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Schipper RG, Cuijpers VMJI, De Groot LHJM, Thio M, Verhofstad AAJ. Intracellular Localization of Ornithine Decarboxylase and Its Regulatory Protein, Antizyme-1. J Histochem Cytochem 2016; 52:1259-66. [PMID: 15385572 DOI: 10.1177/002215540405201002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The enzyme ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and its regulatory protein antizyme-1 (AZ1) are key regulators in the homeostasis of polyamines. To gain more insight into the exact intracellular distribution of ODC and AZ1, we performed immunocytochemical and Green Fluorescent Protein-fluorocytochemical studies in cultured human cervix carcinoma and human prostatic carcinoma (PC-346C) cells. ODC localization patterns varied from predominantly cytoplasmic to both cytoplasmic and nuclear staining, whereas AZ1 was mostly found in the nucleus. In cells that were synchronized in the mitotic phase, localization of both ODC and AZ1 changed from perinuclear at the beginning of mitosis into nucleoplasmic at close proximity to the chromosomes during meta-, ana- and telophase. Upon completion of mitosis, localization of ODC and AZ1 was reverted back to the cytoplasm, i.e., predominantly perinuclear immediately after cytokinesis. When PC-346C cells were treated with polyamines to induce AZ1-regulated ODC degradation, ODC was predominantly found in the nucleus and colocalized with immunoreactive AZ1. A comparable accumulation of ODC and AZ1 in the nucleus was found in PC-346C cells treated with the polyamine analog SL-11093. The present study suggests that AZ1 is involved in nucleocyto-plasmic shuttling of ODC, which may be a prerequisite for ODC regulation and/or function.
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- Raymond G Schipper
- Department of Pathology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Lefèvre PLC, Palin MF, Chen G, Turecki G, Murphy BD. Polyamines are implicated in the emergence of the embryo from obligate diapause. Endocrinology 2011; 152:1627-39. [PMID: 21303959 DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Embryonic diapause is a poorly understood phenomenon of reversible arrest of embryo development prior to implantation. In many carnivores, such as the mink (Neovison vison), obligate diapause characterizes each gestation. Embryo reactivation is controlled by the uterus by mechanisms that remain elusive. Because polyamines are essential regulators of cell proliferation and growth, it was hypothesized that they trigger embryo reactivation. To test this, mated mink females were treated with α-difluoromethylornithine, an inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase 1, the rate-limiting enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis, or saline as a control during the first 5 d of reactivation. This treatment induced polyamine deprivation with the consequence of rearrest in embryo cell proliferation. A mink trophoblast cell line in vitro subjected to α-difluoromethylornithine treatment likewise displayed an arrest in cell proliferation, morphological changes, and intracellular translocation of ornithine decarboxylase 1 protein. The arrest in embryo development deferred implantation for a period consistent with the length of treatment. Successful implantation and parturition ensued. We conclude that polyamine deprivation brought about a reversible rearrest of embryo development, which returned the mink embryo to diapause and induced a second delay in embryo implantation. The results are the first demonstration of a factor essential to reactivation of embryos in obligate diapause.
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- Pavine L C Lefèvre
- Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Animale, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, 3200 Rue Sicotte, St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada J2S 7C6.
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Ornithine decarboxylase regulates the activity and localization of rhoA via polyamination. Exp Cell Res 2009; 315:1008-14. [PMID: 19331812 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2009.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2008] [Revised: 12/29/2008] [Accepted: 01/28/2009] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the rate-limiting enzyme of polyamine synthesis. Polyamines and ODC are connected to cell proliferation and transformation. Resting cells display a low ODC activity while normal, proliferating cells display fluctuations in ODC activity that coincide with changes in the actin cytoskeleton during the cell cycle. Cancerous cells display constitutively elevated ODC activity. Overexpression of ODC in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts induces a transformed phenotype. The cytoskeletal rearrangements during cytokinesis and cell transformation are intimately coupled to the ODC activity but the molecular mechanisms have remained elusive. In this study we investigated how ODC and polyamines influence the organization of the cytoskeleton. Given that the small G-proteins of the rho family are key modulators of the actin cytoskeleton, we investigated the molecular interactions of rhoA with ODC and polyamines. Our results show that transglutaminase-catalyzed polyamination of rhoA regulates its activity. The polyamination status of rhoA crucially influences the progress of the cell cycle as well as the rate of transformation of rat fibroblasts infected with temperature-sensitive v-src. We also show that ODC influences the intracellular distribution of rhoA. These findings provide novel insights into the mechanisms by which ODC and polyamines regulate the dynamics of the cytoskeleton during cell proliferation and transformation.
