17β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase Type 1 and Type 2: Association between mRNA expression and activity in cell lines

2006 ◽  
Vol 248 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 246-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna M. Day ◽  
Helena J. Tutill ◽  
Simon P. Newman ◽  
Atul Purohit ◽  
Harshani R. Lawrence ◽  
...  
2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Jansson ◽  
C Gunnarsson ◽  
O Stål

The primary source of oestrogen in premenopausal women is the ovary but, after menopause, oestrogen biosynthesis in peripheral tissue is the exclusive site of formation. An enzyme group that affects the availability of active oestrogens is the 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17HSD) family. In breast cancer, 17HSD type 1 and type 2 have been mostly investigated and seem to be the principal 17HSD enzymes involved thus far. The question whether 17HSD type 1 or type 2 is of greatest importance in breast tumour development is still not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate how the loss of 17HSD type 2 expression, using siRNA in the non-tumour breast epithelial cells HMEC (human mammal epithelial cells) and MCF10A, and gain of 17HSD type 2 expression, using transient transfection in the breast cancer derived cell lines MCF7 and T47D, affect oestradiol conversion and proliferation rate measured as S-phase fraction. We further investigated how this was related to the endogenous expression of 17HSD type 1 and oestradiol receptors in the examined cell lines. The oestradiol level in the medium changed significantly in the MCF7 transfected cells and the siRNA-treated HMEC cells, but not in T47D or MCF10A. The S-phase fraction decreased in the 17HSD type 2-transfected MCF7 cells and the siRNA-treated HMEC cells. The results seemed to be dependent on the endogenous expression of 17HSD type 1 and the oestradiol receptors. In conclusion, we found that high or low levels of 17HSD type 2 affected the oestradiol concentration significantly. However, the response was dependent on the endogenous expression of 17HSD type 1. Expression of 17HSD type 1 seems to be dominant to 17HSD type 2. Therefore, it may be important to investigate a ratio between 17HSD type 1 and 17HSD type 2.


2003 ◽  
Vol 178 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
LM Thurston ◽  
E Chin ◽  
KC Jonas ◽  
IJ Bujalska ◽  
PM Stewart ◽  
...  

In a range of tIssues, cortisol is inter-converted with cortisone by 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11betaHSD). To date, two isoforms of 11betaHSD have been cloned. Previous studies have shown that human granulosa cells express type 2 11betaHSD mRNA during the follicular phase of the ovarian cycle, switching to type 1 11betaHSD mRNA expression as luteinization occurs. However, it is not known whether protein expression, and 11betaHSD enzyme activities reflect this reported pattern of mRNA expression. Hence, the aims of the current study were to investigate the expression and activities of 11betaHSD proteins in luteinizing human granulosa-lutein (hGL) cells. Luteinizing hGL cells were cultured for up to 3 days with enzyme activities (11beta-dehydrogenase (11betaDH) and 11-ketosteroid reductase (11 KSR)) and protein expression (type 1 and type 2 11betaHSD) assessed on each day of culture. In Western blots, an immunopurified type 1 11betaHSD antibody recognized a band of 38 kDa in hGL cells and in human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells stably transfected with human type 1 11betaHSD. The type 2 11betaHSD antibody recognized a band of 48 kDa in HEK cells transfected with human type 2 11betaHSD cDNA but the type 2 protein was not expressed in hGL cells throughout the 3 days of culture. While the expression of type 1 11betaHSD protein increased progressively by 2.7-fold over 3 days as hGL cells luteinized, both 11betaDH and reductase activities declined (by 52.9% and 34.2%; P<0.05) over this same period. Changes in enzyme expression and activity were unaffected by the suppression of ovarian steroid synthesis.


1999 ◽  
Vol 161 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Bland ◽  
CA Worker ◽  
BS Noble ◽  
LJ Eyre ◽  
IJ Bujalska ◽  
...  

