Development of a strategy to identify and evaluate direct and indirect activators of constitutive androstane receptor in rats

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Constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) is a nuclear receptor that plays a key role in drug metabolism and disposition and in the development of liver tumors in rodents. CAR is activated by ligands and indirect activators, which do not bind to the receptor but activate it through cellular signaling. In this study, we sought to identify direct and indirect activators of rat CAR (rCAR). Assessment of the influence of mutations on the transcriptional activity of rCAR identified a mutant termed rCAR-3A-G354Q that displays low constitutive activity and high ligand responsiveness. Reporter assays using the mutant were performed with compounds that increased the mRNA levels of Cyp2b1, a CAR target gene, in rat primary hepatocytes. Several compounds activated rCAR-3A-G354Q and were implicated as rCAR ligands. Since indirect CAR activators are considered to display little species differences, we then determined CYP2B6 mRNA levels in human hepatocyte-like HepaRG cells after treatment with compounds that increased Cyp2b1 mRNA levels in rat hepatocytes but did not activate rCAR-3A-G354Q. The results demonstrated six compounds as possible rCAR indirect activators. Taken together, the combined measurement of Cyp2b1 mRNA levels in rat primary hepatocytes and rCAR-3A-G354Q activation in reporter assays can be useful for evaluating rCAR activation by chemicals.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:170

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Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association - 170(2022) vom: 15. Dez., Seite 113510

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sato, Takumi [VerfasserIn]
Shizu, Ryota [VerfasserIn]
Miura, Yoshie [VerfasserIn]
Hosaka, Takuomi [VerfasserIn]
Kanno, Yuichiro [VerfasserIn]
Sasaki, Takamitsu [VerfasserIn]
Yoshinari, Kouichi [VerfasserIn]

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Constitutive Androstane Receptor
Constitutive androstane receptor
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1
Drug-metabolizing enzyme
EC 1.14.14.1
Hepatocarcinogenesis
Journal Article
Ligands
Primary hepatocyte
RNA, Messenger
Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
Reporter assay

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Date Completed 06.12.2022

Date Revised 06.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.fct.2022.113510

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348704259