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Downregulation of T cell growth factor production by ornithine decarboxylase and its product putrescine: d,l-α-Difluoromethylornithine suppresses general protein synthesis but augments simultaneously the production of interleukin-2
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Treatment of EL-4 lymphoma cells with tetradecanoylphorbol-acetate (TPA), a well-known activator of protein kinase C, induces the production of the T cell growth factor interleukin-2 (IL-2) and the expression of IL-2-specific mRNA within 4–8 h. This system is an ideal model for studies on the induction of a differentiated function in a homogeneous lymphoid cell population by a defined signal. TPA induces also an increase of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity and elevates the intracellular concentrations of putrescine and polyamines within 4–8 h. A similar increase of intracellular putrescine and polyamine concentrations can be achieved by administration of 2 m
M putrescine to the culture medium. However, putrescine cannot induce the production of IL-2 in the absence of TPA and cannot reconstitute the IL-2 production in cultures with PGE
2 or cyclosporine A, i.e., two well-known immunosuppressive substances which inhibit ODC activity. Putrescine has rather a counter-regulatory effect as concluded from the observation that the TPA-induced TCGF production and IL-2-specific mRNA expression are augmented (superinduced) by the ODC inhibitor
d,l-α-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) and again suppressed after the administration of putrescine or polyamines to DFMO-treated cultures. The glycolytic activity, general protein synthesis ([
3H]leucine incorporation), and the cell cycle progression from G
2/M to G
1, in contrast, are inhibited by DFMO and reconstituted by putrescine. This demonstrates that the cells are able to sacrifice to a large extent several vital functions including their general protein synthesis and to devote themselves
at the same time to a fulminant production of their functionally most relevant protein IL-2. This process is downregulated by ODC and its product putrescine. A correlation between increased IL-2 production and accumulation of cells in the G
2/M phase was also observed in cultures treated with hydroxyurea or with a combination of amethopterin and adenosine.