Journal
MOLECULAR NUTRITION & FOOD RESEARCH
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 841-850Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200900083
Keywords
Buthionine sulfoximine; Glutathione; L-methionine; pi class of glutathione S-transferase; Primary hepatocytes
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- NSC [95-2320-B-039-056-MY3]
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Understanding the molecular events underlying gene regulation by amino acids has attracted increasing attention. Here, we explored whether the mechanism by which methionine restriction affects the expression of the pi class of glutathione S-transferase (GSTP) is related to oxidative stress initiated by glutathione (GSH) depletion. Rat primary hepatocytes were cultured in an L-15-based medium in the absence or presence of 200 mu M L-buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) or in a methionine-restricted L-15 medium supplemented with 20 mu M c-methionine up to 72 h. BSO and methionine restriction time-dependently induced GSTP mRNA and protein expression in a similar pattern accompanied by a decrease in the cellular GSH level. The phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), but not of c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase and p38, was stimulated by methionine restriction and BSO. Electromobility gel shift assay showed that the DNA-binding activity of nuclear activator protein-1 (AP-1) increased in cells exposed to methionine restriction or BSO. With the ERK inhibitor FR180204, AP-1 activation and GSTP expression were abolished. Moreover, the induction of GSTP by methionine restriction and BSO was reversed by GSH monoethyl ester and N-acetylcysteine. Our results suggest that methionine restriction up-regulates GSTP gene expression, which appears to be initiated by the ERK-AP-1 signaling pathway through GSH depletion in rat hepatocytes.
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