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Published 5 December 2005. doi:10.1084/jem.20050177
Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1007 $8.00
JEM, Volume 202, Number 11, 1493-1505
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HIF-1–dependent repression of equilibrative nucleoside transporter (ENT) in hypoxia

Holger K. Eltzschig1, Parween Abdulla3, Edgar Hoffman1, Kathryn E. Hamilton4, Dionne Daniels4, Caroline Schönfeld2, Michaela Löffler1, German Reyes3, Michael Duszenko2, Jorn Karhausen1, Andreas Robinson4, Karen A. Westerman5, Imogen R. Coe3, and Sean P. Colgan4

1 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tübingen University Hospital
2 Physiologisch-chemisches Institut der Universität Tübingen, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany
3 Department of Biology, York University, Toronto M3J 1P3, Canada
4 Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
5 Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115

CORRESPONDENCE Sean P. Colgan: colgan{at}zeus.bwh.harvard.edu

Extracellular adenosine (Ado) has been implicated as central signaling molecule during conditions of limited oxygen availability (hypoxia), regulating physiologic outcomes as diverse as vascular leak, leukocyte activation, and accumulation. Presently, the molecular mechanisms that elevate extracellular Ado during hypoxia are unclear. In the present study, we pursued the hypothesis that diminished uptake of Ado effectively enhances extracellular Ado signaling. Initial studies indicated that the half-life of Ado was increased by as much as fivefold after exposure of endothelia to hypoxia. Examination of expressional levels of the equilibrative nucleoside transporter (ENT)1 and ENT2 revealed a transcriptionally dependent decrease in mRNA, protein, and function in endothelia and epithelia. Examination of the ENT1 promoter identified a hypoxia inducible factor 1 (HIF-1)–dependent repression of ENT1 during hypoxia. Using in vitro and in vivo models of Ado signaling, we revealed that decreased Ado uptake promotes vascular barrier and dampens neutrophil tissue accumulation during hypoxia. Moreover, epithelial Hif1{alpha} mutant animals displayed increased epithelial ENT1 expression. Together, these results identify transcriptional repression of ENT as an innate mechanism to elevate extracellular Ado during hypoxia.


Abbreviations used: Ado, adenosine; ChIP, chromatin immunoprecipitation; ENT, equilibrative nucleoside transporter; HIF-1, hypoxia inducible factor 1; HMEC, human microvascular endothelial cells; HRE, hypoxia-responsive element; MPO, myeloperoxidase.


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