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Ghosh R, Fatahian AN, Rouzbehani OMT, Hathaway MA, Mosleh T, Vinod V, Vowles S, Stephens SL, Chung SLD, Cao ID, Jonnavithula A, Symons JD, Boudina S. Sequestosome 1 (p62) mitigates hypoxia-induced cardiac dysfunction by stabilizing hypoxia-inducible factor 1α and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2. Cardiovasc Res 2024; 120:531-547. [PMID: 38332738 PMCID: PMC11060490 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvae023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
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AIMS Heart failure due to ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. A major contributing factor to IHD-induced cardiac damage is hypoxia. Sequestosome 1 (p62) is a multi-functional adaptor protein with pleiotropic roles in autophagy, proteostasis, inflammation, and cancer. Despite abundant expression in cardiomyocytes, the role of p62 in cardiac physiology is not well understood. We hypothesized that cardiomyocyte-specific p62 deletion evokes hypoxia-induced cardiac pathology by impairing hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (Hif-1α) and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) signalling. METHODS AND RESULTS Adult mice with germline deletion of cardiomyocyte p62 exhibited mild cardiac dysfunction under normoxic conditions. Transcriptomic analyses revealed a selective impairment in Nrf2 target genes in the hearts from these mice. Demonstrating the functional importance of this adaptor protein, adult mice with inducible depletion of cardiomyocyte p62 displayed hypoxia-induced contractile dysfunction, oxidative stress, and cell death. Mechanistically, p62-depleted hearts exhibit impaired Hif-1α and Nrf2 transcriptional activity. Because findings from these two murine models suggested a cardioprotective role for p62, mechanisms were evaluated using H9c2 cardiomyoblasts. Loss of p62 in H9c2 cells exposed to hypoxia reduced Hif-1α and Nrf2 protein levels. Further, the lack of p62 decreased Nrf2 protein expression, nuclear translocation, and transcriptional activity. Repressed Nrf2 activity associated with heightened Nrf2-Keap1 co-localization in p62-deficient cells, which was concurrent with increased Nrf2 ubiquitination facilitated by the E3 ligase Cullin 3, followed by proteasomal-mediated degradation. Substantiating our results, a gain of p62 in H9c2 cells stabilized Nrf2 and increased the transcriptional activity of Nrf2 downstream targets. CONCLUSION Cardiac p62 mitigates hypoxia-induced cardiac dysfunction by stabilizing Hif-1α and Nrf2.
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- Rajeshwary Ghosh
- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Molecular Medicine Program (U2M2), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Molecular Medicine Program (U2M2), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Molecular Medicine Program (U2M2), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Marunaka Y. The Role of Ion-Transporting Proteins in Human Disease. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:1726. [PMID: 38339004 PMCID: PMC10855098 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25031726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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This Special Issue focuses on the significance of ion-transporting proteins, such as ion channels and transporters, providing evidence for their significant contribution to bodily and cellular functions via the regulation of signal transduction and ionic environments [...].
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- Yoshinori Marunaka
- Medical Research Institute, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, 67 Kitatsuboi-cho, Nishinokyo, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan;
- Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu 525-8577, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
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Patanè GT, Putaggio S, Tellone E, Barreca D, Ficarra S, Maffei C, Calderaro A, Laganà G. Ferroptosis: Emerging Role in Diseases and Potential Implication of Bioactive Compounds. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:17279. [PMID: 38139106 PMCID: PMC10744228 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242417279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Ferroptosis is a form of cell death that is distinguished from other types of death for its peculiar characteristics of death regulated by iron accumulation, increase in ROS, and lipid peroxidation. In the past few years, experimental evidence has correlated ferroptosis with various pathological processes including neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases. Ferroptosis also is involved in several types of cancer because it has been shown to induce tumor cell death. In particular, the pharmacological induction of ferroptosis, contributing to the inhibition of the proliferative process, provides new ideas for the pharmacological treatment of cancer. Emerging evidence suggests that certain mechanisms including the Xc- system, GPx4, and iron chelators play a key role in the regulation of ferroptosis and can be used to block the progression of many diseases. This review summarizes current knowledge on the mechanism of ferroptosis and the latest advances in its multiple regulatory pathways, underlining ferroptosis' involvement in the diseases. Finally, we focused on several types of ferroptosis inducers and inhibitors, evaluating their impact on the cell death principal targets to provide new perspectives in the treatment of the diseases and a potential pharmacological development of new clinical therapies.
