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ArticlePloS one2020

Growth hormone increases regulator of calcineurin 1-4 (Rcan1-4) mRNA through c-JUN in rat liver.

Tomoko Nakata, Yuka Toyoshima, Takashi Yagi, Harumi Katsumata, Reiko Tokita, Shiro Minami

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Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tomoko NakataDepartment of Bioregulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3825-7632
Yuka ToyoshimaDepartment of Bioregulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan.
Takashi YagiDepartment of Bioregulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan.
Harumi KatsumataDepartment of Bioregulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan.
Reiko TokitaDepartment of Bioregulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan.
Shiro MinamiDepartment of Bioregulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan.
Nippon Medical School · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Growth hormone (GH) activates multiple signal transduction pathways. To investigate these pathways, we identified novel genes whose transcription was induced by GH in the liver of hypophysectomized (HPX) rats using the suppression subtractive hybridization technique. We found that regulator of calcineurin 1 (Rcan1) mRNA was upregulated by GH administration. RCAN1 regulates the activity of calcineurin, a Ca/calmodulin-dependent phosphatase. Rcan1 encodes two major transcripts, Rcan1-1 and Rcan1-4, resulting from differential promoter use and first exon choice. We found that a single injection of GH increased the levels of Rcan1-4 mRNA and RCAN1-4 protein transiently, but did not increase Rcan1-1 mRNA in HPX rat liver. Then the molecular mechanism of GH to induce Rcan1-4 transcription was examined in rat hepatoma H4IIE cells. Experiments using inhibitors suggested that c-JUN N-terminal kinase was required for the induction of Rcan1-4 mRNA by GH. GH increased the levels of phosphorylated c-JUN protein and c-Jun mRNA in HPX rat liver. The luciferase and electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that c-JUN upregulated Rcan1-4 mRNA by binding to the cAMP-responsive element in the upstream of Rcan1 exon 4. These results indicate that GH activates c-JUN to affect the activity of calcineurin by the induction of Rcan1-4 in rat liver.

Indexed as

AnimalsGene Expression RegulationGrowth HormoneIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsJNK Mitogen-Activated Protein KinasesLiverPhosphorylationRatsRNA, MessengerSignal TransductionGrowth HormoneIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsJNK Mitogen-Activated Protein KinasesRCAN1 protein, ratRNA, Messenger

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PMID32589657
PMCPMC7319343
OpenAlexW3037082073

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