title: Effect of acute diabetes on rat hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase activity and its messenger RNA level.
abstract: Glucose-6-phosphatase catalyzes the final step of glucose production by liver and kidney. Though its strategic position has sparked interest in its regulation, difficulty with isolating a pure, stable enzyme has slowed progress. Virtually all previous work examining the physiologic regulation of this enzyme has relied on estimates of glucose-6-phosphatase activity in crude microsome preparations. The recent cloning of human and murine glucose-6-phosphatase cDNAs has now allowed study of its mRNA expression. We studied the effect of acute, streptozotocin-induced diabetes on hepatic microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase activity and mRNA expression in young (89 +/- 3 g), juvenile (304 +/- 4 g) and adult (512 +/- 10 g) rats. In control rats, mRNA expression and enzyme activity was similar among the three age groups. Streptozotocin-induced diabetes significantly increased the enzyme activities in both intact and triton-treated microsomes in all groups of rats (p < 0.001). Glucose-6-phosphatase mRNA expression was increased in the diabetic rats as well (p < 0.0001). Blood glucose concentrations correlated significantly with glucose-6-phosphatase mRNA level (p < 0.005) and both intact (p < 0.002) and triton-treated (p < 0.001) microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase activity. Both intact and triton-treated microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase activity correlated with mRNA level (p < 0.001, for each). We conclude that acute streptozotocin-diabetes increase expression of glucose-6-phosphatase mRNA and this contributes to the increased glucose-6-phosphatase activity seen with diabetes mellitus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Barrett
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Dalkin
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Zwart
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chou
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000201:enzymology*; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013311:Streptozocin
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D013311:Streptozocin; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase