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Query: EC:4.1.1.49 (
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
)
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The properties of primary rabbit kidney proximal tubule cells in glucose-free serum-free medium have been examined. Primary rabbit kidney proximal tubule cells were observed to grow at the same rate, 1.0 doublings/day, both in glucose-free and in glucose-supplemented medium. Growth in glucose-free medium was dependent upon the presence of an additional nutritional supplement, such as glutamine, pyruvate, palmitate, lactate, or beta hydroxybutyrate. Lactate, pyruvate, and glutamate are utilized for renal gluconeogenesis in vivo. The growth of the primary rabbit kidney proximal tubule cells in glucose-free medium was also dependent upon the presence of the three growth supplements
insulin
, transferrin, and hydrocortisone.
Insulin
was growth stimulatory to the primary proximal tubule cells in glucose-free medium, although
insulin
causes a reduction in the
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
(
PEPCK
) activity in these cells.
PEPCK
is a key regulatory enzyme in the gluconeogenic pathway. In order to evaluate whether or not the primary cells have gluconeogenic capacity, their glucose content was determined. The cells contained 5 pmoles D-glucose/mg protein. However, no significant glucose was detected in the medium. Presumably, the primary cells were either utilizing or storing the glucose made by the gluconeogenic pathway. Consistent with this latter possibility, cellular glycogen levels were observed to increase with time in culture. The effect of glucose on the expression of the alpha I(IV) collagen and laminin B1 chain genes was examined. Northern analysis indicated that the level of alpha I(IV) collagen mRNA was significantly elevated in glucose containing, as compared with glucose deficient, medium. In contrast, laminin B1 chain mRNA levels were not significantly affected by the glucose content of the medium.
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PMID:Growth and function of primary rabbit kidney proximal tubule cells in glucose-free serum-free medium. 173 29
Nuclear extracts from cultured rat hepatocytes were analyzed by gel mobility shift assay for protein binding to the cyclic AMP responsive elements CRE1 (-96/-77) and CRE2 (-152/-132) and the NF1-CTF binding site (-121/-99) of the
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
(PCK) promotor. Binding was very weak to the CRE2 and CRE1. The NF1-CTF site formed two complexes with nuclear protein. Protein binding was increased, when the NF1-CTF site was coupled to the CRE1, and further, when it was coupled to both the CRE1 and the CRE2. Complex formation was not altered by treatment of the hepatocytes with glucagon or with glucagon and
insulin
. Thus, protein binding was most efficient when all three elements were in context, which might be necessary for full transcriptional activation of the PCK gene.
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PMID:Interactions of nuclear protein from cultured rat hepatocytes with the cyclic AMP responsive elements and the NF1-CTF site in the promoter of the rat phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene. 183 77
Several hormones, including
insulin
, glucagon, and glucocorticoids, regulate the expression of the rate-limiting gluconeogenic enzyme,
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
[GTP: oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase (transphosphorylating); EC 4.1.1.32;
PEPCK
] in liver. In this report we demonstrate that retinoic acid (RA) also regulates
PEPCK
expression by inducing a 3-fold increase in the rate of transcription of the
PEPCK
gene. A RA response element located between -468 and -431 in the
PEPCK
promoter mediates a 7-fold increase in expression of a chimeric construct containing the basal
PEPCK
promoter ligated to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene. This element confers RA responsiveness through the heterologous thymidine kinase promoter and functions relatively independent of position and orientation. An 18-base-pair core sequence (-451 to -434) (i) mediates an effect of RA on
PEPCK
gene expression and contains motifs found in two other RA response elements; (ii) corresponds to AF1, an accessory factor element that is an integral component of the complex glucocorticoid response unit in the
PEPCK
gene promoter; (iii) is in a region involved in the developmental expression of the
PEPCK
gene; and (iv) shows homology to elements involved in the tissue-specific regulation of genes, including the hepatic apolipoprotein genes and the alpha 1-antitrypsin gene.
...
