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Ji ZH, Liu ZJ, Liu ZT, Zhao W, Williams BA, Zhang HF, Li L, Xu SY. Diphenyleneiodonium Mitigates Bupivacaine-Induced Sciatic Nerve Damage in a Diabetic Neuropathy Rat Model by Attenuating Oxidative Stress. Anesth Analg 2017; 125:653-661. [PMID: 28682956 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000002186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Increased oxidative stress has been linked to local anesthetic-induced nerve injury in a diabetic neuropathy (DN) rat model. The current study explores the effects of diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) chloride, an NADPH oxidase (NOX) inhibitor, on bupivacaine-induced sciatic nerve injury in DN rats. METHODS A rat DN model was established through high-fat diet feeding and streptozotocin injection. The model was confirmed via testing (i) blood glucose, (ii) hindpaw allodynia responses to von Frey (VF) monofilaments, (iii) paw withdrawal thermal latency (PWTL), and (iv) nerve conduction velocity (NCV). Bupivacaine (Bup, 0.2 mL, 5 mg/mL) was used to block the right sciatic nerve. DPI (1 mg/kg) was injected subcutaneously 24 hours and 30 minutes before the sciatic block. At 24 hours after the block, NCV, various reactive oxygen species, and Caspase-3 were evaluated to determine the extent of sciatic nerve injury. RESULTS The DN rat model was successfully established. Compared with the DN control group, the postblock values of VF responses (DN-Con, 16.5 ± 1.3 g; DN + Bup, 19.1 ± 1.5 g, P < .001) and PWTL significantly increased (DN-Con, 13.3 ± 1.1 seconds; DN + Bup, 14.6 ± 1.1 seconds, P = .028); the NCV of sciatic nerve was significantly reduced (DN-Con, 38.8 ± 2.4 m/s, DN + Bup, 30.5 ± 2.0 m/s, P = .003), and sciatic nerve injury (as indicated by axonal area) was more severe in the bupivacaine-treated DN group (DN-Con, 11.6 ± 0.3 μm, DN + Bup, 7.5 ± 0.3 μm, P < .001). In addition, DPI treatment significantly improved nerve function (VF responses, 17.3 ± 1.3 g; PWTL, 13.4 ± 1.1 seconds; NCV, 35.6 ± 3.1 m/s) and mitigated loss of axonal area (9.6 ± 0.3 μm). Compared to the DN + Bup group (without DPI), the levels of lipid peroxides and hydroperoxides, as well as the protein expression of NOX2, NOX4, and Caspase-3, were significantly reduced in the DN + Bup + DPI group (P < .05). CONCLUSIONS Subcutaneous injection of DPI appears to protect against the functional and neurohistological damage of bupivacaine-blocked sciatic nerves in a high-fat diet/streptozotocin-induced DN model.
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- Zhong-Hua Ji
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China; and †Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Hu M, Bai Y, Zhang C, Liu F, Cui Z, Chen J, Peng J. Liver-Enriched Gene 1, a Glycosylated Secretory Protein, Binds to FGFR and Mediates an Anti-stress Pathway to Protect Liver Development in Zebrafish. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1005881. [PMID: 26901320 PMCID: PMC4764323 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 01/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Unlike mammals and birds, teleost fish undergo external embryogenesis, and therefore their embryos are constantly challenged by stresses from their living environment. These stresses, when becoming too harsh, will cause arrest of cell proliferation, abnormal cell death or senescence. Such organisms have to evolve a sophisticated anti-stress mechanism to protect the process of embryogenesis/organogenesis. However, very few signaling molecule(s) mediating such activity have been identified. liver-enriched gene 1 (leg1) is an uncharacterized gene that encodes a novel secretory protein containing a single domain DUF781 (domain of unknown function 781) that is well conserved in vertebrates. In the zebrafish genome, there are two copies of leg1, namely leg1a and leg1b. leg1a and leg1b are closely linked on chromosome 20 and share high homology, but are differentially expressed. In this report, we generated two leg1a mutant alleles using the TALEN technique, then characterized liver development in the mutants. We show that a leg1a mutant exhibits a stress-dependent small liver phenotype that can be prevented by chemicals blocking the production of reactive oxygen species. Further studies reveal that Leg1a binds to FGFR3 and mediates a novel anti-stress pathway to protect liver development through enhancing Erk activity. More importantly, we show that the binding of Leg1a to FGFR relies on the glycosylation at the 70th asparagine (Asn70 or N70), and mutating the Asn70 to Ala70 compromised Leg1’s function in liver development. Therefore, Leg1 plays a unique role in protecting liver development under different stress conditions by serving as a secreted signaling molecule/modulator. Although being challenged by stresses from their living environment during embryogenesis, teleost fish harbor a robust genetic program dictating liver development as long as any environmental change, including temperature or natural UV irradiation, is not detrimental. It is therefore of interest to explore the mechanism(s) behind this phenomenon. We showed that Liver-enriched gene 1 (Leg1) plays a unique role in protecting liver development under different stress conditions by serving as a secretory signaling molecule/modulator that binds to FGF receptor and activates the Erk signaling pathway. This finding may explain the adaption of teleost fish in coping with environmental changes.
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- Minjie Hu
- MOE Key Laboratory for Molecular Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Molecular Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- * E-mail: (JC); (JP)
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Molecular Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- * E-mail: (JC); (JP)
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He YF, Chen HJ, Qian LH, He LF, Buzby JS. Diphenyleneiodonium protects preoligodendrocytes against endotoxin-activated microglial NADPH oxidase-generated peroxynitrite in a neonatal rat model of periventricular leukomalacia. Brain Res 2012; 1492:108-21. [PMID: 23174417 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2012] [Revised: 10/06/2012] [Accepted: 11/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The contribution of microglial activation to preoligodendroglial (preOL) damage in the central nervous system (CNS) is considered to be one of the principal causes of periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) pathogenesis. The present study explores the effect of diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), a NADPH oxidase (NOX) inhibitor, on protection of preOLs from bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced microglial toxicity in vivo and in vitro. In vitro, preOLs co-cultured with microglia exhibited increased preOL apoptosis, accompanied by overproduction of superoxide anion (O(2)(-)) and the formation of peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) after LPS exposure. LPS also significantly up-regulated accumulation of activated microglial NOX subunits p67-phox and gp91-phox in the plasma membrane. Diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) (10μm) was found to significantly attenuate up-regulation of this NOX activity. In vivo, DPI was administered (1mg/kg/day) by subcutaneous injection for 3 days to two-day-old neonatal Sprague-Dawley rats subjected to intracerebral injection of LPS. Treatment with DPI within 24h of LPS injection significantly ameliorated white matter injury, decreasing preOL loss, O(2)(-) generation, and ONOO(-) formation, and inhibiting p67-phox, gp91-phox synthesis and p67phox membrane translocation in microglia. These results indicated that LPS-induced preOL apoptosis may have been mediated by microglia-derived ONOO(-). DPI prevented this LPS-induced brain injury, most likely by inhibiting ONOO(-) formation via NOX, thereby preventing preOL loss and immature white matter injury.
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- Ya-Fang He
- Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research, Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Kongjiang Road 1665, Shanghai 200092, China.
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase (NOX) was originally identified in immune cells as playing an important microbicidal role. In stroke and cerebrovascular disease, inflammation is increasingly being recognized as contributing negatively to neurological outcome, with NOX as an important source of superoxide. Several labs have now shown that blocking or deleting NOX in the experimental stroke models protects from brain ischemia. Recent work has implicated glucose as an important NOX substrate leading to reperfusion injury, and that NOX inhibition can improve the detrimental effects of hyperglycemia on stroke. NOX inhibition also appears to ameliorate complications of thrombolytic therapy by reducing blood-brain barrier disruption, edema formation, and hemorrhage. Further, NOX from circulating inflammatory cells seems to contribute more to ischemic injury more than NOX generated from endogenous brain residential cells. Several pharmacological inhibitors of NOX are now available. Thus, blocking NOX activation may prove to be a promising treatment for stroke as well as an adjunctive agent to prevent its secondary complications.
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- Xian Nan Tang
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
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Small-molecule screen identifies reactive oxygen species as key regulators of neutrophil chemotaxis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:3546-51. [PMID: 20142487 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914351107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Neutrophil chemotaxis plays an essential role in innate immunity, but the underlying cellular mechanism is still not fully characterized. Here, using a small-molecule functional screening, we identified NADPH oxidase-dependent reactive oxygen species as key regulators of neutrophil chemotactic migration. Neutrophils with pharmacologically inhibited oxidase, or isolated from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) patients and mice, formed more frequent multiple pseudopodia and lost their directionality as they migrated up a chemoattractant concentration gradient. Knocking down NADPH oxidase in differentiated neutrophil-like HL60 cells also led to defective chemotaxis. Consistent with the in vitro results, adoptively transferred CGD murine neutrophils showed impaired in vivo recruitment to sites of inflammation. Together, these results present a physiological role for reactive oxygen species in regulating neutrophil functions and shed light on the pathogenesis of CGD.
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Lewis EM, Sergeant S, Ledford B, Stull N, Dinauer MC, McPhail LC. Phosphorylation of p22phox on threonine 147 enhances NADPH oxidase activity by promoting p47phox binding. J Biol Chem 2009; 285:2959-67. [PMID: 19948736 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.030643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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NADPH oxidase comprises both cytosolic and membrane-bound subunits, which, when assembled and activated, initiate the transfer of electrons from NADPH to molecular oxygen to form superoxide. This activity, known as the respiratory burst, is extremely important in the innate immune response as indicated by the disorder chronic granulomatous disease. The regulation of this enzyme complex involves protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions as well as phosphorylation events. Previously, our laboratory demonstrated that the small membrane subunit of the oxidase complex, p22(phox), is phosphorylated in neutrophils and that its phosphorylation correlates with NADPH oxidase activity. In this study, we utilized site-directed mutagenesis in a Chinese hamster ovarian cell system to determine the phosphorylation sites within p22(phox). We also explored the mechanism by which p22(phox) phosphorylation affects NADPH oxidase activity. We found that mutation of threonine 147 to alanine inhibited superoxide production in vivo by more than 70%. This mutation also blocked phosphorylation of p22(phox) in vitro by both protein kinase C-alpha and -delta. Moreover, this mutation blocked the p22(phox)-p47(phox) interaction in intact cells. When phosphorylation was mimicked in vivo through mutation of Thr-147 to an aspartyl residue, NADPH oxidase activity was recovered, and the p22(phox)-p47(phox) interaction in the membrane was restored. Maturation of gp91(phox) was not affected by the alanine mutation, and phosphorylation of the cytosolic component p47(phox) still occurred. This study directly implicates threonine 147 of p22(phox) as a critical residue for efficient NADPH oxidase complex formation and resultant enzyme activity.
