Abstract
Studies of adaptive mechanisms to hypoxia led to the discovery of the transcription factor called hypoxia inducible factor (HIF). HIF is a ubiquitously expressed, heterodimeric transcription factor that regulates a cassette of genes that can provide compensation for hypoxia, metabolic compromise, and oxidative stress including erythropoietin, vascular endothelial growth factor, or glycolytic enzymes. Diseases associated with oxygen deprivation and consequent metabolic compromise such as stroke or Alzheimer’s disease may result from inadequate engagement of adaptive signaling pathways that culminate in HIF activation. The discovery that HIF stability and activation are governed by a family of dioxygenases called HIF prolyl 4 hydroxylases (PHDs) identified a new target to augment the transcriptional activity of HIF and thus the adaptive machinery that governs neuroprotection. PHDs lose activity when cells are deprived of oxygen, iron or 2-oxoglutarate. Inhibition of PHD activity triggers the cellular homeostatic response to oxygen and glucose deprivation by stabilizing HIF and other proteins. Herein, we discuss the possible role of PHDs in regulation of both HIF-dependent and -independent cell survival pathways in the nervous system with particular attention to the co-substrate requirements for these enzymes. The emergence of neuroprotective therapies that modulate genes capable of combating metabolic compromise is an affirmation of elegant studies done by John Blass and colleagues over the past five decades implicating altered metabolism in neurodegeneration.
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Abbreviations
- AP-1:
-
Activator protein 1
- CO2 :
-
Carbon dioxide
- CoCl2 :
-
Cobalt chloride
- CODD:
-
Carboxy-terminal oxygen degradation domain
- DFO:
-
Desferrioxamine
- DMOG:
-
Dimethyl-oxalyl-glycine
- EGR-1:
-
Early growth response protein-1
- ERK:
-
Extracellular signal-regulated kinase
- Fe2+ :
-
Ferrous
- Fe3+ :
-
Ferric
- FH:
-
Fumarate hydratase
- HIF:
-
Hypoxia inducible factor
- HIF-1α:
-
Hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha
- HIF-1β:
-
Hypoxia inducible factor-1 beta
- HRE:
-
Hypoxia response elements
- IRP2:
-
Iron regulatory protein-2
- LIP:
-
Labile iron pool
- MnSOD:
-
Manganese Superoxide Dismutase
- MORG-1:
-
Mitogen-activated protein kinase organizer-1
- NF-kB:
-
Nuclear factor kappa B
- NODD:
-
N-terminal oxygen degradation domain
- O2 :
-
Oxygen
- ODD:
-
Oxygen degradation domain
- ODDD:
-
Oxygen dependent degradation domain
- PHD:
-
prolyl 4-hydroxylase domain
- PVHL:
-
von Hippel-Lindau protein
- RNA pol II:
-
RNA polymerase II
- ROS:
-
Reactive Oxygen Species
- SIAH2:
-
Seven in absentia homolog 2
- SDH:
-
Succinate dehydrogenase
- TCA:
-
Tricarboxylic acid
- VEGF:
-
Vascular endothelial growth factor
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Siddiq, A., Aminova, L.R. & Ratan, R.R. Hypoxia Inducible Factor Prolyl 4-Hydroxylase Enzymes: Center Stage in the Battle Against Hypoxia, Metabolic Compromise and Oxidative Stress. Neurochem Res 32, 931–946 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-006-9268-7
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