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Hepatoma cells grown in monolayer culture display certain alterations in their Mg-ATPase activity present on the cell surface as a function of time during a exponential growth. Levels of enzyme estimated biochemically and expressed as activity per cell increase as the cell population density increases. Histochemical investigation shows that Mg-ATPase activity is located intensively on the surface of cell contact and the activity is not encountered on the cell surface facing the free space. No enzyme activity is detected histochemically on the cell surface of sparse culture. Deposits of acidic polysaccharide are also seen on the surface of cell contact.
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Ohnishi, T., Kimura, S. Contact-mediated changes in ATPase activity at the surface of primary cultured hepatoma cells. Histochemistry 49, 107–112 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00495674
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