1-Amino-oxy-3-aminopropane (AOAP) was reported to inhibit several mammalian polyamine-biosynthetic enzymes in vitro, including ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) [Khomutov, Hyvönen, Karvonen, Kauppinen, Paalanen, Paulin, Eloranta, Pajula, Andersson & Pösö (1985) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 130, 596-602]. In order to clarify its mechanism of action in intact cells, the inhibitory properties of AOAP on the growth and polyamine metabolism of L1210 cells were compared with those seen in a variant subline (D-R cells) which overproduces ODC. As little as 20 microM-AOAP completely blocked proliferation of L1210 cells, and this effect was reversed by the concomitant addition of exogenous putrescine or spermidine. Growth of D-R cells was not affected by AOAP at concentrations up to 0.5 mM. There was no difference in the uptake of AOAP between the L1210 and the D-R cells. Exposure of L1210 or D-R cells to AOAP greatly decreased ODC activity in undialysed cell extracts, but did not decrease AdoMetDC. Activities of both enzymes were increased severalfold by AOAP treatment when activity was measured in dialysed extracts. Treatment with AOAP depleted intracellular putrescine and spermidine contents of L1210 cells, while inducing a massive accumulation of decarboxylated AdoMet. The 8-fold higher putrescine pool present in untreated D-R cells was depleted in a dose-dependent manner by AOAP, but a significant decrease in spermidine and accumulation of decarboxylated AdoMet required 10 times higher drug concentrations, and the changes were much less dramatic than in L1210 cells. These results indicate that in L1210 cells AOAP behaves primarily as a reversible inhibitor of ODC.
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October 01 1989
Effect of 1-amino-oxy-3-aminopropane on polyamine metabolism and growth of L1210 cells
R Poulin;
R Poulin
*Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Cancer Research Center, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, U.S.A.
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J A Secrist, 3rd;
J A Secrist, 3rd
†Kettering–Meyer Laboratory, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL 35255, U.S.A.
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A E Pegg
A E Pegg
*Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Cancer Research Center, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, U.S.A.
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Online ISSN: 1470-8728
Print ISSN: 0264-6021
© 1989 London: The Biochemical Society
1989
Biochem J (1989) 263 (1): 215–221.
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R Poulin, J A Secrist, A E Pegg; Effect of 1-amino-oxy-3-aminopropane on polyamine metabolism and growth of L1210 cells. Biochem J 1 October 1989; 263 (1): 215–221. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2630215
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