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Experiments were carried out to investigate the uptake and accumulation of Zn in rat hepatoma HTC cells, as affected by interfering metals (Cd, Cu), metallothionein synthesis inhibiting compounds (Actinomycin D, cycloheximide) and metallothionein synthesis stimulating compounds (dexamethasone, dibu-cAMP). Cell viability was tested under all experimental conditions by the measurement of LDH leakage, K+ uptake and total cell protein. Determinations of Zn were performed by AAS (total Zn) or by gamma-ray spectrometry (65Zn). Metallothionein analysis was carried out by Cd-saturation tests. The results indicate that cellular responses in rat hepatoma HTC cells with respect to the uptake and accumulation of 65Zn are fully comparable with literature data existing for 65Zn accumulation in rat hepatocytes, under all experimental conditions applied. Cu2+ and dibutyryl-cAMP did not significantly affect rates of 65Zn accumulation. Cd2+, Actinomycin D and cycloheximide reduced 65Zn uptake, but dexamethasone additions resulted in increased 65Zn accumulation in the cells. Effects on 65Zn were shown both in cytosolic and in the membranes/organelles cell fractions. HPLC chromatography in control cells suggested that newly accumulated cytosolic 65Zn was predominantly MT-associated. Dexamethasone-induced 65Zn accumulation could not be related to elevated cellular MT levels, nor were the total cytosolic Zn levels significantly affected. Non-specific attenuations in MT levels (Actinomycin D, cycloheximide and dibu-cAMP) yielded linear relations between cytosolic 65Zn and MT levels, without any change in cytosolic Zn (AAS). Combined addition of Cd and dexamethasone yielded elevated MT levels, but severely reduced total cytosolic Zn and 65Zn concentrations. The results further indicate the non-Zn-specific nature of dexamethasone-action and suggest the relatively easy Zn-complexing and Zn-release of MT. The simultaneous determinations of total cytosolic zinc and cytosolic 65Zn levels showed that the application and sole measurement of radiotracers may yield only one-sided views of what is actually present or occurring in the cells.
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PMID:Effects of cadmium, copper and metallothionein synthesis inhibiting and stimulating compounds on zinc uptake and accumulation in rat hepatoma HTC cells. 133 Mar 37

O6-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is decisively involved in protecting mammalian cells against genotoxic effects of alkylating carcinogens. We analysed regulation of MGMT expression after exposing rat hepatoma H4IIE cells to various 'stress' factors. Treatments that damage DNA such as alkylation, hydrogen peroxide, ultraviolet or X-ray exposure, as well as restriction enzymes introduced into cells by electroporation or arrest of replication by hydroxyurea significantly induced MGMT mRNA (2.5 to 5-fold). Slight induction (up to 2.5-fold) was observed after heat shock or cadmium/zinc treatment. No or only a very weak induction (less than 1.5-fold) was observed after treatment with 6-thioguanine, 5-azacytidine, transfection of methylated DNA, depletion of MGMT by feeding with O6-methylguanine or O6-benzylguanine, serum starvation and feeding of starved cells, cAMP, TPA and dexamethasone treatment. Inhibitors of protein kinases, H8 and H9, induced MGMT mRNA. On the other hand, an inhibitor of phosphatases (sodium vanadate) prevented induction of MGMT by N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. The data indicate that DNA breaks are an ultimate signal for MGMT mRNA induction and that protein phosphorylation is involved in regulating MGMT expression.
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PMID:Stress factors affecting expression of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase mRNA in rat hepatoma cells. 142 Mar 62

The calcium ionophore, A23187, can induce rat hepatic metallothionein (MT) when administered in vivo (5.8-fold, 5.0 microM, 11 h) and rat hepatocyte MT when administered in vitro (10.70-fold, 1.0 microM, 24 h). Several rat hepatoma cell lines (2M, 4.55-fold; JM2, 12.29-fold; EC3, 14.12-fold; HTC, 7.99-fold) and a normal rat liver cell line (Clone 9, 39.67-fold) were tested for their inducibility of MT mRNA by Cd2+ (10 microM, 8 h). Quantitatively, JM2 and 2M made the most MT mRNA, while HTC made the least. A23187 (0.1-7.0 microM) was studied as an inducer of MT mRNA in these cell lines (except for HTC) and in HeLa. A variety of responses and tolerances were seen with inductions ranging up to 32.11-fold. Quantitatively, the best responding cell lines were EC3 and 2M. A combination induction experiment, using TPA, a protein kinase C activator, and A23187 in EC3 cells revealed an additive effect of the two inducers on MT mRNA levels: TPA (10 nM), 11.71-fold; A23187 (3.0 microM), 6.71-fold; and TPA + A23187, 20.00-fold. These studies have implicated perturbations in cytosolic calcium ion concentrations, caused by the ionophore A23187, as being involved in the complicated signaling systems which can lead to induction of MT mRNA and protein.
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PMID:Induction of zinc metallothionein by calcium ionophore in vivo and in vitro. 154 93

