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Duvigneau JC, Esterbauer H, Kozlov AV. Role of Heme Oxygenase as a Modulator of Heme-Mediated Pathways. Antioxidants (Basel) 2019; 8:antiox8100475. [PMID: 31614577 PMCID: PMC6827082 DOI: 10.3390/antiox8100475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The heme oxygenase (HO) system is essential for heme and iron homeostasis and necessary for adaptation to cell stress. HO degrades heme to biliverdin (BV), carbon monoxide (CO) and ferrous iron. Although mostly beneficial, the HO reaction can also produce deleterious effects, predominantly attributed to excessive product formation. Underrated so far is, however, that HO may exert effects additionally via modulation of the cellular heme levels. Heme, besides being an often-quoted generator of oxidative stress, plays also an important role as a signaling molecule. Heme controls the anti-oxidative defense, circadian rhythms, activity of ion channels, glucose utilization, erythropoiesis, and macrophage function. This broad spectrum of effects depends on its interaction with proteins ranging from transcription factors to enzymes. In degrading heme, HO has the potential to exert effects also via modulation of heme-mediated pathways. In this review, we will discuss the multitude of pathways regulated by heme to enlarge the view on HO and its role in cell physiology. We will further highlight the contribution of HO to pathophysiology, which results from a dysregulated balance between heme and the degradation products formed by HO.
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- J Catharina Duvigneau
- Institute for Medical Biochemistry, University of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinaerplatz 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, 1210 Vienna, Austria.
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, 1200 Vienna, Austria.
- Laboratory of Navigational Redox Lipidomics, Department of Human Pathology, IM Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, 119992 Moscow, Russia.
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Mistry RK, Brewer AC. Redox regulation of gasotransmission in the vascular system: A focus on angiogenesis. Free Radic Biol Med 2017; 108:500-516. [PMID: 28433660 PMCID: PMC5698259 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2017.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Revised: 04/15/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Reactive oxygen species have emerged as key participants in a broad range of physiological and pathophysiological processes, not least within the vascular system. Diverse cellular functions which have been attributed to some of these pro-oxidants within the vasculature include the regulation of blood pressure, neovascularisation and vascular inflammation. We here highlight the emerging roles of the enzymatically-generated reaction oxygen species, O2- and H2O2, in the regulation of the functions of the gaseous signalling molecules: nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen sulphide (H2S). These gasotransmitters are produced on demand from distinct enzymatic sources and in recent years it has become apparent that they are capable of mediating a number of homeostatic processes within the cardiovascular system including enhanced vasodilation, angiogenesis, wound healing and improved cardiac function following myocardial infarction. In common with O2- and/or H2O2 they signal by altering the functions of target proteins, either by the covalent modification of thiol groups or by direct binding to metal centres within metalloproteins, most notably haem proteins. The regulation of the enzymes which generate NO, CO and H2S have been shown to be influenced at both the transcriptional and post-translational levels by redox-dependent mechanisms, while the activity and bioavailability of the gasotransmitters themselves are also subject to oxidative modification. Within vascular cells, the family of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidases (NAPDH oxidases/Noxs) have emerged as functionally significant sources of regulated O2- and H2O2 production and accordingly, direct associations between Nox-generated oxidants and the functions of specific gasotransmitters are beginning to be identified. This review focuses on the current knowledge of the redox-dependent mechanisms which regulate the generation and activity of these gases, with particular reference to their roles in angiogenesis.
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- Rajesh K Mistry
- Cardiovascular Division, James Black Centre, King's College London BHF Centre of Excellence, 125 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9NU, UK
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- Cardiovascular Division, James Black Centre, King's College London BHF Centre of Excellence, 125 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9NU, UK.
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Bucolo C, Drago F. Carbon monoxide and the eye: Implications for glaucoma therapy. Pharmacol Ther 2011; 130:191-201. [PMID: 21295073 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2011.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2011] [Accepted: 01/14/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In the late 1990s, the scientific community witnessed a very peculiar phenomenon: the transformation of nitric oxide (NO) from a noxious gas into a key chemical messenger. The importance of NO in biology and medicine was highlighted in 1998 when the Nobel Prize was awarded in Physiology and Medicine to Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad for their pioneering work on the role of NO in the nervous, cardiovascular and immune systems. In this same time period, carbon monoxide (CO), another gas usually associated with environmental pollution, air poisoning and suicidal behavior, was also undergoing a similar change in image, although not as closely followed. It had been known for several decades that the human body generated CO upon the decomposition of hemoglobin, which was determined by the discovery that heme oxygenase (HO) is the enzymatic source of CO. However, CO's role as an endogenous neurotransmitter was established only in the early 1990s. Since then, many biological activities of CO have been demonstrated in studies using different tools, such as the pharmacological induction of HO by hemin, the direct administration of CO or the use of pro-drugs that generate CO. This review focuses on CO as a fine modulator of intraocular pressure and on its potential implications in glaucoma.
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- Claudio Bucolo
- Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, Medical School, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
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Pong WW, Eldred WD. Interactions of the gaseous neuromodulators nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen sulfide in the salamander retina. J Neurosci Res 2009; 87:2356-64. [PMID: 19267415 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The three gaseous neuromodulators nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) are endogenously produced in vertebrate retinas. The NO/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) and CO/cGMP pathways have been previously shown to interact synergistically in the turtle retina to increase cGMP levels. In this study, we examined H2S as a modulator of cGMP-like immunoreactivity (-LI) and its interactions with the NO/CO/cGMP signaling pathways in the tiger salamander retina. Stimulation with NO donor or CO significantly increased cGMP-LI from basal levels in bipolar and amacrine cells and in stratified arborizations in the inner plexiform layer. Stimulation with a combination of NO donor and CO significantly increased cGMP-LI above that seen with either stimulation alone. Nitric oxide synthase inhibitors reduced CO-induced cGMP-LI, suggesting that CO-induced cGMP-LI is not produced from direct activation of soluble guanylate cyclase. Exogenous H2S alone, from the donor NaHS, did not significantly modify cGMP-LI in dosages ranging from 2 to 1,200 microM NaHS, but there was a significant decrease in NO-induced cGMP-LI in the presence of 200 muM NaHS. This reduction of NO-induced cGMP-LI was not significantly affected by the addition of CuCl2, suggesting that the decrease was not a result of H2S and NO sequestering to form a novel nitrosothiol. NaHS did not have any significant effect on CO-induced cGMP-LI levels. Our results concur with previous studies showing synergistic interactions between NO and CO/cGMP retinal signaling pathways. We now show that H2S inhibits NO-induced cGMP-LI but not CO-induced cGMP-LI. In conclusion, all three gaseous neuromodulators have interactive roles in modulating retinal cGMP signaling.
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- Winnie W Pong
- Laboratory of Visual Neurobiology, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Li L, Hsu A, Moore PK. Actions and interactions of nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide in the cardiovascular system and in inflammation--a tale of three gases! Pharmacol Ther 2009; 123:386-400. [PMID: 19486912 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2009.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 234] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2009] [Accepted: 05/15/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen sulphide (H(2)S) together make up a family of biologically active gases (the so-called 'gaseous triumvirate') with an increasingly well defined range of physiological effects plus roles to play in a number of disease states. Over the years, most researchers have concentrated their attention on understanding the part played by a single gas in one or more body systems. It is becoming more clear that all three gases are synthesised naturally in the body, often by the same cells within the same organs, and that all three gases exert essentially similar biological effects albeit via different mechanisms. Within the cardiovascular system, for example, all are vasodilators, promote angiogenesis and vascular remodelling and are protective towards tissue damage in for example, ischaemia-reperfusion injury in the heart. Similarly, all exhibit complex effects in inflammation with both pro- and anti-inflammatory effects recognised. It seems likely that cell function is controlled not by the activity of single gases working in isolation but by the concerted activity of all three of these gases working together.
