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Relief of Ornithine Decarboxylase Messenger RNA Translational Repression Induced by Alternative Splicing of Its 5' Untranslated Region

INSERM U151, Laboratoire de Biologie et Pathologie Digestive [S. P., M. B., N. V., L. P.], INSERM U397, Endocrinologie et Communication Cellulaire [S. V., A. C. P.], and Institut Louis Bugnard, Centre Hôspitalier Universitaire, Rangueil, Avenue Jean Poulhès, 31054 Toulouse Cedex, France

The ornithine decarboxylase enzyme (ODC) is the key regulator of polyamine synthesis and is a member of the cellular proto-oncogene family. Its expression becomes constitutively activated by carcinogens, viruses, and oncogenes. ODC mRNA has a long 5' untranslated region that could be important in the regulation of enzyme levels by affecting translation. To test this hypothesis, we have determined the role of this region on the constitutive ODC hyperexpression measured in AR4-2J cells, an azaserine-induced, tumor-derived pancreatic acinar cell line. Construction of expression vectors in which ODC 5' leader sequence was placed flanking the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene allowed us to identify three AR4-2J-specific, different alternatively spliced ODC 5' leaders. The 5' ends of exons 2 and 3 were lengthened by 17 and 13 bases, respectively. Translation performed in a cell-free system as well as in COS7 transient transfection experiments demonstrated that AR4-2J isoforms induce a strong increase in the rate of translation. These results provide evidence that alternative splicing observed in tumoral cells, coupled with translation regulation, relieves the translation repression mediated by the long and structured 5' untranslated region of the ODC proto-oncogene.

¹ To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at INSERM U151, Laboratoire de Biologie et Pathologie Digestive, Institut Louis Bugnard, C. H. U. Rangueil, Avenue Jean Poulhès, 31054 Toulouse Cedex, France.

Received 1/11/96. Accepted 2/29/96.

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