Investigational New Drugs 2010-06-01

Ongoing DNA synthesis in the rat cerebral cortex is regulated by a proteolytic pathway independent of the proteasome and calpains.

J Sebastián Yakisich, Ake Sidén, Mabel Cruz

Index: Invest. New Drugs 28 , 242-50, (2010)

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Abstract

By using mini-units of tissue and protease inhibitors in short term incubation (0-180 min), we studied the role of proteolysis for ongoing DNA replication in the developing rat cerebral cortex. The protease inhibitors TLCK, TPCK, PMSF, MG-132 and PSI markedly inhibited DNA synthesis. The inhibitory effects were concentration-dependent and of early onset (within 60 min). The most selective proteasome inhibitors lactacystin and clasto-lactacystin-beta-lactone as well as the calpain inhibitor I and II had no or minimal effects on DNA synthesis. Only high concentrations of calpain inhibitor I (>or= 250 microM) and calpain inhibitor II (>or= 500 microM) gave a DNA synthesis inhibition. These results suggest that (1) ongoing DNA replication is regulated by proteolysis and (2) the proteolytic pathways involved are neither the proteasome nor the calpains.

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