesting that incorporation of 5‐Aza‐CR into specific DNA sequences synthesized during early S phase may be required for the expression of the new phenotypes. Single cells, obtained by plating cell suspensions into 16 mm wells at limiting dilution, were treated with 5‐Aza‐CR during S phase. The resulting clones showed a high frequency of phenotypic conversion, indicating that 5‐Aza‐CR did not act via a selective mechanism, and several of the clones were capable of expressing more than one phenotype. The cells required more than 2 division cycles after treatment with the analog for the expression of the muscle phenotype and the capacity to differentiate was retained for long periods of time in the absence of cell division. The adult mouse line, CVP3SC6, differentiated into functional striated muscle cells following treatment with 5‐Aza‐CR. The analog also caused oncogenic transformation in the adult line at the same concentration that was effective at inducing myogenic expression.Keywords
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