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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
(PPAR
) activation protects H9c2 cardiomyoblasts from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis
aLaboratoire de Physiopathologie et Pharmacologie Cardiovasculaires Expérimentales, Biologie Animale Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Université de Bourgogne, IFR Santé 100, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France
bLaboratoires Fournier Pharma, Biologie Exploratoire, 50 rue de Dijon, 21121 Daix, France
cCentre de Biochimie, INSERM U636, UFR Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06108-Nice cedex, France
* Corresponding author. Tel.: +33 380 39 62 16; fax: +33 380 39 38 25. Email address: jean-louis.connat{at}u-bourgogne.fr
Objective: Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
(PPAR
) and PPAR
plays beneficial roles in cardiovascular disorders such as atherosclerosis and heart reperfusion. Although PPAR
and
have been documented to reduce oxidative stress in the vasculature and the heart, the role of PPAR
remains poorly studied.
Methods and results: We focused on PPAR
function in the regulation of oxidative stress-induced apoptosis in the rat cardiomyoblast cell line H9c2. Using semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), we showed that PPAR
is the predominantly expressed isotype whereas PPAR
was weakly detected. By performing cell viability assays, we also showed that the selective PPAR
agonist GW501516 protected cells from H2O2-induced cell death. The protective effect of GW501516 was due to an inhibition of H2O2-triggered apoptosis as shown by annexin-V labeling, DNA fragmentation analysis, and caspase-3 activity measurement. We demonstrated by transient transfection of a dominant negative mutant of PPAR
that the protection induced by GW501516 was totally dependent on PPAR
. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR and Western blotting analysis demonstrated that GW501516 treatment upregulated catalase. Moreover, forced overexpression of catalase inhibited H2O2-triggered apoptosis, as evidenced by annexin-V labeling.
Conclusion: Taken together, our results account for an important role of PPAR
in inhibiting the onset of oxidative stress-induced apoptosis in H9c2 cells. PPAR
appears to be a new therapeutic target for the regulation of heart reperfusion-associated oxidative stress and stimulation of enzymatic antioxidative defences.
KEYWORDS Nuclear receptors; Hydrogen peroxide; Cell death; Catalase; PPAR
; Dominant negative mutant; Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor 
1 Present affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France.
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