Regulation of ferritin mRNA: a possible gene-sparing phenomenon. Induction of ferritin synthesis by iron in liver as well as red cells combines high translational efficiency with increased utilization of preformed ferritin mRNA - PubMed (original) (raw)
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Regulation of ferritin mRNA: a possible gene-sparing phenomenon. Induction of ferritin synthesis by iron in liver as well as red cells combines high translational efficiency with increased utilization of preformed ferritin mRNA
G E Shull et al. J Biol Chem. 1983.
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Control of ferritin synthesis by iron at the level of transcription is potentially hazardous to DNA because of the iron-catalyzed degradation of DNA. The induction of ferritin synthesis in reticulocytes of embryos (bullfrog tadpoles) occurs by two types of translational control i.e. increased availability of stored ferritin mRNA, in response to iron, coupled with a high translational efficiency. Since erythroid cell nuclei have large amounts of heterochromatin and may be relatively inactive genetically, the translational control of ferritin by iron observed in red cells was studied in other tissue by isolating poly (A+) RNA from tadpole liver and analyzing protein synthesis in vitro. Liver ferritin mRNA directed the synthesis of 7.0% of the protein in a wheat germ system, compared to 1.2% in vivo, suggesting that tadpole liver contained a large amount of stored ferritin mRNA. At levels of poly (A+) RNA which were saturating for total protein synthesis, ferritin synthesis was still linearly dependent upon RNA concentration, indicating a high efficiency of translation of ferritin mRNA. The results are analogous to those previously observed in red cells and confirm the storage of ferritin mRNA deduced from studies of the polysomal and nonpolysomal distribution of the mRNA in rat liver. The results indicate that the increased availability for translation of stored ferritin mRNA, in response to iron, and the high translational efficiency of ferritin mRNA are a general characteristic of ferritin synthesis rather than a specific feature of red cell maturation. This novel form of regulation of ferritin gene expression can be attributed to a need to protect DNA from degradation by iron and oxygen. The normal barrier between DNA and iron is apparently breached by the iron-oxygen complex of the drug bleomycin, an antitumor agent thought to act in vivo by iron-catalyzed cleavage of DNA.
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