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Use of 18O-labelled leucine and phenylalanine to measure protein turnover in muscle cell cultures and possible futile cycling during aminoacylation.

ABSTRACT: Amino acids labelled with 18(O) on both carboxy oxygen atoms have the potential for use as non-recyclable tracers to measure protein turnover. During protein synthesis one of the labelled oxygen atoms is removed, and thus release of the mono-labelled amino acid could be used to determine proteolysis. Primary cultures of embryonic-chick skeletal-muscle cells were used to test the use of 18(O2)-labelled Leu to measure proteolysis. For 9-day cultures, prelabelled on days 2-8 with medium containing one-half the Leu as [18O2]Leu and one-half as [2H3]Leu, release of [18(O)]Leu was less than 50% that of [2H]Leu over 24 h, suggesting a loss of the 18O label by a mechanism other than protein synthesis. Medium containing [18(O2)]Leu, [2H3]Leu, [18O2]Phe and [13C]Phe was then incubated with 9-day cultures to compare the rate of loss of the 18(O)-label from Leu and Phe with the rate of uptake of the non-carboxy-oxygen-labelled amino acids. Results for Leu demonstrated an 81% loss of the 18(O) label compared with a 33% decrease in [2H]Leu over 12 h. Loss of the 18(O) label was four times as great for Leu as for Phe. Loss of the 18(O) label was not decreased by addition of cycloheximide or by addition of a 3-fold excess of Ile, Val and Tyr; thus the loss of label was not due to protein synthesis alone or to misbinding to incorrect tRNAs. Infusion of the isotopes into pigs showed that the 18(O) label of Leu was not lost during transamination to alpha-ketoisocaproate (alpha-oxoisohexanoate). The most probable explanation is that the 18(O) label is lost as a result of the enzymic deacylation of tRNA, that this process is substantially faster for Leu than for Phe, and that this represents a potentially costly futile cycle for Leu.

SUBMITTER: Fuller JC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1134471 | biostudies-other | 1993 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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