Evidence that intracellular magnesium is present in cells at a regulatory concentration for protein synthesis.
AUTOR(ES)
Terasaki, M
RESUMO
When extracellular magnesium is reduced by a factor of 50 (from 1.0 to 0.02 mM), the total intracellular magnesium of a spontaneously transformed clone of 3T3 cells decreases by 30-50%. Protein synthesis rates in these cells were measured as the intracellular magnesium decreased. Protein synthesis rates and magnesium content were found to decrease in parallel with each other. At 3 hr, a decrease to 84% of control values of magnesium content was accompanied by a decrease to 85% of control values of leucine incorporation rates. A larger inhibition had occurred by 12 hr, when the magnesium had decreased to 67% and leucine incorporation rates had decreased to 57%. When magnesium was restored to magnesium-deprived cells, both magnesium content and leucine incorporation increased about 2-fold by 1 hr. In the experiments reported here, initial small changes in magnesium content are associated with changes in protein synthesis rates. This strongly suggests that magnesium is present at a regulatory rather than excess concentration for protein synthesis. The results are consistent with a role for intracellular magnesium in the regulation of protein synthesis and support the hypothesis that magnesium has a central role in the regulation of metabolism and growth.
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