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Exposure of reticulocytes to 25 mM spermidine and spermine stimulates the incorporation of 14C leucine into hemoglobin and globin polypeptide chains. These two polyamines stimulate beta chain synthesis to a greater extent than they stimulate alpha chain synthesis, thus resulting in a decreased synthetic alpha/beta globin ratio. Because of the low permeability of the red cell membrane to these polycations, less than 1.0% of extracellular spermidine and spermine accumulate within the erythrocyte, thus these effects occur at intracellular polyamine levels that are physiological. Putrescine progressively decreases hemoglobin synthesis at extracellular concentrations greater than 10 mM without affecting the synthetic alpha/beta ratio. These findings suggest a role for polyamines in the fine tuning of the alpha/beta globin ratio at the translational level.
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