PMID- 16105652 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20051114 LR - 20131121 IS - 0006-291X (Print) IS - 0006-291X (Linking) VI - 335 IP - 4 DP - 2005 Oct 7 TI - Hypoxia reduces constitutive and TNF-alpha-induced expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in human proximal renal tubular cells. PG - 1026-34 AB - Chronic hypoxia has been reported to be associated with macrophage infiltration in progressive forms of kidney disease. Here, we investigated the regulatory effects of hypoxia on constitutive and TNF-alpha-stimulated expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in cultured human proximal renal tubular cells (HPTECs). Hypoxia reduced constitutive MCP-1 expression at the mRNA and protein levels in a time-dependent fashion for up to 48 h. Hypoxia also inhibited MCP-1 up-regulation by TNF-alpha. Treatment with actinomycin D showed that hypoxic down-regulation of MCP-1 expression resulted mainly from a decrease in the transcription but not the mRNA stability. Immunoblot and immunofluorescence analyses revealed that treatment with hypoxia or an iron chelator, desferrioxamine, induced nuclear accumulation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) in HPTECs. Desferrioxamine mimicked hypoxia in the reduction of MCP-1 expression. However, overexpression of a dominant negative form of HIF-1alpha did not abolish the hypoxia-induced reduction of MCP-1 expression in HPTECs. These results suggest that hypoxia is an important negative regulator of monocyte chemotaxis to the renal inflamed interstitium, by reducing MCP-1 expression partly via hypoxia-activated signals other than the HIF-1 pathway. FAU - Li, Xuan AU - Li X AD - Division of Nephrology, Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan. FAU - Kimura, Hideki AU - Kimura H FAU - Hirota, Kiichi AU - Hirota K FAU - Sugimoto, Hidehiro AU - Sugimoto H FAU - Yoshida, Haruyoshi AU - Yoshida H LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Biochem Biophys Res Commun JT - Biochemical and biophysical research communications JID - 0372516 RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) SB - IM MH - Cell Hypoxia/drug effects/*physiology MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chemokine CCL2/*metabolism MH - Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects MH - Humans MH - Kidney Tubules, Proximal/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Oxygen/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction/drug effects/physiology MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*pharmacology EDAT- 2005/08/18 09:00 MHDA- 2005/11/15 09:00 CRDT- 2005/08/18 09:00 PHST- 2005/07/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2005/07/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2005/08/18 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/11/15 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/08/18 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-291X(05)01673-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.07.175 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 Oct 7;335(4):1026-34. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.07.175.