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Heibel SK, Lopez GY, Panglao M, Sodha S, Mariño-Ramírez L, Tuchman M, Caldovic L. Transcriptional regulation of N-acetylglutamate synthase. PLoS One 2012; 7:e29527. [PMID: 22383952 PMCID: PMC3287996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2011] [Accepted: 11/30/2011] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The urea cycle converts toxic ammonia to urea within the liver of mammals. At least 6 enzymes are required for ureagenesis, which correlates with dietary protein intake. The transcription of urea cycle genes is, at least in part, regulated by glucocorticoid and glucagon hormone signaling pathways. N-acetylglutamate synthase (NAGS) produces a unique cofactor, N-acetylglutamate (NAG), that is essential for the catalytic function of the first and rate-limiting enzyme of ureagenesis, carbamyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1). However, despite the important role of NAGS in ammonia removal, little is known about the mechanisms of its regulation. We identified two regions of high conservation upstream of the translation start of the NAGS gene. Reporter assays confirmed that these regions represent promoter and enhancer and that the enhancer is tissue specific. Within the promoter, we identified multiple transcription start sites that differed between liver and small intestine. Several transcription factor binding motifs were conserved within the promoter and enhancer regions while a TATA-box motif was absent. DNA-protein pull-down assays and chromatin immunoprecipitation confirmed binding of Sp1 and CREB, but not C/EBP in the promoter and HNF-1 and NF-Y, but not SMAD3 or AP-2 in the enhancer. The functional importance of these motifs was demonstrated by decreased transcription of reporter constructs following mutagenesis of each motif. The presented data strongly suggest that Sp1, CREB, HNF-1, and NF-Y, that are known to be responsive to hormones and diet, regulate NAGS transcription. This provides molecular mechanism of regulation of ureagenesis in response to hormonal and dietary changes.
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- Sandra Kirsch Heibel
- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D. C., United States of America
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- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America
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- Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America
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Gharbi M, Powroznik B, Mazzucchelli G, Deville C, Nollevaux G, Rusu D, Dandrifosse G, Peulen O. Modulation of intestinal urea cycle by dietary spermine in suckling rat. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 336:1119-24. [PMID: 16168957 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.08.240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2005] [Accepted: 08/30/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Argininosuccinate synthetase, an ubiquitous enzyme in mammals, catalyses the formation of argininosuccinate, the precursor of arginine. Arginine is recognised as an essential amino acid in foetuses and neonates, but also as a conditionally essential amino acid in adults. Argininosuccinate synthetase is initially expressed in enterocytes during the developmental period, it disappeared from this organ then appeared in the kidneys. Although the importance of both intestinal and renal argininosuccinate synthetases has been recognised for a long time, nutrients have not yet been identified as inducers of the gene expression. In the context of a proteomic screening of intestinal modifications induced by dietary spermine in suckling rats, we showed that argininosuccinate synthetase and carbamoyl phosphate synthase disappeared from enterocytes after this treatment. The disappearance of argininosuccinate synthetase in small intestine was confirmed by immunodetection. Expression of carbamoyl phosphate synthase and argininosuccinate synthetase coding genes decreased also after spermine administration. Expression of other urea cycle enzyme coding genes was modulated by spermine administration: argininosuccinate lyase decreased and arginase increased. Our results fit with the developmental variation of argininosuccinate synthetase and carbamoyl phosphate synthase. Modulation of the gene expression for several urea cycle enzymes suggests a coordination between all the pathway steps and switch toward polyamine (or proline and glutamate) biosynthesis from ornithine.
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- Myriam Gharbi
- Department of Biochemistry and General Physiology, Immunology Center, University of Liège, Belgium
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Schoneveld OJLM, Gaemers IC, Hoogenkamp M, Lamers WH. The role of proximal-enhancer elements in the glucocorticoid regulation of carbamoylphosphate synthetase gene transcription from the upstream response unit. Biochimie 2005; 87:1033-40. [PMID: 15992985 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2005.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2004] [Revised: 01/24/2005] [Accepted: 02/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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As part of the urea cycle, carbamoylphosphate synthetase (CPS) converts toxic ammonia resulting from amino-acid catabolism into urea. Liver-specific and glucocorticoid-dependent expression of the gene involves a distal enhancer, a promoter-proximal enhancer, and the minimal promoter itself. When challenged with glucocorticoids, the glucocorticoid-responsive unit (GRU) in the distal enhancer of the carbamoylphosphate-synthetase gene can only activate gene expression if, in addition to the minimal promoter, the proximal enhancer is present. Here, we identify and characterise two elements in the proximal CPS enhancer that are involved in glucocorticoid-dependent gene activation mediated by the GRU. A purine-rich stretch forming a so-called GAGA-box and a glucocorticoid-response element (GRE) are both crucial for the efficacy of the GRU and appear to constitute a promoter-proximal response unit that activates the promoter. The glucocorticoid response of the CPS gene is, therefore, dependent on the combined action of a distal and a promoter-proximal response unit.
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- Onard J L M Schoneveld
- AMC Liver Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 69-71, 1105 BK Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Ihara K, Miyako K, Ishimura M, Kuromaru R, Wang HY, Yasuda K, Hara T. A case of hyperinsulinism/hyperammonaemia syndrome with reduced carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase-1 activity in liver: a pitfall in enzymatic diagnosis for hyperammonaemia. J Inherit Metab Dis 2005; 28:681-7. [PMID: 16151898 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-005-0084-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2005] [Accepted: 04/26/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We report a patient who was first diagnosed as having congenital carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase-1 (CPS-1) deficiency on the basis of significantly low CPS-1 activity in the liver at 1 year of age. We then started therapy against hyperammonaemia with little effect and, at the age of 15 years, we analysed the GLUD1 gene and found a previously reported gain-of-function mutation in the gene, resulting in a change of her diagnosis to hyperinsulinism/hyperammonaemia (HI/HA) syndrome. This case demonstrates that low CPS-1 activity in liver, however significant it might be, does not always come from a primary CPS-1 deficiency and that we have to take into consideration the possibility of a secondary CPS-1 deficiency, such as HI/HA syndrome.
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- K Ihara
- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyusyu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Wright P, Anderson P, Weng L, Frick N, Wong WP, Ip YK. The crab-eating frog,Rana cancrivora, up-regulates hepatic carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I activity and tissue osmolyte levels in response to increased salinity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 301:559-68. [PMID: 15229866 DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The crab-eating frog Rana cancrivora is one of only a handful of amphibians worldwide that tolerate saline waters. They typically inhabit brackish water of mangrove forests of Southeast Asia, but live happily in freshwater and can be acclimated to 75% seawater (25 ppt) or higher. We report here that after transfer of juvenile R. cancrivora from freshwater (1 ppt) to brackish water (10 -->20 or 20 -->25 ppt; 4-8 d) there was a significant increase in the specific activity of the key hepatic ornithine urea cycle enzyme (OUC), carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I (CPSase I). At 20 ppt, plasma, liver and muscle urea levels increased by 22-, 21-, and 11-fold, respectively. As well, muscle total amino acid levels were significantly elevated by 6-fold, with the largest changes occurring in glycine and beta-alanine levels. In liver, taurine levels were 5-fold higher in frogs acclimated to 20 ppt. There were no significant changes in urea or ammonia excretion rates to the environment. As well, the rate of urea influx (J(in) (urea)) and efflux (J(out) (urea)) across the ventral pelvic skin did not differ between frogs acclimated to 1 versus 20 ppt. Taken together, these findings suggest that acclimation to saline water involves the up-regulation of hepatic urea synthesis, which in turn contributes to the dramatic rise in tissue urea levels. The lack of change in urea excretion rates, despite the large increase in tissue-to-water gradients further indicates that mechanisms must be in place to prevent excessive loss of urea in saline waters, but these mechanisms do not include cutaneous urea uptake. Also, amino acid accumulation may contribute to an overall rise in the osmolarity of the muscle tissue, but relative to urea, the contribution is small.
