TY - JOUR
T1 - Pattern of rat intestinal brush-border enzyme gene expression changes with epithelial growth state
AU - Hodin, R. A.
AU - Chamberlain, S. M.
AU - Meng, S.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Enterocyte growth and differentiation occur simultaneously within the epithelium, but little is known regarding any relationship between these two processes. Four rat models of small intestinal epithelial hypo- and hyperplasia (neonatal ontogeny, fasting/refeeding, hypo-/hyperthyroidism, and bombesin treatment) were used to study the regulation of enterocyte gene expression in relation to epithelial growth state. Mucosal scrapings, as well as crypt and villus cell populations, were subjected to Northern blot analyses using radiolabeled cDNA probes corresponding to lactase, intestinal alkaline phosphatase, villin, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), and the actin control. In all four models, the hypoplastic (atrophic) condition is characterized by high levels of lactase and low levels of the 3.0-kb intestinal alkaline phosphatase mRNA, whereas under hyperplastic conditions this pattern is reversed. The changes in intestinal alkaline phosphatase and lactase are qualitatively similar along the longitudinal axis of the intestine and are proportional to the degree of hyperplasia, as verified by ODC mRNA levels. Furthermore, the crypt-villus axis of differentiation is maintained regardless of epithelial growth state. In conclusion, the pattern of brush-border enzyme gene expression changes as a function of epithelial growth state, indicating a previously unrecognized degree of plasticity to the state of enterocyte differentiation.
AB - Enterocyte growth and differentiation occur simultaneously within the epithelium, but little is known regarding any relationship between these two processes. Four rat models of small intestinal epithelial hypo- and hyperplasia (neonatal ontogeny, fasting/refeeding, hypo-/hyperthyroidism, and bombesin treatment) were used to study the regulation of enterocyte gene expression in relation to epithelial growth state. Mucosal scrapings, as well as crypt and villus cell populations, were subjected to Northern blot analyses using radiolabeled cDNA probes corresponding to lactase, intestinal alkaline phosphatase, villin, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), and the actin control. In all four models, the hypoplastic (atrophic) condition is characterized by high levels of lactase and low levels of the 3.0-kb intestinal alkaline phosphatase mRNA, whereas under hyperplastic conditions this pattern is reversed. The changes in intestinal alkaline phosphatase and lactase are qualitatively similar along the longitudinal axis of the intestine and are proportional to the degree of hyperplasia, as verified by ODC mRNA levels. Furthermore, the crypt-villus axis of differentiation is maintained regardless of epithelial growth state. In conclusion, the pattern of brush-border enzyme gene expression changes as a function of epithelial growth state, indicating a previously unrecognized degree of plasticity to the state of enterocyte differentiation.
KW - differentiation
KW - enterocyte
KW - gene regulation
KW - small intestine
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U2 - 10.1152/ajpcell.1995.269.2.c385
DO - 10.1152/ajpcell.1995.269.2.c385
M3 - Article
C2 - 7653520
AN - SCOPUS:0028895505
SN - 0363-6143
VL - 269
SP - C385-C391
JO - American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
JF - American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
IS - 2 38-2
ER -