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Liao YF, Hung HC, Hsu PC, Kao MC, Hour TC, Tsay GJ, Liu GY. Ornithine decarboxylase interferes with macrophage-like differentiation and matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression by tumor necrosis factor alpha via NF-kappaB. Leuk Res 2008; 32:1124-40. [PMID: 18177935 DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2007.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2007] [Revised: 11/07/2007] [Accepted: 11/08/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), a tumor promoter, provokes cell proliferation, and inhibits cell death; but the mechanism involved in cell differentiation remains unknown. Herein, we examine whether it functions during macrophage-like differentiation. Previous studies reveal that ODC, a rate-limiting enzyme of polyamine biosynthesis, and polyamines are involved in restraining immune response in activated macrophage. By using 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-differentiated human promyelocytic HL-60 and promonocytic U-937 cells, we discover that polyamines block the expression, secretion and activation of MMP-9. Meanwhile conventional expression of ODC represses tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) expression and nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation as well as MMP-9 enzyme activity. Following stimulation by TNF-alpha, the secretion of MMP-9 is restored in ODC-overexpressed cells. In addition, the NF-kappaB inhibitors (pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate, BAY-11-7082 and lactacystin) suppress the TPA-induced MMP-9 enzyme activity. Concurrently, both the irreversible inhibitor of ODC, alpha-difluoromethylornithine, and TNF-alpha could not recover MMP-9 activation following NF-kappaB inhibitor treatment in parental cells. Furthermore, ODC could directly inhibit and attenuate NF-kappaB DNA binding and transcriptional activation. Therefore, we suggest that ODC inhibits the TNF-alpha-elevated MMP-9 activation via NF-kappaB as TPA-induced macrophage-like differentiation and this interrupting mechanism may provide a new conceivable resolution why leukemia is poorly differentiated besides atypical growth.
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- Ya-Fan Liao
- Department of Life Sciences, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
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Wu F, Grossenbacher D, Gehring H. New transition state-based inhibitor for human ornithine decarboxylase inhibits growth of tumor cells. Mol Cancer Ther 2007; 6:1831-9. [PMID: 17575112 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-07-0045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the key enzyme in polyamine synthesis. ODC is overexpressed in many tumor cells and thus a potential drug target. Here we show the design and synthesis of a coenzyme-substrate analogue as a novel precursor inhibitor of ODC. Structural analysis of the crystal structure of human ODC disclosed an additional hydrophobic pocket surrounding the epsilon-amino group of its substrate ornithine. Molecular modeling methods showed favorable interactions of the BOC-protected pyridoxyl-ornithine conjugate, termed POB, in the active site of human ODC. The synthesized and purified POB completely inhibited the activity of newly induced ODC activity at 100 micromol/L in glioma LN229 and COS7 cells. In correlation with the inhibition of ODC activity, a time-dependent inhibition of cell growth was observed in myeloma, glioma LN18 and LN229, Jurkat, COS7, and SW2 small-cell lung cancer cells if DNA synthesis and cell number were measured, but not in the nontumorigenic human aortic smooth muscle cells. POB strongly inhibited cell proliferation not only of low-grade glioma LN229 cells in a dose-dependent manner (IC(50) approximately 50 micromol/L) but also of high-grade glioblastoma multiforme cells. POB is much more efficient in inhibiting proliferation of several types of tumor cells than alpha-DL-difluoromethylornithine, the best known irreversible inhibitor of ODC.
