Selective enhancement of expression of class-mu glutathione s-transferase genes during involution of rat ventral prostate induced by androgen withdrawal

Yonago Acta Medica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 151-154

  Hoshikawa, Yoshiko ^a   Sairenji, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Class Mu subunits; Glutathione S transferase; MRNA; Ventral prostate

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751398390     PISSN: 05135710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Abramovitz M, Listowsky I. Selective expression of a unique glutathione S-transferase Yb3 gene in rat brain. J Biol Chem 1987;262:7770-7773.
2. Abramovitz M, Testori A, Angelov IV, Darmon A, Listowsky I. Brain and testis selective expression of the glutathione S-transferase Yb3 subunit is governed by tandem direct repeat octamer motifs in the 5′-flanking region of its gene. Mol Brain Res 1995;28:37-46.
3. Chang C, Saltzman AG, Sorensen NDS, Hiipakka RA, Liao S. Identification of glutathione S-transferase Yb1 mRNA as the androgen-repressed mRNA by cDNA cloning and sequence analysis. J Biol Chem 1987;262:11901-11903.
4. Chomczynski P, Sacchi N. Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanatephenol-chloroform extraction. Anal Biochem 1987;162:156-159.
5. Ding GJ-F, Lu AYH, Pickett CB. Rat liver glutathione S-transferases: nucleotide sequence analysis of a Yb1 cDNA clone and prediction of the complete amino acid sequence of the Yb1 subunit. J Biol Chem 1985;260:13268-13271.
6. Flomerfelt FA, Briehl MM, Dowd DR, Dieken ES, Miesfeld RL. Elevated glutathione S-transferase gene expression is an early event during steroid-induced lymphocyte apoptosis. J Cell Physiol 1993;154:573-581.
7. Gunning P, Ponte P, Okayama H, Engel J, Blau H, Kedes L. Isolation and characterization of full-length cDNA clones for human a-, b- and g-actin mRNA: skeletal but not cytoplasmic actin have an amino-terminal cystein that is subsequently removed. Mol Cell Biol 1983;3:787-795.
8. Hoshikawa Y, Satoh Y, Ichii S. Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones for castration-induced mRNAs in the rat ventral prostate. Endocrinol Jpn 1991;38:619-626.
9. Izawa M. cDNA cloning of androgen-repressed mRNA in rat seminal vesicles: partial characterization of a cDNA clone, pSvr-1. Endocrinol Jpn 1990;37:233-238.
10. Lai H-CJ, Li N-Q, Weiss MJ, Reddy CC, Tu C-PD. The nucleotide sequence of a rat liver glutathione S-transferase subunit cDNA clone. J Biol Chem 1984;259:5536-5542.
11. Lai H-CJ, Tu C-PD. Rat glutathione S-transferases supergene family: characterization of an anionic Yb subunit cDNA clone. J Biol Chem 1986;261: 13793-13799.
12. Mannervik B, Danielson UH. Glutathione transferases: structure and catalytic activity. CRC Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 1988;23:283-337.
13. Pickett CB, Lu AYH. Glutathione S-transferases: gene structure, regulation, and biological function. Annu Rev Biochem 1989;58:743-764.
14. Sanger F, Niklen S, Coulson AR. DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1977;74:5463-5467.
15. Suguoka Y, Kano T, Okuda A, Sakai M, Kitagawa T, Muramatsu M. Cloning and the nucleotide sequence of rat glutathione S-transferase P cDNA. Nucleic Acids Res 1985;13:6049-6057.