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The nutritional requirement ofDrosophila cells (GM1 and GM2) was studied. TC Yeastolate contained in the medium forDrosophila cell culture was found to be replaceable with adenosine or inosine without appreciable changes in the generation time of cells. The optimal concentration of either adenosine or inosine was 0.01 mM. Whereas adenosine manifested cell toxicity at concentrations higher than 0.1 mM, in the case of inosine, such an inhibitory effect was not observed up to and at the concentration of 1.0 mM. Further-more, the plating efficiency at cell densities as low as 2×103 cells per cm2 was raised from 0 to 10% by supplementing inosine (0.1 mM) for the TC Yeastolate. Therefore inosine is in practice more useful than adenosine. Experiments using radioactive nucleosides suggested that both adenosine and inosine were exclusively incorporated into RNA as adenosine-monophosphate.
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Marunouchi, T., Miyake, T. Substitution of inosine for yeastolate in the culture medium forDrosophila cells. In Vitro 14, 1010–1014 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616215
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