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Kim WS, Kwak IS. EDCs trigger immune-neurotransmitter related gene expression, and cause histological damage in sensitive mud crab Macrophthalmus japonicus gills and hepatopancreas. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2022; 122:484-494. [PMID: 35150829 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2022.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Revised: 02/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), distributed at various concentrations in freshwater and marine ecosystems, affect the survival, reproduction, and behavior of wide ranges organisms. Most toxicology studies on EDCs have focused on the endocrine system of invertebrates, and research on invertebrate neurotransmitters is limited. In the present study, we investigated the expression of Macrophthalmus japonicus genes encoding γ-aminobutyric acid transporter subtype 2 (GAT-2) and glutamine synthetase (GS), which play important roles as neurotransmitters at synapses. We observed differences in the mRNA expression levels of GAT-2 and GS as well as histological changes in various tissues after exposure to bisphenol-A (BPA) and di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). The amino acid sequences of M. japonicus GAT-2 and GS formed separate branches in crustaceans, fish, insects, and mammals. M. japonicus GAT-2 and GS expression levels were highest in the gills, hepatopancreas, and stomach, and showed different between DEHP or BPA treatments. In particular, hepatopancreas GS expression on Day 1, the first step in the presynaptic process, was upregulated after BPA and DEHP exposure, while GAT-2, sequential step in the presynaptic process, was significantly elevated only in DEHP. After BPA treatments, gill GS expression was increased at all concentrations, whereas GAT-2 expression was overall down regulations. In contrast, in DEHP treatment groups hepatopancreatic GS and GAT-2 expression at Day 1 was only significantly higher and all groups including gill GS and GAT-2 expression were downregulation. Histological changes in the gills and hepatopancreas were observed in a concentration-dependent manner. Accordingly, BPA and DEHP exposure in crabs could be stimulate neurotransmitter gene expression and alter the morphological structure of gill and hepatopancreas.
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- Won-Seok Kim
- Department of Ocean Integrated Science, Chonnam National University, Yeosu, 59626, South Korea
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- Department of Ocean Integrated Science, Chonnam National University, Yeosu, 59626, South Korea.
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Differential expression of multiple glutamine synthetase genes in air-breathing magur catfish, Clarias magur and their induction under hyper-ammonia stress. Gene 2018; 671:85-95. [PMID: 29864497 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2018.05.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The present study demonstrates the unique presence of three different gs genes (cmgs01, cmgs02, and cmgs03) in air-breathing ureogenic magur catfish (Clarias magur), which is otherwise reported to be encoded by a single gene in higher vertebrates. Of these three genes, two (cmgs01and cmgs03) were identified as 'liver' form, predominantly expressed in liver cells, and the third one as 'brain' form (cmgs02), expressed chiefly in brain cells. Molecular characterization studies have revealed conservation of homologous active site residues in all the three gs genes. In silico analysis, accompanied by GS enzyme assay and Western blot analysis of different GS isoforms in different subcellular fractions indicated the mitochondrial localization of cmGS01 and cmGS03 in liver and kidney cells and cytosolic localization of cmGS02 in brain cells. Further, exposure of magur catfish to high external ammonia (HEA; 25 mM NH4Cl) led to a significant induction of multiple gs genes as evidenced by higher expression of different gs mRNAs at variable levels in different tissues. The cmgs01 and cmgs03 mRNA levels elevated significantly in liver, kidney, muscle, and gills, whereas the cmgs02 mRNA level increased considerably in the brain after 14 days of exposure to HEA. These increases in mRNA levels were associated with a significant rise in cmGS01 and cmGS03 proteins in liver, kidney, muscle, and gills, and the cmGS02 protein in the brain after 14 days of exposure to HEA. Therefore, it can be concluded that the unique differential expression of three gs genes and their induction under high ammonia level probably helps in detoxification of ammonia to glutamine and further to urea via the ornithine-urea cycle in ureogenic as well as non-ureogenic tissues of these magur catfish.
