title: Isolation of Chinese hamster ovary cell mutants defective in the regulation of leucine transport.
abstract: We have isolated mutants defective in the regulation of leucine transport by selecting temperature-resistant revertants from the CHO-tsH1 strain, a temperature-sensitive leucyl-tRNA synthetase mutant of the Chinese hamster ovary cell line. In each revertant, there is a stable 2- to 3-fold enhancement in the activity of transport System L, which serves for the uptake of branched-chain amino acids. This increased transport is reflected by an increase in the Vmax for System L transport without a significant change in the Km value and results in increased intracellular pools of leucine. The thermal stability of the leucyl-tRNA synthetase activity in each of these revertants is not changed significantly from that of the starting strain, CHO-tsH1. We conclude from these studies that the temperature resistance in the revertants arises from alterations in the regulation of transport System L, leading to constitutively high System L transport and increased intracellular pools of leucine, complementing the leucyl-tRNA synthetase defect.
mesh_terms: D000604:Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D004355:Drug Stability; D005260:Female; D007700:Kinetics; D007930:Leucine / Q000378:metabolism*; D007935:Leucine-tRNA Ligase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D010053:Ovary; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000604:Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases; D007935:Leucine-tRNA Ligase; D007930:Leucine