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- Eric M Lewis
- From the Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157 and
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Jaquet V, Scapozza L, Clark RA, Krause KH, Lambeth JD. Small-molecule NOX inhibitors: ROS-generating NADPH oxidases as therapeutic targets. Antioxid Redox Signal 2009; 11:2535-52. [PMID: 19309261 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2009.2585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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NOX NADPH oxidases are electron-transporting membrane enzymes whose primary function is the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS produced by NOX enzymes show a variety of biologic functions, such as microbial killing, blood pressure regulation, and otoconia formation. Strong evidence suggests that NOX enzymes are major contributors to oxidative damage in pathologic conditions. Blocking the undesirable actions of NOX enzymes, therefore, is a therapeutic strategy for treating oxidative stress-related pathologies, such as ischemia/reperfusion tissue injury, and neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases. Most currently available NOX inhibitors have low selectivity, potency, and bioavailability, precluding a pharmacologic demonstration of NOX as therapeutic targets in vivo. This review has two main purposes. First, we describe a systematic approach that we believe should be followed in the search for truly selective NOX inhibitors. Second, we present a critical review of small-molecule NOX inhibitors described over the last two decades, including recently published patents from the pharmaceutical industry. Structures, activities, and in vitro/in vivo specificity of these NOX inhibitors are discussed. We conclude that NOX inhibition is a pertinent and promising novel pharmacologic concept, but that major efforts will be necessary to develop specific NOX inhibitors suited for clinical application.
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- Vincent Jaquet
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Sakai M, Vonderheit A, Wei X, Küttel C, Stemmer A. A novel biofuel cell harvesting energy from activated human macrophages. Biosens Bioelectron 2009; 25:68-75. [PMID: 19576754 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2009.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2009] [Revised: 05/28/2009] [Accepted: 06/02/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Macrophage phagocytosis activates NADPH oxidase, an electron transport system in the plasma membrane. This study examined the feasibility of utilizing electrons transferred through the plasma membrane via NADPH oxidase to run a biofuel cell. THP-1 human monocytic cells were chemically stimulated to differentiate into macrophages. Further they were activated to induce a phagocytic response. During differentiation, cells became adherent to a plain gold electrode which was used as anode in a two-compartment fuel cell system. The current production in the fuel cell always corresponded to the NADPH oxidase activity, which was evaluated by the amount of superoxide anion produced upon stimulation in combination with the expression levels of the different NADPH oxidase subunits in cells. Moreover, our results of different inhibitory tests let us conclude that (i) the current observed in the fuel cell originates from NADPH oxidase in activated macrophages and (ii) there are multiple electron transport pathways from the cells to the electrode. One pathway involves superoxide anions produced upon stimulation, additional not yet identified electron transport occurs independently of superoxide anions.This type of novel biofuel cell driven by living human cells may eventually develop into a battery replacement for small medical devices.
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- Miho Sakai
- Nanotechnology Group, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH-Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Cross AR, Segal AW. The NADPH oxidase of professional phagocytes--prototype of the NOX electron transport chain systems. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2004; 1657:1-22. [PMID: 15238208 PMCID: PMC2636547 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2004.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 331] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2003] [Revised: 03/16/2004] [Accepted: 03/16/2004] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The NADPH oxidase is an electron transport chain in "professional" phagocytic cells that transfers electrons from NADPH in the cytoplasm, across the wall of the phagocytic vacuole, to form superoxide. The electron transporting flavocytochrome b is activated by the integrated function of four cytoplasmic proteins. The antimicrobial function of this system involves pumping K+ into the vacuole through BKCa channels, the effect of which is to elevate the vacuolar pH and activate neutral proteases. A number of homologous systems have been discovered in plants and lower animals as well as in man. Their function remains to be established.
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- Andrew R. Cross
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Centre for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University College London, 5 University Street, London WC1E 6JJ, UK
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Chang CCC, Ball L, Fryer MJ, Baker NR, Karpinski S, Mullineaux PM. Induction of ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE 2 expression in wounded Arabidopsis leaves does not involve known wound-signalling pathways but is associated with changes in photosynthesis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2004; 38:499-511. [PMID: 15086807 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02066.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE 2 (APX2) encodes a key enzyme of the antioxidant network. In excess light-stressed Arabidopsis leaves, photosynthetic electron transport (PET), hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) and abscisic acid (ABA) regulate APX2 expression. Wounded leaves showed low induction of APX2 expression, and when exposed to excess light, APX2 expression was increased synergistically. Signalling pathways dependent upon jasmonic acid (JA), chitosan and ABA were not involved in the wound-induced expression of APX2, but were shown to require PET and were preceded by a depressed rate of CO(2) fixation. This led to an accumulation of H(2)O(2) in veinal tissue. Diphenyl iodonium (DPI), which has been shown previously to be a potent inhibitor of H(2)O(2) accumulation in the veins of wounded leaves, prevented induction of APX2 expression probably by inhibition of PET. Thus, the weak induction of APX2 expression in wounded leaves may require H(2)O(2) and PET only. As in other environmental stresses, wounding of leaves resulted in decreased photosynthesis leading to increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. This may signal the induction of many 'wound-responsive' genes not regulated by JA-dependent or other known JA-independent pathways.
