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Islamzada E, Matthews K, Lamoureux E, Duffy SP, Scott MD, Ma H. Blood unit segments accurately represent the biophysical properties of red blood cells in blood bags but not hemolysis. Transfusion 2021; 62:448-456. [PMID: 34877683 DOI: 10.1111/trf.16757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The biophysical properties of red blood cells (RBCs) provide potential biomarkers for the quality of donated blood. Blood unit segments provide a simple and nondestructive way to sample RBCs in clinical studies of transfusion efficacy, but it is not known whether RBCs sampled from segments accurately represent the biophysical properties of RBCs in blood bags. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS RBCs were sampled from blood bags and segments every two weeks during 8 weeks of storage at 4°C. RBC deformability was measured by deformability-based sorting using the microfluidic ratchet device in order to derive a rigidity score. Standard hematological parameters, including mean corpuscular volume (MCV), red cell distribution width (RDW), mean cell hemoglobin (MCH), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and hemolysis were measured at the same time points. RESULTS Deformability of RBCs stored in blood bags was retained over 4 weeks storage, but a progressive loss of deformability was observed at weeks 6 and 8. This trend was mirrored in blood unit segments with a strong correlation to the blood bag data. Strong correlations were also observed between blood bag and segment for MCV, MCHC, and MCH but not for hemolysis. CONCLUSION RBCs sampled from blood unit segments accurately represent the biophysical properties of RBCs in blood bags but not hemolysis. Blood unit segments provide a simple and nondestructive sample for measuring RBC biophysical properties in clinical studies.
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- Emel Islamzada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Canadian Blood Services, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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van Zwieten R, Verhoeven AJ, Roos D. Inborn defects in the antioxidant systems of human red blood cells. Free Radic Biol Med 2014; 67:377-86. [PMID: 24316370 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2013] [Revised: 11/20/2013] [Accepted: 11/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Red blood cells (RBCs) contain large amounts of iron and operate in highly oxygenated tissues. As a result, these cells encounter a continuous oxidative stress. Protective mechanisms against oxidation include prevention of formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), scavenging of various forms of ROS, and repair of oxidized cellular contents. In general, a partial defect in any of these systems can harm RBCs and promote senescence, but is without chronic hemolytic complaints. In this review we summarize the often rare inborn defects that interfere with the various protective mechanisms present in RBCs. NADPH is the main source of reduction equivalents in RBCs, used by most of the protective systems. When NADPH becomes limiting, red cells are prone to being damaged. In many of the severe RBC enzyme deficiencies, a lack of protective enzyme activity is frustrating erythropoiesis or is not restricted to RBCs. Common hereditary RBC disorders, such as thalassemia, sickle-cell trait, and unstable hemoglobins, give rise to increased oxidative stress caused by free heme and iron generated from hemoglobin. The beneficial effect of thalassemia minor, sickle-cell trait, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency on survival of malaria infection may well be due to the shared feature of enhanced oxidative stress. This may inhibit parasite growth, enhance uptake of infected RBCs by spleen macrophages, and/or cause less cytoadherence of the infected cells to capillary endothelium.
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- Rob van Zwieten
- Laboratory of Red Blood Cell Diagnostics, Department of Blood Cell Research, Sanquin Blood Supply Organization, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Red Blood Cell Diagnostics, Department of Blood Cell Research, Sanquin Blood Supply Organization, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Rizvi SI, Srivastava N. [L-cysteine influx in diabetic erythrocytes]. BIOMEDIT︠S︡INSKAI︠A︡ KHIMII︠A︡ 2011; 56:545-51. [PMID: 21254624 DOI: 10.18097/pbmc20105605545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Erythrocyte oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus, and the deficiency of antioxidant defense by the glutathione (GSH) pathway is thought to be one of the factors responsible for development of complications in diabetes. Erythrocytes require L-cysteine for thesynthesis of GSH and the rate of synthesis is determined only by L-cysteine availability. In the present study we have found that the L-cysteine influx in erythrocytes from type 2 diabetic patients was significantly lower compared to age-matched controls. The decreased influx may be one of the factors leading to low GSH concentration observed in type 2 diabetes. Since L-cysteine is the limiting amino acid in GSH synthesis, any strategy aimed to increase L-cysteine influx in erythrocytes may be beneficial for type 2 diabetic patients.
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Kand'ár R, Záková P. Allantoin as a marker of oxidative stress in human erythrocytes. Clin Chem Lab Med 2008; 46:1270-4. [PMID: 18636793 DOI: 10.1515/cclm.2008.244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Uric acid is the final product of purine metabolism in humans. It was determined that this compound has important antioxidative properties and it may be oxidized to allantoin by various reactive oxygen species. Therefore, the measurement of allantoin may be useful for the determination of oxidative stress in humans. METHODS We measured allantoin and uric acid in human plasma and erythrocytes obtained from patients with chronic renal failure before hemodialysis (n=30) and blood donors (n=30). We used a method based on selective isolation of allantoin from deproteinized plasma and erythrocyte lysate samples on AG 1-X8 resin and its derivatization to glyoxylate-2, 4-dinitrophenylhydrazone. Separation of glyoxylate-2, 4-dinitrophenylhydrazone from interfering substances was achieved on reversed phase HPLC with gradient elution and UV/VIS detection at 360 nm. Uric acid was determined by reversed phase HPLC with UV/VIS detection at 292 nm. RESULTS We found significant differences in allantoin and uric acid concentration between the patients with chronic renal failure and the control group both in plasma (20.5+/-6.5 micromol/L and 323.9+/-62.9 micromol/L vs. 2.1+/-1.1 micromol/L and 270.1+/-62.3 micromol/L, p<0.05) and erythrocytes [82.8+/-39.1 nmol/g hemoglobin (Hb) and 110.7+/-28.8 nmol/g Hb vs. 20.1+/-6.1 nmol/g Hb and 82.1+/-23.7 nmol/g Hb, p<0.05]. CONCLUSIONS Significant higher levels of allantoin in both plasma and erythrocytes of patients with chronic renal failure indicate that allantoin may be used as a good marker of oxidative stress.
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- Roman Kand'ár
- Department of Biological and Biochemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
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Kaul A, Chandra M, Misra MK. Adenosine deaminase in ischemia reperfusion injury in patients with myocardial infarction. J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem 2006; 21:543-6. [PMID: 17194025 DOI: 10.1080/14756360600774520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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A comparative study on the levels of erythrocyte adenosine deaminase and lipid peroxidation has been undertaken in patients with myocardial infarction before and after thrombolysis along with matched healthy individuals. Our findings show that adenosine deaminase activity is highly elevated in post-reperfused patients when compared to pre- thrombolysed and healthy persons. Malondialdehyde(MDA) levels are also significantly increased in post-thrombolysed patients. The study reveals an important role of adenosine deaminase in reperfusion injury in patients with myocardial infarction.
