Our previous studies have shown that exogenous ATP induces cell growth inhibition in transformed mouse fibroblasts, 3T6 cells, whereas the growth of their nontransformed counterparts, Swiss 3T3 cells, is only slightly affected. In this study a similar selective, ATP-induced growth inhibition was found in Balb/c SV40-3T3 cells and in primary cultures of adenovirus-transformed murine fibroblasts. The inhibitory activity was found in the conditioned media of ATP-treated cultures. Several lines of evidence have shown that ectoprotein kinase (ecto-PK) plays a major role in the ATP-induced growth inhibition. (a) There is a good correlation between the activity of ecto-PK and the ability of ATP to induce cell growth inhibition. (b) The removal of the ecto-PK from the cell surface prevents the ATP-induced growth inhibition. (c) Addition of the removed enzyme to the cell culture reconstitutes the ability of ATP to induced growth inhibition. (d) Serum-containing, or serum-free, conditioned media from untreated cultures gain an inhibitory activity after their phosphorylation, and dephosphorylation of conditioned media from ATP-treated cultures results in the loss of the inhibitory activity. (e) Growth medium by itself does not inhibit cell proliferation after its phosphorylation. The findings described in d and e indicate, as well, that the ATP-induced growth inhibitor is produced by the cells. The putative inhibitor was found to be a protein, with an apparent molecular mass of 13 kDa. The selectivity of the inhibition for transformed cells is due to the higher level of ecto-PK in these cells, as well as to their higher susceptibility to the inhibitor, as compared with their nontransformed counterparts.

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