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Pessach I, Leto TL, Malech HL, Levy R. Essential requirement of cytosolic phospholipase A(2) for stimulation of NADPH oxidase-associated diaphorase activity in granulocyte-like cells. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:33495-503. [PMID: 11432850 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m011417200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have previously established a model of cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2))-deficient differentiated PLB-985 cells (PLB-D cells) and demonstrated that cPLA(2)-generated arachidonic acid (AA) is essential for NADPH oxidase activation. In this study we used this model to investigate the physiological role of cPLA(2) in regulation of NADPH oxidase-associated diaphorase activity. A novel diaphorase activity assay, using 4-iodonitrotetrazolium violet as an electron acceptor, was used in permeabilized neutrophils and PLB-985 cells differentiated toward the granulocytic or monocytic phenotypes. Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, guanosine 5'-3-O- (thio)triphosphate (GTP gamma S), or FMLP stimulated a similar diphenylene iodonium-sensitive diaphorase activity pattern in neutrophils and in differentiated parent PLB-985 cells. This diaphorase activity was not detected in undifferentiated cells, but developed during differentiation. Furthermore, diaphorase activity could not be stimulated in permeabilized neutrophils from X-linked CGD patients and in differentiated gp91(phox)-targeted PLB-985 cells that lacked normal expression of gp91(phox), but was restored to these cells following transduction with retrovirus encoding gp91(phox). The differentiated PLB-D cells showed no diaphorase activity when stimulated by either GTP gamma S or FMLP, and only partial activation when stimulated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. Diaphorase activity in response to either agonists was fully restored by the addition of 10 microm free AA. The permeabilized cell 4-iodonitrotetrazolium violet reduction assay offers a unique tool for the evaluation of NADPH oxidase-associated diaphorase activity in stimulated whole cells. These results establish an essential and specific physiological requirement of cPLA(2)-generated AA in activation of electron transfer through the FAD reduction center of NADPH oxidase.
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- I Pessach
- Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
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Maturana A, Arnaudeau S, Ryser S, Banfi B, Hossle JP, Schlegel W, Krause KH, Demaurex N. Heme histidine ligands within gp91(phox) modulate proton conduction by the phagocyte NADPH oxidase. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:30277-84. [PMID: 11389135 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m010438200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The membrane subunit of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase, gp91(phox), possesses a H(+) channel motif formed by membrane-spanning histidines postulated to coordinate the two heme groups forming the redox center of the flavocytochrome. To study the role of heme-binding histidines on proton conduction, we stably expressed the gp91(phox) cytochrome in human embryonic kidney 293 cells and measured proton currents with the patch clamp technique. Similar to its shorter homologue, NADPH oxidase homologue 1, which is predicted not to bind heme, gp91(phox) generated voltage-activated, pH-dependent, H(+)-selective currents that were reversibly blocked by Zn(2+). The gp91(phox) currents, however, activated faster, deactivated more slowly, and were markedly affected by the inhibition of heme synthesis. Upon heme removal, the currents had larger amplitude, activated faster and at lower voltages, and became sensitive to the histidine reagent diethylpyrocarbonate. Mutation of the His-115 residue to leucine abolished both the gp91(phox) characteristic 558-nm absorbance peak and voltage-activated currents, indicating that His-115 is involved in both heme ligation and proton conduction. These results indicate that the gp91(phox) proton channel is activated upon release of heme from its His-115 ligand. During activation of the oxidase complex, changes in heme coordination within the cytochrome might increase the mobility of histidine ligands, thereby coupling electron and proton transport.
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- A Maturana
- Department of Physiology, University of Geneva Medical Center, 1211 Geneva 4, Fondation pour Recherches Médicales, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Moulton P, Martin H, Ainger A, Cross A, Hoare C, Doel J, Harrison R, Eisenthal R, Hancock J. The inhibition of flavoproteins by phenoxaiodonium, a new iodonium analogue. Eur J Pharmacol 2000; 401:115-20. [PMID: 10924915 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(00)00454-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Iodonium compounds, especially diphenylene iodonium and iodonium diphenyl are used extensively as inhibitors of NADH-ubiquinone reductase and NADPH oxidase activity. Here, the use of a new iodonium compound, phenoxaiodonium is reported. The IC(50) of neutrophil superoxide production, measured using the superoxide dismutase inhibitable rate of cytochrome c reduction, was approximately 0.75 microM, while 50% inhibition of mitochondrial respiration, measured by the rate of oxygen uptake using a Clark type oxygen electrode, was at approximately 20 microM. The inhibition of oxidation of xanthine to urate by xanthine oxidase was also studied, giving a K(i) of 0.2 microM. Inhibition of nitric oxidase synthase (NOS: from rat brain) by 0.2 microM phenoxaiodonium was equivalent to 1 mM N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester HCl (L-NAME), that is total abolition of activity. We conclude that phenoxaiodonium is an extremely good inhibitor of flavo-enzymes, but like diphenylene iodonium and iodonium diphenyl, will be of limited use as a pharmacological tool for the elucidation of the involvement of such enzymes in specific cellular functions.
