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Physiological concentration of amino acids regulates insulin-like-growth-factor-binding protein 1 expression.


ABSTRACT: Protein undernutrition is characterized by growth failure in young growing animals. Current evidence suggests that biosynthesis of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and IGF-binding protein 1 (IGFBP-1) are key control points for nutritional regulation of growth. Here we examined the role of amino acid limitation in regulating the IGFBP-1 expression in the hepatic cell line. Our data show that leucine limitation strongly induces IGFBP-1 without affecting IGF-I and IGF-II expression in human HepG2 cells and in isolated rat hepatocytes. Depletion of arginine, cystine and all essential amino acids leads to induction of IGFBP-1 mRNA and protein expression in a dose-dependent manner. IGFBP-1 expression is significantly induced by leucine concentration in the range of that observed in the blood of rats fed a low-protein diet or in humans affected by kwashiorkor. Moreover, treatment of HepG2 cells with amino acids at a concentration reproducing the amino acid concentration found in portal blood of rats fed a low-protein diet leads to a significantly higher expression of IGFBP-1. These data represent the first demonstration that an amino acid limitation, as occurs during dietary protein deficiency, induces IGFBP-1 expression in hepatic cells. Therefore, amino acids by themselves can play, in concert with hormones, an important role in the control of gene expression.

SUBMITTER: Jousse C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1219673 | biostudies-other | 1998 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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