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Inhibition of spermidine and spermine synthesis leads to growth arrest of rat embryo fibroblasts in G1

✍ Scribed by H. T. Rupniak; D. Paul

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
909 KB
Volume
94
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9541

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Following growth stimulation of rat embryo fibroblast (REF) cells previously arrested in G~1~ by serum deprivation, there occurs a large increase in the synthesis of the polyamines putrescine, spermidine and spermine. Methylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone) (MGBG), a potent inhibitor of S‐adenosylmethionine decarboxylase can block the accumulation of both spermidine and spermine over a period of several days. Under such conditions REF cells treated with MGBG will approximately double in number and then become growth‐arrested again predominantly in the G~1~ phase of the cell cycle. REF cells therefore appear to contain sufficient spermidine and spermine to progress through one cell cycle before the intracellular levels of these polyamines is reduced sufficiently to arrest growth in the absence of continued polyamine synthesis. Limitation of intracellular polyamine levels is therefore not the mechanism by which deprivation of serum growth factors arrests cell growth. While continued growth is nevertheless dependent on polyamine synthesis, this cell type is capable of limited proliferation in its absence. Addition of spermidine or spermine to MGBG‐arrested REF cells results in a rapid resumption of proliferation demonstrating that either polyamine can fulfill the role played by these polyamines in the growth process. Low levels of spermidine and spermine therefore arrest this cell type at a resriction point in G~1~ at which it is decided whether the intracellular level of these polyamines is sufficiently high to enable a cell to enter into and complete a new cell cycle. This polyamine‐sensitive restriction point is considered to be analogous to the restriction point(s) in G~1~ at which serum and nutrient limitation act.

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