Vitamin A modulates the effects of thyroid hormone on UDP-glucuronosyltransferase expression and activity in rat liver

Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2002 Apr 25;190(1-2):167-75. doi: 10.1016/s0303-7207(01)00681-5.

Abstract

We studied the influence of thyroid hormones and vitamin A status on the regulation of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) expression and the glucuronidation of thyroid hormones by UGTs. For this, we used an original model of rats fed with different vitamin A diets and implanted subcutaneously by osmotic minipumps delivering vehicle or thyroid hormones, which permitted the control of plasma thyroid hormone concentrations. The activity and expression of family 1 UGTs are correlated and were significantly modified by both thyroid status and amounts of retinol in the diet. Dietary vitamin A did not perturbe the UGT1A expression in thyroidectomized animals. Thyroid hormones and dietary vitamin A did not affect the activity and expression of family 2 UGTs. We conclude that thyroid hormones and vitamin A are co-regulator of the UGT1 family expression, without affecting the UGT2 family; by modifying activity and expression of the bilirubin UOT isoform, a member of UGT1 family, thyroid hormone reduced the glucuronidation of T4 and rT3.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bilirubin / metabolism
  • Diet
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic*
  • Glucuronosyltransferase / genetics
  • Glucuronosyltransferase / metabolism*
  • Liver / chemistry
  • Liver / enzymology*
  • Male
  • Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / genetics
  • Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / metabolism*
  • Naphthols / metabolism
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Thyroid Hormones / metabolism*
  • Thyroidectomy
  • Thyroxine / blood
  • Triiodothyronine / metabolism
  • Vitamin A / administration & dosage
  • Vitamin A / metabolism*

Substances

  • Monosaccharide Transport Proteins
  • Naphthols
  • Thyroid Hormones
  • UDP-galactose translocator
  • Ugt1a1 protein, rat
  • Triiodothyronine
  • Vitamin A
  • UGT1A1 enzyme
  • Glucuronosyltransferase
  • Thyroxine
  • Bilirubin