We have developed in vitro resistance to 4'-epidoxorubicin (Epi-A) and cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum (cis-DDP) in one rat (MH1C1) and one human hepatoma cell line (HepG2). When compared to their parental cells, the Epi-A resistant rat cells were 17 times and the resistant human cells 27 times more resistant to Epi-A in terms of GI50 in the cell growth inhibition assay. The cis-DDP resistant rat cells were 20 times and the resistant human cells 12 times more resistant to cis-DDP. Cross-resistance to cis-DDP was observed in the Epi-A resistant rat cells but not in the human cells. The multidrug resistant gene product, GP 170, was markedly expressed in both Epi-A resistant substrains compared with their parent lines, suggesting a role of this protein in the development of resistance to Epi-A. Cadmium-binding proteins of metallothionein (MT) size bound 52% of cytosolic 109cadmium in the cis-DDP resistant human cells compared with 8% in the parental cells. This may indicate that these proteins contribute to the observed cis-DDP resistance.
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PMID:Induction of in vitro resistance to 4'-epidoxorubicin and cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum in hepatoma cells. 167 81

The expression of three human metallothionein genes, MT-IIA, MT-IF, and MT-IG was studied in the human hepatoblastoma (HepG2), the hepatocarcinoma (Hep3B2), the embryonic kidney (Hek 293), and the lymphoblastoid-derived (Wi-L2) cell lines. The pattern of expression of each specific MT gene in response to various heavy metals was different among the four cell lines studied indicating differential regulation of MT gene expression. The MT-IF or MT-IG and the MT-IIA genes were regulated in a cell-type specific manner in response to heavy metals and dexamethasone, respectively. DNA methylation was shown to be correlated to cell-type specific regulation of MT gene expression since 5-azacytidine treatment resulted in the expression of the MT-IF and MT-IG genes in response to cadmium and zinc in Wi-L2 cells, of the MT-IIA gene in response to dexamethasone in Wi-L2 cells, and of the MT-IG in response to zinc and copper in Hek 293 cells. Furthermore, transfection studies indicated that all the trans-acting factors necessary for the expression of these genes were present and functional in Wi-L2 and Hek 293 cells. The differential level of expression of the MT-IF and MT-IG genes in response to heavy metals in the Hek 293 cell line was shown to be correlated to their chromatin structure.
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PMID:Cell-type specific and differential regulation of the human metallothionein genes. Correlation with DNA methylation and chromatin structure. 169 Jul 31

A decrease in the rate of ATP hydrolysis was observed after preincubation of intact mitochondria from hepatoma 22a with an uncoupler. This effect is due both to a decrease in the rate of ATP transport and to an inactivation of the F0F1-ATPase. The former effect is shown to result from an uncoupler-induced ADP efflux. In de-energized mitochondria from hepatoma (but not from mice liver), the concentration of adenine nucleotides in the matrix equilibrates with the medium concentration via a carboxyatractyloside (CATR)-insensitive transport system. CATR-insensitive accumulation of medium ADP and stoichiometric exchange of added ATP are observed in energized hepatoma mitochondria. The dependence of the uncoupler-induced inactivation of ATPase activity on delta mu H+, pH, and ATP is consistent with the effect being caused by the natural protein inhibitor (IF1) of F0F1. ATP- and pH-dependent inactivation of the enzyme is also observed after disruption of mitochondria with the detergent Lubrol-WX. Almost all F0F1 in hepatoma mitochondria have IF1 bound in a noninhibitory manner. In the presence of uncoupler, this complex converts, via a reversible pH-dependent and an irreversible ATP-dependent process, to an inhibitory complex. The pH-dependent step can be blocked by Zn2+ and Cd2+ ions which probably bind to negatively charged residues on IF1, thereby preventing their protonation and conversion of the protein to an inhibitory conformation.
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PMID:Regulation of ATP hydrolysis in hepatoma 22a mitochondria. 183 36

