GSBS Student Publications
Title
Mechanism of synergistic induction of hepatic heme oxygenase by glutethimide and iron: studies in cultured chick embryo liver cells
GSBS Program
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
1990-04-16
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Heme oxygenase, the rate controlling enzyme for heme catabolism, is inducible by a variety of treatments, some of which induce by a heme-dependent mechanism and others by a heme-independent mechanism. This work shows that, in cultured chick embryo liver cells, synergistic induction of heme oxygenase by iron, added with the phenobarbital-like drug, glutethimide was heme-dependent. Addition of an inhibitor of heme biosynthesis abolished the synergistic induction of heme oxygenase providing evidence for the heme-dependent mechanism of induction. Glutethimide and iron appeared to induce at the transcriptional level since both heme oxygenase mRNA and protein levels correlate with changes in heme oxygenase activity.
Source
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1990 Apr 16;168(1):176-81.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Related Resources
PubMed ID
2327996
Repository Citation
Cable EE, Greene YJ, Healey JF, Evans C, Bonkovsky HL. (1990). Mechanism of synergistic induction of hepatic heme oxygenase by glutethimide and iron: studies in cultured chick embryo liver cells. GSBS Student Publications. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/161