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Erion MD, Cable EE, Ito BR, Jiang H, Fujitaki JM, Finn PD, Zhang BH, Hou J, Boyer SH, van Poelje PD, Linemeyer DL. Targeting thyroid hormone receptor-beta agonists to the liver reduces cholesterol and triglycerides and improves the therapeutic index. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:15490-5. [PMID: 17878314 PMCID: PMC1978486 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702759104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Despite efforts spanning four decades, the therapeutic potential of thyroid hormone receptor (TR) agonists as lipid-lowering and anti-obesity agents remains largely unexplored in humans because of dose-limiting cardiac effects and effects on the thyroid hormone axis (THA), muscle metabolism, and bone turnover. TR agonists selective for the TRbeta isoform exhibit modest cardiac sparing in rodents and primates but are unable to lower lipids without inducing TRbeta-mediated suppression of the THA. Herein, we describe a cytochrome P450-activated prodrug of a phosphonate-containing TR agonist that exhibits increased TR activation in the liver relative to extrahepatic tissues and an improved therapeutic index. Pharmacokinetic studies in rats demonstrated that the prodrug (2R,4S)-4-(3-chlorophenyl)-2-[(3,5-dimethyl-4-(4'-hydroxy-3'-isopropylbenzyl)phenoxy)methyl]-2-oxido-[1,3,2]-dioxaphosphonane (MB07811) undergoes first-pass hepatic extraction and that cleavage of the prodrug generates the negatively charged TR agonist (3,5-dimethyl-4-(4'-hydroxy-3'-isopropylbenzyl)phenoxy)methylphosphonic acid (MB07344), which distributes poorly into most tissues and is rapidly eliminated in the bile. Enhanced liver targeting was further demonstrated by comparing the effects of MB07811 with 3,5,3'-triiodo-l-thyronine (T(3)) and a non-liver-targeted TR agonist, 3,5-dichloro-4-(4-hydroxy-3-isopropylphenoxy)phenylacetic acid (KB-141) on the expression of TR agonist-responsive genes in the liver and six extrahepatic tissues. The pharmacologic effects of liver targeting were evident in the normal rat, where MB07811 exhibited increased cardiac sparing, and in the diet-induced obese mouse, where, unlike KB-141, MB07811 reduced cholesterol and both serum and hepatic triglycerides at doses devoid of effects on body weight, glycemia, and the THA. These results indicate that targeting TR agonists to the liver has the potential to lower both cholesterol and triglyceride levels with an acceptable safety profile.
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- Mark D Erion
- Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc., 11119 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Butta N, González-Manchón C, Arias-Salgado EG, Ayuso MS, Parrilla R. Cloning and functional characterization of the 5′ flanking region of the human mitochondrial malic enzyme gene. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001; 268:3017-27. [PMID: 11358520 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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This work reports the molecular cloning and functional characterization of the 5' flanking region of the human mitochondrial malic enzyme (mME) gene. The proximal promoter region has features of housekeeping genes like high G + C-content and absence of TATA or CCAAT boxes. Deletion analysis of the 5' region of the mME showed that maximal transcriptional activity is located within the -205/+86 region. Footprinting analysis showed two protected regions, one comprising potential overlapped AP-1, CREB, and AP-4 sites and a second one encompassing AP-2 and several Sp1 ci-acting elements. Mutation of putative AP-1/AP-4/CREB sites reduced basal promoter activity to less than 50%. Supershift assays demonstrated the specific binding of Sp1 and AP-2 proteins. Moreover, experiments in Drosophila SL2 cells lacking endogenous Sp1 demonstrated that the Sp1 site(s) is essential to maintain a normal basal rate of transcription of this gene. A low-level expression of AP-2 enhanced the activity of a mME promoter construct in HepG2 cells and this effect was prevented by disruption of the putative AP-2 element. In contrast, higher levels of expression of AP-2 induced a DNA-independent inhibitory response. A biphasic regulation of endogenous mME gene is also shown in HepG2 cells transfected with an AP-2 expression plasmid, suggesting that availability of AP-2 protein may control this gene under physiological conditions. A recombinant lambda genomic clone containing a mME pseudogene was also isolated. The high degree of sequence conservation seems to indicate a recent emergency of this human pseudogene.
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- N Butta
- Department of Pathophysiology and Human Molecular Genetics, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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González-Manchón C, Butta N, Ferrer M, Ayuso MS, Parrilla R. Molecular cloning and functional characterization of the human cytosolic malic enzyme promoter: thyroid hormone responsiveness. DNA Cell Biol 1997; 16:533-44. [PMID: 9174159 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1997.16.533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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We report the structural and functional features of the 5'-flanking region of the human cytosolic malic enzyme (ME) gene. A 2.2-kb subclone, comprising 1.5 kb upstream of the translation initiation codon, the first exon, and 0.7 kb of flanking intronic region, was sequenced and mapped to chromosome 6. The proximal promoter region is rich in G + C, lacks TATA or CCAAT boxes, and shows multiple transcription start sites, the major one 106 nucleotides upstream the ATG codon. Sequences -59/-13 and -137/-103 conferred maximal promoter activity. Deletional analysis revealed the presence of two regions positively regulated by 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3). The proximal region confers the strongest T3 inducibility to the human ME as well as to a heterologous promoter. Thyroid hormone receptor beta (TRbeta) binds to an inverted palindromic T3 response element (TRE) at position -105/-87 in a manner that is prevented by T3. Nuclear extracts or in vitro-translated retinoid acid receptor alpha (RXR alpha) shifted the TRbeta retarded band to slower-mobility complexes, which are unaffected by T3. In the absence of T3, overexpression of TRbeta repressed the ME promoter activity, most probably, through binding of TRbeta homodimers to the TRE. Thus, T3 seems to control ME transcription by inducing the dissociation of TRbeta homodimers and the functional activation of liganded heterodimers.
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- C González-Manchón
- Department of Pathophysiology and Human Molecular Genetics, Centro de Investigaciones Biólogicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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When rates of transcription from specific genes change, delays of variable length intervene before the corresponding mRNAs and proteins attain new levels. For most mammalian genes, the time required to complete transcription, processing, and transport of mRNA is much shorter than the period needed to achieve a new, steady-state level of protein. Studies of inducible genes have shown that the period required to attain new levels of individual mRNAs and proteins is related to their unique half-lives. The basis for this is a physical principle that predicts rates of accumulation of particles in compartmental systems. The minimum period required to achieve a new level is directly proportional to product half-lives because rates of decay control the ratio between the rate of synthesis and the concentration of gene products at steady state. This kinetic model suggests that sensitivity of gene products to degradation by ribonucleases and proteinases is an important determinant of the time scale of gene expression.
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- J L Hargrove
- Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens 30602
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Mann DJ, Bailey E. Pre-translational control of hepatic malic enzyme expression during the development of the rat. Biochem J 1991; 279 ( Pt 2):407-12. [PMID: 1953638 PMCID: PMC1151619 DOI: 10.1042/bj2790407] [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: 12/29/2022]
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The expression of hepatic cytosolic malic enzyme in the developing rat has been studied by molecular-biological techniques. Malic enzyme mRNA was barely detectable throughout the neonatal period, but increased to significant levels immediately before weaning. Northern-blot analysis demonstrated that the two major malic enzyme mRNA species displayed non-co-ordinate control during development, with the 2.0 kb form accumulating to a greater extent than the 3.1 kb form. A novel 1.6 kb mRNA species was found to predominate in foetal samples. Tri-iodothyronine treatment of neonatal rats caused premature induction of all three malic enzyme mRNA species. Dietary studies also showed precocious induction of the mRNA with diets high in carbohydrate, but not with those high in fat.
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- D J Mann
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, U.K
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Baum C, Teng B, Davidson N. Apolipoprotein B messenger RNA editing in the rat liver. Modulation by fasting and refeeding a high carbohydrate diet. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)30653-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Ves-Losada A, Peluffo RO. Effect of L-triiodothyronine on delta 9 desaturase activity in liver microsomes of male rats. Lipids 1989; 24:931-5. [PMID: 2615562 DOI: 10.1007/bf02544536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Male rats injected with a single saturating dose of L-triiodothyronine (T3) showed, after a lag time of approximately eight hr, a sharp rise in delta 9 desaturase activity. Desaturase activity reached a plateau which was 1-1.2 times above the base line levels of rats which were not hormone-treated. The plateau was maintained for five days in animals which were kept on daily hormone-treatment. The increase in delta 9 desaturase activity by T3 required ongoing protein synthesis, because the increase in enzymatic activity due to hormone treatment was completely abolished in the presence of cycloheximide. These findings suggest that cycloheximide may block the induction of delta 9 desaturase by T3 and/or inhibit the synthesis of protein(s) essential to the desaturation-response to T3. Modifications observed in liver microsomal fatty acid composition in T3 treated rats were independent of the effect on desaturation. It is suggested that other factors, such as diet, membrane lipid synthesis and degradation, as well as fatty acid turnover and oxidation, could be involved in affecting the fatty acid composition of thyroid hormone-treated rats.
