Affiliation:
1. Oxygen Signalling Group, Tayside Institute of Child Health, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, United Kingdom
Abstract
To test the genetic capacity of the perinatal lung to respond to O2 shifts that coincide with the first respiratory movements, rat fetal alveolar type II (fATII) epithelial cells were cultured at fetal distal lung[Formula: see text] (23 Torr) and then exposed to postnatal (23 → 76 Torr; mild hyperoxic shift), moderate (23 → 152 Torr; moderate hyperoxic shift), or severe (23 → 722 Torr; severe hyperoxic shift) oxygenation. Nuclear abundance and consensus binding characteristics of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α and nuclear factor (NF)-κB (Rel A/p65) plus glutathione biosynthetic capacity were determined. Maximal HIF-1α activation at 23 Torr was sustained over the postnatal shift in (Δ)[Formula: see text] and was elevated in vivo throughout late gestation. NF-κB was activated by the acute postnatal[Formula: see text] in fATII cells, becoming maximal with moderate and severe oxygenation in vitro and within 6 h of birth in vivo, declining thereafter. fATII cell and whole lung glutathione and GSH-to-GSSG ratio increased fourfold with a postnatal[Formula: see text] and were matched by threefold activity increases in γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase and glutathione synthase. GSH concentration depletion byl-buthionine-( S,R)-sulfoximine abrogated both HIF-1α and NF-κB activation, with HIF-1α showing a heightened sensitivity to GSH concentration. We conclude that O2-linked genetic regulation in perinatal lung epithelium is responsive to developmental changes in glutathione biosynthetic capacity.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Cell Biology,Physiology (medical),Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine,Physiology
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