J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 21, 10104-10110, 07, 1988

Isoprenoid synthesis during the cell cycle. Studies of 3-hydroxy-3- methylglutaryl-coenzyme A synthase and reductase and isoprenoid labeling in cells synchronized by centrifugal elutriation

WA Maltese and KM Sheridan
Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York 10032.

The activities of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A synthase and reductase were assayed in exponentially growing LM fibroblasts and Friend murine erythroleukemia cells isolated at various stages of the cell cycle by centrifugal elutriation. The activities of these enzymes were similar in all phases of the cell cycle, regardless of whether the cells were cultured in the presence or absence of serum. These observations were confirmed in murine erythroleukemia cells synchronized by recultivation of pure populations of G1 cells. The incorporation of [14C]acetate or 3H2O into sterols decreased by 30-50% in later stages of the cell cycle, whereas the incorporation of [14C]acetate into ubiquinone increased as the cells progressed toward mitosis. Similar changes in the labeling of sterols compared to ubiquinone and dolichol were observed when [3H]mevalonate was used, suggesting that cell cycle-dependent alterations may occur in the flux of farnesyl pyrophosphate into the various branches of the isoprenoid pathway. Synchronized murine erythroleukemia cells incorporated [3H]mevalonate into protein-bound isoprenyl groups at all stages of the cell cycle, and there were no substantial changes in the electrophoretic profiles of these labeled polypeptides. The finding that the activities of the enzymes regulating mevalonate synthesis did not vary substantially during the cell cycle implies that changes in the endogenous mevalonate pool probably do not play a limiting role in regulating cell cycle traverse when cells are undergoing exponential growth. Although small cell cycle-dependent changes may occur in the relative activity of various post-mevalonate branches of the isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway, there is no evidence that synthesis of any major isoprenoid end product is confined exclusively to a specific phase of the cell cycle.
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