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Mouse hybridoma 2E3 transfected with human bcl-2 gene survived longer with increasing expression level of bcl-2 when cultured in DME medium supplemented with 9% serum. One of the transfectants, 2E3BCMGbcl-2, overexpressed bcl-2 and could maintain viable cell density higher than the initial density for more than four days at a low 0.5% serum concentration. In comparison a mock transfectant 2E3BCMG remained viable for only one day. However, both hybridomas died out within a day in serum-free medium. These results suggested that bcl-2 needed a small amount of some serum components to suppress apoptosis of the hybridoma. Overexpression of bcl-2 also suppressed apoptosis of the hybridoma induced by glutamine deprivation. When hybridoma 2E3BCMGbcl-2 was inoculated in DME medium supplemented with 9% serum and cultured for 10 d with additional 2% serum feed at day 4 of the culture, viable cell density increased 2-fold and antibody produced 3-fold, in comparison with mock transfected 2E3 cultured in the same manner. The mock transfectant with additional feed of serum at day 4 of the culture showed no difference in viable cell density and antibody production. These results suggested that the mock transfectant committed to apoptosis before day 4 of the culture and the additional serum at day 4 could not reverse the commitment.
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Terada, S., Itoh, Y., Ueda, H. et al. Characterization and fed-batch culture of hybridoma overexpressing apoptosis suppressing gene bcl-2. Cytotechnology 24, 135–141 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007922104344
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