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Gaunitz F, Deichsel D, Heise K, Werth M, Anderegg U, Gebhardt R. An intronic silencer element is responsible for specific zonal expression of glutamine synthetase in the rat liver. Hepatology 2005; 41:1225-32. [PMID: 15880568 DOI: 10.1002/hep.20710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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The most striking phenomenon of glutamine synthetase (GS) expression in the liver is its unique restriction to cells surrounding the terminal hepatic venules. Expression is positively regulated by elements located in the 5'-upstream region and in the first intron of the gene. It was long believed that transcription factors present in GS-positive cells and absent in GS-negative cells are responsible for the phenomenon of zonal expression. However, strong enhancers are equally active in both types of cells. Therefore, the existence of a silencer mechanism in GS-negative hepatocytes was postulated. In the present study, a GS silencer element was investigated that was previously identified within the first intron and was shown to be able to prevent glucocorticoid-induced expression in cells negative for a transacting factor designated GS silencer element-binding protein. Reporter gene assays with the silencer element in combination with the most potent 5'-enhancer of the GS gene demonstrate that the silencer element is able to prevent enhancement mediated by the 5'-enhancer in combination with a heterologous as well as with the homologous promoter. More importantly, the effect of the silencer is shown to be restricted to GS-negative hepatocytes. In conclusion, the phenomenon of zonal expression of GS in the liver is caused by a protein present in GS-negative cells and absent in GS-positive cells that interacts with the silencer element in the first intron and not by a differential expression of enhancer-binding proteins.
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- Frank Gaunitz
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
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Watford M, Wu G. Glutamine metabolism in uricotelic species: variation in skeletal muscle glutamine synthetase, glutaminase, glutamine levels and rates of protein synthesis. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2005; 140:607-14. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2004.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2004] [Revised: 12/12/2004] [Accepted: 12/13/2004] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Smartt CT, Kiley LM, Hillyer JF, Dasgupta R, Christensen BM. Aedes aegypti glutamine synthetase: expression and gene structure. Gene 2001; 274:35-45. [PMID: 11674996 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(01)00618-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The peritrophic matrix (PM) is the first natural barrier a mosquito-borne parasite faces when ingested with a blood meal; consequently, understanding the biology of PM formation could provide novel transmission control strategies. Because the PM is composed of chitin (a molecule of repeating units of N-acetyl glucosamine), glycoproteins and glucose, characterizing the regulation of enzymes involved in chitin production should provide information concerning factors that influence PM formation. We previously have shown that glutamine synthetase (GS) provides the glutamine needed in the initial steps of chitin biosynthesis in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. In the present study we show that GS is encoded by a single 4.5 kb gene, designated mGS, containing three exons and two introns. Multiple transcripts are generated from mGS presumably by differential splicing of the introns. Sequences of two cDNAs encoding GS are identical at the protein level, but differ in their 5'-untranslated regions. GS message is constitutively expressed in all developmental stages and in most tissues, with an increase in GS transcription observed in midgut and fat body tissues of female mosquitoes following a blood meal. Transcripts are localized to the apical side of the mosquito midgut epithelium and data suggest that mGS transcription is regulated by an Oct-1 transcription factor.
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MESH Headings
- Aedes/enzymology
- Aedes/genetics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA/chemistry
- DNA/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Digestive System/enzymology
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Genes/genetics
- Glutamate Synthase/genetics
- In Situ Hybridization
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- RNA/genetics
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Tissue Distribution
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- C T Smartt
- Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1656 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Barnes LM, Bentley CM, Dickson AJ. Advances in animal cell recombinant protein production: GS-NS0 expression system. Cytotechnology 2000; 32:109-23. [PMID: 19002973 PMCID: PMC3449689 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008170710003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The production of recombinant proteins using mammalian cell expression systems is of growing importance within biotechnology, largely due to the ability of specific mammalian cells to carry out post-translational modifications of the correct fidelity. The Glutamine Synthetase-NS0 system is now one such industrially important expression system.Glutamine synthetase catalyses the formation ofglutamine from glutamate and ammonia. NS0 cellscontain extremely low levels of endogenous glutaminesynthetase activity, therefore exogenous glutaminesynthetase can be used efficiently as a selectablemarker to identify successful transfectants in theabsence of glutamine in the media. In addition, theinclusion of methionine sulphoximine, an inhibitor ofglutamine synthetase activity, enables furtherselection of those clones producing relatively highlevels of transfected glutamine synthetase and henceany heterologous gene which is coupled to it. Theglutamine synthetase system technology has been usedfor research and development purposes during thisdecade and its importance is clearly demonstrated nowthat two therapeutic products produced using thissystem have reached the market place.