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- Patricia Wright
- Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1.
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Mitaka T, Sato F, Ikeda SI, Sugimoto SI, Higaki N, Hirata K, Lamers WH, Mochizuki Y. Expression of carbamoylphosphate synthetase I and glutamine synthetase in hepatic organoids reconstructed by rat small hepatocytes and hepatic nonparenchymal cells. Cell Tissue Res 2001; 306:467-71. [PMID: 11735048 DOI: 10.1007/s004410100465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2000] [Accepted: 08/21/2001] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The objective of this study was to investigate the expression of carbamoylphosphate synthetase I (CPS) and glutamine synthetase (GS) in small hepatocyte colonies and whether the heterogeneous expression of the enzymes could be induced during the maturation of small hepatocytes. Small hepatocytes isolated from an adult rat liver were cultured and proliferated to form colonies. The expression of CPS and GS was examined using immunocytochemistry and immunoblotting. In this culture more than 99% of morphologically hepatic cells were positive for CPS and all small hepatocytes were negative for GS at day 5. CPS-positive cells dramatically decreased with time in culture, whereas GS-positive ones appeared and their number increased in the colonies. Two to 3 weeks after plating, colonies with rising and piled-up cells appeared and the number of such colonies reached about 25% of all colonies at day 30. In most rising and piled-up cells in colonies both proteins were strongly expressed, whereas many small hepatocytes in monolayer colonies did not express either protein. When small hepatocytes in monolayer colonies were overlayed with Matrigel, the cells gradually piled up and both CPS and GS proteins were dramatically induced. The expression of CPS and GS in small hepatocytes may interact with the extracellular matrix because the rising and piled-up cells appear to be induced by the extracellular matrix produced by hepatic nonparenchymal cells.
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- T Mitaka
- Department of Pathology, Cancer Research Institute, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Chuo-ku, S-1, W-17, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan.
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Park H, Kim IH, Kim IY, Kim KH, Kim HJ. Expression of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I and ornithine transcarbamoylase genes in Chinese hamster ovary dhfr-cells decreases accumulation of ammonium ion in culture media. J Biotechnol 2000; 81:129-40. [PMID: 10989172 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1656(00)00282-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Ammonium ion accumulation in mammalian cell culture media causes toxicity which inhibits cell growth and productivity. To reduce the level of the accumulated ammonium ion, carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I (CPS I) and ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTC) were used, which catalyze the first and second steps of the urea cycle in the liver. To examine the effects of overexpressed CPS I and OTC genes on the concentration of the ammonium ion in culture media, the two genes were introduced into Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) dhfr-cells. The CPS I expressing cell lines (CPS I-CHO) and both CPS I and OTC expressing cell lines (CPS I/OTC-CHO) were confirmed at the mRNA level and analyzed in terms of the cell growth and the accumulation of ammonium ion in culture media. The accumulation of ammonium ion was approximately 25-33% less in CPS I/OTC-CHO than in either CPS I-CHO or the vector-control cell lines. Interestingly however, the cell growth was approximately 15-30% faster in both CPS I-CHO and CPS I/OTC-CHO than in the control cell lines. Forced expression of urea cycle enzymes in the CHO cells revealed that both the expression of CPS I and OTC can reduce the accumulation of ammonium ion in the culture media.
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- H Park
- College of Pharmacy, Chung Ang University, 221, Huksuk-Dong, Dongjak-Ku, 156-756, Seoul, South Korea
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Abdullah Abu Musa DM, Kobayashi K, Yasuda I, Iijima M, Christoffels VM, Tomomura M, Horiuchi M, Ohnishi T, Kajihara T, Daikuhara Y, Lamers WH, Saheki T. Involvement of a cis-acting element in the suppression of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I gene expression in the liver of carnitine-deficient mice. Mol Genet Metab 1999; 68:346-56. [PMID: 10562461 DOI: 10.1006/mgme.1999.2905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The expression of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I (CPS) gene is suppressed in the liver of carnitine-deficient juvenile visceral steatosis (JVS) mice at weaning and under starvation at adult age. To clarify the suppression mechanism, we produced CPSL transgenic JVS mice carrying a transgene composed of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene with the upstream region (-12 kb to +138) of the rat CPS gene and CPSE transgenic JVS mice carrying a transgene composed of the luciferase gene with minimal promoter (299 bp from -161 to +138) and enhancer (469 bp around -6.3 kb) fragments of the rat gene. The expression of the CAT gene as well as the endogenous CPS was suppressed in CPSL transgenic JVS mice, but luciferase gene expression was not suppressed in CPSE transgenic JVS mice. We isolated the 5'-upstream region of the mouse CPS gene and identified an activator protein-1 (AP-1) site downstream of the minimum enhancer region of both rat and mouse CPS genes. In conjunction with the 313-bp mouse promoter region, the 714-bp mouse enhancer fragment conferred a cell-type-dependent hormone responsiveness. In rat primary cultured hepatocytes, the addition of oleic acid suppressed reporter gene expression induced by dexamethasone in the construct containing the enhancer fragment of 714 bp with the AP-1 site, but not in its AP-1 site mutants or in 519 bp without the AP-1 site. These results strongly suggest that direct protein-protein interaction between AP-1 and glucocorticoid receptor is not involved in the suppression of the CPS gene in JVS mice and that the AP-1 element is the cis-element which is responsible for the suppression.
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- D M Abdullah Abu Musa
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima University Dental School, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, 890-8520, Japan
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Grøfte T, Jensen DS, Grønbaek H, Wolthers T, Jensen SA, Tygstrup N, Vilstrup H. Effects of growth hormone on steroid-induced increase in ability of urea synthesis and urea enzyme mRNA levels. Am J Physiol 1998; 275:E79-86. [PMID: 9688877 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1998.275.1.e79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Growth hormone (GH) reduces the catabolic side effects of steroid treatment due to its effects on tissue protein synthesis/degradation. Little attention is focused on hepatic amino acid degradation and urea synthesis. Five groups of rats were given 1) placebo, 2) prednisolone, 3) placebo, pair fed to the steroid group, 4) GH, and 5) prednisolone and GH. After 7 days, the in vivo capacity of urea N synthesis (CUNS) was determined by saturating alanine infusion, in parallel with measurements of liver mRNA levels of urea cycle enzymes, N contents of organs, N balance, and hormones. Prednisolone increased CUNS (micromol . min-1 . 100 g-1, mean +/- SE) from 9.1 +/- 1.0 (pair-fed controls) to 13.2 +/- 0.8 (P < 0.05), decreased basal blood alpha-amino N concentration from 4.2 +/- 0.5 to 3.1 +/- 0.3 mmol/l (P < 0.05), increased mRNA levels of the rate- and flux-limiting urea cycle enzymes by 20 and 65%, respectively (P < 0. 05), and decreased muscle N contents and N balance. In contrast, GH decreased CUNS from 6.1 +/- 0.9 (free-fed controls) to 4.2 +/- 0.5 (P < 0.05), decreased basal blood alpha-amino N concentration from 3. 8 +/- 0.3 to 3.2 +/- 0.2, decreased mRNA levels of the rate- and flux-limiting urea cycle enzymes to 60 and 40%, respectively (P < 0. 05), and increased organ N contents and N balance. Coadministration of GH abolished all steroid effects. We found that prednisolone increases the ability of amino N conversion into urea N and urea cycle gene expression. GH had the opposite effects and counteracted the N-wasting side effects of prednisolone.
