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1Division of Military Casualty Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring 20910-7500; Departments of 2Medicine and 3Pharmacology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799; and 4United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas 78234-6315
Submitted 25 February 2004 ; accepted in final form 10 April 2004
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apoptosis; caffeic acid phenethyl ester; c-Jun; c-Fos; nuclear factor-
B; hypoxia-inducible factor-1; Kruppel-like factor 6 transcription factor
These observations are consistent with the idea that the low oxygen supply resulting from conditions such as ischemia or hemorrhage affects the expression of iNOS, which then influences the expression of proteins that alter cell viability. We showed that hypoxia results in alteration of iNOS, Bcl-2, and p53 mRNA expression in cultured human intestinal epithelial T84 cells and Jurkat T cells, alterations that can be modulated by treatment with a NOS inhibitor (17). We also found that hypoxia increases the activity of caspase-3, an aspartate-specific cysteinyl protease involved in apoptosis, an activity that is blocked by NOS inhibitors (17).
A full time-course study of the effect of hemorrhage on a series of stress-related proteins such as c-Jun, Kruppel-like factor 6 (KLF6), iNOS, HSP70i, and hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1
has not been previously reported in an in vivo model. The relationship between iNOS and KLF6 in the in vivo model has also not been studied. Geldanamycin (GA) has been shown to suppress caspase-3 activity and DNA cleavage in human megakaryocytic leukemia CMK-7 cells treated with actinomycin D and colcemid (31) and to reduce fluid accumulation and iNOS overexpression in rat lung after hemorrhage and resuscitation (27). In this study, we report that hemorrhage in mice stimulates increased expression of c-Jun, KLF6, iNOS, HSP70i, and HIF-1
proteins. Treatment of mice with GA before hemorrhage inhibits expression of iNOS and KLF6 proteins. GA treatment increases levels of HSP70i, which in turn form complexes with KLF6 and iNOS. The results suggest that the inhibitory effect of GA is probably mediated by its capacity to induce HSP70i, a well-characterized cytoprotectant (14, 16).
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Experimental protocol. We conducted experiments using the mouse model described by Song et al. (32). Male Swiss Webster mice weighing 2535 g were briefly anesthetized with isoflurane, and 40% of the calculated blood volume was removed over a 1-min period by cardiac puncture with a 26-gauge needle. Mean arterial blood pressure fell from 80 to 40 mmHg in the 2 h after treatment. Treated mice were allowed to respond for 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, and 48 h. Sham-treated animals underwent cardiac puncture, but no blood was removed. In different experiments, mice were pretreated with caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE; 1 µg/g body wt) or GA (1 µg/g body wt) in 10% DMSO saline by intraperitoneal injection 16 h before hemorrhage (27). These mice were then subjected to 40% hemorrhage and allowed to respond for 6 h before they were killed. Small portions of lung, jejunum, kidney, heart, brain, and liver were removed from the treated mice and frozen immediately at 70°C until used.
Tissues were sonicated for 15 s and then centrifuged at 10,000 g for 10 min. The supernatant was saved for determining the total amount of protein in each lysate sample and performing immunoblot analysis. Proteins and moieties assessed by immunoblotting included c-Fas, 65-kDa nuclear factor-
B (NF-
B), c-Jun, KLF4, KLF6, iNOS, HSP70i, HSP90, HIF-1
, phosphotyrosine, and phosphothreonine.
Immunoprecipitation. Tissue lysates containing 300 µg of protein were incubated with the specified antibody (5 µl), chilled on ice for 1 h, mixed with protein A/G agarose beads (50 µl; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA), and incubated overnight on a nutator at 4°C. The immunoprecipitate was collected by centrifugation at 12,500 g for 10 min, washed twice with 500 µl of stop buffer, and once with 500 µl of Tris wash buffer. The pellet was resuspended in the 50 µl of electrophoresis sample buffer without 2-mercaptoethanol, boiled for 5 min, and then centrifuged for 30 s to remove the agarose beads. The supernatant was incubated with 5% 2-mercaptoethanol at 37°C for 1 h. Twenty-five microliters of sample were loaded onto precast 10% Tris-glycine polyacrylamide gels for Western blots.
Western blots.
For samples not requiring immunoprecipitation, lysate was mixed with an equal volume of Tris buffer (pH 6.8) containing 1% SDS and 1% 2-mercaptoethanol. Aliquots containing 20 µg of protein were resolved on SDS-polyacrylamide slab gels (precast 10% gel, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). Protein was blotted onto a nitrocellulose membrane (type NC, 0.45 µm, Schleicher and Schuell) using a Novex blotting apparatus and the manufacturer's protocol. The nitrocellulose membrane was blocked by incubation for 90 min at room temperature in PBS containing 5% nonfat dried milk. The blot was then incubated for 60 min at room temperature with the selected monoclonal antibody against p53, Bcl-2, c-Fas, c-Jun, KLF4, KLF6, 65-kDa NF-
B, HSP90, actin (Santa Cruz), HSP70i (Amersham, Arlington Heights, IL), iNOS, HIF-1
(BD Transduction Laboratories, San Diego, CA), phosphotyrosine, or phosphothreonine (Zymed Laboratories, San Francisco, CA) at 1 µg/ml in PBS-5% BSA. The blot was washed three times (10 min each) in TBS-0.1% Tween 20 before incubating for 60 min at room temperature with a 1,000x dilution of species-specific IgG peroxidase conjugate (Santa Cruz) in PBS-1% gelatin. The blot was washed six times (5 min each) in TBS-0.1% Tween 20 before detection of the peroxidase activity using the enhanced chemiluminenscence kit (Amersham Life Science Products).
