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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-4-3
pubmed:abstractText
Juvenile visceral steatosis (jvs) mice from the C3H-H-2 degrees strain have markedly low levels of all the hepatic urea cycle enzymes (Imamura et al. (1990) FEBS Lett. 260, 119-121). The steady state levels of messenger RNA for the four urea cycle enzymes examined and also for albumin and serine dehydratase were severely reduced in the liver. The levels of mRNA for other liver-specific enzymes including aldolase B and phospho enol pyruvate carboxykinase did not vary significantly from normal littermates. As for extrahepatic expression of the urea cycle enzymes, only argininosuccinate synthetase in the kidney was decreased. Nuclear run-on experiments showed reduced transcription of the corresponding genes, which mostly accounts for the low mRNA levels. Furthermore, the time-course of mRNA accumulation from 5 days of age showed that the developmental induction of hepatic carbamyl phosphate synthetase and argininosuccinate synthetase mRNAs was strongly suppressed. These results suggest that jvs affects not only the regulation of the tissue-specific expression of the urea cycle enzymes but also the regulation of their developmental induction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0006-3002
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
1138
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
167-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Abnormal expression of urea cycle enzyme genes in juvenile visceral steatosis (jvs) mice.
pubmed:affiliation
First Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't