Studies in vitro and in vivo have shown that corticosteroids play an important role in bone physiology and pathophysiology. It is now established that corticosteroid hormone action is regulated, in part, at the pre-receptor level through the expression of isozymes of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11beta-HSD), which are responsible for the interconversion of hormonally active cortisol to cortisone. In this report we demonstrate 11beta-HSD activity in human osteoblast (OB) cells. Osteosarcoma-derived OB cell lines TE-85, MG-63 and SaOS-2 and fibrosarcoma Hs913T cells express the type 2 isoform of 11beta-HSD, as determined by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and specific enzyme assays. Enzyme activity was shown to be strictly NAD dependent with a Km of approximately 71 nM; 11beta-HSD type 1 mRNA expression and enzyme activity were not detected. All four cell lines expressed mRNA for the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and mineralocorticoid receptor, but specific binding was only detectable with radiolabelled dexamethasone (Kd=10 nM) and not aldosterone. MG-63 cells had two to three times more GR than the other OB cells, which correlated with the higher levels of 11beta-HSD 2 activity in these cells. In contrast to the osteosarcoma cell studies, RT-PCR analysis of primary cultures of human OB cells revealed the presence of mRNA for 11beta-HSD 1 as well as 11beta-HSD 2. However, enzyme activity in these cells remained predominantly oxidative, i.e. inactivation of cortisol to cortisone (147 pmol/h per mg protein at 500 nM cortisol) was greater than cortisone to cortisol (10.3 pmol/h per mg protein at 250 nM cortisone). Data from normal human OB and osteosarcoma cells demonstrate the presence of an endogenous mechanism for inactivation of glucocorticoids in OB cells. We postulate that expression of the type 1 and type 2 isoforms of 11beta-HSD in human bone plays an important role in normal bone homeostasis, and may be implicated in the pathogenesis of steroid-induced osteoporosis.


Diabetologia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Stulnig ◽  
W. Waldh�usl

2007 ◽  
Vol 195 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Yang ◽  
Chunming Guo ◽  
Ping Zhu ◽  
Wenjiao Li ◽  
Leslie Myatt ◽  
...  

The amount of cortisol available to its receptors is increased by the pre-receptor enzyme 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) which converts cortisone to cortisol. We examined the molecular mechanisms of the feedback effect of cortisol on 11β-HSD1 mRNA expression in human amnion fibroblasts. Our data showed that cortisol-induced 11β-HSD1 mRNA expression dose dependently in amnion fibroblasts, which could be completely blocked both by the mRNA transcription inhibitor 5,6-dichlorobenzimidazole riboside and by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) antagonist RU486, and partially blocked by global inhibition of CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBPs) with transfection of C/EBP-specific dominant-negative expression CMV500 plasmid (AC/EBP) into the cells. Likewise, the induction of the promoter activity by cortisol could also be completely blocked by RU486 and partially by AC/EBP transfection. Progressive 5′ deletion of the 11β-HSD1promoter located the region responsible for cortisol’s induction within −204 bp upstream to the transcription start site. Specific nucleotide mutations of the putative glucocorticoid responsive element or CCAAT in this promoter region attenuated the induction by cortisol. Moreover, chromatin immunoprecipitation assay and electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that GR and C/EBPα but not C/EBPβ could bind this promoter region upon cortisol stimulation of amnion fibroblasts. In conclusion, we demonstrated that GR and C/EBPα were involved in cortisol-induced 11β-HSD1 mRNA expression via binding to 11β-HSD1 promoter in amnion fibroblasts, which may cast a feed-forward production of cortisol in the fetal membranes at the end of gestation.


2001 ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Schoof ◽  
M Girstl ◽  
W Frobenius ◽  
M Kirschbaum ◽  
R Repp ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND: During human pregnancy, 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11beta-HSD2) plays an important role in protecting the fetus from high maternal glucocorticoid concentrations by converting cortisol to inactive cortisone. Furthermore, 11beta-HSD2 is indirectly involved in the regulation of the prostaglandin inactivating enzyme 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (PGDH), because cortisol reduces the gene expression and enzyme activity of PGDH in human placental cells. OBJECTIVE: To examine developmental changes in placental 11beta-HSD2 and PGDH gene expression during the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of human pregnancies. METHODS: In placental tissue taken from 20 healthy women with normal pregnancy and 20 placentas of 17 mothers giving birth to premature babies, 11beta-HSD2 and PGDH mRNA expression was determined using quantitative real-time PCR. RESULTS: Placental mRNA expression of 11beta-HSD2 and PGDH increased significantly with gestational age (r=0.55, P=0.0002 and r=0.42, P=0.007). In addition, there was a significant correlation between the two enzymes (r=0.58, P<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: In the course of pregnancy there is an increase in 11beta-HSD2 and PGDH mRNA expression in human placental tissue. This adaptation of 11beta-HSD2 prevents increasing maternal cortisol concentrations from transplacental passage and is exerted at the gene level. 11beta-HSD2 up-regulation may also lead to an increase in PGDH mRNA concentrations that, until term, possibly delays myometrial contractions induced by prostaglandins.