Expression of the protein actin was not altered by hemorrhage; therefore, actin was used as a sample loading control, and data for immunoblotting analysis were normalized by actin (13).
Statistical analysis. All data are expressed as means ± SE. One-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Studentized-range test, Bonferroni's inequality, and Student's t-test were used for comparison of groups with 5% as a significant level.
Chemicals. Chemicals used in this study were GA and CAPE (Sigma Chemical, St. Louis, MO).
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iNOS expression is known to increase in rodent lung after hemorrhage (10, 25), but the time course of the increase has not been studied. Figure 1 demonstrates how hemorrhage affects expression of several stress-related proteins in our mouse hemorrhage model over time. On the basis of Western blot data from jejunum lysates, c-Jun protein was overexpressed within 1 h, but levels returned to baseline values 3 h later. KLF6 began to increase significantly after 6 h, reached a maximum at 24 h, and remained at that level 48 h after hemorrhage. iNOS increased at 6 h, reached a maximum between 12 and 24 h, and returned to baseline values by 48 h. HSP70i increased at 12 h and remained elevated at 48 h. HIF-1
also increased at 12 h and continued to increase at 48 h. The sequence of protein appearance was, therefore, c-Jun, KLF6, iNOS, HSP70i, and HIF-1
. KLF4 and c-Fos (an AP-1 protein) were not detected in jejunum (data not shown), and 65-kDa NF-
B was detected, but it was not affected by hemorrhage (Fig. 1). Similar time courses for these stress-related proteins were observed in lung, heart, kidney, liver, and heart (data not shown). Sham-treated mouse organs displayed no changes in the basal levels of c-Jun, KLF6, and iNOS (data not shown).
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B (26) as well as a natural antioxidant (6). We treated mice with GA or CAPE 16 h before hemorrhage to determine how the respective activities inhibited by GA and CAPE affect our mouse hemorrhage model. Figure 2 shows that hemorrhage is associated with overexpression of KLF6 and iNOS. Pretreatment with GA significantly reduced the hemorrhage-induced increase in KLF6 protein (Fig. 2A) and completely inhibited the hemorrhage-induced increase in iNOS protein (Fig. 2B). CAPE pretreatment did not affect the basal expression of KLF6 or iNOS in the absence of hemorrhage (Fig. 2, A and B, respectively). It also did not inhibit the increase in KLF6 protein or iNOS observed after hemorrhage (Fig. 2, A and B, respectively).
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HSP70i forms complex with iNOs. Our data also suggest that HSP70i can form a complex with iNOS. When tissue lysates were immunoprecipitated with anti-HSP70i and then the precipitates were immunoblotted with anti-iNOS antibody, the iNOS band was detected (Fig. 4C). When the lysate was immunoprecipitated with anti-iNOS and then the precipitates were immunoblotted with anti-HSP70i antibody, the HSP70i band was detected (Fig. 4D).
Phosphorylation is not involved in GA inhibition. Because cellular responses to many extracellular signals occur through phosphorylation or dephosphorylation of intracellular proteins, we determined whether GA exerted its inhibition through changes in protein phosphorylation. Because heat shock has been shown to increase tyrosine phosphorylation of constitutive NOS (15), we directed our attention specifically at KLF6 or iNOS phosphorylation. Blots were stripped and exposed to anti-phosphotyrosine antibody or anti-phosphothreonine antibody. Results indicate that hemorrhage did not induce KLF6 or iNOS phosphorylation at tyrosine or threonine residues (data not shown).
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Hemorrhage induced sequential increases in the levels of stress-related proteins c-Jun, KLF6, iNOS and then HSP70i and HIF-1
. iNOS has previously been shown to be overexpressed after hemorrhagic shock in rodent lung (8, 27), human liver (4), and murine tissues (4, 28). Warke et al. (36) reported that the binding of KLF6 to the iNOS promoter increased significantly in cultured cells after chemical hypoxia, heat stress, serum starvation, and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and A23187
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ionophore stimulation. Using GenBank, we identified four CACCC sites on the mouse iNOS promoter (253 to 257, 818 to 822, 856 to 860, and 1,556 to 1,600) that potentially bind KLF6. Furthermore, both the KLF6 promoter and iNOS promoter have AP-1 binding sites (KLF6: 364 to 371; iNOS: 644 to 650 and 1,225 to 1,231) that probably also bind c-Jun and/or c-Fos. In our study, no c-Fos was detected with immunoblotting analysis. Because iNOS promoters include two AP-1 sites and are involved in processes such as cell injury, wound repair, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, and suppression of tumorigenesis, the observation that c-Jun overexpression occurs earlier than KLF6 and iNOS overexpression suggests two hypotheses: 1) hemorrhage activates c-Jun, which upregulates KLF6 expression, leading to iNOS expression; or 2) hemorrhage activates c-Jun, which then directly binds to the iNOS promoter to induce iNOS expression. Experiments to differentiate these two possibilities are underway. c-Fos was not detected in these tissues and is therefore not discussed further.
