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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 13, Pages 11392-11400Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M110927200
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG-16927] Funding Source: Medline
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Glucose (Glc) metabolism protects cells against oxidant injury. By virtue of their central position in both Glc uptake and utilization, hexokinases (HKs) are ideally suited to contribute to these effects. Compatible with this hypothesis, endogenous HK activity correlates inversely with injury susceptibility in individual renal cell types. We recently reported that ectopic HK expression mimics the anti-apoptotic effects of growth factors in cultured fibroblasts, but anti-apoptotic roles for HKs have not been examined in other cell types or in a cellular injury model. We therefore evaluated HK overexpression for the ability to mitigate acute oxidant-induced cell death in an established epithelial cell culture injury model. In parallel, we examined salutary heparin-binding epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like growth factor (HB-EGF) treatment for the ability to 1) increase endogenous HK activity and 2) mimic the protective effects of ectopic H-K expression. Both HK overexpression and HB-EGF increased Glc-phosphorylating capacity and metabolism, and these changes were associated with markedly reduced susceptibility to acute oxidant-induced apoptosis. The uniform Glc dependence of these effects suggests an important adaptive role for Glc metabolism, and for HK activity in particular, in the promotion of epithelial cell survival. These findings also support the contention that HKs contribute to the protective effects of growth factors.
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