title: Hypoxia regulates avian cardiac Arnt and HIF-1alpha mRNA expression.
abstract: The aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (Arnt) and hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1alpha mediate cellular responses to hypoxia. We investigated the ability of hypoxia to regulate Arnt and HIF-1alpha mRNA in the heart in vivo. We cloned avian Arnt, developed an in vivo model of chronic cardiac hypoxia, and measured expression of cardiac Arnt and HIF-1alpha mRNA by quantitative RT-PCR. Chronic hypoxic exposure (24 h to 15% O(2)) of day 9 chick embryos resulted in a 30-fold increase in covalent binding of (3)H-misonidazole, a hypoxic tissue marker, to cardiac tissue, and a 2-fold induction of cardiac inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA, compared to normoxic controls. In this same model, cardiac Arnt mRNA expression decreased by 35%, while HIF-1alpha mRNA expression increased 400%. These data suggest that regulation of Arnt and HIF-1alpha mRNA expression may contribute to the physiological responses of the heart during prolonged hypoxia.
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Catron
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mendiola
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Born
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D051784:Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Nuclear Translocator; D001483:Base Sequence; D002642:Chick Embryo; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D051793:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit; D051379:Mice; D008920:Misonidazole / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000235:genetics; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018336:Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: C497396:ARNT protein, human; C497397:Arnt protein, mouse; D017931:DNA Primers; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C497442:HIF1A protein, human; C497443:Hif1a protein, mouse; D051793:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D018336:Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon; D014157:Transcription Factors; D051784:Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Nuclear Translocator; D008920:Misonidazole; C496319:NOS2 protein, human; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496317:Nos2 protein, mouse