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- Ling Li
- Pharmaceutical Science Division, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE19NH, UK
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De Backer O, Lefebvre RA. Investigation of a possible interaction between the heme oxygenase/biliverdin reductase and nitric oxide synthase pathway in murine gastric fundus and jejunum. Eur J Pharmacol 2008; 590:369-76. [PMID: 18603239 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2008.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2008] [Revised: 05/16/2008] [Accepted: 06/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This study investigated the possible interaction between the heme oxygenase (HO)/biliverdin reductase (BVR) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) pathway in murine gastric fundus and jejunum, since previous studies have shown that both HO-2 and BVR are expressed in interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) and co-localized with neuronal NOS in a large proportion of myenteric neurons along the gastrointestinal tract. Neither HO inhibition by chromium mesoporphyrin (CrMP) nor co-incubation with CO or biliverdin/bilirubin affected nitrergic neurotransmission - i.e. relaxations induced by non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) nerve stimulation or exogenous NO - under normal physiological conditions. However, biliverdin/bilirubin reversed the inhibitory effect of the superoxide generator LY83583 on exogenous NO-induced relaxations in both tissues. When gastric fundus muscle strips were depleted of the endogenous antioxidant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) by the Cu-chelator DETCA, electrically induced NANC relaxations were also affected by LY82583; however, biliverdin/bilirubin could not substitute for the loss of Cu/Zn SOD when this specific antioxidant enzyme was depleted. In jejunal muscle strips, the combination DETCA plus LY83583 nearly abolished contractile phasic activity and, hence, did not allow studying nitrergic relaxation in these experimental conditions. In conclusion, this study does not establish a role for HO/CO in inhibitory NANC neurotransmission in murine gastric fundus and jejunum under normal physiological conditions. However, the antioxidants biliverdin/bilirubin might play an important role in the protection of the nitrergic neurotransmitter against oxidative stress.
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- Ole De Backer
- Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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The Effects of Arginine and Selective Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor on Pathophysiology of Sepsis in a CLP Model. J Surg Res 2008; 146:298-303. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2007] [Revised: 06/22/2007] [Accepted: 07/17/2007] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Calabrese V, Signorile A, Cornelius C, Mancuso C, Scapagnini G, Ventimiglia B, Ragusa N, Dinkova-Kostova A. Practical Approaches to Investigate Redox Regulation of Heat Shock Protein Expression and Intracellular Glutathione Redox State. Methods Enzymol 2008; 441:83-110. [DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(08)01206-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Alexander PG, Chau L, Tuan RS. Role of nitric oxide in chick embryonic organogenesis and dysmorphogenesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 79:581-94. [PMID: 17676596 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nitric oxide (NO), produced by the nitric oxide synthase family of enzymes, mediates multiple signaling functions, and when unchecked, NO causes pathological damage. Exposure of embryos to a variety of teratogens, including carbon monoxide (CO), has been shown to increase reactive intermediates, such as NO, and recent work showed that either the excess or absence of NO caused morphological defects. While endogenous NO is known to regulate many adult tissues, its role during embryonic organogenesis and/or in mediating responses to teratogen exposure has not been explored. METHODS We have examined here the presence of NO during normal chick embryonic organogenesis, and investigated the teratogenicity of NO through the application of sodium nitroprusside (SNP), which mimics NO overproduction, and NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA), which inhibits endogenous NOS activity. RESULTS Topical treatment with SNP or L-NMMA for 18 h resulted in morphological defects, specifically in the neural tube and somites, which corresponded to sites of altered apoptosis. The location of NO was histochemically correlated with the observed morphological defects. Coadministration of SNP or L-NMMA with CO showed functional coregulation and interaction between NO and CO in chick embryonic development. CONCLUSIONS Our results showed that regulation of NO is essential for normal axial development, that sites of altered NO expression correlate to those of altered apoptosis and dysmorphogenesis, and that CO coadministration resulted in a rectification of normal NO expression. Collectively, these results suggest that alteration in endogenous NO/CO signaling is responsible, at least in part, for the observed NO-induced teratogenesis.
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- Peter G Alexander
- Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-8022, USA
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Hangai-Hoger N, Tsai AG, Cabrales P, Suematsu M, Intaglietta M. Microvascular and systemic effects following top load administration of saturated carbon monoxide-saline solution. Crit Care Med 2007; 35:1123-32. [PMID: 17334240 DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000259533.84180.c7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine how top loads with different doses of carbon monoxide (CO)-saturated saline solutions (CO-saline) affect microvascular and systemic hemodynamics and to delineate the corresponding biochemical mechanisms. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING University research laboratory. SUBJECTS Male Golden Syrian hamsters. INTERVENTIONS Hamsters implemented with a dorsal window chamber were given different volumes (characterized as percent of blood volume, BV) by intravenous injection of CO-saturated saline. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Hamsters were observed until 90 mins after infusion of CO-saline solution. In the 20% BV CO-saline infusion group, observation was extended until 180 mins. Systemic variables measured included mean arterial pressure, heart rate, systemic arterial blood gases, and cardiac output and index. Microvascular hemodynamic measurements included vessel diameter, red blood cell velocity, and functional capillary density. Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) content in the chamber tissue was measured by enzyme immunoassay. 10% BV of CO-saline increased flow maximally in the microcirculation at 30 mins after infusion (207% in arterioles and 238% in venules, p < .05 vs. baseline). Functional capillary density was significantly increased in both 10% and 15% groups (p < .05 vs. baseline), and cardiac index increased 130% (p < .05 vs. baseline) at 10 mins after 10% CO-saline infusion. There were no changes of microhemodynamic variables and functional capillary density with 2.5%, 5%, and 20% CO-saline infusion during the observation period. Microvascular hemodynamic changes by 10% CO-saline infusion were inhibited completely by L-NAME pretreatment and partially by 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazole[4,3-a]quinoxqalin-1-one pretreatment. cGMP content in skin fold tissues was related to changes of vessel diameter. CONCLUSIONS Intravenous injection of CO-saturated saline caused vasodilation and improved microvascular hemodynamics in the hamster window chamber model in a dose-dependent manner. These changes were related to increased cardiac output and local cGMP content. These results support the possible use of CO-saturated solutions as a vasodilator in critical conditions.
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- Nanae Hangai-Hoger
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Wu L, Wang R. Carbon Monoxide: Endogenous Production, Physiological Functions, and Pharmacological Applications. Pharmacol Rev 2005; 57:585-630. [PMID: 16382109 DOI: 10.1124/pr.57.4.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 648] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Over the last decade, studies have unraveled many aspects of endogenous production and physiological functions of carbon monoxide (CO). The majority of endogenous CO is produced in a reaction catalyzed by the enzyme heme oxygenase (HO). Inducible HO (HO-1) and constitutive HO (HO-2) are mostly recognized for their roles in the oxidation of heme and production of CO and biliverdin, whereas the biological function of the third HO isoform, HO-3, is still unclear. The tissue type-specific distribution of these HO isoforms is largely linked to the specific biological actions of CO on different systems. CO functions as a signaling molecule in the neuronal system, involving the regulation of neurotransmitters and neuropeptide release, learning and memory, and odor response adaptation and many other neuronal activities. The vasorelaxant property and cardiac protection effect of CO have been documented. A plethora of studies have also shown the importance of the roles of CO in the immune, respiratory, reproductive, gastrointestinal, kidney, and liver systems. Our understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the production and mediate the physiological actions of CO has greatly advanced. Many diseases, including neurodegenerations, hypertension, heart failure, and inflammation, have been linked to the abnormality in CO metabolism and function. Enhancement of endogenous CO production and direct delivery of exogenous CO have found their applications in many health research fields and clinical settings. Future studies will further clarify the gasotransmitter role of CO, provide insight into the pathogenic mechanisms of many CO abnormality-related diseases, and pave the way for innovative preventive and therapeutic strategies based on the physiologic effects of CO.