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- Aiki Kaul
- Department of Biochemistry, Lucknow University, Lucknow 226 007, India
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The erythrocyte represents a major component of the antioxidant capacity of the blood through the enzymes contained in the cell, the glutathione system, and the low-molecular-weight antioxidants of the erythrocyte membrane. A further major red blood cell contribution is in regenerating consumed redox equivalents via the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway and glutathione reductase. Moreover, its extracellular antioxidant capacity, its mobility, and the existence of reducing equivalents far in excess of its normal requirements make erythrocytes function as an effective oxidative sink in the organism. That is why red blood cell metabolism and homeostasis strongly affect the antioxidant properties of the whole body. Conversely, the relation between macrocytosis and oxidative stress has not been fully delineated. Reviewing the mechanisms involved in red blood cell homeostasis in cases of redox imbalance is crucial in identification of factors that could potentially improve erythrocyte survival and defense against oxidant damage.
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- Argirios E Tsantes
- Laboratory of Hematology & Blood Bank Unit, Attikon General Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece
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Shumilova TE, Yanvareva NA, Shereshkov VI, Nozdrachev AD. Effect of nitrite-induced methemoglobinemia on the kinetics of blood deoxygenation. BIOL BULL+ 2006. [DOI: 10.1134/s1062359006020117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Etlik Ö, Tomur A. THE OXIDANT EFFECTS OF HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION AND AIR POLLUTION IN ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANES (HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION IN AIR POLLUTION). ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF GENERAL MEDICINE 2006. [DOI: 10.29333/ejgm/82356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rael LT, Ayala-Fierro F, Bar-Or R, Carter DE, Barber DS. Interaction of Arsine with Hemoglobin in Arsine-Induced Hemolysis. Toxicol Sci 2005; 90:142-8. [PMID: 16322079 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfj054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The mechanism of arsine (AsH3) toxicity is not completely understood, but hemoglobin (Hb) has long been recognized as a necessary component of the overall mechanism of AsH3-induced hemolysis. In this study, the role of Hb in AsH3-induced hemolysis was investigated. The purpose was to determine whether exposure to AsH3 altered the structure of the heme or globin constituents of Hb. Arsine was incubated with isolated, human oxyhemoglobin (oxyHb) and carboxyhemoglobin (carboxyHb), and the release of heme and formation of AsH3-induced hemoglobin modifications were examined. Arsine increased the amount of heme released from oxyHb by 18%. When carboxyHb was incubated with AsH3, there was no change in heme release, suggesting that the sixth ligand position on the heme iron may be critical in the interaction with AsH3. Arsine-Hb interactions were studied by mass spectral analysis of heme, alpha-chain globin, and beta-chain globin. Arsine had no significant effect on the alpha- or beta-chain LCMS spectra in oxyHb and carboxyHb, but in oxyHb, arsine consistently increased the frequency of methyl acetate ion fragment (.CH2OOH, m/z = 59) loss from heme in the matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) spectra. The formation of Hb-protein crosslinks was investigated by Western blotting using an anti-Hb antibody in isolated membranes from AsH3-treated erythrocytes, but no Hb-membrane adducts were found. These results suggest that the interaction between AsH3 and hemoglobin result in an increase in heme release which may contribute to the hemolytic mechanism of AsH3.
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- Leonard T Rael
- Swedish Medical Center, Trauma Research Laboratory, Englewood, Colorado 80113, USA.
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Iglesias BF, Catalá A. Rat, caprine, equine and bovine erythrocyte ghosts exposed to t-butyl hydroperoxide as a model to study lipid peroxidation using a chemiluminescence assay. Res Vet Sci 2005; 79:19-27. [PMID: 15894020 DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2004.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2004] [Revised: 10/14/2004] [Accepted: 10/21/2004] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The aim of the present study was to analyze the time-course of t-butyl hydroperoxide-induced changes in lipid peroxidation, fatty acid composition and chemiluminescence intensity in rat, caprine, equine and bovine erythrocyte ghosts. A relatively high content of arachidonic acid (C20:4 n6) and docosahexaenoic acid (C22:6 n3) was characteristic of the rat erythrocyte ghosts. The fatty acid composition of native erythrocyte ghosts obtained from caprine, equine and bovine was characterized by a high content of oleic acid (C18:1 n9) and a low content of the peroxidable polyunsaturated fatty acids (C20:4 n6 and C22:6 n3). The proportion of linoleic acid (C18:2 n6) was higher in equine and bovine compared to rat and caprine. Increase in lipid peroxidation in rat erythrocyte ghosts was maximal within 12 min of incubation, t-butyl hydroperoxide concentration dependent and was paralleled by a decrease in C18:2 n6, C20:4 n6 and C22:6 n3 and an increase in chemiluminescence formation. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) present in rat erythrocyte ghosts exhibit the highest sensitivity to oxidative damaged and their sensitivity increases as a power function of the number of double bonds per fatty acid molecule. Light emission in caprine, equine and bovine erythrocyte ghosts was very low, t-butyl hydroperoxide concentration-dependent but changes in fatty acid composition were not observed. The main conclusion of this work is that a low unsaturation degree of fatty acids in erythrocyte ghosts of caprine, equine and bovine prevent the lipid peroxidation on those membranes when they are incubated with t-butyl hydroperoxide.
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- Bernardo Fabricio Iglesias
- Cátedra de Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CC 296, B1900 AVW, La Plata, Argentina
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Oztürk L, Mansour B, Yüksel M, Yalçin AS, Celikoğlu F, Gökhan N. Lipid peroxidation and osmotic fragility of red blood cells in sleep-apnea patients. Clin Chim Acta 2003; 332:83-8. [PMID: 12763284 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-8981(03)00126-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) refers to the occurrence of episodes of complete or partial pharyngeal obstruction with oxyhemoglobin desaturation during sleep. These hypoxia/reoxygenation episodes may cause generation of reactive oxygen species. Reactive oxygen species are toxic to biomembranes and may lead to the peroxidation of lipids. We tested the hypothesis that obstructive sleep apnea is linked to increased oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation. In order to identify target tissue/cell damage, we studied the osmotic fragility of red blood cells. METHODS Six subjects polysomnographically diagnosed as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and 10 controls were included. After all subjects gave written informed consent, blood samples were collected in the morning between 08:00 and 09:00 a.m. following polysomnography. Blood samples were immediately transferred to the laboratory. Glutathione, lipid peroxidation and osmotic fragility of red blood cells were measured manually. RESULTS Mean glutathione and lipid peroxidation concentrations of patients were not different than those of control subjects (105.6+/-38.6 U/g Hb and 3.1+/-2.3 nmol MDA/l vs. 100.6+/-62.1 U/g Hb and 3.2+/-2.8 nmol MDA/l, respectively). In both groups, osmotic fragility of red blood cells was not changed. CONCLUSION The present study failed to support the hypothesis that obstructive sleep apnea is linked with increased oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation.
