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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 283, Issue 3, Pages L573-L584Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00410.2001
Keywords
hypoxia; hyperoxia; mitochondria
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-52732, HL-56263] Funding Source: Medline
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Increased glucose utilization and hexokinase (HK)-II expression are adaptive features of lung cells exposed to hypoxia or hyperoxia. HK-II is the most regulated isoform of HK. Whether its overexpression could be protective against oxidative stress was explored in human lung epithelial-like (A549) cells. HK-II was overexpressed in A549 cells in a tetracycline-repressible retroviral vector system. Elevated expression of HK-II was confirmed by Western blot and activity measurements. Cell death caused by exposure to hyperoxia was decreased in HK-II-overexpressing cells. This effect was reversed when HK-II expression was suppressed with doxycycline. A similar protective effect was observed in HK-II-overexpressing cells after treatment with 1 mM hydrogen peroxide for 48 h. At baseline, fluorescence microscopy showed that overexpressed HK-II was localized to mitochondria. Electron microscopic studies showed that hyperoxia-exposed HK-II overexpressors had better-preserved and quantitatively smaller mitochondria than those in which the HK-II expression was suppressed or in the nontransduced A549 cells. Mitochondrial membrane potential was increased in HK-II-overexpressing cells exposed to hyperoxia compared with the nontransduced control cells under similar conditions. The present study demonstrates that HK-II protects human lung epithelial-like A549 cells against oxidative insults by protecting the mitochondria.
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