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INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 321-331Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.01.002
Keywords
Adenosine recycling; Nucleoside transport; Mbn2; Cl.8+; ATP synthesis; CG11045; CG11778; CG8083; CG11255
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- Grant Agency of Czech Academy of Sciences [KJB501410801]
- Research Center Program MSMT [LC06077]
- European Community [229518]
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Adenosine (Ado) is a crucial metabolite that affects a wide range of physiological processes. Key proteins regulating Ado signaling, transport and metabolism are conserved among vertebrates and invertebrates. It is well known that Ado influences proliferation of several vertebrate and invertebrate cells. Here we show that Ado negatively influences viability, changes morphology and mitochondrial polarity of the Drosophila imaginal disc cell line (Cl.8+) via a mechanism exclusively dependent on cellular Ado uptake. High transport of Ado is followed by phosphorylation and ATP production as a part of Ado salvation, which at higher concentrations may interfere with cellular homeostasis. In contrast, hematopoietic cell line Mbn2, which grows well in high Ado concentration, preferentially uses adenosine deaminase as a part of the purine catabolic pathway. Our results show that different types of Drosophila cell lines use different pathways for Ado conversion and suggest that such differences may be an important part of complex mechanisms maintaining energy homeostasis in the body. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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