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  • Title: Effects of serum and conditioned medium on protein degradation, migration of nonhistone proteins to the nucleus, and DNA synthesis in transformed cells.
    Author: Polet H, Swager JS.
    Journal: J Cell Physiol; 1987 Mar; 130(3):436-43. PubMed ID: 3558494.
    Abstract:
    Stimulation of resting transformed cells (Chang liver cells), prelabeled with [3H] leucine, with fetal calf serum, caused increased nuclear translocation of [3H] nonhistone proteins ([3H] NHP) and DNA synthesis and a parallel inhibition of proteolysis of cellular proteins. [3H] NHP migration was independent of protein synthesis. Fractionation of the nuclear proteins in a pH gradient of 2.5-6.5, showed that [3H] NHP fractions with high degradation rates in resting cells corresponded to the [3H] NHP fractions with high migration rates in stimulated cells, suggesting that degradation and migration of [3H] NHP are linked. Conditioned medium (COM) produced by Chang cells had similar effects as serum, suggesting that factors produced by these transformed cells, control cell growth by a mechanism that is similar to serum. The lysosomotropic amine eserine had similar effects as serum and COM. Based on the similarity of the effects, it would appear that serum and COM inhibit lysosomal proteolysis. It is proposed that serum and COM induce NHP migration to the nucleus by inhibiting lysosomal degradation of these proteins. Serum and COM caused also migration of [3H] histones to the nucleus, however the mechanism is not clear.
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