Induction of human endothelial cell apoptosis requires both heat shock and oxidative stress responses

1997 ◽  
Vol 272 (5) ◽  
pp. C1543-C1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Wang ◽  
H. P. Redmond ◽  
R. W. Watson ◽  
D. Bouchier-Hayes

Endothelial cell (EC) death may play an important role in the development of increased vascular permeability and capillary leak syndrome during systemic inflammatory response syndrome. However, the mode of EC death and the mechanisms involved remain unclear. In this study we employed the proinflammatory mediators lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), the chemical reagent sodium arsenite, and heat shock to trigger the stress gene responses. Human ECs were used as surrogates of the microvasculature to test the hypothesis that the induction of the heat shock response and the oxidative stress response might combine to induce apoptosis rather than necrosis in human ECs. Sodium arsenite at 80-320 microM, which induced heat shock protein 72 (HSP72) expression and reactive oxygen intermediate (ROI) generation in ECs, resulted in EC apoptosis. TNF-alpha alone (5-75 ng/ml) increased EC ROI generation but did not induce EC apoptosis. Heat shock alone (42 degrees C, 45 min) or sodium arsenite (40 microM) alone, each of which induced HSP72 expression, did not result in EC apoptosis. However, the combination of TNF-alpha with heat shock or 40 microM sodium arsenite led to EC apoptosis as HSP72 expression and ROI were induced. Furthermore, sodium arsenite (80 microM) in the presence of antioxidants failed to induce EC apoptosis. Apoptotic ECs also exhibited functional disturbances as represented by the depression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 expression as well as the disruption of EC monolayer integrity. These results indicate that the simultaneous induction of a heat shock response and an oxidative stress response is responsible for human EC apoptosis.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiying Miao ◽  
Weikang Yu ◽  
Yueyang Wang ◽  
Xianhong Gu ◽  
Xiaohua Teng

Abstract Background: Lead (Pb) is a toxic environmental pollutant and can exerts toxicity in kidneys. It is known that selenium (Se) has an antagonistic effect on Pb poisoning. However, biological events during the process were not well understood in chicken kidneys.Methods: One hundred and eighty male Hyline chickens (7-day-old) were randomly divided into the control group (offering standard diet and potable water), the Se group (offering Na2SeO3-added standard diet and potable water), the Pb group (offering standard diet and (CH3OO)2Pb-added potable water), and the Pb+Se group (offering Na2SeO3-added standard diet and (CH3OO)2Pb-added potable water). On 30th, 60th, and 90th days, kidneys were removed to perform the studies of histological structure, oxidative stress indicators, cytokines, heat shock proteins, and autophagy in the chicken kidneys.Results: The experimental results indicated that Pb poisoning changed renal histological structure; decreased catalase, glutathione-s-transferase, and total antioxidative capacity activities; increased hydrogen peroxide content; induced mRNA and protein expression of heat shock proteins; inhibited interleukin (IL)-2 mRNA expression, and induced IL-4 and IL-12β mRNA expression; inhibited mammalian target of rapamycin mRNA and protein expression, and induced autophagy-related gene mRNA and protein expression in the chicken kidneys. Supplement of Se mitigated the above changes caused by Pb.Conclusion: Our research strengthens the evidence that Pb induced oxidative stress, inflammation, heat shock response, and autophagy and Se administration alleviated Pb poisoning through mitigating oxidative stress in the chicken kidneys.


Author(s):  
Alice T. McDuffee ◽  
Guillermo Senisterra ◽  
Steven Huntley ◽  
James R. Lepock ◽  
Konjeti R. Sekhar ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 189 (24) ◽  
pp. 8818-8827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana L. Williams ◽  
Tana L. Pittman ◽  
Mike Deshotel ◽  
Sandra Oby-Robinson ◽  
Issar Smith ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Mycobacterium leprae, a major human pathogen, grows poorly at 37°C. The basis for its inability to survive at elevated temperatures was investigated. We determined that M. leprae lacks a protective heat shock response as a result of the lack of transcriptional induction of the alternative sigma factor genes sigE and sigB and the major heat shock operons, HSP70 and HSP60, even though heat shock promoters and regulatory circuits for these genes appear to be intact. M. leprae sigE was found to be capable of complementing the defective heat shock response of mycobacterial sigE knockout mutants only in the presence of a functional mycobacterial sigH, which orchestrates the mycobacterial heat shock response. Since the sigH of M. leprae is a pseudogene, these data support the conclusion that a key aspect of the defective heat shock response in M. leprae is the absence of a functional sigH. In addition, 68% of the genes induced during heat shock in M. tuberculosis were shown to be either absent from the M. leprae genome or were present as pseudogenes. Among these is the hsp/acr2 gene, whose product is essential for M. tuberculosis survival during heat shock. Taken together, these results suggest that the reduced ability of M. leprae to survive at elevated temperatures results from the lack of a functional transcriptional response to heat shock and the absence of a full repertoire of heat stress response genes, including sigH.