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- A Ves-Losada
- Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquimicas de La Plata, CONICET-UNLP, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Argentina
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Strait KA, Kinlaw WB, Mariash CN, Oppenheimer JH. Kinetics of induction by thyroid hormone of the two hepatic mRNAs coding for cytosolic malic enzyme in the hypothyroid and euthyroid states. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)47181-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Morioka H, Magnuson MA, Mitsuhashi T, Song MK, Rall JE, Nikodem VM. Structural characterization of the rat malic enzyme gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:4912-6. [PMID: 2740332 PMCID: PMC297525 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.13.4912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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We have identified and characterized lambda bacteriophage clones containing genomic DNA encoding rat malic enzyme [(S)-malate:NADP+ oxidoreductase (oxaloacetate-decarboxylating); EC 1.1.1.40]. The malic enzyme gene is unexpectedly large, spanning at least 95 kilobases. It is divided into 14 exons that range in size from 76 to 1513 base pairs. The sizes and boundaries of the exons were determined by Southern blotting and DNA sequencing. The sequences at the 5' and 3' ends of each intron conformed to the consensus sequence for mammalian introns. S1 nuclease and primer-extension assays showed that transcription of the malic enzyme gene initiates at multiple sites, the strongest one at position -31 relative to the ATG. "TATA and CCAAT box" homologies are not present in the proximal promoter region. Analysis of the 3' end of the gene showed that the utilization of alternate polyadenylylation signals in exon 14 results in two mRNAs with 3' untranslated regions of 345 and 1345 nucleotides, respectively.
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- H Morioka
- Clinical Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Figiel A, Keller JM, Schilt J, Dauça M. Stage-specific polypeptide and villin expression during thyroid-hormone-induced substitution of the amphibian intestinal epithelium. Differentiation 1989; 40:166-75. [PMID: 2777003 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.1989.tb00595.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Treatment of anuran tadpoles with 5 nM 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) results in the complete substitution of the intestinal epithelium. We have examined the developmental pattern of protein synthesis in Alytes obstetricans intestinal epithelium using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Four different types of changes have been observed. The group I polypeptides (Mr: 41,500; 44,500; 51,500; 55,000 and 101,000) are only synthesized during the first week of hormonal treatment. They are specific of the primary (larval) epithelium. On the other hand, polypeptides referred to as Group II (Mr: 47,000; 48,000; 58,000; 66,500, pl 5.2; 99,500 and 102,000) are not detected until day 8. They are characteristic of the secondary tissue. Polypeptides of Group III (Mr: 42,000, pl 5.15 and 5.25; 42,500, 47,500, pl 5.25 and 5.55) expressed between the 6th and 8th day of T3 treatment, are specific of growing stem cells. During this critical period, Group IV polypeptides (Mr: 63,500; 66,500, pl 6.35; 105,000, pl 5.5 and 5.55) are not synthesized. The protein of Mr 105,000 (pI 5.5 and 5.55) is immunologically related to villin, a core protein of intestinal microvilli. Expression of this protein has been analyzed by immunoreplica and immunocytochemical procedures during differentiation of basal stem cells into secondary absorptive epithelial cells. The results have been compared to that obtained during spontaneous metamorphosis.
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- A Figiel
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Développement, Université de Nancy I, Faculté des Sciences, France
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Samuels HH, Casanova J, Copp RP, Janocko L, Raaka BM, Sahnoun H, Yaffe BM. Thyroid hormone receptors and action: the 5'-flanking region of the rat growth hormone gene can mediate regulated gene expression. Endocr Res 1989; 15:495-545. [PMID: 2699452 DOI: 10.3109/07435808909036350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- H H Samuels
- Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016
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Nikodem VM, Magnuson MA, Dozin B, Morioka H. Coding nucleotide sequence of rat malic enzyme mRNA and tissue specific regulation by thyroid hormone. Endocr Res 1989; 15:547-64. [PMID: 2699453 DOI: 10.3109/07435808909036351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A nearly full length ME cDNA has been obtained and sequenced. The identity has been established by comparison of the translated nucleotide sequence with the amino acid sequence of 7 tryptic peptides from purified ME. Northern analysis with this cDNA shows that ME mRNA consists of two different messages of about 27S and 21S. The size difference between two ME mRNAs (approximately equal to 27S and 21S) is attributed to the differences in the 3' noncoding regions. The relative ratios of the two ME mRNAs differ in various tissues examined (liver, heart, kidney, brain, lung, spleen, and testis). Their regulation by T3 is tissue specific with coordinate stimulation of both mRNAs in liver, heart and kidney, suggesting a single promoter for both mRNAs and no stimulation of either in the other tissues. T3 regulates ME mRNA synthesis via a dual-tissue specific mechanism by increasing the rate of transcription in liver and heart and stabilizing nuclear ME RNA sequences only in liver.
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- V M Nikodem
- Clinical Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Song MK, Dozin B, Grieco D, Rall JE, Nikodem VM. Transcriptional activation and stabilization of malic enzyme mRNA precursor by thyroid hormone. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)81310-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Katsurada A, Iritani N, Fukuda H, Noguchi T, Tanaka T. Transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of malic enzyme synthesis by insulin and triiodothyronine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 950:113-7. [PMID: 3289618 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(88)90003-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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To investigate the transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.40) induction by insulin, the transcriptional rate, mRNA concentration and enzyme induction of malic enzyme were compared in livers of normal and diabetic rats fed a high-carbohydrate diet. When rats were fed the diet for 4 days, the enzyme induction and mRNA concentration in livers of diabetic rats were only about 10% and 39%, respectively, of the values of normal rats, and the transcriptional rate was about 64%. Insulin treatment restored the transcriptional rate and mRNA concentration in 8 h and the enzyme induction in 4 days. Thus, it is suggested that insulin is involved in malic enzyme transcription of the gene and also possibly in the translation of the cytoplasm. On the other hand, by giving triiodothyronine treatment, the transcriptional rate and mRNA concentration were increased about twice and the enzyme induction, about 10-times in the diabetic animals. Triiodothyronine appears to stimulate malic enzyme transcription and possibly post-transcriptional steps even at a very low insulin level.
