Steroid As Cytoprotectants against Oxidative Toxicity

类固醇作为抗氧化毒性的细胞保护剂

• 批准号: 6874357
• 负责人: QIN M CHEN
• 金额: $ 37.63万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6874357
• 关键词: SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; adrenal glands; apoptosis; biological signal transduction; cardiac myocytes; corticosteroid receptors; corticosteroids; cytoprotection; doxorubicin; gel mobility shift assay; gene expression; immune response; laboratory rat; myocardium disorder; oxidative stress; proteomics; transcription factor; western blottings

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Stress is known to cause an increase in the synthesis of corticosteroids by the adrenal glands. Although corticosteroids have been shown to contribute to the pathophysiology of suppressed Immune response and a number of psychiatric disorders, the effect of CT on the heart remains unclear. Doxorubicin (Dox) is an anti-neoplastic drug that can produce chronic cardiac toxicity which is manifested as dilated cardiomyopathy. An important feature of this form of cardiomyopathy is the apoptosis of cardiomyocytes. Our preliminary studies found that corticosterone (CT) pretreatment prevented Dox from inducing apoptosis of cardiomyocytes. The glucocorticoid receptor antagonist mifepristone prevented CT from inducing a cell survival response. Several forms of g!ucocorticoids, aldosterone, progesterone and retinoic acid but not estrogen, testosterone or L-thyroxin can inhibit apoptosis of cardiomyocytes. Analyses of ERK, Akt and SGK-1 activities or bcl-2 expression indicated that CT neither activated the known survival kinases nor elevated the expression of the anti-apoptotic gene bcl- 2. The conditioned medium of CT-treated cardiomyocytes shows partially cytoprotective effective. The TranSignal array approach found that CT treatment could potentially activate 21 transcription factors. We hypothesize that activation of the glucocorticoid receptor initiates transcriptional activation of survival genes in cardiomyocytes in vitro and in vivo. Specific aims of this grant include: 1) To test if CT binding causes its receptor to interact with and to activate multiple transcription factors in cardiomyocytes; 2) To test that the activation of cell survival genes contributes to CT-induced cytoprotection; and 3) To demonstrate that CT protects the heart from cardiomyopathy induced by Dox in vivo via inducing the transcription of cell survival genes. This project will combine our expertise in genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics to systematically study the linkage between the glucocorticoid receptor and cell survival mechanisms. Given the fact that stress is unavoidable in our daily life, this project will provide novel information to advance our understanding in the biological effect of corticosteroids on the heart. More importantly, since apoptosis has been shown to contribute to heart failure induced by the chemotherapy agent Dox as well as by many forms of cardiovascular disease, our finding and proposed mechanistic study will provide a hope for novel therapy against heart failure in the future.

描述（由申请人提供）：已知压力会导致肾上腺合成皮质类固醇的增加。尽管皮质类固醇已被证明有助于抑制免疫反应和许多精神疾病的病理生理学，但 CT 对心脏的影响仍不清楚。阿霉素（Dox）是一种抗肿瘤药物，可产生慢性心脏毒性，表现为扩张型心肌病。这种形式的心肌病的一个重要特征是心肌细胞的凋亡。我们的初步研究发现，皮质酮（CT）预处理可阻止Dox诱导心肌细胞凋亡。糖皮质激素受体拮抗剂米非司酮可阻止 CT 诱导细胞存活反应。几种形式的糖皮质激素、醛固酮、黄体酮和视黄酸可以抑制心肌细胞的凋亡，但雌激素、睾酮或L-甲状腺素不能。 ERK、Akt和SGK-1活性或bcl-2表达的分析表明，CT既不激活已知的存活激酶，也不升高抗凋亡基因bcl-2的表达。CT处理的心肌细胞的条件培养基显示出部分细胞保护作用。 TranSignal 阵列方法发现 CT 治疗可能会激活 21 种转录因子。我们假设糖皮质激素受体的激活启动体外和体内心肌细胞中存活基因的转录激活。该资助的具体目的包括： 1) 测试 CT 结合是否会导致其受体与心肌细胞中的多种转录因子相互作用并激活； 2) 测试细胞存活基因的激活是否有助于CT诱导的细胞保护作用； 3) 证明 CT 通过诱导细胞存活基因的转录，保护心脏免受体内 Dox 诱导的心肌病。该项目将结合我们在基因组学、转录组学和蛋白质组学方面的专业知识，系统地研究糖皮质激素受体与细胞生存机制之间的联系。鉴于压力在我们的日常生活中是不可避免的，该项目将提供新的信息，以增进我们对皮质类固醇对心脏的生物学效应的理解。更重要的是，由于细胞凋亡已被证明会导致化疗药物 Dox 以及多种形式的心血管疾病引起的心力衰竭，因此我们的发现和拟议的机制研究将为未来针对心力衰竭的新疗法带来希望。