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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 13, 7539-7547, 05, 1990

Increased ferritin gene expression is associated with increased ribonucleotide reductase gene expression and the establishment of hydroxyurea resistance in mammalian cells

GA McClarty, AK Chan, BK Choy and JA Wright
Department of Biochemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

In the present study, we show that hydroxyurea-inactivated ribonucleotide reductase protein M2 has a destabilized iron center, which readily releases iron. In addition, evidence is presented which indicates that single or multistep selection for hydroxyurea resistance, in a variety of mammalian cell lines, leads to alterations in the expression of the gene for the iron storage protein, ferritin. In all hydroxyurea-resistant cell lines examined, including human, hamster, rat, and mouse, there was an elevation in ferritin heavy (H)- and/or light (L)-mRNA levels, but no change in the corresponding gene copy number. A detailed analysis of ferritin expression in a hydroxyurea-resistant mouse L cell line showed that when compared to its wild type counterpart, there was an increase in H subunit concentration but no significant change in L subunit levels. The increased H/L subunit ratio was not brought about by specific changes in the rates of ferritin subunit biosynthesis, but rather resulted from changes in the post-translational stability of H subunits relative to L subunits in the resistant cell line compared to its parental wild type. Also, we show that treatment of cells with hydroxyurea results in an increased rate of ferritin biosynthesis in the absence of changes in H- or L-mRNA levels. These results indicate that the development of even low level hydroxyurea resistance in mammalian cells may require alterations in ferritin gene expression, and they show an interesting relationship between the expressions of two highly regulated activities, ribonucleotide reductase and ferritin.
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