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Schultz JJ, Price MP, Frieden E. Triiodothyronine increases translatable albumin messenger RNA in Rana catesbeiana tadpole liver. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1988; 247:69-76. [PMID: 3141556 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402470110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The effects of both 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine and spontaneous metamorphosis on Rana catesbeiana liver mRNA were studied using in vitro translation of isolated liver poly(A)+ RNA in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate system. Conventional phenol extraction methods yielded degraded RNA due to high levels of endogenous ribonucleases released upon homogenization of Rana catesbeiana liver. Isolation of intact total RNA was achieved using the potent ribonuclease denaturant, guanidinium thiocyanate. Adult bullfrog serum albumin was purified to homogeneity and a monospecific antibody was elicited against it. A serum protein of 23,000 daltons that migrated near serum albumin on a 6% native gel was also purified to homogeneity. A monospecific antibody was also raised against this protein. Both antibodies were used to quantitatively immunoprecipitate the in vitro translation products of poly(A)+ RNA isolated at intervals following a single injection of triiodothyronine or during various stages of spontaneous amphibian metamorphosis. Triiodothyronine caused a sevenfold increase in translatable albumin mRNA and a threefold increase in translatable mRNA for the 23,000 dalton protein. These increases are consistent with a nuclear initiated mechanism for thyroid hormone action during amphibian metamorphosis.
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- J J Schultz
- Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306
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Samuels HH, Forman BM, Horowitz ZD, Ye ZS. Regulation of gene expression by thyroid hormone. J Clin Invest 1988; 81:957-67. [PMID: 3280604 PMCID: PMC329618 DOI: 10.1172/jci113449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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- H H Samuels
- Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016
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Samuels HH, Aranda A, Casanova J, Copp RP, Flug F, Forman BM, Horowitz ZD, Janocko L, Park HY, Pascual A. Identification of the cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors that mediate cell-specific and thyroid hormone stimulation of growth hormone gene expression. RECENT PROGRESS IN HORMONE RESEARCH 1988; 44:53-114. [PMID: 3064211 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-571144-9.50007-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Hitomi F, Akihiko K, Nobuko I. Effects of aging on contributions of dietary fat and triiodothyronine treatment to lipogenic enzyme induction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(87)90168-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Baker PJ, Thomas DH, Barton CH, Rice DW, Bailey E. Crystallization of an NADP+-dependent malic enzyme from rat liver. J Mol Biol 1987; 193:233-5. [PMID: 3586023 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90643-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Crystals of a tetrameric NADP+-dependent malic enzyme from rat liver have been grown in the presence of NADP+ using the hanging-drop method of vapour diffusion with ammonium sulphate as the precipitant. Measurement of the crystal density and calculation of the values of Vm for different numbers of polypeptide chains in the unit cell indicate that the asymmetric unit of the crystal contains a complete tetramer, allowing the application of non-crystallographic symmetry to the determination of the molecular structure of this enzyme. This structure would provide only the second example for an enzyme involved in oxidative decarboxylation, the other being 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase. In addition, then, to providing an insight into the structure-function relationship in malic enzyme, the successful structure determination would permit valuable comparisons to be made between these two and other enzymes with this catalytic activity.
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Horowitz ZD, Samuels HH. Photoaffinity labeling of thyroid hormone receptors. Pharmacol Ther 1987; 33:317-32. [PMID: 3310036 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(87)90069-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Photoaffinity label probes of iodothyronines can interact with nuclear receptors in intact cells and in solubilized receptor preparations. These probes have certain advantages over a chemical affinity label in analyzing receptor structure. First, a photoaffinity label probe covalently cross-links only after photoactivation. Therefore, it is possible to demonstrate with appropriate competitive inhibition studies that the photoaffinity label probe associates with the receptor in question. Secondly, since cross-linking only occurs after photolysis, it is possible to adjust the concentration of the photoaffinity label to maximize association with "specific" binding sites relative to "non-specific" associations prior to covalent linkage by photoactivation. The different [125I]iodothyronine-PAL analogues may be useful as probes of the thyroid hormone receptor binding domain since PAL compounds with different affinities for receptor may photocouple to different receptor residues within or proximate to the hormone binding region. These probes may also be useful as an adjunct to receptor purification and in probing the organization of the receptor in chromatin. Lastly, they may provide insights into possible alterations of receptor structure in patients with partial end organ resistance to thyroid hormone (Refetoff et al., 1967; Eil et al., 1982).
