Publication Date:
1982-04-02
Description:
The ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor DL-alpha-difluoromethyl ornithine inhibited a proliferation-associated increase in ornithine decarboxylase activity in cultured human promyelocytic leukemia cells, resulting in a marked suppression of cell proliferation and subsequent cell loss. It also inhibited increases in ornithine decarboxylase activity associated with the phorbol ester-induced conversion of promyelocytic HL-60 cells to monocyte-like cells and the retinoic acid-induced conversion to granulocyte-like cells. However, the inhibition of ornithine decarboxylase activity did not prevent cellular differentiation. These results suggest that polyamine biosynthesis has a specific role in cell proliferation rather than in inducing differentiation that is not accompanied by proliferation. The data also demonstrate that cessation of proliferation in HL-60 cells is not necessarily associated with differentiation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Luk, G D -- Civin, C I -- Weissman, R M -- Baylin, S B -- AM-27447/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- CA-18404/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HL-19157/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Apr 2;216(4541):75-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6950518" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Carboxy-Lyases/*physiology
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Cell Adhesion
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Cell Differentiation
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Cell Division
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Cells, Cultured
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Female
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Granulocytes/pathology
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Humans
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Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/*enzymology/pathology
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Macrophages/pathology
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Ornithine Decarboxylase/*physiology
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Polyamines/biosynthesis
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Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/pharmacology
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Tretinoin/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