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- Lingyun Wu
- Department of Biology, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1
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Overproduction of reactive oxygen species under pathophysiological conditions, including dyslipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking, is integral in the development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The reactive oxygen species released from all types of vascular cells regulate various signaling pathways that mediate not only vascular inflammation in atherogenesis but also antioxidative and antiinflammatory responses. One such protective and stress-induced protein is heme oxygenase (HO). HO is the first rate-limiting enzyme in heme breakdown to generate equimolar quantities of carbon monoxide, biliverdin, and free ferrous iron. Accumulating evidence has shown that inducible HO (HO-1) and its products function as adaptive molecules against oxidative insults. The proposed mechanisms by which HO-1 exerts its cytoprotective effects include its abilities to degrade the pro-oxidative heme, to release biliverdin and subsequently convert it bilirubin, both of which have antioxidant properties, and to generate carbon monoxide, which has antiproliferative and antiinflammatory as well as vasodilatory properties. Herein, I highlight the relationship of HO and cardiovascular disease, especially atherosclerosis, gene-targeting approaches in animal models, and the potential for and concern about HO-1 as a novel therapeutic target for cardiovascular diseases.
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- Toshisuke Morita
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 143-8540, Japan.
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Perrella J, Bhavnani BR. Protection of cortical cells by equine estrogens against glutamate-induced excitotoxicity is mediated through a calcium independent mechanism. BMC Neurosci 2005; 6:34. [PMID: 15882473 PMCID: PMC1142325 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-6-34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2004] [Accepted: 05/10/2005] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background High concentrations of glutamate can accumulate in the brain and may be involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. This form of neurotoxicity involves changes in the regulation of cellular calcium (Ca2+) and generation of free radicals such as peroxynitrite (ONOO-). Estrogen may protect against glutamate-induced cell death by reducing the excitotoxic Ca2+ influx associated with glutamate excitotoxicity. In this study, the inhibition of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) along with the effect of 17β-estradiol (17β-E2) and a more potent antioxidant Δ8, 17β-estradiol (Δ8, 17β-E2) on cell viability and intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i), following treatment of rat cortical cells with glutamate, was investigated. Results Primary rat cortical cells were cultured for 7–12 days in Neurobasal medium containing B27 supplements. Addition of glutamate (200 μM) decreased cell viability to 51.3 ± 0.7% compared to control. Treatment with the noncompetitive NMDAR antagonist, MK-801, and the NOS inhibitor, L-NAME, completely prevented cell death. Pretreatment (24 hrs) with 17β-E2 and Δ8, 17β-E2 (0.01 to 10 μM) significantly reduced cell death. 17β-E2 was more potent than Δ8, 17β-E2. Glutamate caused a rapid 2.5 fold increase in [Ca2+]i. Treatment with 0.001 to 10 μM MK-801 reduced the initial Ca2+ influx by 14–41% and increased cell viability significantly. Pretreatment with 17β-E2 and Δ8, 17β-E2 had no effect on Ca2+ influx but protected the cortical cells against glutamate-induced cell death. Conclusion Glutamate-induced cell death in cortical cultures can occur through NMDAR and NOS-linked mechanisms by increasing nitric oxide and ONOO-. Equine estrogens: 17β-E2 and Δ8, 17β-E2, significantly protected cortical cells against glutamate-induced excitotoxicity by a mechanism that appears to be independent of Ca2+ influx. To our knowledge, this is a first such observation. Whether the decrease in NOS related products such as ONOO-, is a mechanism by which estrogens protect against glutamate toxicity, remains to be investigated. Estrogen replacement therapy in healthy and young postmenopausal women may protect against neurodegenerative diseases by these mechanisms.
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- Joel Perrella
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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Aziz MTA, El-Asmar MF, Mostafa T, Atta H, Wassef MAA, Fouad HH, Roshdy NK, Rashed LA, Sabry D. Effects of Nitric Oxide Synthase and Heme Oxygenase Inducers and Inhibitors on Molecular Signaling of Erectile Function. J Clin Biochem Nutr 2005. [DOI: 10.3164/jcbn.37.103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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- K D Rainsford
- Biomedical Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK.
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Hoekstra KA, Godin DV, Cheng KM. Protective role of heme oxygenase in the blood vessel wall during atherogenesis. Biochem Cell Biol 2004; 82:351-9. [PMID: 15181468 DOI: 10.1139/o04-006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Several lines of evidence suggest that antioxidant processes and (or) endogenous antioxidants inhibit proatherogenic events in the blood vessel wall. Heme oxygenase (HO), which catabolizes heme to biliverdin, carbon monoxide, and catalytic iron, has been shown to have such antioxidative properties. The HO-1 isoform of heme oxygenase is ubiquitous and can be increased several fold by stimuli that induce cellular oxidative stress. Products of the HO reaction have important effects: carbon monoxide is a potent vasodilator, which is thought to play a role in modulation of vascular tone; biliverdin and its by-product bilirubin are potent antioxidants. Although HO induction results in an increase in catalytic free iron release, the enhancement of intracellular ferritin protein through HO-1 has been reported to decrease the cytotoxic effects of iron. Oxidized LDL has been shown to increase HO-1 expression in endothelial and smooth muscle cell cultures, and during atherogenesis. Further evidence of HO-1 expression associated with atherogenesis has been demonstrated in human, murine and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions. Moreover, genetic models of HO deficiency suggest that the actions of HO-1 are important in modulating the severity of atherosclerosis. Recent experiments in gene therapy using the HO gene suggest that interventions aimed at HO in the vessel wall could provide a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment or prevention of atherosclerotic disease.Key words: heme oxygenase, atherosclerosis, antioxidant enzymes, oxidized LDL, gene therapy.
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- Kenneth A Hoekstra
- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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Lo WC, Hsiao M, Tung CS, Tseng CJ. The cardiovascular effects of nitric oxide and carbon monoxide in the nucleus tractus solitarii of rats. J Hypertens 2004; 22:1182-90. [PMID: 15167454 DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200406000-00020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO) are endogenously synthesized gaseous molecules that act as neurotransmitters in both central and peripheral nervous systems. Previously, we have shown the involvement of NO and CO in central cardiovascular regulation and baroreflex modulation. In this study we investigated the possible interaction of NO and CO in the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) on cardiovascular effects in rats. DESIGN AND METHODS Male Sprague-Dawley rats were anesthetized with urethane, and mean blood pressure (MBP) and heart rate (HR) were monitored intra-arterially. l-Arginine (3.3 nmol), the precursor of NO, or hematin (1 nmol), a heme molecule cleaved by heme oxygenase (HO) to yield CO, were microinjected unilaterally into the NTS. Cardiovascular effects were evaluated before and after microinjection of the HO inhibitor zinc deuteroporphyrin 2,4-bis glycol (ZnDPBG: 1 nmol) or the NO synthase (NOS) inhibitors N -monomethyl-l-arginine (l-NMMA: 10, 33 and 100 nmol) and N-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (l-NAME: 10, 33 and 100 nmol). RESULTS Unilateral microinjection of l-arginine or hematin into the NTS produced decreases in blood pressure and heart rate. These cardiovascular effects of both l-arginine and hematin were attenuated by prior administration of the NOS inhibitors l-NMMA or l-NAME in a dose-dependent manner. However, prior administration of ZnDPBG attenuated only the cardiovascular effects of hematin but not l-arginine. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrated that the HO/CO pathway might couple to the activation of NOS via the liberation of NO, to participate in central regulation of cardiovascular function. They also suggested a possible interaction between the NO/NOS and CO/HO systems in the NTS of rats.
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- Wan-Chen Lo
- Department of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
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Watkins CC, Boehning D, Kaplin AI, Rao M, Ferris CD, Snyder SH. Carbon monoxide mediates vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-associated nonadrenergic/noncholinergic neurotransmission. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:2631-5. [PMID: 14983060 PMCID: PMC357001 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0308695100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Carbon monoxide (CO) synthesized by heme oxygenase 2 (HO2) and nitric oxide (NO) produced by neuronal NO synthase (nNOS) mediate nonadrenergic/noncholinergic (NANC) intestinal relaxation. In many areas of the gastrointestinal tract, NO and CO function as coneurotransmitters. In the internal anal sphincter (IAS), NANC relaxation is mediated primarily by CO. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) has also been shown to participate in NANC relaxation throughout the intestine, including the IAS. By using a combination of pharmacology and genetic knockout of the biosynthetic enzymes for CO and NO, we show that the physiologic effects of exogenous and endogenous VIP in the IAS are mediated by HO2-synthesized CO.
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- Crystal C Watkins
- Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Cao L, Eldred WD. Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase block carbon monoxide-induced increases in cGMP in retina. Brain Res 2003; 988:78-83. [PMID: 14519528 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(03)03346-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Previous studies indicate that the gaseous messengers carbon monoxide (CO) and nitric oxide (NO) can interact to cause robust increases in intracellular cGMP levels in the retina. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the biochemical basis of the interactions between NO and CO for these increases. Turtle retinas were incubated in vitro with CO to stimulate cGMP production in the presence or absence of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitors N-omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester and S-methyl-thiocitrulline. Cyclic GMP immunocytochemistry was then used to evaluate the changes in cGMP levels in response to these stimuli. The results indicated that CO itself stimulated increases in cGMP in bipolar and amacrine cells, and that the increases were completely blocked by SMTC and L-NAME. We postulate that the increases of cGMP in response to CO might be mediated, at least partly, by CO displacing and releasing NO from its intracellular storage pool(s).
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- Luxiang Cao
- Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Wagener FADTG, Volk HD, Willis D, Abraham NG, Soares MP, Adema GJ, Figdor CG. Different faces of the heme-heme oxygenase system in inflammation. Pharmacol Rev 2003; 55:551-71. [PMID: 12869663 DOI: 10.1124/pr.55.3.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 422] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The heme-heme oxygenase system has recently been recognized to possess important regulatory properties. It is tightly involved in both physiological as well as pathophysiological processes, such as cytoprotection, apoptosis, and inflammation. Heme functions as a double-edged sword. In moderate quantities and bound to protein, it forms an essential element for various biological processes, but when unleashed in large amounts, it can become toxic by mediating oxidative stress and inflammation. The effect of this free heme on the vascular system is determined by extracellular factors, such as hemoglobin/heme-binding proteins, haptoglobin, albumin, and hemopexin, and intracellular factors, including heme oxygenases and ferritin. Heme oxygenase (HO) enzyme activity results in the degradation of heme and the production of iron, carbon monoxide, and biliverdin. All these heme-degradation products are potentially toxic, but may also provide strong cytoprotection, depending on the generated amounts and the microenvironment. Pre-induction of HO activity has been demonstrated to ameliorate inflammation and mediate potent resistance to oxidative injury. A better understanding of the complex heme-heme
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- Frank A D T G Wagener
- Department of Tumor Immunology, University Medical Center Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Watts RN, Ponka P, Richardson DR. Effects of nitrogen monoxide and carbon monoxide on molecular and cellular iron metabolism: mirror-image effector molecules that target iron. Biochem J 2003; 369:429-40. [PMID: 12423201 PMCID: PMC1223127 DOI: 10.1042/bj20021302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2002] [Revised: 11/05/2002] [Accepted: 11/07/2002] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Many effector functions of nitrogen monoxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO) are mediated through their high-affinity for iron (Fe). In this review, the roles of NO and CO are examined in terms of their effects on the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in Fe metabolism. Both NO and CO avidly form complexes with a plethora of Fe-containing molecules. The generation of NO and CO is mediated by the nitric oxide synthase and haem oxygenase (HO) families of enzymes respectively. The effects of NO on Fe metabolism have been well characterized, whereas knowledge of the effects of CO remains within its infancy. In terms of the role of NO in Fe metabolism, one of the best characterized interactions includes its effect on the iron regulatory proteins. These molecules are mRNA-binding proteins that control the expression of the transferrin receptor 1 and ferritin, molecules that are involved in Fe uptake and storage respectively. Apart from this, activated macrophages impart their cytotoxic activity by generating NO, which results in marked Fe mobilization from tumour-cell targets. This deprives the cell of the Fe that is required for DNA synthesis and energy production. Considering that HO degrades haem, resulting in the release of CO, Fe(II) and biliverdin, it is suggested that a CO-Fe complex will form. This may account for the rapid Fe mobilization observed from macrophages after haemoglobin catabolism. Intriguingly, overexpression of HO results in cellular Fe mobilization, suggesting that CO has a similar effect to NO on Fe trafficking. Preliminary evidence suggests that, like NO, CO plays important roles in Fe metabolism.
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- Ralph N Watts
- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Iron Metabolism and Chelation Program, P.O. Box 81, High Street, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2031
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Wang J, Lu S, Moënne-Loccoz P, Ortiz de Montellano PR. Interaction of nitric oxide with human heme oxygenase-1. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:2341-7. [PMID: 12433915 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m211131200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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NO and CO may complement each other as signaling molecules in some physiological situations. We have examined the binding of NO to human heme oxygenase-1 (hHO-1), an enzyme that oxidizes heme to biliverdin, CO, and free iron, to determine whether inhibition of hHO-1 by NO can contribute to the signaling interplay of NO and CO. An Fe(3+)-NO hHO-1-heme complex is formed with NO or the NO donors NOC9 or 2-(N,N-diethylamino)-diazenolate-2-oxide.sodium salt. Resonance Raman spectroscopy shows that ferric hHO-1-heme forms a 6-coordinated, low spin complex with NO. The nu(N-O) vibration of this complex detected by Fourier transform IR is only 4 cm(-1) lower than that of the corresponding metmyoglobin (met-Mb) complex but is broader, suggesting a greater degree of ligand conformational freedom. The Fe(3+)-NO complex of hHO-1 is much more stable than that of met-Mb. Stopped-flow studies indicate that k(on) for formation of the hHO-1-heme Fe(3+)-NO complex is approximately 50-times faster, and k(off) 10 times slower, than for met-Mb, resulting in K(d) = 1.4 microm for NO. NO thus binds 500-fold more tightly to ferric hHO-1-heme than to met-Mb. The hHO-1 mutations E29A, G139A, D140A, S142A, G143A, G143F, and K179A/R183A do not significantly diminish the tight binding of NO, indicating that NO binding is not highly sensitive to mutations of residues that normally stabilize the distal water ligand. As expected from the K(d) value, the enzyme is reversibly inhibited upon exposure to pathologically, and possibly physiologically, relevant concentrations of NO. Inhibition of hHO-1 by NO may contribute to the pleiotropic responses to NO and CO.
