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PRG1: A Novel Early-Response Gene Transcriptionally Induced by Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide in a Pancreatic Carcinoma Cell Line¹

Laboratory of Molecular Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Unit, 1st Department of Medicine, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany

The rat pancreatic carcinoma cell line AR4-2J was screened for growth-associated genes linked to the mitogenic effect of the novel gut brain hormone, pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP). Using the mRNA differential display technique, we identified and sequenced an unknown rat gene, PACAP-responsive gene 1 (PRG1), which is highly homologous to gly96, a novel murine gene of unknown function. The PRG1 cDNA sequence of 1.1 kb encodes a 160-amino acid protein. Using targeted PCR, the gene structure of PRG1, constituting 0.6 kb of the promotor region, and the DNA coding region, including a single 107-bp intron, were established from rat genomic DNA. In AR4-2J cells, PACAP(1–38) increased PRG1 mRNA levels up to 10-fold in a rapid (30 min), translent (3–6 h), and dose-dependent (ED₅₀, <1 nM) fashion. The growth-stimulating gastrointestinal hormones cholecystokinin and gastrin showed a similar degree of PRG1 induction, and the PACAP-related peptides vasoactive intestinal peptide and secretin were without effect. The transcriptional inhibitor actinomycin D, various protein kinase C inhibitors, and the calmodulin inhibitor W-7 strongly reduced PRG1 induction by PACAP, whereas the translational inhibitor cycloheximide potently increased PRG1 mRNA levels in unstimulated and PACAP-stimulated cells. Feedback-mediated hyperplasia of the rat exocrine pancreas induced by oral treatment of rats with the protease inhibitor camostate (FOY-305) was preceded by a 15-fold transient elevation of PRG1 mRNA levels. These data suggest that PRG1 is an early-response gene linked to PACAP-induced growth of AR4-2J cells as well as to hyperplasia of the rat exocrine pancreas in vivo.

¹ This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grants Schm 805/4-1 and Schm 805/4-2) and the Eli Lilly European Gastroenterology Award 1992 (W. E. S.).

² Authors contributed equally to this work.

³ This work is part of a Ph.D. thesis.

⁴ To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Laboratory of Molecular Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Unit, 1st Department of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Schittenhelmstr. 12, D-24105 Kiel, Germany. Phone: 49-431-597-1395; Fax: 49-431-597-1427.

Received 1/ 3/96. Accepted 3/28/96.

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