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- T Grøfte
- Department of Medicine V, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Arginine is a non-essential amino acid in mammals as judged from nitrogen balance study. Citrulline is synthesized from glutamate in the small intestine, whilst kidneys and some other tissues convert citrulline to arginine. Ornithine transcarbamylase and carbamylphosphate synthetase are expressed in liver and small intestine. Tissue-selective expression depends on the regulatory elements in the promoter, or far 5', region of these genes to which tissue-selective transcription factors bind and activate transcription. Argininosuccinate synthetase and argininosuccinate lyase do not appear to have such elements, therefore their expression is more or less ubiquitous. The selective expression of pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase activity in the intestine remains to be clarified.
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- Y Wakabayashi
- Department of Biochemistry, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
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Mawal YR, Rama Rao KV, Qureshi IA. Restoration of hepatic cytochrome c oxidase activity and expression with acetyl-L-carnitine treatment in spf mice with an ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. Biochem Pharmacol 1998; 55:1853-60. [PMID: 9714304 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(98)00051-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The sparse fur (spf) mutant mouse, with an X-linked ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, is a model of congenital hyperammonemia in children. Our earlier studies indicated a deficiency of hepatic carnitine, CoA-SH, acetyl CoA, and ATP in spf mice. We have now studied the effects of a 7-day treatment with acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR) in the spf/Y mice on the activity and expression of the respiratory chain enzyme cytochrome c oxidase (COX; EC 1.9.3.1). We found decreased hepatic activity and expression of COX in the untreated hyperammonemic spf/Y mice, which was restored upon ALCAR treatment. Because COX is a mitochondrial membrane protein, we also carried out studies to explain the mechanism of ALCAR through its effect on membrane stability. Our results indicate a decrease of the mitochondrial membrane cholesterol/phospholipid molar ratio (CHOL/PL ratio) with the activity and expression of COX in untreated spf/Y mice. While ALCAR treatment normalized the ratios, it also restored the hepatic ATP production to normal. To study further if there was any effect of ALCAR on the mitochondrial matrix urea cycle enzymes, we measured the activity and expression of mutant ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC; EC 2.1.3.3) and normal carbamyl phosphate synthase-I (CPS-I; EC 6.3.4.16) in spf/Y mice. There was no general effect on the specific activities of the matrix enzymes upon ALCAR treatment, although their mRNA levels were enhanced. Our studies point towards the feasibility of an ALCAR treatment in conjunction with other treatment modalities, e.g. sodium benzoate and/or arginine, to improve the availability of cellular ATP and to counteract the effects of hereditary hyperammonemic syndromes in children.
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- Y R Mawal
- Division of Medical Genetics, Sainte-Justine Hospital and University of Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Expression of carbamoylphosphate synthetase I (CPSI; EC 6.3.4.16) was examined immunohistochemically in normal development of the mouse liver, and in testicular transplants of fetal liver fragments. CPSI started to be expressed in all hepatocytes around 15 days of gestation, and became heterogeneous (i.e. absent from pericentral hepatocytes) around 2 weeks after birth. Most hepatocytes in fetal liver fragments placed for 2 months under the testicular capsule expressed this enzyme except for the pericentral ones, most of which were positively stained with anti-glutamine synthetase (GS; EC 6.3.1.2) antiserum. This distribution resembled that in the adult liver. The steep change in CPSI immunostaining in liver lobules suggests that the microenvironment tightly connected to the central veins plays an important role in the suppression of CPSI expression in the pericentral hepatocytes. Some pericentral hepatocytes were also negative for both enzymes. Thus, control mechanisms of CPSI expression may be different from those of GS expression in pericentral hepatocytes.
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- N Shiojiri
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Oya, Japan
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Shiojiri N, Ohta T, Ogawa K, Gebhardt R. Complementary expression of glutamine synthetase and carbamoylphosphate synthetase I in ornithine carbamoyltransferase-deficient mouse liver (spf-ash mouse). Histochem Cell Biol 1997; 108:489-94. [PMID: 9450631 DOI: 10.1007/s004180050189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase and carbamoylphosphate synthetase I expression was examined immunohistochemically in livers of spf-ash homozygous and hemizygous mice, in which one of the urea cycle enzymes (ornithine carbamoyltransferase) is deficient and hyperammonemic disorders are obvious. In the mutant adult mouse liver, only hepatocytes lining central veins expressed glutamine synthetase. In contrast, other hepatocytes expressed carbamoylphosphate synthetase I but not glutamine synthetase. This complementary expression pattern is similar to that seen in wild-type mouse liver. In the liver of mutant young mice, which showed severe retarded growth and abnormal hair and skin development, the developmental expression pattern of both enzymes was also similar to that of the corresponding wild-type liver. However, suppression of carbamoylphosphate synthetase I expression in the pericentral hepatocytes occurred later in the mutant than in wild-type liver. These results show that high plasma concentrations of ammonium ions, which are one of the substrates for both the enzymes, do not change their complementary expression. Instead they support the idea that factor(s) associated with central veins rather than humoral factors direct pericentral hepatocytes to express glutamine synthetase and to suppress carbamoylphosphate synthetase I expression.
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- N Shiojiri
- Department of Biology, Shizuoka University, Oya, Japan
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Differentiation of biliary epithelial cells from hepatic endodermal cells of the mouse embryo was examined with a special attention to the role of the connective tissue. When the whole liver primordium of the 9.5-day mouse embryo was cultured in vitro for 5 days, the endodermal cells differentiated into mature hepatocytes expressing carbamoylphosphate synthetase I (CPSI) and accumulating glycogen. Intrahepatic bile duct cells and connective tissue were poorly developed in this culture. However, when the hepatic endoderm was recombined with the 4-day embryonic chick lung mesenchyme and cultured in vitro, the endodermal cells differentiated into many ductal epithelial cells as well as mature hepatocytes with abundant connective tissue development. These results suggest that the ducts might be bile ducts, and that connective tissue is very important for bile duct development. In addition, this in vitro culture system might be useful for the study of mechanisms of bile duct differentiation and congenital biliary atresia.
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- N Shiojiri
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Japan
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The differentiation of hepatic endodermal cells is affected by endodermal-mesodermal interactions. To examine the control mechanisms of this differentiation, we cultured mouse liver primordium and tissue recombinants of the hepatic endoderm with homo- or heterologous mesenchyme in vitro. When the hepatic primordia at somite stages 15-23 were cultured in vitro for 5-10 days, the endodermal cells differentiated into large hepatocytes expressing alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), albumin and carbamoylphosphate synthetase I (CPSI) and storing glycogen. AFP continued to be expressed in hepatocytes through culture for 10 days. Albumin and CPSI expression started in hepatocytes at 1 and 2 days after culture, respectively. Dexamethasone stimulated hepatocyte differentiation (expression of CPSI and glycogen accumulation) and large lumen formation of hepatocytes, but it did not change the commencement of differentiation. When the hepatic endoderm was recombined with hepatic mesenchyme or 4-day embryonic chick lung mesenchyme, clotted in Matrigel, which is a basement-membrane-like substratum, and cultured for 5 days in vitro, it differentiated into large hepatocytes expressing albumin and CPSI and accumulating glycogen. Lung mesenchyme promoted duct formation more efficiently than the hepatic mesenchyme did. However, the hepatic endodermal cells failed to differentiate into large hepatocytes when cultured with 6-day embryonic chick metanephric mesenchyme or with 2.5-day chick somitic mesenchyme, or cultured alone in Matrigel, suggesting that the endodermal cells require the presence of splanchnic mesoderm for their differentiation in vitro. Addition of HGF (hepatocyte growth factor), aFGF (acidic fibroblast growth factor), or bFGF (basic fibroblast growth factor) also did not support the survival of hepatic endodermal cells or hepatocyte differentiation in culture without mesenchyme. Matrigel and those growth factors might not be a suitable substitute for the mesenchyme.
