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  • Title: The breakdown of phosphatidylinositol in myoblasts stimulated to fuse by the addition of Ca2+.
    Author: Wakelam MJ, Pette D.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1982 Mar 15; 202(3):723-9. PubMed ID: 7092841.
    Abstract:
    1. The fusion of chick-embryo myoblasts to produce myotubes was studied. The myoblasts were grown for 50 h in medium containing 10--20 microM-Ca2+; during this period they achieve fusion competence. 2. A rapid breakdown of phosphatidylinositol is also observed on addition of 1.4 mM-Ca2+ to these cells. This Ca2+ concentration also stimulates rapid myoblast fusion. 3. The breakdown is complete within 15 min and shows the same dependence on Ca2+ concentration as the fusion process. 4. Fusion-incompetence myoblasts and cells where fusion is inhibited by sodium butyrate exhibit no phosphatidylinositol breakdown on Ca2+ addition. 5. The Ca2+ ionophore A23187 inhibits the Ca2+-stimulated breakdown by about 50%, but has no effect on fusion. 6. A concomitant increase in 1,2-diacylglycerol labelled and fall in phosphatidylinositol labelling was observed when the lipids were labelling with [14C]glycerol on increasing the Ca2+ concentration in the medium to 1.4 mM. 7. We propose that the breakdown of phosphatidylinositol with a resultant increase in 1,2-diacylglycerol content of the cell membrane promotes myoblast fusion.
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