Glutamine analogs promote cytoophidium assembly in human and Drosophila cells

Kangni Chen; Jing Zhang; Ömür Yilmaz Tastan; Zillah Anne Deussen; Mayte Yu-Yin Siswick; Ji-Long Liu

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2011.08.004

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Glutamine analogs promote cytoophidium assembly in human and Drosophila cells

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2011.08.004

Medical Research Council Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QX, United Kingdom

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: jilong.liu@dpag.ox.ac.uk (Ji-Long Liu)
Received Date: 2011-08-01
Accepted Date: 2011-08-10

Available Online: 2011-08-17

Publish Date: 2011-09-20

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Abstract

CTP synthase is compartmentalized within a subcellular structure, termed the cytoophidium, in a range of organisms including bacteria, yeast, fruit fly and rat. Here we show that CTP synthase is also compartmentalized into cytoophidia in human cells. Surprisingly, the occurrence of cytoophidia in human cells increases upon treatment with a glutamine analog 6-diazo-5-oxo-l-norleucine (DON), an inhibitor of glutamine-dependent enzymes including CTP synthase. Experiments in flies confirmed that DON globally promotes cytoophidium assembly. Clonal analysis via CTP synthase RNA interference in somatic cells indicates that CTP synthase expression level is critical for the formation of cytoophidia. Moreover, DON facilitates cytoophidium assembly even when CTP synthase level is low. A second glutamine analog azaserine also promotes cytoophidum formation. Our data demonstrate that glutamine analogs serve as useful tools in the study of cytoophidia.
- Azaserine,
- CTP synthase,
- Cytoophidium,
- HeLa cell,
- Intracellular compartmentation

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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