title: Regulation of the glucose-6-phosphatase gene by glucose occurs by transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms. Differential effect of glucose and xylitol.
abstract: To understand how glucose regulates the expression of the glucose-6-phosphatase gene, the effect of glucose was studied in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes. Glucose-6-phosphatase mRNA levels increased about 10-fold when hepatocytes were incubated with 20 mm glucose. The rate of transcription of the glucose-6-phosphatase gene increased about 3-fold in hepatocytes incubated with glucose. The half-life of glucose-6-phosphatase mRNA was estimated to be 90 min in the absence of glucose and 3 h in its presence. Inhibition of the oxidative and the nonoxidative branches of the pentose phosphate pathway blocked the stimulation of glucose-6-phosphatase expression by glucose but not by xylitol or carbohydrates that enter the glycolytic/gluconeogenic pathways at the level of the triose phosphates. These results indicate that (i) the glucose induction of the mRNA for the catalytic unit of glucose-6-phosphatase occurs by transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms and that (ii) xylitol and glucose increase the expression of this gene through different signaling pathways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
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authors.lastname: Massillon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic / Q000187:drug effects*; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012323:RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional / Q000187:drug effects*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase; D005947:Glucose