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Adenosine-Dependent Induction of Glutathione Peroxidase 1 in Human Primary Endothelial Cells and Protection Against Oxidative Stress

From the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute and Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence to Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, 715 Albany St, W507, Boston, MA 02118. E-mail jloscalz{at}bu.edu

Cellular glutathione peroxidase (GPx-1), a selenocysteine-containing enzyme, plays a central role in protecting cells from oxidative injury. GPx-1 is ubiquitously expressed in eukaryotic cells where it reduces hydrogen and lipid peroxides to alcohols. Adenosine, which is released from stressed or injured cells, protects against ischemia/reperfusion injury and apoptosis. In this study, we hypothesize that the cytoprotective effect of adenosine involves an increase in the activity of GPx-1. Treatment of human primary pulmonary artery endothelial cells (HPAECs) with 50 µmol/L adenosine in the presence of 10 µmol/L erytho-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine (EHNA), an adenosine deaminase inhibitor, for 48 hours increased GPx-1 mRNA levels 2-fold. GPx-1 protein and enzyme activity also increased 2-fold after treatment. The induction of GPx-1 expression was found to be a consequence of increased mRNA stability and not an increase in transcription. Bisindolylmaleimide I (BIM), a protein kinase C signaling pathway inhibitor, significantly attenuated the induction of GPx-1 mRNA by 36%. The adenosine/EHNA-treated cells were more resistant to hydrogen peroxide stress. Both pharmacological inhibition and siRNA knockdown of GPx-1 attenuated the protective affect of adenosine/EHNA treatment, indicating that the adenosine-induced increase in GPx-1 contributes to an increase in cellular protection against oxidative stress. These data suggest that adenosine may protect the cardiovascular system from ischemia/reperfusion injury, in part, by enhancing the expression of the central intracellular antioxidant enzyme, GPx-1.

Key Words: adenosine • antioxidant • cellular glutathione peroxidase • endothelial cells • RNA stability

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