Timing of hepatocyte entry into DNA synthesis after partial hepatectomy is cell autonomous

AUTOR(ES)

Weglarz, Teresa C.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

After surgical removal of two-thirds of the liver, remaining hepatocytes replicate and restore hepatic mass within 2 weeks. This process must be initiated by signals extrinsic to the hepatocyte, but it remains unclear whether subsequent events leading to DNA synthesis (S phase) are regulated by circulating or locally produced growth factors (a noncell autonomous response), or by a program intrinsic to the hepatocyte itself (a cell autonomous response). To identify the type of mechanism regulating passage to S, we exploited the difference between rat and mouse hepatocytes in the timing of DNA synthesis after partial hepatectomy, which peaks 12–16 h earlier posthepatectomy in rat compared with mouse. Four groups of animals received two-thirds partial hepatectomies: rats, mice, mice with chimeric livers composed of both transplanted rat hepatocytes and endogenous mouse hepatocytes, and mice with chimeric livers composed of both transplanted and endogenous mouse hepatocytes. Following two-thirds partial hepatectomy, both donor and endogenous hepatocytes in mouse/mouse chimeric livers displayed kinetics of DNA synthesis characteristic of the mouse, indicating that transplantation per se did not affect the response to subsequent partial hepatectomy. In contrast, rat hepatocytes in chimeric mouse livers displayed rat kinetics despite their presence in a mouse host. Thus, factors intrinsic to the hepatocyte must regulate the timing of entry into DNA synthesis. This result defines the process as cell autonomous and suggests that locally or distantly produced cytokines or growth factors may have a permissive but not an instructive role in progression to S.

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