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  • Title: Flow cytoenzymology of the early differentiation of mouse embryonal carcinoma cells.
    Author: Swartzendruber DE, Cox KZ, Wilder ME.
    Journal: Differentiation; 1980 Feb; 16(1):23-30. PubMed ID: 7429065.
    Abstract:
    Dual parameter flow cytoenzymology was used to detect biochemical differentiation of embryonal carcinoma cells, the undifferentiated, multipotent stem cells of teratocarcinomas. With the use of fluorogenic substrates, two enzyme systems, alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1.) and carboxyl esterase (EC 3.1.1.), were studied. Embryonal carcinoma cells passaged in vitro for several years retained high alkaline phosphatase activities similar to those of embryonal carcinoma cells in embryoid bodies grown in vivo. Similar to the embryonal carcinoma cells in vivo, the in vitro embryonal carcinoma cells were capable of giving rise to progeny with greatly decreased levels of alkaline phosphatase. The embryonal carcinoma cell alkaline phosphatase was inhibited by 1-p-bromotetramisole, suggesting a relationship between this enzyme and somatic, nonintestinal alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes. Determinations of esterase activities in viable teratocarcinoma cells showed that prior to any evidence of morphologic differentiation, the embryonal carcinoma cells are quite heterogeneous with regard to esterase activities.
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