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Endoplasmic reticulum anchored heme-oxygenase 1 faces the cytosol.


ABSTRACT: Heme-oxygenase 1 is an endoplasmic reticulum-anchored enzyme that breaks down heme into iron, carbon monoxide and biliverdin. Heme is a hydrophobic co-factor in many proteins, including hemoglobin. Free heme is highly cytotoxic and, therefore, both heme synthesis and breakdown are tightly regulated. During turnover of heme proteins, heme is released in the phago-lysosomal compartment or the cytosol. The subcellular location of the heme-oxygenase 1 active site has not been clarified. Using constructs of heme-oxygenase 1 with fluorescent proteins, and the endogenous heme-oxygenase 1 in two variations of protease protection assays, we determined that heme-oxygenase 1 is membrane-bound and faces the cytosol in non-activated macrophages in vivo. These findings imply that in quiescent macrophages, heme breakdown products are generated in the cytosol. This facilitates iron recycling to ferroportin for iron export and to ferritin for iron storage.

SUBMITTER: Gottlieb Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3487549 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Endoplasmic reticulum anchored heme-oxygenase 1 faces the cytosol.

Gottlieb Yehonatan Y   Truman Marianna M   Cohen Lyora A LA   Leichtmann-Bardoogo Yael Y   Meyron-Holtz Esther G EG  

Haematologica 20120314 10


Heme-oxygenase 1 is an endoplasmic reticulum-anchored enzyme that breaks down heme into iron, carbon monoxide and biliverdin. Heme is a hydrophobic co-factor in many proteins, including hemoglobin. Free heme is highly cytotoxic and, therefore, both heme synthesis and breakdown are tightly regulated. During turnover of heme proteins, heme is released in the phago-lysosomal compartment or the cytosol. The subcellular location of the heme-oxygenase 1 active site has not been clarified. Using constr  ...[more]

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