Differential screening of a cDNA library prepared from mRNA of the hippocampus of estrogen-stimulated ovariectomized female rats led to the identification of a single estrogen-induced clone. Analysis of the sequence identified this cDNA as the gene coding for subunit III of the enzyme cytochrome c oxidase. Cytochrome c oxidase subunit III mRNA levels significantly increased as early as 3 h following the administration of a single dose of hormone. This effect was visible in the hippocampus and in the hypothalamus, but not in the other brain areas examined. Because subunit III of the cytochrome c oxidase is of mitochondrial origin, the mechanism involved in the estrogenic effect is still unknown. The observation that the activity of cytochrome c oxidase can also be induced by estrogens in the hippocampus indicates that this induction may be secondary to the increased expression of the other subunits of cytochrome c oxidase or to the general increase of neuronal activity.
ESTROGEN INDUCTION OF CYTOCHROME-C-OXIDASE SUBUNIT-III IN RAT HIPPOCAMPUS / E. BETTINI, A. MAGGI. - In: JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0022-3042. - 58:5(1992 May), pp. 1923-1929.
ESTROGEN INDUCTION OF CYTOCHROME-C-OXIDASE SUBUNIT-III IN RAT HIPPOCAMPUS
A. MAGGIUltimo
1992
Abstract
Differential screening of a cDNA library prepared from mRNA of the hippocampus of estrogen-stimulated ovariectomized female rats led to the identification of a single estrogen-induced clone. Analysis of the sequence identified this cDNA as the gene coding for subunit III of the enzyme cytochrome c oxidase. Cytochrome c oxidase subunit III mRNA levels significantly increased as early as 3 h following the administration of a single dose of hormone. This effect was visible in the hippocampus and in the hypothalamus, but not in the other brain areas examined. Because subunit III of the cytochrome c oxidase is of mitochondrial origin, the mechanism involved in the estrogenic effect is still unknown. The observation that the activity of cytochrome c oxidase can also be induced by estrogens in the hippocampus indicates that this induction may be secondary to the increased expression of the other subunits of cytochrome c oxidase or to the general increase of neuronal activity.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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