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The teratogenic mechanism of 6-aminonicotinamide on limb formation of chick embryos: abnormalities in the biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans in micromelia.

Abstract：

:After a dose of 10 micrograms of 6-aminonicotinamide (6-AN) was administered to day-4- chick embryo in ovo, micromelia was obviously observed in the hind limbs of 7-day chick embryos. We examined the teratogenic mechanism of 6-AN by using the normal or micromelial hind limbs (buds) from day 5 to day 7, with special attention to the biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) and proteoglycan as an index of limb chondrogenesis. The present study provides evidence for abnormalities in the levels of GAG or proteoglycan biosynthesis in the micromelial hind limbs (buds). 1) Both [35S]sulfate and [3H]glucosamine incorporation into GAG per 10 limbs or mg DNA of the micromelia were inhibited, suggesting a decrease of GAG synthesis. 2) The micromelial limbs synthesized low-sulfated chondroitin sulfate (chondroitin) as judged by the 35S/3H ratio, the proportion of unsulfated disaccharide (delta Di-0S), and the result of cellulose acetate electrophoresis, although there were no significant differences in the approximate molecular size of 35S-chondroitin sulfates synthesized between the normal and micromelial limbs. 3) PAPS-synthesizing activity in the micromelial limbs was markedly inhibited, and this may result in the production of low-sulfated proteoglycan. 4) The transition from mesenchymal- to cartilage-specific proteoglycan synthesis did not appear in the micromelial limbs as judged by the sedimentation profiles. 5) 6-AN caused marked reductions in the oxygen consumption and ATP level of the micromelial limbs, thereby causing the defect in PAPS formation. We suggest that these 6-AN-induced sequential molecular defects (the reduction of respiratory activity, ATP and PAPS level, and concomitant interference with GAG and proteoglycan biosynthesis) in the limbs (buds) during the critical period of limb morphogenesis must be major factors resulting in the cartilage growth retardation or disorder, i.e., micromelia.

journal_name

J Biochem

journal_title

Journal of biochemistry

authors

Honda A,Iwama M,Umeda T,Mori Y

doi

10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a133890

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1982-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1959-70

issue

eissn

0021-924X

issn

1756-2651

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The teratogenic mechanism of 6-aminonicotinamide on limb formation of chick embryos: abnormalities in the biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans in micromelia.