Differentiation of HT-29 human colonic adenocarcinoma cells correlates with increased expression of mitochondrial RNA: effects of trehalose on cell growth and maturation.

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Lu X, Walker T, MacManus JP, Seligy VL

Differentiation of HT-29 human colonic adenocarcinoma cells correlates with increased expression of mitochondrial RNA: effects of trehalose on cell growth and maturation.

Cancer Res. 1992 Jul 1;52(13):3718-25.

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Abstract

The HT-29 human adenocarcinoma cell line has been used extensively in the study of colonic cell differentiation and colon cancer. We report here that substitution of glucose with trehalose (alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside) depresses growth and promotes mucin-producing, goblet-like maturation of HT-29. An initial characterization of this process was made by analyzing several cDNA clones whose RNA templates were differentially expressed at elevated levels in cells grown in trehalose-containing medium. Seven of the 9 clones examined corresponded to 6 mitochondrial genes whose expression levels, relative to those from glucose-grown cells, ranged from approximately 3-fold for 16S rRNA to 8-23-fold for NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4. On the other hand, levels of mitochondrial DNA copy, measured by using NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4 cDNA as probe, were shown to be unaffected by trehalose treatment. Elevation of cellular NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4 RNA in HT-29 cultures grown in medium containing different components (sodium butyrate, galactose, no-sugar, glucose, cellobiose) generally correlated with depressed growth levels and specifically with increased numbers of mucin-producing cells present. Like butyrate, the sugar, trehalose, is an effective inducer of HT-29 differentiation, and may prove useful as a dietary therapeutic, and as a probe for elucidating mitochondrial involvement in colonic cell differentiation and transformation.

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NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase chain 4P03905Details