Abstract
We studied the effect of sodium butyrate, a potent G1/G2-arresting agent, on actin distribution in rat 3Y1 fibroblasts in monolayer culture by fluorescence microscopy of cells stained with 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1, 3-diazole phallacidine (NBD-Ph). When randomly proliferating cells were arrested mainly in G1 phase with butyrate, a reversible overaccumulation of cellular net protein occurred. In the G1-arrested cells, actin markedly accumulated at the margin of cells, and a network structure of actin stress fibers appeared. When density-arrested cells were replated sparsely and rearrested in the G1, early S, and G2 phases with butyrate or hydroxyurea, the actin network was observed extensively in the cells arrested in the G1 and G2 phases with butyrate. These results agree with our previous results indicating the existence of some physiological similarity between cells in the G1 and G2 phases and suggest that actin distribution somehow depends on the phases of the cell cycle. The actin profiles observed by the NBD-Ph staining were confirmed by transmission electronmicroscopy (TEM) of negatively stained whole cells. TEM further revealed that electron-dense amorphous materials were present at crossing points in the network but rarely present on interconnecting microfilament bundles.
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