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Mol Cell Biol. 1992 June; 12(6): 2553-2560

Growth-dependent inhibition of CCAAT enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP alpha) gene expression during hepatocyte proliferation in the regenerating liver and in culture.

D Mischoulon, B Rana, N L Bucher and S R Farmer

Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts 02118.

ABSTRACT

As an approach to understanding physiological mechanisms that control the proliferation of highly differentiated cells, we are addressing whether certain hepatic transcription factors participate in mechanisms that control the growth of hepatocytes. We have focused on CCAAT enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP alpha), a transcription factor which is highly abundant in normal liver and is considered to regulate expression of many genes, including some involved in energy metabolism (S. L. McKnight, M. D. Lane, and S. Gluecksohn-Walsh. Genes Dev. 3:2021-2024, 1989). Using Northern (RNA) blot analysis, we have examined the expression of C/EBP alpha mRNA during liver regeneration and in primary cultures of hepatocytes. C/EBP alpha mRNA levels decrease 60 to 80% within 1 to 3 h after partial hepatectomy as the cells move from G0 to G1 and decrease further when cells progress into S phase. Run-on transcription analysis is in agreement with the Northern blot data, thus suggesting that C/EBP alpha is transcriptionally regulated in regenerating liver. C/EBP alpha mRNA expression also decreases dramatically during the growth of freshly isolated normal hepatocytes cultured under conventional conditions (on dried rat tail collagen; stimulated to proliferate by epidermal growth factor [EGF] and insulin). Cultures of hepatocytes on rat tail collagen in the presence or absence of EGF clearly show that within 3 h, EGF depresses C/EBP alpha mRNA expression and that this effect is substantially greater by 4 h. Inhibition of protein synthesis in the liver by cycloheximide or in cultured hepatocytes by puromycin or cycloheximide effectively blocks the down-regulation of C/EBP alpha gene expression, apparently by stabilizing the normal rapid turnover of the C/EBP alpha mRNA (half-life of <2 h). This drop in C/EBP alpha gene expression in response to activation of hepatocyte growth is consistent with the proposal that C/EBP alpha has an antiproliferative role to play in highly differentiated cells (R. M. Umek, A. D. Friedman, and S. L. McKnight, Science 251: 288-292, 1991).

Mol Cell Biol. 1992 June; 12(6): 2553-2560




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