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- Levent Oztürk
- Department of Physiology, Kadir Has University Medical School, Vefabey Sk. No. 5, 80810 Gayrettepe, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Pokhrel PK, Lau-Cam CA. Protection by taurine and structurally related sulfur-containing compounds against erythrocyte membrane damage by hydrogen peroxide. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2002; 483:411-29. [PMID: 11787627 DOI: 10.1007/0-306-46838-7_47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- P K Pokhrel
- College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York 11439, USA
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Tavazzi B, Amorini AM, Fazzina G, Di Pierro D, Tuttobene M, Giardina B, Lazzarino G. Oxidative stress induces impairment of human erythrocyte energy metabolism through the oxygen radical-mediated direct activation of AMP-deaminase. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:48083-92. [PMID: 11675377 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m101715200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The effect of oxidative stress on human red blood cell AMP-deaminase activity was studied by incubating either fresh erythrocytes or hemolysates with H(2)O(2) (0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 mm) or NaNO(2) (1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 mm), for 15 min at 37 degrees C. AMP-deaminase tremendously increased by increasing H(2)O(2) or NaNO(2) at up to 4 and 20 mm, respectively (maximal effect for both oxidants was 9.5 and 6.5 times higher enzymatic activity than control erythrocytes or hemolysates, respectively). The incubation of hemolysates with iodoacetate (5-100 mm), N-ethylmaleimide (0.1-10 mm), or p-hydroxymercuribenzoate (0.1-5 mm) mimicked the effect of oxidative stress on AMP-deaminase, indicating that sulfhydryl group modification is involved in the enzyme activation. In comparison with control hemolysates, changes of the kinetic properties of AMP-deaminase (decrease of AMP concentration necessary for half-maximal activation, increase of V(max), modification of the curve shape of V(o) versus [S], Hill plots, and coefficients) were recorded with 4 mm H(2)O(2)- and 1 mm N-ethylmaleimide-treated hemolysates. Data obtained using 90% purified enzyme, incubated with Fenton reagents (Fe(2+) + H(2)O(2)) or -SH-modifying compounds, demonstrated that (i) reactive oxygen species are directly responsible for AMP-deaminase activation; (ii) this phenomenon occurs through sulfhydryl group modification; and (iii) the activation does not involve the loss of the tetrameric protein structure. Results of experiments conducted with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient erythrocytes, challenged with increasing doses of the anti-malarial drug quinine hydrochloride and showing dramatic AMP-deaminase activation, suggest relevant physiopathological implications of this enzymatic activation in conditions of increased oxidative stress. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of an enzyme, fundamental for the maintenance of the correct red blood cell energy metabolism, that is activated (rather than inhibited) by the interaction with reactive oxygen species.
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- B Tavazzi
- Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Via Tor Vergata 133, 00135 Rome, Italy
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Fernandes MA, Geraldes CF, Oliveira CR, Alpoim MC. Chromate-induced human erythrocytes haemoglobin oxidation and peroxidation: influence of vitamin E, vitamin C, salicylate, deferoxamine, and N-ethylmaleimide. Toxicol Lett 2000; 114:237-43. [PMID: 10713489 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4274(00)00167-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In order to attenuate or to prevent chromate-induced human erythrocytes injury, the influence of vitamin E, vitamin C, salicylate, deferoxamine, and N-ethylmaleimide on chromate-induced human erythrocytes haemoglobin oxidation and peroxidation were investigated. It was observed that pretreatment of human erythrocytes with vitamin E (20 microM), vitamin C (1 mM), salicylate (3 mM), and deferoxamine (4 mM) significantly increased (P=0.0001) chromate-induced human erythrocytes haemoglobin oxidation in a time dependent manner, while it was significantly decreased (P=0.0001) by pretreatment with N-ethylmaleimide (1 mM). In contrast, pretreatment of human erythrocytes with deferoxamine (4 mM) immediately inhibited (P=0.0001) chromate-induced human erythrocytes peroxidation, while it was significantly increased (P=0.0001) by pretreatment with N-ethylmaleimide (1 mM) during the first 4 h of cells exposition to chromate. For time periods superior to 6 h pretreatment with N-ethylmaleimide (1 mM) significantly decreased (P=0.0001) chromate-induced human erythrocytes peroxidation. It was concluded that care must be taken as these drugs are used to prevent against toxicity induced by chromium(VI) compounds.
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- M A Fernandes
- Departamento de Zoologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-517, Coimbra, Portugal
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Tavazzi B, Di Pierro D, Amorini AM, Fazzina G, Tuttobene M, Giardina B, Lazzarino G. Energy metabolism and lipid peroxidation of human erythrocytes as a function of increased oxidative stress. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:684-9. [PMID: 10651804 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01042.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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To study the influence of oxidative stress on energy metabolism and lipid peroxidation in erythrocytes, cells were incubated with increasing concentrations (0.5-10 mM) of hydrogen peroxide for 1 h at 37 degrees C and the main substances of energy metabolism (ATP, AMP, GTP and IMP) and one index of lipid peroxidation (malondialdehyde) were determined by HPLC on cell extracts. Using the same incubation conditions, the activity of AMP-deaminase was also determined. Under nonhaemolysing conditions (at up to 4 mM H2O2), oxidative stress produced, starting from 1 mM H2O2, progressive ATP depletion and a net decrease in the intracellular sum of adenine nucleotides (ATP + ADP + AMP), which were not paralleled by AMP formation. Concomitantly, the IMP level increased by up to 20-fold with respect to the value determined in control erythrocytes, when cells were challenged with the highest nonhaemolysing H2O2 concentration (4 mM). Efflux of inosine, hypoxanthine, xanthine and uric acid towards the extracellular medium was observed. The metabolic imbalance of erythrocytes following oxidative stress was due to a dramatic and unexpected activation of AMP-deaminase (a twofold increase of activity with respect to controls) that was already evident at the lowest dose of H2O2 used; this enzymatic activity increased with increasing H2O2 in the medium, and reached its maximum at 4 mM H2O2-treated erythrocytes (10-fold higher activity than controls). Generation of malondialdehyde was strictly related to the dose of H2O2, being detectable at the lowest H2O2 concentration and increasing without appreciable haemolysis up to 4 mM H2O2. Besides demonstrating a close relationship between lipid peroxidation and haemolysis, these data suggest that glycolytic enzymes are moderately affected by oxygen radical action and strongly indicate, in the change of AMP-deaminase activity, a highly sensitive enzymatic site responsible for a profound modification of erythrocyte energy metabolism during oxidative stress.
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- B Tavazzi
- Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy
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De Luca C, Filosa A, Grandinetti M, Maggio F, Lamba M, Passi S. Blood antioxidant status and urinary levels of catecholamine metabolites in beta-thalassemia. Free Radic Res 1999; 30:453-62. [PMID: 10400457 DOI: 10.1080/10715769900300491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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It has been reported that iron overload in beta-thalassemia leads to an enhanced generation of reactive oxygen species and to oxidative stress. We have studied the oxidant/antioxidant imbalance in the blood of 48 transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemic patients (TLP) (17 males, 31 females, 11-22 year), under chelation therapy, and in 40 sex and age matched healthy controls (CTR). Plasma and lymphocyte levels of vitamin E (Vit E), ubiquinol (CoQ10H2), ubiquinone (CoQ10), plasma concentrations of vitamin A (Vit A), beta-carotene, lycopene, vitamin C (Vit C), total thiols, fatty acid patterns of phospholipids (PL-FA), and plasma and urinary markers of lipoperoxidation (TBA-RM, conjugated dienes, and azelaic acid (AZA), as well as the urinary levels of catecholamine and serotonin metabolites, were evaluated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), HPLC and spectrophotometry. Routine laboratory blood analyses were performed on the same samples; 39/48 TLP were HCV positive. Blood samples were collected just before transfusion, the 24 h urine samples the day before. Our results clearly showed that a severe oxidative stress occurs in the plasma of TLP in comparison with CTR. In fact, the levels of lipophilic antioxidants and ascorbate were severely depleted: CoQ10H2 (-62.5%), total CoQ10 (-35.1%), Vit E (-43.8%), beta-carotene (-31.1%), lycopene (-63.7%), Vit A (-35.9%), Vit C (-23.1%). The impairment of the antioxidant status was associated with elevated plasma levels of by-products of lipoperoxidation and urinary concentrations of catecholamine metabolites and of AZA, indicating a high degree of both neurological stress and lipoperoxidation. A significant positive correlation was found between vitamin E and non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI) (r = -0.81; p < 0.001), while no correlation was found between antioxidant depletion and ferritin serum levels, average blood consumption, or the presence of clinical complications. The administration of selective antioxidants along with an appropriate diet might represent a promising way of counteracting oxidative damage and its deleterious effects on the progression of the disease.
