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The FASEB Journal, Vol 7, 1468-1474, Copyright © 1993 by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

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Hepatic glutaminase expression: relationship to kidney-type glutaminase and to the urea cycle

M Watford
Department of Nutritional Sciences, Cook College, Rutgers, State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903.

Glutamine functions as a major transport form of nitrogen and carbon within the body. In the liver, glutamine is hydrolyzed by a unique liver-type, phosphate-activated glutaminase, and the end products of hepatic glutamine catabolism are glucose and urea. Other tissues possess a different, kidney-type, glutaminase isozyme. The predicted amino acid sequences for the two glutaminases show a high degree of identity, indicating that they are products of different but related genes. Hepatic glutaminase activity is increased during diabetes, starvation, and on feeding high-protein diets, and decreased on feeding low-protein diets, whereas renal glutaminase appears to be regulated only by changes in acid-base status. Changes in the rate of gene transcription are the principal mechanism responsible for the long-term regulation of hepatic glutaminase, but the renal enzyme is regulated at the level of mRNA turnover. The pattern of regulation of hepatic glutaminase parallels that seen for genes encoding key enzymes of gluconeogenesis and urea synthesis, and indicates coordinate regulation of expression in keeping with the role of hepatic glutamine catabolism in these pathways.




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