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Comparative Study

Cell line-specific differences in the control of cell cycle progression in the absence of mitosis

A L Kung et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Dec.

Abstract

This paper reports that there are major differences between mammalian cell lines in the propensity to progress into subsequent cell cycles when mitosis is inhibited with agents that disrupt the assembly of the mitotic spindle apparatus (Colcemid, nocodazole, and taxol). Human HeLa S3 cells, which represent one extreme, remain arrested in mitosis, with elevated levels of cyclin B and p34cdc2 kinase activity. In Chinese hamster ovary cells, at the other extreme, the periodic rise and fall of cyclin B levels and p34cdc2 kinase activity is only transiently inhibited in the absence of mitosis. The cells progress into subsequent cell cycles, without dividing, resulting in serial doublings of cellular DNA content. In general, the propensity to progress into subsequent cell cycles in the absence of mitosis appears to be species related, such that human cell lines remain permanently blocked in a mitotic state, whereas rodent cell lines are only transiently inhibited when spindle assembly is disrupted. We interpret these results to indicate that in mammalian cell lines there exists a checkpoint which serves to couple cell cycle progression to the completion of certain karyokinetic events. Furthermore, either such a checkpoint exists in some cell lines but not in others or the stringency of the control mechanism varies among different cell lines.

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