title: Feeding soy protein isolate and treatment with estradiol have different effects on mammary gland morphology and gene expression in weanling male and female rats.
abstract: Isoflavones are phytochemical components of soy diets that bind weakly to estrogen receptors (ERs). To study potential estrogen-like actions of soy in the mammary gland during early development, we fed weanling male and female Sprague-Dawley rats a semipurified diet with casein as the sole protein source from postnatal day 21 to 33, the same diet substituting soy protein isolate (SPI) for casein, or the casein diet supplemented with estradiol (E2) at 10 μg/kg/day. In contrast to E2, the SPI diet induced no significant change in mammary morphology. In males, there were 34 genes for which expression was changed ≥2-fold in the SPI group vs. 509 changed significantly by E2, and 8 vs. 174 genes in females. Nearly half of SPI-responsive genes in males were also E2 responsive, including adipogenic genes. Serum insulin was found to be decreased by the SPI diet in males. SPI and E2 both downregulated the expression of ERα (Esr1) in males and females, and ERβ (Esr2) only in males. Chromatin immunoprecipitation revealed an increased binding of ERα to the promoter of the progesterone receptor (Pgr) and Esr1 in both SPI- and E2-treated males compared with the casein group but differential recruitment of ERβ. ER promoter binding did not correlate with differences in Pgr mRNA expression. This suggests that SPI fails to recruit appropriate co-activators at E2-inducible genes. Our results indicate that SPI behaves like a selective estrogen receptor modulator rather than a weak estrogen in the developing mammary gland.
authors.affiliation: Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, Little Rock Arkansas;
authors.forename: Isabelle R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Miousse
authors.forename: Neha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blackburn
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vantrease
authors.forename: Horacio
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gomez-Acevedo
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hennings
authors.forename: Kartik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shankar
authors.forename: Mario A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cleves
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Badger
authors.forename: Martin J J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ronis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects; D015536:Down-Regulation; D004958:Estradiol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D047628:Estrogen Receptor alpha / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D047629:Estrogen Receptor beta / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004967:Estrogens / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression; D008297:Male; D008321:Mammary Glands, Animal / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012737:Sex Factors; D030262:Soybean Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014886:Weaning
chemical_list: D047628:Estrogen Receptor alpha; D047629:Estrogen Receptor beta; D004967:Estrogens; D030262:Soybean Proteins; D004958:Estradiol
keywords: 17β-estradiol; chromatin immunoprecipitation; mammary gland; microarray; soy; xenoestrogen