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- Z D Horowitz
- Rose F. Tishman Laboratories for Geriatric Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016
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Hormonal regulation of lipogenic enzymes in chick embryo hepatocytes in culture. Thyroid hormone and glucagon regulate malic enzyme mRNA level at post-transcriptional steps. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)67124-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Multihormonal regulation and kinetics of induction of a hepatic mRNA sequence which is slowly responsive to triiodothyronine. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)67536-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Katsurada A, Iritani N, Fukuda H, Noguchi T, Tanaka T. Effects of dietary nutrients on lipogenic enzyme and mRNA activities in rat liver during induction. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1986; 877:350-8. [PMID: 2873841 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(86)90199-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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By feeding a carbohydrate diet (without protein) to fasted rats, malic enzyme mRNA activity in the liver was increased to the level in rats fed a carbohydrate and protein diet, whereas the enzyme activity itself was increased to 60% of that level. It appears that malic enzyme mRNA activity was increased by dietary carbohydrate, while dietary protein contributed to an increase in the translation of mRNA. In the animals fed carbohydrate without protein, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase mRNA activity increased to 50% of the level in rats fed the carbohydrate and protein diet, whereas the enzyme activity increased to only 25%. By feeding a protein diet (without carbohydrate), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity increased to 65% of the level in rats fed both carbohydrate and protein. This enzyme induction appears to be more dependent on protein than carbohydrate. With the carbohydrate diet, acetyl-CoA carboxylase was induced up to the level in the carbohydrate and protein diet group, whereas fatty acid synthetase was induced to only 33%. Acetyl-CoA carboxylase induction appears to be carbohydrate dependent. On the other hand, isotopic leucine incorporation studies showed that the magnitudes of the enzyme inductions caused by the dietary nutrients should be ascribed to the enzyme synthesis rates rather than the degradation. By fat feeding, the mRNA activities of malic enzyme and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were markedly decreased along with the enzyme induction. Fat appears to reduce these enzyme inductions before the translation of mRNA.
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The interaction between thyroid hormone (T3) and nutritional signals has been of interest for nearly a century. Thus, enhanced glucose production, absorption and utilization are associated with hyperthyroidism, whereas diminished glucose utilization and lipogenesis characterize hypothyroidism. Recent studies have uncovered what appears to be yet another area of interaction at the molecular level. On the one hand, a marked overlap exists between the changes in rat hepatic mRNA activity profile induced by hyperthyroidism and high carbohydrate administration. On the other hand, the patterns produced by hypothyroidism, starvation and diabetes are characterized by oppositely directed shifts. These findings may be due, in part, to a synergistic relationship between carbohydrate feeding and T3 administration in the induction of many hepatic lipogenic enzymes and their respective mRNAs. Studies both in the intact rat as well as in isolated hepatocyte cultures indicate that this synergism arises from the ability of T3 to multiply an intracellular signal derived from the metabolism of glucose. The development of recombinant DNA techniques can now be applied to the study of the interaction of T3 with nutritional signals. Initial efforts have demonstrated a hepatic mRNA (mRNAS14) rapidly responsive to both T3 and carbohydrates. With this probe, studies are under way to define the precise molecular mechanisms by which T3 and carbohydrates interact to influence gene expression.
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Thyroid hormones have ubiquitous effects and influence the function of most organs. The influences that thyroid hormones have on these diverse functions are primarily mediated through binding of T3 and T4 to specific nuclear receptor sites. The nuclear action of T3 results in organ-specific increases and decreases of specific mRNAs, leading to alteration in the level of the corresponding proteins. In addition to the well established nuclear action of T3, effects of thyroid hormone on other sites including cell membranes and mitochondria have been documented.
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Chaudhury S, Chatterjee D, Sarkar PK. Induction of brain tubulin by triiodothyronine: dual effect of the hormone on the synthesis and turnover of the protein. Brain Res 1985; 339:191-4. [PMID: 4027615 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(85)90644-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The relative effects of triiodothyronine (T3) on the synthesis and turnover of tubulin in the developing rat and chick brain have been examined. Measurements of rates of turnover of radiolabeled tubulin in the hormone-sensitive tissues show that the half-life of tubulin turnover is 4-6 h in the absence of T3 and 10-12 h in the presence of the hormone. Analysis of short-term kinetic data on the stimulation of tubulin by T3 in the chick brain show that the rapid induction is due to a dual effect of the hormone on the metabolism of tubulin--an increase in the rate of synthesis as well as a decline in its rate of turnover.
