Cytochrome P450 Drives a HIF-Regulated Behavioral Response to Reoxygenation by C. elegans
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Ma, Dengke; Zheng, Shu; Bhatla, Nikhil; Pender, Corinne Lenore; Rothe, Michael; Menzel, Ralph; Horvitz, Howard Robert; ... Show more Show less
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Oxygen deprivation followed by reoxygenation causes pathological responses in many disorders, including ischemic stroke, heart attacks, and reperfusion injury. Key aspects of ischemia-reperfusion can be modeled by a Caenorhabditis elegans behavior, the O2-ON response, which is suppressed by hypoxic preconditioning or inactivation of the O[subscript 2]-sensing HIF (hypoxia-inducible factor) hydroxylase EGL-9. From a genetic screen, we found that the cytochrome P450 oxygenase CYP-13A12 acts in response to the EGL-9–HIF-1 pathway to facilitate the O2-ON response. CYP-13A12 promotes oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids into eicosanoids, signaling molecules that can strongly affect inflammatory pain and ischemia-reperfusion injury responses in mammals. We propose that roles of the EGL-9–HIF-1 pathway and cytochrome P450 in controlling responses to reoxygenation after anoxia are evolutionarily conserved.
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2013-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MITJournal
Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Ma, D. K., M. Rothe, S. Zheng, N. Bhatla, C. L. Pender, R. Menzel, and H. R. Horvitz. “Cytochrome P450 Drives a HIF-Regulated Behavioral Response to Reoxygenation by C. Elegans.” Science 341, no. 6145 (August 2, 2013): 554–558.
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0036-8075
1095-9203