Cells transformed by Moloney sarcoma virus ( M S V ) take up 2-deoxyglucose at a faster rate at 39" C than uninjkcted or Moloney leukemia virus (MoLV)-infected normal rat kidney ( N R K ) cells. In a sarcoma-virus-transformed cell line, NRK (MSV-lb), whose transformed phenotype is expressed at 39" C (permissive) but not at 33" C (non-permissive), the stimulation of 2-deoxyglucose uptake at 39" C is temperature dependent: the increase is observed when cells are grown at 39" C but not at 33" C. When these cells were shifed from the non-permissive to the permissive temperature, the uptake increased ,from a rate near that of uninfected cells to a rate
half that of NRK cells infected with Moloney sarcoma-leukemia complex (MSVMoLV). The reverse change occurred when the cells were shifted from the permissive to the non-permissive temperature. Thus in a sarcoma virus-infected rat cell line where the maintenance of the transformed state is dependent on a cold-sensitive viral function, the uptake of 2-deoxyglucose is reduced in the cold-sensitive cells and correlated with the expression of the transformed phenotype.Cells transformed by either avian or murine sarcoma viruses show characteristic morphological alterations. Concomitant with the morphological changes was the finding that sarcoma viruses take up glucose analogs, such as 2-deoxyglucose, at a faster rate than uninfected cells (Hatanaka and Gilden, 1970;Hatanaka and Hanafusa, 1970). More recently the increased uptake of 2-deoxyglucose by transformed cells has been used to study the effect of temperature shifts on cells infected by temperature-sensitive avian sarcoma virus mutants (Kawai and Hanafusa, 1971; Martin et al., 1971;Bader, 1972).We have recently reported the isolation of a temperature-dependent MSV-transformed normal rat kidney cell line, designated NRK(MSV-lb), which expressed its transformed phenotype at 39" C but not at 33" C as judged by the criteria of morphological changes (Somers and Kit, 1973). These morphological studies have now been extended to include a study on the effect of temperature shifts on the uptake of labelled 2-deoxyglucose.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
CellsCell lines used in this study have been previously described and characterized (Somers and Kit, 1971, 1973), and some of their properties are listed in Table I. One of the lines of transformed normal rat kidney (NRK) cells, that is NRK(MSV-I), produced a virus, MSV-1 (NRK), that could transform NRK cells but failed to produce progeny virus in the newly infected cells. Focus-derived NRK cells transformed by MSV-1 (NRK) were designated NRK(MSV-1 b), and the maintenance of the transformed state was shown to be cold-sensitive (Somers and Kit, 1973).