PMID- 16014038 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20051013 LR - 20220408 IS - 0085-2538 (Print) IS - 0085-2538 (Linking) VI - 68 IP - 2 DP - 2005 Aug TI - MCP-1 is up-regulated in unstressed and stressed HO-1 knockout mice: Pathophysiologic correlates. PG - 611-22 AB - BACKGROUND: Up-regulation of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) occurs in, and often confers protection to, the injured kidney. Up-regulation of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) promotes not only acute and chronic nephritides but also acute ischemic and nephrotoxic injury. The present study was stimulated by the hypothesis that expression of MCP-1 is suppressed by HO-1, and analyzed the effect of HO-1 on the expression of MCP-1 in stressed and unstressed conditions. METHODS: Expression of MCP-1 and pathophysiologic correlates were examined in HO-1 knockout (HO-1-/-) and wild-type (HO-1+/+) mice in the unstressed state in young and aged mice, and following nephrotoxic and ischemic insults. RESULTS: In unstressed HO-1-/- mice, plasma levels of MCP-1 protein were elevated, and MCP-1 mRNA expression was increased in circulating leukocytes and in the kidney. Such early and heightened up-regulation of MCP-1 was eventually accompanied by phenotypic changes in the aged kidney consistent with MCP-1, namely, proliferative changes in glomeruli, tubulointerstitial disease, and up-regulation of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) and collagens I, III, and IV. In response to a nephrotoxic insult such as hemoglobin, MCP-1 mRNA was up-regulated in a markedly sustained manner in HO-1-/- mice. In response to a duration of ischemia that exerted little effect in HO-1+/+ mice, HO-1-/- mice exhibited higher expression of MCP-1 mRNA, enhanced activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) (the transcription factor that regulates MCP-1), markedly greater functional and structural renal injury, increased caspase-3 expression, and increased mortality. CONCLUSION: In the absence of HO-1, expression of MCP-1 is significantly and consistently enhanced in unstressed and stressed conditions. We speculate that the protective effects of HO-1 in injured tissue may involve, at least in part, the capacity of HO-1 to restrain up-regulation of MCP-1. FAU - Pittock, Siobhan T AU - Pittock ST AD - Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. FAU - Norby, Suzanne M AU - Norby SM FAU - Grande, Joseph P AU - Grande JP FAU - Croatt, Anthony J AU - Croatt AJ FAU - Bren, Gary D AU - Bren GD FAU - Badley, Andrew D AU - Badley AD FAU - Caplice, Noel M AU - Caplice NM FAU - Griffin, Matthew D AU - Griffin MD FAU - Nath, Karl A AU - Nath KA LA - eng GR - DK068545/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - DK47060/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Kidney Int JT - Kidney international JID - 0323470 RN - 0 (Ccl2 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) RN - 0 (Hemoglobins) RN - 0 (Membrane Proteins) RN - EC 1.14.14.18 (Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing)) RN - EC 1.14.14.18 (Heme Oxygenase-1) RN - EC 1.14.14.18 (Hmox1 protein, mouse) SB - IM CIN - Kidney Int. 2005 Aug;68(2):896-7. PMID: 16014072 MH - Age Factors MH - Animals MH - Chemokine CCL2/*genetics MH - Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing)/*genetics MH - Heme Oxygenase-1 MH - Hemoglobins/toxicity MH - Ischemia/mortality/pathology/*physiopathology MH - Kidney Diseases/mortality/pathology/*physiopathology MH - Kidney Glomerulus/pathology/physiopathology MH - Membrane Proteins MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Stress, Physiological/mortality/pathology/*physiopathology MH - Survival Rate MH - Up-Regulation EDAT- 2005/07/15 09:00 MHDA- 2005/10/14 09:00 CRDT- 2005/07/15 09:00 PHST- 2005/07/15 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/10/14 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/07/15 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0085-2538(15)50881-8 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.00439.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Kidney Int. 2005 Aug;68(2):611-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.00439.x.