Abstract
Since the gut responds rapidly to food intake, the levels of expression of several immediate early genes were measured in mucosa from small and large intestine of rats starved for 3 days or refed. Within 1 h of refeeding, jejunal and ileal c-fos, jun B and zif/268 mRNA and colonil zif/268 dramatically increased. The zif/268 gene in jejunum corresponded in size to the full-length cDNA but. in ileum, an RNA band of about 1.2 kb in size increased greatly after feeding. This represents a physiologic in vivo model for the study of gene regulation associated with intestinal epithelial cellular responses to feeding.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 102-104 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | FEBS Letters |
| Volume | 287 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 5 1991 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Gene activation
- Immediate early gene: Intestinal gene regulation
- Refeeding
- Starvation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Structural Biology
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics
- Cell Biology