Northern blot analysis revealed that metallothionein (MT) mRNAs accumulate after inhibition of protein synthesis with cycloheximide (CHX) in primary cultures of chick embryo hepatocytes and fibroblasts, as well as in an established mouse hepatoma cell line. Inhibition of RNA synthesis with actinomycin D (AMD) led to rapid loss of MT mRNAs in these cells, whereas CHX dramatically retarded the rate of MT mRNA decay (t1/2 greater than 24 h). These results suggest that CHX causes MT mRNA accumulation primarily by increasing stability of MT mRNA. Thus, changes in MT mRNA turn-over rates may play an important role in regulating the accumulation of MT mRNA. The half-lives of MT mRNAs in chicken and mouse cells were determined by oligodeoxyribonucleotide excess solution hybridization with RNA samples extracted after different periods of exposure to AMD. The half-life of chicken MT (cMT) mRNA in uninduced chicken embryo hepatocytes was 3.6 h. Induction of cMT mRNA by pretreatment of these cells with zinc (Zn) prior to exposure to AMD, did not alter the half-life of cMT mRNA significantly. In contrast, cadmium (Cd) induction led to a 2.5-fold increase in the stability of this mRNA. In uninduced chicken embryo fibroblasts, cMT mRNA levels were too low to allow accurate determination of half-life using the methods employed here. However, the half-life of this mRNA in Zn-induced chicken embryo fibroblasts was 6.2 h, whereas it was 9.3 h in Cd-induced cells. Thus, the turn-over rate of cMT mRNA after Cd-induction is very similar in chick embryo fibroblasts and hepatocytes. These data suggest that the accumulation of MT mRNA in chicken cells may reflect, in part, metal-specific effects on MT mRNA stability. The half-lives of mouse MT-I and MT-II (mMT-I and mMT-II) mRNAs in uninduced BNL hepatoma cells were identical (9.2 h), and were not effectively altered after induction by metals (Zn, Cd) or interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta). However, mMT mRNAs in pachytene spermatocytes and round spermatids, freshly isolated from the adult testes, were 2.2- to 4.5-fold more stable than in hepatoma cells. These results suggest that cell-type specific accumulation of mMT mRNAs may be regulated, in part, by mRNA stability.
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PMID:Metallothionein mRNA stability in chicken and mouse cells. 193 14

Effects of various stresses were examined on the accumulation of mRNA for microsomal heme oxygenase and a heat shock protein, hsp70, in three human hepatoma cell lines. By heat shock, hsp70 mRNA was induced in all three hepatoma lines, Hep G2, Hep 3B and Hep G2f, while heme oxygenase mRNA was increased only in Hep 3B. Time-courses of the heat shock induction of both mRNAs in Hep 3B were similar. Arsenite caused induction of both mRNAs in all three cell lines, while cadmium increased them in Hep G2 and Hep 3B, but not in Hep G2f cells. These findings suggest that, although both hsp70 and heme oxygenase are heat shock proteins, the mode of induction of mRNAs for these proteins is different.
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PMID:Activation of heme oxygenase and heat shock protein 70 genes by stress in human hepatoma cells. 215 80

The in vitro interaction of mercury, copper (II) and cadmium with human glutathione transferase (GST) pi was studied using reduced glutathione (GSH) and 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene as substrate. Tumor specific human GST pi was isolated from the human hepatoma derived PLC/PRF/5 cell line. The inhibition of the GST pi activity was dose dependent. Kinetic studies never revealed competitive inhibition. A parabolic inhibition was found with GSH as the variable substrate. The heavy metals are spontaneously conjugated with GSH and cysteine, but interact with GST pi by direct binding to this protein. This binding could have a protective function against heavy metals.
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PMID:In vitro interaction of mercury, copper (II) and cadmium with human glutathione transferase pi. 221 73

Genomic footprinting studies in vivo and experiments using synthetic metal regulatory elements (MREs) in vitro suggest protein binding to the MREs of the mouse and rat metallothionein I (MT-I) genes. Using gel-retardation assays of promoter fragments, we observe a cadmium-dependent binding factor for the rat MT-I promoter in rat hepatoma cells. This factor is present in extracts from both uninduced and cadmium-induced cells, but requires the presence of cadmium to bind to the promoter. The formation of a cadmium-dependent complex is competed by an oligonucleotide containing two MREs. This competition is lost when when one of the MREs is mutated, indicating a requirement for at least two MREs for binding of this factor. The cadmium-dependent factor dissociates more rapidly from the MT-I promoter than does a factor that binds to a consensus Sp1 site present on the same DNA fragment. UV crosslinking analysis using nuclear extracts from cadmium induced cells, in the presence of an oligonucleotide probe containing both 5-bromodeoxyuridine and 32P-deoxycytidine, identifies a 39 kDalton protein associated with the metal inducible complex.
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PMID:Metal-dependent binding of a nuclear factor to the rat metallothionein-I promoter. 223 87


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