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- T Koike
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Japan
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The arginine-specific carbamoyl phosphate synthetase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a heterodimeric enzyme, with a 45-kDa CPA1 subunit binding and cleaving glutamine, and a 124-kDa CPA2 subunit accepting the ammonia moiety cleaved from glutamine, binding all of the remaining substrates and carrying out all of the other catalytic events. CPA2 is composed of two apparently duplicated amino acid sequences involved in binding the two ATP molecules needed for carbamoyl phosphate synthesis and a carboxyl-terminal domain which appears to be less tightly folded than the remainder of the protein. Using deletion mutagenesis, we have established that essentially all of the carboxyl-terminal domain of CPA2 is required for catalytic function and that even small truncations lead to significant changes in the CPA2 conformation. In addition, we have demonstrated that the C-terminal region of CPA2 can be expressed as an autonomously folded unit which is stabilized by specific interactions with the remainder of CPA2. We also made the unexpected finding that, even when ammonia is used as the substrate and there is no catalytic role for CPA1, interaction with CPA1 led to an increase in the Vmax of CPA2 in crude extracts.
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- A L Lim
- Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Hinsdale ME, Hamm DA, Wood PA. Effects of short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency on development expression of metabolic enzyme genes in the mouse. Biochem Mol Med 1996; 57:106-15. [PMID: 8733888 DOI: 10.1006/bmme.1996.0016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Patients with an acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency share the disease features of hypoglycemia, hyperammonemia, tissue fatty change, hypoketonemia, carnitine deficiency, and organic acidemia due to apparent disruption of normal fatty acid, glucose, and urea metabolism. Most of the acute clinical episodes occur in young children. These episodes are precipitated by fasting and are often fatal, with the in vivo mechanisms essentially unknown. Since the genes of the rate controlling enzymes of these pathways are tissue and developmentally regulated at the transcriptional level, we measured, throughout neonatal development, the steady-state mRNA levels of long-chain, medium-chain, and short-chain (SCAD) acyl-CoA dehydrogenases, pyruvate carboxylase (PC), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), carbamyl phosphate synthetase I (CPS), ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC), and argininosuccinate synthetase (AS) in fed or fasted SCAD-deficient BALB/ByJ mice compared to BALB/cBy controls. Overall, our results showed no major effects on expression of acyl-CoA dehydrogenases due to SCAD deficiency, regardless of age or fasting. In SCAD-deficient mice we found depressed mRNA expression and enzyme activity for the urea cycle enzymes CPS and AS at 6 days of age, and found no apparent effects on expression of gluconeogenic enzymes PC or PEPCK. There was a period of overall lower gene expression for most genes at 6 and 15 days, which appears to be in parallel with the developmental period when children with these diseases are most severely affected.
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- M E Hinsdale
- Department of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294, USA
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Tillman JB, Dhahbi JM, Mote PL, Walford RL, Spindler SR. Dietary calorie restriction in mice induces carbamyl phosphate synthetase I gene transcription tissue specifically. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:3500-6. [PMID: 8631954 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.7.3500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Dietary calorie restriction (CR) delays age-related physiologic changes, increases maximum life span, and reduces cancer incidence. Here, we present the novel finding that chronic reduction of dietary calories by 50% without changing the intake of dietary protein induced the activity of mouse hepatic carbamyl phosphate synthetase I (CpsI) 5-fold. In liver, CpsI protein, mRNA, and gene transcription were each stimulated by approximately 3-fold. Thus, CR increased both the rate of gene transcription and the specific activity of the enzyme. Short-term feeding studies demonstrated that higher cpsI expression was due to CR and not consumption of more dietary protein. Intestinal CpsI activity was stimulated 2-fold, while its mRNA level did not change, suggesting enzyme activity or translation efficiency was stimulated. CpsI catalyzes the conversion of metabolic ammonia to carbamyl phosphate, the rate-limiting step in urea biosynthesis. cpsI induction suggests there is a shift in the metabolism of calorie-restricted animals toward protein catabolism. CpsI induction likely facilitates metabolic detoxification of ammonia, a strong neurotoxin. Enhanced protein turnover and metabolic detoxification may extend life span. Physiologic similarities between calorie-restricted and hibernating animals suggest the effects of CR may be part of a spectrum of adaptive responses that include hibernation.
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- J B Tillman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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Goping IS, Lamontagne S, Shore GC, Nguyen M. A gene-type-specific enhancer regulates the carbamyl phosphate synthetase I promoter by cooperating with the proximal GAG activating element. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:1717-21. [PMID: 7784176 PMCID: PMC306927 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.10.1717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The rat carbamyl phosphate synthetase I gene is expressed in two cell types: hepatocytes and epithelial cells of the intestinal mucosa. The proximal promoter contains a single activating element, GAG, two repressor elements (sites I and III) and an anti-repressor element (site II). Although these elements together exhibit the potential for complex regulation, they are unable to confer tissue-specific promoter activity. Here we have identified a cell-type-specific enhancer that lies 10 kilobases upstream of the promoter. Unexpectedly, the enhancer also functioned in a gene-type-specific manner. The enhancer stimulated promoter activity exclusively through the proximal GAG element. Abrogation of GAG, either directly by mutation of GAG or indirectly by sites I and III repressors, abolished enhancer activation. Conversely, activation of the heterologous thymidine kinase promoter by the enhancer required the introduction of GAG. The requirement for GAG, therefore, functions to constrain the enhancer to a specific target promoter.
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- I S Goping
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Dingemanse MA, de Boer PA, Moorman AF, Charles R, Lamers WH. The expression of liver-specific genes within rat embryonic hepatocytes is a discontinuous process. Differentiation 1994; 56:153-62. [PMID: 7518403 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.1994.5630153.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The onset of transcription and mRNA accumulation of two liver-specific genes, carbamoylphosphate synthase (CPS) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) in individual embryonic rat hepatocytes was investigated with in situ hybridization. In vitro CPS and PEPCK mRNAs can be induced prematurely in monolayer cultures of embryonic rat hepatocytes by glucocorticosteroids and cyclic AMP, i.e. the hormones that also regulate the expression of these genes in vivo. Upon exposure to hormones the cultures showed an interhepatocyte heterogeneity in CPS and PEPCK mRNA content. The pattern of accumulation of nuclear CPS mRNA-precursors indicates that this heterogeneity is generated by intercellular differences in the timing of the onset of transcription. However, under induced steady-state conditions the heterogeneity in the hepatocyte population persisted. The degree of heterogeneity is inversely related to the half life of the gene product (i.e. higher for PEPCK than for CPS and higher for mRNAs than for the respective proteins) and to the concentrations of inducing hormones. Accordingly, the interhepatocyte heterogeneity was most pronounced for the nuclear CPS mRNA-precursor. In contrast, no intercellular differences in the rate of degradation of the mRNAs were seen. These observations reveal that although all hepatocytes can and do express the genes, transcription of a gene in a particular cell is a discontinuous process.
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- M A Dingemanse
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Helbing CC, Atkinson BG. 3,5,3'-Triiodothyronine-induced carbamyl-phosphate synthetase gene expression is stabilized in the liver of Rana catesbeiana tadpoles during heat shock. J Biol Chem 1994; 269:11743-50. [PMID: 8163471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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One of many changes occurring during spontaneous and 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine (T3)-induced metamorphosis of the Rana catesbeiana tadpole is the permanent transition from an ammonotelic, aquatic larva to a ureotelic, terrestrial adult. T3-induced urea production is preceded by T3-induced elevation in the synthesis and level of liver-specific urea cycle enzymes essential for detoxication of ammonia in a terrestrial environment. This report focuses on establishing the effects heat shock (hs) has on the T3-induced expression of genes encoding three essential urea cycle enzymes. We demonstrate that hs stabilizes the intracellular existing levels of carbamyl-phosphate synthetase I (CPS I), the first enzyme in the urea cycle, while concurrently depressing its new synthesis. To establish the effects of hs on CPS I mRNA levels, we characterized cDNAs encoding an amphibian CPS I and demonstrate that it may represent an evolutionary link between microbial CPS and mammalian CPS I. Using this CPS I cDNA and other R. catesbeiana gene-specific probes, we demonstrate that hs depresses the level of T3-induced thyroid hormone receptor beta mRNAs but does not affect the level of T3-induced CPS I, ornithine transcarbamylase, and arginase mRNAs. These results support the contention that the hs response may involve the selective protection of some pre-existing mRNAs and proteins essential for an organism's survival.
