The effect of canavanine on protein synthesis and protein degradation in IMR-90 fibroblasts

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Abstract

Proteins of IMR-90 fibroblasts incorporating [35S]methionine during a 1 h labelling period in the presence of the arginine analogue canavanine were degraded twice as rapidly in the cells as were proteins similarly made in the presence of arginine. Using both isoelectric focusing and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analyses, the banding patterns of proteins labelled in the presence of canavanine and arginine were found to differ. This banding difference was detected as early as 15 min after canavanine treatment. With the exception of one minor band in isoelectric focusing gel, the relative intensity of labelled protein bands for the control samples remained unchanged during the 2 h period of protein degradation being investigated. This was also true for the proteins labelled in the presence of canavanine, despite the increase in their rate of degradation. Banding difference between canavanine and arginine treatment was also detected in an in vitro reticulocyte lysate translation system dependent on fibroblast mRNA. Proteins labelled in the presence of a different analogue, p-fluorophenylalanine instead of phenylalanine, however, had similar banding patterns as the control both in the lysate system and in intact cells.

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