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Oxidant stress and mitochondrial signaling regulate reversible changes of ER? expression and apoptosis in aging mouse glomeruli and mesangial cells.

ABSTRACT: Estrogen actions are largely dependent on the intracellular estrogen receptor (ER) levels. During aging the decline of estrogens or ER leads to a loss in antiinflammatory protection and an increase in oxidant stress due to changes in mitochondrial function. Estrogens/ER may also coordinate signaling between the nucleus and mitochondria through ERK activation, which paradoxically decreases ER expression. The changes in ER expression and transcriptional activation that occur with aging as well as the mitochondria-to-nuclear signaling pathways have not been studied in the glomerulus. We found that ER expression and transcriptional activation decreased with age. Whereas ER levels decreased by greater than 90%, serum 17?-estradiol levels decreased by less than 30%, suggesting alternative mechanisms for ER decrease. Because we postulated that this was due in part to age-related oxidant stress, we treated mesangial cells (MCs) with ethidium bromide (EtBr) to deplete mitochondria. EtBr treatment resulted in decreased ERK activation and reactive oxygen species, which were associated with increased ER? expression and transcriptional activation in old MCs. EtBr treatment also decreased apoptosis and caspase-9 protein expression in old MCs. These data suggest that loss of several of the functions of 17?-estradiol during aging could be mainly due to decreased ER? expression, that the ER loss is reversible by reducing reactive oxygen species, and that mitochondrial retrograde signaling plays a role in this regulation.

SUBMITTER: Pereira-Simon S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3473210 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Oxidant stress and mitochondrial signaling regulate reversible changes of ERα expression and apoptosis in aging mouse glomeruli and mesangial cells.

Pereira-Simon Simone S Xia Xiaomei X Catanuto Paola P Elliot Sharon S

Endocrinology 20121001 11

Estrogen actions are largely dependent on the intracellular estrogen receptor (ER) levels. During aging the decline of estrogens or ER leads to a loss in antiinflammatory protection and an increase in oxidant stress due to changes in mitochondrial function. Estrogens/ER may also coordinate signaling between the nucleus and mitochondria through ERK activation, which paradoxically decreases ER expression. The changes in ER expression and transcriptional activation that occur with aging as well as ...[more]

PMID: 23027807

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Oxidant stress and mitochondrial signaling regulate reversible changes of ER? expression and apoptosis in aging mouse glomeruli and mesangial cells.

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Oxidant stress and mitochondrial signaling regulate reversible changes of ERα expression and apoptosis in aging mouse glomeruli and mesangial cells.

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