Effect of histidine on histidinol-induced heat protection in chinese hamster ovary cells

✍ Scribed by Yong J. Lee; Dooha Kim; Peter M. Corry

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 731 KB
• Volume: 144
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9541
• DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041440306

✦ Synopsis

The possible mechanism for heat protection by the protein synthesis inhibitor histidinol was investigated in CHO cells. Histidinol (HST, 5 mM), an analogue of the essential amino acid L-histidine, added for 2 hr before and during heating at 43"C, protected cells from killing at 43°C. Treatment with HST produced a 600fold increase in survival from 3 x 1 OP4 to 1.8 x lo-' after 2.5 hr at 43°C.

Although the cells were washed after HST treatment, substantial protective effect was still observed during heating at 43°C. This protective effect gradually decreased with increased incubation time after the drug treatment. However, the protective effect was immediately reduced by treatment with histidine (HIS, 0.25-5 mM) during heating. The amount of reduction was dependent upon HIS concentration: five millirnolar HIS completely inhibited HST-induced heat protection. Furthermore, protein synthesis which was inhibited by 95% by 5 rnM HST, resumed immediately with 5 mM HIS treatment. In addition, when cells were labeled during or after HST treatment, neither preferential accumulation of heat shock protein families nor phosphorylation of 28 kDa protein was observed.

Therefore, these results suggest that the cessation of protein synthesis itself is one of the events involved in protection.