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- C C Helbing
- Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Goping IS, Shore GC. Interactions between repressor and anti-repressor elements in the carbamyl phosphate synthetase I promoter. J Biol Chem 1994; 269:3891-6. [PMID: 8106435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The proximal promoter of the rat carbamyl phosphate synthetase I gene contains four cis-acting regulatory regions, designated sites GAG, I, II, and III. The GAG site, which is located adjacent to the predicted TATA region, contains a direct repeat of the nonamer, GAGGAGGGG, and binds a factor which is unrelated to the other upstream binding site factors. Sites I-III, on the other hand, bind the same or similar factors, but with different affinities (site II > site III > site I). High affinity binding to site II requires the core octamer, GTTGCAAC. Sequential 5'-deletion of the promoter revealed that GAG is the predominant activating element in transient transfection analyses and, on its own, can sustain activity of a -67 promoter fragment. However, in the context of a -157 promoter in which the GTTGCAAC core of site II had been mutated, promoter activity was completely repressed, and this repression was due to sites I and III. Repression by sites I and III in the presence of mutated site II was relieved either by mutating sites I and III or by introducing a 76-bp random DNA fragment between GAG and site I. Our results suggest a model in which the carbamyl phosphate synthetase I promoter is controlled by a single activating element, GAG, and by two repressor elements, sites I and III. We conclude that the high affinity site II element binds an anti-repressor. Footprint analyses of the -157 promoter with and without a mutation of the GTTGCAAC element in site II suggest that the anti-repressor may interfere with the site I and site III repressors by quenching.
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- I S Goping
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Ulbright C, Snodgrass PJ. Coordinate induction of the urea cycle enzymes by glucagon and dexamethasone is accomplished by three different mechanisms. Arch Biochem Biophys 1993; 301:237-43. [PMID: 8460937 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1993.1139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Induction of the mRNAs of the five urea cycle enzymes by glucagon and dexamethasone was studied in cultured rat hepatocytes to define mechanisms which coordinate the increases in the enzyme activities by these hormones. The transcription rate for arginase mRNA increased 9-fold in 7 h, the mRNA level 90-fold in 28 h, and the arginase activity 1.5-fold at 48 h, suggesting that induction is due primarily to stabilization of mRNA. Arginase mRNA induction was minimal with either hormone alone, combined hormones were synergistic, and cycloheximide pretreatment did not prevent the rise in mRNA levels. Carbamyl phosphate synthetase mRNA levels responded synergistically to the combined hormones and peaked 240-fold above controls at 24 h although activity only increased 1.4-fold at 48 h. Argininosuccinate lyase and synthetase mRNAs were induced by an increased transcriptional rate, were not induced by single hormones, responded synergistically to combined hormones, and showed a partial blockage of mRNA induction by cycloheximide. The ornithine transcarbamylase mRNA level was not increased by these hormones although activity increased 1.3-fold, suggesting stabilization of the enzyme. Thus glucagon and dexamethasone induce the urea cycle enzymes by three different mechanisms: transcriptional control of mRNA in argininosuccinate synthetase and lyase, stabilization of mRNA in carbamyl phosphate synthetase and arginase, and protein stabilization of ornithine transcarbamylase.
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- C Ulbright
- Veterans Administration Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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Horiuchi M, Kobayashi K, Tomomura M, Kuwajima M, Imamura Y, Koizumi T, Nikaido H, Hayakawa J, Saheki T. Carnitine administration to juvenile visceral steatosis mice corrects the suppressed expression of urea cycle enzymes by normalizing their transcription. J Biol Chem 1992; 267:5032-5. [PMID: 1544887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Previous studies in our laboratories have revealed that juvenile visceral steatosis mice show suppressed transcription of urea cycle enzyme genes during development and are systemically deficient in carnitine. It has not yet been explained, however, how this carnitine deficiency relates to the abnormal gene expression. We investigated the effect of carnitine on abnormal gene expression, growth retardation, and fatty liver. Carnitine administration relieved the suppression of the developmental induction of two urea cycle enzymes examined, carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase and argininosuccinate synthase, and kept the activities of enzymes normal. However, carnitine did not reduce accumulated lipid in the liver to the normal level. These results suggest that carnitine deficiency plays an important role in the abnormal expression of urea cycle enzyme genes and that the abnormal expression of the genes is not directly caused by lipid accumulation in the liver.
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- M Horiuchi
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan
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Tanabe M, Kaneko N, Takeuchi T. Schistosoma mansoni: suppression of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (ammonia) and ornithine carbamoyltransferase activities in the liver of infected mice. Exp Parasitol 1989; 68:432-42. [PMID: 2498116 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(89)90128-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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ICR female mice infected with cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni exhibited a significant decrease in both total and specific activities of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase (ammonia) (EC 6.3.4.16) and ornithine carbamoyltransferase (EC 2.1.3.3), and also in the serum urea level. Intraperitoneal administration of the S. mansoni egg granulomas or 15,000g X 30 min supernatant fluid of their extract into the uninfected, normal mice also significantly decreased the total and specific activities of both enzymes without any appreciable histopathological influence on their livers. S. mansoni viable eggs caused a significant decrease in the total and specific activities of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (ammonia) alone as well as active intraperitoneal inflammation when inoculated into the normal mice by the same route. There was no difference in the amount of food intake between the control and these experimental mice. These findings suggest that the granuloma or inflammatory cells induced by schistosome eggs produce some factor(s) which may be responsible for reduction of these enzymatic activities in experimental schistosomiasis mansoni.
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- M Tanabe
- Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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Ohtake A, Mori M. [Carbamyl phosphate synthetase I deficiency]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1988; 33:497-9. [PMID: 3270854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Kitagawa Y. Hormonal regulation of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I synthesis in primary cultured hepatocytes and Reuber hepatoma H-35. Defective regulation in hepatoma cells. Eur J Biochem 1987; 167:19-25. [PMID: 3040399 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb13299.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Regulation of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I (CPS) synthesis by various hormones was compared in primary cultured hepatocytes from adult rat and in Reuber hepatoma H-35 by pulse labeling of the cells with [35S]methionine. CPS synthesis in hepatocytes was stimulated 8-fold and 5-fold by dexamethasone and glucagon respectively. CPS synthesis in hepatocytes was synergically (about 50-fold) stimulated by a combination of dexamethasone and glucagon. Less synergic stimulation was observed by combining dexamethasone with N6, O2'-dibutyryladenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (dibutyryl-cAMP) or with isoproterenol. The basal level of CPS synthesis in hepatoma cells was higher than that in hepatocytes. CPS synthesis in hepatoma cells was stimulated by dexamethasone and dibutyryl-cAMP but the extent was only 3-fold and 1.8-fold respectively. The synergic effect of combination of dexamethasone and dibutyryl-cAMP was not observed in hepatoma cells. Neither glucagon nor isoproterenol exhibited an appreciable effect on CPS synthesis in hepatoma cells. Insulin and epinephrine suppressed CPS synthesis both in hepatocytes and hepatoma cells. The effect of epinephrine was indicated to be through alpha-adrenergic receptors. The effects of insulin and epinephrine were additive on CPS synthesis both in hepatocytes and hepatoma cells.