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- Jinling Wang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, 94143-0446, USA
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Carbon monoxide and nitric oxide are two endogenously produced gases that can act as second messenger molecules. Heme oxygenase and nitric oxide synthase are the enzyme systems responsible for generating carbon monoxide and nitric oxide, respectively. Both carbon monoxide and nitric oxide share similar properties, such as the ability to activate soluble guanylate cyclase to increase cyclic GMP. It is becoming increasingly clear that these two gases do not always work independently, but rather can modulate each other's activity. Although much is known about the heme oxygenase/carbon monoxide and nitric oxide synthase/nitric oxide pathways, how these two important systems interact is less well understood. This review attempts to define the current known relationship between carbon monoxide and nitric oxide as it relates to their production and physiological function.
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- Cynthia L Hartsfield
- Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA.
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Kämpfer H, Kolb N, Manderscheid M, Wetzler C, Pfeilschifter J, Frank S. Macrophage-Derived Heme-Oxygenase-1: Expression, Regulation, and Possible Functions in Skin Repair. Mol Med 2001. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03401854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Vassalli F, Pierre S, Julien V, Bouckaert Y, Brimioulle S, Naeije R. Inhibition of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction by carbon monoxide in dogs. Crit Care Med 2001; 29:359-66. [PMID: 11246317 DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200102000-00026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that carbon monoxide might participate in the modulation of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) by prostacyclin (PGI2) and nitric oxide. DESIGN Prospective, interventional study. SETTING University laboratory. SUBJECTS Nineteen intact anesthetized mongrel dogs. INTERVENTIONS Right heart catheterization for the measurements of mean pulmonary artery pressure (Ppa), left atrial pressure estimated from occluded Ppa (Ppao), pulmonary capillary pressure (Pcp) calculated from the Ppa decay curve after balloon occlusion, and cardiac output (Q); inferior vena cava balloon for the control of Q by manipulation of venous return; ventilation in hyperoxia (fraction of inspired O2, 0.4) or in hypoxia (Fio2, 0.1); inhibition of cyclooxygenase by indomethacin (Indo); inhibition of nitric oxide synthase by NG-nitro-l-arginine (L-NA); inhibition of heme oxygenase by mesoporphyrin IX (SnMP); inhalation of nitric oxide (20 ppm); and inhalation of carbon monoxide (100 ppm). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS The first seven dogs were weak responders to hypoxia as assessed by a hypoxia-induced increase in the gradient between Ppa and Ppao, measured at one level of Q kept constant, by an average of only 2 mm Hg (p = NS). This HPV was markedly increased by the combined administration of Indo and L-NA. A further enhancement of HPV was observed after the addition of SnMP, leading to severe pulmonary hypertension with an average increase in Ppa to 39 mm Hg. Inhaled nitric oxide inhibited HPV only after the combined administration of Indo, L-NA, and SnMP. Inhaled carbon monoxide had no effect. The next 12 dogs were stronger responders to hypoxia, as assessed by a hypoxia-induced increase in the gradient between Ppa and Ppao, measured at several levels of Q, by an average of 3 mm Hg (p <.05). This HPV was of the same magnitude after administration of placebo (n = 6) or SnMP (n = 6). Addition of Indo enhanced HPV to the same extent in the placebo and in the SnMP groups. Addition of L-NA induced a further enhancement of HPV, which was, however, greater in the SnMP group. There was a slight increase in the capillary-venous segment relative to the arterial segment in hypoxic conditions, but the partitioning of pulmonary vascular resistance was otherwise unaffected by nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, or PGI2. CONCLUSIONS Endogenous carbon monoxide modulates canine HPV only in the absence of nitric oxide. The vasodilation mediated by nitric oxide, PGI2, or carbon monoxide is essentially distributed between proximal and distal sites proportionally to the degree of constriction produced during hypoxia.
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- F Vassalli
- Laboratory of Physiology, Free University of Brussels School of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
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Bouton C, Demple B. Nitric oxide-inducible expression of heme oxygenase-1 in human cells. Translation-independent stabilization of the mRNA and evidence for direct action of nitric oxide. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:32688-93. [PMID: 11032845 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.42.32688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in mammalian cells contributes to resistance to various types of free radical damage. Nitric oxide (NO) induces HO-1 in many cell types, but the specific contribution of transcriptional or post-transcriptional effects to this induction have remained unresolved. Here we show that the extent of HO-1 mRNA expression in IMR-90 and HeLa cells depends on the rate of NO delivery, and that the induction occurs more slowly in HeLa than in human fibroblast (IMR-90) cells. We used a specific NO scavenger (2-(4-carboxylphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazolin-1-oxyl 3-oxide) that completely prevented the inducible expression of HO-1 by NO, pointing to direct signaling action of NO in this induction. By inhibiting transcription during the NO exposure, we have confirmed that NO treatment activates a mechanism that stabilizes HO-1 mRNA. The increase in the HO-1 mRNA half-life in IMR-90 cells was directly correlated with increasing rates of NO release. We also show here that the stabilization of the HO-1 message does not require de novo protein synthesis. Collectively, these results show that stabilization of HO-1 mRNA can be finely tuned to the NO exposure, and that the effect in human fibroblasts is mediated by a pre-existing protein.
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- C Bouton
- Department of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Alcaraz MJ, Habib A, Lebret M, Créminon C, Lévy-Toledano S, Maclouf J. Enhanced expression of haem oxygenase-1 by nitric oxide and antiinflammatory drugs in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. Br J Pharmacol 2000; 130:57-64. [PMID: 10780998 PMCID: PMC1572037 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0703281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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1. Haem oxygenase-1 (HO-1) can exert protective effects against oxidative stress and inflammation. Fibroblasts participate in inflammatory responses where they produce high levels of prostaglandins (PGs) and nitric oxide (NO). However, little is known of the presence of HO-1 in these cells and the possible interactions among these pathways. Incubation of cells with NO donors, spermine nonoate (SPNO) and S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP), induced a dose- and time-dependent expression of HO-1 protein. 2. NO donors increased basal PGE(2) release although they reduced PGE(2) accumulated in the medium and cyclo-oxygenase (COX) activity when cells were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). COX-2 protein was weakly induced by SPNO in basal conditions and in the presence of LPS a synergy for HO-1 and COX-2 protein expression was observed. 3. Our results indicate that reactive oxygen species participate in the inductive effect of NO donors or LPS on HO-1 expression, whereas endogenous NO production may play a role in the mechanism of the synergy exhibited by SPNO and LPS on HO-1 and COX-2 expression. In this system, zinc protoporphyrin IX did not affect nitrite levels but reduced COX activity. 4. The selective COX-2 inhibitors SC58125 and NS398 as well as the non-selective COX inhibitor, indomethacin, strongly reduced PGE(2) synthesis and showed a synergy with NO donors in HO-1 and COX-2 induction. Addition of PGE(2) had no effect, suggesting a mechanism independent of PGs formation. 5. In inflammatory conditions a number of factors could cooperate to induce HO-1 and COX-2, with a positive regulation by COX inhibitors.
