title: Inosine and equilibrative nucleoside transporter 2 contribute to hypoxic preconditioning in the murine cardiomyocyte HL-1 cell line.
abstract: The purine nucleoside adenosine is a physiologically important molecule in the heart. Brief exposure of cardiomyocytes to hypoxic challenge results in the production of extracellular adenosine, which then interacts with adenosine receptors to activate compensatory signaling pathways that lead to cellular resistance to subsequence hypoxic challenge. This phenomenon is known as preconditioning (PC), and, while adenosine is clearly involved, other components of the response are less well understood. Flux of nucleosides, such as adenosine and inosine, across cardiomyocyte membranes is dependent on equilibrative nucleoside transporters 1 and 2 (ENT1 and ENT2). We have previously shown in the murine cardiomyocyte HL-1 cell line that hypoxic challenge leads to an increase in intracellular adenosine, which exits the cell via ENT1 and preconditions via A1 and A3 adenosine receptor-dependent mechanisms. However, the role and contribution of inosine and ENT2 are unclear. In this study, we confirmed that ENT1 and ENT2 are both capable of transporting inosine. Moreover, we found that hypoxic challenge leads to a significant increase in levels of intracellular inosine, which exits the cell via both ENT1 and ENT2. Exogenously added inosine (5 microM) preconditions cardiomyocytes in an A1 adenosine receptor-dependent manner since preconditioning can be blocked by the A1 adenosine receptor antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine (1 microM) but not the A3 adenosine receptor antagonist MRS-1220 (200 nM). These data suggest that cardiomyocyte responses to hypoxic PC are more complex than previously thought, involving both adenosine and inosine and differing, but overlapping, contributions of the two ENT isoforms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Zlatina
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Naydenova
authors.forename: Jennifer B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: Imogen R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Coe
mesh_terms: D000241:Adenosine / Q000378:metabolism; D058916:Adenosine A1 Receptor Antagonists; D058918:Adenosine A3 Receptor Antagonists; D000818:Animals; D015687:Cell Hypoxia; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival; D033721:Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1; D033722:Equilibrative-Nucleoside Transporter 2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D007288:Inosine / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D033703:Nucleoside Transport Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000494:pharmacology; D043682:Receptor, Adenosine A1 / Q000378:metabolism; D043684:Receptor, Adenosine A3 / Q000378:metabolism; D013868:Thioinosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D014230:Triazoles / Q000494:pharmacology; D015854:Up-Regulation; D014970:Xanthines / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: C110041:9-chloro-2-(2-furyl)-5-phenylacetylamino(1,2,4)triazolo(1,5-c)quinazoline; D058916:Adenosine A1 Receptor Antagonists; D058918:Adenosine A3 Receptor Antagonists; D033721:Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1; D033722:Equilibrative-Nucleoside Transporter 2; D033703:Nucleoside Transport Proteins; D011799:Quinazolines; D043682:Receptor, Adenosine A1; D043684:Receptor, Adenosine A3; C498476:SLC29A1 protein, mouse; C486681:Slc29a2 protein, mouse; D014230:Triazoles; D014970:Xanthines; D013868:Thioinosine; D007288:Inosine; C051360:1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine; C001789:4-nitrobenzylthioinosine; D000241:Adenosine