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  • Title: Membrane glycoprotein and surface free energy changes in hypoxic fibroblast cells.
    Author: Johnstone SA, Schurch S, McIver DJ, Jacobson EA, Tustanoff ER.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1985 May 14; 815(2):159-69. PubMed ID: 3995020.
    Abstract:
    Hypoxia affects the biochemistry of mammalian cells and thus alters their sensitivity to subsequent chemo- and radiotherapy. When V79 Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts were grown under conditions of extreme hypoxia (less than 10 ppm O2) there was a significant shift in the membrane glycoprotein composition. Scanning electron microscopy revealed altered cell surface morphology including loss of pseudopodial projections. Experiments to determine changes in interfacial free energy of these cells using equilibrium two phase systems of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and dextran were carried out. Test fluid droplets of the denser dextran-rich phase were formed on layers of cells in the PEG-rich phase as the bathing medium, and the contact angles the droplets made with the cell layers were measured from photomicrographs. The contact angles on cells in the plateau phase increased significantly with time of exposure to hypoxia, from 25 degrees (zero time) to 35 degrees (6 h) to 60 degrees (9 h). Contact angles on cells in the exponential phase increased from 80 degrees (zero time) to 150 degrees after 20 h of hypoxia. It appears that the altered contact angles reflect changes in cell surface hydrophobicity that may, in part, reflect alterations in the membrane glycoprotein composition.
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