Título: Calcineurin expression and activity is regulated by the intracellular redox status and under hypertension in human neutrophils
Autores: Alba Jiménez, Gonzalo
Santa María Pérez, Consuelo
Reyes Quiroz, María Edith
El Bekay, Rajaa
Geniz, Isabel
Martín Nieto, José
Pintado Sanjuan, Elizabeth
Sobrino Beneyto, Francisco
Fecha: 2013-02-01
2013-02-01
2012-09
Publicador: RUA Docencia
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Tema: Calcineurin
Neutrophils
Hypertension
Angiotensin
Hemoxygenase
Genética
Descripción: Calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) (CN) comprises a family of serine/threonine phosphatases that play a pivotal role in signal transduction cascades in a variety of cells, including neutrophils. Angiotensin II (Ang II) increases both activity and de novo synthesis of CN in human neutrophils. This study focuses on the role that intracellular redox status plays in the induction of CN activity by Ang II. Both de novo synthesis of CN and activity increase promoted by Ang II were downregulated when cells were treated with l-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine, an inhibitor of synthesis of the antioxidant glutathione. We have also investigated the effect of pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate and phenazine methosulfate, which are antioxidant and oxidant compounds, respectively, and concluded that the intracellular redox status of neutrophils is highly critical for Ang II-induced increase of CN expression and activity. Results obtained in neutrophils from hypertensive patients were very similar to those obtained in these cells on treatment with Ang II. We have also addressed the possible functional implication of CN activation in the development of hypertension. Present findings indicate that downregulation of hemoxygenase-1 expression in neutrophils from hypertensive subjects is likely mediated by CN, which acts by hindering translocation to the nucleus of the transcription factor NRF2. These data support and extend our previous results and those from other authors on modulation of CN expression and activity levels by the intracellular redox status.
G A was supported by fellowships from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (BFU2006-13802) and the Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía (P08-CVI-03550). M E R-Q was supported by a fellowship from the Asociación Virgen Macarena, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla. This work was funded by grants from the Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía (P06-CTS-01936 and P08-CVI-03550) to F S, and from the Consejería de Salud, Junta de Andalucía (CS 0116/2007) to E P.
Idioma: Inglés

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