AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 6 428-L433, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Perinatal rat lung catalase gene expression: influence of corticosteroid and hyperoxia

L. B. Clerch, J. Iqbal and D. Massaro
Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007.

Dexamethasone accelerates the late gestational rise in rat lung catalase activity; neonatal hyperoxia elevates rat lung catalase activity. We studied the regulation of catalase gene expression in these instances. Catalase mRNA/mg DNA increased to gestation day 22 and then fell to the concentration in adult lungs. The rate of transcription of catalase mRNA was higher on gestation day 22 than gestation day 19, whereas the half-life of catalase mRNA (approximately 7 h) was the same on both days. Dexamethasone given 48 and 24 h before expected birth (gestation 22 days) increased catalase mRNA concentration at days 20 and 22 without a change in catalase mRNA stability. Early postnatal hyperoxia (greater than 95% O2, 72 h) elevated catalase mRNA/mg DNA and doubled its half-life without changing its rate of transcription. We conclude the normal late gestational elevation of catalase activity and the increase of activity during prenatal dexamethasone treatment are regulated at the level of gene transcription. By contrast, the elevation of catalase activity during neonatal hyperoxia is mediated posttranscriptionally by increased catalase mRNA stability.

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