title: Evidence for a regulatory element controlling amino acid transport system L in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
abstract: We have used the technique of somatic cell hybridization to study the regulation of the neutral amino acid transport system L in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The cell line CHO-ts025C1 has a temperature-sensitive mutation in leucyl-tRNA synthetase. At the nonpermissive temperature of 39 degrees C, CHO-ts025C1 cells are unable to charge leucyl-tRNA and behave as though starved for leucine by increasing their system L transport activity two- to fourfold. From the temperature-sensitive cell line, we have isolated a regulatory mutant cell line, CHO-C11B6, that has constitutively elevated system L transport activity. The CHO-C11B6 cell line retains the temperature-sensitive leucyl-tRNA synthetase mutation, but growth of this cell line is temperature resistant because its increased system L transport activity leads to increased intracellular leucine levels, which compensate for the defective synthetase. Hybrid cells formed by fusion of the temperature-sensitive CHO-ts025C1 cells and the temperature-resistant CHO-C11B6 cells show temperature-sensitive growth and temperature-dependent regulation of leucine transport activity. These data suggest that the system L activity of CHO cells is regulated by a dominant-acting element that is defective or absent in the regulatory mutant CHO-C11B6 cell line.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Collarini
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Oxender
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D016466:CHO Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D003360:Cosmids; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D004351:Drug Resistance; D006822:Hybrid Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D007930:Leucine / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D012964:Sodium; D007930:Leucine