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Berezovsky B, Frýdlová J, Gurieva I, Rogalsky DW, Vokurka M, Krijt J. Heart Ferroportin Protein Content Is Regulated by Heart Iron Concentration and Systemic Hepcidin Expression. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23115899. [PMID: 35682577 PMCID: PMC9180074 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23115899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 05/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate the expression of ferroportin protein following treatments that affect systemic hepcidin. Administration of erythropoietin to C57BL/6J mice decreased systemic hepcidin expression; it also increased heart ferroportin protein content, determined by immunoblot in the membrane fraction, to approximately 200% of control values. This increase in heart ferroportin protein is very probably caused by a decrease in systemic hepcidin expression, in accordance with the classical regulation of ferroportin by hepcidin. However, the control of heart ferroportin protein by systemic hepcidin could apparently be overridden by changes in heart non-heme iron content since injection of ferric carboxymaltose to mice at 300 mg Fe/kg resulted in an increase in liver hepcidin expression, heart non-heme iron content, and also a threefold increase in heart ferroportin protein content. In a separate experiment, feeding an iron-deficient diet to young Wistar rats dramatically decreased liver hepcidin expression, while heart non-heme iron content and heart ferroportin protein content decreased to 50% of controls. It is, therefore, suggested that heart ferroportin protein is regulated primarily by the iron regulatory protein/iron-responsive element system and that the regulation of heart ferroportin by the hepcidin-ferroportin axis plays a secondary role.
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- Betty Berezovsky
- Institute of Pathophysiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 128 53 Prague, Czech Republic; (B.B.); (J.F.); (I.G.); (M.V.)
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- Institute of Pathophysiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 128 53 Prague, Czech Republic; (B.B.); (J.F.); (I.G.); (M.V.)
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- Institute of Pathophysiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 128 53 Prague, Czech Republic; (B.B.); (J.F.); (I.G.); (M.V.)
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- Institute of Pathophysiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 128 53 Prague, Czech Republic; (B.B.); (J.F.); (I.G.); (M.V.)
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- Institute of Pathophysiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 128 53 Prague, Czech Republic; (B.B.); (J.F.); (I.G.); (M.V.)
- Correspondence:
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Sun P, Kumar N, Tin A, Zhao J, Brown MR, Lin Z, Yang ML, Zheng Q, Jia J, Bielak LF, Yu B, Boerwinkle E, Hunker KL, Coresh J, Chen YE, Huo Y, Kardia SL, Khoriaty R, Zhou X, Morrison AC, Zhang Y, Ganesh SK. Epidemiologic and Genetic Associations of Erythropoietin With Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Coronary Artery Disease. Hypertension 2021; 78:1555-1566. [PMID: 34488438 PMCID: PMC8516734 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.121.17597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Pengfei Sun
- Department of cardiology, Peking University First hospital, Beijing, 100034, China
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, 21205, USA
- University of Mississippi Medical Center, MS, 38677, USA
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- Department of cardiology, Peking University First hospital, Beijing, 100034, China
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Department of cardiology, Peking University First hospital, Beijing, 100034, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, 21205, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of cardiology, Peking University First hospital, Beijing, 100034, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of cardiology, Peking University First hospital, Beijing, 100034, China
- Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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Asperti M, Brilli E, Denardo A, Gryzik M, Pagani F, Busti F, Tarantino G, Arosio P, Girelli D, Poli M. Iron distribution in different tissues of homozygous Mask (msk/msk) mice and the effects of oral iron treatments. Am J Hematol 2021; 96:1253-1263. [PMID: 34343368 PMCID: PMC9292262 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.26311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Iron-refractory iron deficiency anemia (IRIDA) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by genetic mutations on TMPRSS6 gene which encodes Matriptase2 (MT2). An altered MT2 cannot appropriately suppress hepatic BMP6/SMAD signaling in case of low iron, hence hepcidin excess blocks dietary iron absorption, leading to a form of anemia resistant to oral iron supplementation. In this study, using the IRIDA mouse model Mask, we characterized homozygous (msk/msk) compared to asymptomatic heterozygous (msk/wt) mice, assessing the major parameters of iron status in different organs, at different ages in both sexes. The effect of carbonyl iron diet was analyzed as control iron supplementation being used for many studies in mice. It resulted effective in both anemic control and msk/msk mice, as expected, even if there is no information about its mechanism of absorption. Then, we mainly compared two forms of oral iron supplement, largely used for humans: ferrous sulfate and Sucrosomial iron. In anemic control mice, the two oral formulations corrected hemoglobin levels from 11.40 ± 0.60 to 15.38 ± 1.71 g/dl in 2-4 weeks. Interestingly, in msk/msk mice, ferrous sulfate did not increase hemoglobin likely due to ferroportin/hepcidin-dependent absorption, whereas Sucrosomial iron increased it from 11.50 ± 0.60 to 13.53 ± 0.64 g/dl mainly in the first week followed by a minor increase at 4 weeks with a stable level of 13.30 ± 0.80 g/dl, probably because of alternative absorption. Thus, Sucrosomial iron, already used in other conditions of iron deficiency, may represent a promising option for oral iron supplementation in IRIDA patients.
