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. 1982 Aug 15;206(2):251–258. doi: 10.1042/bj2060251

Protein turnover and proliferation. Failure of SV-3T3 cells to increase lysosomal proteinases, increase protein degradation and cease net protein accumulation

Thomas D Lockwood 1,*, Ishkanoohe A Minassian 1
PMCID: PMC1158580  PMID: 6293461

Abstract

The contrasting control of lysosomal proteinases, protein turnover and proliferation was studied in 3T3 and SV-3T3 (SV-40-virus-transformed 3T3) cells. 1. In 3T3 cells, net protein accumulation proceeded from 5%/h (doubling time, Td=14h) in growing cells to 0%/h as cells became quiescent. SV-3T3 cells never ceased to gain protein, but rather decreased their protein accumulation rate from 6–7%/h (Td=10–12h) to 2%/h (Td=35–40h) just before culture death in unchanged medium. 2. In both cell types the rates of protein synthesis per unit of protein (a) were proportional to the initial serum concentration from 0 to 6%, and (b) declined under progressive depletion of undefined serum growth factors. In depleted growth medium, leucine incorporation per unit of protein in 3T3 and SV-3T3 cells declined to almost equal synthetic rates while the 3T3 cell existed in a steady state of zero net gain, and the SV-3T3 cell continued to gain protein at a rate of 2%/h. 3. Whereas a large fraction of the control of 3T3-cell net protein accumulation can be accounted for by an increase in degradation from 1%/h to 3%/h, the SV-3T3 cell did not exhibit a growth-related increase in degradation appreciably above 1%/h. 4. Thus, by using first-order kinetics, the continued net protein accumulation of the transformed cell can be accounted for by a failure to increase protein degradation, whereas fractional synthesis can be made to decline to a rate similar to that in the quiescent non-transformed cell. 5. Upon acute serum deprivation, both cell types similarly exhibited small rapid increases in proteolysis independent of cell growth state or lysosomal enzyme status. 6. The 3T3 cell increased its lysosomal proteinase activity in conjunction with increase in the growth-state-dependent proteolytic mechanism; however, the SV-3T3 cell failed to increase lysosomal proteinases or the growth-state-dependent proteolytic mechanism.

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