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Oxygen-dependent regulation of ion channels: acute responses, post-translational modification, and response to chronic hypoxia

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PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 473, Issue 10, Pages 1589-1602

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SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-021-02590-7

Keywords

Hypoxia; Ion channels; Oxygen sensing; Carotid body; Pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells

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Funding

  1. National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2018R1A5A2025964]
  2. Korea Health Technology R&D Project, through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) - Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea [HP20C0199]

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Oxygen is crucial for cell survival in aerobic organisms, and lack of oxygen leads to hypoxia. Neural control mechanisms ensure adequate oxygen distribution to cells and tissues. Research on the modulation of oxygen distribution systems and the sensing mechanisms of oxygen levels is of great interest.
Oxygen is a vital element for the survival of cells in multicellular aerobic organisms such as mammals. Lack of O-2 availability caused by environmental or pathological conditions leads to hypoxia. Active oxygen distribution systems (pulmonary and circulatory) and their neural control mechanisms ensure that cells and tissues remain oxygenated. However, O-2-carrying blood cells as well as immune and various parenchymal cells experience wide variations in partial pressure of oxygen (P-O2) in vivo. Hence, the reactive modulation of the functions of the oxygen distribution systems and their ability to sense P-O2 are critical. Elucidating the physiological responses of cells to variations in P-O2 and determining the P-O2-sensing mechanisms at the biomolecular level have attracted considerable research interest in the field of physiology. Herein, we review the current knowledge regarding ion channel-dependent oxygen sensing and associated signalling pathways in mammals. First, we present the recent findings on O-2-sensing ion channels in representative chemoreceptor cells as well as in other types of cells such as immune cells. Furthermore, we highlight the transcriptional regulation of ion channels under chronic hypoxia and its physiological implications and summarize the findings of studies on the post-translational modification of ion channels under hypoxic or ischemic conditions.

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