2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Marini ◽  
Rosa Lapalombella ◽  
Silvia Canaider ◽  
Antonio Farina ◽  
Daniela Monti ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 551-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh IS Rattan ◽  
Taru Deva

The scientific foundations of hormesis are now well established and include various biochemical and molecular criteria for testing the hormetic nature of chemicals and other modulators. In order to claim homeopathy as being hormetic, it is essential that, in addition to the hormetic biphasic dose response, homeopathic remedies should fulfill one or more molecular criteria. Since stress response pathways, such as heat shock response, antioxidative response, autophagic response and unfolded protein response, are integral components of the physiological hormesis, it is important that homeopathic drugs be tested for these pathways if these are to be considered as hormetins and to cause hormesis.


1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 2017-2027 ◽  
Author(s):  
A S Olsen ◽  
D F Triemer ◽  
M M Sanders

A basic ribosomal phosphoprotein of 30,000 molecular weight was rapidly dephosphorylated in cultured Drosophila melanogaster cells heat shocked at 37 degrees C. The protein was associated with the 40S ribosomal subunit and had an electrophoretic mobility similar to that of purified rat liver protein S6 on basic two-dimensional polyacrylamide gels as well as a similar partial proteolysis peptide map. In logarithmically growing cultures, this D. melanogaster S6 protein appeared to have a single phosphorylated species consisting of 30 to 40% of the total cellular S6. Thus, the nearly complete dephosphorylation of this protein observed in heat shock involves a large fraction of the cellular S6. The significance of this dephosphorylation in the expression of the heat shock response was investigated by examining the phosphorylation status of S6 in recovery from heat shock and in response to chemical inducers of the heat shock response. During recovery from a 30-min heat shock, the recovery of normal protein synthesis was almost complete in 2 to 4 hr, whereas there was no significant rephosphorylation of S6 for 8 h. Two chemical inducers of the heat shock response, canavanine and sodium arsenite, induced the synthesis of heat shock proteins in D. melanogaster cells. Sodium arsenite also caused an inhibition of normal protein synthesis similar to that observed in heat shock. Neither agent, however, caused significant dephosphorylation of S6. These results suggest that the dephosphorylation of S6, although invariably observed in heat-shocked cells, may in some cases be dissociated from both the induction of heat shock protein synthesis and the turnoff of normal protein synthesis which occur in a heat shock response.


2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 1373-1379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayako Yamamoto ◽  
Junko Ueda ◽  
Noritaka Yamamoto ◽  
Naoya Hashikawa ◽  
Hiroshi Sakurai

ABSTRACT The heat shock transcription factor Hsf1 of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae regulates the transcription of a set of genes that contain heat shock elements (HSEs) in their promoters and function in diverse cellular processes, including protein folding. Here, we show that Hsf1 activates the transcription of various target genes when cells are treated with oxidizing reagents, including the superoxide anion generators menadione and KO2 and the thiol oxidants diamide and 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB). Similar to heat shock, the oxidizing reagents are potent inducers of both efficient HSE binding and extensive phosphorylation of Hsf1. The inducible phosphorylation of Hsf1 is regulated by the intramolecular domain-domain interactions and affects HSE structure-specific transcription. Unlike the heat shock, diamide, or CDNB response, menadione or KO2 activation of Hsf1 is inhibited by cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) activity, which negatively regulates the activator functions of other transcriptional regulators implicated in the oxidative stress response. These results demonstrate that Hsf1 is a member of the oxidative stress-responsive activators and that PKA is a general negative regulator in the superoxide anion response.


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