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Corticosterone selectively increases follicle-stimulating hormone beta-subunit messenger ribonucleic acid in primary anterior pituitary cell culture without affecting its half-life.

Abstract：

:We demonstrated previously that glucocorticoids differentially affect the levels of the two pituitary gonadotropins, LH and FSH, both in vivo and in vitro. In vivo, the effect of glucocorticoids is GnRH independent, indicating a direct action on the gonadotrope, and it leads to selective up-regulation of the pituitary content of FSH and FSH beta-subunit messenger RNA (mRNA). The objective of the present study was to confirm the direct action of corticosterone (B) on FSH beta-subunit mRNA in primary anterior pituitary cell culture and to assess whether the selective B-induced rise in FSH beta mRNA is mediated through altered stability of the FSH beta transcript. Anterior pituitary glands collected from randomly cycling female rats were dissociated with trypsin. Cells were incubated at 37 C for 48 h and subsequently exposed to vehicle or B (1.7 microM) for an additional 42 h. At the end of the incubation, media were sampled for FSH and LH, cells were lysed, and total RNA was isolated for Northern blot analysis. Exposure to B for 42 h caused direct and selective upregulation of FSH release, FSH content, and FSH beta mRNA; decreased alpha-subunit mRNA; and had no significant effect on LH release, LH content, or LH beta mRNA. To evaluate the mRNA stability of the three subunits, cells were exposed to the transcription blocker actinomycin D (act D; 5 micrograms/ml) for an additional 6 h. The combined 6-h treatment with B and act D slightly, but significantly, suppressed alpha-subunit mRNA and did not change LH beta mRNA, confirming a long half-life of the two gonadotropin subunit mRNAs. In contrast, FSH beta mRNA was significantly suppressed by act D to the same level in vehicle- and B-treated cells. The posttranscriptional decay rate was examined by sampling at 0, 1, 2, 3, and 6 h during the 6-h act D treatment period. Decay curves for FSH beta mRNA were parallel in vehicle- and B-treated cells, indicating that B did not alter FSH beta mRNA stability. We conclude that the selective B-induced rise in FSH beta mRNA is mediated at the level of transcription rather than mRNA stabilization.

journal_name

Endocrinology

journal_title

Endocrinology

authors

Kilen SM,Szabo M,Strasser GA,McAndrews JM,Ringstrom SJ,Schwartz NB

doi

10.1210/endo.137.9.8756550

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-09-01 00:00:00

pages

3802-7

issue

eissn

0013-7227

issn

1945-7170

journal_volume

137

pub_type

杂志文章

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Corticosterone selectively increases follicle-stimulating hormone beta-subunit messenger ribonucleic acid in primary anterior pituitary cell culture without affecting its half-life.