Time course investigation of PPAR{alpha}- and Kupffer cell-dependent effects of WY-14,643 in mouse liver using microarray gene expression

Journal Article · Sat Dec 15 04:00:00 EST 2007 · Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.taap.2007.08.028· OSTI ID:21077874

Woods, Courtney G; Kosyk, Oksana; Bradford, Blair U; Ross, Pamela K; Burns, Amanda M ^[1]; Cunningham, Michael L ^[2]; Pingping, Qu; Ibrahim, Joseph G ^[3]; Rusyn, Ivan ^[1]

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1. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
2. National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
3. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)

Administration of peroxisome proliferators to rodents causes proliferation of peroxisomes, induction of {beta}-oxidation enzymes, hepatocellular hypertrophy and hyperplasia, with chronic exposure ultimately leading to hepatocellular carcinomas. Many responses associated with peroxisome proliferators are nuclear receptor-mediated events involving peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor alpha (PPAR{alpha}). A role for nuclear receptor-independent events has also been shown, with evidence of Kupffer cell-mediated free radical production, presumably through NAPDH oxidase, induction of redox-sensitive transcription factors involved in cytokine production and cytokine-mediated cell replication following acute treatment with peroxisome proliferators in rodents. Recent studies have demonstrated, by using p47{sup phox}-null mice which are deficient in NADPH oxidase, that this enzyme is not related to the phenotypic events caused by prolonged administration of peroxisome proliferators. In an effort to determine the timing of the transition from Kupffer cell-to PPAR{alpha}-dependent modulation of peroxisome proliferator effects, gene expression was assessed in liver from Ppar{alpha}-null, p47{sup phox}-null and corresponding wild-type mice following treatment with 4-chloro-6-(2,3-xylidino)-pyrimidynylthioacetic acid (WY-14,643) for 8 h, 24 h, 72 h, 1 week or 4 weeks. WY-14,643-induced gene expression in p47{sup phox}-null mouse liver differed substantially from wild-type mice at acute doses and striking differences in baseline expression of immune related genes were evident. Pathway mapping of genes that respond to WY-14,643 in a time- and dose-dependent manner demonstrates suppression of immune response, cell death and signal transduction and promotion of lipid metabolism, cell cycle and DNA repair. Furthermore, these pathways were largely dependent on PPAR{alpha}, not NADPH oxidase demonstrating a temporal shift in response to peroxisome proliferators. Overall, this study shows that NADPH oxidase-dependent events, while detectable following acute treatment, are transient. To the contrary, a strong PPAR{alpha}-specific gene signature was evident in mice that were continually exposed to WY-14,643.

• OSTI ID: 21077874
• Journal Information: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Journal Name: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 225; ISSN TXAPA9; ISSN 0041-008X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
APOPTOSIS
CELL CYCLE
CHRONIC EXPOSURE
DNA REPAIR
DOSES
GENES
HEPATOMAS
HYPERTROPHY
INHIBITION
LIPIDS
LIVER
METABOLISM
MICE
OXIDASES
OXIDATION
RECEPTORS
RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM
TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS