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Molecular Nutrition, Kagawa Nutrition University, Sakado, Saitama 350-02, Japan and * Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113, Japan
Lactase activity declines during postnatal development in rats, but little is known about the underlying molecular mechanism of this phenomenon. We attempted to clarify whether the regulation was at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional level and to examine the effects of dietary factors on that regulation. Newborn rats were divided into two groups, prolonged nursing and weaning, at d 21. The prolonged nursing rats were nursed for a further 6 d, whereas weaning rats were separated from their dams and fed nonpurified diet for the same period. The patterns of declining lactase protein and mRNA concentrations during weaning were determined by Western blot and Northern blot analyses, respectively, and compared with lactase activity. There were significant (P < 0.001) correlations between them: r = 0.97 for specific activity vs. protein, r = 0.99 for specific activity vs. mRNA and r = 0.96 for protein vs. mRNA. The lactase activity per milligram DNA showed a pattern similar to that of the specific activity. This result argues against the decline in lactase activity being due to the dilution caused by newly synthesized materials during the weaning period and suggests transcriptional regulation. Furthermore, the prolonged nursing rats showed the same results as weanlings for lactase protein, mRNA, specific activity and activity per milligram DNA. These observations indicate that the regulation of lactase expression is at the transcriptional level and that it is not affected by the termination of milk ingestion.
Key words: rats, lactase, Northern blot analysis, Western blot analysis, weaning.
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