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HORMONES AND SIGNALING

Induction of early response genes in trypsin inhibitor-induced pancreatic growth

Departments of ¹Molecular and Integrative Physiology, ²Cellular and Developmental Biology, and ³Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Submitted 20 September 2006 ; accepted in final form 3 November 2006

Endogenous CCK release induced by a synthetic trypsin inhibitor, camostat, stimulates pancreatic growth; however, the mechanisms mediating this growth are not well established. Early response genes often couple short-term signals with long-term responses. To study their participation in the pancreatic growth response, mice were fasted for 18 h and refed chow containing 0.1% camostat for 1–24 h. Expression of 18 early response genes were evaluated by quantitative PCR; mRNA for 17 of the 18 increased at 1, 2, 4, or 8 h. Protein expression for c-jun, c-fos, ATF-3, Egr-1, and JunB peaked at 2 h. Nuclear localization was confirmed by immunohistochemistry of c-fos, c-jun, and Egr-1. Refeeding regular chow induced only a small increase of c-jun and none in c-fos expression. JNKs and ERKs were activated 1 h after camostat feeding as was the phosphorylation of c-jun and ATF-2. AP-1 DNA binding evaluated by EMSA showed a significant increase 1–2 h after camostat feeding with participation of c-jun, c-fos, ATF-2, ATF-3, and JunB shown by supershift. The CCK antagonist IQM-95,333 blocked camostat feeding-induced c-jun and c-fos expression by 67 and 84%, respectively, and AP-1 DNA binding was also inhibited. In CCK-deficient mice, the maximal response of c-jun induction and AP-1 DNA binding were reduced by 64 and 70%, respectively. These results indicate that camostat feeding induces a spectrum of early response gene expression and AP-1 DNA binding and that these effects are mainly CCK dependent.

CCK; camostat; c-jun; c-fos; AP-1

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