期刊
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
卷 68, 期 -, 页码 8-21出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.11.007
关键词
HIF-1; Hsp90; NAC; Neuroprotection; Stroke; Free radicals
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01NS058807]
- Kansas University Center for Research startup fund
Stroke is a leading cause of adult morbidity and mortality with very limited treatment options. Evidence from preclinical models of ischemic stroke has demonstrated that the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC) effectively protects the brain from ischemic injury. Here, we evaluated a new pathway through which NAC exerted its neuroprotection in a transient cerebral ischemia animal model. Our results demonstrated that pretreatment with NAC increased protein levels of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1 alpha), the regulatable subunit of HIF-1, and its target proteins erythropoietin (EPO) and glucose transporter (GLUT)-3, in the ipsilateral hemispheres of rodents subjected to 90 min middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) and 24 h reperfusion. Interestingly, after NAC pretreatment and stroke, the contralateral hemisphere also demonstrated increased levels of HIF-1 alpha, EPO, and GLUT-3, but to a lesser extent. Suppressing HIF-1 activity with two widely used pharmacological inhibitors, YC-1 and 2ME2, and specific knockout of neuronal HIF-1 alpha abolished NAC's neuroprotective effects. The results also showed that YC-1 and 2ME2 massively enlarged infarcts, indicating that their toxic effect was larger than just abolishing NAC's neuroprotective effects. Furthermore, we determined the mechanism of NAC-mediated HIF-1 alpha induction. We observed that NAC pretreatment upregulated heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) expression and increased the interaction of Hsp90 with HIF-1 alpha in ischemic brains. The enhanced association of Hsp90 with HIF-1 alpha increased HIF-1 alpha stability. Moreover, Hsp90 inhibition attenuated NAC-induced HIFla protein accumulation and diminished NAC-induced neuroprotection in the MCAO model. These results strongly indicate that HIF-1 plays an important role in NAC-mediated neuroprotection and provide a new molecular mechanism involved in the antioxidant's neuroprotection in ischemic stroke. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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