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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 35, 期 5, 页码 519-527出版社
AMER THORACIC SOC
DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2005-0478OC
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anti-caspase; epithelial Na channel; lung epithelium; spectrin; tight junction
Alveolar hypoxia, a common feature of many respiratory disorders, has been previously reported to induce functional changes, particularly a decrease of transepithelial Na and fluid transport. In polarized epithelia, cytoskeleton plays a regulatory role in transcellular and paracellular transport of ions and fluid. We hypothesized that exposure to hypoxia could damage cytoskeleton organization, which in turn, may adversely affect ion and fluid transport. Primary rat alveolar epithelial cells (AEC) were exposed to either mild (3% O-2) or severe (0.5% O-2) hypoxia for 18 h or to normoxia (21% O-2). First, mild and severe hypoxia induced a disorganization of actin, a major protein of the cytoskeleton, reflected by disruption of F-actin filaments. Second, alpha-spectrin, an apical cytoskeleton protein, which binds to actin cytoskeleton and Na transport proteins, was cleaved by hypoxia. Pretreatment of AEC by a caspase inhibitor (z-VAD-fmk; 90 mu M) blunted hypoxia-induced spectrin cleavage as well as hypoxia-induced decrease in surface membrane alpha-ENaC and concomitantly induced a partial recovery of hypoxia-incluced decrease of amiloride-sensitive Na transport at 3% O-2. Finally, tight junctions (TJs) proteins, which are linked to actin and are a determinant of paracellular permeability, were altered by mild and severe hypoxia: hypoxia induced a mislocalization of occludin from the TJ to cytoplasm and a decrease in zonula occludens-1 protein level. These modifications were associated with modest changes in paracellular permeability at 0.5% O-2, as assessed by small 4-kD dextran flux and transepithelial resistance measurements. Together, these findings indicate that hypoxia disrupted cytoskeleton and TJ organization in AEC and may participate, at least in part, to hypoxia-induced decrease in Na transport.
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