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The effect of ketoconazole on the fusion of L6 myoblasts was studied. Ketoconazole was a potent inhibitor of myoblast fusion at concentrations as low as 0.1 μM, but fusion was restored when the inhibitor was removed. The inhibitor resulted in decreased binding of conA and WGA to cell surface oligosaccharides showing that it was inhibiting N-linked cell surface glycoproteins. Inhibition of fusion by ketoconazole was accompanied by reduced creatine phosphokinase activities showing that it is affecting biochemical differentiation. Incorporation of labelled mannose from GDP-mannose into lipid-sugar and lipid-oligosaccharide complexes involved in the synthesis of N-linked oligosaccharides was also inhibited by ketoconazole, but the inhibition was reversed by addition of exogenous dolichol phosphate to the incorporation mixture. The main conclusion from these studies was that ketoconazole inhibited fusion of L6 myoblasts by affecting the synthesis of dolichol-phosphate required for the synthesis of lipid-oligosaccharides needed for the synthesis of fusogenic cell surface N-linked glycoproteins.
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Abbreviations
- HMG-CoA:
-
3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl Coenzyme A
- Dol-P:
-
Dolichol Phosphate
- Man:
-
Mannose
- GlcNAc:
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N-acetylglucosamine
- Glc:
-
Glucose
- conA:
-
concanavalin A
- WGA:
-
Wheat Germ Agglutinin
- CPK:
-
Creatine Phosphokinase
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Wayne, S., Jamieson, J.C., Spearman, M.A. et al. Studies on the effect of ketoconazole on the fusion of L6 myoblasts. Mol Cell Biochem 92, 137–146 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00218131
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