Elsevier

Brain Research

Volume 660, Issue 1, 10 October 1994, Pages 104-112
Brain Research

Effect of cellular differentiation on nucleoside transport in human neuroblastoma cells

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Abstract

The nucleoside transport characteristics of undifferentiated and differentiated LA-N-2 human neuroblastoma cells were compared through measurement of the cellular accumulation of [3H]formycin B in the absence and presence of specific nucleoside transport blockers such as dipyridamole and nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBMPR). [3H]NBMPR was also used as a high affinity probe to obtain an estimate of the number of NBMPR-sensitive nucleoside transport proteins. Undifferentiated LA-N-2 cells accumulated [3H]formycin B (25 μM) via a NBMPR/ dipyridamole sensitive, Na+-independent, nucleoside transport system (Vi = 1.52 pmol/μl/s; maximum intracellular concentration = 45 pmol/μl cell water). The undifferentiated cells also had a high density of site-specific [3H]NBMPR binding sites (135,000 sites/cell; KD= 0.4 nM). When cell differentiation was induced by exposure to a serum-free defined medium, the initial rate of transporter-mediated [3H]formycin B uptake increased to 1.92 pmol/μl/s, and the steady-state intracellular concentration of [3H]formycin B also increased significantly to 73 pmol/gml. However, there was no concominant change in the number of [3H]NBMPR binding sites, and the additional uptake was not Na+-dependent. This enhanced uptake in the differentiated cells appeared to be due, in part, to an increased functional expression of a NBMPR-resistant form of facilitated nucleoside transporter. Approximately 18% of the transporter-mediated uptake in the differentiated cells was resistant to inhibition by NBMPR at concentrations that blocked transport completely in the undifferentiated cells. This cell model may prove useful for basic studies on regulation of nucleoside transporter subtype expression in neural tissues, and for evaluation of the efficacy and potential host toxicity of cytotoxic nucleoside analogues (± specific transport blockers) in the treatment of neuroblastoma.

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