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- P Moulton
- Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY, Bristol, UK
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Bánfi B, Schrenzel J, Nüsse O, Lew DP, Ligeti E, Krause KH, Demaurex N. A novel H(+) conductance in eosinophils: unique characteristics and absence in chronic granulomatous disease. J Exp Med 1999; 190:183-94. [PMID: 10432282 PMCID: PMC2195580 DOI: 10.1084/jem.190.2.183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Efficient mechanisms of H(+) ion extrusion are crucial for normal NADPH oxidase function. However, whether the NADPH oxidase-in analogy with mitochondrial cytochromes-has an inherent H(+) channel activity remains uncertain: electrophysiological studies did not find altered H(+) currents in cells from patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), challenging earlier reports in intact cells. In this study, we describe the presence of two different types of H(+) currents in human eosinophils. The "classical" H(+) current had properties similar to previously described H(+) conductances and was present in CGD cells. In contrast, the "novel" type of H(+) current had not been described previously and displayed unique properties: (a) it was absent in cells from gp91- or p47-deficient CGD patients; (b) it was only observed under experimental conditions that allowed NADPH oxidase activation; (c) because of its low threshold of voltage activation, it allowed proton influx and cytosolic acidification; (d) it activated faster and deactivated with slower and distinct kinetics than the classical H(+) currents; and (e) it was approximately 20-fold more sensitive to Zn(2+) and was blocked by the histidine-reactive agent, diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC). In summary, our results demonstrate that the NADPH oxidase or a closely associated protein provides a novel type of H(+) conductance during phagocyte activation. The unique properties of this conductance suggest that its physiological function is not restricted to H(+) extrusion and repolarization, but might include depolarization, pH-dependent signal termination, and determination of the phagosomal pH set point.
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- Botond Bánfi
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
- Department of Physiology, Semmelweis Medical University, H-1444 Budapest, Hungary
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Physiology, Semmelweis Medical University, H-1444 Budapest, Hungary
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- From the Department of Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Physiology, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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Brain ischemia initiates a complex cascade of metabolic events, several of which involve the generation of nitrogen and oxygen free radicals. These free radicals and related reactive chemical species mediate much of damage that occurs after transient brain ischemia, and in the penumbral region of infarcts caused by permanent ischemia. Nitric oxide, a water- and lipid-soluble free radical, is generated by the action of nitric oxide synthases. Ischemia causes a surge in nitric oxide synthase 1 (NOS 1) activity in neurons and, possibly, glia, increased NOS 3 activity in vascular endothelium, and later an increase in NOS 2 activity in a range of cells including infiltrating neutrophils and macrophages, activated microglia and astrocytes. The effects of ischemia on the activity of NOS 1, a Ca2+-dependent enzyme, are thought to be secondary to reversal of glutamate reuptake at synapses, activation of NMDA receptors, and resulting elevation of intracellular Ca2+. The up-regulation of NOS 2 activity is mediated by transcriptional inducers. In the context of brain ischemia, the activity of NOS 1 and NOS 2 is broadly deleterious, and their inhibition or inactivation is neuroprotective. However, the production of nitric oxide in blood vessels by NOS 3, which, like NOS 1, is Ca2+-dependent, causes vasodilatation and improves blood flow in the penumbral region of brain infarcts. In addition to causing the synthesis of nitric oxide, brain ischemia leads to the generation of superoxide, through the action of nitric oxide synthases, xanthine oxidase, leakage from the mitochondrial electron transport chain, and other mechanisms. Nitric oxide and superoxide are themselves highly reactive but can also combine to form a highly toxic anion, peroxynitrite. The toxicity of the free radicals and peroxynitrite results from their modification of macromolecules, especially DNA, and from the resulting induction of apoptotic and necrotic pathways. The mode of cell death that prevails probably depends on the severity and precise nature of the ischemic injury. Recent studies have emphasized the role of peroxynitrite in causing single-strand breaks in DNA, which activate the DNA repair protein poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). This catalyzes the cleavage and thereby the consumption of NAD+, the source of energy for many vital cellular processes. Over-activation of PARP, with resulting depletion of NAD+, has been shown to make a major contribution to brain damage after transient focal ischemia in experimental animals. Neuronal accumulation of poly(ADP-ribose), the end-product of PARP activity has been demonstrated after brain ischemia in man. Several therapeutic strategies have been used to try to prevent oxidative damage and its consequences after brain ischemia in man. Although some of the drugs used in early studies were ineffective or had unacceptable side effects, other trials with antioxidant drugs have proven highly encouraging. The findings in recent animal studies are likely to lead to a range of further pharmacological strategies to limit brain injury in stroke patients.
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- S Love
- Department of Neuropathology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK.
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Cross AR, Erickson RW, Curnutte JT. Simultaneous presence of p47(phox) and flavocytochrome b-245 are required for the activation of NADPH oxidase by anionic amphiphiles. Evidence for an intermediate state of oxidase activation. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:15519-25. [PMID: 10336445 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.22.15519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have examined the kinetics of NADPH oxidase activation induced by arachidonic acid or SDS in a cell-free system using mixtures of recombinant Phox proteins and purified flavocytochrome b-245. Activation of oxidase activity required the simultaneous presence of p47(phox), flavocytochrome b-245, and the anionic amphiphile. The activation of electron transfer reactions was much more rapid when iodonitrotetrazolium violet was used as electron acceptor than when oxygen alone was the acceptor. We propose that this difference represents an intermediate activation state of NADPH oxidase in which electron flow can proceed from NADPH to enzyme flavin (and hence to iodonitrotetrazolium violet) but not from flavin to heme (or not between the hemes). A model for NADPH oxidase activation is presented that is consistent with these observations.
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- A R Cross
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Li J, Guillory RJ. Purified leukocyte cytochrome b558 incorporated into liposomes catalyzes a cytosolic factor dependent diaphorase activity. Biochemistry 1997; 36:5529-37. [PMID: 9154936 DOI: 10.1021/bi963013r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The leukocyte iodonitrotetrazolium violet (INT) reductase activity of disrupted bovine polymorphonuclear neutrophils is closely associated with the activation of the O2(-)-generating NADPH oxidase in a cell-free system. It is dependent upon NADPH, cytosolic factors, and amphiphiles (such as arachidonate), the same factors required for O2- generation. Both O2- generation and INT reductase activity are inhibited by phenylarsine oxide, an inhibitor of the activation of the NADPH oxidase [Li, J., & Guillory, R. J. (1997) J. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Biophys. (in press)]. In this report, the INT diaphorase activity of disrupted bovine polymorphonuclear neutrophils is shown to be resolved by DEAE-Sepharose chromatography into two fractions: an NADPH-cytochrome c reductase-containing fraction and a cytochrome b558-associated fraction. The diaphorase activity in the NADPH-cytochrome c reductase-containing portion is not dependent upon the presence of an amphiphile or phospholipid and is not associated with O2- generation. Upon incorporation into liposomes, the cytochrome b558-containing fraction demonstrates high O2- and INT reductase activities in the presence of cytosolic factors. Both O2- generation and INT reductase activities are SDS and FAD dependent and further stimulated by GTPgammaS. Phenylarsine oxide inhibits both O2- generation and INT reductase activities when added prior to activation by SDS. With the cytochrome b-containing liposomes, the Km values (O2- formation) for NADPH and NADH are 27.2 microM and 810 microM, and for INT reductase the Km values are 27.5 microM and 1017 microM, respectively. Under anaerobic conditions and thus in the absence of O2- formation, the NADPH-dependent INT reductase activity does not change, indicating that the dye reduction is not due to its direct reduction by O2 anion but is an intrinsic property of the superoxide-generating NADPH oxidase. Cytochrome b558 is the essential component of the NADPH oxidase and contains all the redox centers necessary for electron flow between NADPH and oxygen. The correlation of the activation and inhibition patterns for O2- generation and INT reduction by cytochrome b558 incorporated into artificial liposomes strongly indicates that the two activities are associated with the same membrane protein, cytochrome b558.
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- J Li
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822, USA
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O'Donnell VB, Azzi A. High rates of extracellular superoxide generation by cultured human fibroblasts: involvement of a lipid-metabolizing enzyme. Biochem J 1996; 318 ( Pt 3):805-12. [PMID: 8836123 PMCID: PMC1217690 DOI: 10.1042/bj3180805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Expression of NADPH oxidase and low superoxide generation (approx. 0.06 nmol/min per 10(6) cells) by cytokine- or ionophore-stimulated human fibroblasts is known. However, we here show that these cells also contain an ectoplasmic enzyme, distinct from NADPH oxidase, which can generate superoxide (2.19 +/- 0.14 nmol/min per 10(6) cells) at levels similar to phorbol ester-stimulated monocytes on exogenous NADH addition. Superoxide generation was temperature-dependent, insensitive to chelation (desferal), and had a K(m) (app)(NADH) of 11.5 microM. Inhibitor studies showed that there was no involvement of NADPH oxidase (diphenylene iodonium, diphenyl iodonium), prostaglandin H synthase (indomethacin), xanthine oxidase (allopurinol), cytochrome P-450 (metyrapone) or mitochondrial respiration (rotenone, antimycin A). NAD+ was a competitive inhibitor, whereas NADPH supported 40% of the rate seen with NADH. No luminescence was observed after the addition of lactate, malate, pyruvate, GSH or L-cysteine. NADH-stimulated superoxide generation was enhanced by the addition of (3-30 microM) arachidonic acid, linoleic acid or (5S)-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid [(5S)-HETE] but not palmitic acid, (15S)-hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid [(15S)-HPETE], (15S)-HETE or (12S)-HETE. Several features suggest involvement of an enzyme related to 15-lipoxygenase, and, in support of this, we show superoxide generation and NADH oxidation by recombinant rabbit reticulocyte 15-lipoxygenase. The large amounts of superoxide measured suggest that the fibroblast extracellular enzyme could be a major source of reactive oxygen species after tissue damage.