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- C De Luca
- Istituto Dermapatico dell'Immacolata (IRCCS), Centro Invecchiamento Cellulare, Rome, Italy.
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Etlik O, Tomur A, Dündar K, Erdem A, Gündoğan NU. The effect of antioxidant vitamins E and C on lipoperoxidation of erythrocyte membranes during hyperbaric oxygenation. J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol 1998; 8:269-77. [PMID: 9651799 DOI: 10.1515/jbcpp.1997.8.4.269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The aim of this research was to determine whether administration of an antioxidant vitamin combination can reduce oxidative damage in erythrocytes induced by hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO). Malonyldialdehyde (MDA) levels and osmotic fragility ratios in erythrocytes of 28 rats were compared in group A [control], group B [Vitamin (E + C)], group C [HBO] and group D [HBO + Vitamin (E + C)]. HBO was applied at a pressure of 2.8 atmospheres absolute (ATA), 1 hour daily, for 45 days in groups C and D. Administration of alpha-tocopherol acetate (40 mg/kg) and Na-ascorbate (200 mg/kg) was initiated 3 days before the start of HBO exposures and administered intraperitoneally 3 times a week for 45 days. MDA levels and osmotic fragility ratios were significantly higher in group C than in groups A and B (p < 0.05 for all). Significant decreases in MDA levels and osmotic fragility were observed in group D compared with group C, although these parameters were still significantly higher than in controls (p < 0.05 for all). Prolonged HBO resulted in oxidative damage indicated by significant increases in MDA levels and osmotic fragility ratios, which were reduced by concomitant vitamin (E + C) administration.
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- O Etlik
- Department of Physiology, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey
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Miura T, Muraoka S, Ogiso T. Inactivation of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase by ferrylmyoglobin. Chem Biol Interact 1997; 107:173-83. [PMID: 9448751 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2797(97)00085-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was rapidly inactivated by ferrylmyoglobin (ferrylMb). FerrylMb rapidly reacts with the sulfhydryl group of protein. We therefore surmised that the cysteine residues of GAPDH react with ferrylMb. However, the amount of ferrylMb required to inactivate the enzyme was in excess of the equivalent amount of cysteine in the enzyme. FerrylMb was reduced not only by cysteine, but also by tyrosine and tryptophane. Adding cysteine strongly blocked the inactivation of GAPDH induced by ferrylMb, but adding tyrosine and tryptophane did not prevent the enzyme inactivation. However, adding cysteine, but not tryptophane and tyrosine, produced a maximum absorption at 580 nm, suggesting the formation of sulfmyoglobin through the reaction of ferrylMb with cysteine. Furthermore, three new bands of molecular weights 50, 55 and 100 kDa occurred on the sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel during the exposure of GAPDH to ferrylMb. Cysteine, but not tryptophane and tyrosine, inhibited the formation of the bands. Kinetic data indicated that the binding site of NAD, but not glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P), was damaged by ferrylMb. These results suggest that inactivation of GAPDH induced by ferrylMb is predominantly due to oxidation of the essential cysteine 149, and that NAD protects the active site from oxidative attack of ferrylMb.
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- T Miura
- Hokkaido College of Pharmacy, Otaru, Japan.
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Gabbianelli R, Falcioni G, Santroni AM, Caulini G, Greci L, Damiani E. Effect of aromatic nitroxides on hemolysis of human erythrocytes entrapped with isolated hemoglobin chains. Free Radic Biol Med 1997; 23:278-84. [PMID: 9199890 DOI: 10.1016/s0891-5849(96)00611-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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An in vitro model of thalassemia was produced by entrapment of isolated hemoglobin chains in human erythrocytes, thus subjecting the loaded cells to oxidative stress. The presence of these unpaired chains induced physico-chemical modifications at the membrane level as studied by laurdan fluorescence. The polarity of the lipid bilayer was shown to decrease with a concomitant shift towards a gel phase in alpha-loaded erythrocytes. The determination of conjugated dienes before the hemolytic event was used as an oxidation index; the results obtained demonstrate that beta thalassemia is associated with oxidative stress. Furthermore, the presence of indolinic and quinolinic nitroxide radicals, a new class of antioxidants, in suspensions of alpha-loaded erythrocytes protected the erythrocytes from the hemolytic event. However, the protective effect exerted by the nitroxide radicals is not related to effects on membrane polarity and lipid peroxidation, even though a chemiluminescence study has demonstrated the superoxide scavenging activity of these nitroxide radicals.
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- R Gabbianelli
- Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare Cellulare Animale, Università, Camerino, Italy
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May JM, Qu ZC, Morrow JD. Interaction of ascorbate and alpha-tocopherol in resealed human erythrocyte ghosts. Transmembrane electron transfer and protection from lipid peroxidation. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:10577-82. [PMID: 8631858 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.18.10577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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A role for ascorbate-derived electrons in protection against oxidative damage to membrane lipids was investigated in resealed human erythrocyte ghosts. Incubation of resealed ghosts with the membrane-impermeant oxidant ferricyanide doubled the ghost membrane concentration of F2-isoprostanes, a sensitive marker of lipid peroxidation. Incorporation of ascorbate into ghosts during resealing largely prevented F2-isoprostane formation due to extravesicular ferricyanide. This protection was associated with a rapid transmembrane oxidation of intravesicular ascorbate by extravesicular ferricyanide. Transmembrane electron transfer, which was measured indirectly as ascorbate-dependent ferricyanide reduction, correlated with the content of alpha-tocopherol in the ghost membrane in several respects. First, ascorbate resealed within ghosts protected against ferricyanide-induced oxidation of endogenous alpha-tocopherol in the ghost membrane. Second, when exogenous alpha-tocopherol was incorporated into the ghost membrane during the resealing step, subsequent ferricyanide reduction was enhanced. Last, incubation of intact erythrocytes with soybean phospholipid liposomes, followed by resealed ghost preparation, caused a proportional decrease in both the membrane content of alpha-tocopherol and in ferricyanide reduction. Incorporation of exogenous alpha-tocopherol during resealing of ghosts prepared from liposome-treated cells completely restored the ferricyanide-reducing capacity of the ghosts. These results suggest that the transmembrane transfer of ascorbate-derived electrons in erythrocyte ghosts is dependent in part on alpha-tocopherol and that such transfer may help to protect the erythrocyte membrane against oxidant stress originating outside the cell.
