Deprivation of a single amino acid induces protein synthesis-dependent increases in c-jun, c-myc, and ornithine decarboxylase mRNAs in Chinese hamster ovary cells.

Molecular and Cellular Biology
P Pohjanpelto, E Hölttä

Abstract

Genes of higher eucaryotic cells are considered to show only a limited response to nutritional stress. Here we show, however, that omission of a single essential amino acid from the medium caused a marked rise in the mRNA levels of c-myc, c-jun, junB and c-fos oncogenes and ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) in CHO cells. There was no general accumulation of mRNAs in amino acid-starved cells, since the gamma-actin, beta-tubulin, protein kinase C, RNA polymerase II, and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase mRNAs and the total poly(A)+ mRNA were not increased. The levels of c-myc, ODC, and c-jun mRNAs were elevated more by amino acid starvation than by inhibition of protein synthesis with cycloheximide, which is known to increase the levels of these mRNAs. Importantly, however, cycloheximide present during amino acid starvation reduced the rise in the levels of the mRNAs down to the level obtained with cycloheximide alone. This implies that protein synthesis is required for the accumulation of c-myc, ODC, and c-jun mRNAs in amino acid-deprived cells. The junB and c-fos mRNAs, instead, were increased to the same extent or less by amino acid starvation than by cycloheximide treatment. The accumulation of the c-myc mRNA in amino acid...Continue Reading

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