Hypoxia inhibits the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha/retinoid X receptor gene regulatory pathway in cardiac myocytes: a mechanism for O2-dependent modulation of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation.

Autor: Huss JM; Center for Cardiovascular Research, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA., Levy FH, Kelly DP
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of biological chemistry [J Biol Chem] 2001 Jul 20; Vol. 276 (29), pp. 27605-12. Date of Electronic Publication: 2001 May 22.
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M100277200
Abstrakt: Hypoxia triggers a cascade of cellular energy metabolic responses including a decrease in mitochondrial oxidative flux. To characterize gene regulatory mechanisms by which mitochondrial fatty acid oxidative capacity is diminished in response to hypoxia, cardiac myocytes in culture were exposed to long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) under normoxic or hypoxic conditions. Hypoxia prevented the known LCFA-induced accumulation of mRNA encoding muscle carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (M-CPT I), an enzyme that catalyzes the rate-limiting step in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO). Under hypoxic conditions, myocytes exhibited significant accumulation of intracellular neutral lipid consistent with reduced CPT I activity and diminished FAO capacity. Transient transfection experiments demonstrated that the hypoxia-mediated blunting of M-CPT I gene expression occurs at the transcriptional level, is localized to an LCFA/peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha)/retinoid X receptor (RXR) response element within the M-CPT I gene promoter, and is PPARalpha-dependent. DNA-protein binding studies demonstrated that exposure to hypoxia reduces PPARalpha/RXR binding activity. Immunoblotting studies demonstrated that whereas hypoxia had no effect on nuclear levels of PPARalpha protein, nuclear and cellular RXRalpha levels were reduced. Hypoxia also diminished the 9-cis-retinoic acid-mediated activation of a reporter containing an RXR homodimer response element. These results demonstrate that hypoxia deactivates PPARalpha by reducing the availability of its obligate partner RXR.
Databáze: MEDLINE