Abstract
To test the hypothesis that the antineoplastic activity of phytic acid [inositol hexaphosphate (InsP6)] is a result of rapid intake by the cells and its conversion to lower inositol phosphates (InsP1-5), thereby affecting the intracellular inositol phosphate pool, YAC-1 (mouse T cell leukemia), K562 (human erythroleukemia) and HT-29 (human colon adenocarcinoma) cell lines were incubated at 37 degrees C with [3H]InsP6. After 1 h, 31.3 +/- 3.1% of administered radio-activity was taken up by YAC-1 cells, 6.2 +/- 0.9% by K562 cells and 6.6 +/- 3.8% by HT-29 cells. Differential centrifugation and high resolution subcellular fractionation of cell homogenates demonstrated that within the various cellular compartments, 80% (HT-29) to 97% (YAC-1) of the total radioactivity was in the cytosol. Kinetic study showed that the peak of the total absorption was obtained after 30 min of cell exposure to radiolabeled InsP6, after with a plateau was reached. Analysis of the radioactivity accumulated within the cells showed variable proportions of myo-inositol and InsP1-6, with a preponderance of InsP1 and InsP2. The presence of [3H]myo-inositol and [3H]InsP1-6 suggests that InsP6 may, in some cells at least, be absorbed as such and that a variable degree of dephosphorylation of InsP6 takes place both extra- and intracellularly.
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