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Braun JD, Pastene DO, Breedijk A, Rodriguez A, Hofmann BB, Sticht C, von Ochsenstein E, Allgayer H, van den Born J, Bakker S, Hauske SJ, Krämer BK, Yard BA, Albrecht T. Methylglyoxal down-regulates the expression of cell cycle associated genes and activates the p53 pathway in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1152. [PMID: 30718683 PMCID: PMC6362029 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37937-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Although methylglyoxal (MGO) has emerged as key mediator of diabetic microvascular complications, the influence of MGO on the vascular transcriptome has not thoroughly been assessed. Since diabetes is associated with low grade inflammation causing sustained nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) activation, the current study addressed 1) to what extent MGO changes the transcriptome of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) exposed to an inflammatory milieu, 2) what are the dominant pathways by which these changes occur and 3) to what extent is this affected by carnosine, a putative scavenger of MGO. Microarray analysis revealed that exposure of HUVECs to high MGO concentrations significantly changes gene expression, characterized by prominent down-regulation of cell cycle associated genes and up-regulation of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1). KEGG-based pathway analysis identified six significantly enriched pathways of which the p53 pathway was the most affected. No significant enrichment of inflammatory pathways was found, yet, MGO did inhibit VCAM-1 expression in Western blot analysis. Carnosine significantly counteracted MGO-mediated changes in a subset of differentially expressed genes. Collectively, our results suggest that MGO initiates distinct transcriptional changes in cell cycle/apoptosis genes, which may explain MGO toxicity at high concentrations. MGO did not augment TNF-α induced inflammation.
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- Jana D Braun
- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Center of Medical Research, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Surgery - Cancer Metastasis, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Surgery - Cancer Metastasis, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Fifth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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Ryu DS, Yang H, Lee SE, Park CS, Jin YH, Park YS. Crotonaldehyde induces heat shock protein 72 expression that mediates anti-apoptotic effects in human endothelial cells. Toxicol Lett 2013; 223:116-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2013.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2013] [Revised: 09/12/2013] [Accepted: 09/14/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Estrogen is a potent steroid with pleiotropic effects, which have yet to be fully elucidated. Estrogen has both nuclear and non-nuclear effects. The rapid response to estrogen, which involves a membrane associated estrogen receptor(ER) and is protective, involves signaling through PI3K, Akt, and ERK 1/2. The nuclear response is much slower, as the ER-estrogen complex moves to the nucleus, where it functions as a transcription factor, both activating and repressing gene expression. Several different ERs regulate the specificity of response to estrogen, and appear to have specific effects in cardiac remodeling and the response to injury. However, much remains to be understood about the selectivity of these receptors and their specific effects on gene expression. Basic studies have demonstrated that estrogen treatment prevents apoptosis and necrosis of cardiac and endothelial cells. Estrogen also attenuates pathologic cardiac hypertrophy. Estrogen may have great benefit in aging as an anti-inflammatory agent. However, clinical investigations of estrogen have had mixed results, and not shown the clear-cut benefit of more basic investigations. This can be explained in part by differences in study design: in basic studies estrogen treatment was used immediately or shortly after ovariectomy, while in some key clinical trials, estrogen was given years after menopause. Further basic research into the underlying molecular mechanisms of estrogen's actions is essential to provide a better comprehension of the many properties of this powerful hormone.
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- A A Knowlton
- Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Hammerer-Lercher A, Haeusler C, Prelog M, Bonatti J, Hoefer D, Ruttmann E, Laufer G, Werner ER, Dirnhofer S, Puschendorf B, Mair J. THERMAL PRECONDITIONING PROTECTS THE HUMAN INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY FROM HYPOXIA/RE-OXYGENATION-INDUCED DAMAGE. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2006; 33:584-90. [PMID: 16789924 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2006.04411.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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1. Preconditioning has been demonstrated to ameliorate ischaemia/reperfusion injury in several cells and tissues. Therefore, in the present study we investigated whether preconditioning of human bypass grafts, internal mammary artery (IMA) and saphenous vein (SV) induces heat shock protein (Hsp) expression and reduces apoptosis in response to subsequent hypoxia/re-oxygenation damage in both vessels. 2. Internal mammary artery and SV rings, obtained from 30 patients (median age 66.5 years) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, were either incubated for 30 min at 42 degrees C (preconditioned) or kept in a standard incubator at 37 degrees C (not preconditioned). Six hours later, graft segments were exposed to 90 min hypoxia followed by a 30 min re-oxygenation period. Western blot, real-time quantative polymerase chain reaction analysis and apoptosis detection by the Terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP-digoxigenin nick end-labelling method were performed. 3. Heat-preconditioned IMA showed significantly increased protein expression of Hsp72 after hypoxia/re-oxygenation treatment compared with controls (median 9.1 vs 5.0 microg/mg total protein; P = 0.048). Expression of Hsp73 was weak and Hsp60 was not detectable in the IMA. 4. In the SV, neither protein nor mRNA expression of Hsp were significantly different between preconditioned and not preconditioned veins. 5. There were significantly fewer apoptotic cells in the intima of the preconditioned compared with not preconditioned IMA (P = 0.041) after hypoxia/re-oxygenation injury, whereas in the SV apoptosis was not significantly prevented by preconditioning. 6. Mild heat preconditioning before hypoxia/re-oxygenation injury is a stimulus for Hsp72 protein expression and a reduction in apoptosis in the human IMA.