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- Fang Wu
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Isome M, Lortie MJ, Murakami Y, Parisi E, Matsufuji S, Satriano J. The antiproliferative effects of agmatine correlate with the rate of cellular proliferation. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2007; 293:C705-11. [PMID: 17475661 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00084.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Polyamines are small cationic molecules required for cellular proliferation. Agmatine is a biogenic amine unique in its capacity to arrest proliferation in cell lines by depleting intracellular polyamine levels. We previously demonstrated that agmatine enters mammalian cells via the polyamine transport system. As polyamine transport is positively correlated with the rate of cellular proliferation, the current study examines the antiproliferative effects of agmatine on cells with varying proliferative kinetics. Herein, we evaluate agmatine transport, intracellular accumulation, and its effects on antizyme expression and cellular proliferation in nontransformed cell lines and their transformed variants. H-ras- and Src-transformed murine NIH/3T3 cells (Ras/3T3 and Src/3T3, respectively) that were exposed to exogenous agmatine exhibit increased uptake and intracellular accumulation relative to the parental NIH/3T3 cell line. Similar increases were obtained for human primary foreskin fibroblasts relative to a human fibrosarcoma cell line, HT1080. Agmatine increases expression of antizyme, a protein that inhibits polyamine biosynthesis and transport. Ras/3T3 and Src/3T3 cells demonstrated augmented increases in antizyme protein expression relative to NIH/3T3 in response to agmatine. All transformed cell lines were significantly more sensitive to the antiproliferative effects of agmatine than nontransformed lines. These effects were attenuated in the presence of exogenous polyamines or inhibitors of polyamine transport. In conclusion, the antiproliferative effects of agmatine preferentially target transformed cell lines due to the increased agmatine uptake exhibited by cells with short cycling times.
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- Masato Isome
- University of California San Diego and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, Division of Nephrology-Hypertension, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
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Smith KJ, Skelton H. alpha-Difluoromethylornithine, a polyamine inhibitor: its potential role in controlling hair growth and in cancer treatment and chemo-prevention. Int J Dermatol 2006; 45:337-44. [PMID: 16650154 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2006.01231.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Frossard ML, Seabra SH, DaMatta RA, de Souza W, de Mello FG, Machado Motta MC. An endosymbiont positively modulates ornithine decarboxylase in host trypanosomatids. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 343:443-9. [PMID: 16546131 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.02.168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2006] [Accepted: 02/27/2006] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Some trypanosomatids, such as Crithidia deanei, are endosymbiont-containing species. Aposymbiotic strains are obtained after antibiotic treatment, revealing interesting aspects of this symbiotic association. Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) promotes polyamine biosynthesis and contributes to cell proliferation. Here, we show that ODC activity is higher in endosymbiont-bearing trypanosomatids than in aposymbiotic cells, but isolated endosymbionts did not display this enzyme activity. Intriguingly, expressed levels of ODC were similar in both strains, suggesting that ODC is positively modulated in endosymbiont-bearing cells. When the aposymbiotic strain was grown in conditioned medium, obtained after cultivation of the endosymbiont-bearing strain, cellular proliferation as well as ODC activity and localization were similar to that observed in the endosymbiont-containing trypanosomatids. Furthermore, dialyzed-heated medium and trypsin treatment reduced ODC activity of the aposymbiont strain. Taken together, these data indicate that the endosymbiont can enhance the protozoan ODC activity by providing factors of protein nature, which increase the host polyamine metabolism.
