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. 1985 Feb 15;226(1):123–130. doi: 10.1042/bj2260123

The effect of ethanol, alone and in combination with the glucocorticoids and insulin, on glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase synthesis and mRNA in primary cultures of hepatocytes.

D J Stumpo, R F Kletzien
PMCID: PMC1144684  PMID: 3883994

Abstract

The hormonal regulation of the relative rate of synthesis and mRNA of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH; EC 1.1.1.49) was studied in primary cultures of adult-rat liver parenchymal cells maintained in a chemically defined medium. Maintenance of hepatocytes from starved animals in a culture medium devoid of any hormones resulted in a 4-fold increase in the relative rate of G6PDH synthesis in 48 h. Parallel cultures treated with glucocorticoids alone exhibited a rate of G6PDH synthesis comparable with that in the control cultures, whereas insulin alone caused a 6.5-fold increase in the rate of synthesis in 48 h. However, if the cultures were treated with glucocorticoids and insulin simultaneously, a 13-fold increase in the rate of synthesis was observed. The effect of ethanol, alone and in combination with the hormones, on the relative rate of G6PDH synthesis was studied also. Ethanol alone caused an 8-fold increase in the rate of synthesis in 48 h, whereas the combination of ethanol, glucocorticoid and insulin caused a 25-fold increase. The amount of functional mRNA encoding G6PDH, as measured in a cell-free translation system, was compared with enzyme activity and relative rate of enzyme synthesis. The increases in G6PDH activity and relative rate of synthesis in primary cultures of hepatocytes treated with ethanol, alone and in combination with the glucocorticoids and insulin, were paralleled by comparable increases in G6PDH mRNA. The results of this study show that the glucocorticoids acted in a permissive manner to amplify the insulin stimulation of G6PDH synthesis and that insulin, glucocorticoids and ethanol interact to stimulate synthesis of G6PDH primarily by increasing the concentration of functional G6PDH mRNA.

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