Extreme instability of myc mRNA in normal and transformed human cells - PubMed (original) (raw)

Extreme instability of myc mRNA in normal and transformed human cells

C Dani et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1984 Nov.

Abstract

To address the possibility that the expression of the myc gene might be regulated at a post-transcriptional level, we have investigated the half-life of myc mRNA in various cells. Our survey included normal human embryonic fibroblasts as well as transformed human cells of various origins: cervix carcinoma (HeLa), breast carcinoma (MCF7), Burkitt lymphoma (Daudi), and promyelocytic leukemia (HL60). All these cells revealed an extreme instability of myc mRNA (half-life, approximately equal to 10 min), suggesting that the control of myc mRNA degradation might be a general means (although not necessarily exclusive) of regulating both the level and the timing of myc gene expression. Inhibition of protein synthesis resulted in a dramatic stabilization of myc mRNA in HeLa, MCF7, and HL60 cells, suggesting that the controlling element might itself be, at least in these cells, a protein of rapid turnover. This finding opens the way to studying the mechanism of myc mRNA inactivation in these different cell types. However, protein synthesis inhibition had no effect on myc mRNA instability in other transformed (Daudi) cell lines as well as normal embryonic human fibroblasts. These different types of behavior suggest that the post-transcriptional control of myc gene expression might involve multiple factors that would be differently affected in various cell types.

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Extreme instability of myc mRNA in normal and transformed human cells - PubMed (original) (raw)