title: Ornithine decarboxylase: essential in proliferation but not differentiation of human promyelocytic leukemia cells.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D002262:Carboxy-Lyases / Q000502:physiology*; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D008264:Macrophages / Q000473:pathology; D009955:Ornithine Decarboxylase / Q000502:physiology*; D011073:Polyamines / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D011073:Polyamines; D014212:Tretinoin; D002262:Carboxy-Lyases; D009955:Ornithine Decarboxylase; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate