scholarly journals L-arginine upregulates the gene expression of target of rapamycin signaling pathway and stimulates protein synthesis in chicken intestinal epithelial cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 1043-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Yuan ◽  
Y. Ding ◽  
Qiang He ◽  
M.M.M. Azzam ◽  
J.J. Lu ◽  
...  
2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 751-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huansheng Yang ◽  
Xia Xiong ◽  
Xiaocheng Wang ◽  
Yulong Yin

Background/Aims: Understanding the mechanism that involves in regulating epithelial cells renewal is the fundamental of regulating intestinal mucosa development and functions and related diseases. The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway involves in controlling various major processes by integrating intracellular and extracellular cues. The present experiment was conducted to test the correlation between the mTOR signaling pathway and intestinal epithelial cells renewal along crypt-villus axis (CVA). Methods: Intestinal epithelial cells were sequentially isolated from the jejunum of piglets along CVA, and the amount or phosphorylation level of proteins involved in cell cycle, mTOR signaling pathway, gene expression, and the antioxidant capacity in the isolated cells were measured. Results: The results showed that the amount of proteins involved in cell cycle decreased from crypt to villus tip. The amount or phosphorylation level of proteins related to mTOR signaling pathway in intestinal epithelial cells mainly decreased during maturation along CVA. The amount of proteins involved in gene expression and the antioxidant capacity also decreased from crypt to the top of villi. Conclusions: These results indicate that the mTOR signaling pathway may be involved in regulating the intestinal epithelial cells renewal along CVA and it may partly through affecting the antioxidant capacity and gene expression of intestinal epithelial cells. Further histological verification is needed to confirm the results of the present experiments.


FEBS Open Bio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvester Larsen ◽  
Jakob Benedict Seidelin ◽  
Johanne Davidsen ◽  
Katja Dahlgaard ◽  
Claus Henrik Nielsen ◽  
...  

Marine Drugs ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Su-Jin Jeong ◽  
Jeong-Wook Choi ◽  
Min-Kyeong Lee ◽  
Youn-Hee Choi ◽  
Taek-Jeong Nam

Spirulina is a type of filamentous blue-green microalgae known to be rich in nutrients and to have pharmacological effects, but the effect of spirulina on the small intestine epithelium is not well understood. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the proliferative effects of spirulina crude protein (SPCP) on a rat intestinal epithelial cells IEC-6 to elucidate the mechanisms underlying its effect. First, the results of wound-healing and cell viability assays demonstrated that SPCP promoted migration and proliferation in a dose-dependent manner. Subsequently, when the mechanisms of migration and proliferation promotion by SPCP were confirmed, we found that the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and mitogen-activated protein (MAPK) signaling pathways were activated by phosphorylation. Cell cycle progression from G0/G1 to S phase was also promoted by SPCP through upregulation of the expression levels of cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks), which regulate cell cycle progression to the S phase. Meanwhile, the expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CKIs), such as p21 and p27, decreased with SPCP. In conclusion, our results indicate that activation of EGFR and its downstream signaling pathway by SPCP treatment regulates cell cycle progression. Therefore, these results contribute to the research on the molecular mechanism for SPCP promoting the migration and proliferation of rat intestinal epithelial cells.


Shock ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Varedi ◽  
Heung-Man Lee ◽  
George H. Greeley ◽  
David N. Herndon ◽  
Ella W. Englander

2015 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. S-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubha Priyamvada ◽  
Arivarasu Natarajan Anbazhagan ◽  
Anoop Kumar ◽  
Tarunmeet Gujral ◽  
Alip Borthakur ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Yu Takahashi ◽  
Yu Inoue ◽  
Keitaro Kuze ◽  
Shintaro Sato ◽  
Makoto Shimizu ◽  
...  

Abstract Intestinal organoids better represent in vivo intestinal properties than conventionally used established cell lines in vitro. However, they are maintained in three-dimensional culture conditions that may be accompanied by handling complexities. We characterized the properties of human organoid-derived two-dimensionally cultured intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) compared with those of their parental organoids. We found that the expression of several intestinal markers and functional genes were indistinguishable between monolayer IECs and organoids. We further confirmed that their specific ligands equally activate intestinal ligand-activated transcriptional regulators in a dose-dependent manner. The results suggest that culture conditions do not significantly influence the fundamental properties of monolayer IECs originating from organoids, at least from the perspective of gene expression regulation. This will enable their use as novel biological tools to investigate the physiological functions of the human intestine.


1999 ◽  
Vol 45 (4, Part 2 of 2) ◽  
pp. 108A-108A
Author(s):  
Michael Amer ◽  
Yu Xiao ◽  
Luba Adler ◽  
Michael S Caplan

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Kawai ◽  
Shingo Tsuji ◽  
Masahiko Tsujii ◽  
Masato Komori ◽  
Arata Kimura ◽  
...  

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