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Mammalian cells do not have a stringent response.

Abstract：

:A key attribute of the stringent response of bacteria is the rapid inhibition of ribosomal RNA synthesis mediated by unusual nucleotides in respnse to uncharged tRNA. The question as to whether mammalian cells show a stringent response analogous to that of bacteria was critically tested by the effective rapid amino acid starvation of both normal and transformed cells. Rapid starvation giving a high proportion of uncharged tRNA for leucine was produced within 7 minutes of expression of a nonleaky ts leucyl tRNA synthetase mutation in transformed CHO cells (tsH1) and in its normal growth control revertant (L-73). To control for the effect of temperature alone, ts revertants of tsH1 and L-73 were included in the study, and to control for effects due simply to the inhibition of protein synthesis, the translational elongation inhibitor cycloheximide was used. In addition, rapid starvation for histidine was effected by incubation of both the CHO cell lines and of freshly explanted normal Chinese hamster embryo fibroblasts in histidine-free medium containing high concentrations of histidinol. The rate of preribosomal RNA synthesis and the extent of its maturation to mature rRNA was measured using (3H-methyl) methionine as a donor of methyl groups during synthesis and methylation of pre-rRNA. There was no effect on pre-rRNA synthesis of the rapid generation of uncharged tRNA for 45 minutes for any of the cell types tested. A nonspecific inhibition of maturation of 18S rRNA and late (3 hour) inhibition of pre-rRNA synthesis was observed, but could be mimicked by the inhibition of protein synthesis to comparable levels with cycloheximide. Less severe amino acid starvation resulting in a more physiological inhibition of protein synthesis to 30% also had no specific effect on pre-rRNA synthesis and maturation. Intracellular nucleotide pools were also examined for the appearance of unusual nucleotides such as guanosine tetraphosphate or pentaphosphate and for changes in the levels of normal nucleotides after severe amino acid starvation. No such changes could be detected. We conclude that although mammalian cells may have some biochemical reactions which respond to uncharged tRNA, they do not possess a macromolecular control system analogous to the stringent response of bacteria.

journal_name

J Cell Physiol

journal_title

Journal of cellular physiology

authors

Pollard JW,Lam T,Stanners CP

doi

10.1002/jcp.1041050214

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1980-11-01 00:00:00

pages

313-25

issue

eissn

0021-9541

issn

1097-4652

journal_volume

105

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Mammalian cells do not have a stringent response.