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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 278: L393-L398, 2000;
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Vol. 278, Issue 2, L393-L398, February 2000

Maturational differences in hyperoxic AP-1 activation in rat lung

G. Yang, A. Madan, and P. A. Dennery

Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305

Immature organisms (neonates; <12 h old) have vastly differing responses to hyperoxic injury than adults. A common feature of hyperoxic gene regulation is involvement of activator protein (AP)-1. We evaluated lung AP-1 binding as well as that of the AP-1 subunit proteins c-Fos, c-Jun, phosphorylated c-Jun, Jun B, and Jun D after exposure to >95% O2 for 3 days. Unlike adults, neonates showed no increased AP-1 binding in hyperoxia despite a high affinity of the AP-1 binding complexes for phosphorylated c-Jun and Jun D as demonstrated by supershift of these antibodies with the AP-1 complexes. Moreover, neonatal lungs exhibited two distinguishable AP-1 binding complexes, whereas adult lungs had one. In neonates, sequential immunoprecipitation revealed that the lower AP-1 complex was composed of proteins from both the Fos and Jun families, whereas the upper complex consisted of Jun family proteins, with predominance of Jun D. In adults, the single AP-1 complex appeared to involve other Fos or non-Fos or non-Jun family proteins as well. Neonatal lungs showed a higher level of Jun B and Jun D immunoreactive proteins in both air and hyperoxia compared with those in adult lungs. These results suggest that significant maturational differences in lung AP-1 complexes exist and that these may explain transcriptional differences in hyperoxic gene regulation.

antioxidant; oxidant stress; sequential immunoprecipitation heme oxygenase


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