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Trougakos IP, Lourda M, Agiostratidou G, Kletsas D, Gonos ES. Differential effects of clusterin/apolipoprotein J on cellular growth and survival. Free Radic Biol Med 2005; 38:436-49. [PMID: 15649646 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2004.10.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2004] [Revised: 08/10/2004] [Accepted: 10/28/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The secreted clusterin/apolipoprotein J (CLU) protein form is a ubiquitously expressed heterodimeric glycoprotein which is differentially regulated in many severe physiological disturbance states including cell death, ageing, cancer progression, and various neurological diseases. Despite extensive efforts CLU function remains an enigma, the main cause being the intriguingly distinct and usually opposed functions in various cell types and tissues. In the current report we investigated the effects of CLU on cellular growth and survival in three human osteosarcoma (OS) cell lines, namely KH OS, Sa OS, and U-2 OS that express very low, moderate, and high endogenous steady-state CLU amounts, respectively. We found that exposure of these established OS cell lines or primary OS cells to genotoxic stress results in CLU gene induction at distinct levels that correlate negatively to CLU endogenous amounts. Following CLU-forced overexpression by means of an artificial transgene, we found that although extracellular CLU inhibits cell death in all three OS cell lines, intracellular CLU has different effects on cellular proliferation and survival in these cell lines. Transgenic KH OS cell lines adapted to moderate intracellular CLU levels were growth-retarded and became resistant to genotoxic and oxidative stress. In contrast, transgenic Sa OS and U2 OS cell lines adapted to high intracellular CLU amounts were sensitive to genotoxic and oxidative stress. In these two cell lines, the proapoptotic CLU function could be rescued by caspase inhibition. To monitor the immediate effects of heterologous CLU overexpression prior to cell adaptation, we performed transient transfections in all three OS cell lines. We found that induction of high intracellular CLU amounts increases spontaneous apoptosis in KH OS cells and reduces DNA synthesis in all three cell lines assayed. On the basis of these novel findings we propose that although extracellular CLU as well as intracellular CLU at low/moderate levels is cytoprotective, CLU may become highly cytostatic and/or cytotoxic if it accumulates intracellularly in high amounts either by direct synthesis or by uptake from the extracellular milieu.
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- Ioannis P Trougakos
- Laboratory of Molecular & Cellular Aging, Institute of Biological Research & Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou Ave., Athens 11635, Greece
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The term vasculogenic mimicry describes the formation of fluid-conducting channels by highly invasive and genetically dysregulated tumor cells. Two distinctive types of vasculogenic mimicry have been described. Vasculogenic mimicry of the tubular type may be confused morphologically with endothelial cell-lined blood vessels. Vasculogenic mimicry of the patterned matrix type in no way resembles blood vessels morphologically or topologically. Matrix proteins such as laminin, heparan sulfate proteoglycan, and collagens IV and VI have been identified in these patterns. The patterned matrix anastomoses with blood vessels, and systemically injected tracers co-localize to these patterns. Vasculogenic mimicry of the patterned matrix type has been identified in uveal, cutaneous and mucous membrane melanomas, inflammatory and ductal breast carcinoma, ovarian and prostatic carcinoma, and soft tissue sarcomas, including synovial sarcoma rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, and pheochromocytoma. Because the microcirculation of many tumors may be heterogeneous -- including incorporated or co-opted vessels, angiogenic vessels, mosaic vessels, and vasculogenic mimicry of the tubular and patterned matrix types -- therapeutic regimens that target angiogenesis alone may be ineffective against highly invasive tumors that contain patterned matrices. Vasculogenic mimicry provides an opportunity to investigate the interrelationships between the genetically dysregulated invasive tumor cell, the microenvironment, and the malignant switch.
