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. 1981 Mar 15;194(3):707–711. doi: 10.1042/bj1940707

Intracellular ionic changes in normal and transformed human fibroblasts after extracellular Ca2+ deprivation.

B J Hazelton, J T Tupper
PMCID: PMC1162805  PMID: 7306019

Abstract

The lowering of extracellular Ca2+ concentration in the growth medium reversibly blocks normal, but not SV40-transformed WI38 diploid fibroblasts in the early G1/G0 phase of the cell cycle. This growth response is characterized by specific changes in ionic content and transport. Ca2+ deprivation (0.03 mM) has little effect on the K+ content of either normal or transformed cells. Na+ content, however, is increased nearly 2-fold in the normal cells. This increase is presumably due to a 3-fold increase in unidirectional Na+ influx in Ca2+-deprived cells. The increased intracellular Na+ also gives rise to a nearly 3-fold enhancement of the active (ouabain-sensitive) Na+ efflux. Ca2+ deprivation causes only slight increases in Na+ influx, ouabain-sensitive Na+ efflux and intracellular Na+ in the transformed cell. In contrast, the transformed cells lose nearly 60% of their intracellular Ca2+ on deprivation, whereas normal WI38 cells lose only 10%. The data suggest that the growth arrest exhibited by the normal cell but not the transformed cell may be related to different membrane-transport and permeability changes in response to Ca2+ deprivation.

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