Cardiac expressions of alpha- and beta-myosin heavy chains and sarcomeric alpha-actins are regulated through transcriptional mechanisms. Results from nuclear run-on assays in isolated rat cardiac nuclei. - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue (Article De Synthèse) Journal of Biological Chemistry Année : 1992

Cardiac expressions of alpha- and beta-myosin heavy chains and sarcomeric alpha-actins are regulated through transcriptional mechanisms. Results from nuclear run-on assays in isolated rat cardiac nuclei.

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In the heart, mRNA accumulations for sarcomeric actins and myosin heavy chains (MHC) are subject to diverse regulatorial processes. To study cardiac contractile protein transcriptional regulations, an in vitro transcription system using nonenzymatically isolated rat cardiac nuclei was characterized. Transcription was shown to be rapid and continuous during the first 20 min of incubation and 5.4-fold less than that seen from comparably isolated hepatocyte nuclei. Neither RNase nor DNase activities were detectable. Direct transcriptional analyses of the alpha- and beta-MHC and cardiac and skeletal alpha-actin genes from cardiac nuclei were performed. In 23-24-day-old rats, significant levels of transcription were seen for alpha-MHC and for the sarcomeric alpha-actins. beta-MHC was just detectable, and no positive signals were ever seen for fibronectin. We then compared the perecentages of MHC and sarcomeric alpha-actin expressions determined from 1) the transcriptional assays and 2) total isolated RNA (alpha-MHC: 90.1 +/- 4.8% (transcription), 93.0 +/- 4.7% (accumulation); beta-MHC: 9.9 +/- 4.8%, 7.0 +/- 4.7%; cardiac alpha-actin: 84.0 +/- 2.5%, 84.9 +/- 2.5%; skeletal alpha-actin: 16.1 +/- 2.5%, 15.0 +/- 2.5%). The results support the conclusion that the primary mechanisms controlling the accumulations of these gene products are transcriptional. Additionally, we show that an anti-sense mRNA showing strong homology or identity with the 5' end of the beta-MHC gene is transcribed in cardiac nuclei but not in hepatocyte nuclei.
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K Boheler, Catherine Chassagne, X Martin, C Wisnewsky, K Schwartz. Cardiac expressions of alpha- and beta-myosin heavy chains and sarcomeric alpha-actins are regulated through transcriptional mechanisms. Results from nuclear run-on assays in isolated rat cardiac nuclei.. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1992, 267 (18), pp.12979-85. ⟨hal-04275047⟩
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