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy; (G.T.P.); (D.B.); (S.F.); (C.M.); (A.C.); (G.L.)
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy; (G.T.P.); (D.B.); (S.F.); (C.M.); (A.C.); (G.L.)
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Baloglu E. HIF-2α Controls Expression and Intracellular Trafficking of the α2-Subunit of Na,K-ATPase in Hypoxic H9c2 Cardiomyocytes. Biomedicines 2023; 11:2879. [PMID: 38001879 PMCID: PMC10669276 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11112879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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The Na,K-ATPase (NKA) pump plays essential roles for optimal function of the heart. NKA activity decreases in necropsy materials from ischemic heart disease, heart failure and in experimental models. Cellular adaptation to hypoxia is regulated by hypoxia-induced transcription factors (HIF); we tested whether HIFs are involved in regulating the expression and intracellular dynamics of the α2-isoform of NKA (α2-NKA). HIF-1α and HIF-2α expression was suppressed in H9c2 cardiomyocytes by adenoviral infection, where cells were kept in 1% O2 for 24 h. The silencing efficiency of HIFs was tested on the mRNA and protein expression. We measured the mRNA expression of α2-NKA in HIF-silenced and hypoxia-exposed cells. The membrane and intracellular expression of α2-NKA was measured after labelling the cell surface with NHS-SS-biotin, immunoprecipitation and Western blotting. Hypoxia increased the mRNA expression of α2-NKA 5-fold compared to normoxic cells in an HIF-2α-sensitive manner. The plasma membrane expression of α2-NKA increased in hypoxia by 2-fold and was fully prevented by HIF-2α silencing. Intracellular expression of α2-NKA was not affected. These results showed for the first time that in hypoxic cardiomyocytes α2-NKA is transcriptionally and translationally regulated by HIF-2α. The molecular mechanism behind this regulation needs further investigation.
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- Emel Baloglu
- Department of Medical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, 34752 Istanbul, Turkey
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Gurler B, Gencay G, Baloglu E. Hypoxia and HIF-1α Regulate the Activity and Expression of Na,K-ATPase Subunits in H9c2 Cardiomyoblasts. Curr Issues Mol Biol 2023; 45:8277-8288. [PMID: 37886965 PMCID: PMC10605391 DOI: 10.3390/cimb45100522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2023] [Revised: 10/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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The optimal function of the Na,K-ATPase (NKA) pump is essential for the heart. In ischemic heart disease, NKA activity decreases due to the decreased expression of the pump subunits. Here, we tested whether the hypoxia-inducible transcription factor (HIF-1α), the key signaling molecule regulating the adaptation of cells to hypoxia, is involved in controlling the expression and cellular dynamics of α1- and β1-NKA isoforms and of NKA activity in in-vitro hypoxic H9c2 cardiomyoblasts. HIF-1α was silenced through adenoviral infection, and cells were kept in normoxia (19% O2) or hypoxia (1% O2) for 24 h. We investigated the mRNA and protein expression of α1-, β1-NKA using RT-qPCR and Western blot in whole-cell lysates, cell membranes, and cytoplasmic fractions after labeling the cell surface with NHS-SS-biotin and immunoprecipitation. NKA activity and intracellular ATP levels were also measured. We found that in hypoxia, silencing HIF-1α prevented the decreased mRNA expression of α1-NKA but not of β1-NKA. Hypoxia decreased the plasma membrane expression of α1-NKA and β1- NKA compared to normoxic cells. In hypoxic cells, HIF-1α silencing prevented this effect by inhibiting the internalization of α1-NKA. Total protein expression was not affected. The decreased activity of NKA in hypoxic cells was fully prevented by silencing HIF-1α independent of cellular ATP levels. This study is the first to show that in hypoxic H9c2 cardiomyoblasts, HIF-1α controls the internalization and membrane insertion of α1-NKA subunit and of NKA activity. The mechanism behind this regulation needs further investigation.
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- Beyza Gurler
- Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Health Sciences, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul 34752, Turkey;
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Biomedicine, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul 34752, Turkey;
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- Department of Medical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul 34752, Turkey
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