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Abstract Liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy (PH) involves several signaling mechanisms including activation of the small GTPases Ras and RhoA in response to mitogens leading to DNA synthesis and cell proliferation. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPARα) regulates the expression of several key enzymes in isoprenoid synthesis, which are key events for membrane association of Ras and RhoA. Thus the role of PPARα in cell proliferation after PH was tested. After PH, an increase in PPARα DNA binding was observed in wild-type mice, correlating with an increase in the PPARα-regulated enzyme acyl-CoA oxidase. In addition, the PPARα-regulated genes farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase and 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) synthase were significantly increased in wild-type mice. However, these increases were not observed in PPARα knockout (PPARα −/−) mice. The peak in DNA synthesis observed 42 h after PH was reduced by ∼60% in PPARα −/− mice, despite increases in TNF-α and IL-1. Also, under these conditions, membrane association of Ras was high in wild-type mice after PH but was impaired in PPARα −/− mice. Accordingly, Ras was significantly elevated in the cytosol in PPARα −/− mice. This observation correlated with lower levels of active GTP-bound Ras after PH in PPARα −/− mice compared with wild-type mice. Similar observations were made for RhoA. Moreover, deletion of PPARα blunted the activation of cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk)2/cyclin E and cdk4/cyclin D complexes. Collectively, these results support the hypothesis that PPARα is necessary for cell cycle progression in regenerating mouse liver via mechanisms involving prenylation of small GTPases Ras and RhoA. hepatocyte proliferation cell cycle regulation RhoA peroxisome proliferation-activated receptor-α Footnotes ↵ † Deceased 14 July 2001. Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: M. D. Wheeler, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 7365, 3013 Thurston-Bowles Bldg, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (E-mail: wheelmi@med.unc.edu ). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked “ advertisement ” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. First published October 16, 2002;10.1152/ajpgi.00175.2002 Copyright © 2003 the American Physiological Society
AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology – The American Physiological Society
Published: Feb 1, 2003
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