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. 1986 Feb;6(2):518-24.
doi: 10.1128/mcb.6.2.518-524.1986.

c-myc regulation during retinoic acid-induced differentiation of F9 cells is posttranscriptional and associated with growth arrest

M Dean, R A Levine, J Campisi

c-myc regulation during retinoic acid-induced differentiation of F9 cells is posttranscriptional and associated with growth arrest

M Dean et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1986 Feb.

Abstract

We have shown that c-myc mRNA levels decrease more than 20-fold when F9 teratocarcinoma stem cells are induced to arrest growth and terminally differentiate to parietal endoderm after exposure to retinoic acid and cyclic AMP (Campisi et al., Cell 36:241-247, 1984). Here, we demonstrate that although growth arrest and full expression of the differentiated phenotype required about 3 days, c-myc mRNA declined abruptly between 8 and 16 h after the addition of retinoic acid and cyclic AMP. The decline was independent of cyclic AMP. We found little or no change in the level of c-myc transcription during differentiation, although two other genes showed marked transcriptional regulation. Thus, decreased c-myc mRNA is a consequence of very early posttranscriptional regulation directed by retinoic acid. Differentiation was not fundamental to this regulation. We have shown that sodium butyrate blocks expression of the differentiated phenotype if added within 8 h of retinoic acid and cyclic AMP (Levine et al., Dev. Biol. 105:443-450, 1984). However, butyrate did not inhibit the decrease in c-myc mRNA. Furthermore, F9 cells partially arrested growth without differentiating when grown in isoleucine-deficient medium. Under these conditions, c-myc mRNA levels also declined. Our results suggest that induction of differentiation-specific genes may be under retinoic acid-mediated control dissimilar from that responsible for the decay of c-myc mRNA. In addition, they raise the possibility that growth arrest may be initiated by reduced c-myc expression.

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