The incorporation of L-leucine-C
14 by various cell particles of Harding Passey and B-16 mouse melanoma
in vivo and
in vitro was studied.
The incorporation rate of leucine into ribo-somes
in vivo was fast at the early stage after injection and reached its maximum at the end of 12 minutes and decreased thereafter. Smooth membranes which are thought to be a pre-stage of melanosomes, showed relatively fast incorporation. The incorporation by melanosomes was very slow and the amount incorporated was also very low, therefore, it is very unlike that the protein biosynthesis in melanosomes
de novo is so active.
Ribosomes isolated from melanoma synthesize
in vitro the protein by the same mechanisms as liver ribosomes do.
The rough membranes had high incrporating activity which was markedly inhibited by puromycin. By contrast the activity is very low in the smooth membranes. Melano-somes and DOG-treated melanosomes have the incorporating activity which is partially inhibited by puromycin and KF. This sug-gests that the melanosomes may posses the protein biosynthetic system in its structure.
We want to thank Prof. Dr. H. Miyazaki, Juntendo University School of Medicine, and Prof. Dr. T. B. Fitzpatrick, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A. for their continuous advice and encouragement. And also their appreciation_??_s ex-pressed to Dr. H. Sugano, Department of Chemistray, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, for his co-operation with the ultracentrifugal studies. The early stage of this work was carried out at Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A. by the authors.
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