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- M J Alcaraz
- Unité 348 INSERM, Institut Féderatif de Recherche Lariboisière-Circulation, 75475 Paris cedex 10, France
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Scharte M, Bone HG, Van Aken H, Meyer J. Increased carbon monoxide in exhaled air of critically ill patients. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 267:423-6. [PMID: 10623635 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.1936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Heme oxygenase produces carbon monoxide (CO) during breakdown of heme molecules primarily in liver and spleen. Recent data suggest that CO is also produced in the lungs. CO is excreted by exhalation via the lungs. A number of inflammatory agents induce the expression of heme oxygenase, possibly leading to increased CO production. To investigate whether critical illness results in increased CO production we measured the CO concentration in exhaled air in 30 critically ill patients and in healthy controls (n = 6). Critically ill patients showed a significantly higher CO concentration in exhaled air (median 2.4 ppm, 95% CI 1.0-7.0 ppm vs median 1.55 ppm, 95% CI 1.2-1.7 ppm, P = 0.01) as well as total CO production (median 20 ml/min, 95% CI 8 to 90 ml/min vs median 13.5 ml/min, 95% CI 11 to 19 ml/min, P = 0.026) compared to healthy controls. No correlation was found between CO concentration in exhaled air and carboxyhemoglobin concentration in arterial and central venous blood (P > 0.05). The increase of CO concentration in exhaled air in critical illness suggests an induction of inducible heme oxygenase (HO-1) and might reflect the severity of illness.
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- M Scharte
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, D-48149, Germany
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Thorup C, Jones CL, Gross SS, Moore LC, Goligorsky MS. Carbon monoxide induces vasodilation and nitric oxide release but suppresses endothelial NOS. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 277:F882-9. [PMID: 10600935 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1999.277.6.f882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The vascular effects of carbon monoxide (CO) resemble those of nitric oxide (NO), but it is unknown whether the two messengers converge or exhibit reciprocal feedback regulation. These questions were examined in microdissected perfused renal resistance arteries (RRA) studied using NO-sensitive microelectrodes. Perfusion of RRA with buffers containing increasing concentrations of CO resulted in a biphasic release of NO. The NO response peaked at 100 nM CO and then declined to virtually zero at 10 microM. When a series of 50-s pulses of 100 nM CO were applied repeatedly (150-s interval), the amplitude of consecutive NO responses was diminished. NO release from RRA showed dependence on L-arginine but not D-arginine, and the responses to CO were inhibited by pretreatment with NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), an inhibitor of NO synthases (NOS). CO (100 nM) also suppressed NO release induced by 100 microM carbachol, a potent agonist for endothelial NOS (eNOS). RRA from rats in which endogenous CO production from inducible HO was elevated (cobalt chloride 12 h prior to study) also showed suppressed responses to carbachol. Furthermore, responses consistent with these findings were obtained in juxtamedullary afferent arterioles perfused in vitro, where the vasodilatory response to CO was biphasic and the response to acetylcholine was blunted. Collectively, these data suggest that the CO-induced NO release could be attributed to either stimulation of eNOS or to NO displacement from a cellular storage pool. To address this, direct in vitro measurements with an NO-selective electrode of NO production by recombinant eNOS revealed that CO dose-dependently inhibits NO synthesis. Together, the above data demonstrate that, whereas high levels of CO inhibit NOS activity and NO generation, lower concentrations of CO induce release of NO from a large intracellular pool and, therefore, may mimic the vascular effects of NO.
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- C Thorup
- Department of Physiology, Göteborg University, S-41390 Göteborg, Sweden
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Immenschuh S, Tan M, Ramadori G. Nitric oxide mediates the lipopolysaccharide dependent upregulation of the heme oxygenase-1 gene expression in cultured rat Kupffer cells. J Hepatol 1999; 30:61-9. [PMID: 9927151 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8278(99)80008-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS Heme oxygenase catalyzes the rate-limiting enzymatic step of heme degradation. The inducible isoform of heme oxygenase, heme oxygenase-1, is expressed at a low level in most tissues and is upregulated by its substrate heme and various stress stimuli. Kupffer cells which represent the largest population of the body's tissue macrophages serve physiological functions in the defense against various pathogens such as lipopolysaccharide. The goal of the present study was to investigate the heme oxygenase-1 gene expression in Kupffer cells of rat liver and in isolated Kupffer cell cultures during treatment with lipopolysaccharide. METHODS Cryostat sections of normal rat liver were investigated by immunofluorescence double-staining using specific antibodies for rat heme oxygenase-1 and ED2. Isolation and cell culture of Kupffer cells and primary hepatocytes from rat liver, as well as Northern and Western blot analysis, were performed with standard protocols. RESULTS Heme oxygenase-1 protein was highly expressed in large sinusoidal cells of normal rat liver, which were identified as Kupffer cells by staining with the macrophage surface marker ED2. By contrast, no expression of heme oxygenase-1 was detected in liver parenchymal cells. High expression of heme oxygenase-1 was also found in isolated Kupffer cells in culture by immunocytochemical staining as well as by Western and Northern blot analysis. After treatment of Kupffer cells cultures with lipopolysaccharide, heme oxygenase-1 was upregulated on the protein and mRNA level in a time- and dose-dependent manner. This increase in heme oxygenase-1 expression by lipopolysaccharide was prevented by the nitric oxide inhibitor N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine which was reversed by an excess of L-arginine. Various nitric oxide donors up-regulated heme oxygenase-1 mRNA expression in Kupffer cells. CONCLUSIONS The lipopolysaccharide-dependent upregulation of the heme oxygenase-1 gene which is highly expressed in Kupffer cells is mediated by a nitric oxide-dependent mechanism.
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- S Immenschuh
- Zentrum Innere Medizin, Abteilung Gastroenterologie und Endokrinologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
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Turcanu V, Dhouib M, Poindron P. Heme oxygenase inhibits nitric oxide synthase by degrading heme: a negative feedback regulation mechanism for nitric oxide production. Transplant Proc 1998; 30:4184-5. [PMID: 9865340 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(98)01385-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- V Turcanu
- Department of Immunopharmacology, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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Ye J, Laychock SG. A protective role for heme oxygenase expression in pancreatic islets exposed to interleukin-1beta. Endocrinology 1998; 139:4155-63. [PMID: 9751495 DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.10.6244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Heme oxygenase (HO)-1 expression was investigated in rat isolated pancreatic islets. Freshly isolated islets showed no evidence of HO-1 expression. After a 20-h culture, there was a small increase in HO-1 in control islets, and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) induced HO-1 expression above control levels. N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine inhibited the IL-1beta-induced increase in HO-1. Sodium nitroprusside-generated nitric oxide also increased HO-1 expression. CoCl2 induced a concentration- and time-dependent increase in HO-1, but not heat shock protein 70, expression. Cobalt chloride (CoCl2) protected islets from the inhibitory effects of IL-1beta on glucose-stimulated insulin release and glucose oxidation. Nickel chloride did not mimic the effects of CoCl2. An inhibitor of HO-1 activity, zinc-protoporphyrin IX (ZnPP), prevented the protective effect of CoCl2 on insulin release with IL-1beta but did not affect HO-1 expression or the inhibitory response to IL-1beta alone. ZnPP also inhibited the protective effect of hemin in IL-1beta-treated islets. CoCl2 inhibited the marked increase in islet nitrite production in response to IL-1beta. Cobalt-protoporphyrin IX (CoPP), which increased HO expression and activity, also protected islets from the inhibitory effects of IL-1beta, even though IL-1beta largely blocked the CoPP-induced increase in HO-1 expression. In betaHC9 cells, CoCl2 increased HO-1 expression and HO activity, whereas CoPP directly activated HO. ZnPP inhibited basal and CoCl2-stimulated HO activity. Thus, increased HO-1 expression and/or HO activity in response to CoCl2, CoPP, and hemin, seems to mediate protective responses of pancreatic islets against IL-1beta. HO-1 may be protective of beta-cells because of the scavenging of free heme, the antioxidant effects of the end-product bilirubin, or the generation of carbon monoxide, which might have insulin secretion-promoting effects and inhibitory effects on nitric oxide synthase.
