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Expression and function of connexin in normal and transformed human keratinocytes in culture
Unit of Multistage Carcinogenesis, International Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon, France
1Division of Differentiation and Carcinogenesis, German Cancer Research Centre D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany
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We have studied the gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) of immortalized and tumourigenic human keratinocyte cell lines and of a spontaneously immortalized non-tumourigenic and a highly differentiating keratinocyte cell line (HaCaT) as the control. In homologous cultures, the GJIC capacity of five squamous cell carcinoma-derived cell lines was 1–27% that of the HaCaT cells. Ha-ras-transfected HaCaT cells with tumourigenic potential and an SV40 DNA-immortalized cell line had markedly reduced GJIC capacities. Northern analysis and immunohisto-chemistry showed that connexin (Cx) 43 is the major gap junction protein expressed in the communicating cells. They do not express Cx 26 or 32. The low or absent communication observed in certain cell lines was due in some to a lack of Cx 43 gene expression, but in others to aberrant localization of the gap junction protein. GJIC of these cell lines, as well as that of primary normal human epidermal keratinocytes, was susceptible to 12-O-tetra-decanoylphorbol-13-acetate-mediated inhibition. Moreover, GJIC of HaCaT cells and their tumourigenic derivatives is Ca2+-dependent. These results, when compared with those previously obtained for mouse keratinocyte cell lines, reveal that GJIC of human keratinocytes was correlated to the degree of differentiation and is controlled in a similar way to that of murine keratinocytes. Aberrant GJIC seems to be a common feature of human and murine skin carcinogenesis.
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