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Ryall JC, Quantz MA, Shore GC. Rat liver and intestinal mucosa differ in the developmental pattern and hormonal regulation of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I and ornithine carbamoyl transferase gene expression. Eur J Biochem 1986; 156:453-8. [PMID: 3754512 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1986.tb09603.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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cDNA probes were employed to measure levels of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I (CPS) and ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OCT) mRNAs in fetal and neonatal livers and intestines. In the fetal liver, significant levels of OCT mRNA were present at 15-days gestation while CPS mRNA could not be detected until day 17 of fetal development. Apart from a small decline just after birth, amounts of both mRNAs increased steadily to reach adult levels in postnatal life. In contrast to the situation in liver, CPS and OCT mRNA levels in the fetal intestine rose rapidly to peak at day 21 of gestation and then declined steadily in the first seven days after birth. Using the methyl-sensitive restriction isoschizomeric pair, MspI/HpaII, the 5' ends of both the CPS and OCT genes were shown to undergo demethylation during development. In the case of the OCT gene, however, the hypomethylation characteristic of the adult liver and intestinal mucosa was not observed in the 15-day-old fetal liver, where significant levels of gene expression had already been established. Levels of CPS and OCT mRNA in livers of adults responded to glucagon in normal animals (1.5-fold and 2.2-fold increases, respectively) and to dexamethasone in experimentally induced diabetic animals (3-fold increase in CPS mRNA with no change in OCT mRNA). These treatments were all without effect on the levels of CPS and OCT mRNA in intestinal mucosa.
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Laval M, Azou Y, Giorgi D, Rosset R. Overproduction of the first three enzymes of pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthesis in Drosophila cells resistant to N-phosphonacetyl-L-aspartate. Exp Cell Res 1986; 163:381-95. [PMID: 2869965 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(86)90069-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Drosophila cells were treated in vitro with N-phosphonacetyl-L-aspartate (PALA) which is a specific inhibitor of aspartate transcarbamylase, the second enzyme of the pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway. By stepwise selection using increasing amounts of this inhibitor, PALA-resistant (PALAr) stable clones have been isolated. Enzymatic activities of aspartate transcarbamylase, carbamyl phosphate synthetase and dihydro-orotase, borne by the same multifunctional protein, CAD, are increased 6-12-fold in these resistant clones compared with parental cells. The aspartate transcarbamylase in PALAr cells is shown by physical, kinetic and immunological criteria to be normal. The data from immunotitration and immunoblotting experiments indicate that the increased enzyme activities result from the overproduction of CAD.
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Lamers WH, van Roon M, Mooren PG, de Graaf A, Charles R. Amino acid environment determines expression of carbamoylphosphate synthetase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in embryonic rat hepatocytes. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 1985; 21:606-11. [PMID: 4066599 DOI: 10.1007/bf02623291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A completely defined medium (EHM-1), which reflects the amino acid composition of fetal rat serum and contains albumin as the sole proteinaceous compound, allows the accumulation of carbamoylphosphate synthetase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in the presence of dexamethasone, dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and triiodothyronine to approximately twice the level attained in a standard culture medium (RPMI 1640) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (and hormones). Using the EHM-1 medium we could show that the capacity of hepatocytes to synthesize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in the presence of hormones is manifest as soon as the cells differentiate from the embryonic foregut (embryonic Day 11). Furthermore we could show that embryonic hepatocytes can become binuclear or polyploid when cultured in the presence of thyroid hormone.
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Kitagawa Y, Sugimoto E. Interaction between glucocorticoids, 8-bromoadenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, and insulin in regulation of synthesis of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I in Reuber hepatoma H-35. Eur J Biochem 1985; 150:249-54. [PMID: 3894022 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1985.tb09014.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Regulation of synthesis of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I by glucocorticoids, 8-bromoadenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (8-bromo-cAMP), and insulin was investigated in Reuber hepatoma H-35. By measuring the incorporation of [35S]methionine into carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I and its precursor, we showed that dexamethasone stimulates the enzyme synthesis approximately fivefold. A detectable stimulation was observed at 1 nM of dexamethasone, half-maximal stimulation at 4 nM, and maximal stimulation above 40 nM. Corticosterone was more effective than dexamethasone both for the minimal concentration needed and for the extent of the stimulation. Hydrocortisone was less effective than dexamethasone. 8-Bromo-cAMP also stimulated the enzyme synthesis at a concentration of 3 mM. The effect of 8-bromo-cAMP was suggested to be additive to the effect of dexamethasone. Physiological concentrations of insulin strongly suppressed the stimulatory effect of dexamethasone on the enzyme synthesis but could not completely counteract the effect of dexamethasone. The half-maximal and maximal effects of insulin were observed at 0.5 nM and 5 nM, respectively. Insulin also counteracted the effect of 8-bromo-cAMP on the enzyme synthesis.
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Zhang HL, Huang SH, Li SE, Luo J. [Biosynthesis of CPSI from the liver of normal rats and and diethylnitrosamine-fed rats in rabbit reticulocyte lysate cell-free system]. Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao 1984; 6:410-3. [PMID: 6242541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Lamers WH, Zonneveld D, Charles R. Inducibility of carbamoylphosphate synthetase (ammonia) in cultures of embryonic hepatocytes: ontogenesis of the responsiveness to hormones. Dev Biol 1984; 105:500-8. [PMID: 6090246 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(84)90307-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Glucocorticosteroids and cyclic AMP induce carbamoylphosphate synthetase (ammonia) (CPS) in rat hepatocytes. Using an enzyme immunoassay applied to hepatocyte cultures fixed in situ, it has been demonstrated that the capacity of hepatocytes to synthesize CPS in the presence of both hormones is present as soon as the cells become recognizable as hepatocytes. Immunochemical staining of the cultures shows that hepatocytes do not acquire or express the capacity to accumulate CPS at high rates synchronously. The average levels of CPS per hepatocyte that are observed upon hormone treatment are approx 50-fold lower in embryonic than in adult hepatocytes, corresponding with an approx 10-fold lower synthetic capacity (per gram hepatocytes) and an approx 5-fold smaller size of embryonic compared to adult hepatocytes. Carbamoylphosphate synthetase levels are therefore a good parameter in studies that aim to establish the mechanisms that underly the ontogenesis of the hepatic phenotype.
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Cohen PP. Transport and processing of the precursors of mitochondrial carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I and ornithine transcarbamoylase. Biochem Soc Trans 1984; 12:377-8. [PMID: 6376204 DOI: 10.1042/bst0120377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Murakami A, Kitagawa Y, Sugimoto E. Induction of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I in Reuber hepatoma H-35 by dexamethasone. Biochim Biophys Acta 1983; 740:38-45. [PMID: 6303426 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(83)90118-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Reuber hepatoma H-35 was found to retain the activity of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I. The content of this enzyme in H-35 grown in Eagle's minimal essential medium was about half that in rat liver. The enzyme from H-35 was the same as that from rat liver in molecular weight estimated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, specific enzyme activity, kinetic parameters for ATP and N-acetyl-L-glutamate, and immunological crossreactivity. The enzyme in H-35 was induced by dexamethasone (1.4-fold) but not by glucagon or dibutyryl cAMP. Incorporation of [35S] methionine into the enzyme indicated that the effect of dexamethasone was due to increased synthesis of the enzyme protein (2.1-fold). By labeling with [35S]methionine, the precursor and the mature forms of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I were observed in the post-mitochondrial and mitochondrial fractions, respectively. By chasing the labeled cells with unlabeled methionine and cycloheximide, it was observed that the rate of translocation of the precursor into mitochondria is not affected by dexamethasone.
