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Effects of Polyamines on Activities of Elongation Factors, Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase and tRNA in Protein Biosynthesis (백 생명성에 관계하는 신장요인과 Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase 및 tRNA 활성에 미치는 Polyamine의 효과)

  • Woong Seop Sim
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.325-332
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    • 1994
  • The effects of polyamines on the activities of elongation factors EF-1 and EF-2, phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase, and tRNA were investigated. The activities of EF-1 and EF-2 were mostly stimulated by spermidine among three kinds of polyamines. The activities of EF-1 and EF-2 were investigated in the presence of spermidine by 230 and 181%, respectively. The activity of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase was slightly increased in the presence of polyamines. The effect of spermine on the synthetase was higher than that of the other polyamines. The tRNA activity in the presence fo polyamines was increased by 206% with spermidine, by 144% with spermine, and by 114% with putrescine. According to these results, it is concluded that polyamines in higher plants stimulate the protein biosynthesis by promoting the activities of elongation factors EF-1 and EF-2, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and tRNAs, but the effects of polyamines on the various components for protein biosynthesis are different in according to the kind of polyamines.

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The Mechanism of Polyamines on Ethylene Biosynthesis in Tobacco Suspension Cultures (담배 현탁 배양세포에서 Ethylene 생합성에 미치는 Polyamine의 작용기작)

  • 이순희
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.267-275
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    • 1988
  • Effects of polyamines on ethylene biosynthesis were studied in synchronized suspension cultured cells from leaf segments of Nicotiana tabacum L. Putrescine, spermidine and spermine inhibited the endogenous production of both ACC and ethylene. Those production was more remarkably inhibited by spermidine and spermine than putrescine. These results were the same tendency with those obtained from exogenous application of SAM and ACC. Polyamines had more inhibitory effect on hte conversion of ACC to ethylene than that of SAM to ACC, but ACC was not accumulated. The inhibition rate of exogenously applied ACC conversion to ethylene was well coincident with that of exogenously applied SAM conversion to ethyene via ACC by polyamines. However, polyamines inhibited more the activity of ACC synthase than that of EFE. From these results we can suggest that polyamines inhibit both steps of SAM to ACC and ACC to ethylene, and more effectively the latter than the former.

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Cell Biological Studies on Growth and Dovelopment - Effect of polyamines on D-glucose-6-phoshate cyclohydrolase antivity in carrot cells- (생체 생장에 관한 세포 생물학적 연구 - 당근 세포의D-glucose-6-phosphate cyclohydrolase 활성에 미치는 polyamine의 영향 -)

  • 조영동
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.263-284
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    • 1986
  • Effects of putrescine, spermidine and spermine on the activity of D-glucose-6-phosphate cyclohydrolase in the Daucus carota L. protoplast cultured for 4 days and effects of polyamines on the incorporation of D-[u-14C]-glucose treated to protoplasts in culture-medium were investigated. The activity of D-glucose-6-phosphate cyclohydrolase was increased by polyamines and among them spermine was the most effective. Polyamiens increased protein synthesis and this due to the increasing effect of the polyamines on the synthesis of glycoprotein which is one of cell wall components. The synthesis of cell polysaccharides, such sa pectic substances, hemicelluloses and cellulose was increased by polyamines, which stimulated synthesis of pectin substances, and hemicellulose more greatly than that of cellulose, and spermidine was the most effective. In the light of the above results it seems that the polyamines increase cell wall regeneration by the stimulation of enzyme activities which synthesize cell wall components.

