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. 1986 Mar;126(3):341-51.
doi: 10.1002/jcp.1041260304.

Class specificity of transferrin as a muscle trophic factor

T Shimo-Oka, Y Hagiwara, E Ozawa

Class specificity of transferrin as a muscle trophic factor

T Shimo-Oka et al. J Cell Physiol. 1986 Mar.

Abstract

The specificity of transferrin (Tf) in its exertion of a growth-promoting effect on myogenic cells was examined using serum Tfs from chick, dove, goose, turkey, bovine, horse, rabbit, rat, and swine and primary myogenic cells from chick, duck, quail, rabbit, and rat, and rat L6 cells. Avian Tfs were effective on avian cells but not on mammalian cells, while mammalian Tfs were effective on mammalian cells but not on avian cells. Dove and bovine Tfs were exceptional in that they were effective on some class-heterologous cells at higher concentrations and less so or completely ineffective on some class-homologous cells. Despite these exceptions, however, the relationship between Tfs and cells can be summarized as a class specificity. To exert the growth-promoting effect, it is prerequisite for Tf to bind its specific receptor on the cell surface. Using quail and L6 cells, we found that the binding of 125I-labeled chick and rat Tfs to the respective receptors of quail and L6 myoblasts was competitively inhibited by other kinds of effective Tfs, but not by ineffective ones. We conclude that the class specificity in myotrophic activity of Tf is due to the affinity between Tf and Tf receptor.

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