title: Expression of OCI-5/glypican 3 during intestinal morphogenesis: regulation by cell shape in intestinal epithelial cells.
abstract: OCI-5, the rat homologue of human glypican 3 (GPC3), is believed to be involved in morphogenesis and growth control during development. The finding that GPC3 is mutated in patients with the Simpson-Golabi-Behmel overgrowth syndrome is consistent with this idea. In this report, using RNA in situ hybridization, expression of OCI-5 in the developing intestine is detected in both endoderm- and mesenchyme-derived cells in a phased manner related to age and proximal/distal position. To investigate the mechanism of its regulation during intestinal development, OCI-5 expression was studied in the primitive rat intestinal epithelial cell line IEC-18. The expression of the OCI-5 transcript is increased in IEC-18 cells at confluence, in low calcium media, and during spheroid culture, all conditions which result in the cells acquiring a more rounded cell shape. In contrast, cytoskeletal disruption with colchicine causes cells to flatten and spread and abolishes both the confluence- and the low calcium-dependent induction of OCI-5. Treatment with vanadate, a phosphatase inhibitor, causes cells to acquire a spindle-shaped morphology and prevents OCI-5 induction in all situations. Nuclear run-on analysis demonstrates that the rate of OCI-5 transcription is increased at confluence, in low calcium media, and during spheroid culture of IEC-18, and decreased by treatment of cells with colchicine. Together, these data suggest that OCI-5 expression is regulated in IEC-18 by cell shape. The pattern of expression of OCI-5 in the developing intestine is consistent with it playing a role in epithelial-mesenchymal interactions during intestinal morphogenesis, when cell shape changes are likely to occur.
authors.affiliation: Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Choo
authors.forename: Z M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Filmus
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Buick
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002122:Calcium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D002460:Cell Line; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D003106:Colon / Q000196:embryology; D004386:Duodenum / Q000196:embryology; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D053673:Glypicans; D019812:Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans; D006497:Heparan Sulfate; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000166:cytology* / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D009024:Morphogenesis; D011509:Proteoglycans; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014638:Vanadates / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D002122:Calcium Chloride; D053673:Glypicans; D019812:Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans; D006497:Heparan Sulfate; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011509:Proteoglycans; D014638:Vanadates; C105936:Gpc3 protein, rat