Convergent effects of growth factors, hormones, and fibronectin are necessary for the enterocyte differentiation of a colon adenocarcinoma cell line (HT29-D4)

Autor: Maxime Lehmann, Véronique Rigot, Monique Roccabianca, Véronique Pichard, Claudette Briand, Jean-Baptiste Rognoni, José Luis, Jacques Marvaldi, Stéphane Honoré, Gérard Carles
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Differentiation; research in biological diversity. 63(5)
ISSN: 0301-4681
Popis: The aim of this work was to show in serum-free medium a convergent effect of physiological factors and extracellular matrix proteins on the differentiation process of enterocytes by taking as a model the HT29-D4 clone that has the feature of differentiating when subcultured in fetal bovine serum glucose-free medium. We show that triiodothyronine (T3) as well as insulin promotes limited cell growth and differentiation, whereas fibronectin or bovine serum albumin (BSA) induces cell growth and a low level of differentiation. However, insulin, T3, fibronectin, and BSA together with epidermal growth factor and transferrin promoted satisfactory growth and enterocyte morphology with epithelial electrophysiological properties in HT29-D4 cells. With these factors adequate protein targeting was achieved since cells apically expressed the carcinoembryonic antigen, and basolaterally transferrin and insulin receptors, beta 1 and alpha v beta 6 integrins, talin, vinculin, and focal adhesion kinase (FAK). Talin, vinculin, FAK, and alpha v beta 6 integrin, the fibronectin receptor, were clustered in focal contacts, which agrees with a possible role of fibronectin in final cell growth, the latter process mediating the final phase of differentiation. This level of differentiation can be maintained for a long time. Thus HT29-D4 cells appear to be a suitable model to study the implication of integrins in the differentiation process of human enterocytes.
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