Kinetics of the cycloheximide-induced phase changes in the biological clock in Gonyaulax

AUTOR(ES)

Walz, Brigitte

RESUMO

Cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis on cytoplasmic ribosomes in eukaryotes, is shown to shift the phase of the circadian rhythm in stimulated bioluminescence in the marine dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra. Kinetic analysis of the phase changes shows that this effect may be subdivided into two distinctly different and well-separated parts. The first (early) phase change occurs with 15-min exposure to cycloheximide and is saturated at low concentrations (≈10 nM). The second (late) phase changes requires about 150 min of exposure to cycloheximide and is saturated at 0.36 μM cycloheximide. Twenty-times-higher concentrations cause no further phase changes. The magnitudes of both early and late phase changes depend on the time of day when the cells are exposed to cycloheximide. Early phase changes vary from 5 hr advance at circadian time (CT) 20 to 1 hr delay at CT 12; late phase changes are larger, the maximal advance being 12 hr at CT 16 and the greatest delay, 10 hr at CT 14. It is proposed that the early phase changes are caused by alterations in the ion distribution across membranes as a consequence of the permeation of cycloheximide. Late phase changes may be the result of inhibition of protein synthesis.

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