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The role of ROS in ionizing radiation-induced VLA-4 mediated adhesion of RAW264.7 cells to VCAM-1 under flow conditions.

Abstract
Alteration of adhesion molecule expression on endothelial cells has a direct connection with ionizing radiation-induced atherosclerosis, which is an adverse effect observed after radiotherapy. However, minimal attention has been given to monocytes/macrophages role in atherosclerosis development, which are exposed to the radiation at the same time. Under flow conditions using a parallel plate flow chamber to mimic physiological shear stress, we demonstrate here that the avidity between very late antigen-4 (VLA-4) of RAW264.7 cells and its ligand vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), was increased after low dose (0.5 Gy) irradiation, but was reduced after higher dose (5 Gy) treatment of ionizing radiation despite the fact that the surface expression of VLA-4 was up-regulated at 5 Gy of ionizing radiation. Treating the cells with free radical scavenger N-acetylcysteine had no effect on VLA-4 expression, but did reduce the avidity between RAW264.7 cells and VCAM-1 to a similar level, independent of ionizing radiation dose. The effect of H(2)O(2) treatment (from 1-100 μM) on RAW264.7 cell adhesion to VCAM-1 generated a similar bell-shaped graph as ionizing radiation. These results suggest that ionizing radiation regulates adhesive interactions between VLA-4 and VCAM-1, and that reactive oxygen species might function as a regulator, for this increased adhesiveness but with altered expression of integrin not play a major role.
AuthorsYe Yuan, Shin Hee Lee, Shiyong Wu
JournalRadiation research (Radiat Res) Vol. 179 Issue 1 Pg. 62-8 (Jan 2013) ISSN: 1938-5404 [Electronic] United States
PMID23181590 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
Chemical References
  • Integrin alpha4beta1
  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1
Topics
  • Animals
  • Biomimetics
  • Cell Adhesion (radiation effects)
  • Cell Line
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Gene Expression Regulation (radiation effects)
  • Integrin alpha4beta1 (metabolism)
  • Mice
  • Reactive Oxygen Species (metabolism)
  • Stress, Physiological (radiation effects)
  • Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 (metabolism)

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