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Departments of 1 Physiology and Biophysics and 2 Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163
The polyamines spermidine and spermine and their precursor
putrescine are intimately involved in and are required for cell growth
and proliferation. This study examines the mechanism by which
polyamines modulate cell growth, cell cycle progression, and signal
transduction cascades. IEC-6 cells were grown in the presence or
absence of
DL-
-difluoromethylornithine
(DFMO), a specific inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase, which is the
first rate-limiting enzyme for polyamine synthesis. Depletion of
polyamines inhibited growth and arrested cells in the
G1 phase of the cell cycle. Cell
cycle arrest was accompanied by an increase in the level of p53 protein
and other cell cycle inhibitors, including p21Waf1/Cip1 and
p27Kip1. Induction of cell cycle
inhibitors and p53 did not induce apoptosis in IEC-6 cells, unlike many
other cell lines. Although polyamine depletion decreased the expression
of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-2 protein, a sustained
increase in ERK-2 isoform activity was observed. The ERK-1 protein
level did not change, but ERK-1 activity was increased in
polyamine-depleted cells. In addition, polyamine depletion induced the
stress-activated protein
kinase/c-Jun
NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) type of
mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). Activation of JNK-1 was the
earliest event; within 5 h after DFMO treatment, JNK activity was
increased by 150%. The above results indicate that polyamine depletion
causes cell cycle arrest and upregulates cell cycle inhibitors and
suggest that MAPK and JNK may be involved in the regulation of the
activity of these molecules.
ornithine decarboxylase; DL-
-difluoromethylornithine; putrescine; signal transduction; mitogen-activated protein kinase; cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor
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