Developmental aspects of transcription of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase in newborn dogs.

Abstract

Our previous investigations demonstrated that unsuppressed gluconeogenesis under hyperinsulinemia in newborn dogs may be a mechanism of neonatal hyperglycemia. In the present study, the transcription of the gene for fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (fru-1,6-P2ase; E 3.1.3.11) of newborn dogs was studied under various metabolic perturbations (age, suckling, fasting, and hyperinsulinemia). Total RNAs isolated from livers and kidneys were hybridized with a rat fru-1,6-P2ase cDNA probe. We observed that (i) fru-1,6-P2ase mRNA was expressed in both kidney and liver at birth and was about 40 and 80% of those in kidney and liver of adult dog, respectively; (ii) suckling decreased the kidney fru-1,6-P2ase mRNA level to 77.8 +/- 1.7% (24 h) from 100.0 +/- 8.0% (4 h), but increased liver mRNA to 158.6 +/- 11.4% (24 h) from 100.0 +/- 2.3% (4 h); (iii) during a 24-h period of fasting, the kidney fru-1,6-P2ase mRNA level did not change in the first 10 h and then increased 18.5% at 24 h, whereas the liver fru-1,6-P2ase mRNA increased ca. 20% during the first 10 h and then up to 161.1 +/- 18.0% at 24 h compared to that at 100.0 +/- 11.4% (0 h); (iv) euglycemic hyperinsulinemia did not change the renal fru-1,6-P2ase mRNA level, but lowered the hepatic fru-1,6-P2ase mRNA level to 56.0 +/- 8.7 from 100.0 +/- 11.8% (fasted controls) in newborn dogs, which was identical to that in adult dogs. These data suggest that the fru-1,6-P2ase in liver may play a more important role in glucose homeostasis of newborn dogs than that in kidney during the first day of their lives and that the incomplete suppression of transcription of the hepatic fru-1,6-P2ase gene by insulin in newborn dogs may not contribute to neonatal hyperglycemia due to insulin resistance.

• Authors: B Feng, J Li, R M Kliegman
• Journal: Biochemical and molecular medicine (Biochem Mol Med) Vol. 60 Issue 2 Pg. 174-81 (Apr 1997) ISSN: 1077-3150 [Print] United States
• PMID: 9169100 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)

Chemical References

• Insulin
• RNA, Messenger
• Fructose-Bisphosphatase

Topics

• Animals
• Animals, Newborn
• Animals, Suckling
• Dogs
• Female
• Fructose-Bisphosphatase (genetics)
• Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
• Gluconeogenesis (genetics)
• Glucose Clamp Technique
• Hyperglycemia (etiology, genetics, metabolism)
• Insulin (blood)
• Kidney (metabolism)
• Liver (metabolism)
• Pregnancy
• RNA, Messenger (genetics, metabolism)
• Rats
• Transcription, Genetic