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- Michela Asperti
- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine University of Brescia Brescia Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine University of Brescia Brescia Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine University of Brescia Brescia Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine University of Brescia Brescia Italy
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- Department of Medicine University of Verona Verona Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine University of Brescia Brescia Italy
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- Department of Medicine University of Verona Verona Italy
- Azienda Ospedaliera Integrata Verona Veneto Region Referral Center for Iron Metabolism Disorders, GIMFer (Gruppo Interdisciplinare sulle Malattie del Ferro) Verona Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine University of Brescia Brescia Italy
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Matriptase-2 and Hemojuvelin in Hepcidin Regulation: In Vivo Immunoblot Studies in Mask Mice. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22052650. [PMID: 33800732 PMCID: PMC7961762 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22052650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2020] [Revised: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Matriptase-2, a serine protease expressed in hepatocytes, is a negative regulator of hepcidin expression. The purpose of the study was to investigate the interaction of matriptase-2 with hemojuvelin protein in vivo. Mice lacking the matriptase-2 proteolytic activity (mask mice) display decreased content of hemojuvelin protein. Vice versa, the absence of hemojuvelin results in decreased liver content of matriptase-2, indicating that the two proteins interact. To further characterize the role of matriptase-2, we investigated iron metabolism in mask mice fed experimental diets. Administration of iron-enriched diet increased liver iron stores as well as hepcidin expression. Treatment of iron-overloaded mask mice with erythropoietin increased hemoglobin and hematocrit, indicating that the response to erythropoietin is intact in mask mice. Feeding of an iron-deficient diet to mask mice significantly increased spleen weight as well as the splenic content of erythroferrone and transferrin receptor proteins, indicating stress erythropoiesis. Liver hepcidin expression was decreased; expression of Id1 was not changed. Overall, the results suggest a complex interaction between matriptase-2 and hemojuvelin, and demonstrate that hepcidin can to some extent be regulated even in the absence of matriptase-2 proteolytic activity.
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Wang R, Liu X, Wu J, Liu H, Wang W, Chen X, Yuan L, Wang Y, Du X, Ma Y, Losiewicz MD, Zhang X, Zhang H. Role of microRNA-122 in microcystin-leucine arginine-induced dysregulation of hepatic iron homeostasis in mice. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 2020; 35:822-830. [PMID: 32170997 DOI: 10.1002/tox.22918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Microcystin-leucine arginine (MC-LR) is a cyclic heptapeptide hepatotoxin produced by cyanobacteria. MicroRNA-122 (miR-122) is specifically expressed in the liver. This study focuses on the role of miR-122 in MC-LR-induced dysregulation of hepatic iron homeostasis in C57BL/6 mice. The thirty mice were randomly divided into five groups (Control, 12.5 μg/kg·BW MC-LR, 25 μg/kg·BW MC-LR, Negative control agomir and 25 μg/kg·BW MC-LR + miR-122 agomir). The results show that MC-LR decreases the expressions of miR-122, Hamp, and its related regulators, while increasing the content of hepatic iron and the expressions of FPN1 and Tmprss6. Furthermore, miR-122 agomir pretreatment improves MC-LR induced dysregulation of hepatic iron homeostasis by arousing the related regulators and reducing the expression of Tmprss6. These results suggest that miR-122 agomir can prevent the accumulation of hepatic iron induced by MC-LR, which may be related to the regulation of hepcidin by BMP/SMAD and IL-6/STAT signaling pathways.
