Morgan C R, Bonner J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1970 Apr;65(4):1077-80. doi: 10.1073/pnas.65.4.1077.
The hypothesis that insulin may serve as a derepressor of genetic information in the liver of diabetic rats has been tested by comparing the template activity for RNA synthesis of chromatin from liver of insulin-treated diabetic rats to that of chromatin from liver of insulin-deficient diabetic rats. The template activity of the chromatins of insulin-treated diabetic rats is found to be 28 per cent greater than that of chromatin from liver of diabetic rats not treated with insulin. Time course studies show that the template activity of liver chromatin of rats injected with a single dose of insulin reaches a peak at two hours, which is some hours before the appearance of a typical insulin-induced liver enzyme, glucokinase. We conclude that insulin derepresses genetic material of the diabetic liver genome that is repressed in the absence of insulin.
通过比较胰岛素治疗的糖尿病大鼠肝脏染色质的RNA合成模板活性与胰岛素缺乏的糖尿病大鼠肝脏染色质的模板活性,对胰岛素可能作为糖尿病大鼠肝脏遗传信息去阻遏物的假说进行了检验。发现胰岛素治疗的糖尿病大鼠染色质的模板活性比未用胰岛素治疗的糖尿病大鼠肝脏染色质的模板活性高28%。时间进程研究表明,单次注射胰岛素的大鼠肝脏染色质的模板活性在两小时达到峰值,这比典型的胰岛素诱导肝酶葡萄糖激酶出现要早几个小时。我们得出结论,胰岛素使糖尿病肝脏基因组中在无胰岛素时被阻遏的遗传物质去阻遏。