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Inhibition of autophagic sequestration and endogenous protein degradation in isolated rat hepatocytes by methylated adenosine derivatives
Author(s) -
Kovács Atilla L.,
Molnár Katalin,
Seglen Per O.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/0014-5793(81)80600-x
Subject(s) - norwegian , general hospital , chemistry , library science , philosophy , medicine , computer science , pediatrics , linguistics
Some methylated adenosine derivatives, most notably 6-dimethylaminopurine riboside and puromycin aminonucleoside, have been shown to inhibit the autophagic/lysosomal pathway of endogenous protein degradation in isolated rat hepatocytes [ 11. The mechanism of action of these methylaminopurines is not known. One possibility is that they might exert their effect by preventing the first reaction in the autophagic sequence, i.e., the sequestration of cytoplasmic material into autophagosomes [2], as do the amino acids [3-61. Another possibility is that the purines might interfere with the further processing of the autophagosomes, including their fusion with lysosomes, as seems to be the case with most other degradation inhibitors [7]. To distinguish between these two possibilities, we have undertaken a correlated biochemical and morphometric analysis of the effects of several adenine and adenosine derivatives. The results indicate that the methylated aminopurines inhibit endogenous protein degradation at the level of autophagic sequestration.