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  • Title: Altered sensitivity of protein synthesis to paromomycin in extracts from aging human diploid fibroblasts.
    Author: Luce MC, Bunn CL.
    Journal: Exp Gerontol; 1987; 22(3):165-77. PubMed ID: 3622655.
    Abstract:
    Age-related differences in the effects of paromomycin (Pm) on protein synthesis have been investigated in translation reactions with extracts derived from young and old human diploid fibroblasts. Translation products from reactions directed by endogenous or exogenous mRNA were analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fluorography. The exogenous mRNA lacked codons for cysteine, and therefore cysteine incorporation into translation products represented translational error. This laboratory has previously used this assay to show that the basal translational error level in the absence of Pm increases in extracts from old fibroblasts. In this report, Pm stimulated the misincorporation of cysteine by 6-7 fold over cysteine misincorporation levels in the absence of Pm. This degree of Pm stimulation was similar in extracts from young and old fibroblasts. However, other results showed quantitative differences in the responses to Pm between young and old cell extracts. Old cell extracts were less sensitive to the stimulation of the rate of protein synthesis, and more sensitive to the inhibition of protein synthesis, by Pm. It is proposed that aging human diploid fibroblasts contain altered ribosomes which react differently with Pm.
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