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Lin RC, Snodgrass PJ, Rabier D. Induction of urea cycle enzymes by glucagon and dexamethasone in monolayer cultures of adult rat hepatocytes. J Biol Chem 1982; 257:5061-7. [PMID: 6279658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Mori M, Miura S, Morita T, Tatibana M. Synthesis and intracellular transport of mitochondrial carbamyl phosphate synthetase I and ornithine transcarbamylase. Adv Exp Med Biol 1982; 153:267-76. [PMID: 7164902 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-6903-6_33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Raymond Y, Shore GC. Biogenesis of the mitochondrial enzyme, carbamyl phosphate synthetase. Appearance during fetal development of rat liver an rapid repression in freshly dispersed hepatocytes. Biochim Biophys Acta 1981; 656:111-9. [PMID: 7306548 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(81)90033-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Synthesis of carbamyl phosphate synthetase was undetectable in fetal rat liver at 16 days gestation but by 4-5 days after birth (11-12 days later), this single protein accounted for approx. 5% of total liver protein and roughly 1% of total liver protein synthesis. Likewise, translatable mRNA coding for the enzyme was absent from 16-day fetal livers but then rapidly accumulated reaching maximum levels just after birth. The in vitro primary translation product of carbamyl phosphate synthetase mRNA corresponded to a higher molecular weight biosynthetic precursor of the enzyme; peptide maps obtained from the precursor synthesized both in vivo and in vitro and from the mature enzyme made in vivo were the same. When livers of neonatal rats were perfused with collagenase and further treated to yield a preparation of freshly dispersed hepatocytes highly active in general protein synthesis, a procedure which took about 45 min to complete, biosynthesis of carbamyl phosphate synthetase was found to be completely absent in these cells. The mRNA coding for the enzyme, however, could be extracted from the dispersed hepatocytes and was actively translatable in vitro, at levels approximately 75% of those for mRNA obtained from intact liver. Repression of biogenesis of carbamyl phosphate synthetase in dispersed hepatocytes, therefore, must involve a mechanism which shifts the mRNA coding for the enzyme out of active polysomal complexes and renders it further untranslatable in vivo but not in vitro.
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Mori M, Morita T, Ikeda F, Amaya Y, Tatibana M, Cohen PP. Synthesis, intracellular transport, and processing of the precursors for mitochondrial ornithine transcarbamylase and carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I in isolated hepatocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981; 78:6056-60. [PMID: 6947214 PMCID: PMC348976 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.10.6056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The synthesis and intracellular transport of the mitochondrial matrix enzymes ornithine transcarbamylase (carbamoylphosphate: L-ornithine carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.3.) and carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase (ammonia) I [carbon-dioxide:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming, carbamate-phosphorylating), EC 6.3.4.16] were studied in isolated rat hepatocytes. In pulse experiments at 37 degrees C, the larger precursors of the two enzymes appeared in the cytosol of the liver cells, where radioactivity levels of the precursors reached a plateau in 10-20 min after the pulse. The pulse-labeled mature enzymes appeared in the particulate fraction (containing mitochondria) after a time lag and increased almost linearly with time up to 40 min. The specific radioactivities of the precursors in the cytosol were much higher than those of the mature enzymes in the particulate fraction. In pulse--chase experiments, the labeled precursors disappeared from the cytosol with estimated half-lives of about 1-2 min. These results indicate that ornithine transcarbamylase and carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I are initially synthesized as larger precursors and exist in a cytosolic pool from which they are transported into mitochondria and processed there to the mature enzymes concomitantly with or immediately after transport. Although the rates of synthesis, transport, and processing were decreased about 3-fold at 25 degrees C (as compared to incubation at 37 degrees C), the pool size of the precursors in the cytosol were somewhat larger at this temperature.
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Mori M, Miura S, Tatibana M, Cohen PP. Cell-free translation of carbamyl phosphate synthetase I and ornithine transcarbamylase messenger RNAs of rat liver. Effect of dietary protein and fasting on translatable mRNA levels. J Biol Chem 1981; 256:4127-32. [PMID: 7217073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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To determine which amino acids in a high casein diet are responsible for induction of the five urea cycle enzyme activities in rat liver, we tube-fed 21 L-amino acids singly to rats over 2 days at maximum doses which did not cause toxicity. The results were compared with the 1.3- to 1.9-fold increases (units/100 g rat) obtained by tube-feeding 2 g N/kg for 2 days as casein hydrolysate. Ala (2 g N/kg), Gly /2 g N/kg), Met (0.2--0.4 g N/kg) and Cys (0.4 g N/kg) were the only amino acids which increased all five activities. Moreover, Met. Ala, Gly and casein hydrolysate in these doses increased immuno-precipitable arginase as much as they increased its activity. A combination of Met, Ala and Gly (2 g N/kg) increased all five activities more than 2 g N/kg of casein hydrolysate. Met (0.05 g N/kg) + Ala (0.08 g N/kg) + Gly (0.1 g N/kg), the amounts of these contained in 2 g N/kg of casein, increased all five enzymes in 2 days as much as this dose of casein hydrolysate. Met (0.06 g N/kg) alone increased all five activities (units/100 g rat) 1.2 to 1.4-fold over controls by increasing g liver/100 g rat. Ammonium citrate or acetate tube-feedings over 8 days at 2 g N/kg increased only AS. The keto-acid of alanine, pyruvate, or the alpha-hydroxy acid of methionine did not increase any enzyme whereas the same molar dose of their amino acids increased all five activities. Thus three amino acids of casein, Ala, Gly and especially Met, account for the enzyme adaptation of the urea cycle on a high casein diet.
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Raymond Y, Shore GC. Processing of the precursor for the mitochondrial enzyme, carbamyl phosphate synthetase. Inhibition by rho-aminobenzamidine leads to very rapid degradation (clearing) of the precursor. J Biol Chem 1981; 256:2087-90. [PMID: 7462230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Pulse-chase experiments using liver explants incubated in modified Eagle's medium showed that newly synthesized precursor for carbamyl phosphate synthetase (pCPS) passes very rapidly through the cytosolic compartment en route to mitochondria (t 1/2 is approximately 2 min). Since even a small pool of precursor could not be detected in association with mitochondria, processing of pCPS must occur either coincident with or immediately following its transmembrane uptake by the organelle. Treatment of explants with the protease inhibitor, p-aminobenzamidine, however, inhibited normal processing of the precursor. But, rather than accumulate in the cell, newly synthesized pCPS was nonspecifically degraded with kinetics (t 1/2 of 2-3 min) which are consistent with the idea that the precursor was almost instantly degraded upon reaching the blocked processing enzyme in a mitochondrion. The protease inhibitor had little or no effect on synthesis of pCPS. This was determined by isolating polysomes aminobenzamidine; the two polysome preparations were about equally active in synthesizing pCPS in vitro in the presence of an inhibitor of polypeptide chain initiation, aurin tricarboxylic acid.
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Lamers WH, Mooren PG. Role of thyroid hormones in the normal and glucocorticosteroid hormone-induced evolution of carbamoylphosphate synthase (ammonia) and arginase activity in perinatal rat liver. Biol Neonate 1980; 37:264-84. [PMID: 6248135 DOI: 10.1159/000241287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Administration of thyroid hormones causes a dose-dependent increase in carbamoylphosphate synthase (ammonia) and arginase activities in fetal rat liver but not in neonatal rat liver. Simultaneous administration of thyroid and glucocorticosteroid hormones enhances enzyme accumulation still further in the fetus. When administered before birth, the relative potencies of T4 and reverse T3, compared to T3 are 20--25% and 1--20%, respectively. Both before and after birth, thyroid hormones enhance DNA content of the liver. Hypophysectomy of rat fetus reduces the carbamoylphosphate synthase activity level in hepatocytes to 30--40% of that in intact animals. Thyroid and glucocorticosteroid hormone administered individually to hypophysectomized animals stimulate enzyme activity 2- to 3-fold; and if administered simultaneously, 4- to 6-fold. Premature delivery with continuation of thyroid and/or glucocorticosteroid hormone treatment started before birth shows uninterrupted enzyme accumulation profiles. Delaying birth by progesterone treatment of the dam leads to uninterrupted but reduced rates of enzyme accumulation in hepatocytes.
