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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 43, Pages 42307-42312Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M306951200
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The mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) is expressed in spleen, lung, intestine, white adipose tissue, and immune cells. Bone marrow transplantation in mice was used to assess the contribution of immune cells to the expression of UCP2 in basal condition and during inflammation. Immune cells accounted for the total amount of UCP2 expression in the spleen, one-third of its expression in the lung, and did not participate in its expression in the intestine. LPS injection stimulated UCP2 expression in lung, spleen, and intestine in both immune and non-immune cells. Successive injections of LPS and dexamethasone or N-acetyl-cysteine prevented the induction of UCP2 in all three tissues, suggesting that oxygen free radical generation plays a role in UCP2 regulation. Finally, both previous studies and our data show that there is down-regulation of UCP2 in immune cells during their activation in the early stages of the LPS response followed by an up-regulation in UCP2 during the later stages to protect all cells against oxidative stress.
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