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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 278, Issue 15, 13143-13150, April 11, 2003

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Mammalian Target of Rapamycin and Protein Kinase A Signaling Mediate the Cardiac Transcriptional Response to Glutamine^*

Yang Xia^§, Hong Y. Wen, Martin E. Young^¶, Patrick H. Guthrie^¶, Heinrich Taegtmeyer^¶, and Rodney E. Kellems

From the Departments of  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and ^¶ Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030

The addition of glutamine as a major nutrient to cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes produced an increase in myocyte size and the organization of actin into myofibrillar arrays. The cellular response was associated with increased abundance of the mRNAs encoding the contractile proteins, -myosin heavy chain and cardiac -actin, and the metabolic enzymes, muscle carnitine palmitoyl transferase I and muscle adenylosuccinate synthetase (ADSS1). Adss1 gene expression was induced ~5-fold in glutamine-treated rat neonatal cardiac myocytes. The induction was mediated through the protein kinase A and mammalian target of rapamycin signaling pathways and required a cyclic AMP response element associated with the promoter region of the Adss1 gene. These results highlight glutamine as a major nutrient regulator of cardiac gene expression and identify protein kinase A and mammalian target of rapamycin signaling pathways as mediators of the cardiomyocyte transcriptional response.

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