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Title:
Zinc supplementation of young men alters metallothionein, zinc transporter, and cytokine gene expression in leukocyte populations
Authors:
Aydemir, Tolunay Beker; Blanchard, Raymond K.; Cousins, Robert J. 
Publication:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, vol. 103, Issue 6, p.1699-1704
Publication Date:
02/2006
Category:
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES / APPLIED BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Origin:
PNAS
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0510407103
Bibliographic Code:
2006PNAS..103.1699A

Abstract

An effective measure to assess zinc status of humans has remained elusive, in contrast to iron, where a number of indicators of metabolism/function are available. Using monocytes, T lymphocytes, and granulocytes isolated by magnetic sorting and dried blood spots (DBS) derived from 50 μl of peripheral blood, we evaluated the response of metallothionein (MT), zinc transporter, and cytokine genes to a modest (15 mg of Zn per day) dietary zinc supplement in human subjects. Transcript abundance was measured by quantitative real-time RT-PCR (QRT-PCR). Zinc supplementation increased MT mRNA abundance by up to 2-fold in RNA from leukocyte subsets, and 4-fold in RNA from DBS. Transcript levels for the zinc transporter genes ZnT1 and Zip3 were increased and decreased, respectively, by zinc supplementation. Expression of the ZnT and Zip genes among leukocyte subsets differ by up to 270-fold. Monocytes and granulocytes from supplemented subjects were activated by LPS, whereas T lymphocytes were activated by mimicking antigen presentation. With zinc consumption, TNF- and IL-1 expression was greater in activated monocytes and granulocytes, and IFN- mRNA levels were higher in activated T lymphocytes. These studies show that QRT-PCR is a tool to reliably measure transcript abundance for nutritionally responsive genes in human subjects, and that a small sample of whole dried blood, when appropriately collected, can be used as the source of total RNA for QRT-PCR analysis. The results obtained also show that zinc supplementation of human subjects programs specific leukocytic subsets to show enhanced cytokine expression upon activation by stimulators of immunity. granulocytes | monocytes | nutrition | quantitative RT-PCR | T lymphocytes
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