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- J M May
- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-6303, USA
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Bongarzone ER, Pasquini JM, Soto EF. Oxidative damage to proteins and lipids of CNS myelin produced by in vitro generated reactive oxygen species. J Neurosci Res 1995; 41:213-21. [PMID: 7650757 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490410209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Purified myelin isolated from 70-day-old rats was submitted to nonenzymatic peroxidative systems containing 100 microM FeCl3.6H2O, 100 microM ascorbic acid, and 100 microM CuSO4.6H2O 10 mM H2O2 in order to investigate the extent of damage produced by reactive oxygen species (ROS). Iron and copper catalyzing systems were selected because of the known importance of these metals in producing free radical chain reactions in biological membranes (Halliwell and Gutteridge: "Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine," Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). Our findings show that: (1) although after 1 hour of peroxidation, an important level of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) was detected, polyunsaturated fatty acids (20:2; 20:4; 22:4 and 22:6) were markedly affected only after 14 hours of incubation; (2) protein thiol groups were very sensitive to the attack of ROS generated by copper but resistant to iron-generated ROS; (3) aggregation of myelin proteins produced by peroxidation could be prevented by sulfhydryl (SH)-reducing agents, and (4) as a consequence of these modifications, compact myelin suffered disruption of its intraperiodic line. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that this unique membrane of the central nervous system (CNS) is highly vulnerable to oxidative stress and that this susceptibility to oxidative damage could be prevented, at least partially, by the use of SH-protective molecules.
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- E R Bongarzone
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Ténicas (CONICET), Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Williams M, Lagerberg JW, Van Steveninck J, Van der Zee J. The effect of protoporphyrin on the susceptibility of human erythrocytes to oxidative stress: exposure to hydrogen peroxide. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1236:81-8. [PMID: 7794958 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(95)00032-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Binding of protoporphyrin caused a perturbation of the erythrocyte membrane, as reflected by a change in cell shape from discoid to echinocyte, and a concomitant increase in mean cellular volume and K(+)-loss. Protoporphyrin-induced changes could be prevented by the presence of BaCl2, whereas binding of protoporphyrin was not affected. Exposure of erythrocytes to hydrogen peroxide leads to K(+)-leakage and lipid peroxidation. In de presence of protoporphyrin, H2O2-induced K(+)-leakage was enhanced, whereas lipid peroxidation was inhibited. The increase in H2O2-induced K(+)-leakage by protoporphyrin was not affected by diamide or various K+ channel blockers, but could be prevented by the addition of BaCl2. The inhibition of lipid peroxidation, on the other hand, was not affected by BaCl2. These results indicate that the enhancement of H2O2-induced K(+)-leakage was most likely caused by the change in cell shape. Addition of chlorpromazine and promethazine, positively charged molecules that induce stomatocytosis, did not cause an enhancement of H2O2-induced K(+)-leakage.
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- M Williams
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Sylvius, Laboratory, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Caprari P, Bozzi A, Malorni W, Bottini A, Iosi F, Santini MT, Salvati AM. Junctional sites of erythrocyte skeletal proteins are specific targets of tert-butylhydroperoxide oxidative damage. Chem Biol Interact 1995; 94:243-58. [PMID: 7820887 DOI: 10.1016/0009-2797(94)03339-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The oxidative denaturation of the erythrocyte membrane, which is considered a major cause of the haemolytic process, was evaluated upon 'in vitro' oxidative stress with tertbutylhydroperoxide. Biochemical and ultrastructural analyses were performed to point out the effect of this substance on the skeletal network, which is mainly responsible for red cell shape and viability. Moreover, cell morphology was observed by scanning electron microscopy and membrane rigidity assessed by EPR measurements. The most relevant features of the membrane denaturation were, (i) lipid peroxidation, as assessed by malonidialdehyde production, (ii) spectrin and ankyrin degradation with simultaneous globin binding to the membrane, as evidenced by electrophoretic pattern of red cell ghosts. These phenomena were related to the drug concentration in the incubation medium, and accompanied by depletion of intracellular reduced glutathione. The denaturation of protein components hindered the release of spectrin in a hypotonic extraction medium and could be only partially reversed by dithiothreitol. The extensive membrane protein and lipid degradation, at high drug concentration, was coherent with a marked increase of membrane order (membrane 'rigidity'). No clustering of intramembrane proteins was shown by the transmission electron microscopy images. At the same time scanning electron microscopy demonstrated shrinking and disco-stomatocytic deformation of erythrocytes. Ultrastructural analysis of the membrane skeleton by fluorescence-labelling of spectrin and actin, allowed to point out that exposure to t-BHP caused the marginalization of spectrin and the rearrangement of actin molecules with formation of micro aggregates, so that a detachment of actin from the spectrin network was suggested. In addition to the generalized damage of red cell membrane, tertbutylhydroperoxide was found to induce a specific alteration of the skeletal network at the horizontal junction sites involving spectrin, actin, and protein 4.1 and thus to modify the cytoskeletal assembly. This effect on the membrane skeletal components was consistent with the hypothesis that oxidative stress plays a key role in the haemolytic process.
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- P Caprari
- Laboratori di Biochimica Clinica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy
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Aiken NR, Galey WR, Satterlee JD. A peroxidative model of human erythrocyte intracellular Ca2+ changes with in vivo cell aging: measurement by 19F-NMR spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1270:52-7. [PMID: 7827135 DOI: 10.1016/0925-4439(94)00071-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Numerous changes occur with human erythrocyte aging in vivo, including an increase in free ionic intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) (N.R. Aiken et al. (1992) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1136, 155-160). An attractive hypothesis of cell aging suggests that oxidative stress is responsible for many age-related changes. To determine whether oxidative stress leads to increased intracellular Ca2+ concentrations, we used the fluorinated calcium probe 5,5'-difluoroBAPTA and fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (19F-NMR) to measure [Ca2+]i following mild hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) stress to young red cells. Cells were separated using density centrifugation, exposed to 815 microM H2O2, loaded with the calcium probe, and [Ca2+]i measured. Intracellular [Ca2+] increased from 62 nM (+/- 4, S.E.) in untreated young cells to 173 nM (+/- 11) in peroxide treated cohort young cells. This value approached our previously reported [Ca2+]i of 221 nM (+/- 25) in old human erythrocytes. Pretreatment of young cells with (a) cobalt, which blocks Ca2+ influx through calcium channels, or (b) carbon monoxide, which prevents methemoglobin formation, inhibited the peroxide-induced increase in ionic intracellular calcium. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that oxidative stress of erythrocytes contributes to the increased [Ca2+]i found in senescent cells, and that this is due to increased membrane Ca2+ leak resulting from oxidatively induced methemoglobin-cytoskeletal protein crosslinking.
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- N R Aiken
- University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Albuquerque 87131
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In this study, the composition and the role of membrane glycoproteins in phagocytosis were determined in G6PD deficient RBCs. G6PD deficient RBCs were recognized and significantly phagocytosed by murine macrophages, without pre-exposure to oxidants in vivo. Phagocytosis was partially (60%) inhibited by incubating macrophages with either galactose or mannose, or by incubating RBCs with beta-galactosidase, indicating the involvement of lectin-like receptors in the recognition of G6PD deficient RBCs. Membrane glycoproteins on G6PD deficient cells were detected by binding of Con A to both intact RBCs and to purified membrane proteins. The results demonstrated modifications in the glycoprotein pattern of G6PD deficient RBCs compared to untreated controls. These included reduction in the amounts of several high molecular weight glycoproteins and appearance of lower molecular weight bands. These results suggest that G6PD deficient RBCs undergo glycoprotein modifications, which may lead to premature removal from circulation, even in non-acute hemolysis.
