title: [Changes with cell cycle of N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase III, IV and V in 7721 human hepatocarcinoma cells].
abstract: In order to investigate the changes of N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase (GlcNAc-T) III, IV and V in cell cycle, the synchronization of 7721 human hepatocellular carcinoma cells was performed using serum hunger method. The percentages of cells in different phases during cell cycle were measured by flow cytometry (FCM) and the cell cycle was checked by determining the activity of cellular p34cdc2 kinase. It was found that the activities of GlcNAc-T III increased in G0/G1 cell peak phase and had correlation with the cell percentage of G0/G1 phase (r = 0.760, P < 0.05), while GlcNAc-T V showed the highest activity when G2/M cells were most abundant and had an apparent correlation with the cell percentage of G2/M phase (r = 0.868, P < 0.001). The changes of GlcNAc-T IV activity seemed not related to the cell cycle. The changes in opposite directions of relative activities (percentage of total GlcNAc-T III, IV, V) of GlcNAc-T III and GlcNAc-T V were observed during cell cycle (r = -0.951, P < 0.001), suggesting that these two enzymes might be regulated differently and functioned oppositely in the cells: GlcNAc-T V may be related to the proliferation of 7721 cells, while GlcNAc-T III may be related to the non-mitotic silence phase of the cells, or, it may be a factor against proliferation. Immunohistochemical results showed that the protein content of GlcNAc-T V was not significantly changed during cell cycle, and had no correlation with the activity of GlcNAc-T V, suggesting that the changes of GlcNAc-T V activity in cell cycle might not be resulted from the alteration of enzyme protein synthesis. The correlation between the activities of GlcNAc-T V and p34cdc2 kinase (r = 0.752, P < 0.05) was observed in cell cycle, implicating that GlcNAc-T V might possibly be regulated by p34cdc2 kinase.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Glycoconjugate Research, Ministry of Public Health, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D002453:Cell Cycle; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D017350:N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D017350:N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases; D017351:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases; C063057:UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-peptide beta-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase