AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 3 434-G439, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of omeprazole on gene expression in canine gastric parietal cells

V. W. Campbell and T. Yamada
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0682.

Stimulation of gastric parietal cells by carbachol induces coordinate expression of the genes for two enzymes involved in the process of acid secretion, H(+)-K(+)-ATPase and carbonic anhydrase II (CA II). The basis of this coordinate expression was examined in experiments using parietal cells that had been pretreated with omeprazole. We observed a twofold increase in the steady-state mRNA levels of both H(+)-K(+)-ATPase and CA II after cells were treated with the inhibitor. The induction of CA II mRNA by carbachol followed the same kinetics in omeprazole-pretreated cells as in those that were not pretreated, suggesting that the induction of CA II gene expression by carbachol was not dependent on activation of the gastric H(+)-K(+)-ATPase. In addition, carbachol stimulation of omeprazole-pretreated cells resulted in an induction of one or more larger mRNA species that hybridized with the H(+)-K(+)-ATPase probe. The observation that carbachol-induced increases in steady-state levels of beta-actin mRNA in parietal cells could be inhibited by omeprazole pretreatment suggests a possible linkage between increased beta-actin gene expression and the process of acid secretion.

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