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The effects of the simple phospholipids phosphatidic acid (PA) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) on the growth and function of Madin Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells has been studied. We observed that PA and LPA not only stimulated the growth of MDCK cells (at 20µM), but also stimulated the growth of normal rabbit kidney cells in serum free medium (albeit at a lower dosage of 5µM). Evidence was obtained that PA interacts synergistically with insulin so as to elicit a growth stimulatory effect. Recently, extracellular PA and LPA were proposed to stimulate mitogenesis in several types of animal cells by binding to particular sites on the plasma membrane which are coupled to signaling mechanisms such as adenylate cyclase via a pertussis toxin sensitive, inhibitory guanosine triphosphate binding protein (Gi protein) (15). However, even when the pertussis toxin dosage was increased to 50 ng/ml, LPA still had a dramatic growth stimulatory effect on MDCK cells. In the absence of LPA pertussis toxin was slightly growth stimulatory to MDCK cells. Phospholipids such as PA and LPA have been observed to prevent prostaglandin-induced increases in adenylate cyclase activity in other cell types via their effects on such a pertussis toxin sensitive Gi protein. If PA and LPA act on MDCK cells in this manner, then these phospholipids may possibly prevent the effect of PGE1 on the growth of normal MDCK cells. However PGE1 was still growth stimulatory to normal MDCK cells. The effects of PA on PGE1 independent variants of MDCK cells, which have elevated intracellular cyclic AMP levels (22), were also examined. In the presence of PA, PGE1 remained growth inhibitory, rather than growth stimulatory to the PGE1 independent cells. However, the PA dosage required to elicit an optimal growth response (5µM) was dramatically reduced, as compared with normal MDCK cells (20µM). This altered dosage requirement could be explained by the elevated intracellular cyclic AMP levels in the PGE1 independent variants. Like PGE1 and 8-bromocyclic AMP, PA and LPA also significantly increased the initial rate of Rb+ uptake by confluent monolayers of MDCK cells. The increase in the initial rate of Rb+ uptake could be explained by an increase in the ouabain-sensitive component of Rb+ uptake. An increase in the initial rate of ouabain-insensitive Rb+ uptake was also observed in LPA treated MDCK cell cultures.
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Bashir, N., Kuhen, K. & Taub, M. Phospholipids regulate growth and function of MDCK cells in hormonally defined serum free medium. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 28, 663–668 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02631043
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