PMID:A retinoic acid response element is part of a pleiotropic domain in the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene. 184 96
Insulin
after binding to its plasma membrane receptor regulates many cellular processes as well as the expression of several genes. These effects of
insulin
can be temporarily classified as short-term (minutes) and long-term (hours-days). The different steps of gene expression that may be under
insulin
control are reviewed. The main focus of the review is on the regulation of gene transcription by
insulin
. A putative
insulin
negative regulatory sequence is proposed based on the comparison of the 5'-upstream regions of the
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
and protein disulfide isomerase genes and compared with a recently identified positive
insulin
regulatory element located in the 5'-upstream region of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene.
...
PMID:Regulation of gene expression by insulin. 187 87
We studied the effect of different hormones added in vivo or in vitro on ketogenesis and
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
(
PEPCK
) activity in the small intestinal mucosa of suckling rats. Injection of
insulin
or dexamethasone in vivo or of an antiglucagon antiserum decreased the rate of ketone formation in the mucosa whereas injection of anti-
insulin
antiserum led to increased mucosal ketogenesis.
PEPCK
activity in the mucosa was decreased by the antiglucagon serum but was not affected by
insulin
or anti-
insulin
serum injections. Both liver and brown fat
PEPCK
responded as expected with the activity being elevated by anti-
insulin
serum and depressed by both
insulin
and antiglucagon serum. In the in vitro experiments, no effect of any of the agents on
PEPCK
was found. Ketone formation was suppressed in vitro by
insulin
or dexamethasone addition to the medium.
...
PMID:Regulation of ketone formation and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity in the small intestinal mucosa of infant rats. 191 94
The activities and mRNA concentrations of two lipogenic enzymes, fatty acid synthetase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase, and one enzyme involved in glyceroneogenesis,
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
(
PEPCK
), were measured in rat white adipose tissue during the suckling-weaning transition. Activities and mRNA concentrations of lipogenic enzymes were low in suckling rats, whereas activity and mRNA concentration of
PEPCK
were high. At weaning to a high-carbohydrate diet, the rapid increase in lipogenic enzymes mRNA (10- to 20-fold) and decrease in
PEPCK
mRNA (10-fold) were followed by parallel changes in enzyme activities. In contrast, weaning to a high-fat diet prevented these modifications. Force feeding suckling rats with carbohydrates induced a rise in blood glucose and plasma
insulin
concentrations. During these experiments, mRNA concentrations increased 10- to 20-fold for lipogenic enzymes and decreased 5-fold for
PEPCK
in less than 6 h, whereas all enzyme activities did not vary. This suggests a pretranslational regulation of gene expression. Force feeding suckling rats with a mixture of fat devoid of carbohydrate induced a slight increase in plasma
insulin
concentration and a fall in
PEPCK
mRNA but was not accompanied by a rise in lipogenic enzyme mRNAs. This suggested that
insulin
is a prime regulator of
PEPCK
gene expression, whereas glucose and
insulin
act synergistically in the regulation of lipogenic enzyme gene expression.
...
PMID:Lipogenic enzyme activities and mRNA in rat adipose tissue at weaning. 196 6
In the rat, the suckling-weaning transition is accompanied by marked changes in nutrition. During the suckling period, the pups are fed with milk which is a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet. At weaning, milk is progressively replaced by the rat chow which is a high-carbohydrate low-fat diet. This is accompanied by considerable hormonal modifications: an increase in plasma
insulin
and a decrease in plasma glucagon concentrations, as well as by marked changes in metabolic pathways in liver: decrease in hepatic gluconeogenesis, increase in lipogenesis, and appearance of liver glucokinase. Most of the data concerning these changes are related to maximal activity of enzymes. The recent availability of specific cDNA probes for
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
, acetyl-CoA carboxylase, fatty acid synthase and glucokinase has allowed study of the role of pancreatic hormones and of nutrition in the changes of the expression of these genes at weaning in the rat.
...