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Drake RL, Mucenski CG. Insulin mediates the asynchronous accumulation of hepatic albumin and malic enzyme messenger RNAs. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1985; 130:317-24. [PMID: 3896237 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(85)90420-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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We have compared the rate of accumulation of hepatic albumin and malic enzyme mRNAs following insulin treatment of diabetic rats to determine whether insulin coordinately increases mRNA levels or specifically induces the accumulation of individuals mRNAs. Initially, the quantities of both albumin and malic enzyme mRNAs are reduced in diabetic rats compared to normal rats as determined by RNA blot analysis using complementary DNA probes. Following insulin administration for 12 h, albumin and malic enzyme mRNA levels increase at similar rates. However, after 12 h the rate of malic enzyme mRNA accumulation increases dramatically while albumin mRNA continues to increase at its initial rate. This accelerated rate of accumulation of malic enzyme mRNA continued through 60 h of hormone treatment and was associated with the onset of hepatic lipogenesis. Thus, our results suggest that insulin regulates the accumulation of mRNAs encoding these two inducible proteins in an asynchronous manner directly related to the metabolic requirements of the animal.
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Fukuda H, Katsurada A, Iritani N. Diurnal variations of lipogenic enzymes, their substrate and effector levels, and lipogenesis from tritiated water in rat liver. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1985; 835:163-8. [PMID: 2860923 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(85)90269-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, fatty acid synthetase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (extracted with or without phosphatase inhibitor) in rat liver did not vary significantly during 24 h. The hepatic levels of glucose 6-phosphate and malate increased coordinately 3-6 h after the beginning (1900 h) of food intake and were high until morning, whereas the levels of acetyl-CoA and citrate peaked at 1900 h and then decreased. However, it is remarkable that the in vivo incorporation of 3H from tritiated water into fatty acids in liver increased with the level of malonyl-CoA after food intake. Comparing the substrate and effector levels with the Km and Ka values for the enzymes, the levels of acetyl-CoA, malonyl-CoA and citrate appear to limit the enzyme activities. It is suggested that, after food intake, the physiological activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase was increased with the substrate increase and/or with the catalytic activation with citrate, and consequently, the fatty acid synthetase activity was also increased, whereas the enzyme activities measured under optimum conditions were not.
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Gharbi-Chihi J, Chabaud O, Torresani J. The role of triiodothyronine in the regulation of synthesis rate and translatable mRNA level of fatty acid synthetase in a preadipocyte cell line. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1984; 783:26-35. [PMID: 6383478 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(84)90074-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Triiodothyronine (T3) effects on the activity, rate of synthesis and mRNA content of the key lipogenic enzyme, fatty acid synthetase, were studied in differentiating ob17 preadipocytes cloned from ob/ob mouse epididymal adipose tissue. During differentiation in the presence of insulin, a 6-10-fold increase in both fatty acid synthetase specific activity and synthesis rate were reproducibly observed and occurred concomitantly. The relative synthesis rate exhibited a progressive elevation from 0.5% at confluence to a maximum level of 2% in the presence of insulin. The rate of the enzyme degradation determined by pulse-chase experiments was similar in differentiating cells and insulin-untreated cells of the same age (t 1/2, 40-42 h). Furthermore, the increase in the enzyme synthesis rate was preceded by a progressively elevating amount of mRNA encoding for this protein as detected by translation in a reticulocyte lysate cell-free system. It is thus suggested that the increment in total and neosynthesized fatty acid synthetase in essentially due to an increased enzyme synthesis, reflecting an increased relative content of its specific mRNA. T3 included at a physiological concentration (1.5 nM) in the culture medium enhanced significantly both enzyme synthesis and its specific mRNA. The most important T3 effect was an acceleration of both processes, a stimulation of the mRNA level being detected as early as day 3 post-confluence and maximum at day 5 when the effect on the synthetase synthesis rate and activity began to be enhanced. This suggests that T3 would mainly affect fatty acid synthetase as a pretranslational level.
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Chizzonite RA, Zak R. Regulation of myosin isoenzyme composition in fetal and neonatal rat ventricle by endogenous thyroid hormones. J Biol Chem 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)90792-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Friedman DJ, Umeda PK, Sinha AM, Hsu HJ, Jakovcic S, Rabinowitz M. Characterization of genomic clones specifying rabbit alpha- and beta-ventricular myosin heavy chains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1984; 81:3044-8. [PMID: 6328491 PMCID: PMC345217 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.10.3044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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We have isolated gene sequences coding for the alpha- and beta-myosin heavy chains (HC) of rabbit ventricular muscle. A rabbit genomic library was screened with previously characterized cDNA clones specifying part of the light meromyosin and the entire subfragment 2 portion of alpha- and beta-myosin HCs, as well as with a clone containing the 3' nontranslated sequences of the alpha-myosin HC mRNA. Seven strongly hybridizing clones were analyzed in detail. One genomic clone encoded all of the 3' nontranslated sequences of an alpha-cDNA clone and, therefore, contained the 3' end of the alpha-myosin HC gene. Electron microscopic heteroduplex analysis and DNA sequence analysis showed that this clone overlapped a second genomic clone providing more than 25 kilobase pairs of the alpha-myosin HC gene. The exons within this region corresponded to approximately equal to 85% of the mRNA and were separated by at least 28 introns. A clone for the beta-myosin HC gene was also identified by Southern blot hybridization, by heteroduplex mapping, and by comparing the DNA sequence of a subfragment 2 exon to sequences of the alpha- and beta-cDNA clones. The introns of the alpha- and beta-myosin HC genes were in the same position but showed marked variation in length. These results conclusively showed that the alpha- and beta-myosin HCs are products of separate genes.
