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DJ‐1 plays an obligatory role in the cardioprotection of delayed hypoxic preconditioning against hypoxia/reoxygenation‐induced oxidative stress through maintaining mitochondrial complex I activity
Author(s) -
Ding Hao,
Xu XingWang,
Wang Huan,
Xiao Lin,
Zhao Le,
Duan GuangLing,
Li XiaoRan,
Ma ZhaoXia,
Chen HePing
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
cell biochemistry and function
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1099-0844
pISSN - 0263-6484
DOI - 10.1002/cbf.3326
Subject(s) - cardioprotection , oxidative stress , reactive oxygen species , mitochondrion , glutathione , malondialdehyde , mitochondrial ros , microbiology and biotechnology , rotenone , oxidative phosphorylation , chemistry , biology , biochemistry , pharmacology , ischemia , medicine , enzyme
DJ‐1 was recently reported to mediate the cardioprotection of delayed hypoxic preconditioning (DHP) by suppressing hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)‐induced oxidative stress, but its mechanism against H/R‐induced oxidative stress during DHP is not fully elucidated. Here, using the well‐established cellular model of DHP, we again found that DHP significantly improved cell viability and reduced lactate dehydrogenase release with concurrently up‐regulated DJ‐1 protein expression in H9c2 cells subjected to H/R. Importantly, DHP efficiently improved mitochondrial complex I activity following H/R and attenuated H/R‐induced mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and subsequent oxidative stress, as demonstrated by a much smaller decrease in reduced glutathione/oxidized glutathione ratio and a much smaller increase in intracellular ROS and malondialdehyde contents than that observed for the H/R group. However, the aforementioned effects of DHP were antagonized by DJ‐1 knockdown with short hairpin RNA but mimicked by DJ‐1 overexpression. Intriguingly, pharmacological inhibition of mitochondria complex I with Rotenone attenuated all the protective effects caused by DHP and DJ‐1 overexpression, including maintenance of mitochondria complex I and suppression of mitochondrial ROS generation and subsequent oxidative stress. Taken together, this work revealed that preserving mitochondrial complex I activity and subsequently inhibiting mitochondrial ROS generation could be a novel mechanism by which DJ‐1 mediates the cardioprotection of DHP against H/R‐induced oxidative stress damage.