Distinct regulations of HO-1 gene expression for stress response and substrate induction

Anqi Zhang, Takafumi Suzuki, Saki Adachi, Eriko Naganuma, Norio Suzuki, Tomonori Hosoya, Ken Itoh, Michael B. Sporn, Masayuki Yamamoto

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Abstract

Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) is the key enzyme for heme catabolism and cytoprotection. Whereas HO-1 gene expression in response to various stresses has been investigated extensively, the precise mechanisms by which HO-1 gene expression is regulated by the HO-1 substrate heme remain elusive. To systematically examine whether stress-mediated induction and substrate-mediated induction of HO-1 utilize similar or distinct regulatory pathways, we developed an HO-1-DsRedknock-in reporter mouse in which the HO-1 gene is floxed by loxP sites and the DsRed gene has been inserted. Myeloid lineage-specific recombination of the floxed locus led to fluorescence derived from expression of the HO-1-DsRed fusion protein in peritoneal macrophages. We also challenged general recombination of the locus and generated mice harboring heterozygous recombinant alleles, which enabled us to monitor HO-1-DsRed expression in the whole body in vivo and ex vivo. HO-1 inducers upregulated HO-1-DsRed expression in myeloid lineage cells isolated from the mice. Notably, analyses of peritoneal macrophages from HO-1-DsRed mice lacking NRF2, a major regulator of the oxidative/electrophilic stress response, led us to identify NRF2-dependent stress response-mediated HO-1 induction and NRF2-independent substrate-mediated HO-1 induction. Thus, the HO-1 gene is subjected to at least two distinct levels of regulation, and the available lines of evidence suggest that substrate induction in peritoneal macrophages is independent of CNC family-based regulation.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere00236-21
JournalMolecular and Cellular Biology
Volume41
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Nov

Keywords

  • Hemin
  • HO-1
  • NRF2
  • Stress response

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