AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 6 C1231-C1238, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Hypoxia stimulates endothelial cell angiotensin-converting enzyme antigen synthesis

S. J. King, F. M. Booyse, P. H. Lin, M. Traylor, A. J. Narkates and S. Oparil
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.

Previous studies from our laboratory indicate that exposure of the rat to chronic normobaric hypoxia reduces stores of active angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in the lung. This study assesses directly the effects of hypoxia on ACE synthesis in cultured porcine pulmonary artery endothelial cells. Confluent cultures were exposed to hypoxia [2.5% O2 at 1 atmosphere (atm)] in a triple gas incubator; controls were cultured in normoxic conditions. After 24-, 48-, and 72-h exposure to hypoxic or normoxic conditions, followed by incubation with [35S]methionine for an additional 24 h under the same conditions, newly synthesized radiolabeled ACE was quantitated. Radiolabeled ACE was isolated by an immunobead procedure using either anti-ACE (porcine lung) immunoglobin G (IgG) or nonimmune IgG. A single radiolabeled peak (150 kDa) with the same electrophoretic mobility as purified porcine lung ACE was observed. There was a significant time-dependent increase in endothelial cell ACE antigen synthesis without a concomitant change in either cell number or total trichloroacetic (TCA)-precipitable protein in hypoxic cells compared with normoxic controls. In contrast, ACE activity, assessed by conversion of 125I-labeled angiotensin I to 125I-labeled angiotensin II was unchanged in cultures exposed to hypoxia (2.5% O2). This suggests that an inactive form of ACE is synthesized by cultured pulmonary artery endothelial cells under hypoxic conditions.

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