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- L M Barnes
- 2.205 School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT (Author for correspondence)
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Smartt CT, Chiles J, Lowenberger C, Christensen BM. Biochemical analysis of a blood meal-induced Aedes aegypti glutamine synthetase gene. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 28:935-945. [PMID: 9887510 DOI: 10.1016/s0965-1748(98)00073-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase (GS) in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is induced in the midgut following a blood meal. Mosquito GS message is detected as soon as 1 h post-blood feeding and remains stable for 18 h. Using a PCR product encoding mosquito GS, a lambda gt10 adult female mosquito cDNA library was screened. A cDNA clone, pCl5A2, encoding the full translation product of mosquito GS was isolated and sequence analyses performed. Mosquito GS cDNA is 2.5 kb in length and its putative translation product shares all the conserved regions characteristic of the GS gene family, including the presumed ATP biding site. Glutamine synthetase activity in the mosquito midgut is highest at 18 h post-blood feeding. Activity can be detected over a broad pH range, from 6.0 to 7.5. Unlike other cellular GS enzymes, mosquito GS is not active in the presence of ATP. Very low dosages (0.05 mM) of L-methionine S-sulfoximine are sufficient to partially inhibit mosquito GS activity. Inhibition of GS disrupts the normal formation of the midgut peritrophic matrix, suggesting that GS enzyme might be involved in the initial pathway of chitin synthesis. The unique expression pattern and inducible nature of the mosquito GS gene make it an interesting candidate for studying promoter function. Additionally, the blood meal activation of the GS gene makes this a potentially valuable tool in mosquito transformation studies.
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- C T Smartt
- Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA.
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Lie-Venema H, Hakvoort TB, van Hemert FJ, Moorman AF, Lamers WH. Regulation of the spatiotemporal pattern of expression of the glutamine synthetase gene. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 61:243-308. [PMID: 9752723 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60829-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase, the enzyme that catalyzes the ATP-dependent conversion of glutamate and ammonia into glutamine, is expressed in a tissue-specific and developmentally controlled manner. The first part of this review focuses on its spatiotemporal pattern of expression, the factors that regulate its levels under (patho)physiological conditions, and its role in glutamine, glutamate, and ammonia metabolism in mammals. Glutamine synthetase protein stability is more than 10-fold reduced by its product glutamine and by covalent modifications. During late fetal development, translational efficiency increases more than 10-fold. Glutamine synthetase mRNA stability is negatively affected by cAMP, whereas glucocorticoids, growth hormone, insulin (all positive), and cAMP (negative) regulate its rate of transcription. The signal transduction pathways by which these factors may regulate the expression of glutamine synthetase are briefly discussed. The second part of the review focuses on the evolution, structure, and transcriptional regulation of the glutamine synthetase gene in rat and chicken. Two enhancers (at -6.5 and -2.5 kb) were identified in the upstream region and two enhancers (between +156 and +857 bp) in the first intron of the rat glutamine synthetase gene. In addition, sequence analysis suggests a regulatory role for regions in the 3' untranslated region of the gene. The immediate-upstream region of the chicken glutamine synthetase gene is responsible for its cell-specific expression, whereas the glucocorticoid-induced developmental appearance in the neural retina is governed by its far-upstream region.
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- H Lie-Venema
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Pu H, Cashion LM, Kretschmer PJ, Liu Z. Rapid establishment of high-producing cell lines using dicistronic vectors with glutamine synthetase as the selection marker. Mol Biotechnol 1998; 10:17-25. [PMID: 9779420 DOI: 10.1007/bf02745860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Recombinant proteins are useful tools in biological research, drug development, and drug screening. Specially designed expression vectors have been developed to introduce cDNA for recombinant protein expression in mammalian cells. We have combined a dicistronic mRNA design for expression of the recombinant protein, using glutamine synthetase (GS) for selection. A soluble form of human interleukin-4 receptor alpha chain was used as the model protein. The dicistronic vectors were compared to a standard expression vector in CHO-K1 cells in parallel experiments. Our data showed that a dicistronic vector containing an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) of the encephalomyocarditis virus (ECMV) was superior to a conventional expression vector in both levels of protein expression and amplification efficiency. The productivity of these clones was stable without selection pressure for an extended period of time. The GS selection system within a dicistronic vector design can achieve rapid and efficient gene amplification for protein production.