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Paulus TJ, Switzer RL. Synthesis and inactivation of carbamyl phosphate synthetase isozymes of Bacillus subtilis during growth and sporulation. J Bacteriol 1979; 140:769-73. [PMID: 230177 PMCID: PMC216714 DOI: 10.1128/jb.140.3.769-773.1979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Pyrimidine-repressible carbamyl phosphate synthetase P was synthesized in parallel with aspartate transcarbamylase during growth of Bacillus subtilis on glucose-nutrient broth. Both enzymes were inactivated at the end of exponential growth, but at different rates and by different mechanisms. Unlike the inactivation of aspartate transcarbamylase, the inactivation of carbamyl phosphate synthetase P was not interrupted by deprivation for oxygen or in a tricarboxylic acid cycle mutant. The arginine-repressible isozyme carbamyl phosphate synthetase A was synthesized in parallel with ornithine transcarbamylase during the stationary phase under these growth conditions. Again, both enzymes were subsequently inactivated, but at different rates and by apparently different mechanisms. The inactivation of carbamyl phosphate synthetase A was not affected in a protease-deficient mutatn the inactivation of ornithine transcarbamylase was greatly slowed.
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Raymond Y, Shore GC. The precursor for carbamyl phosphate synthetase is transported to mitochondria via a cytosolic route. J Biol Chem 1979; 254:9335-8. [PMID: 226513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Mori M, Miura S, Tatibana M, Cohen PP. Cell-free synthesis and processing of a putative precursor for mitochondrial carbamyl phosphate synthetase I of rat liver. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1979; 76:5071-5. [PMID: 228276 PMCID: PMC413081 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.76.10.5071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Total RNA or poly(A)(+) RNA of rat liver was translated in a rabbit reticulocyte or wheat germ protein-synthesizing system and the carbamyl phosphate synthetase I [carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase (ammonia); carbon dioxide: ammonia ligase (ADP-forming, carbamate-phosphorylating), EC 6.3.4.16] synthesized was isolated by indirect immunoprecipitation by using antibody purified on enzyme-bound Sepharose and Staphylococcus aureus cells. The in vitro product moved on sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gels as a polypeptide that was about 5000 daltons larger than the subunit of the mature enzyme (160,000 daltons). The same polypeptide was also obtained by direct immunoprecipitation or by a double-antibody precipitation method. The mature enzyme competed effectively with the in vitro product for interaction with anti-carbamyl phosphate synthetase I antibody. Digestion of the in vitro product by S. aureus protease gave a pattern of peptide fragments similar to that of the mature enzyme. A mitochondrial membrane preparation from rat liver converted the in vitro product into a polypeptide that comigrated with the mature subunit on sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. Similar proteolytic activity was not detected in either a cytosol or a microsomal fraction of rat liver. These results indicate that the enzyme is synthesized as a larger precursor which is converted to the mature form of enzyme by posttranslational processing.
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Mori M, Morris SM, Cohen PP. Cell-free translation and thyroxine induction of carbamyl phosphate synthetase I messenger RNA in tadpole liver. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1979; 76:3179-83. [PMID: 226957 PMCID: PMC383787 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.76.7.3179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Total RNA of tadpole and frog (Rana catesbeiana) liver was isolated by either 7 or 8 M guanidine . HCl extraction and translated in a cell-free protein-synthesizing system derived from rabbit reticulocytes. The identity of carbamyl phosphate synthetase I[carbamoyl-phosphate synthase (ammonia); ATP:carbamate phosphotransferase (dephosphorylating), EC 2.7.2.5] synthesized in vitro with the purified enzyme was established as follows: (i) immunoprecipitation by a specific antibody; (i) comigration with purified carrier enzyme on sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; (iii) copurification with carrier enzyme by affinity chromatography on Cibacron Blue F3GA-coupled agarose; and (iv) formation of identical proteolytic cleavage products. Inclusion of protease inhibitors in the system resulted in no apparent change in the polypeptide molecular weight. These results indicate that carbamyl phosphate synthetase I is synthesized as a polypeptide that is indistinguishable from the mature enzyme by the analytical methods used and that it is not grossly modified during its transport into mitochondria. The level of translatable mRNA for carbamyl phosphate synthetase-I in tadpole liver was increased about 2-fold 1 day after thyroxine treatment and did not change significantly through 4 subsequent days of treatment. Thus the thyroxine-induced synthesis of carbamyl phosphate synthetase I in tadpole liver is at least partly due to an increase of translatable mRNA for this enzyme.
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Shore GC, Carignan P, Raymond Y. In vitro synthesis of a putative precursor to the mitochondrial enzyme, carbamyl phosphate synthetase. J Biol Chem 1979; 254:3141-4. [PMID: 218964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A simple and rapid procedure is described for purification of carbamyl phosphate synthetase from the matrix fraction of rat liver mitochondria. Antibodies to the enzyme were raised in sheep and purified from antiserum by affinity chromatography on enzyme-bound Sepharose columns. When membrane-free polyribosomes, isolated from a cytosolic fraction of rat liver, were incubated in a messenger-dependent rabbit reticulocyte protein-synthesizing system in the presence of [35S]methionine, the purified antibody precipitated a product of translation representing 0.2% of total trichloroacetic acid-insoluble radioactivity. It demonstrated mobility characteristics in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels expected for a polypeptide of molecular mass approximately 5500 daltons larger than the mature mitochondrial form of the enzyme (160,000 daltons). Proteolysis of both the mature and presumptive in vitro precursor forms of the enzyme yielded respective sets of peptide fragments which gave similar patterns upon gel electrophoresis. Excess mitochondrial enzyme effectively competed with the in vitro product for interaction with anti-carbamyl phosphate synthetase antibody.
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The increased activity of carbamyl phosphate synthetase I [carbamoyl-phosphate synthase (ammonia); ATP: carbamate phosphotransferase (diphosphorylating), EC 2.7.2.5] in tadpole liver observed during thyroxine-induced metamorphosis was markedly inhibited by intraperitoneal injection of the microbial protease inhibitor antipain (0.1 micrometermol/g of body weight, twice daily). A somewhat less than maximal inhibition was seen when antipain was given only during the first 2 days of thyroxine treatment. On the other hand, little inhibition was observed when the inhibitor was given after the third or fourth day of thyroxine treatment. Antipain also inhibited thyroxine-induced increases of ornithine transcarbamylase (EC 2.1.3.3), arginase (EC 3.5.3.1), and succinate-cytochrome c reductase (EC 1.3.99.1) activities. Among other microbial protease inhibitors tested, chymostatin was nearly as effective as antipain, leupeptin was less effective, and pepstatin was ineffective. Analysis of the total liver protein and of the immunoprecipitate by sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the inhibition was due to decreased amount of the enzyme protein. Antipain had no significant effect on leucine incorporation into total protein of tadpole liver. These results indicate the involvement of a proteolytic step in the pretranscriptional events in thyroxine-stimulated enzyme induction.
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During growth on minimal medium, cells of Neurospora contain three pools of ornithine. Over 95% of the ornithine is in a metabolically inactive pool in vesicles, about 1% is in the cytosol, and about 3% is in the mitochondria. By using a ureaseless strain, we measured the rapid flux of ornithine across the membrane boundaries of these pools. High levels of ornithine and the catabolic enzyme ornithine aminotransferase coexist during growth on minimal medium but, due to the compartmentation of the ornithine, only 11% was catabolized. Most of the ornithine was used for the synthesis of arginine. Upon the addition of arginine to the medium, ornithine was produced catabolically via the enzyme arginasn early enzyme of ornithine synthesis. The biosynthesis of arginine itself, from ornithine and carbamyl phosphate, was halted after about three generations of growth on arginine via the repression of carbamyl phosphate synthetase A. The catabolism of arginine produced ornithine at a greater rate than it had been produced biosynthetically, but this ornithine was not stored; rather it was catabolized in turn to yield intermediates of the proline pathway. Thus, compartmentation, feedback inhibition, and genetic repression all play a role to minimize the simultaneous operation of anabolic and catabolic pathways for ornithine and arginine.
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