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- Robert Folberg
- Department of Pathology, University of Illinois Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
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Takeuchi Y, Kurohane K, Ichikawa K, Yonezawa S, Ori H, Koishi T, Nango M, Oku N. Polycation liposome enhances the endocytic uptake of photosensitizer into cells in the presence of serum. Bioconjug Chem 2003; 14:790-6. [PMID: 12862432 DOI: 10.1021/bc025648a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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To construct a novel drug delivery carrier that possesses high therapeutic efficacy with low dosage, we designed polyethylenimine-modified liposome (polycation liposome, PCL) and examined the entrapment of photosensitizer, benzoporphyrin derivative monoacid ring A (BPD-MA), for antiangiogenic photodynamic therapy (PDT). Photosensitizer entrapped in PCLs showed enhanced phototoxicity for a human vascular endothelial cell line, ECV304, in comparison with that for nonmodified control liposome. Interestingly, phototoxicity of control liposomal BPD-MA was suppressed in the presence of serum, but PCL maintained the phototoxicity in the presence of serum following PCL-mediated PDT treatment due to the stability of PCL and the reduced detachment of encapsulated photosensitizer from liposome to serum. In fact, PCL enhanced the uptake level of BPD-MA to ECV304 cells despite the presence or absence of serum. Since polycation modification enhances bioavailability of the liposomal photosensitizer and this property is maintained in the presence of serum, PCL would be useful for antiangiogenic PDT.
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- Yoshito Takeuchi
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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Allford SL, Hunt BJ, Rose P, Machin SJ. Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of the thrombotic microangiopathic haemolytic anaemias. Br J Haematol 2003; 120:556-73. [PMID: 12588343 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04049.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 244] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Sarah L Allford
- Department of Haematology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK
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Liu BH, Yu FY, Chan MH, Yang YL. The effects of mycotoxins, fumonisin B1 and aflatoxin B1, on primary swine alveolar macrophages. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2002; 180:197-204. [PMID: 12009859 DOI: 10.1006/taap.2002.9406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mycotoxins were fungal metabolites that were widely present in feed and food; some of them were known to associate with human and animal disease. In the present study, the effects of fumonisin B1 (FmB1) and aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) on swine alveolar macrophages (AM) were examined by exposing primary cultures of swine AM to various concentrations of mycotoxins. Incubation of AM with 5 microg/ml of FmB1 for 72 h led to a reduction in the number of viable cells to 65% of the control levels. In the presence of 1.5 microg/ml of AFB1, the viability of AM falls to less than 41% of controls after 24 h exposure. FmB1, but not AFB1, induced the apoptosis of swine AM with evidence of DNA laddering and nuclear fragmentation. However, both FmB1 and AFB1 exposure induced the expression of apoptosis-related heat shock protein 72 (HSP 72) in AM. Swine AM treated with 50 ng/ml of FmB1 and 100 ng/ml of AFB1 for 24 h led to a reduction in phagocytic ability to approximately 55 and 36% of the control levels, respectively. Incubation of AM with FmB1 (2 and 10 microg/ml) for 24 h dramatically decreased the mRNA levels of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha). However, AFB1 treatment did not affect the expression of IL-1beta and TNF-alpha mRNA. The results suggest that both FmB1 and AFB1 are immunotoxic to swine AM but that they exert their toxic effects via different biochemical mechanisms.
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- Biing-Hui Liu
- Department of Life Science, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
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Molostvov G, Morris A, Rose P, Basu S. Interaction of cytokines and growth factor in the regulation of verotoxin-induced apoptosis in cultured human endothelial cells. Br J Haematol 2001; 113:891-7. [PMID: 11442480 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2001.02835.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The role of CD77, inflammatory cytokines and endothelial cell growth factor (ECGF) in verotoxin (VT)-induced apoptosis in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) was studied. Apoptosis was detected using annexin V and propidium iodide staining. The expression of CD77 antigen was measured on a FACStar flow cytometer using specific monoclonal antibodies. Our experiments showed that HUVECs had very low initial levels of CD77 and were resistant to VT. Treatment with tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) resulted in a significant upregulation of CD77 expression and sensitized endothelial cells to VT-mediated apoptosis. HUVECs incubated with a combination of cytokines [TNF-alpha and interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), both 500 U/ml] showed more pronounced upregulation of CD77 expression (> sixfold at 48 h) and underwent apoptosis, suggesting that TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma have a synergistic effect on CD77 expression in HUVECs and can induce apoptosis without VT. Cells pretreated with TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma and incubated with VT showed the most pronounced (14-fold) increase in CD77 expression. ECGF had a partial protective effect against cytokine- and VT-induced apoptosis. Taken together, our data suggest that CD77 antigen is involved in the regulation of endothelial cell apoptosis.
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- G Molostvov
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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