Abstract
A cis-acting genetic element, designated Gus-r, regulates the androgen-induced rates of murine glucuronidase (EC 3.2.1.31) synthesis in kidney tubule cells and is tightly linked to the glucuronidase structural gene, Gus-s. To investigate the molecular mechanism underlying this regulation, we have cloned a glucuronidase-specific cDNA sequence in plasmid pBR322. This cloned DNA has been utilized as a probe in blot hybridization analyses to determine whether the control of androgen responsiveness of kidney glucuronidase synthesis by Gus-r is exerted over the level or the translatability of glucuronidase mRNA. Three important observations emerged from these studies: (i) glucuronidase mRNA exists as a single size class of approximately 2,800 nucleotides; (ii) androgen stimulation of glucuronidase synthesis is directly related to the level of glucuronidase mRNA; and (iii) strain differences in levels of kidney glucuronidase mRNA accumulated in response to androgen are controlled by alleles of Gus-r. Thus, Gus-r regulates the androgen responsiveness of glucuronidase synthesis by controlling the amount of glucuronidase mRNA available for translation and is a cis-acting genetic element that regulates the hormonal responsiveness of a specific mRNA.
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