Enhanced leukocyte HIF-1alpha and HIF-1 DNA binding in humans after rapid ascent to 4300 m

Hypoxia plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of a multitude of diseases and clinical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, pulmonary disease, inflammation, organ transplant, and wound healing. Investigations into the role of hypoxia-inducible transcription factor (...

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Published in:Free radical biology & medicine 2009-06, Vol.46 (11), p.1551-1557
Main Authors: Tissot van Patot, Martha C, Serkova, Natalie J, Haschke, Manuel, Kominsky, Douglas J, Roach, Robert C, Christians, Uwe, Henthorn, Thomas K, Honigman, Benjamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Altitude
Biomarkers - blood
Biomarkers - urine
Dinoprost - analogs & derivatives
Dinoprost - urine
DNA - analysis
Female
Free Radicals - metabolism
Glutathione - blood
Heart Rate
Humans
Hypoxia - blood
Hypoxia - physiopathology
Hypoxia - urine
Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit - metabolism
Lactic Acid - blood
Leukocytes, Mononuclear - metabolism
Leukocytes, Mononuclear - pathology
Male
Metabolomics
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
Oxidative Stress
Protein Binding
Succinic Acid - blood
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Summary:Hypoxia plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of a multitude of diseases and clinical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, pulmonary disease, inflammation, organ transplant, and wound healing. Investigations into the role of hypoxia-inducible transcription factor (HIF) in disease development have been conducted with the basic premise that HIF is activated in vivo during hypoxia in humans, yet this basic physiologic premise has never verified. Thus, we hypothesized that HIF-1 DNA binding would be enhanced in vivo in humans in response to acute global hypoxia. Fourteen human subjects were exposed to normoxia (1600 m) and hypoxia (4300 m, approximately 12% O(2)) in a hypobaric hypoxic chamber (8 h). HIF-1 DNA binding and HIF-1alpha protein were evaluated in circulating leukocytes. Oxidative markers were evaluated by plasma metabolomics using nuclear magnetic resonance and by urinary 15-F(2t)-isoprostane concentrations. Leukocyte HIF-1 DNA binding was increased (p=0.007) and HIF-1alpha was greater during hypoxia compared to normoxia. Circulating total glutathione was reduced by 35% (p=0.001), and lactate and succinate were increased by 29 and 158%, respectively (p=0.007 and 0.001), as were urinary 15-F(2t)-isoprostanes (p=0.037). HIF-1 DNA binding and HIF-1alpha were elevated in vivo in leukocytes of healthy human subjects exposed to 12% oxygen, in association with plasma and urinary markers of hypoxic stress.
ISSN:1873-4596
DOI:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.03.009