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- Mariana Lins Frossard
- Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Celular Hertha Meyer, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Young L, Salomon R, Au W, Allan C, Russell P, Dong Q. Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) expression pattern in human prostate tissues and ODC transgenic mice. J Histochem Cytochem 2005; 54:223-9. [PMID: 16234506 DOI: 10.1369/jhc.5a6672.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the key enzyme in the polyamine synthesis pathway and is overexpressed in a variety of cancers. We have performed a detailed immunostaining analysis of the expression of ODC in normal, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and cancerous prostate tissues. We conclude that ODC is overexpressed in both BPH and neoplastic tissues and that ODC overexpression appears to be an early event in prostate carcinogenesis. The extent of overexpression decreases as cancer progresses. Interestingly, ODC overexpression was also detected in patients who underwent androgen ablation therapy, suggesting ODC overexpression may contribute to the androgen-independent survival of prostate cancer cells. ODC is perinuclear localized in BPH samples but is diffusely cytoplasmic in cancer samples. Having shown ODC overexpression in human prostate cancer, we developed prostate-specific ODC transgenic mice to further investigate whether ODC overexpression alone is a causal factor in prostate carcinogenesis. RT-PCR and immunostaining confirmed that ODC was overexpressed in a subset of prostate epithelial cells. Although minor nucleoli enlargements in some tissues were detected, gross morphological changes were not observed in transgenic prostates. Therefore, overexpression of ODC alone in this subset of prostate epithelial cells is not sufficient to induce prostate carcinogenesis.
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- Lei Young
- Blackburn Bld. D06, Western Ave., University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
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Levin VA, Jochec JL, Shantz LM, Koch PE, Pegg AE. Tissue-based assay for ornithine decarboxylase to identify patients likely to respond to difluoromethylornithine. J Histochem Cytochem 2004; 52:1467-74. [PMID: 15505341 PMCID: PMC3957822 DOI: 10.1369/jhc.4a6358.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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In a previous publication, we showed that a clinical trial of DL-alpha-difluoromethyl ornithine (DFMO), in combination with PCV (procarbazine, CCNU, vincristine) increased survival of patients with anaplastic gliomas (WHO III) but not glioblastoma multiforme (WHO IV). We believe that treatment outcome (survival) is inversely related to tumor ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) levels. To prove this, we needed to develop an assay to quantify ODC levels in formalin-fixed tumor tissues, which would enable a retrospective study of tumor biopsy specimens from the landmark clinical trial. We developed an assay using a specific polyclonal antibody coupled to an Alexa fluorescent dye. Transgenic MHC-ODC mice with differing levels of ODC in heart muscle were used to establish the relationship between mean gray-scale intensity and enzymatic ODC activity. We found a direct relationship between mean gray-scale intensity of the ODC antibody coupled to Alexa 647 dye and enzymatic activity. Preliminary analysis of a human glioma tissue array shows that tumor-specific variations in levels of ODC can be semiquantitated. We show that mean gray-scale intensity of astrocytoma:glioblastoma is 1:6 and of anaplastic astrocytoma:glioblastoma is 1:4. We also compared the intensity of antibody to Ki67 coupled with phycoerythrin simultaneously in cells but failed to see a relationship that crossed histologies. We conclude that we can measure levels of ODC in formalin-fixed tumor tissue using an antibody to ODC coupled to Alexa 647 dye, and this will enable us to conduct a future study to correlate survival of patients with gliomas of different histologies treated with DFMO to tumor ODC levels.
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- Victor A Levin
- Dept. of Neuro-Oncology, Unit 431, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.
