Cellular uptake and localization of fluorescent derivatives of phorbol ester tumor promoters |
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Authors: | R M Liskamp A R Brothman J P Arcoleo O J Miller I B Weinstein |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil;2. Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile |
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Abstract: | The synthetic fluorescent derivatives of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), dansyl-TPA, dansyl-TPA-20-acetate and dansyl-TPA-13-desacetate, have ID50 values in the [3H]PDBu binding assay of 2nM, 30nM and 1000nM respectively; the ID50 value of TPA is 4nM. Dansyl-TPA is also equipotent with TPA as an activator of protein kinase C(PKC) producing half maximum stimulation at 2nM. Dansyl-TPA-13-desacetate is almost as potent as dansyl-TPA, while dansyl-TPA-20-acetate is completely inactive as an activator of PKC. The cellular uptake of these fluorescent TPA derivatives tends to parallel their activity in the [3H]PDBu binding assay. Treatment of C3H 10T1/2 cells with 100nM dansyl-TPA results in intense fluorescence of the entire cytoplasm, while the nucleus is virtually devoid of fluorescence. The uptake of fluorescence is quenched by an excess of TPA. Thus, dansyl-TPA rapidly enters cells and binds to specific sites distributed throughout the cytoplasm. Presumably these sites reflect the cellular localization of phorbol ester receptors and protein kinase C. |
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