Influence of diet on the transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation of malic enzyme induction in the rat liver
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- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 168 (3), 487-491
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb13443.x
Abstract
Fasted rats were refed a carbohydrate/protein diet, a carbohydrate diet (without protein) or a protein diet (without carbohydrate) to investigate, using a cDNA cloned in our laboratory, the regulatory mechanisms involved in hepatic malic enzyme induction. In the carbohydrate/protein diet, although the enzyme activity and the mRNA concentration of malic enzyme were increased about 7‐fold above the levels in the fasted rat, the rate of transcription was increased only 2‐fold. In the carbohydrate diet group the rate of transcription and the concentration of mRNA were increased to the levels in the carbohydrate/protein diet group, whereas the enzyme activity increased only to 60% of those levels. Protein appears to contribute to an increase in the translation of malic enzyme mRNA. In the protein diet group the transcriptional rate was not low, but the mRNA concentration was about half in comparison with the level of the carbohydrate/protein diet group. Further, dietary fat did not reduce the transcriptional activity, but reduced the mRNA concentration and the enzyme activity to half of the basal levels. Therefore, it is suggested that fat stimulates the degradation of the mRNA in liver cytosol, whereas carbohydrate tends to stabilize the mRNA. On the other hand 3,5,3′‐triiodothyronine treatment increased the transcriptional activity by 1.5–2‐fold above the basal values on all the diets and even on fasting. Thus, it is suggested that 3,5,3′‐triiodothyronine increases the transcriptional activity of malic enzyme independently from nutritional regulation, while the nutrients are predominantly involved in the post‐transcriptional steps.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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