tretinoin and alpha-aminopyridine

A human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, SMMC-7721, was treated with all-trans-retinoic acid (RA) and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) to induce its differentiation and proliferation respectively. A biantennary sugar chain fluorescently labelled with 2-aminopyridine (PA), GlcNAc beta 1-2Man alpha 1-6(GlcNAc beta 1-2Man alpha 1-3)Man beta 1-4GlcNAc beta 1-4GlcNAc-PA, was used to detect the activity of beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase on the cell surface by HPLC. The results show that the activity of beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase on the cell surface increases when the cell is treated with RA, but decreases when it is treated with PMA, whereas the activities of the whole cell remain stable during the treatments.

Topics: Aminopyridines; Carbohydrate Conformation; Carbohydrate Sequence; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; Cell Differentiation; Cell Division; Cell Line; Cell Membrane; Humans; Kinetics; Liver Neoplasms; Molecular Sequence Data; N-Acetyllactosamine Synthase; Oligosaccharides; Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; Tretinoin; Tumor Cells, Cultured