Vitamin B6 modulates expression of albumin gene by inactivating tissue-specific DNA-binding protein in rat liver

Author:

Oka T1,Komori N1,Kuwahata M1,Okada M2,Natori Y1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770, Japan

2. Faculty of Health and Living Science, Naruto University of Education, Naruto 772, Japan

Abstract

The level of albumin mRNA in the liver of vitamin B6-deficient rats was found to be 7-fold higher than that of control rats. Since the transcriptional activity of the albumin gene, as measured by a nuclear run-on assay, was increased 5-fold in vitamin B6 deficiency, the higher concentration of albumin mRNA in the liver of vitamin-deficient rats could be attributed to the enhanced rate of transcription. The promoter proximal sequences of the albumin gene interact with a number of tissue-specific transcription factors including HNF-1 and C/EBP. We determined the binding activities of liver nuclear extracts to the HNF-1- and C/EBP-binding sites by gel mobility-shift assay and found that the activities of the extract prepared from liver of vitamin B6-deficient rats were greater than those of controls. As the concentrations of C/EBP in nuclear extracts from control and vitamin-deficient rats, estimated by Western-blot analysis, were essentially the same, the lower binding activity of the extract from control liver is probably due to inactivation of tissue-specific factors by pyridoxal phosphate and/or its analogues. We therefore examined the effect of pyridoxal phosphate and its analogues on the binding activity of nuclear extract in vitro and found that only pyridoxal phosphate effectively inhibited the binding. These observations indicate that vitamin B6 modulates albumin gene expression through a novel mechanism that involves inactivation of tissue-specific transcription factors by direct interaction with pyridoxal phosphate.

Publisher

Portland Press Ltd.

Subject

Cell Biology,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry

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