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- S Horn
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Björk J, Backman L. Sodium selenite as modulator of red cell shape. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1191:141-6. [PMID: 8155668 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(94)90241-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Addition of sodium selenite to human red cells, under ATP deplete conditions, induces a rapid oxidation of both glutathione and protein sulphydryl groups. Selenite also inhibits the discocyte-echinocyte shape transformation and stops the process before completion. Parallel to the effect on shape, selenite reduces the dephosphorylation of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4-monophosphate. Therefore our results support a shape change mechanism based on the metabolism of phosphoinositides and compatible with the bilayer-couple hypothesis.
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- J Björk
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Umeå, Sweden
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Effect of thiol modification on the thermal stability of erythrocyte membranes. J Therm Biol 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0306-4565(94)90062-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Papov VV, Gravina SA, Mieyal JJ, Biemann K. The primary structure and properties of thioltransferase (glutaredoxin) from human red blood cells. Protein Sci 1994; 3:428-34. [PMID: 8019414 PMCID: PMC2142694 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560030307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Thioltransferase (glutaredoxin) was purified from human red blood cells essentially as described previously (Mieyal JJ et al., 1991a, Biochemistry 30:6088-6097). The primary sequence of the HPLC-pure enzyme was determined by tandem mass spectrometry and found to represent a 105-amino acid protein of molecular weight 11,688 Da. The physicochemical and catalytic properties of this enzyme are common to the group of proteins called glutaredoxins among the family of thiol:disulfide oxidoreductases that also includes thioredoxin and protein disulfide isomerase. Although this human red blood cell glutaredoxin (hRBC Grx) is highly homologous to the 3 other mammalian Grx proteins whose sequences are known (calf thymus, rabbit bone marrow, and pig liver), there are a number of significant differences. Most notably an additional cysteine residue (Cys-7) occurs near the N-terminus of the human enzyme in place of a serine residue in the other proteins. In addition, residue 51 of hRBC Grx displayed a mixture of Asp and Asn. This result is consistent with isoelectric focusing analysis, which revealed 2 distinct bands for either the oxidized or reduced forms of the protein. Because the enzyme was prepared from blood combined from a number of individual donors, it is not clear whether this Asp/Asn ambiguity represents inter-individual variation, gene duplication, or a deamidation artifact of purification.
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- V V Papov
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139-4307
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Giulivi C, Cadenas E. Ferrylmyoglobin: formation and chemical reactivity toward electron-donating compounds. Methods Enzymol 1994; 233:189-202. [PMID: 8015456 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(94)33022-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- C Giulivi
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033
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- R M Johnson
- Department of Biochemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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Mehlhorn RJ, Gomez J. Hydroxyl and alkoxyl radical production by oxidation products of metmyoglobin. FREE RADICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 1993; 18:29-41. [PMID: 8394272 DOI: 10.3109/10715769309149911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The one-electron oxidation of a reduced nitroxide (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1,4-dihydroxypiperidine, TOLH), detected by ESR, was used to resolve and quantify oxidants arising from the reaction of heme proteins with hydroperoxides, including chelatable iron released subsequent to oxidative cleavage of the porphyrin ring. Released iron was distinguished from protein radicals and ferryl heme by analyzing TOLH oxidation in the presence of different chelating agents. Metmyoglobin (metMb) treatment with one mole of H2O2 per mole of heme produced protein-bound oxidants that oxidized about two molecules of TOLH per heme. Some of the oxidizing species responsible for TOLH oxidation were highly persistent (t1/2 for the decay was 3 hrs at 25 degrees C). Iron release, metMb bleaching and the catalysis of Fenton-type chemistry were compared in metMb solutions treated with tert-butyl hydroperoxide (tBH). Iron release required about five-fold higher hydroperoxide concentrations than did metMb bleaching. Alkoxyl and methyl radical production was catalyzed by iron released from metMb but not by protein-bound iron in oxidized metMb solutions treated with tBH and ascorbic acid. The results suggest that ascorbate-mediated hydroxyl and alkoxyl radical production by hydroperoxide-treated metMb is due to released iron and that the protein-bound non-heme iron that arises during bleaching is at most a weak Fenton reagent.
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- R J Mehlhorn
- Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, CA 94720
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Scott MD, Rouyer-Fessard P, Ba MS, Lubin BH, Beuzard Y. Alpha- and beta-haemoglobin chain induced changes in normal erythrocyte deformability: comparison to beta thalassaemia intermedia and Hb H disease. Br J Haematol 1992; 80:519-26. [PMID: 1581237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1992.tb04567.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The alpha- and beta-thalassaemias are characterized by decreased erythrocyte deformability. To determine what effects excess alpha- and beta-haemoglobin (globin) chains have on cellular and membrane deformability, purified haem-containing alpha- and beta-chains were entrapped within normal erythrocytes. Entrapment of purified alpha-chains in normal erythrocytes resulted in a significant decrease in cellular and membrane deformability similar to that observed in beta-thalassaemia intermedia. The decreased deformability was correlated with alpha-chain membrane deposition, an alteration in membrane proteins and a decrease in membrane reactive thiol groups. These changes in membrane and cellular deformability were time dependent and closely correlated with membrane alpha-chain deposition. The membrane changes and the loss of membrane deformability appeared to account for the loss of cellular deformability in the alpha-chain loaded cells. While both beta-chain loaded and Hb H erythrocytes demonstrated a significant loss of cellular deformability, this loss was less pronounced than in the alpha-chain loaded and beta-thalassaemic cells and may arise from either the increased intracellular viscosity of the beta-chain loaded cells or to the smaller amount of membrane bound globin. In summary, these studies demonstrate that alteration of cellular and membrane deformability occurs very rapidly and as a direct consequence of the autoxidation and membrane binding of the unpaired globin chains.
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- M D Scott
- Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, CA 94609
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Mehlhorn RJ, Swanson CE. Nitroxide-stimulated H2O2 decomposition by peroxidases and pseudoperoxidases. FREE RADICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 1992; 17:157-75. [PMID: 1334035 DOI: 10.3109/10715769209068163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Nitroxide free radicals interact with Hb/metHb, Mb/metMb and with peroxidases/phenols to induce a catalase-like conversion of H2O2 to O2 (catalatic activity), without being substantially consumed in the process. The mechanism of this reaction is postulated to involve a one-electron oxidation of the nitroxide to the immonium oxene, which then reacts further to release oxygen and the nitroxide. An involvement of the immonium oxene in the reaction mechanism is consistent with ferryl heme reduction by nitroxides and a detection of the reduced nitroxide when the reaction mixture is supplemented with the two-electron reductant sodium borohydride. The nitroxide-induced catalatic activity is completely inhibited when the reaction mixture is supplemented with glutathione. Nitroxides suppress free radical formation by hydroperoxide-activated heme proteins, as inferred from their inhibition of the spin-trapping of glutathionyl radicals. H2O2 decomposition and a suppression of reactive free radical formation by heme proteins appears to be an antioxidant activity of nitroxides, which is distinct from their previously reported superoxide dismutating activity and which may be a factor in their protective action in models of cardiac reperfusion injury.