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Stabellini G, Brugnoli F, Calastrini C, Vizzotto L, Vertemati M, Baroni T, Caramelli E, Marinucci L, Pellati A, Bertagnolo V. Ornithine decarboxylase, polyamines and CD11b expression in HL-60 cells during differentiation induced by retinoic acid. Biomed Pharmacother 2004; 58:401-6. [PMID: 15271423 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2003.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2003] [Accepted: 12/05/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Polyamines (PA) and retinoic acid affect mammalian cell growth, differentiation and apoptosis. Retinoic acid induces granulocytic differentiation of mieloid cell lines and, during this process, is responsible for the expression of CD11b, a surface antigen. In this study we investigate the effects of retinoic acid on HL-60 cells, monitoring ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity (enzyme rate of PA), putrescine (PUT), spermidine (SPD), spermine (SPM) levels, CD11b myeloid surface marker differentiation, cell cycle, and apoptosis. ODC activity and PUT levels are correlated with mieloid cell differentiation induced by retinoic acid treatment. Only the ODC/PUT ratio is connected with retinoic acid treated HL-60 cells. Treated cultures show a decrease of proliferation and a cell block in the G0/G1 phase, with consequent diminished S phase. The G0/G1 and S phases are significantly related to ODC activity and to PUT and SPD behavior, whereas in differentiating condition only the decrease of PUT is related to the S phase. CD11b expression, stimulated by retinoic acid treatment, is associated with the SPM trend. Total PA behavior agrees with apoptotic cell increase after 96 h of stimulation. Our data show that retinoic acid treatment modifies ODC activity and the turnover of PA. PUT, SPD and SPM, therefore, have a different role, and may be involved in the differentiative/apoptotic program of retinoic acid treated HL-60 cells.
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- Giordano Stabellini
- Human Morphology Department, LITA of Segrate, State University of Milan, Via Mangiagalli 31, 20133, Italy.
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Schipper RG, Verhofstad AAJ. Distribution patterns of ornithine decarboxylase in cells and tissues: facts, problems, and postulates. J Histochem Cytochem 2002; 50:1143-60. [PMID: 12185192 DOI: 10.1177/002215540205000901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is a key enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis. Increased polyamine levels are required for growth, differentiation, and transformation of cells. In situ detection of ODC in cells and tissues has been performed with biochemical, enzyme cytochemical, immunocytochemical, and in situ hybridization techniques. Different localization patterns at the cellular level have been described, depending on the type of cells or tissues studied. These patterns varied from exclusively cytoplasmic to both cytoplasmic and nuclear. These discrepancies can be partially explained by the (lack of) sensitivity and/or specificity of the methods used, but it is more likely that (sub)cellular localization of ODC is cell type-specific and/or depends on the physiological status (growth, differentiation, malignant transformation, apoptosis) of cells. Intracellular translocation of ODC may be a prerequisite for its regulation and function.
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- Raymond G Schipper
- Department of Pathology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Pomidor MM, Cimildoro R, Lazatin B, Zheng P, Gurr JA, Leigh IM, Jänne OA, Tuan RS, Hickok NJ. Phosphorylated human keratinocyte ornithine decarboxylase is preferentially associated with insoluble cellular proteins. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:4299-310. [PMID: 10588659 PMCID: PMC25759 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.12.4299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), the first enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis, is highly regulated by many trophic stimuli, and changes in its levels and organization correlate with cytoskeletal changes in normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK). NHEK ODC exhibits a filamentous perinuclear/nuclear localization that becomes more diffuse under conditions that alter actin architecture. We have thus asked whether ODC colocalizes with a component of the NHEK cytoskeleton. Confocal immunofluorescence showed that ODC distribution in NHEK was primarily perinuclear; upon disruption of the actin cytoskeleton with cytochalasin D, ODC distribution was diffuse. The ODC distribution in untreated NHEK overlapped with that of keratin in the perinuclear but not cytoplasmic area; after treatment with cytochalasin D, overlap between staining for ODC and for keratin was extensive. No significant overlap with actin and minimal overlap with tubulin filament systems were observed. Subcellular fractionation by sequential homogenizations and centrifugations of NHEK lysates or detergent and salt extractions of NHEK in situ revealed that ODC protein and activity were detectable in both soluble and insoluble fractions, with mechanical disruption causing additional solubilization of ODC activity (three- to sevenfold above controls). Fractionation and ODC immunoprecipitation from [(32)P]orthophosphate-labeled NHEK lysates showed that a phosphorylated form of ODC was present in the insoluble fractions. Taken together, these data suggest that two pools of ODC exist in NHEK. The first is the previously described soluble pool, and the second is enriched in phospho-ODC and associated with insoluble cellular material that by immunohistochemistry appears to be organized in conjunction with the keratin cytoskeleton.