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- J Ye
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the State University of New York, Buffalo 14214, USA
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Juckett M, Zheng Y, Yuan H, Pastor T, Antholine W, Weber M, Vercellotti G. Heme and the endothelium. Effects of nitric oxide on catalytic iron and heme degradation by heme oxygenase. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:23388-97. [PMID: 9722574 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.36.23388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We studied the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on the control of excess cellular heme and release of catalytically active iron. Endothelial cells (ECs) exposed to hemin followed by a NO donor have a ferritin content that is 16% that of cells exposed to hemin alone. Hemin-treated ECs experience a 3.5-fold rise in non-heme, catalytic iron 2 h later, but a hemin rechallenge 20 h later results in only a 24% increase. The addition of a NO donor after the first hemin exposure prevents this adaptive response, presumably due to effects on ferritin synthesis. NO donors were found to reduce iron release from hemin, while hemin accumulated in cells. A NO donor, in a dose-dependent fashion, inhibited heme oxygenase activity, measured by bilirubin production. Using low temperature EPR spectroscopy, heme oxygenase inhibition correlated with nitrosylation of free heme in microsomes. Nitrosylation of cellular heme prevented iron release, for while there was heme oxygenase-dependent release of iron in cells incubated with hemin for 24 h, the addition of a NO donor blocked iron release. This indicates that NO readily nitrosylates intracellular free heme and prevents its degradation by heme oxygenase. Nitrosylation of heme was found to reduce sensitization of cells to oxidative injury.
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- M Juckett
- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA.
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Matsuoka Y, Kitamura Y, Okazaki M, Kakimura J, Tooyama I, Kimura H, Taniguchi T. Kainic acid induction of heme oxygenase in vivo and in vitro. Neuroscience 1998; 85:1223-33. [PMID: 9681959 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(97)00678-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Heme oxygenase, catalyses oxidation of the heme molecule in concert with NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase and then specifically cleaves heme into biliverdin, carbon monoxide, and iron. Biliverdin and its product, bilirubin, are known to be strong antioxidants. Kainic acid is a potent neurotoxin, and induces selective neuronal loss in the rat hippocampus. Kainic acid acts on the kainate receptors, and kainic acid neurotoxicity may be in part mediated by oxidative stress. In this study, we examined whether or not heme oxygenase was activated in kainic acid-induced neurotoxicity. After intracerebroventricular injection of kainic acid, the heme oxygenase-1 protein level was strongly enhanced, although the constitutive heme oxygenase (heme oxygenase-2) protein level was not changed. One day after treatment, the protein level of heme oxygenase-1 reached a maximum and then gradually decreased over a period of three to seven days. In the rat hippocampus, cells expressing heme oxygenase-1 in vivo were predominately microglia and only a few astrocytes. In addition, heme oxygenase-1 immunoreactivity was predominantly co-localized with major histocompatibility complex class II-, and partly co-localized with class I-immunoreactive microglia. In cultured glial cells in vitro, heme oxygenase- protein was expressed in the microglia even with the vehicle treatment, and was strongly induced in astrocytes by kainic acid treatment. These results suggest that ameboid microglia, which express both heme oxygenase-1 and major histocompatibility complex antigens, may play a key role in a delayed episode of kainic acid-induced microglial activation and neurodegeneration.
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- Y Matsuoka
- Department of Neurobiology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Yamashina, Japan
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Colville-Nash PR, Qureshi SS, Willis D, Willoughby DA. Inhibition of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase by Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Agonists: Correlation with Induction of Heme Oxygenase 1. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.2.978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Genetic knock-out in mice of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPARα) can prolong inflammation in response to leukotriene B4. Although cyclooxygenase 2 has been shown to be induced by PPAR activation, the effect of PPAR agonists on the key inflammatory enzyme systems of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and stress proteins has not been investigated. The effect on these of naturally occurring eicosanoid PPAR agonists (leukotriene B4 and 8(S)-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, which are PPARα selective; PGA2, PGD2, PGJ2, and Δ12PGJ2, which are PPARγ selective) and the synthetic PPARα agonist Wy14,643 was examined in activated RAW264.7 murine macrophages. Leukotriene B4 and 8(S)-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid stimulated nitrite accumulation, indicative of enhanced NOS activity. PGA2, PGD2, PGJ2, Δ12PGJ2, and Wy14,643 reduced nitrite accumulation, with Δ12PGJ2 being the most effective. The mechanism behind this reduction was examined using Western blotting. Inhibition of nitrite accumulation was associated with a fall in inducible NOS protein and an induction of heme oxygenase 1, correlating both dose dependently and temporally. Other proteins examined (cyclooxygenase 2, heme oxygenase 2, heat shock protein 70, and glucose-regulated protein 78) were unaffected. The data suggest that naturally occurring PPAR agonists can inhibit the inducible NOS enzyme pathway. This inhibition may be mediated by modulation of the stress protein, heme oxygenase 1. Thus, the generation of eicosanoid breakdown products during inflammation may contribute to its eventual resolution by activation of the PPAR system. This system may thus represent a novel target for therapeutic intervention in inflammatory disease.
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- Paul R. Colville-Nash
- Department of Experimental Pathology, St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Pathology, St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Pathology, St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Pathology, St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
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Kitamura Y, Matsuoka Y, Nomura Y, Taniguchi T. Induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase and heme oxygenase-1 in rat glial cells. Life Sci 1998; 62:1717-21. [PMID: 9585163 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(98)00134-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Recent observations suggest a possible interaction between the nitric oxide (NO)/NO synthases and carbon monoxide (CO)/heme oxygenases systems. We examined the effects of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), and NO donor such as S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) on induction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in mixed glial cells and in rat hippocampus. In in vitro glial cells, treatment with LPS induced the expression of 130-kDa iNOS after 6 h, and NO2- accumulation and enhancement of the protein level of 33-kDa HO-1 after 12 h. In addition, treatment with SNAP induced HO-1 expression after 6 h. Although a NOS inhibitor, such as N(G)-nitro-L-arginine (NNA), did not change LPS-induced iNOS expression, the inhibitor suppressed both NO2- accumulation and the enhancement of HO-1. Immunocytochemistry showed that LPS-treatment induced iNOS-immunoreactivity predominantly in microglia, while this treatment induced HO-1-immunoreactivity in both microglia and astrocytes. These results suggest that endogenous NO production by iNOS in microglia causes autocrine- and paracrine-induction of HO-1 protein in microglia and astrocytes in rat brain.
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- Y Kitamura
- Department of Neurobiology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan
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Acevedo CH, Ahmed A. Hemeoxygenase-1 inhibits human myometrial contractility via carbon monoxide and is upregulated by progesterone during pregnancy. J Clin Invest 1998; 101:949-55. [PMID: 9486963 PMCID: PMC508644 DOI: 10.1172/jci927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Nitric oxide was proposed as an endogenous inhibitor of myometrial contractility during pregnancy. Carbon monoxide (CO) like nitric oxide increases cGMP and is generated during the degradation of heme to biliverdin IX by hemeoxygenases (HO). Here we report that the expression of both HO-1 (inducible) and HO-2 (constitutive) were > 15-fold higher in pregnant myometrium compared to nonpregnant myometrium (n = 4, P < 0.001, P < 0.005, respectively). Moreover, the activation of the HO-CO pathway by the HO inducer, hemin (10 microM), completely inhibited spontaneous contractility (n = 3). Oxytocin-stimulated contractions (n = 5) were also significantly reduced (P < 0.05) in myometrial strips mounted for isometric recording under 2 g tension in Krebs solution. Reverse transcription-PCR analysis revealed that mRNA encoding HO-1 and HO-2 was undetected in explant cultures of nonlaboring pregnant myometrium under basal conditions, however, exposure to progesterone, but not estradiol-17beta, induced the expression of HO-1 and HO-2 mRNAs. Progesterone also significantly induced HO-1 protein synthesis (n = 4, P < 0.001) while estradiol-17beta had no effect (n = 4). In term (37-42-wk gestation) nonlaboring myometrial explants, CO production was stimulated by progesterone (10(-6) M) (n = 2) and hemin (10 microM) (n = 3) after 2 h of incubation and the effect of hemin was inhibited by 1 h of preincubation with the HO inhibitor tin protoporphyrin IX (20 microM). This study clearly demonstrates the expression of HO in the human myometrium and shows that its induction produces CO that limits uterine contractility in pregnant myometrium indicating a role for the HO-CO-cGMP pathway in the maintenance of the quiescent state of the uterus during pregnancy.
