title: Reversal of enzymic phenotype of thymidine metabolism in induced differentiation of HL-60 cells.
abstract: Exposure of HL-60 cells to 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) resulted in specific alterations in thymidine (TdR) metabolism. Within 12 h after treatment with 1.62 nM TPA, the reciprocal alteration in the activities of opposing pathways of TdR metabolism observed during normal culture cell growth was reversed. In TPA-treated cells, the activities of anabolic enzymes, TdR kinase (TK; EC 2.7.1.21) and thymidylate synthase (TS; EC 2.1.1.45), declined to 15% and 18% of those of untreated cells by 96 h. Incorporation of 3H-TdR and 3H-deoxyuridine also decreased in parallel with decline in enzyme activities. In contrast, the activities of catabolic enzymes, TdR phosphorylase (TP; EC 2.4.2.4) and dihydrothymine dehydrogenase (DHT DH; EC 1.3.1.2), increased to 399% and 318% by 96 h. Immunotitration of DHT DH with monoclonal antibody showed that the rise in activity in the differentiated cells was due to the increase in protein amount. Kinetic properties of the enzymes were not altered during differentiation. These metabolic alterations were accompanied by an accumulation of the cells in G1 at the expense of S-phase. Present data indicate that induced differentiation of HL-60 cells results in a reversal of enzymic phenotype of TdR metabolism due to a consequence of decreased proliferation and suggest that emergence of TdR metabolic imbalance may serve as early markers of differentiation of these cells.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shiotani
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamaji
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Futami
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bungo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Irino
mesh_terms: D002453:Cell Cycle; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D050744:Dihydrouracil Dehydrogenase (NAD+); D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D015473:Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000032:analysis; D044925:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D013936:Thymidine / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D010088:Oxidoreductases; D044925:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors; D050744:Dihydrouracil Dehydrogenase (NAD+); D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D013936:Thymidine