PMID:Hormonal control of specific gene expression in the rat liver during the suckling-weaning transition. 197 92
Rat cytosolic
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
(
PEPCK
) gene expression and enzyme activity in liver were studied in rats fasted for 12 hours before and after partial hepatectomy, sham operation or no operation. Transcriptional activity and mRNA levels decreased in regenerating liver compared to sham-operated and unoperated controls. In contrast,
PEPCK
enzyme activity in regenerating liver was similar to that in the livers of sham-operated and unoperated controls. Since all the animals were fasted the decrease in transcription is probably caused by some factor other than
insulin
, the known repressor of
PEPCK
gene expression.
...
PMID:Transcriptional activity of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene decreases in regenerating rat liver. 200 29
The interaction of promoters contained in a Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMLV)-based retroviral vector was studied after infection of FTO-2B rat hepatoma and NIH 3T3 mouse fibroblast cells. Segments of the
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
(
PEPCK
) promoter-regulatory region, which are known from previous studies to confer responsiveness to hormones, were linked to the structural genes for bovine growth hormone, amino-3'-glycosyl phosphotransferase (neo), and herpes-virus thymidine kinase and inserted into a MoMLV-based retroviral vector. In vectors in which
PEPCK
was the only internal promoter, it was the major site of gene transcription. This dominant effect was independent of the orientation of the
PEPCK
promoter relative to the 5' long terminal repeat of the provirus and was noted with as little as -174 base pairs of the 5'-flanking sequence. NIH 3T3 cells, which do not express the endogenous
PEPCK
gene, transcribed the transduced
PEPCK
-chimeric genes at the same high levels as was observed in hepatoma cells. When two promoters were present in the provirus, the expression of chimeric structural genes depended on the relative position and orientation of these genes as well as the type of cell infected by the retrovirus. Differential responses of proviral promoters in infected cells were also observed in the presence of hormones. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP increased the expression of genes linked to the
PEPCK
promoter in FTO-2B and NIH 3T3 cells, whereas glucocorticoids stimulated transcription from both the
PEPCK
promoter and the long terminal repeat in FTO-2B cells. The effect of these hormones on transcription of proviral promoters depended on their position relative to the 5' long terminal repeat. In contrast,
insulin
uniformly inhibited transcription from the
PEPCK
promoter in a position-independent manner but only in hepatoma cells and not in fibroblasts. In clonally isolated FTO-2B cells infected with a retrovirus, the site of proviral integration was also a major factor determining the expression and hormonal regulation from the internal promoters. The data suggest that the hormonal regulation of the expression of genes contained in retroviral vectors depends on the type and position of the regulatory elements present in the provirus and the lineage of the infected cell.
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PMID:Hormonal control of interacting promoters introduced into cells by retroviruses. 202 56
During the suckling period, the rats are fed continuously with milk, which is a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet (HF). At weaning, milk is progressively replaced by the rat's laboratory chow which is a high-carbohydrate low-fat diet (HCHO), and this is accompanied by large hormonal modifications: an increase in plasma
insulin
and a decrease in plasma glucagon concentrations, and by marked changes in metabolic pathways in liver: decrease in hepatic gluconeogenesis and increase in glycolysis and lipogenesis. Most of the data concerning these changes are related to maximal activity of enzymes. The recent availability of specific cDNA probes for
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
(
PEPCK
), and glucokinase (GK) has allowed the study of the role of pancreatic hormones and nutrition in the changes of the expression of these genes at weaning in the rat. Regarding
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
gene transcription, the concentration of mRNA as well as the activity of
PEPCK
are elevated in the liver of suckling rat until the onset of weaning, 21 d after delivery. After weaning to a HCHO diet, both mRNA and activity of
PEPCK
rapidly decrease to a very low level. In contrast, weaning on an HF diet, which maintains high plasma glucagon and low plasma
insulin
levels, does not decrease in plasma glucagon concentration and a 90% decrease in
PEPCK
gene transcription and
PEPCK
mRNA concentration in 1 h. Regarding glucokinase gene transcription, the concentration of mRNA as well as the activity of GK are not detectable before 15 d after birth in the liver of the rat. They markedly increase when the newborn are weaned on an HCHO diet but not when they are weaned on an HF diet.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Hormonal regulation of liver phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucokinase gene expression at weaning in the rat. 203 60
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