on October 26, 2006
Published online before print October 26, 2006, doi: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000251006.54632.bb
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Submitted on June 2, 2006
Accepted on October 11, 2006
Thiol-Related Genes in Diabetic Complications. A Novel Protective Role for Endogenous Thioredoxin 2
Mingyu Liang * and Jennifer L. Pietrusz
From the Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mliang{at}mcw.edu.
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.
Conclusion--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.
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