Hemorrhage also increases levels of HSP70i and HIF-1
protein, both of which appear after iNOS. The increase in HSP70i protein remained at a plateau up to 48 h after hemorrhage, but HIF-1
protein continued to increase. HSP70i is known to be a cytoprotector (5, 14, 16), but its late appearance supports the idea that it is involved only in controlling injury, not in preventing it. HIF-1 is a heterodimeric protein consisting of a constitutively expressed
-subunit and an oxygen- and growth factor-regulated
-subunit. HIF-1
is normally rapidly degraded in cells supplied with adequate oxygen. It has been shown to be overexpressed because of intratumoral hypoxia (29), chronic fetal anemia cardiac hypertrophy (22), injection of CoCl2 (30), or treatment with pyruvate (19). It is not clear what role HIF-1
plays in hemorrhage, because its overexpression occurs so late.
GA is an inhibitor of the ATPase activity of HSP90 (31), which has been shown to be a suppressor of caspase-3 activity and DNA cleavage in human leukemia CMK-7 cells treated with actinomycin D and colcemid (31). It is also known to reduce fluid accumulation in rat lung after hemorrhage (27) and induce degradation of HIF-1
in prostate cancer cells (20). The GA inhibition observed in this study is probably mediated by its ability to inhibit the overexpression of KLF6 and iNOS (see schematic, Fig. 5).
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B (26) as well as a natural antioxidant (16). We did not find alteration of 65-kDa NF-
B protein expression in hemorrhagic jejunum, which is in agreement with observations in another laboratory (9), where both hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation were required before increased expression of NF-
B was observed. Therefore, even though CAPE is a potent inhibitor of NF-
B activation (26), it showed no effects on hemorrhage-induced elevations of KLF6 and iNOS protein. Moreover, KLF6 likely plays a key role in regulating iNOS protein expression under these circumstances because the hypoxia-induced increase in KLF6 causes an upregulation of iNOS in human T cells (36). Continued investigation of the relationship between KLF6 and iNOS in hemorrhagic shock is required.
GA upregulates expression of HSP70i protein but not HSP90. It has been shown in rats subjected to both hemorrhage and resuscitation that GA treatment 24 and 48 h before hemorrhage or heat stress 16 h before hemorrhage protects against fluid accumulation in lung (27). Under those conditions, HSP70i was elevated. Experiments using HSP70 gene transfection have shown that cytokine-mediated activation of NF-
B in cultured cells is attenuated (27). Experiments using heat stress to overexpress HSP70i also significantly attenuated cardiovascular and hepatocellular dysfunction as well as circulatory levels of tumor necrosis factor-
and IL-6 in hemorrhagic and resuscitated rat (24). Although 65-kDa NF-
B apparently plays no role in our mouse model, HSP70i is known to protect strongly against ischemic injury (7, 12, 21, 23, 34, 35) and other types of injury (2, 16, 18, 24, 35, 37, 39). Our data show that the GA-induced increase in HSP70i protein levels leads to the formation of a HSP70i-KLF6 complex that does not alter KLF6 phosphorylation. It is possible that HSP70 complexation with KLF6 leads to less KLF6 binding to the iNOS promoter and, in turn, results in decreased iNOS protein (11, 17).
Figure 5 is a schematic representation of our model for the interaction between hemorrhage-induced changes, indicating points where GA might block these changes. On the basis of our data, KLF6 and HSP70i are first normally associated with each other in some way. After hemorrhage, increases in c-Jun protein upregulate expression of KLF6 and iNOS proteins and, somehow, caspase-3 activity. Treatment with GA induces increased HSP70i protein expression that results in increased formation of complexes with KLF6, thereby limiting the levels of free KLF6. As a result, less KLF6 is available to bind to the iNOS promoter, and less iNOS is expressed. Caspase-3 activity is inhibited directly or indirectly (through other intermediate proteins such as survivin). Further studies are needed to understand the underlying mechanism in detail.
In summary, this is the first report to show the time response of hemorrhage-induced increases in expression of the stress-related proteins c-Jun, KLF6, iNOS, HSP70i, and HIF-1
. Our observations show that treatment with GA, but not CAPE, inhibits KLF6 and iNOS protein expression by increasing HSP70i, which forms complexes with both KLF6 and iNOS. Our results, taken together with findings from other laboratories, indicate that GA may be therapeutically useful before surgery or as an additive to resuscitation fluids to reduce hemorrhage-induced injury. More studies with GA are needed, especially those that can better define dose- and time-response relationships after hemorrhage.
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The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Department of the Army, the uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or Department of Defense.
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