Relative abundance of aldose reductase mRNA in rat lens undergoing development of osmotic cataracts
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Current Eye Research
- Vol. 8 (12), 1299-1308
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02713688909013910
Abstract
Aldose reductase (AR) messenger RNA concentration was determined in normal rat lens and in lens from rats fed a 50% galactose diet over a period of 20 days. The AR mRNA was detected by using a previously described AR cDNA clone. The relative concentration of the AR mRNA was estimated by cpm of 35S-UTP labeled antisense RNA hybridized to dot-blots prepared from cytosols isolated from single lens, decapsulated lens (cortex) and its respective capsule (epithelia). The results demonstrated that the concentration of the AR mRNA in the epithelium doubled over the 20 day period. Correspondingly, an increase in the concentration of the DNA was also observed, suggesting that the increase in epithelial cytosolic mRNA might be partially due to the increase in the number of epithelial cells occurring in lens undergoing cataractogenesis. The increase in AR mRNA in the epithelia was gradual, and it doubled by day 12 on galactose, while the increase in DNA was rapid and reached an optimum level by about day 4. By day 4 the cortex AR mRNA concentration increased, then rapidly decreased to insignificant levels by day 20. Changes in AR mRNA and in DNA following a high influx of galactose in the lens might suggest a heightened gene response to changes in the cellular environment for the lens epithelium.Keywords
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