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- H Pu
- Berlex Biosciences, Richmond, CA, USA
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Dunbar AJ, Wheldrake JF. Analysis of mRNA levels for developmentally regulated prespore specific glutamine synthetase in Dictyostelium discoideum. Dev Growth Differ 1997; 39:617-24. [PMID: 9338597 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1997.t01-4-00009.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The enzyme glutamine synthetase (GS) of Dictyostelium discoideum is developmentally regulated, preferentially localized in prespore cells and is likely to play an important role in controlling the levels of ammonia, a known morphogen, in this organism. To further investigate the regulation of GS, a portion of the GS gene was isolated and used as a probe to examine the changes in GS mRNA throughout development and the level of GS mRNA in the two precursor cell types. The amino acid sequence of the cloned DNA fragment isolated is highly homologous to other eukaryotic GS genes. DNA blot analysis demonstrated that the GS gene exists as a single copy in D. discoideum. Analysis of RNA indicated that there is a single 1.7 kb GS transcript that increased during development to peak at the initial stages of culmination. Furthermore, GS mRNA was highly localized in prespore cells, which is consistent with a proposed source-sink model for ammonia assimilation in this organism.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Probes
- Dictyostelium/enzymology
- Dictyostelium/genetics
- Dictyostelium/metabolism
- Gene Dosage
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Morphogenesis/physiology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Spores, Fungal/physiology
- Time Factors
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
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- A J Dunbar
- School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Flinders Uninversity of South Australia, Adelaide
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Li YC, Hayes S, Young AP. Steroid hormone receptors activate transcription in glial cells of intact retina but not in primary cultures of retinal glial cells. J Mol Neurosci 1997; 8:145-58. [PMID: 9188043 DOI: 10.1007/bf02736779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have compared the steroid responsiveness of Müller glial cells of intact embryonic chicken retina with that of primary cultures derived from Müller glia. Appropriately constructed fusion genes were found to be highly glucocorticoid inducible after their cotransfection with an expression vector encoding the human glucocorticoid receptor (GR) into intact embryonic d-10 (E10) or E5.5 retina. Dramatically attenuated inductions were obtained after contransfection of Müller cell primary cultures. The progesterone receptor (PR) was also demonstrated to function in intact retina, but not in Müller cell primary cultures. An immunochemical assay was utilized to confirm that a glucocorticoid-responsive, beta-galactosidase-encoding fusion gene was specifically induced in Müller cells after its transfection into intact retina. Thus, in contrast to Müller cells in intact retina, Müller cells in primary culture have lost the capacity to achieve transcriptional activation by steroid receptors. We postulate that coordinate expression of the GR, and other more general factors required for steroid inducibility, is lost by dispersion and primary culture of retinal Müller glial cells.
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- Y C Li
- Neurobiotechnology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA
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Li YC, Beard D, Hayes S, Young AP. A transcriptional enhancer of the glutamine synthetase gene that is selective for retinal Müller glial cells. J Mol Neurosci 1995; 6:169-83. [PMID: 8672400 DOI: 10.1007/bf02736763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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This article demonstrates that the chicken glutamine synthetase (GS) promoter contains cis-acting elements that direct transcription to retinal Müller glial cells. The transient assay system developed to identify these elements involved electroporation of intact retinal tissue with GS-beta-galactosidase fusion genes followed by preparation of primary cultures and histochemical assay of cells expressing beta-galactosidase. Plasmids containing beta-galactosidase under transcriptional control by two different viral promoters are expressed primarily in neuronal cells after transfection of intact embryonic d 12 retina. In sharp contrast, expression is primarily in Müller glia after transfection with a GS-beta-galactosidase fusion gene. Although GS is glucocorticoid inducible, steroid hormone is not required to achieve Müller cell-selective expression of the GS-beta-galactosidase fusion gene. Deletion studies indicate that multiple cis-acting elements located between nucleotides-436 and -61 relative to the GS transcription start site contribute to produce Müller cell selectivity. Moreover, these upstream elements enhance expression of a heterologous promoter in Müller cells not neurons. These results indicate that an enhancer located between 61 and 436 nucleotides upstream of the transcription start site contributes to Müller cell-selective expression of the GS gene in the retina.
