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Opposing roles of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha and growth hormone in the regulation of CYP4A11 expression in a transgenic mouse model

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authors

  • Savas, U.
  • Machemer, D. E. W.
  • Hsu, M. H.
  • Gaynor, P.
  • Lasker, J. M.
  • Tukey, R. H.
  • Johnson, Eric

publication date

  • June 2009

journal

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry  Journal

abstract

  • CYP4A11 transgenic mice (CYP4A11 Tg) were generated to examine in vivo regulation of the human CYP4A11 gene. Expression of CYP4A11 in mice yields liver and kidney P450 4A11 levels similar to those found in the corresponding human tissues and leads to an increased microsomal capacity for omega-hydroxylation of lauric acid. Fasted CYP4A11 Tg mice exhibit 2-3-fold increases in hepatic CYP4A11 mRNA and protein, and this response is absent in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) null mice. Dietary administration of either of the PPARalpha agonists, fenofibrate or clofibric acid, increases hepatic and renal CYP4A11 levels by 2-3-fold, and these responses were also abrogated in PPARalpha null mice. Basal liver CYP4A11 levels are reduced differentially in PPARalpha-/- females (>95%) and males (<50%) compared with PPARalpha-/+ mice. Quantitative and temporal differences in growth hormone secretion are known to alter hepatic lipid metabolism and to underlie sexually dimorphic gene expression, respectively. Continuous infusion of low levels of growth hormone reduced CYP4A11 expression by 50% in PPARalpha-proficient male and female transgenic mice. A larger decrease was observed for the expression of CYP4A11 in PPARalpha-/- CYP4A11 Tg male mice to levels similar to that of female PPARalpha-deficient mice. These results suggest that PPARalpha contributes to the maintenance of basal CYP4A11 expression and mediates CYP4A11 induction in response to fibrates or fasting. In contrast, increased exposure to growth hormone down-regulates CYP4A11 expression in liver.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Clofibric Acid
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
  • Fasting
  • Female
  • Fenofibrate
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
  • Growth Hormone
  • Humans
  • Hypolipidemic Agents
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Microsomes, Liver
  • PPAR alpha
  • Pregnancy
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Sex Characteristics
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2713544

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0021-9258

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1074/jbc.M902074200

PubMed ID

  • 19366684
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 16541

end page

  • 16552

volume

  • 284

issue

  • 24

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