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- M M Pomidor
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Schipper RG, Romain N, Otten AA, Tan J, Lange WP, Verhofstad AA. Immunocytochemical detection of ornithine decarboxylase. J Histochem Cytochem 1999; 47:1395-404. [PMID: 10544213 DOI: 10.1177/002215549904701106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), a regulatory enzyme of polyamine biosynthesis, is involved in cell growth and differentiation. Lack of information about the exact cellular and subcellular localization of ODC is one of the main obstacles to precise interpretation of the biological roles of the ODC/polyamine system. Here we describe the development and optimization of an immunocytochemical method to detect ODC in cells and tissues. For this purpose a monoclonal antibody (MP16-2) against a defined epitope of ODC protein was developed. Specificity of the antibody for ODC was substantiated by Western blotting and ELISA analysis using cell and tissue homogenates. In cultured cells, optimal staining results were obtained after fixation with crosslinking fixatives followed by permeabilization with methanol. In rat tissues, ODC immunoreactivity was best preserved in paraffin sections fixed with Bouin's fixative. Antigen retrieval using SDS and citrate buffer substantially increased ODC immunostaining and decreased background staining. Localization studies of ODC in different cell lines showed that strongest staining for ODC was found in the nucleoplasm of mitotic cells, whereas confluent cells showed moderate perinuclear staining. Immunocytochemical studies of various rat tissues showed high cytoplasmic immunostaining of ODC in epithelial cells of kidney, prostate, and adrenal medulla of testosterone-treated rats, in glandular epithelium of small intestine, and in pancreas of neonatal and adult rats. (J Histochem Cytochem 47:1395-1404, 1999)
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- R G Schipper
- Department of Pathology, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Webb HK, Wu Z, Sirisoma N, Ha HC, Casero RA, Woster PM. 1-(N-alkylamino)-11-(N-ethylamino)-4,8-diazaundecanes: simple synthetic polyamine analogues that differentially alter tubulin polymerization. J Med Chem 1999; 42:1415-21. [PMID: 10212127 DOI: 10.1021/jm980603+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Polyamine analogues such as bis(ethyl)norspermine and N1-(cyclopropylmethyl)-N11-ethyl-4,8-diazaundecane (CPENSpm) act as potent modulators of cellular polyamine metabolism in vitro and possess impressive antitumor activity against a number of cell lines. Some of these polyamine analogues appear to produce their cell-type-specific cytotoxic activity through the superinduction of spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT). However, there are several analogues (e.g., N1-(cycloheptylmethyl)-N11-ethyl-4, 8-diazaundecane (CHENSpm)) which are effective cytotoxic agents but do not superinduce SSAT. We have previously demonstrated that CPENSpm and CHENSpm both initiate the cell death program, although by different mechanisms, and that CHENSpm (but not CPENSpm) induces a G2/M cell cycle arrest. We now report that one potential mechanism by which some polyamine analogues can retard growth and ultimately produce cytotoxicity is through interference with normal tubulin polymerization. In these studies, we compare the effects of the polyamine analogues CHENSpm, CPENSpm, and (S)-N1-(2-methyl-1-butyl)-N11-ethyl-4,8-diazaundecane (IPENSpm) on in vitro tubulin polymerization. These spermine analogues behave very differently from spermine and from each other in terms of tubulin polymerization rate, equilibrium levels, and time of polymerization initiation. These results demonstrate that structurally similar polyamine analogues with potent antitumor effects can produce significantly different cellular effects. The discovery of polyamine analogues that can alter tubulin polymerization provides a series of promising lead compounds that may have a similar spectrum of activity to more difficult to synthesize compounds typified by paclitaxel.