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- Y C Li
- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA
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Christa L, Simon MT, Flinois JP, Gebhardt R, Brechot C, Lasserre C. Overexpression of glutamine synthetase in human primary liver cancer. Gastroenterology 1994; 106:1312-20. [PMID: 7909780 DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(94)90024-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS We have identified several clones specifically expressed during malignant cell proliferation by screening a complementary DNA library constructed from a human primary liver cancer with subtractive probes. One clone was identified as the glutamine synthetase (GS) transcript. Its expression is tightly regulated during development, especially in the hepatic lobule. Because this enzyme is involved in nitrogen homeostasis, it might contribute to tumor development/progression in primary liver cancer. METHODS We compared the expression of GS messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein in tumorous and nontumorous liver from 34 patients with primary liver cancers, using a combination of Northern blot, dot blot, western blot, and determination of GS enzyme activity. RESULTS GS mRNA was higher in tumors versus nontumors in 23 of 34 primary liver cancer samples. GS activity was higher in 6 of 8 selected primary liver cancer samples with high RNA levels. GS protein levels were proportional to enzyme activity. A major GS transcript of 2.8 kilobase was detected by Northern blotting and sequencing. This comprised the minor 1.8-kb transcript and a long 3' untranslated region; the latter contained an AT-rich zone, fully conserved in the chicken, mouse, and rat, which might be important for stability. CONCLUSIONS Our results show an overexpression of GS in human primary liver cancers and, thus, point to its potential involvement in hepatocyte transformation.
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- L Christa
- Institut de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U370, CHU Necker, Paris, France
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Gebhardt R, Gaunitz F, Mecke D. Heterogeneous (positional) expression of hepatic glutamine synthetase: features, regulation and implications for hepatocarcinogenesis. ADVANCES IN ENZYME REGULATION 1994; 34:27-56. [PMID: 7942280 DOI: 10.1016/0065-2571(94)90007-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase expression in liver parenchyma is restricted to a small population of pericentral hepatocytes surrounding the central veins. Studies on the development of this heterogeneous (positional) gene expression and of the changes observed in response to experimental alterations of liver physiology or manipulations of hepatocytes in culture have revealed that it is dependent on cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions rather than on the levels of hormones and other modulating factors. The considerable stability of GS expression may point to further events leading to a defined differentiated GS+ phenotype. Observations during experimental hepatocarcinogenesis indicate that strong GS expression may be used for tracing hepatocellular lineages during preneoplastic and early neoplastic stages. Furthermore, these studies suggest a relationship between the GS+ phenotype and enhanced growth of these lesions. Future studies should help to define the diagnostic value of GS and its significance for new chemotherapeutic strategies.
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- R Gebhardt
- Physiologisch-chemisches Institut der Universität Tübingen, Germany
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Ackerman SL, Minden AG, Yeung CY. The minimal self-sufficient element in a murine G+C-rich promoter is a large element with imperfect dyad symmetry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:11865-9. [PMID: 8265639 PMCID: PMC48085 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.24.11865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The murine adenosine deaminase gene has a structurally archetypal TATAA-box-deficient G+C-rich promoter. The three Sp1 binding sites of the promoter are neither necessary nor sufficient for promoter function. Minimal basal promoter activity resides within a 48-bp element downstream of the Sp1 binding sites. This element shows an imperfect dyad symmetry around the promoter's major transcriptional initiation site and contains at least two nuclear protein binding sites. The distinctive sequence characteristics and nuclear protein binding locations of this element led us to propose a model for how such promoters may function.
