Effects of hormones and protein kinase inhibitors on expression of steroidogenic enzyme promoters in electroporated primary rat granulosa cells

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Orly, J
Clemens, JW
Singer, O
Richards, JS
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[1] BAYLOR COLL MED,DEPT CELL BIOL,HOUSTON,TX 77030
[2] HEBREW UNIV JERUSALEM,INST LIFE SCI,DEPT BIOL CHEM,IL-91904 JERUSALEM,ISRAEL
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10.1095/biolreprod54.1.208
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Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Previous studies have shown that inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinases, tyrphostins, can markedly attenuate the steady-state levels of mRNAs of hormone-induced genes expressed in ovarian cells. To further elucidate the mechanism of tyrphostin action, rat granulosa cells were electroporated with chimeric expression vectors containing the promoters of two key steroidogenic genes, cholesterol side chain cleavage cytochrome P450 (CYP11A; P450(scc)) and aromatase cytochrome P450 (CYP19; P450(arom)), ligated to the CAT reporter gene. The electroporation method of transfection documents that the respective promoter-reporter constructs, -379sccCAT and -534aromCAT, can confer greater than 10-fold FSH/cAMP responsiveness to the reporter genes expressed in naive granulosa cells, Furthermore, the electroporation approach allows transfection of DNA into small numbers of cells and facilitates the assay of expression in cells isolated from follicles at advanced stages of differentiation, In naive granulosa cells, the functional activities of -379sccCAT, -534aromCAT, and -169uCGCAT were abolished by the A-kinase specific inhibitor, H89, supporting the notion that activation of protein kinase A is obligatory for transcriptional activation of the pro meter regions within these genes. Similar inhibitory effects were also observed for tyrphostin AG18, thus implicating a tyrosine kinase in the regulation of the steroidogenic genes. As a result of eCG/hCG treatments, a gradual loss of transfection efficiency accompanied by decreasing forskolin induction of CAT expression was observed in the differentiating granulosa-lutein cells. Although the reason(s) for the apparent loss in the ability of hormones to regulate chimeric gene expression remains to be determined, cell and promoter refractoriness to hormone treatment appears to reflect a fundamental change in the mechanism of promoter activation in the differentiated cells compared to the naive granulosa cells.
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