(Hypertension. 1999;33:906-913.)
© 1999 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Protection Against Necrosis but Not Apoptosis by Heat-Stress Proteins in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Evidence for Distinct Modes of Cell Death
From Centre de Recherche du CHUM, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada (M.-J.C., P.D., S.N.O., P.H., J.T.); and University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK (M.R.B.).
Correspondence to Johanne Tremblay, Laboratory of Cellular Biology of Hypertension, Centre de Recherche–CHUM, Campus Hôtel-Dieu, 3850 St Urbain St, Montréal, Québec H2W 1T8, Canada. E-mail trembo{at}ere.umontreal.ca
Abstract—We have reported previously that cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) isolated from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) show higher proliferation and cell death than normotensive controls. In addition to protecting cells against death, heat stress proteins (HSPs) appear to play a role in cell proliferation. This investigation examines the involvement of HSP72 and HSP27 in altered SHR VSMC proliferation and death. We have performed detailed discriminatory analysis to characterize which type of VSMC death is induced by heat stress (HS) and serum deprivation. Serum deprivation induced apoptosis (caspase-3 cleavage and DNA laddering) and secondary necrosis, the 2 processes being a continuum of each other. In contrast, acute HS (46°C, 30 minutes), which inhibited BN.lx and SHR VSMC proliferation by 2-fold, increased necrosis (by 5-fold and 2-fold, respectively) but not apoptosis. HSP72 and HSP27 expression evoked in VSMC by mild HS (44°C, 15 minutes) 6 hours before acute HS prevented the inhibition of proliferation and induction of necrosis with no effect on serum deprivation–induced or staurosporine-induced apoptosis. This induced expression of HSP72 and HSP27 did not eliminate the higher basal proliferation, apoptosis, and necrosis of SHR VSMC compared with BN.lx VSMC, suggesting that these HSPs are not involved in altered SHR VSMC proliferation and death. Also, although apoptosis and necrosis may be a continuum, in VSMC the 2 processes may be distinguished by HS, in which only necrosis is prevented by prior HSP accumulation. This observation may be of use in designing strategies for cellular protection.
Key Words: muscle, smooth, vascular • cell proliferation • apoptosis • thermotolerance • heat-stress proteins
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