As the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system, astrocytes are positioned to nurture and sustain neurons, especially in response to cellular stresses, which occur in ischemic cerebrovascular disease. In a previous study (Hori, O., Matsumoto, M., Kuwabara, K., Maeda, M., Ueda, H., Ohtsuki, T., Kinoshita, T., Ogawa, S., Kamada, T., and Stern, D.(1996) J. Neurochem., in press), we identified five polypeptide bands on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, corresponding to molecular masses of about 28, 33, 78, 94, and 150 kDa, whose expression was induced/enhanced in astrocytes exposed to hypoxia or hypoxia followed by replacement into the ambient atmosphere (reoxygenation). In the current study, the 150-kDa polypeptide has been characterized. Chromatography of lysates from cultured rat astrocytes on fast protein liquid chromatography Mono Q followed by preparative SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis led to isolation of a 150-kDa band only observed in hypoxic cells and which had a unique N-terminal sequence of 15 amino acids. Antisera raised to either the purified 150-kDa band in polyacrylamide gels or to a synthetic peptide comprising the N-terminal sequence detected the same polypeptide in extracts of cultured rat astrocytes exposed to hypoxia; expression was not observed in normoxia but was induced by hypoxia within 24 h, augmented further during early reoxygenation, and thereafter decreased to the base line by 24 h in normoxia. ORP150 expression in hypoxic astrocytes resulted from de novo protein synthesis, as shown by inhibition in the presence of cycloheximide. In contrast to hypoxia-mediated induction of the 150-kDa polypeptide, neither heat shock nor a range of other stimuli, including hydrogen peroxide, cobalt chloride, 2-deoxyglucose, or tunicamycin, led to its expression, suggesting selectivity for production of ORP150 in response to oxygen deprivation, i.e. it was an oxygen-regulated protein (ORP150). Northern and nuclear run-off analysis confirmed the apparent selectivity for ORP150 mRNA induction in hypoxia. Subcellular localization studies showed ORP150 to be present intracellularly within endoplasmic reticulum and only in hypoxic astrocytes, not cultured microglia, endothelial cells, or neurons subject to hypoxia. Consistent with these in vitro results, induction of cerebral ischemia in mice resulted in expression of ORP150 (the latter was not observed in normoxic brain). These data suggest that astroglia respond to oxygen deprivation by redirection of protein synthesis with the appearance of a novel stress protein, ORP150. This polypeptide, selectively expressed by astrocytes, may contribute to their adaptive response to ischemic stress, thereby ultimately contributing to enhanced survival of neurons.

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