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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 14, 9183-9192, April 2, 1999

Metallothionein Is Part of a Zinc-scavenging Mechanism for Cell Survival under Conditions of Extreme Zinc Deprivation

David A. SuhyDagger , Kathryn D. Simon, Daniel I. H. LinzerDagger , and Thomas V. O'HalloranDagger

From the Dagger  Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology and the  Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208

Metallothionein (MT) is a small cysteine-rich protein thought to play a critical role in cellular detoxification of inorganic species by sequestering metal ions that are present in elevated concentrations. We demonstrate here that metallothionein can play an important role at the other end of the homeostatic spectrum by scavenging an essential metal in a mouse fibroblast cell line that has been cultured under conditions of extreme zinc deprivation (LZA-LTK-). These cells unexpectedly produce constitutively high levels of metallothionein mRNA; however, the MT protein accumulates only when high concentrations of zinc are provided in the media. Until this MT pool is saturated, no measurable zinc remains in the external media. In this case, zinc deprivation leads to amplification of the MT gene locus in the LZA-LTK- cell line. Furthermore, the intracellular zinc levels in the fully adapted cells remain at the normal level of 0.4 fmol zinc/cell, even when extracellular zinc concentration is decreased by 2 orders of magnitude relative to normal media.


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