TY - JOUR
T1 - Astrocyte-derived glutathione attenuates hemin-induced apoptosis in cerebral microvascular cells
AU - Sukumari-Ramesh, Sangeetha
AU - Laird, Melissa D.
AU - Singh, Nagendra
AU - Vender, John R.
AU - Alleyne, Cargill H.
AU - Dhandapani, Krishnan M.
PY - 2010/11/15
Y1 - 2010/11/15
N2 - Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) induces neurovascular injury via poorly defined mechanisms. The aim of this study was to determine whether gliovascular communication may restrict hemorrhagic vascular injury. Hemin, a hemoglobin by-product, concentrationand time-dependently increased apoptotic cell death in mouse bEnd.3 cells and in primary human brain microvascular endothelial cells, at least in part, via a caspase-3 dependent pathway. Cell death was preceded by a NFκB-mediated increase in inflammatory gene expression, including upregulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression and activity. Functionally, inhibition of iNOS or the addition of a peroxynitrite decomposition catalyst reduced cell death. Interestingly, co-treatment with astrocyte-conditioned media (ACM) reversed hemin-induced NFjB activation, nitrotyrosine formation, and apoptotic cell death, at least in part, via the release of the endogenous antioxidant, reduced glutathione (GSH). Prior treatment of astrocytes with the GSH-depleting agent, DLbuthionine (S,R)-sulfoximine or direct addition of diethyl maleate, a thiol-depleting agent, to ACM reversed the observed protection. In contrast, neither exogenous GSH nor the GSH precursor, N-acetylcysteine, was protective in bEnd.3 cells. Together, these data support an important role for astrocyte-derived GSH in the maintenance of oxidative balance in the vasculature and suggest therapeutic targeting of the GSH system may reduce neurological injury following ICH.
AB - Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) induces neurovascular injury via poorly defined mechanisms. The aim of this study was to determine whether gliovascular communication may restrict hemorrhagic vascular injury. Hemin, a hemoglobin by-product, concentrationand time-dependently increased apoptotic cell death in mouse bEnd.3 cells and in primary human brain microvascular endothelial cells, at least in part, via a caspase-3 dependent pathway. Cell death was preceded by a NFκB-mediated increase in inflammatory gene expression, including upregulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression and activity. Functionally, inhibition of iNOS or the addition of a peroxynitrite decomposition catalyst reduced cell death. Interestingly, co-treatment with astrocyte-conditioned media (ACM) reversed hemin-induced NFjB activation, nitrotyrosine formation, and apoptotic cell death, at least in part, via the release of the endogenous antioxidant, reduced glutathione (GSH). Prior treatment of astrocytes with the GSH-depleting agent, DLbuthionine (S,R)-sulfoximine or direct addition of diethyl maleate, a thiol-depleting agent, to ACM reversed the observed protection. In contrast, neither exogenous GSH nor the GSH precursor, N-acetylcysteine, was protective in bEnd.3 cells. Together, these data support an important role for astrocyte-derived GSH in the maintenance of oxidative balance in the vasculature and suggest therapeutic targeting of the GSH system may reduce neurological injury following ICH.
KW - Anti-oxidant
KW - Blood-brain barrier
KW - GSH
KW - Glia
KW - Neurovascular
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U2 - 10.1002/glia.21055
DO - 10.1002/glia.21055
M3 - Article
C2 - 20737478
AN - SCOPUS:78649357701
SN - 0894-1491
VL - 58
SP - 1858
EP - 1870
JO - Glia
JF - Glia
IS - 15
ER -