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- H K Webb
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
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Meyerdierks A, Denecke B, Rohde M, Taparowsky EJ, Böttger EC. A cytoplasmic structure resembling large protein aggregates induced by interferons. J Histochem Cytochem 1999; 47:169-82. [PMID: 9889253 DOI: 10.1177/002215549904700206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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IFP 35 is an interferon (IFN)-regulated leucine zipper protein, expression of which is observed in a variety of cell types including monocytes/macrophages, epithelial cells and fibroblasts. Using immunofluorescence studies, we demonstrate that IFP 35 is found in characteristic punctate cytoplasmic structures after IFN treatment. Co-localization experiments using double immunofluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy failed to show association of IFP 35 with known organelles (mitochondria, peroxisomes, endoplasmic reticulum, lysosomes, endosomes, Golgi complex), ribosomes, or actin filaments. Subcellular fractionation to separate membrane-associated from cytoplasmic proteins demonstrated that IFP 35 localizes to the cytoplasm. Separation of postnuclear supernatant from HeLa cells by gel filtration revealed that IFP 35 eluted at a molecular mass of 200-440 kD, suggesting that IFP 35 is part of protein complexes. Electron microscopic studies showed cytoplasmic clusters of a few aggregates of IFP 35 in IFN-treated cells which were neither associated with nor surrounded by a membrane. A combination of immunoprecipitation and immunofluorescence studies of cells transfected with a hemagglutinin epitope-tagged IFP 35 expression construct demonstrated complex formation and co-localization of endogenous and transfected IFP 35. Taken together, our studies demonstrate that IFP 35 associates with unique cytoplasmic structures that are distinct from known organelles and resemble large protein aggregates.
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- A Meyerdierks
- Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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Ichimura S, Hamana K, Nenoi M. Significant increases in the steady states of putrescine and spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase mRNA in HeLa cells accompanied by growth arrest. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 243:518-21. [PMID: 9480841 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Polyamines are intrinsic polycations which play critical roles in cell proliferation. Ornithine decarbolylase (ODC) catalyzes the first step of polyamine biosynthesis converting ornithine to putrescine. In addition to polyamine degradation, spermidine/spermine acetyltransferase (SSAT) regulates interconversion pathway of spermine and spermidine to putrescine. We quantified the polyamines and mRNAs of ODC and SSAT in HeLa S3 cells at various stages during exponential and plateau phases of culturing. Unexpectedly, putrescine and SSAT mRNA levels increased remarkably at the plateau phase, in contrast to the decrease of ODC mRNA level. It will be suggested that the putrescine has a novel function linked to the arrest of cell growth in which the SSAT-mediated pathway producing putrescine takes part.
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- S Ichimura
- Department of Biology and Oncology, National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba-shi, Japan
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Bardocz S, Grant G, Duguid TJ, Brown DS, Pusztai A, Pryme IF. Intracellular levels of polyamines in Krebs II lymphosarcoma cells in mice fed phytohaemagglutinin-containing diets are coupled with altered tumour growth. Cancer Lett 1997; 121:25-9. [PMID: 9459170 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(97)00316-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The number of Krebs II tumour cells recovered from the ascitic fluid of mice fed for 8 days on a lactalbumin (La) control diet was about three times higher than that in animals fed a phytohaemagglutinin-containing (PHA) diet. Feeding a PHA diet for less than 8 days after tumour cell injection also led to a reduction in tumour cell growth. There was an apparent inverse relationship between the total tumour cell count and the intracellular content of putrescine, spermidine and spermine. Hyperplasia of the small intestine occurred in the mice during the development of the ascites. A series of other organs were not affected in the same manner. The results indicate that the polyamine content of Krebs II ascites cells must increase by more than three-fold in order to achieve the intracellular concentration necessary to be able to enter the S-phase. A partial synchronization of the tumour cell population is suggested. Hyperplastic growth of the small intestine would appear to compete with tumour cells for polyamines from a common body pool.
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- S Bardocz
- Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK
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Parkkinen JJ, Lammi MJ, Ågren U, Tammi M, Keinänen TA, Hyvönen T, Eloranta TO. Polyamine-dependent alterations in the structure of microfilaments, golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, and proteoglycan synthesis in BHK cells. J Cell Biochem 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19970801)66:2<165::aid-jcb4>3.0.co;2-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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