## Abstract The role of the nucleus in bringing about the induction of tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT) by glucocorticosteroid hormone and its deinduction upon steroid removal has been studied in enucleated rat hepatoma tissue culture cells (FU5β5). Both processes require the presence of the nucleus
Analysis of the induction and deinduction of tyrosine aminotransferase in enucleated HTC cells
β Scribed by R. D. Ivarie; W. J.-W. Fan; G. M. Tomkins
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 651 KB
- Volume
- 85
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9541
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β¦ Synopsis
Anucleate HTC cells have been used to determine the importance of the nucleus in the regulation of the intracellular levels of tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT) in hepatoma tissue culture (HTC) cells. In the absence of the nucleus, neither the induction of the enzyme by dexamethasone nor its deinduction upon removal of the hormone occurs. Degradation of the enzyme takes place when protein synthesis is inhibited in anucleates by cycloheximide. Therefore, the maintenance of induced levels of enzyme activity after dexamethasone withdrawal from pre-induced anucleates suggests that the nucleus is required for the inactivation of the TAT mRNA.
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HTC cells have been made to grow in chemically defined medium without any macromolecular supplements whatsoever. Initial estimates of their relative amino acid requirements have been made. The cells grown in the defined medium retain many of the differentiated features which have been the focus of i
## Abstract The increase in tyrosine aminotransferase activity which occurs in rat hepatoma tissue culture (HTC) cells in response to cyclic AMP analogs has been shown to be an enzyme induction, similar to the larger response observed in certain other hepatoma cells and in liver. A specific antibod