Callapina Melvin, Zhou Jie, Schmid Tobias, Köhl Roman, Brüne Bernhard
Institute of Biochemistry I, Faculty of Medicine, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany.
Free Radic Biol Med. 2005 Oct 1;39(7):925-36. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.05.009.
The activity of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is primarily determined by stability regulation of its alpha subunit, which is stabilized under hypoxia but degraded during normoxia. Hydroxylation of HIF-1alpha by prolyl hydroxylases (PHDs) recruits the von Hippel-Lindau (pVHL) E3 ubiquitin ligase complex to initiate proteolytic destruction of the alpha subunit. Hypoxic stabilization of HIF-1alpha has been reported to be antagonized by nitric oxide (NO). By using a HIF-1alpha-pVHL binding assay, we show that NO released from DETA-NO restored prolyl hydroxylase activity under hypoxia. Destabilization of HIF-1alpha by DETA-NO was reversed by free radical scavengers such as NAC and Tiron, thus pointing to the involvement of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Therefore, we examined the effects of ROS on HIF-1alpha stabilization. Treatment of cells under hypoxia with low concentrations of the superoxide generator 2,3-dimethoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone lowered HIF-1alpha protein stabilization. In vitro HIF-1alpha-pVHL interaction assays demonstrated that low-level ROS formation increased prolyl hydroxylase activity, an effect antagonized by ROS scavengers. While determining intracellular ROS formation we noticed that reduced ROS production under hypoxia was restored by the addition of DETA-NO. We propose that an increase in ROS formation contributes to HIF-1alpha destabilization by NO donors under hypoxia via modulation of PHD activity.
缺氧诱导因子1(HIF-1)的活性主要由其α亚基的稳定性调节决定,该亚基在缺氧条件下稳定,但在常氧条件下会降解。脯氨酰羟化酶(PHD)使HIF-1α羟基化,募集冯希佩尔-林道(pVHL)E3泛素连接酶复合物,启动α亚基的蛋白水解破坏。据报道,一氧化氮(NO)可拮抗HIF-1α在缺氧条件下的稳定。通过使用HIF-1α-pVHL结合试验,我们发现DETA-NO释放的NO在缺氧条件下恢复了脯氨酰羟化酶的活性。自由基清除剂如NAC和Tiron可逆转DETA-NO对HIF-1α的去稳定作用,因此表明活性氧(ROS)参与其中。因此,我们研究了ROS对HIF-1α稳定的影响。在缺氧条件下用低浓度的超氧化物生成剂2,3-二甲氧基-1,4-萘醌处理细胞,降低了HIF-1α蛋白的稳定性。体外HIF-1α-pVHL相互作用试验表明,低水平的ROS形成增加了脯氨酰羟化酶的活性,ROS清除剂可拮抗这种作用。在测定细胞内ROS形成时,我们注意到添加DETA-NO可恢复缺氧条件下降低的ROS产生。我们提出,ROS形成的增加通过调节PHD活性,在缺氧条件下导致NO供体使HIF-1α去稳定。