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1Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; and 2Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and 3International Heart Institute, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
Submitted 23 July 2004 ; accepted in final form 4 November 2004
Similar to infants born with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), there is an increase in circulating endothelin-1 (ET-1) and decreased endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene expression in an ovine model of PPHN. These abnormalities lead to vasoconstriction and vascular remodeling. Our previous studies have demonstrated that reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels are elevated in the pulmonary arteries from PPHN lambs and that ET-1 increases ROS production in pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMC) in culture. Thus the objective of this study was to determine whether there was a feedback mechanism between the ET-1-mediated increase in ROS in fetal PASMC (FPASMC) and a decrease in eNOS gene expression in fetal pulmonary arterial endothelial cells (FPAEC). Our results indicate that ET-1 increased H2O2 levels in FPASMC in an endothelin A receptor-dependent fashion. This was observed in both FPASMC monoculture and in cocultures of FPASMC and FPAEC. Conversely, ET-1 decreased H2O2 levels in FPAEC monoculture in an endothelin B receptor-dependent fashion. Furthermore, ET-1 decreased eNOS promoter activity by 40% in FPAEC in coculture with FPASMC. Promoter activity was restored in the presence of catalase. In FPAEC in monoculture treated with 0–100 µM H2O2, 12 µM had no effect on eNOS promoter activity, but it increased eNOS protein levels by 50%. However, at 100 µM, H2O2 decreased eNOS promoter activity and protein levels in FPAEC by 79 and 40%, respectively. These data suggest a role for smooth muscle cell-derived H2O2 in ET-1-mediated downregulation of eNOS expression in children born with PPHN.
pulmonary hypertension; reactive oxygen species; gene expression; cell signaling; nitric oxide synthase; endothelial nitric oxide synthase; endothelin A
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