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Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-alpha expression in human liver

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authors

  • Palmer, C. N. A.
  • Hsu, M. H.
  • Griffin, K. J.
  • Raucy, J. L.
  • Johnson, Eric

publication date

  • January 1998

journal

  • Molecular Pharmacology  Journal

abstract

  • The peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha (PPAR) is a member of the steroid/hormone receptor superfamily that mediates the peroxisome proliferator-dependent transcriptional activation of genes encoding several peroxisomal and microsomal enzymes as well as peroxisome proliferation. Human liver is refractory to the pathological effects of peroxisome proliferators that are seen in mice. With the use of RNase protection assays, the ratio of hepatic PPAR alpha mRNA to beta-actin mRNA was found to be 1 order of magnitude lower in humans than that observed in mice. In addition, the isolation of human cDNA for PPAR alpha that does not encode a functional PPAR because it lacks exon 6 as a result of alternate RNA splicing suggested that this process might also diminish the expression of PPAR alpha. RNase protection analysis of total RNA revealed the presence of splice variants lacking exon 6 at significant levels in all 10 human liver samples examined. Supershift analysis using the CYP4A6-Z peroxisome proliferator response element and antisera specific for PPAR alpha revealed easily detectable amounts of PPAR alpha DNA binding activity in mouse liver lysates, whereas human liver lysates contained > 10-fold lower amounts of PPAR alpha DNA binding activity. In contrast to mouse lysates, the amount of PPAR alpha binding in human lysates was generally less than that of other unidentified proteins. These results suggest that although humans retain the coding potential for a functional receptor, the low levels of PPAR alpha expression in liver may be insufficient to compete effectively with other proteins that bind to peroxisome proliferator response elements.

subject areas

  • Alternative Splicing
  • Animals
  • Binding, Competitive
  • Exons
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Liver
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Microbodies
  • RNA
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
  • Species Specificity
  • Transcription Factors
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0026-895X

PubMed ID

  • 9443928
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 14

end page

  • 22

volume

  • 53

issue

  • 1

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