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ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING
卷 9, 期 11, 页码 1863-1873出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2007.1780
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Our laboratory demonstrated that hyperhomocysteinemia accelerates atherosclerosis in mouse models through ER stress and activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR). In this study, we tested the hypothesis that homocysteine-induced ER stress may arise from ER-Ca2+ disequilibria. We found that homocysteine-induced cytosolic Ca2+ transients in T24/83 cells and human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMCs). These calcium effects occurred at concentrations of homocysteine in the external medium (1-5 mM) that increase intracellular homocysteine in these cell types. Prolonged homocysteine treatment (5 h) at these exogenous concentrations reduced ER-Ca2+ emptying evoked by thapsigargin. However, these homocysteine-induced effects on ER-Ca2+ emptying were of a much smaller magnitude than those evoked by A23187 or thapsigargin (ER stressors known to induce ER stress through ER-Ca2+ depletion). T24/83 cells stably overexpressing the Ca2+ re-binding ER chaperone GRP78 showed diminished cytosolic Ca2+ transients induced by homocysteine and reduced ER-Ca2+ emptying evoked by thapsigargin. Prevention of the homocysteine-induced UPR by cycloheximide pretreatment normalized GRP78 expression and ER-Ca2+ emptying evoked by thapsigargin. These results are inconsistent with a mechanism of ER stress induction by homocysteine through ER-Ca2+ depletion.
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