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- V B O'Donnell
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bern, Switzerland
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Hyslop PA. Section Reviews; Anti-infectives: Section Review Anti-infectives: Natural mediators of host-defence: The role of H 2O 2in the regulation of bacteriostasis. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 1996. [DOI: 10.1517/13543784.5.8.1013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Paul A Hyslop
- Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN, 46285, USA
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Koshkin V. Aerobic and anaerobic functioning of superoxide-producing cytochrome b-559 reconstituted with phospholipids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1232:225-9. [PMID: 8534675 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(95)00123-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Cytochrome b-559 reconstituted with phospholipids and FAD represents the simplest model of the respiratory burst NADPH oxidase and reproduces the main catalytic features of this system (Koshkin, V. and Pick, E. (1993) FEBS Lett. 327, 57-62; (1994) FEBS Lett. 338, 285-289). In the present report it is shown that activation by oxygen, characteristic of the NADPH oxidase complex, is an intrinsic property of flavocytochrome b-559, in principle independent of its complexation with the other components of NADPH oxidase. Facilitation of electron transfer from NADPH to FAD is found to be the reason for this phenomenon. Kinetic studies of anaerobic operation of flavocytochrome b-559 revealed the functional heterogeneity of two hemes, manifested as a dramatic difference in their reducibility under these conditions.
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- V Koshkin
- Julius Friedrich Cohnheim Center for Phagocyte Research, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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Cross A, Yarchover J, Curnutte J. The superoxide-generating system of human neutrophils possesses a novel diaphorase activity. Evidence for distinct regulation of electron flow within NADPH oxidase by p67-phox and p47-phox. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)31824-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Wilkins GM, Leake DS. The effect of inhibitors of free radical generating-enzymes on low-density lipoprotein oxidation by macrophages. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1211:69-78. [PMID: 7510129 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(94)90140-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Oxidised low-density lipoprotein (LDL) produced by the action of arterial cells, including macrophages, has been implicated in atherosclerosis. We have investigated the effect of inhibitors of various cellular free-radical generating enzymes on macrophage-mediated LDL oxidation. Xanthine oxidase and nitric oxide synthase are not responsible for LDL modification by resident mouse peritoneal macrophages. Eicosatetraynoic acid, a lipoxygenase inhibitor, produced a dose-dependent irreversible inhibition of macrophage modification of LDL, but at concentrations rather close to those toxic to the cells. Diphenyl and diphenylene iodonium, NADPH oxidase and mitochondrial electron transport inhibitors, inhibited macrophage oxidation of LDL, at concentrations that were not obviously toxic. This suggests that NADPH oxidase, or some other flavin nucleotide-dependent process, may be involved in LDL oxidation by macrophages. Wortmannin and thiopropionic acid dilauryl ester did not inhibit LDL oxidation, suggesting that inhibition of NADPH oxidase may not be the means by which the iodonium compounds inhibit LDL oxidation. Macrophages from C3H/HeJ mice, which lack receptors for lipopolysaccharide, modified LDL normally, suggesting that the inadvertent priming of resident macrophages by traces of lipopolysaccharide bound to LDL was not involved in LDL oxidation.
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- G M Wilkins
- Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Berks, UK
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Wang YX, Poon CI, Poon KS, Pang CC. Inhibitory actions of diphenyleneiodonium on endothelium-dependent vasodilatations in vitro and in vivo. Br J Pharmacol 1993; 110:1232-8. [PMID: 7507779 PMCID: PMC2175784 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1993.tb13947.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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1. This study examined the in vitro and in vivo inhibitory effects of diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), a novel inhibitor of nitric oxide (NO) synthase, on endothelium-dependent vasodilatations. 2. DPI (3 x 10(-8)-3 x 10(-6) M) concentration-dependently inhibited acetylcholine (ACh)-induced relaxation in preconstricted rat thoracic aortic rings, with an IC50 of 1.8 x 10(-7) M and a maximal inhibition of nearly 100%. DPI (3 x 10(-6) M) also completely inhibited the relaxation induced by the calcium ionophore, A23187 but not by sodium nitroprusside (SNP). The inhibitory effect of DPI (3 x 10(-7) M) on ACh-induced relaxation was prevented by pretreatment with NADPH (5 x 10(-3) M) and FAD (5 x 10(-4) M) but not L-arginine (L-Arg, 2 x 10(-3) M). Pretreatment with NADPH did not alter the inhibitory effect of NG-nitro-L-arginine on ACh-induced relaxation. 3. The inhibitory effect of DPI on ACh-induced relaxation in the aortae lasted > 4 h after washout. In contrast to pretreatment, post-treatment (1 h later) with NADPH (5 x 10(-3) M) reversed only slightly the inhibitory effect of DPI. 4. In conscious rats, DPI (10(-5) mol kg-1) inhibited the depressor response to i.v. infused ACh, but not SNP. However, it caused only a transient pressor response which was previously shown to be due completely to sympathetic activation. 5. Thus, DPI is an efficacious and 'irreversible' inhibitor of endothelium-dependent vasodilatation in vivo and in vitro. The mechanism of the inhibition may involve antagonism of the effects of FAD and NADPH, co-factors of NO synthase. However, unlike the N0-substituted arginine analogues (another class of NO synthase inhibitors), DPI-induced suppression of endothelium-dependent vasodilatation in vivo does not lead to a sustained rise in blood pressure.
