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  • Title: Insulin-mediated regulation of tyrosine aminotransferase in rat hepatoma cells: inhibition of transcription and inhibition of enzyme degradation.
    Author: Moore PS, Koontz JW.
    Journal: Arch Biochem Biophys; 1989 Dec; 275(2):486-95. PubMed ID: 2574563.
    Abstract:
    Insulin induces the enzyme tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT) in Reuber H-35 rat hepatoma cells. A clone of these cells (KRC-7) was used to study the relationship between changes in enzyme activity and hybridizable mRNA, and rates of transcription for TAT in response to insulin. Our results indicate that enzyme activity is inducible by insulin in the presence of an inhibitor of RNA synthesis, suggesting that insulin functions post-transcriptionally to increase enzyme activity. Unexpectedly, insulin causes a decrease in the level of hybridizable TAT mRNA. Glucocorticoids cause an increase in TAT mRNA and insulin inhibits this increase when added either subsequent to or simultaneous with the addition of this agonist. Transcriptional runoffs demonstrate that insulin inhibits transcription of TAT to account for the aforementioned decrease in hybridizable mRNA. To examine the possibility that a post-translational mechanism is responsible for the increase in TAT activity caused by insulin, the rate of degradation of TAT protein was measured using polyclonal antibody. These experiments indicate that the rate of degradation of TAT is decreased about twofold in the presence of insulin, which suggests that part of the observed increase in TAT activity is due to selective post-translational stabilization of TAT. Therefore, insulin regulates TAT in KRC-7 cells by both transcriptional and post-translational mechanisms, the latter being responsible for the increase in activity.
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