Mingyu Liang1, Jennifer L Pietrusz. 1. Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. mliang@mcw.edu
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Our laboratory and others have found that deficiencies in cellular thiols may be importantly involved in the development of diabetic complications. However, the role for specific thiol-related genes in diabetic complications is unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS: We began the present study by systematically determining the expression level of 11 thiol-related genes in three tissues from rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Several thiol-related genes were found to exhibit diabetes-associated, time-dependent differential expression. Thioredoxin 2, a mitochondrion-specific thioredoxin whose role in diabetes was unknown, was suppressed in the aorta from rats with two weeks of diabetes. When thioredoxin 2 expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells was knocked-down by small interfering RNA, high-ambient glucose-elicited substantial injurious effects (n=5 to 9, P<0.05), including increases in cytosolic cytochrome c (by 2.2+/-0.6-fold), lipid peroxidation (by 40+/-8%), fibronectin expression (by 35+/-7%), and oxidized glutathione, and decreases in endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression (by 79+/-15%), basal accumulation of nitrite/nitrate (by 68+/-16%), total free thiols (by 42+/-8%), and glutathione (by 6+/-1%). In the absence of thioredoxin 2 knockdown, high-ambient glucose did not have significant effects on any of these measurements. The effect of thioredoxin 2 knockdown appeared to be associated with increases in glucose consumption and glucose transporter 1 expression. CONCLUSIONS: These results provided the first expression profile of thiol-related genes in a model of diabetes and demonstrated a novel role for endogenous thioredoxin 2 in protecting cells against high ambient glucose.
OBJECTIVE: Our laboratory and others have found that deficiencies in cellular thiols may be importantly involved in the development of diabetic complications. However, the role for specific thiol-related genes in diabetic complications is unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS: We began the present study by systematically determining the expression level of 11 thiol-related genes in three tissues from rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Several thiol-related genes were found to exhibit diabetes-associated, time-dependent differential expression. Thioredoxin 2, a mitochondrion-specific thioredoxin whose role in diabetes was unknown, was suppressed in the aorta from rats with two weeks of diabetes. When thioredoxin 2 expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells was knocked-down by small interfering RNA, high-ambient glucose-elicited substantial injurious effects (n=5 to 9, P<0.05), including increases in cytosolic cytochrome c (by 2.2+/-0.6-fold), lipid peroxidation (by 40+/-8%), fibronectin expression (by 35+/-7%), and oxidized glutathione, and decreases in endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression (by 79+/-15%), basal accumulation of nitrite/nitrate (by 68+/-16%), total free thiols (by 42+/-8%), and glutathione (by 6+/-1%). In the absence of thioredoxin 2 knockdown, high-ambient glucose did not have significant effects on any of these measurements. The effect of thioredoxin 2 knockdown appeared to be associated with increases in glucose consumption and glucose transporter 1 expression. CONCLUSIONS: These results provided the first expression profile of thiol-related genes in a model of diabetes and demonstrated a novel role for endogenous thioredoxin 2 in protecting cells against high ambient glucose.
Authors: Maria Angeles Baker; Seth J Davis; Pengyuan Liu; Xiaoqing Pan; Anna Marie Williams; Kenneth A Iczkowski; Sean T Gallagher; Kaylee Bishop; Kevin R Regner; Yong Liu; Mingyu Liang Journal: J Am Soc Nephrol Date: 2017-06-29 Impact factor: 10.121
Authors: Yong Liu; Norman E Taylor; Limin Lu; Kristie Usa; Allen W Cowley; Nicholas R Ferreri; Nan Cher Yeo; Mingyu Liang Journal: Hypertension Date: 2010-03-01 Impact factor: 10.190