TY - JOUR
T1 - Localization of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor in mouse and rat tissues and demonstration of its nuclear translocation in transfected CV-1 cells
AU - Huang, Q.
AU - Yeldandi, A. V.
AU - Alvares, K.
AU - Ide, H.
AU - Reddy, J. K.
AU - Rao, M. S.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Hepatocarcinogenesis in rodents induced by nongenotoxic peroxisome proliferators is postulated to be a receptor-mediated process. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) are members of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily, which participate in ligand-dependent transcriptional activation of peroxisomal fatty acid β oxidation enzyme system genes in liver parenchymal cells of rats and mice. In order to study the tissue distribution and cellular localization of PPAR, we raised polyclonal antibodies against PPAR using a recombinant rat PPAR (rPPAR) expressed as a glutathione-S-transferase-rPPAR fusion protein. On immunoblot analysis the antibodies specifically recognized a 55 kDa PPAR protein in rat, mouse and human liver homogenates. Immunoblotting also showed that in the mouse and rat, PPAR is expressed in liver, kidney and heart, and only weakly in brain and testis. Immunohistochemical localization in the rat and mouse revealed that PPAR is highly expressed in perivenular (i.e., those surrounding hepatic vein) hepatocytes and very weakly in the cytoplasm of remaining hepatocytes. In the kidney, PPAR was visualized predominantly in the p3 segments of proximal convoluted tubular epithelium. CV-1 cells transiently transfected with rPPAR cDNA construct showed predominant cytoplasmic fluorescence; treatment of these cells with ciprofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator, resulted in the nuclear translocation of PPAR signal.
AB - Hepatocarcinogenesis in rodents induced by nongenotoxic peroxisome proliferators is postulated to be a receptor-mediated process. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) are members of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily, which participate in ligand-dependent transcriptional activation of peroxisomal fatty acid β oxidation enzyme system genes in liver parenchymal cells of rats and mice. In order to study the tissue distribution and cellular localization of PPAR, we raised polyclonal antibodies against PPAR using a recombinant rat PPAR (rPPAR) expressed as a glutathione-S-transferase-rPPAR fusion protein. On immunoblot analysis the antibodies specifically recognized a 55 kDa PPAR protein in rat, mouse and human liver homogenates. Immunoblotting also showed that in the mouse and rat, PPAR is expressed in liver, kidney and heart, and only weakly in brain and testis. Immunohistochemical localization in the rat and mouse revealed that PPAR is highly expressed in perivenular (i.e., those surrounding hepatic vein) hepatocytes and very weakly in the cytoplasm of remaining hepatocytes. In the kidney, PPAR was visualized predominantly in the p3 segments of proximal convoluted tubular epithelium. CV-1 cells transiently transfected with rPPAR cDNA construct showed predominant cytoplasmic fluorescence; treatment of these cells with ciprofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator, resulted in the nuclear translocation of PPAR signal.
KW - Nuclear translocation
KW - Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
KW - Peroxisome proliferators
KW - Peroxisomes
KW - Polyclonal antibodies
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U2 - 10.3892/ijo.6.2.307
DO - 10.3892/ijo.6.2.307
M3 - Article
C2 - 21556538
AN - SCOPUS:0028798509
SN - 1019-6439
VL - 6
SP - 307
EP - 312
JO - International journal of oncology
JF - International journal of oncology
IS - 2
ER -
