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Hypoxia Stabilizes Type 2 Deiodinase Activity in Rat Astrocytes

Unité Mixte de Recherche 854 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale and Université Paris-Sud 11, 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Françoise Courtin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 854 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, 80 Rue du Général Leclerc and Paris-Sud 11, 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. E-mail: courtin{at}kb.inserm.fr.

T₄ activation into T₃ is catalyzed by type 2 deiodinase (D2) in the brain. The rapid induction of D2 in astrocytes by transient brain ischemia has prompted us to explore the effects of hypoxia on D2 in cultures of astrocytes. Hypoxia (2.5% O₂) of cultured astrocytes increased D2 activity, alone or in association with agents stimulating the cAMP pathway. Hypoxia had no effect on D2 mRNA accumulation. Cycloheximide did not block the effect of hypoxia on D2 activity and D2 half-life was enhanced under hypoxia demonstrating a posttranslational action of hypoxia. Furthermore, the D2 activity increase by hypoxia was not additive with the increase promoted by the proteasome inhibitor carbobenzoxy-L-leucyl-L-leucyl-L-leucinal (MG132). This strongly suggests that hypoxia leads to stabilization of D2 by slowing its degradation by the proteasome pathway. Hypoxia, in contrast to MG132, did not block the T₄-induced D2 inactivation. A contribution of prolyl hydroxylase to the hypoxia effects on D2 was also suggested on the basis of increased D2 activity after addition of different prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors (cobalt chloride, desferrioxamine, dimethyloxalylglycine, dimethylsuccinate). Specific inhibitors of ERK, p38 MAPK, or phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathways were without any effect on hypoxia-increased D2 activity, eliminating their role in the effects of hypoxia. Interestingly, diphenyleneiodonium, an inhibitor of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase inhibited the hypoxia-increased D2 indicating a role for some reactive oxygen species in the mechanism of D2 increase. Further studies are required to clarify the precise molecular mechanisms involved in the D2 stabilization by hypoxia.

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