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Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD
Most hepatoma cell lines lack proper expression and induction of CYP3A4 enzyme, which limits their use for predicting drug metabolism and toxicity. Nuclear receptor pregnane X receptor (PXR) has been well recognized for its critical role in regulating expression of CYP3A4 gene. However, its physiolo...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24788541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095752 |
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author | Chen, Feng Rao, Xiao-Hui Yang, Jin-Lian Pan, Ming-Xing Gao, Yi Li, Zhen-Lin Li, Yang Zhu, You-Fu Wang, Yan |
author_facet | Chen, Feng Rao, Xiao-Hui Yang, Jin-Lian Pan, Ming-Xing Gao, Yi Li, Zhen-Lin Li, Yang Zhu, You-Fu Wang, Yan |
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description | Most hepatoma cell lines lack proper expression and induction of CYP3A4 enzyme, which limits their use for predicting drug metabolism and toxicity. Nuclear receptor pregnane X receptor (PXR) has been well recognized for its critical role in regulating expression of CYP3A4 gene. However, its physiological activity of binding to the particular site of promoter is significantly weakened in hepatic cell lines. To address this problem, we created “chimeric PXR” constructs by appending a strong activation domain (AD) from p53 subunit to either N- or C- termini of the human PXR (hPXR), that is, hPXR-p53 and p53-hPXR. C3A, a hepatoma cell line, was used as the cell model to test the regulation effect of chimeric hPXR over wild type (WT) hPXR on CYP3A4 expression at gene, protein, and metabolism levels, respectively. Compared with C3A cells transiently transfected with WT hPXR, the activity of CYP3A4.XREM.luc reporter gene in C3A cells transfected with hPXR-p53 or p53-hPXR increased 5- and 9-fold respectively, and the levels of CYP3A4 mRNA expression increased 3.5- and 2.6-fold, respectively. C3A cells stably transfected with hPXR-p53-AD exhibited an improved expression of CYP3A4 at both gene (2-fold) and protein (1.5-fold) levels compared to WT C3A cells. Testosterone, a CYP3A4-specific substrate, was used for detecting the metabolism activity of CYP3A4. No testosterone metabolite could be detected in microsomes from WT C3A cells and WT C3A cells-based array, while the formation of 6β-hydroxytestosterone metabolite in the transfected cells was 714 and 55 pmol/mg protein/min, respectively. In addition, all the above expression levels in the transfected cell models could be further induced with additional treatment of Rifampicin, a specific inducer for CYP3A4. In conclusion, our study established a proof-of-principle example that genetic modification with chimeric hPXR-p53-AD could improve CYP3A4 metabolism ability in hepatic cell line. |
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spelling | pubmed-40067762014-05-09 Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD Chen, Feng Rao, Xiao-Hui Yang, Jin-Lian Pan, Ming-Xing Gao, Yi Li, Zhen-Lin Li, Yang Zhu, You-Fu Wang, Yan PLoS One Research Article Most hepatoma cell lines lack proper expression and induction of CYP3A4 enzyme, which limits their use for predicting drug metabolism and toxicity. Nuclear receptor pregnane X receptor (PXR) has been well recognized for its critical role in regulating expression of CYP3A4 gene. However, its physiological activity of binding to the particular site of promoter is significantly weakened in hepatic cell lines. To address this problem, we created “chimeric PXR” constructs by appending a strong activation domain (AD) from p53 subunit to either N- or C- termini of the human PXR (hPXR), that is, hPXR-p53 and p53-hPXR. C3A, a hepatoma cell line, was used as the cell model to test the regulation effect of chimeric hPXR over wild type (WT) hPXR on CYP3A4 expression at gene, protein, and metabolism levels, respectively. Compared with C3A cells transiently transfected with WT hPXR, the activity of CYP3A4.XREM.luc reporter gene in C3A cells transfected with hPXR-p53 or p53-hPXR increased 5- and 9-fold respectively, and the levels of CYP3A4 mRNA expression increased 3.5- and 2.6-fold, respectively. C3A cells stably transfected with hPXR-p53-AD exhibited an improved expression of CYP3A4 at both gene (2-fold) and protein (1.5-fold) levels compared to WT C3A cells. Testosterone, a CYP3A4-specific substrate, was used for detecting the metabolism activity of CYP3A4. No testosterone metabolite could be detected in microsomes from WT C3A cells and WT C3A cells-based array, while the formation of 6β-hydroxytestosterone metabolite in the transfected cells was 714 and 55 pmol/mg protein/min, respectively. In addition, all the above expression levels in the transfected cell models could be further induced with additional treatment of Rifampicin, a specific inducer for CYP3A4. In conclusion, our study established a proof-of-principle example that genetic modification with chimeric hPXR-p53-AD could improve CYP3A4 metabolism ability in hepatic cell line. Public Library of Science 2014-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4006776/ /pubmed/24788541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095752 Text en © 2014 Chen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chen, Feng Rao, Xiao-Hui Yang, Jin-Lian Pan, Ming-Xing Gao, Yi Li, Zhen-Lin Li, Yang Zhu, You-Fu Wang, Yan Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD |
title | Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD |
title_full | Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD |
title_fullStr | Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD |
title_full_unstemmed | Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD |
title_short | Up-Regulating CYP3A4 Expression in C3A Cells by Transfection with a Novel Chimeric Regulator of hPXR-p53-AD |
title_sort | up-regulating cyp3a4 expression in c3a cells by transfection with a novel chimeric regulator of hpxr-p53-ad |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24788541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095752 |
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