title: Accelerated development of uroporphyria in mice heterozygous for a deletion at the uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase locus.
abstract: Three weeks after a single dose of iron-dextran and Aroclor 1254, mice maintained continuously on delta-aminolevulinic acid supplemented drinking water showed significantly elevated levels of hepatic uroporphyrin and depressed (25% of normal) uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (URO-D) activity. Depressed URO-D activity was paralleled by the ability of heat denatured cytosol to inhibit rhURO-D activity. Mice heterozygous for a targeted disruption at the URO-D locus (URO-D+/-) exhibited half the URO-D activity of homozygous controls prior to treatment. After treatment, these animals showed URO-D activity and rhURO-D inhibitory activity comparable to similarly treated wild type (URO-D +/+) mice but with significantly greater uroporphyrin accumulation. With only 10 days of treatment, URO-D +/- but not URO-D +/+ mice showed changes similar in magnitude to those seen after 21 days. Prior to treatment, URO-D genotype did not influence overall hepatic P450 concentration in either sex and there was no significant difference between sexes. The treatment regimen significantly elevated P450 in animals of either URO-D genotype and in both sexes, although the induction response at the 10-day point was attenuated in URO-D +/- mice. From differences in the CO absorbance maximum, and by P450 activity analysis, this attenuated induction response resulted from an attenuation of the CYP2B not the CYP1A induction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Franklin
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Kushner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006579:Heterozygote; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D011164:Porphyrias / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000378:metabolism; D014575:Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D011166:Porphyrins; D014575:Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase