转染人血红素加氧酶-1基因对大鼠血管平滑肌细胞抗氧化损伤的作用

 
 

张敏1, 安威2, 杜海军2, 陈莉2, 张宝慧1
(1北京大学第三医院运动医学研究所, 北京 100083;
 2首都医科大学细胞生物系, 北京 100054)

 
 

 

 
 

摘 要:

 
 

本实验构建含人血红素加氧酶-1(hHO-1)基因的逆转录病毒载体XM-6/hHO-1, 将其导入离体培养的大鼠血管平滑肌细胞(vascular smooth muscle cells, VSMC), 观察外源性hHO-1基因在VSMC内的表达及其抗活性氧损伤作用。结果表明:(1) hHO-1基因可在靶细胞中明显表达, 转染VSMC的HO-1蛋白表达和HO酶活性分别比非转染细胞高1.8倍和2.0倍; (2)转染hHO-1的VSMC可对抗大剂量H2O2对细胞的损伤作用, 表现为细胞存活率增加和乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)漏出减少,上述保护作用可被HO特异性抑制剂锌原卟啉IX (Zinc-protoporphyrin IX,  ZnPP-IX)所阻断。研究结果提示, 外源性HO-1的过量表达可增加VSMC对抗氧化损伤的能力。
 

 
 

关键词:
血红素加氧酶; 逆转录病毒载体; 活性氧; 血管平滑肌
学科分类号:
Q78;  R363

 

 

 

Increased resistance against oxidant-induced injury in the rat vascular smooth muscle cells transfected with human heme oxygenase-1 gene
 

 

ZHANG Min1, AN Wei2, DU Hai-Jun2, CHEN Li2, ZHANG Bao-Hui1
(1Institute of
Sports Medicine, The Third Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100083; 2Department of Cell Biology, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100054)

 

 

 
 

Abstract: 
The heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), a rate-limiting enzyme in heme metabolism, has been recently defined as a novel stress-stimulated protein, since the intracellular expression of HO-1 in response to various stimuli as oxidation, ischemia and endotoxin injury has been proved to be able to protect the cells from damage. In this study, a retroviral vector containing human HO-1 gene was constructed and transfected to rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Using Southern and Northern blot analyses, the integration and mRNA expression of HO-1 gene in the transfected cells were confirmed. The profound protein expression of HO-1 as well as HO enzyme activity in the transfected cells increased by 1.8-fold and 2.0-fold respectively as compared with the non-transfected cells. It was found that the HO-1 transfected-VSMCs presented dominant resistance to toxicity produced by exposure to H2O2, as a significant protective effect of HO-1 marked by cell survival and LDH leakage was observed when 200, 400 and 600 μmol/L of H2O2 were used. The protection of HO-1 rapidly declined after the transfected-VSMCs were pretreated 24 h with an HO-1 specific inhibitor (ZnPP-IX). The results of this investigation suggest that the functional expression of HO-1 gene within VSMCs raises an alternative ability to protect the vascular cells against active oxygen injury. 

Key words:
heme oxygenase; retroviral vector; active oxygen;  vascular smooth muscle cells

 
     
     
 

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