INHIBITION OF TRANSLATION IN EUKARYOTIC SYSTEMS BY HARRINGTONINE
INHIBITION OF TRANSLATION IN EUKARYOTIC SYSTEMS BY HARRINGTONINE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1977.tb11256.x
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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VAZQUEZ, D
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FRESNO, M;JIMENEZ, A;VAZQUEZ, D
The Cephalotaxus alkaloids harringtonine, homoharringtonine and isoharringtonine inhibit protein synthesis in eukaryotic [rabbit and yeast] cells. The [antitumor] alkaloids do not inhibit, in model systems, any of the steps of the initiation process but block poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis as well as peptide bond formation in the fragment reaction assay, sparsomycin induced binding of (C)U-A-C-C-A-[3H]Leu-Ac and enzymic and the nonenzymic binding of Phe-tRNA to ribosomes. These results suggest that the Cephalotaxus alkaloids inhibit the elongation phase of translation by preventing substrate binding to the acceptor site on the 60-S ribosome subunit and block aminoacyl-tRNA binding and peptide bond formation. The Cephalotaxus alkaloids do not inhibit polypeptide synthesis and peptidyl-[3H]puromycin formation in polysomes. These alkaloids inhibit [14C]trichodermin binding to free ribosomes but hardly affect the interaction of the antibiotic with yeast polysomes. These results suggest that the Cephalotaxus alkaloids cannot interact with polysomes and only inhibit the initial cycles of elongation. This explains the polysome run off observed by some workers in the presence of harringtonine.