Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity: direct correlation of cardiac fibroblast and H9c2 cell survival and aconitase activity with heat shock protein 27.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
; 293(5): H3111-21, 2007 Nov.
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| ID: mdl-17873025
ABSTRACT
The use of doxorubicin (Dox) and its derivatives as chemotherapeutic drugs to treat patients with cancer causes dilated cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure due to Dox-induced cardiotoxicity. In this work, using heat shock factor-1 wild-type (HSF-1(+/+)) and HSF-1 knockout (HSF-1(-/-)) mouse fibroblasts and embryonic rat heart-derived cardiac H9c2 cells, we show that the magnitude of protection from Dox-induced toxicity directly correlates with the level of the heat shock protein 27 (HSP27). Western blot analysis of normal and heat-shocked cells showed the maximum expression of HSP27 in heat-shocked cardiac H9c2 cells and no HSP27 in HSF-1(-/-) cells (normal or heat-shocked). Correspondingly, the cell viability, measured [with (3,4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay] after treatment with various concentrations of Dox, was the highest in heat-shocked H9c2 cells and the lowest in HSF-1(-/-) cells. Depleting HSP27 in cardiac H9c2 cells by small interfering (si)RNA also reduced the viability against Dox, confirming that HSP27 does protect cardiac cells against the Dox-induced toxicity. The cells that have lower HSP27 levels such as HSF-1(-/-), were found to be more susceptible for aconitase inactivation. Based on these results we propose a novel mechanism that HSP27 plays an important role in protecting aconitase from Dox-generated O(2)*(-), by increasing SOD activity. Such a protection of aconitase by HSP27 eliminates the catalytic recycling of aconitase released Fe(II) and its deleterious effects in cardiac cells.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Superoxide Dismutase
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Doxorubicin
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Cell Survival
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Myocytes, Cardiac
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Myoblasts, Cardiac
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Fibroblasts
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Heat-Shock Proteins
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Neoplasm Proteins
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
Journal subject:
CARDIOLOGIA
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FISIOLOGIA
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States