Affiliation:
1. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School ofMedicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-3716, USA.
Abstract
The heat shock gene expression plays a role in the protection of cells from injury. In the present study, we have analyzed the expression of heat shock protein (HSP) 72 (the major inducible form of the HSP 70 family) in different rat organs after a total body hyperthermia. The content of HSP 72 was greatest in liver and colon. In contrast, accumulation of HSP 72 was low in heart and brain (3-5% and < 1% of the amount in liver, respectively). This low expression of HSP 72 in heart and brain could not be explained by a difference in the actual temperature within these organs. Analysis of cells in culture that resemble hepatocytes, myoblast, and neurons showed a pattern of HSP 72 expression similar to that observed in liver, heart, and brain in vivo after heat shock. These results suggest that this disparate expression of HSP 72 is due to intrinsic characteristics of the cell types rather than to physiological or environmental conditions. The differential expression of HSP 72 among different cell lines could be correlated with the different levels of protein synthesis protection.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
Cited by
27 articles.
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