1. Decreased expression of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor ? in CFTR?/? mice
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Steven D. Freedman, Iphigenia Tzameli, Paola G. Blanco, Charlotte Andersson, Adolfo A. Ferrando, Omer Junaidi, Mario Ollero, Munir M. Zaman, and Eldad Bialecki
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congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Physiology ,Blotting, Western ,Clinical Biochemistry ,Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator ,Down-Regulation ,Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear ,Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ,Adipose tissue ,Biology ,Cystic fibrosis ,Rosiglitazone ,Mice ,Fibrinolytic Agents ,Intestinal mucosa ,Downregulation and upregulation ,Western blot ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,RNA, Messenger ,Intestinal Mucosa ,Mice, Knockout ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Cell Biology ,respiratory system ,medicine.disease ,Immunohistochemistry ,digestive system diseases ,Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator ,respiratory tract diseases ,Endocrinology ,Gene Expression Regulation ,chemistry ,biology.protein ,Thiazolidinediones ,Fibrinolytic agent ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Some of the pathological manifestations of cystic fibrosis are in accordance with an impaired expression and/or activity of PPARgamma. We hypothesized that PPARgamma expression is altered in tissues lacking the normal cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator protein (CFTR). PPARgamma mRNA levels were measured in colonic mucosa, ileal mucosa, adipose tissue, lung, and liver from wild-type and cftr-/- mice by quantitative RT-PCR. PPARgamma expression was decreased twofold in CFTR-regulated tissues (colon, ileum, and lung) from cftr-/- mice compared to wild-type littermates. In contrast, no differences were found in fat and liver. Immunohistochemical analysis of PPARgamma in ileum and colon revealed a predominantly nuclear localization in wild-type mucosal epithelial cells while tissues from cftr-/- mice showed a more diffuse, lower intensity labeling. A significant decrease in PPARgamma expression was confirmed in nuclear extracts of colon mucosa by Western blot analysis. In addition, binding of the PPARgamma/RXR heterodimer to an oligonucletotide containing a peroxisome proliferator responsive element (PPRE) was also decreased in colonic mucosa extracts from cftr-/- mice. Treatment of cftr-/- mice with the PPARgamma ligand rosiglitazone restored both the nuclear localization and binding to DNA, but did not increase RNA levels. We conclude that PPARgamma expression in cftr-/- mice is downregulated at the RNA and protein levels and its function diminished. These changes may be related to the loss of function of CFTR and may be relevant to the pathogenesis of metabolic abnormalities associated with cystic fibrosis in humans.
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- 2004
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