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- C H Acevedo
- Reproductive Physiopathology Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Birmingham Women's Hospital, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TG, United Kingdom
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Kitamura Y, Furukawa M, Matsuoka Y, Tooyama I, Kimura H, Nomura Y, Taniguchi T. In vitro and in vivo induction of heme oxygenase-1 in rat glial cells: Possible involvement of nitric oxide production from inducible nitric oxide synthase. Glia 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1136(199802)22:2<138::aid-glia5>3.0.co;2-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Hartsfield CL, Alam J, Cook JL, Choi AM. Regulation of heme oxygenase-1 gene expression in vascular smooth muscle cells by nitric oxide. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1997; 273:L980-8. [PMID: 9374724 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.1997.273.5.l980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Heme oxygenase (HO)-mediated heme degradation is the primary mechanism for production of cellular carbon monoxide (CO). Analogous to nitric oxide (NO), CO mediates physiological and cellular functions such as vasodilation, stimulation of guanylate cyclase, and neuronal transmission. In view of accumulating data demonstrating a correlation between the activity of these two gaseous molecules and that the predominant source of CO is via HO catalysis, we hypothesized that NO regulates HO expression. We demonstrate that the NO donor spermine NONOate (SNN) increases steady-state levels of HO-1 mRNA in aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (aSMC) in both a time- and dose-dependent manner. The accumulation of HO-1 mRNA that correlated with increased HO-1 protein synthesis resulted from both an increased rate of gene transcription and a decreased rate of mRNA turnover. Inhibition of the NO-induced HO-1 mRNA expression by cycloheximide suggests that new protein synthesis is required for increased HO-1 gene expression. Induction of HO-1 expression by SNN occurs in a guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP)-independent manner because exposure of cells to 8-bromoguanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate, a cGMP analog, did not increase HO-1 mRNA levels, and pretreatment of cells with 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one, a selective guanylate cyclase inhibitor, did not prevent SNN-induced HO-1 mRNA accumulation. The antioxidant N-acetyl-L-cysteine markedly inhibited SNN-induced HO-1 mRNA expression, whereas peroxynitrite did not induce HO-1 expression in aSMC. Interestingly, CO did not attenuate NO-induced HO-1 expression through an autocrine negative feedback mechanism as had been observed for hypoxia-induced HO-1 expression. These data provide evidence for an important regulatory network between NO and CO via HO-1.
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- C L Hartsfield
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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Hedlund P, Ekström P, Larsson B, Alm P, Andersson KE. Heme oxygenase and NO-synthase in the human prostate--relation to adrenergic, cholinergic and peptide-containing nerves. JOURNAL OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM 1997; 63:115-26. [PMID: 9138243 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1838(96)00139-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In the human prostate, the distribution of heme oxygenase (HO-1 and HO-2)-, nitric oxide synthase (NOS)-, and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-immunoreactive (IR), acetylcholine-esterase (AChE)-positive, and some peptidergic nerve structures was investigated. Cell bodies and nerve fibers within coarse nerve trunks expressed HO-1-, HO-2-, NOS-, TH-, and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)-immunoreactivities, and were AChE-positive, but, as revealed by confocal microscopy. HO- and NOS-immunoreactivities were found in separate nerves. Along strains of smooth muscle, intraglandular septa, and around acini, HO-1-, NOS-, and VIP-IR nerves, and AChE-positive fibers were observed. Double immunostaining showed that NOS- and VIP-immunoreactivities were generally co-localized in varicose nerve terminals. Some TH-IR terminals had profiles that were similar, but not identical, to those of NOS-, HO-1-, or VIP-IR terminals. NPY-IR nerves were similarly distributed as VIP- and NOS-IR fibers, and were found in rich amounts. Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-IR nerves were few compared to other nerve populations studies. NOS- and CGRP-IR terminals had similar profiles, but the immunoreactivities were not co-localized. Nitric oxide and electrical stimulation of nerves relaxed noradrenaline-contracted preparations of prostatic stroma. Inhibition of synthesis of nitric oxide abolished the electrically induced relaxations. VIP had small relaxant effects, whereas carbon monoxide was without effect on noradrenaline-contracted strips. The innervation pattern and the functional effects suggest that the L-arginine/nitric oxide pathway may have a role in the control of human prostatic smooth muscle activity and/or in secretory neurotransmission. A physiological role of carbon monoxide in the prostate remains to be established.
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- P Hedlund
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Lund, Sweden
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The heme oxygenase (HO) system consists of two forms identified to date: the oxidative stress-inducible protein HO-1 (HSP32) and the constitutive isozyme HO-2. These proteins, which are different gene products, have little in common in primary structure, regulation, or tissue distribution. Both, however, catalyze oxidation of heme to biologically active molecules: iron, a gene regulator; biliverdin, an antioxidant; and carbon monoxide, a heme ligand. Finding the impressive heme-degrading activity of brain led to the suggestion that "HO in brain has functions aside from heme degradation" and to subsequent exploration of carbon monoxide as a promising and potentially significant messenger molecule. There is much parallelism between the biological actions and functions of the CO- and NO-generating systems; and their regulation is intimately linked. This review highlights the current information on molecular and biochemical properties of HO-1 and HO-2 and addresses the possible mechanisms for mutual regulatory interactions between the CO- and NO-generating systems.
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- M D Maines
- Department of Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York 14642, USA
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Willis D, Moore AR, Frederick R, Willoughby DA. Heme oxygenase: a novel target for the modulation of the inflammatory response. Nat Med 1996; 2:87-90. [PMID: 8564848 DOI: 10.1038/nm0196-87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 613] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Chronic inflammatory diseases place a heavy social and economic burden on the resources of many nations, but the number of safe and effective treatments is limited. To date, the major research effort has concentrated on those mediators responsible for the initiation and maintenance of the pathological process. In contrast, little attention has been focused on endogenous factors responsible for the resolution of the inflammation. Heme oxygenase ((HO); EC 1.14.99.3) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the catabolism of heme to biliverdin (which is converted to bilirubin by biliverdin reductase), free iron and carbon monoxide (CO). Two isoforms of HO have been characterized, the constitutive isoform, HO-2, which is the major isoform present under physiological conditions, and the stress-induced isoform, HO-1, which has also been classified as heat-shock protein 32K (ref. 1). Increases in HO activity have been implicated in tissue protection against oxidative stress. In this communication, we describe the effects of modulating HO during an acute complement-dependent inflammatory response. Elevation of this enzyme resulted in a striking suppression, whereas inhibition of the enzyme led to a potentiation of the inflammatory response. Such novel enzyme modulation has application on the one hand to the treatment of inflammatory diseases and on the other hand to immnosuppressed states in which the impaired ability to mount an adequate inflammatory response may result in death from opportunistic infections.
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- D Willis
- Department of Experimental Pathology, William Harvey Research Institute, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, UK
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