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Rapid effects of triiodothyronine on hepatic gene expression. Hybridization analysis of tissue-specific triiodothyronine regulation of mRNAS14. J Biol Chem 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)43215-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Müller MJ, Seitz HJ. Thyroid hormone action on intermediary metabolism. Part III. Protein metabolism in hyper- and hypothyroidism. KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 1984; 62:97-102. [PMID: 6231411 DOI: 10.1007/bf01738699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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In their physiological concentrations, thyroid hormones stimulate the synthesis as well as the degradation of proteins, whereas in supraphysiological doses protein catabolism predominates. In hyperthyroidism skeletal muscle protein stores suffer depletion which is reflected by an increased urinary N- and methylhistidine -excretion. Due to the enhanced skeletal muscle amino acid release, the plasma concentration of glucoplastic amino acids are often enhanced, contributing by means of an elevated substrate supply to the increased hepatic gluconeogenesis. Thyroid hormone excess induces cardiac hypertrophy which is in direct contrast to the hypotroph skeletal muscle in hyperthyroid patients. Thyroid hormones stimulate a series of intracellular and secretory proteins in the liver, although in hyperthyroid liver alcohol dehydrogenase and the enzymes of histidine and tryptophan metabolism show reduced activities. The stimulatory effect is due to thyroid hormone-induced increase in the protein synthesis at a pretranslational level and is supported experimentally for malic enzyme, alpha 2u-globulin and albumin by the measurement of their specific messenger RNA activities. Thyroid hormone action at the cellular level is reflected by a generalized increase in total cellular RNA with a selective increase or decrease in a small population of specific mRNA. The activities of protein catabolizing lysosomal enzymes are stimulated by thyroid hormones; up to now effects of T3 on the degradation of specific enzymes have not been reported. Serum total protein concentration is slightly reduced or even unchanged in hyperthyroidism. The thyroid hormone-induced increase in the turnover of total body protein is part of the hypermetabolism observed in hyperthyroidism.
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Transcriptional control of ornithine aminotransferase synthesis in rat kidney by estrogen and thyroid hormone. J Biol Chem 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)43352-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Binding studies were conducted using in vitro-labeled quail liver nuclei to identify and characterize receptors for L-triiodothyronine (T3). Saturation binding experiments were analyzed by Scatchard analysis and indicated a single class of high-affinity, limited-capacity T3 binding sites. These receptors exhibited binding specificity as demonstrated by competition experiments between labeled T3 and unlabeled thyroid hormones or hormone analogs. Binding specificity was virtually identical in quail and rat liver nuclei. Thus, apparent differences between mammals and birds, in regard to the biological potency of T4 versus T3, are not apparent at the level of the nuclear T3 receptor.
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Magnuson MA, Nikodem VM. Molecular cloning of a cDNA sequence for rat malic enzyme. Direct evidence for induction in vivo of rat liver malic enzyme mRNA by thyroid hormone. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)44234-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Kaiser FE, Schwartz HL, Mariash CN, Oppenheimer JH. Comparison of age-related decreases in the basal and carbohydrate inducible levels of lipogenic enzymes in adipose tissue and liver. Metabolism 1983; 32:838-45. [PMID: 6865781 DOI: 10.1016/0026-0495(83)90116-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Carr FE, Seelig S, Mariash CN, Schwartz HL, Oppenheimer JH. Starvation and hypothyroidism exert an overlapping influence on rat hepatic messenger RNA activity profiles. J Clin Invest 1983; 72:154-63. [PMID: 6874945 PMCID: PMC1129170 DOI: 10.1172/jci110953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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To assess the effect of starvation and to explore the potential interrelationship of starvation and thyroid status at the pretranslational level, we have analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, the hepatic translational products of starved and fed euthyroid and hypothyroid rats. 5 d of starvation resulted in a statistically significant change in 27 of 240 products visualized, whereas hypothyroidism caused a change in 20, both in comparison with the fed euthyroid state. Of considerable interest was that 68% of all changing messenger (m)RNA sequences were common to the hypothyroid and starved groups and showed the same directional shift. Further, both starvation and hypothyroidism yielded comparable decreases in total hepatic cytoplasmic RNA content. Although it has been well established that the level of circulating triiodothyronine (T3) and the level of hepatic nuclear receptors fall in starvation, this reduction cannot account for the observed decrease of total hepatic RNA nor for all of the alterations in the concentrations of specific mRNA sequences. Thus, administration of T3 to starved animals in a dose designed to occupy all nuclear T3 receptors fails to prevent the fall in total RNA and the majority of starvation-induced changes in the level of mRNA sequences. Moreover, starvation of athyreotic animals results in a further decrease in total RNA and in a further change in the level of individual mRNA species. We conclude, therefore, that although the reduced levels of circulating T3 and the nuclear T3 receptors can contribute to the observed results of starvation, the starvation-induced changes are not exclusively mediated by this factor. The striking overlap in the genomic response between hypothyroid and starved animals raises the possibility that those biochemical mechanisms regulated at a pretranslational level by T3 are either not helpful or injurious to the starving animal. The reduction in circulating T3 and nuclear receptor sites together with T3-independent mechanisms initiated in the starved animal may constitute redundant processes designed to conserve energy and substrate in the nutritionally deprived organism.
