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Mechanisms of homocysteine-induced oxidative stress

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky

Submitted 24 May 2005 ; accepted in final form 1 August 2005

Hyperhomocysteinemia decreases vascular reactivity and is associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, pathogenic mechanisms that increase oxidative stress by homocysteine (Hcy) are unsubstantiated. The aim of this study was to examine the molecular mechanism by which Hcy triggers oxidative stress and reduces bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO) in cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (MVEC). MVEC were cultured for 0–24 h with 0–100 µM Hcy. Differential expression of protease-activated receptors (PARs), thioredoxin, NADPH oxidase, endothelial NO synthase, inducible NO synthase, neuronal NO synthase, and dimethylarginine-dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH) were measured by real-time quantitative RT-PCR. Reactive oxygen species were measured by using a fluorescent probe, 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein diacetate. Levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) were measured by ELISA and NO levels by the Griess method in the cultured MVEC. There were no alterations in the basal NO levels with 0–100 µM Hcy and 0–24 h of treatment. However, Hcy significantly induced inducible NO synthase and decreased endothelial NO synthase without altering neuronal NO synthase levels. There was significant accumulation of ADMA, in part because of reduced DDAH expression by Hcy in MVEC. Nitrotyrosine expression was increased significantly by Hcy. The results suggest that Hcy activates PAR-4, which induces production of reactive oxygen species by increasing NADPH oxidase and decreasing thioredoxin expression and reduces NO bioavailability in cultured MVEC by 1) increasing NO₂-tyrosine formation and 2) accumulating ADMA by decreasing DDAH expression.

NADPH oxidase; thioredoxin; nitric oxide; protease-activated receptor; nitric oxide synthase; 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein diacetate; asymmetric dimethylarginine; microvascular endothelial cells

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