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. 1981 Jun 15;196(3):733–738. doi: 10.1042/bj1960733

Response of enzymes involved in the metabolism of polyamines to phytohaemagglutinin-induced activation of human lymphocytes.

H Korpela, E Hölttä, T Hovi, J Jänne
PMCID: PMC1163092  PMID: 6797408

Abstract

The stimulation of lymphocyte ornithine decarboxylase and adenosylmethionine decarboxylase produced by phytohaemagglutinin was accompanied by an equally marked, but delayed, stimulation of spermidine synthase, which is not commonly considered as an inducible enzyme. In contrast with the marked stimulation of these biosynthetic enzymes, less marked changes were observed in the biodegradative enzymes of polyamines in response to phytohaemagglutinin. Diamine oxidase activity was undetectable during all stages of the transformation. The activity of polyamine oxidase remained either constant or was slightly decreased several days after addition of the mitogen. The activity of polyamine acetylase (employing all the natural polyamines as substrates) distinctly increased both in the cytosolic and crude nuclear preparations of the cells during later stages of mitogen activation. Difluoromethylornithine, an irreversible inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase, although powerfully inhibiting ornithine decarboxylase, produced a gradual enhancement of adenosylmethionine decarboxylase activity during lymphocyte activation, without influencing the activities of the two propylamine transferases (spermidine synthase and spermine synthase).

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