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Endocrinology, Vol 115, 2271-2277, Copyright © 1984 by Endocrine Society

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Effects of thyrotropin-releasing hormone on prolactin compartments in clonal rat pituitary tumor cells

A Morin, E Rosenbaum and A Tixier-Vidal

PRL compartments were studied in a clonal strain of rat pituitary tumor cells (GH3B6). The cells were pulse-labeled for 10 min with 35S- methionine and then chased for 20 h in the absence or presence of TRH (30 nM) or cycloheximide (3.6 X 10(-5) M), or both. The specific radioactivity (SA) of PRL was followed in the cells and chase medium as a function of chase time and treatments. The transit of labeled and unlabeled PRL has been investigated in cells treated with monensin (1 microM), a drug which is known to perturb the Golgi zone. Newly synthesized PRL was rapidly (15 min of chase) and preferentially released in basal conditions. The pattern of the decay of the SA of PRL released in the medium suggested the existence of at least two PRL pools with different half-lives: 15 min and 3 h, respectively. TRH induced the preferential release of a PRL pool synthesized before the labeling pulse. Monensin decreased the basal release of total radioimmunoassayable PRL without affecting that of the newly synthesized PRL. In contrast, it did not affect the stimulating effect of TRH on the release of unlabeled PRL. These results are in favor of the existence of different intracellular routes for the basal release of PRL (mostly newly synthesized) and the TRH-stimulated release of PRL (mostly stored). Moreover, after 20 h of chase a large fraction (approximately 80%) of the labeled immunoprecipitated material remained intracellularly located and not degraded. This material was not mobilizable by TRH even in the presence of cycloheximide. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis revealed that it consisted of large immunoreactive proteins (mol wt, 45,000 and 50,000) instead of mol wt 23,000 PRL which was found in the medium.


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