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TEMIN et al.1,2 have shown that insulin and serum proteins with insulin-like activity, isolated from either human or calf serum stimulate cell division in diploid populations of chick cells, while virus-transformed cells grow in the absence of these factors. An established line of rat liver cells, with a unique ability to grow in the absence of serum, releases macromolecular factors into the medium that have insulin-like activity and induce non-transformed cells to divide3,4; this suggests again that the factors with insulin-like activity are required to initiate cell division. Crystalline insulin stimulates DNA synthesis in BHK cells at limiting serum concentrations5, and is a requirement for growth in Agarose of some non-transformed variants of these cells6. Both insulin and whole serum have a pleotropic effect on non-transformed 3T3 cells7; they induce RNA and protein synthesis, and prevent protein degradation. These factors are not needed for the maintenance of the pleotropic effect in virus-transformed cells7. In addition, insulin and serum8 both cause a rapid decrease in the concentration of intra-cellular cyclic AMP in 3T3 cells, the decline of which may be a prerequisite for cell division9,10. We have isolated a serum fraction containing the factors that stimulate DNA synthesis and have insulin-like activity, and have found that heating separates the two activities.
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SCHER, C., STATHAKOS, D. & ANTONIADES, H. Dissociation of Cell Division Stimulating Capacity for Balb/c-3T3 from the Insulin-like Activity in Human Serum. Nature 247, 279–281 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247279a0
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