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Regulation of Intestinal Gene Expression by Dietary Zinc: Induction of Uroguanylin mRNA by Zinc Deficiency^{1 ,2}

Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Center for Nutritional Sciences University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0370

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The regulation of gene expression by nutrients plays an important role in the overall manifestations of nutritional deficiencies. Insufficient intakes of dietary micronutrients, such as zinc, produce profound effects in multiple organs and tissues. One of the major challenges, however, is to identify genes affected by changes in nutritional status. Differential display of mRNA has proved to be a valuable technique in meeting this challenge. In our ongoing search for genes responsive to dietary zinc, we compared small intestinal mRNA from rats that were fed zinc-deficient or -adequate diets using differential display to generate 3' anchored expressed sequence tags (EST). EST for intestinal mRNAs with altered expression due to zinc deficiency include two peptide hormones, intestinal fatty acid binding protein, intestinal alkaline phosphatase II, a proteasomal ATPase, cis-Golgi p28 and two subunits of the ubiquinone oxidoreductase. The EST for one of the hormones yielded the sequence for the 3' end of an mRNA encoding preprouroguanylin and was used to clone the remaining portion of the rat cDNA via 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends. Northern blot analysis of RNA from rat intestine demonstrated that preprouroguanylin mRNA was 2.5-fold more abundant during zinc deficiency. Uroguanylin, a natriuretic peptide hormone, is an endogenous ligand for the same guanylate cyclase C that the Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) binds when it causes secretory diarrhea by activating the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, thus altering fluid balance in the intestine. This suggests a mechanism whereby zinc deficiency could induce uroguanylin levels in the intestine and cause or potentiate diarrhea.

KEY WORDS: • mRNA differential display • zinc • intestine • gene regulation • uroguanylin

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