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Kruckeberg WC. Factors influencing variable oxidative hemolysis of inbred mouse erythrocytes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1094:288-91. [PMID: 1911880 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(91)90088-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The hemolysis of erythrocytes from certain inbred mouse strains (e.g., BALB/c) in response to hydrogen peroxide stress has been shown to be correlated with the type of hemoglobin beta chain (Kruckeberg, W.C., et al. (1987) Blood 70, 909-914). The characteristic hemolytic response of BALB/c red cells to oxidative stress resembles that of human red cells in that carbon monoxide and iron chelators inhibit hemolysis of both. Gross hemoglobin oxidation rates were similar in hemolytic (BALB/c) and nonhemolytic (C57BL/6) strains. The rate and degree of in vitro catalase inhibition by sodium azide was also the same for the two strains. Even in the presence of this catalase inhibitor the assayable hydrogen peroxide disappeared within seconds of its addition, yet hemolysis was not observed for about 15 min. The mechanism underlying this delay between hydrogen peroxide addition and disappearance and subsequent hemolysis is under investigation.
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- W C Kruckeberg
- University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, Jackson 39216-4505
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Mieyal JJ, Starke DW, Gravina SA, Dothey C, Chung JS. Thioltransferase in human red blood cells: purification and properties. Biochemistry 1991; 30:6088-97. [PMID: 1829380 DOI: 10.1021/bi00239a002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Thioltransferase activity was identified and the enzyme purified to apparent homogeneity from human red blood cells. Activity was measured as glutathione-dependent reduction of the prototype substrate hydroxyethyl disulfide; formation of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) was coupled to NADPH oxidation by GSSG reductase (1 unit of activity = 1 mumol/min of NADPH oxidized). The thioltransferase-GSH-GSSG reductase system was shown also to catalyze the regeneration of hemoglobin from the mixed disulfide hemoglobin-S-S-glutathione (HbSSG) and to reactivate the metabolic control enzyme phosphofructokinase (PFK) after oxidation of its sulfhydryl groups. On a relative concentration basis, thioltransferase was about 1200 times more efficient than dithiothreitol in reactivation of phosphofructokinase; e.g., 500 microM DTT was required to effect the same extent of reactivation as that of 0.4 microM TTase. The GSH plus GSSG reductase system without thioltransferase was ineffective for reduction of HbSSG or reactivation of PFK. The average amount of thioltransferase in intact erythrocytes was calculated to be 4.6 units/g of Hb at 25 degrees C. This level of activity is about the same as those of other enzymes that participate in sulfhydryl maintenance in red blood cells, such as GSSG reductase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. These results suggest a physiological role for the thioltransferase in erythrocyte sulfhydryl homeostasis. Certain properties of the human erythrocyte thioltransferase resemble those of other mammalian thioltransferase and glutaredoxin enzymes. Thus, the human erythrocyte enzyme, purified about 28,000-fold to apparent homogeneity, is a single polypeptide with a molecular weight of 11,300. Its N-terminus is blocked, it is heat stable, and it contains four cysteine residues per protein molecule. However, the human erythrocyte thioltransferase is a distinct protein based on its amino acid composition. For example, it contains no methionine residues; whereas the related mammalian enzymes described to date have at least one internal methionine residue in their largely homologous sequences.
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- J J Mieyal
- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
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Block ER. Hydrogen peroxide alters the physical state and function of the plasma membrane of pulmonary artery endothelial cells. J Cell Physiol 1991; 146:362-9. [PMID: 1902481 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041460305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important mediator of acute oxidative injury to vascular endothelium. Because the plasma membrane is the initial site of interaction between endothelial cells and extracellular H2O2 produced by stimulated neutrophils or macrophages, we evaluated the effect of H2O2 on the physical state, i.e., fluidity, and function of porcine pulmonary artery endothelial cell plasma membranes. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) uptake, limiting fluorescence anisotropy (r infinity) for trimethylamino-diphenylhexatriene (TMA-DPH), and conjugated dienes were measured 0.5, 6, and 24 hr after cells were exposed for 30 min to 50-microM H2O2 or Hank's Balanced Salt Solution (control). Compared with control cells, H2O2 caused significant increases in LDH release and in 5-HT uptake 6 hr after exposure. The increase in 5-HT uptake was not blocked by imipramine. H2O2 also caused a significant increase in r infinity for TMA-DPH 0.5 hr after exposure and a significant reduction in r infinity for TMA-DPH 6 hr after exposure. Cellular contents of conjugated dienes were increased 0.5 and 6 hr after exposure to H2O2. Twenty-four hours after exposure LDH release, r infinity, 5-HT uptake, and conjugated dienes had returned to control levels. Preincubation with 50-microM alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) or 1-mM or 10-mM dimethylthiourea (DMTU) for 1 hr or 24 hr prevented endothelial cell injury, whereas addition of vitamin E or DMTU to the medium 1 hr or 3 hr after H2O2 exposure did not protect against injury. These results indicate that H2O2 causes significant damage to the plasma membrane of pulmonary artery endothelial cells in vitro, leading to alterations in fluidity and leakiness of the membrane. This injury is associated with membrane lipid peroxidation, is reversible, and can be prevented by pretreatment, but not by post-treatment, with vitamin E or DMTU.
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- E R Block
- Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville
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Seppi C, Castellana MA, Minetti G, Piccinini G, Balduini C, Brovelli A. Evidence for membrane protein oxidation during in vivo aging of human erythrocytes. Mech Ageing Dev 1991; 57:247-58. [PMID: 2056779 DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(91)90050-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Oxidative lesions to membrane proteins were studied in human erythrocytes of different age and were evaluated on ghost membrane preparations by assaying thiol and methionine sulphoxide groups, and in situ on intact cells, after treating erythrocytes with the fluorochrome N-(7-dimethyl-amino-4-methyl-coumarinyl) maleimide (DACM). DACM reacts with thiol groups and the amount of this reagent bound by membrane proteins was quantified after SDS-PAGE separation. Results obtained show that during aging of normal cells the oxidative state of membrane proteins increases: this was better shown by the assay of methionine sulphoxide residues rather than by the thiol titration, when studies were carried out on ghost membranes. After separation of individual membrane proteins by SDS-PAGE, decreased accessibility of DACM to thiol groups of band 3 and of the main proteins of the membrane skeleton was evident in senescent erythrocytes. These results show that during aging, band 3 and membrane skeleton proteins undergo conformational changes and/or oxidation. Similar results were obtained when thiol distribution was studied in membrane proteins separated by SDS-PAGE in both reducing and non-reducing conditions.
