Human regulatory gene for inducible tyrosine aminotransferase in rat-human hybrids

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1973 Apr;70(4):1268-72. doi: 10.1073/pnas.70.4.1268.

Abstract

The inducibility of tyrosine aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.5) by corticosteroid hormones in rat-human hybrid clones was studied. The presence of human X chromosome activity in the cells was always associated with the suppression of tyrosine aminotransferase inducibility in all the clones examined. Negative correlation between the human X chromosome and inducibility of the enzyme was clearly established. Corticosteroid receptor was present to the same extent in hybrid cell clones that either contained or lost the human X chromosome. The human repressor for inducible tyrosine aminotransferase has a linkage relationship with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49) and hypoxanthine-guanine-phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.8) and, therefore, can be assigned to the X chromosome.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
  • Cell Line
  • Clone Cells
  • Dexamethasone / pharmacology
  • Embryo, Mammalian
  • Enzyme Induction / drug effects
  • Enzyme Repression
  • Female
  • Genes, Regulator*
  • Genetic Linkage
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase
  • Humans
  • Hybrid Cells / enzymology*
  • Karyotyping
  • Liver Neoplasms
  • Lung
  • Pentosyltransferases
  • Rats
  • Sex Chromosomes
  • Tyrosine Transaminase / biosynthesis*

Substances

  • Dexamethasone
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase
  • Pentosyltransferases
  • Tyrosine Transaminase