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941-947
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4
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19
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EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT BILE-SALTS ON STEADY-STATE MESSENGER-RNA LEVELS AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY OF CHOLESTEROL 7-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE
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Hepatology
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1994
1994-04
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7-alpha-hydroxylase gene; acid synthesis; biosynthesis; cloning; Gastroenterology & Hepatology; rat; reductase; taurocholate
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Pandak W M; Vlahcevic Z R; Heuman D M; Redford K S; Chiang J Y L; Hylemon P B
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Cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the bile acid synthesis pathway, is down-regulated by taurocholate by way of negative feedback control at the level of gene transcription. The molecular basis of regulation of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase by other hydrophobic bile salts and under more physiological conditions is not known. The aim of this study was to investigate the molecular basis of regulation of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase by several naturally occurring bile salts in rats with intact enterohepatic circulation. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were pair-fed for 14 days normal chow (control), cholestyramine (5% of diet), cholic acid (1%), chenodeoxycholic acid (1%) or deoxycholic acid (0.25%). When rats were killed, livers were harvested and HMG-CoA reductase specific activity and cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase specific activities, steady-state mRNA levels and transcriptional activity were determined and compared with those of control rats fed normal chow. Compared with results in paired controls, cholestyramine feeding led to an approximate threefold increase in HMG-CoA reductase specific activity. Feeding of hydrophobic bile salts profoundly decreased the specific activity of HMG-CoA reductase. Cholestyramine led to a three-fold increase in cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase specific activity, steady-state mRNA levels and gene transcriptional activity. The feeding of cholic (1%), chenodeoxycholic (1%) and deoxycholic acid (0.25%) led to significant decreases in cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase specific activities (62%, 84% and 97%, respectively), steady-state mRNA levels (72%, 29% and 61%, respectively) and transcriptional activities (44%, 43% and 54%, respectively). Down-regulation of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase specific activity was in order of increasing hydrophobicity of bile salts (cholic < chenodeoxycholic < deoxycholic acid). No such clear correlation was observed between bile salt hydrophobicity and steady-state mRNA levels or gene transcriptional activity. We conclude that down-regulation of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase activity by cholic, chenodeoxycholic and deoxycholic acids occurred as the result of decreased transcriptional activity of the cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene. Because chenodeoxycholic and deoxycholic acids led to greater fractional suppression of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase specific activity than of gene transcriptional activity, we postulate the existence of posttranscriptional regulation of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase by these two hydrophobic bile salts.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/0270-9139(94)90295-x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/0270-9139(94)90295-x</a>
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1994
7-alpha-hydroxylase gene
acid synthesis
biosynthesis
Chiang J Y L
Cloning
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Hepatology
Heuman D M
Hylemon P B
Journal Article
Pandak W M
rat
Redford K S
reductase
taurocholate
Vlahcevic Z R