Gene expression of human DNA polymerase alpha during cell proliferation and the cell cycle
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Gene expression of human DNA polymerase alpha during cell proliferation and the cell cycle
Abstract
We studied the expression of the human DNA polymerase alpha gene during cell proliferation, during cell progression through the cell cycle, and in transformed cells compared with normal cells. During the activation of quiescent cells (G0 phase) to proliferate (G1/S phases), the steady-state mRNA levels, rate of synthesis of nascent polymerase protein, and enzymatic activity in vitro exhibited a substantial and concordant increase prior to the peak of in vivo DNA synthesis. In transformed cells, the respective values were amplified greater than 10-fold. In actively growing cells separated into discrete stages of the cell cycle by counterflow elutriation or by mitotic shakeoff, levels of steady-state transcripts, translation rates, and enzymatic activities of polymerase alpha were constitutively and concordantly expressed at all stages of the cell cycle, with only a moderate elevation prior to the S phase and a slight decline in the G2 phase. These findings support the conclusion that the regulation of human DNA polymerase alpha gene expression is at the transcriptional level and strongly suggest that the regulatory mechanisms that are operative during the entrance of a cell into the mitotic cycle are fundamentally different from those that modulate polymerase alpha expression in continuously cycling cells.
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