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The Effect of Polyamines on the DNase Activity in Cultured Carrot Cells (당근(Daucus carota L.)배양세포의 DNase활성에 미치는 Polyamines의 영향)

  • 윤미정
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.285-294
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    • 1986
  • The present study was attempted to investigate the effects of polyamines such as putrescine, spermidine and spermine on protein content and DNase activity in vivo and in vitro in carrot embryos. It was also investigated whether polyamines could replace role of cations required for DNase activity in vitro. The results obtained are as follows. Putrescine, spermidine and spermine increased protein content, although response to spermine reached plateau at the concentration of 0.1 mM. DNase activity was inhibited by polyamines, the inhibition being concentration-dependent and the highest att he concentration of 10 mM. The inhibition of DNase activity was the most prominent with spermine. Similar inhibitory effect to polyamines which was concentration-dependent was found in DNase activity but no change was shown on time-course in vitro. Putrescine and spermidine enhanced the DNase activity at low Mg2+ and Mn2+ concentrations, suggesting that the role of Mg2+ and Mn2+ for DNase activity could be, in part, replaced by these polyamines. These results, therefore, suggest that plyamines can modulate DNase activity through binding to DNA rather than direct effect on DNase activity.

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Stimulation of Ribosome Activity of Zea mays by Polyamine (Polyamine에 의한 옥수수 Ribosome의 활성 촉진)

  • 김기남
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 1993
  • As a part of the study on the relation between exogenous polyamines and various components necessary for protein biosynthesis in the germinating maize seeds, the effects of the polyamines on protein biosynthesis and irbosome activity were investigated. The protein biosynthesis activity by S-30 containing all components necessary for protein biosynthesis was increased by exogenous polyamines, spermidine, spermine and putrescine. As the concentration of polyamine treated was increased, the optimal Mg2+ concentration of in vitro poly U-dependent protein synthesis system was gradually reduced. However, the optimal Mg2+ concentration of poly U-dependent system containing optimal polyamine was 10 mM regardless of the sort of polyamine. It could be infered that polyamines play an important part in protein biosynthesis in the higher plant, and that the role of polyamines take partially the place of Mg2+ action. The activities of ribosome and S-100 in protein biosynthesis were increased by 46.7% and 17.7% with spermidine, and by 44.1% and 16.2% with spermine, and by 29.1% and 19.3% with putrescine. It could be concluded that the increase of protein biosynthesis by polyamines in mainly owing to the ribosome activation.

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Putrescine and Cadaverine Enhance Insulin Secretion of Mouse Pancreatic ${\beta}$-cell Line

  • Park, Hyo-Eun;Kim, Jae-Young
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.193-200
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    • 2012
  • We examined the effects of polyamines such as putrescine and cadaverine on the biosynthesis and secretion of insulin in the mouse pancreatic ${\beta}$-cell line, MIN-6. Basal insulin secretion (BIS) and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from the MIN-6 cells were significantly increased by 20 min- or 24 h-treatment with micromolar concentrations of polyamines. To determine whether the enhancement was due to increase of insulin production by polyamines, we investigated the insulin mRNA and protein production. Both insulin mRNA and protein production were found to be not significantly affected by the polyamine treatment. Next, we examined the expression of several transcription factors (TFs) related to insulin synthesis and secretion in order to identify upstream events responsible for the promotion of insulin secretion of MIN6 cells by polyamines. Of the 6 TFs tested, MafA was induced by treatment of polyamines. MafA mRNA and protein expressions increased with treatment of polyamines. Overall results suggest that cadaverine and putrescine promote the insulin secretion process rather than the insulin biosynthesis from MIN6 cells. Also MafA may be involved in the enhanced insulin secretion process. Further studies are needed to elucidate the underlying mechanisms for promotion of insulin secretion by polyamines.

