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Effect of proliferative state on glutathione S-transferase isoenzyme in cultured rat liver epithelial cells
Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Pathology, The Montreal General Hospital and McGill University Montreal, Canada
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A specific biochemical phenotype is expressed during chemical hepatocarcinogenesis, which includes increased activity of the various isoenzyme forms of glutathione S-transferase (GST) composed of class alpha (Ya/Yc), class mu (Yb) and class pi (Yp) gene products. In vitro cell lines of normal and chemically transformed rat liver epithelial cells provide an opportunity to examine the regulation of expression of GST isoenzymes. We have studied the effect of the state of proliferation in culture on both the enzymic activity and the isoenzyme-specific mRNA expression. In normal rat liver epithelial cells (WB-F344), basal expression of the Yp subunit decreases, and of the Yb subunit increases, in cells at confluence compared with those in logarithmic-phase growth. In a subline of WB-F344 cells that has been chemically treated in vitro (GN6), there was greater Yp expression; however, the effect of growth status on both subunits was the same as in the non-transformed WB-344 cells, and the Ya subunit was not expressed. Inhibition of RNA synthesis with actinomycin D was limited, demonstrating pronged half-lives of the GST mRNAs, and shows a slightly greater decrease in GST-Yp specific mRNA levels in the confluent cells. Also nuclear run-off experiments demonstrate identical transcription rate in confluent and pre-confluent cells. These data suggest that the increase in Yp steady-state RNA in preconfluent cells is due to increased stability of the GST-Yp mRNA. In tumor cells derived from GN6 cells, the regulatory effects of growth status on the Yb and Yp expressions were absent. However, in these cells Ya subunit was expressed and this was subject to the effects of cell proliferation. We conclude that the growth status of cells in culture exerts a significant regulatory control on the GST isoenzyme gene expression. The effects are probably mediated at independent regulatory sites in each gene. The state of transformation of rat liver epithelial cells may determine responsiveness to this effect.
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