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- S L Ackerman
- Department of Genetics, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612
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Barry CP, Xie J, Lemmon V, Young AP. Molecular characterization of a multi-promoter gene encoding a chicken filamin protein. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)74430-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Trapido-Rosenthal HG, Linser PJ, Greenberg RM, Gleeson RA, Carr WE. cDNA clones from the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster encode a protein related to eukaryotic glutamine synthetase. Gene 1993; 129:275-8. [PMID: 8100791 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(93)90279-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We report here the nucleotide (nt) sequence of clones from a lobster olfactory organ cDNA library encoding a protein homologous to glutamine synthetase (GS) from eukaryotes. The cDNA for the lobster putative GS is 2045 bp in length, and includes a 5'-untranslated region 55 nt in length, a 1083-nt open reading frame, and a 907-nt 3'-untranslated region. The encoded protein shows 65, 64, and 63% identity with the reported GS sequences of chicken, human and fruit fly, respectively.
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Kumada Y, Benson DR, Hillemann D, Hosted TJ, Rochefort DA, Thompson CJ, Wohlleben W, Tateno Y. Evolution of the glutamine synthetase gene, one of the oldest existing and functioning genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:3009-13. [PMID: 8096645 PMCID: PMC46226 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.7.3009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We performed molecular phylogenetic analyses of glutamine synthetase (GS) genes in order to investigate their evolutionary history. The analyses were done on 30 DNA sequences of the GS gene which included both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Two types of GS genes are known at present: the GSI gene found so far only in prokaryotes and the GSII gene found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Our study has shown that the two types of GS gene were produced by a gene duplication which preceded, perhaps by > 1000 million years, the divergence of eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The results are consistent with the facts that (i) GS is a key enzyme of nitrogen metabolism found in all extant life forms and (ii) the oldest biological fossils date back 3800 million years. Thus, we suggest that GS genes are one of the oldest existing and functioning genes in the history of gene evolution and that GSI genes should also exist in eukaryotes. Furthermore, our study may stimulate investigation on the evolution of "preprokaryotes," by which we mean the organisms that existed during the era between the origin of life and the divergence of prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
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- Y Kumada
- Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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Exogenous, but not endogenous, glucocorticoid receptor induces glutamine synthetase gene expression in early stage embryonic retina. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53851-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Involvement of a C/EBP-like protein in the acquisition of responsiveness to glucocorticoid hormones during chick neural retina development. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8093326 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.1.331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The glucocorticoid receptor in chicken embryonic neural retina is expressed early in ontogeny, yet the tissue's response to the glucocorticoid hormone, i.e., induction of glutamine synthetase (GS), develops later, only during week 2 of ontogeny. Transient transfection of embryonic day 7 (E7) retinal cells, which are nonresponsive to glucocorticoids, with chimeric plasmids containing the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene under the control of glucocorticoid-responsive promoters demonstrated that GR in E7 cells is a functional transactivating factor. We show that the limiting transcription factor that controls the developmental acquisition of responsiveness to glucocorticoids is similar to a CCAAT enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP). This protein recognizes a sequence in the promoter of the chick GS gene, which is required for eliciting the glucocorticoid response. Retinal C/EBP-like protein was not detected in the glucocorticoid-nonresponsive (E7) proliferating glioblasts but was found to be present in the glucocorticoid-responsive (E12) postmitotic cells. Premature expression of C/EBP in the nonresponsive E7 cells by transfection was shown to enhance the developmental acquisition of responsiveness to the glucocorticoid hormone, as deduced from the level of GS inducibility.
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Ben-Or S, Okret S. Involvement of a C/EBP-like protein in the acquisition of responsiveness to glucocorticoid hormones during chick neural retina development. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:331-40. [PMID: 8093326 PMCID: PMC358912 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.1.331-340.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The glucocorticoid receptor in chicken embryonic neural retina is expressed early in ontogeny, yet the tissue's response to the glucocorticoid hormone, i.e., induction of glutamine synthetase (GS), develops later, only during week 2 of ontogeny. Transient transfection of embryonic day 7 (E7) retinal cells, which are nonresponsive to glucocorticoids, with chimeric plasmids containing the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene under the control of glucocorticoid-responsive promoters demonstrated that GR in E7 cells is a functional transactivating factor. We show that the limiting transcription factor that controls the developmental acquisition of responsiveness to glucocorticoids is similar to a CCAAT enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP). This protein recognizes a sequence in the promoter of the chick GS gene, which is required for eliciting the glucocorticoid response. Retinal C/EBP-like protein was not detected in the glucocorticoid-nonresponsive (E7) proliferating glioblasts but was found to be present in the glucocorticoid-responsive (E12) postmitotic cells. Premature expression of C/EBP in the nonresponsive E7 cells by transfection was shown to enhance the developmental acquisition of responsiveness to the glucocorticoid hormone, as deduced from the level of GS inducibility.