Studies on the Intracellular Localization of Polyamines and Their related Enzymes in Spinach Leaves (Polyamine과 Polyamine의 생합성에 관련된 효소들의 시금치잎 세포내 분포에 관한 연구)

  • 김성호
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.285-292
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    • 1989
  • The intracellular localizations of polyamines and their related enzymes were investigated from young spinach leaves. Polyamines were present in all parts of plant cells, both in the subcellular organelles and in the soluble fraction of cytoplasm, however, polyamines were mainly located in the cytosolic fraction. Most activities of L-arginine decarboxylase(ADC) and L-ornithine decarboxylase(ODC), two important enzymes of putrescine and polyamine biosynthesis, were detected in cytosol fraction, while in subcellular organelles the activities were very low. Activities of diamine oxidase(DAO) and polyamine oxidase(PAO), the catabolic enzyme of diamine and polyamine, were not detected in spinach leaves. It was suggested that polyamines and their related synthetic enzymes were located in the soluble fraction of cytoplasm.

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Polyamines in methylobacterium extorquens AM1 grown on different energy sources (상이한 에너지원을 이용하여 성장한 methylobacterium extorquens AM1내의 폴리아민)

  • 엄치용;이순희;김영민
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.290-296
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    • 1990
  • Putrescine, spermidine, and spermine were found to persent in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 growing on methanol, succinate, glucose, or nutrient broth as an energy source. Spermidine was found to be a major polyamine in cells growing on methanol or succinate, while putrescine to be the one in nutrient broth-grown cells. The overall content of polyamines in cells growing on glucose was less than that in cells growing on other substrates. Spermine was the most abundant polyamine in glucose-grown cells. Accumulation of polyamines in M. extorquens AM1 was maximal at the mid-exponential or early stationary phase during growth on each substrate. The effect of polyamines added into the medium on the polyamine composition in M. extorquens AM1 was variable. Each polyamine added into the nutrient broth medium was found to increase the amount of the respective polyamine in the cell. Exogeneously added polyamines had no effect on the growth of M. extorquens AM1.

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Effects of Polyamines on DNA Synthesis in Nicotiana tabacum L. Suspension Cultured Cells (담배(Nicotiana tabacum L.) 현탁배양 세포에서 DNA 합성에 미치는 Polyamine의 효과)

  • 남경희
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 1993
  • Effects of polyamines on DNA synthesis were studied in synchronized culture of Nicotiana tabacum L. When DFMO and DFMA, inhibitors of ornithine decarboxylase and arginine decarboxylase, respectively were initially applied to the cells, the polyamine contents were rapidly dropped and [methyl-3H] thymidine incorporation into DNA was markedly reduced during the early stage of culture period. Inhibition of DNA synthesis, however, was partially reversed when these inhibitors were applied simultaneously with putrescine. In addition, exogenous administration of putrescine also increased the DNA synthesis during the all over the culture period. In vitro activity of DNA polymerase from Nicotiana tabacum L. was promoted by increasing concentrations of polyamines in the reaction mixture. Maximal activity was shown at 5 mM putrscine, 0.5 mM spermidine and spermine, respectively. Lack of Mg2+ ion in the reaction buffer resulted in an inhibition of the enzyme activity by about 30%. The inhibition could not be completely reversed by application of polyamines at optimal concentrations. These results suggest that polyamines promote the DNA synthesis in vivo and in vitro by stabilizing the DNA-helix upon binding to negatively charged groups on DNA or increasing the activity of DNA polymerase in Nicotiana tabacum L.

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A Dtudy on the Effect of Polyamines of Korean Red Ginseng on the Growth of Cultured Chichen Embryonic Muscle Cells (홍삼 Polyamine 계 성분이 배양한 계배의 근육세포 성장에 미치는 영향)

  • 구향자;김영중
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.296-301
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    • 1987
  • Polyamines of Korean red ginseng were extracted with 5% trichloroacetic acid and purified by ion exchange chromatography using Dowex-50Wx8 resin. Four spots having R$_f$ values of 0.19, 0.28, 0.35, and 0.45 were detected. It was observed under microscopy that those polyamines stimulated the growth and differentiation of chicken embryonic muscle cell. The development of muscle cells from the stage of myoblast to that of myotube was found to be enhanced by those polyamines. It was also observed that those polyamines most likely lengthened, the life-span of the cultured chicken embryonic skeletal muscle cells.

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