Separate pyrimidine-nucleotide pools for messenger-RNA and ribosomal-RNA synthesis in HeLa S3 cells.

Kinetic analyses of mRNA and 28-S RNA labeling [3H]uridine revealed distinctly different steady-state specific radioactivities finally reached for uridine in mRNA and 28-S RNA when exogenous [3H]uridine was kept constant for several cell doubling times. While the steady-state label of (total) UTP and of uridine in mRNA responded to the same extent to a suppression of pyrimidine synthesis de novo by high uridine concentrations in the culture medium, uridine in 28-S RNA was scarcely influenced. Similar findings were obtained with respect to labeling of cytidine in the various RNA species due to an equilibration of UTP with CTP [5-3H]Uridine is also incorporated into deoxycytidine of DNA, presumably via dCTP. The specific radioactivity of this nucleosidase attained the same steady-state value as UTP, uridine in mRNA and cytidine in mRNA. The data indicate the existence of two pyrimidine nucleotide pools. One is a large, general UTP pool comprising the bulk of the cellular UTP and serving nucleoplasmic nucleic acid formation (uridine and cytidine in mRNA, deoxycytidine in DNA). Its replenishment by de novo synthesis can be suppressed completely by exogenous uridine above 100 muM concentrations. A second, very small UTP (and CTP) pool with a high turnover provides most of the precursors for nucleolar RNA formation (rRNA). This pool is not subject to feedback inhibition by extracellular uridine to an appreciable extent. Determinations of (total) UTP turnover also show that the bulk of cellular RNA (rRNA) cannot be derived from the large UTP pool.

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