AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 270, Issue 5 1005-R1012, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Involvement of transcription factor C/EBP-beta in stimulation of PEPCK gene expression during exercise

S. E. Nizielski, C. Arizmendi, A. R. Shteyngarts, C. J. Farrell and J. E. Friedman
Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4935, USA.

Prolonged exercise increases gluconeogenesis and activates transcription of the hepatic phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) gene. The mechanisms that regulate the transcriptional control of gene expression depend on the interaction of nuclear proteins with distinct DNA sequences. To determine the involvement with the liver-enriched transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer binding protein beta (C/EMP-beta) in the induction of PEPCK gene transcription during prolonged exercise or adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) treatment, we examined C/EBP-beta mRNA and nuclear protein concentrations, as well as C/EBP-beta binding to the PEPCK promoter at the cAMP response element (CRE)(-87/-74) and P3I (-248/-230) binding sites. The requirement of these DNA elements for exercise-induced stimulation of PEPCK gene expression was established in transgenic mice carrying -460 +/- 73 of the PEPCK promoter with a mutation in either the CRE or P3I binding domain linked to a bovine growth hormone (bGH) reporter gene. In mice carrying the intact promoter, prolonged exercise increased the concentration of liver bGH mRNA by 510% compared with an increase of only 270% in mice with a mutation in either the CRE or P3I site. Exercise or cAMP injection induced a 7.5- and 13-fold increase in nuclear C/EBP-beta protein, respectively. In electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA), the total quantity of nuclear proteins bound to either oligomer was not altered by treatment. However, addition of C/EBP-beta antisera in the EMSA in a supershift assay indicated that liver nuclear extracts from exercised or cAMP-treated mice demonstrated significantly greater DNA binding due to C/EBP-beta (CRE: control 44.4 +/- 2.3%, exercise 56.7% +/- 2.2%, cAMP 54.5 +/- 3.6% of total binding, P < 0.001; P3I: control 35.8 +/- 2.5%, exercise 64.9 +/- 1.9%, cAMP 57.3 +/- 2.5% of total binding, P < 0.001). Taken together, these results suggest that exercise and cAMP treatment induce a transient increase in C/EBP-beta that may contribute to the molecular mechanism for signaling PEPCK gene transcription and increasing gluconeogenesis during exercise.

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