title: Altered expression of iron regulatory proteins with aging is associated with transient hepatic iron accumulation after environmental heat stress.
abstract: An increasing body of evidence suggests that dysregulation of iron metabolism contributes to age-related pathologies. We have previously observed increased hepatic iron with aging, and that environmental heat stress stimulates a further increase in iron and oxidative liver injury in old rats. The purpose of this study was to determine a mechanism for the increase in hepatic iron in old rats after heat stress. Young (6 mo) and old (24 mo) Fischer 344 rats were exposed to two heating bouts separated by 24 h. Livers were harvested after the second heat stress, and protein levels of the iron import protein, transferrin receptor-1 (TFR1), and the iron export protein, ferroportin (Fpn) were determined by immunoblot. In the nonheated condition, old rats had lower TFR1 expression, and higher Fpn expression. After heat stress, TFR1 declined in the old rats, and iron chelation studies demonstrated that this decline was dependent on a hyperthermia-induced increase in iron. TFR1 did not change in the young rats after heat stress. Since TFR1 is inversely regulated by iron, our results suggest that the increase in intracellular iron with aging and heat stress lower TFR1 expression. Fpn expression increased in both age groups after heat stress, but this response was delayed in old rats. This delay in the induction of an iron exporter suggests a mechanism for the increase in hepatic iron and oxidative injury after heat stress in aged organisms.
authors.affiliation: Division of Science and Engineering, Penn State Abington College, Abington, PA 19001, USA. Electronic address: sab320@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Steven A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bloomer
authors.forename: Okhee
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Kevin C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Kregel
authors.forename: Kyle E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D027682:Cation Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D003676:Deferoxamine / Q000494:pharmacology; D015870:Gene Expression; D018869:Heat-Shock Response / Q000235:genetics; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism*; D007502:Iron Chelating Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D011990:Receptors, Transferrin / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000098742:Ferroportin; D000099236:Solute Carrier Family 11, Member 2
chemical_list: D027682:Cation Transport Proteins; D003676:Deferoxamine; D007501:Iron; D007502:Iron Chelating Agents; D011990:Receptors, Transferrin; D000098742:Ferroportin; D000099236:Solute Carrier Family 11, Member 2; C545564:Tfrc protein, rat
keywords: Aging; DMT1; Deferoxamine; Ferroportin; Hyperthermia; TFR1
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