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1 Institute of Human Anatomy, University of Ferrara, Via Fossato di Mortara 66, 44100 Ferrara
and2 Institute of Normal and Pathological Cytomorphology of C.N.R. c/o I.O.R., Institute of Research Codivilla Putti, Via di Barbiano 1/10, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells were permanently transfected with a plasmid vector, containing the tat gene of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Various clones were obtained showing the production of different levels of bioactive Tat protein (Tat) after transient contransfection with an HIV-1 long terminal repeat-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter plasmid. Under conditions of serum starvation, tat-positive PC12 clones expressing high levels of Tat showed a significantly (P < 0.05) higher proliferation rate with respect to both mock-transfected PC12 cells and tat-positive PC12 cells expressing lower levels of Tat. Moreover, all tat-positive PC12 cell clones showed a partial morphological differentiation into sympathetic-like neurons, when seeded in low density (5 x 103 cells/cm2) cultures. On the other hand, mock-transfected PC12 cells showed the round shaped morphology typical of untreated PC12 cells and displayed signs of neuronal differentiation only after treatment with 100 ng/ml of nerve growth factor. The addition of 5 µg/ml of anti-Tat monoclonal antibody to the culture medium of tat-positive PC12 cell clones almost completely blocked their increased proliferation rate (P < 0.05), but did not affect neuronal differentiation. A significant (P < 0.05) increase in cell proliferation was consistently observed in PC12 cells supplemented with low concentrations of Tat (5 to 25 ng/ml), whereas neuronal differentiation was hardly affected by exogenous Tat. Our data strongly suggest that Tat exerts a complex influence on the proliferation and differentiation of PC12 cells, and this might help in increasing understanding of the pathogenesis of the frequent neurological disorders observed in AIDS patients.
Received 14 May 1993;
accepted 6 August 1993.
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