Abstract
Polyamines such as putrescine, spermidine and spermine play an important role in nucleic acid metabolism. These aliphatic amines display a key role in cell-induced transformation by carcinogen substances. In particular, one of these, the phorbol myristate acetate, provokes cell differentiation and gives an increase of ornithindecarboxylase activity; enzyme regulating the pathways of polyamines. In this study we analyse the trend of the polyamines at cytoplasmic and nuclear level during phorbol treatment. Our results show a correlation between nuclear and cytoplasmic spermine, 3H-Thymidine, 3H-Leucine incorporation and cell cycle phases. These data remark that the polyamines are differently distributed into the cell during the phorbol myristate acetate-mediated differentiation process and that the spermine is down-regulated for to supply the increased protein biosynthesis.
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