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a Surgical Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
b Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555-0645, USA
Heat shock response provides cells with higher tolerance against a variety of insults such as heavy metals, reperfusion injury, and endotoxin. In addition, heat treatment is known to affect ion transport mechanisms associated with vital cellular processes, including cell volume regulation. However, there has been no reports to date of a heat shock effect on cellular volume regulation itself. The aim of our study was to investigate whether the heat shock response influences volume regulation of cells. Human promonocytic U937 cells display an increase in volume in response to osmotic shrinkage. This regulatory volume increase (RVI) is mediated mainly by ion antiporters. U937 cells exposed to a temperature of 45°C for 10 min (heat shock) show an enhancement of RVI after hypertonic challenge compared with untreated cells. Also, heat-treated cells display a lower intracellular pH (pHi) than untreated cells; similar control mechanisms are believed to be involved in regulating both pHi and RVI. In agreement with this, heat-shocked cells demonstrated increased activity of an HCO3--independent/DIDS-sensitive pHi down-regulator, postulated to be a Cl-/HCO3- exchange. We suggest that heat shock-mediated RVI enhancement is at least partially mediated by an increased Cl-/HCO3- exchange. Our results indicate that heat shock of U937 cells activates a hitherto unknown cytoprotective effect that may help cells to overcome hypertonic challenge.—Oehler, R., Zellner, M., Hefel, B., Weingartmann, G., Spittler, A., Struse, H. M., Roth, E. Influence of heat shock on cell volume regulation: protection from hypertonic challenge in a human monocyte cell line. FASEB J. 12, 553–560 (1998)
Key Words: DIDS • DMA • ion transport • Na+/H+ exchange • intracellular water space • heat treatment
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