Stimulation of choline release from NG108-15 cells by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 241 (1), 81-86
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2410081
Abstract
The effects of the potent tumour-promoting phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) on phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) metabolism were investigated in the neuroblastoma .times. glioma hybrid cell line NG108-15. TPA (100 nM) stimulated by 150-200% the release into the medium of 3H radioactivity from cells that had been pre-labelled with [3H]choline. H.p.l.c. analysis of the medium revealed that TPA stimulated the release of only free [3H]choline (212 .+-. 11% of control), whithout affecting such other labelled metabolites as [3H]phosphocholine and [3H]glycerophosphocholine. This effect was concentration-dependent, with a half-maximal effect obtained at 27.5 .+-. 6.8 nM, and was observable as early as 5-10 min after exposure to TPA. The TPA-induced release of [3H]choline into the medium was accompanied by a small and variable decrease in cellular [3H]PtdCho (to 93 .+-. 4% of control). However, the radioactivity associated with water-soluble cellular choline metabolites (mainly [3H]phosphocholine and [3H]glycerophosphocholine) remained unchanged. TPA also stimulated the release of [3H]choline derived from [3H]PtdCho that had been produced via the methylation pathway from [3H]methionine. These data suggest that phosphatidylcholine may serve as the source of free choline released from the cells in response to TPA. The possible enzymic mechanisms underlying this response are discussed.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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