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. 1988 May 1;251(3):749–755. doi: 10.1042/bj2510749

Regulation of the breakdown rates of biotin-containing proteins in Swiss 3T3-L1 cells.

C S Chandler 1, F J Ballard 1
PMCID: PMC1149067  PMID: 3046602

Abstract

1. Degradation rate constants for individual biotin-labelled proteins were measured in Swiss 3T3-L1 adipocytes that had been incubated with inhibitors of autophagy or of lysosomal proteolysis. 2. Inhibitory effects produced by 10 mM-3-methyladenine and a combination of 5 mM-NH4Cl and leupeptin (50 micrograms/ml) were approximately equal. The inclusion of NH4Cl did not significantly enhance the responses to 3-methyladenine, suggesting that autophagy was already maximally inhibited. 3. The extent of inhibition by 3-methyladenine or by the NH4Cl/leupeptin mixture was similar for the cytosolic enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase and for the three mitochondrial carboxylases. This inhibition averaged 50%. The breakdown rate of a more-stable 38 kDa biotin-containing mitochondrial protein was more responsive to the inhibitory agents. These results are best explained by mitochondrial proteolysis occurring via a combination of the degradation of whole mitochondria within autophagic vacuoles, supplemented by the selective intramitochondrial breakdown of more labile proteins. 4. A number of intermediate products in the degradation of biotin-containing proteins were detected. Differences in the patterns of radioactivity between these peptides after incubation of cells in the presence of inhibitors of the breakdown process provided evidence that some peptides were produced before autophagy, others as a result of intralysosomal inhibition, while at least one was associated with intramitochondrial proteolysis.

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