1997 ◽  
Vol 327 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. MACKRILL ◽  
R. A. John CHALLISS ◽  
D. A. O'CONNELL ◽  
F. Anthony LAI ◽  
Stefan R. NAHORSKI

Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) and Ins(1,4,5)P3 receptors (Ins(1,4,5)P3Rs) represent two multigene families of channel proteins that mediate the release of Ca2+ ions from intracellular stores. In the present study, the expression patterns of these channel proteins in mammalian cell lines and tissues were investigated by using isoform-specific antibodies. All cell lines examined expressed two or more Ins(1,4,5)P3R isoforms, with the type 1 Ins(1,4,5)P3R being ubiquitous. RyR isoforms were detected in only six out of eight cell lines studied. Similarly, of the nine rabbit tissues examined, RyR protein expression was detected only in brain, heart, skeletal muscle and uterus. Specific [3H]ryanodine binding was found in a number of rabbit tissues, although it was not detected in mammalian cell lines. Subcellular fractionation of SH-SY5Y human neuroblastomas revealed that the type 2 RyR and type 1 Ins(1,4,5)P3R co-localize among the fractions of a sucrose-cushion separation of crude microsomal membrane fractions. Manipulation of SH-SY5Y cells by chronic stimulation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) results in a decrease in their type 1 Ins(1,4,5)P3R levels but not in the abundance of the type 2 RyR. Differentiation of these neuroblastomas by using retinoic acid did not detectably alter their expression of Ca2+-release channel proteins. Finally, differentiation of BC3H1 cells affects the expression of their Ca2+-release channel proteins in an isoform-specific manner. In summary, this study demonstrates that mammalian cell lines display distinct patterns of Ca2+-release channel protein expression. The abundance of these proteins is differentially regulated during phenotypic modifications of a cell, such as differentiation or chronic stimulation of mAChR.


Endocrinology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 147 (5) ◽  
pp. 2490-2495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjiao Li ◽  
Lu Gao ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Tao Duan ◽  
Leslie Myatt ◽  
...  

Chorion is the most abundant site of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) expression within intrauterine tissues. It is important to study the regulation of 11β-HSD1 expression in the chorion in terms of local cortisol production during pregnancy. Using real-time PCR and enzyme activity assay, we found that cortisol (1 μm) and IL-1β (10 ng/ml) for 24 h significantly increased 11β-HSD1 mRNA expression and reductase activity in cultured human chorionic trophoblasts. A further significant increase of 11β-HSD1 mRNA expression and reductase activity was observed with cotreatment of cortisol and IL-1β. To explore the mechanism of induction, 11β-HSD1 promoter was cloned into pGL3 plasmid expressing a luciferase reporter gene. By transfecting the constructed vector into WISH cells, an amnion-derived cell line, we found that cortisol (1 μm) or IL-1β (10 ng/ml) significantly increased reporter gene expression. Likewise, an additional increase in reporter gene expression was observed with cotreatment of cortisol and IL-β. To explore the physiological significance of 11β-HSD1 induction in the chorion, we studied the effect of cortisol on cytosolic phospholipase A2 and cyclooxygenase 2 expression. We found that treatment of chorionic trophoblast cells with cortisol (1 μm) induced both cytosolic phospholipase A2 and cyclooxygenase 2 mRNA expression. We conclude that cortisol up-regulates 11β-HSD1 expression through induction of promoter activity, and the effect was enhanced by IL-1β, suggesting that more biologically active glucocorticoids could be generated in the fetal membranes in the presence of infection, which may consequently feed forward in up-regulation of prostaglandin synthesis.


2011 ◽  
Vol 120 (03) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Mizutani ◽  
N. Ozaki ◽  
Y. Seino ◽  
A. Fukami ◽  
E. Sakamoto ◽  
...  

AbstractAngiopoietin-like protein 4 (Angptl4) is thought to cause an increase in serum triglyceride levels. In the present study, we elucidated Angptl4 expression in the mouse models of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, and investigated the possible mechanisms involved.Type 1 diabetes was induced in C57BL/6 J mice by treating them with streptozotocin (STZ). Type 2 diabetes was induced by feeding the mice a high-fat diet (HFD) for 18 weeks.The levels of Angptl4 mRNA expression in liver, white adipose tissue (WAT), and brown adipose tissue (BAT) were found to increase in the STZ diabetic mice relative to control mice. This effect was attenuated by insulin administration. In the HFD diabetic mice, the Angptl4 mRNA expression levels were increased in liver, WAT, and BAT. Treatment with metformin for 4 weeks attenuated the increased levels of Angptl4 mRNA. Fatty acids (FAs) such as palmitate and linoleate induced Angptl4 mRNA expression in H4IIE hepatoma cells and 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Treatment with insulin but not metformin attenuated FA-induced Angptl4 mRNA expression in H4IIE. Both insulin and metformin did not influence the effect of FAs in 3T3-L1 cells.These observations demonstrated that Angptl4 mRNA expression was increased through the elevated free FAs in diabetic mice.


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