Mechanism of glucocorticoid regulation of alkaline phosphatase gene expression in osteoblast-like cells

Green, Elaine Karen, Todd, Bindu and Health, David 1990. Mechanism of glucocorticoid regulation of alkaline phosphatase gene expression in osteoblast-like cells. European Journal of Biochemistry 188 (1) , pp. 147-153. 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15382.x

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Abstract

In the rat osteosarcoma cell line ROS 17/2.8, glucocorticoids increase the activity of the plasma membrane enzyme, alkaline phosphatase. To determine the mechanisms responsible for this effect, we have studied the actions of dexamethasone on alkaline phosphatase activity, immunoreactive protein, and steady-state mRNA levels. Dexamethasone treatment increased both specific activity of alkaline phosphatase and the cell surface expression of immunoreactive protein in a dose-dependent manner, with a half-maximal increase at 2 nM. Steady-state alkaline phosphatase mRNA levels were also increased in a dose-dependent manner. The time course of dexamethasone induction occurred relatively slowly, with a lag period of 12 h before any discernable effect on alkaline phosphatase mRNA levels. The rise in alkaline phosphatase mRNA levels was attributable entirely to changes in gene transcription, with no effect on message stability. Treatment of ROS 17/2.8 cells with actinomycin D completely abolished the dexamethasone-induced rise in alkaline phosphatase mRNA levels. Measurement of alkaline phosphatase mRNA degradation, by incubation of cells with the transcriptional inhibitor 5,6-dichloro-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole, indicated an apparent half-life of 24 h in both untreated and dexamethasone-stimulated cells. The protein synthesis inhibitors cycloheximide and puromycin blocked the dexamethasone induction of alkaline phosphatase mRNA. These data suggest that the dexamethasone-induced rise in alkaline phosphatase gene transcription requires the synthesis of an unknown mediator protein.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0014-2956
Last Modified:	03 Dec 2015 13:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81115

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