Abstract

We have previously reported that dietary fructose rapidly induces jejunal sucrase–isomaltase (SI) gene expression in rats. In this study, we confirmed in mice that SI mRNA was induced 6 h after force-feeding fructose, but not glucose. Using the chromatin immunoprecipitation assay, we revealed that histones H3 and H4 on the promoter/enhancer regions of the SI gene in mice given fructose were highly acetylated, compared with those given glucose or water. These results suggest that acute induction of SI gene expression by dietary fructose is associated with acetylation of histones H3 and H4 on the SI gene.

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