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- C Seppi
- Dipartimento di Biochimica, Università degli Studi, Pavia, Italy
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Caprari P, Bozzi A, Ferroni L, Giuliani A, La Chiusa BF, Strom R, Salvati AM. Membrane alterations in G6PD- and PK-deficient erythrocytes exposed to oxidizing agents. BIOCHEMICAL MEDICINE AND METABOLIC BIOLOGY 1991; 45:16-27. [PMID: 2015106 DOI: 10.1016/0885-4505(91)90004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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After in vitro treatment of normal, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient or pyruvate kinase-deficient human erythrocytes with three different oxidizing agents, the extent of lipid peroxidative degradation and the alterations of membrane proteins were evaluated. Exposure to tert-butylhydroperoxide induced, most markedly in G6PD- and PK-deficient erythrocytes, a reduction of protein bands 1, 2, 2.1, 3, 4.1, 4.2, and 5, with the appearance of high-molecular-weight aggregates and of "new" polypeptide components in the 29- to 23-kDa region and with a marked increase of membrane-bound globin. Malonyldialdehyde production was highest in G6PD-deficient cells and relatively low in PK-deficient ones. Methylene blue, which had similar but less relevant effects on lipid peroxidation, in G6PD-deficient erythrocytes caused a conspicuous appearance of high-molecular-weight aggregates and a simultaneous relevant decrease of bands 1 and 2 and of membrane-bound globin; it brought about an almost opposite effect in PK-deficient red cells. Acetylphenylhydrazine, which under our conditions appeared the mildest agent, failed, in normal and PK-deficient erythrocytes, to increase malonyldialdehyde production or to alter membrane proteins, whereas it caused, in G6PD-deficient cells, a slight decrease of bands 1 and 2, a more pronounced decrease of band 3, and a marked increase of bands 4.5 and 4.9.
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- P Caprari
- Laboratori di Biochimica Clinica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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Rouyer-Fessard P, Scott MD, Leroy-Viard K, Garel MC, Bachir D, Galacteros F, Beuzard Y. Fate of alpha-hemoglobin chains and erythrocyte defects in beta-thalassemia. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1990; 612:106-17. [PMID: 2291540 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1990.tb24296.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The fate of alpha-hemoglobin chains and the cause of membrane protein defects in thalassemic erythrocytes have been studied in: (1) human beta-thalassemia syndromes, (2) mouse beta-thalassemia, and (3) normal human erythrocytes loaded with purified alpha-hemoglobin chains. The similarity and differences observed in these three systems underline the importance of insoluble alpha chains and the direct relationship between the amount of these chains and the membrane protein defects. Indeed, in addition to the alpha/non-alpha ratio of globin chain synthesis, the proteolysis and instability of alpha chains are major factors in modulating the cellular defects.
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Parinandi NL, Weis BK, Natarajan V, Schmid HH. Peroxidative modification of phospholipids in myocardial membranes. Arch Biochem Biophys 1990; 280:45-52. [PMID: 2353824 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(90)90516-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Rat heart myocardial membranes exposed to the free radical generating system, Fe2+/ascorbate, undergo lipid peroxidation as evidenced by the accumulation of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances, loss of polyunsaturated fatty acids from phospholipids, and formation of conjugated dienes and fluorescent substances. In addition, the treated membranes exhibit a dramatic decrease in extractable phospholipids. This decrease is even more pronounced in individual phospholipid classes isolated by high-performance liquid chromatography. The decrease in lipid phosphorus under oxidant stress is accompanied by an increase in the phosphorus content of the aqueous phase after Folch extraction and by an even greater increase of phosphorus in the protein residue. In addition, increased amounts of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acyl groups are found in the protein residue of Fe2+/ascorbate-treated membranes. Extraction of the oxidant-treated membranes with acidic solvents does not enhance the recovery of phospholipids and neither does treatment with detergents, trypsin, and chymotrypsin prior to lipid extraction. However, treatment with the bacterial protease, Pronase, markedly enhances the recovery of phospholipids from the peroxidized membranes. These results indicate that membrane phospholipids undergoing free radical-induced peroxidation may form lipid-protein adducts, which renders them inextractable with lipid solvents.
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- N L Parinandi
- Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin 55912
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Rouyer-Fessard P, Garel MC, Domenget C, Guetarni D, Bachir D, Colonna P, Beuzard Y. A study of membrane protein defects and α hemoglobin chains of red blood cells in human β thalassemia. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)47271-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Moore RB, Brummitt ML, Mankad VN. Hydroperoxides selectively inhibit human erythrocyte membrane enzymes. Arch Biochem Biophys 1989; 273:527-34. [PMID: 2528325 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(89)90512-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Treatment of washed erythrocytes with tert-butyl hydroperoxide (0.5 mM, 10 min) inhibited basal Ca2+ + Mg2+-ATPase activity by 40% and calmodulin-stimulated activity by 54%. The inhibition was accompanied by the formation of methemoglobin and the aggregation of some membrane proteins into a high-molecular-weight polymer. Membranes, isolated from washed erythrocytes, showed a similar pattern of inhibition. Basal Ca2+ + Mg2+-ATPase activity was inhibited 50% at 10 min and 70% at 30 min while calmodulin-stimulated activity was inhibited 70% at 10 min and 84% at 30 min. Thiobarbituric acid-reactive products formed slowly during the first 10 min and then increased sharply between 10 and 30 min. The polymerization of membrane proteins was also observed during the tert-butyl hydroperoxide exposure. Inhibition of erythrocyte membrane enzymes was selective. The Na+ + K+-stimulated Mg2+ ATPase, like the Ca2+ + Mg2+-ATPase, was sensitive to membrane oxidation but the activities of Mg2+-ATPase and acetylcholinesterase were less inhibited by tert-butyl hydroperoxide. Acetylcholinterase was found to be very resistant to hydroperoxide treatment with less than 10% loss of activity. The effects of two other hyproperoxides on enzyme inhibition were studied also. Cumene hydroperoxide (0.5 mM) was found to be as potent as tert-butyl hydroperoxide but hydrogen peroxide at 10 mM did not produce thiobarbituric acid-reactive products or inhibit Ca2+ + Mg2+-ATPase activity until after 20 min. The selective effects of peroxides on these enzyme activities are discussed.
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- R B Moore
- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile 36617
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Sheerin HE, Snyder LM, Fairbanks G. Cation transport in oxidant-stressed human erythrocytes: heightened N-ethylmaleimide activation of passive K+ influx after mild peroxidation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 983:65-76. [PMID: 2758051 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(89)90381-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Normal and chronically dehydrated (hereditary xerocytosis) human red cells were subjected to mild peroxidative treatment (315 microM hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), 15 min) in the presence of azide. The subsequent expression of passive (ouabain-resistant) K+ transport activities was analyzed by measurement of 86Rb+ influx. Peroxidation of normal red cells did not affect basal K+ transport activity, but the increment in K+ influx elicited by 0.5 mM N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) was increased 3-fold. The enhanced K+ influx was chloride-dependent, but only partially inhibited by 0.1 mM furosemide. Stimulated activity declined progressively after NEM activation, but could be restored by a second NEM treatment. Prior conversion of hemoglobin to the carbonmonoxy form abolished the response to peroxide, while 200 microM butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) exerted only partial inhibition, suggesting that the effect of H2O2 requires interaction of activated, unstable hemoglobin species with the membrane, but that lipid peroxidation is not sufficient. Peroxidation following NEM treatment also enhanced NEM activation, indicating that enhancement does not require altered NEM reactions with stimulatory or inhibitory sites. Passive K+ transport in hereditary xerocytosis red cells was not activated by NEM, with or without H2O2 pretreatment. The results demonstrate that modest peroxidative damage to red cells can heighten the activation of a transport system that is thought to be capable of mediating net K+ efflux and volume reduction in cells that express it. Models are proposed in which the effects of NEM, H2O2, cell swelling and other factors are mediated by conformational changes in a postulated subpopulation of anion channel (Band 3) molecules that bind the K+ transporter.
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- H E Sheerin
- Cell Biology Group, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, MA
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