Protein Information

Name heme oxygenase 1
Synonyms HMOX 1; HMOX1; HMOX1 protein; HO; HO 1; HO1; Heme oxygenase (Decycling) 1; Heme oxygenase (Decyclizing) 1…

Compound Information

Name methylene chloride
CAS dichloromethane

Reference List

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
14512878 Sass G, Soares MC, Yamashita K, Seyfried S, Zimmermann WH, Eschenhagen T, Kaczmarek E, Ritter T, Volk HD, Tiegs G: Heme oxygenase-1 and its reaction product, carbon monoxide, prevent inflammation-related apoptotic liver damage in mice. Hepatology. 2003 Oct;38(4):909-18.

Exogenous CO administration or treatment with the CO-releasing agent methylene chloride mimicked the protective effect of HO-1, whereas treatment with exogenous biliverdin or overexpression of ferritin by recombinant adenoviral gene transfer did not.
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12133272 Ke B, Buelow R, Shen XD, Melinek J, Amersi F, Gao F, Ritter T, Volk HD, Busuttil RW, Kupiec-Weglinski JW: Heme oxygenase 1 gene transfer prevents CD95/Fas ligand-mediated apoptosis and improves liver allograft survival via carbon monoxide signaling pathway. Hum Gene Ther. 2002 Jul 1;13(10):1189-99.

To deliver CO, one of the downstream HO-1 mediators, allogeneic OLT recipients were exposed to methylene chloride.
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20303947 Lakkisto P, Kyto V, Forsten H, Siren JM, Segersvard H, Voipio-Pulkki LM, Laine M, Pulkki K, Tikkanen I: Heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide promote neovascularization after myocardial infarction by modulating the expression of HIF-1alpha, SDF-1alpha and VEGF-B. Eur J Pharmacol. 2010 Mar 19.

Prior to coronary artery ligation, male Wistar rats were given either cobolt protoporphyrin IX to induce HO-1 or CO-donor methylene chloride.
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12201358 Chauveau C, Bouchet D, Roussel JC, Mathieu P, Braudeau C, Renaudin K, Tesson L, Soulillou JP, Iyer S, Buelow R, Anegon I: Gene transfer of heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide delivery inhibit chronic rejection. Am J Transplant. 2002 Aug;2(7):581-92.

Carbon monoxide treatment was achieved by a new pharmacological approach in transplantation using methylene chloride (MC), which releases CO after degradation.
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20044809 Lehmann E, El-Tantawy WH, Ocker M, Bartenschlager R, Lohmann V, Hashemolhosseini S, Tiegs G, Sass G: The heme oxygenase 1 product biliverdin interferes with hepatitis C virus replication by increasing antiviral interferon response. Hepatology. 2010 Feb;51(2):398-404.

Incubation of these cell lines in the presence of the CO donor methylene chloride transiently reduced HCV replication, whereas an increase of iron in cell culture by administration of FeCl (3) or iron-saturated lactoferrin did not interfere with HCV replication.
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20193372 Yang DH, Zhang H, Huang Y, Zhou J: [Effect of methylene chloride upon hepatic ischemic reperfusion injury] . Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2009 Dec 15;89(46):3299-303.

The tests were determined as following: the level of serum ALT, AST in recipients; heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) expression of graft was tested by immunohistochemistry and Western blot; the index of graft apoptosis examined by TUNEL method; the pathology of graft assessed by Suzuki's criteria.
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15486963 Sass G, Seyfried S, Parreira Soares M, Yamashita K, Kaczmarek E, Neuhuber WL, Tiegs G: Cooperative effect of biliverdin and carbon monoxide on survival of mice in immune-mediated liver injury. Hepatology. 2004 Nov;40(5):1128-35.

Induction of the heme-degrading enzyme heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) has been shown to be beneficial in terms of improvement of liver allograft survival and prevention of CD95-mediated apoptosis in the liver.
While in contrast to ferritin overexpression, single administration of the CO donor methylene chloride (MC) or of BV also protected mice from liver damage, only coadministration of both HO products prolonged survival and reduced the expression of cytokines, e.g., tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interferon gamma (IFN-gamma).
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19465080 Omura S, Koike E, Kobayashi T: Microarray analysis of gene expression in rat alveolar epithelial cells exposed to fractionated organic extracts of diesel exhaust particles. Toxicology. 2009 Jul 28;262(1):65-72. Epub 2009 May 22.


DMSF predominantly up-regulated genes associated with drug metabolism (Cyp1a1, Gsta3), oxidative stress response (HO-1, Srxn1) and cell cycle/apoptosis (Okl38).
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15808651 Martins PN, Reuzel-Selke A, Jurisch A, Atrott K, Pascher A, Pratschke J, Buelow R, Neuhaus P, Volk HD, Tullius SG: Induction of carbon monoxide in the donor reduces graft immunogenicity and chronic graft deterioration. Transplant Proc. 2005 Jan-Feb;37(1):379-81.

One of these genes that has been shown to mediate protective effects decodes the enzyme heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), and an HO-1 downstream product, carbon monoxide (CO).
Using an established model of kidney chronic allograft rejection in the rat, we investigated the impact of methylene chloride (MC), a CO donor, as a therapeutic tool to reduce chronic graft deterioration.
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15916789 Koike E, Kobayashi T: Organic extract of diesel exhaust particles stimulates expression of Ia and costimulatory molecules associated with antigen presentation in rat peripheral blood monocytes but not in alveolar macrophages. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2005 Dec 15;209(3):277-85.

When the induction of an antioxidative enzyme was assessed, heme oxygenase-1 protein was found to be significantly increased by exposure to whole DEP, and the organic extract was more effective than the residual particles.
DEP was extracted with methylene chloride.
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