Affiliation:
1. Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163
Abstract
The polyamines spermidine and spermine and their precursor, putrescine, are required for the growth and proliferation of eukaryotic cells. This study compares and contrasts growth arrest caused by polyamine depletion in the untransformed IEC-6 cell line with that in the p53-mutated colon cancer Caco-2 cell line. Cells were grown in the presence or absence of α-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), a specific inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase, the first rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of polyamines. Depletion of polyamines inhibited the growth of both cell lines equally and over the same time frame. However, whereas IEC-6 cells were arrested in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, there was no accumulation of Caco-2 cells in any particular phase. In IEC-6 cells, growth arrest was accompanied by elevated levels of p53 and p21Waf1/Cip1 (p21). There were no changes in p53 levels in Caco-2 cells. Levels of p21 increased in Caco-2 cells on day 2 without any effect on cell cycle progression. The amount of cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk)2 protein was unchanged by polyamine depletion in both cell lines. However, the activity of Cdk2 was significantly inhibited by DFMO in IEC-6 cells. These data suggest that in the untransformed IEC-6 cells the regulation of Cdk2 activity and progression through the cell cycle are p53- and p21 dependent. Growth arrest in the p53-mutated Caco-2 line after polyamine depletion occurs by a different, yet unknown, mechanism.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Gastroenterology,Hepatology,Physiology
Cited by
45 articles.
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