title: Alterations in 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase mRNA concentration in cultured chick aortic smooth muscle cells.
abstract: We observed and compared alterations in 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl (HMG)-CoA reductase at the transcriptional level in unsynchronized, three-passage cultures of smooth-muscle cells from the aorta of chicks fed on a control diet (C-SMC) and those of chicks fed on a similar diet plus cholesterol (Ch-SMC). Alterations in reductase mRNA concentrations in senescent cultures were much lower. We used a modification of the competitive (c) reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction method, using a Thermus thermophilus DNA polymerase (Tth pol) to quantify the very scarce species of HMG-CoA reductase mRNA in samples of cytoplasmic SMC mRNA. We cloned and sequenced a 199 bp cDNA fragment of chicken HMG-CoA reductase, which encoded a region of 66 amino acids belonging to the catalytic domain of the enzyme. HMG-CoA reductase mRNA concentrations from young C-SMC cultures rose 3.89-fold 4 h after the change of medium and returned to base levels between 8 to 12 h afterward. Concentrations in Ch-SMC cultures increased less (2.36-fold) 8 h after the change to fresh medium. Increases in reductase mRNA in senescent cultures of Ch-SMC and C-SMC measured under similar conditions were only 1.28- and 1.39-fold, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carazo
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Alejandre
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Suarez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Linares
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002645:Chickens; D017931:DNA Primers; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases