Abstract
Epidermal spinous and granular cells from the newborn rat neither replicate their nuclear DNA nor proliferate in vitro under conditions which support both processes in basal cells. However, as shown by autoradiography, (3H)thymidine and (14C)bromodeoxyuridine do label nuclei removed from spinous cells but not from granular cells. CsCl density gradient centrifugation of DNA obtained from early differentiated nuclei which had been exposed in vitro to (14C)bromodeoxyuridine, indicated that a considerable level of the tracer was present in the nucleic acid and suggested that replication of the genome had occurred. Therefore, spinous cells appear to retain the capability of reproducing nuclear DNA. Since differentiated cells appear to have the "diploid" level of DNA, these observations point to the replication of DNA as a possible locus of the mitotic inhibition which is coincident with epidermal differentiation.
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