[Cooperative thermal transitions in normal and tumor cells]

Biofizika. 1983 May-Jun;28(3):528-37.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

It is established that chromatin denaturation in the cell composition under conditions approximating to equilibrium is a quasistatistical process. It is shown that thermal treatment of tissues in chromatin composition enables to reveal the thermostable block with the following parameters of denaturation Td = 89 degrees C, Td = 3.5 degrees C and Qd = (28 +/- 4) J/g DNA. It is discovered that thermostability of tumor chromatin increases compared with the normal one, and this value in case of leucosis fluctuates from 5 degrees C to 10 degrees C, but in the case of sarcomas and ascite hepatoma of rats and mice it fluctuates from 2 degrees to 5 degrees C.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Physiological Phenomena*
  • Chromatin / physiology
  • DNA / metabolism
  • DNA, Neoplasm / metabolism
  • Hot Temperature
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / physiopathology
  • Mice
  • Neoplasms / physiopathology*
  • Nucleic Acid Denaturation
  • Rats
  • Sarcoma, Experimental / physiopathology

Substances

  • Chromatin
  • DNA, Neoplasm
  • DNA