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In vitro ischemia suppresses hypoxic induction of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α by inhibition of synthesis and not enhanced degradation

Hypoxia‐inducible factor (HIF) mediates a broad, conserved adaptive response to hypoxia, and the HIF pathway is a potential therapeutic target in cerebral ischemia. This study investigated the mechanism by which in vitro ischemia (oxygen‐glucose deprivation; OGD) affects canonical hypoxic HIF‐1α sta...

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Published in:Journal of neuroscience research 2013-08, Vol.91 (8), p.1066-1075
Main Authors: Karuppagounder, Saravanan S., Basso, Manuela, Sleiman, Sama F., Ma, Thong C., Speer, Rachel E., Smirnova, Natalya A., Gazaryan, Irina G., Ratan, Rajiv R.
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Summary:Hypoxia‐inducible factor (HIF) mediates a broad, conserved adaptive response to hypoxia, and the HIF pathway is a potential therapeutic target in cerebral ischemia. This study investigated the mechanism by which in vitro ischemia (oxygen‐glucose deprivation; OGD) affects canonical hypoxic HIF‐1α stabilization. We validated the use of a reporter containing the oxygen‐dependent degradation domain of HIF‐1α fused to firefly luciferase (ODD‐luc) to monitor quantitatively distinct biochemical events leading to hypoxic HIF‐1α expression or stabilization in a human neuroblastoma cell line (SH‐SY5Y). When OGD was imposed following a 2‐hr hypoxic stabilization of ODD‐luc, the levels of the reporter were reduced, consistent with prior models proposing that OGD enhances HIF prolylhydroxylase (PHD) activity. Surprisingly, PHD inhibitors and proteasome inhibitors do not stabilize ODD‐luc in OGD. Furthermore, OGD does not affect the half‐life of ODD‐luc protein following hypoxia, suggesting that OGD abrogates hypoxic HIF‐1α induction by reducing HIF‐1α synthesis rather than by enhancing its degradation. We observed ATP depletion under OGD vs. hypoxia and propose that ATP depletion enhances translational suppression, overcoming the selective synthesis of HIF concurrent with global decreases in protein synthesis in hypoxia. Taken together, these findings biochemically characterize a practical reporter for monitoring HIF‐1α levels and support a novel model for HIF regulation in an in vitro model of human ischemia. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
ISSN:0360-4012
1097-4547
DOI:10.1002/jnr.23204