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- S Ben-Or
- Department of Physiology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Buono RJ, Linser PJ, Cuthbertson RA, Piatigorsky J. Molecular analyses of carbonic anhydrase-II expression and regulation in the developing chicken lens. Dev Dyn 1992; 194:33-42. [PMID: 1421518 DOI: 10.1002/aja.1001940105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The expression of carbonic anhydrase-II (CA-II) in the developing chicken lens was examined and compared with that in the retina of the chicken embryo. CA-II expression was measured by immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay during development, and CA-II mRNA was quantified by Northern blot and densitometric scanning and localized by in situ hybridization. A functional promoter of the chicken CA-II gene was identified by transfection of primary embryonic chicken lens epithelial cells and analyzed in deletion mutants. The results establish that CA-II makes up about 0.1% of the total soluble protein of the embryonic chicken lens, an amount insufficient to make it a candidate for an enzyme crystallin in this species. Lens fiber differentiation coincided with a loss of CA-II mRNA and protein; by contrast, CA-II persisted in the epithelial cells of the embryonic and mature lens. This and previous studies showed that CA-II amounts to as much as 3% of the protein of the embryonic chicken retina and follows a different developmental time course of expression; like the lens, CA-II decreases until day 10 in the embryonic retina, but, unlike the lens, it increases thereafter and plateaus at hatching. Progressive deletions of the 5' flanking regions (from position -1314 to +32) of the CA-II gene fused to the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter gene resulted in a gradual loss of promoter activity, consistent with an additive effect of putative cis-regulatory elements found in many crystallin genes. These experiments provide the foundation for a molecular analysis of the developmental and differential regulation of the CA-II gene in lens and retina.
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- R J Buono
- Whitney Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, St. Augustine 32086
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Zhang H, Young A. A single upstream glucocorticoid response element juxtaposed to an AP1/ATF/CRE-like site renders the chicken glutamine synthetase gene hormonally inducible in transfected retina. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54233-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Van den Hoff MJ, Geerts WJ, Das AT, Moorman AF, Lamers WH. cDNA sequence of the long mRNA for human glutamine synthase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1090:249-51. [PMID: 1681907 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(91)90111-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Screening a human liver cDNA library in lambda ZAP revealed several clones for the mRNA of glutamine synthase. The longest clone was completely sequenced and consists of a 109 bp 5' untranslated region, a 1119 bp protein coding region, a 1498 bp 3' untranslated region and a poly(A) tract of 12 bp.
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- M J Van den Hoff
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mill JF, Mearow KM, Purohit HJ, Haleem-Smith H, King R, Freese E. Cloning and functional characterization of the rat glutamine synthetase gene. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1991; 9:197-207. [PMID: 1674354 DOI: 10.1016/0169-328x(91)90003-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Glutamine synthetase catalyzes the formation of glutamine from glutamate and ammonia. It plays a central role in both amino acid neurotransmitter metabolism and ammonia detoxification in the central nervous system. Glutamine synthetase expression is regulated in developmental, hormonal, and in tissue- and cell-specific manners. We have cloned a full-length cDNA coding for rat glutamine synthetase, and have found an AT-rich area of conservation in the 3' untranslated regions between rat, mouse, and chicken, which may play a part in the regulation of the stability of the glutamine synthetase message. We have also cloned and mapped the gene coding for rat glutamine synthetase, and identified, by sequence analysis, areas potentially important for the regulation of glutamine synthetase transcription. Transient transfection of a variety of cell lines with deletion constructs of the glutamine synthetase promoter driving a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene functionally demonstrates regions of the promoter containing elements important for transcriptional regulation.
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- J F Mill
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Patejunas G, Young A. Constitutive and glucocorticoid-mediated activation of glutamine synthetase gene expression in the developing chicken retina. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)77253-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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