The homeobox transcription factor Prox1 is highly conserved in embryonic hepatoblasts and in adult and transformed hepatocytes, but is absent from bile duct epithelium

Anatomy and Embryology
Jozsef DudasJ Wilting

Abstract

Prox1 is a transcription factor with two highly conserved domains, a homeobox and a prospero domain. It has been shown that Prox1 knock-out mice die during early embryonic stages and display a rudimentary liver. We have studied the expression of Prox1 at RNA and protein levels in chick, rat, mouse and human liver and in transformed and non-transformed hepatic cell lines. Prox1 is expressed in early embryonic hepatoblasts and is still expressed in adult hepatocytes. Prox1 protein is located in the nuclei of hepatoblasts, which grow into the neighboring embryonic mesenchyme. The expression pattern in chick, mouse, rat and human embryos is highly conserved. Besides albumin and alpha-fetal protein, Prox1 belongs to the earliest markers of the developing liver. In adult liver, Prox1 is expressed in hepatocytes but is absent from bile duct epithelial and non-parenchymal cells (Kupffer cells, hepatic stellate cells, sinusoidal endothelial cells and myofibroblasts). Isolated primary hepatocytes and hepatoma cell lines (HepG2, Hep3B) are Prox1 positive, whereas the immortalized murine liver cell-line MMH, which constitutively expresses the receptor c-met, is Prox1 negative. Transfection of MMH with Prox1 cDNA increases the expression le...Continue Reading

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