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Regulatory relationships of thyroid hormone, growth hormone and high carbohydrate diet. Nutr Rev 1983; 41:194-6. [PMID: 6353289 DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1983.tb07153.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Katsurada A, Iritani N, Fukuda H, Noguchi T, Tanaka T. Induction of rat liver malic enzyme messenger RNA activity by insulin and by fructose. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1983; 112:176-82. [PMID: 6340682 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(83)91813-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The effects of insulin treatment and fructose feeding on malic enzyme [EC 1.1.1.40] mRNA in liver of diabetic rats were investigated. A high fructose diet, even without insulin treatment, increased the mRNA activity, much more than a high starch diet, but to a lesser extent than insulin treatment. The increase of malic enzyme activity was approximately comparable to the change in mRNA activity, but occurred 12 hr and 30 hr after the increase of mRNA in the fructose-fed rats with and without insulin treatment, respectively. Thus, insulin and fructose appear to induce malic enzyme primarily by increasing the activity of translatable mRNA.
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Ramsden DB, Hoffenberg R. The actions of thyroid hormones mediated via the cell nucleus and their clinical significance. CLINICS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM 1983; 12:101-15. [PMID: 6303642 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-595x(83)80031-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Everett AW, Clark WA, Chizzonite RA, Zak R. Change in synthesis rates of alpha- and beta-myosin heavy chains in rabbit heart after treatment with thyroid hormone. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)32942-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Liaw C, Seelig S, Mariash CN, Oppenheimer JH, Towle HC. Interactions of thyroid hormone, growth hormone, and high carbohydrate, fat-free diet in regulating several rat liver messenger ribonucleic acid species. Biochemistry 1983; 22:213-21. [PMID: 6187358 DOI: 10.1021/bi00270a031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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A large body of circumstantial evidence indicates that receptors located in nuclei of T3 responsive tissues represent a site of initiation of thyroid hormone action at the cellular level. Partial characterization of T3 receptors indicates that these proteins are monomeric structures in nuclei and are chromatin-associated non-histone proteins. Treatment of rat liver nuclei with either pancreatic DNase I or micrococcal nuclease releases T3 receptors from nuclei in two forms: a predominant (95 400 Mr; 5.5-6.0S) and a minor (265 000-365 000 Mr; 12.5S) nucleoprotein complex. Similar structures are excised from rat kidney, brain, and heart nuclei and from GH1 pituitary cell nuclei by micrococcal nuclease digestion. These endonuclease-excised receptor-containing complexes are significantly larger than the salt-extracted receptor (50 000 Mr; 3.5S). The presence of DNA and other non-receptor proteins in these structures indicates that T3 receptors probably function within multimeric complexes in vivo. Although T3 receptors appear to be associated with DNA between nucleosomes, i.e. linker DNA, it is not entirely clear whether all or only a fraction of T3 receptors interact with nucleosomal components. The 12.5S receptor-containing nucleoprotein complex may represent T3 receptors in association with linker DNA and nucleosomal components. T3 receptors do not appear to be uniformly distributed to all chromatin fractions, but are associated with structures having characteristics of transcriptionally active chromatin. They are found in a region of chromatin which is enriched in RNA polymerase activity, rapidly labeled RNA and non-histone proteins, and depleted of histone Hl. This region is also highly sensitive to both micrococcal nuclease and pancreatic DNase I digestion. The association of receptors with transcriptionally active chromatin, however, must be considered provisional until additional details of the precise receptor-chromatin interaction have been established. The recent demonstration of a 20-fold increase in a specific hepatic mRNA four hours following administration of T3 to hypothyroid rats indicates that thyroid hormone potentially has very rapid effects on hepatic gene expression. However, significant changes in nuclear protein phosphorylation, nuclear protein composition, and chromatin structure have not been detected within this four-hour period. Thus, effects of T3 on hepatic gene expression are brought about by local and presumably subtle changes in nuclear function.
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Interacting role of thyroxine and growth hormone in the hepatic synthesis of alpha 2u-globulin and its messenger RNA. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)33309-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Changes in the rates of synthesis and messenger RNA levels of hepatic glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenases following induction by diet or thyroid hormone. J Biol Chem 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)33839-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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