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1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh; and 2 Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
We hypothesized that metallothionein (MT), a cysteine-rich protein with a strong affinity for Zn2+, plays a role in nitric oxide (NO) signaling events via sequestration or release of Zn2+ by the unique thiolate clusters of the protein. Exposing mouse lung fibroblasts (MLF) to the NO donor S-nitrosocysteine resulted in 20-30% increases in fluorescence of the Zn2+-specific fluorophore Zinquin that were rapidly reversed by the Zn2+ chelator N,N,N',N'-tetrakis-(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine. The absence of a NO-mediated increase in labile Zn2+ in MLF from MT knockouts and its restoration after MT complementation by adenoviral gene transfer inferred a critical role for MT in the regulation of Zn2+ homeostasis by NO. Additional data obtained in sheep pulmonary artery endothelial cells suggested a role for the apo form of MT, thionein (T), as a Zn2+-binding protein in intact cells, as overexpression of MT caused inhibition of NO-induced changes in labile Zn2+ that were reversed by Zn2+ supplementation. Furthermore, fluorescence-resonance energy-transfer data showed that overexpression of green fluorescent protein-modified MT prevented NO-induced conformational changes, which are indicative of Zn2+ release from thiolate clusters. This effect was restored by Zn2+ supplementation. Collectively, these data show that MT mediates NO-induced changes in intracellular Zn2+ and suggest that the ratio of MT to T can regulate Zn2+ homeostasis in response to nitrosative stress.
endothelium; S-nitrosylation; imaging; fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Zinquin
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