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We present here the results of investigations conducted by ourselves and others on the regulation of the expression of genes encoding the enzymes of the mammalian urea cycle as manifest in cultured cells of both hepatic and extrahepatic origin. Upon consideration of the recently discovered discrete non-hepatic arginase genetic locus in man and our consequent hypothesis that the form of arginase thus transcribed in such extrahepathic cells functions principally in providing ornithine for protein anabolism and polyamine biosynthesis, rather than in detoxifying ammonia through urea formation, we have chosen instead to study permanent cell lines that are derived from liver and continue to perform a variety of hepatic functions in culture as experimental models for probing the molecular mechanisms underlying the control of ureagenesis within the mature liver cell. Of two such arginase-positive rat-hepatoma lines, we have characterized extensively in one (H4-II-E-C3) the mode of action of glucocorticoids in augmenting the cellular levels of this enzyme as well as of argininosuccinate synthetase. To this end, we have recently demonstrated that these stimulations are both mediated by binding of the hormones to classical cytoplasmic steroid receptors in a specific and saturable fashion and have thus concluded that the H4-II-E-C3 line will provide a suitable cell culture system for subsequent more detailed experiments from which the information garnered will continue to be relevant to the ureagenic pathway as modulated in the differentiated hepatocyte in vivo.
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Haggerty, D.F., Spector, E.B., Lynch, M., Kern, R., Frank, L.B., Cederbaum, S.D. (1983). Regulation of expression of genes for enzymes of the mammalian urea cycle in permanent cell-culture lines of hepatic and non-hepatic origin. In: Najjar, V.A. (eds) Enzyme Induction and Modulation. Developments in molecular and cellular biochemistry, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3879-6_4
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