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- Rui Wang
- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- School of Public Health, Jining Medical University, Jining, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, St Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, St Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Maxwell Chappell
- Division of Hematology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Abramson Research Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Abramson Research Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Frýdlová J, Rogalsky DW, Truksa J, Nečas E, Vokurka M, Krijt J. Effect of stimulated erythropoiesis on liver SMAD signaling pathway in iron-overloaded and iron-deficient mice. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215028. [PMID: 30958854 PMCID: PMC6453526 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Expression of hepcidin, the hormone regulating iron homeostasis, is increased by iron overload and decreased by accelerated erythropoiesis or iron deficiency. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of these stimuli, either alone or in combination, on the main signaling pathway controlling hepcidin biosynthesis in the liver, and on the expression of splenic modulators of hepcidin biosynthesis. Liver phosphorylated SMAD 1 and 5 proteins were determined by immunoblotting in male mice treated with iron dextran, kept on an iron deficient diet, or administered recombinant erythropoietin for four consecutive days. Administration of iron increased liver phosphorylated SMAD protein content and hepcidin mRNA content; subsequent administration of erythropoietin significantly decreased both the iron-induced phosphorylated SMAD proteins and hepcidin mRNA. These results are in agreement with the recent observation that erythroferrone binds and inactivates the BMP6 protein. Administration of erythropoietin substantially increased the amount of erythroferrone and transferrin receptor 2 proteins in the spleen; pretreatment with iron did not influence the erythropoietin-induced content of these proteins. Erythropoietin-treated iron-deficient mice displayed smaller spleen size in comparison with erythropoietin-treated mice kept on a control diet. While the erythropoietin-induced increase in splenic erythroferrone protein content was not significantly affected by iron deficiency, the content of transferrin receptor 2 protein was lower in the spleens of erythropoietin-treated mice kept on iron-deficient diet, suggesting posttranscriptional regulation of transferrin receptor 2. Interestingly, iron deficiency and erythropoietin administration had additive effect on hepcidin gene downregulation in the liver. In mice subjected both to iron deficiency and erythropoietin administration, the decrease of hepcidin expression was much more pronounced than the decrease in phosphorylated SMAD protein content or the decrease in the expression of the SMAD target genes Id1 and Smad7. These results suggest the existence of another, SMAD-independent pathway of hepcidin gene downregulation.
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- Jana Frýdlová
- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Tumour Resistance, Institute of Biotechnology, BIOCEV Research Center, Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Frýdlová J, Rogalsky DW, Truksa J, Traeger L, Steinbicker AU, Vokurka M, Krijt J. Liver HFE protein content is posttranscriptionally decreased in iron-deficient mice and rats. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2018; 315:G560-G568. [PMID: 29927322 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00070.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Although the relationship between hereditary hemochromatosis and mutations in the HFE gene was discovered more than 20 years ago, information on the in vivo regulation of HFE protein expression is still limited. The purpose of the study was to determine the response of liver HFE protein content to iron deficiency in mice and rats by immunoblotting. Attempts to visualize the HFE protein in whole liver homogenates were unsuccessful; however, HFE could be detected in liver microsomes or in plasma membrane-enriched fractions. Five-week-old male C57BL/6 mice fed an iron-deficient diet for 4 wk presented with a significant decrease in liver iron content and liver Hamp expression, as well as with a significant decrease in liver HFE protein content. Rats fed an iron-deficient diet for 4 wk also displayed significant decrease in liver Hamp expression and liver HFE protein content. These results suggest that the downregulation of HFE-dependent signaling may contribute to decreased Hamp gene expression in states of prolonged iron deficiency. It has recently been proposed that HFE protein could be a potential target of matriptase-2, a hepatocyte protease mutated in iron-refractory iron deficiency anemia. However, immunoblot analysis of HFE protein in the livers from Tmprss6-mutated mask mice did not show evidence of matriptase-2-dependent HFE protein cleavage. In addition, no indication of HFE protein cleavage was seen in iron-deficient rats, whereas the full-length matriptase-2 protein content in the same animals was significantly increased. These results suggest that HFE is probably not a major physiological target of matriptase-2. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Feeding of iron-deficient diet for 4 wk decreased liver HFE protein content in both mice and rats, suggesting that decreased HFE-dependent signaling may contribute to hepcidin downregulation in iron deficiency. There was no difference in HFE protein band appearance between matriptase-2-mutated mask mice and wild-type mice, indicating that HFE is probably not a major physiological substrate of matriptase-2-mediated protease activity in vivo.
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- Jana Frýdlová
- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University , Prague , Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University , Prague , Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Tumour Resistance, Institute of Biotechnology, Biotechnology and Biomedicine Center of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec Research Center, Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster University , Muenster , Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster University , Muenster , Germany
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- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University , Prague , Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University , Prague , Czech Republic
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