Calcium as a permissive factor but not an initiation factor in DNA synthesis induction in cultured rat hepatocytes by the peroxisome proliferator ciprofibrate.
Calcium as a permissive factor but not an initiation factor in DNA synthesis induction in cultured rat hepatocytes by the peroxisome proliferator ciprofibrate.
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-2952(93)90612-z
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发表时间:
1993-12
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
A. Bennett;G. Williams
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作者:
A. Bennett;G. Williams
The non-genotoxic hepatocarcinogen and peroxisome proliferating agent, ciprofibrate, is a liver mitogen bothin vivoand in cultured adult rat hepatocytes, but the mechanisms of its mitogenicity have not been elucidated. We previously observed that ciprofibrate rapidly increased hepatocyte free intracellular Ca2+concentration ([Ca2+]i), suggesting that this effect may play a role in the initiation of DNA synthesis. In the present study, we have identified a relationship between Ca2+and the stimulation of hepatocyte DNA synthesis by ciprofibrate. Exposure of cultured adult rat hepatocytes to ciprofibrate (200 μM) for 48 hr increased DNA synthesis by approximately 2-fold, and this response was attenuated in a Ca2+-deficient medium and by the Ca2+channel blockers nicardipine and verapamil. To examine the relationship between the stimulation of hepatocyte DNA synthesis and increases in [Ca2+]iby ciprofibrate, the intracellular Ca2+chelator 5,5′-dimethyl-1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxyethane)-N,N,N′,N′-tetraacetic acid (dimethyl-BAPTA) was employed. Pretreatment of hepatocytes with dimethyl-BAPTA blocked ciprofibrate-induced [Ca2+]iincrease, but did not block ciprofibrate-induced hepatocyte DNA synthesis. Dimethyl-BAPTA was only effective in reducing ciprofibrate-induced DNA synthesis when present during the latter 24 hr of a 48-hr cultured period. These data suggest that the early mobilization of hepatocyte [Ca2+]iby ciprofibrate does not play an initiating role in the induction of hepatocyte DNA synthesis but rather may operate as a permissive factor for the entry of ciprofibrate-treated adult rat hepatocytes into S-phase.