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- Y X Wang
- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Demaurex N, Schrenzel J, Jaconi ME, Lew DP, Krause KH. Proton channels, plasma membrane potential, and respiratory burst in human neutrophils. Eur J Haematol 1993; 51:309-12. [PMID: 8282093 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1993.tb01613.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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When confronted with invading microorganisms, neutrophils undergo a number of nearly synchronous reactions including the generation of microbicidal reactive oxygen intermediates by the NADPH oxidase. These reactions are accompanied by a slow depolarization, from resting values of-60 mV to levels probably exceeding 0 mV. The depolarization is transient, indicating that a compensatory charge transport mechanism is activated. Activation of the oxidase system causes a massive burst of metabolic acid generation that would, if uncompensated, lower the intracellular pH of neutrophils by over 5 units, to lethal levels (pH = 2). Neutrophils must therefore possess particularly effective regulatory systems to avoid excessive cytosolic acidification. The recently described H+ conductance of neutrophils may counteract both the acidification and the depolarization. Activation of the H+ conductance occurs at depolarizing voltages and is promoted by cytosolic acidification, a combination that takes place during the respiratory burst. The NADPH oxidase of neutrophils is thus associated to an unusual, particularly efficient mechanism of H+ export and charge compensation. The sequential activation of these two systems causes neutrophils to depolarize through the activation of an electron transport chain, and to repolarize through the activation of a H+ conductance.
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- N Demaurex
- Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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1. We have recently found that diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), a novel inhibitor of nitric oxide (NO) synthase, causes pressor and tachycardic responses in pentobarbitone- but not halothane-anaesthetized rats. The present study investigated the mechanism by which halothane suppresses the pressor response of DPI. The effects of halothane on the pressor response of DPI were also compared with those of other anaesthetic agents. 2. In conscious rats, i.v. bolus injections of DPI (0.025- 1.6 mg kg-1) caused dose-dependent increases in mean arterial pressure (MAP), with ED90 of 0.07 +/- 0.01 mg kg-1 and maximal rise of MAP (Emax) of 59 +/- 2 mmHg. While ketamine potentiated Emax without altering the ED50 and pentobarbitone increased the ED50 without changing Emax of the pressor response to DPI, chloralose, urethane and ethanol displaced the curve to the right and potentiated Emax. In contrast, halothane (0.5-1.25%) dose-dependently and non-competitively reduced the pressor responses to DPI. 3. Intravenous bolus injection of a single dose of DPI (1.6 mg kg-1) caused immediate and large increases in plasma noradrenaline and adrenaline, as well as MAP in conscious rats. Halothane (1.25%) almost completely inhibited these increases. 4. The results suggest that DPI causes a pressor response in conscious rats by activating the sympathetic nervous system and halothane abolishes this pressor response by inhibiting activities of the sympathetic nervous system. The results also show that influences of anaesthetics must be taken into consideration when evaluating pressor response of vasoactive agents.
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- Y X Wang
- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Demaurex N, Grinstein S, Jaconi M, Schlegel W, Lew DP, Krause KH. Proton currents in human granulocytes: regulation by membrane potential and intracellular pH. J Physiol 1993; 466:329-44. [PMID: 7692041 PMCID: PMC1175481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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1. To determine whether conductive pathways contribute to the H+ efflux from granulocytes, we used the whole-cell patch-clamp technique combined with microfluorimetric determinations of cytosolic pH (pHi) in single, dimethylsulphoxide-differentiated HL-60 cells. 2. In voltage-clamp mode, depolarization of the cell from the resting potential (around -60 mV) to +60 mV caused an increase in pHi that was accompanied by a sizeable outward current. 3. Ion substitution experiments and analysis of the reversal potential of tail currents indicated that the outward current is carried largely by H+ ions. 4. Full activation of the H+ current occurred within 1-2s after depolarization and deactivation within 100-200 ms upon repolarization. 5. This H+ conductance was strongly dependent on pHi, being larger at acidic pH. In addition, at low pHi the threshold for voltage activation of the H+ conductance was shifted to more negative values. 6. Addition of millimolar concentrations of Cd2+ and Zn2+ to the bath solution reduced the maximum H+ conductance and shifted the voltage dependence of the H+ conductance to more positive potentials. The effects were reversible. 7. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that granulocytic HL-60 cells possess a voltage-gated and pHi-sensitive H+ conductance. Because both a depolarization and a cytosolic acidification occur during the activation of granulocytes, this conductance may play a role in pHi homeostasis of granulocytes during microbial killing.
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- N Demaurex
- Infectious Diseases Division, University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland
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Naftalin RJ, Rist RJ. The relationship between sugar metabolism, transport and superoxide radical production in rat peritoneal macrophages. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1148:39-50. [PMID: 8388727 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(93)90158-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Dexamethasone inhibits sugar-dependent phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-stimulated superoxide production and 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-dGlc) transport in rat peritoneal macrophages (Rist, R.J., Jones, G.E. and Naftalin, R.J. (1991) Biochem. J. 278, 119-128; Rist, R.J. and Naftalin, R.J. (1991) Biochem J. 278, 129-135). Here it is shown that with glucose as a substrate, dexamethasone (0.1 microM) acts as a non-competitive inhibitor of PMA-induced superoxide production; decreasing the maximal rate of superoxide production (P < 0.001) without altering the Km. In contrast, with 2-dGlc as a substrate, dexamethasone shows competitive inhibition of PMA-stimulated superoxide production; increasing the Km of superoxide production, (P < 0.001) without altering the Vmax. The maximal rate of PMA-stimulated superoxide production with glucose as substrate is 10-12-fold in excess of the maximal rate with 2-dGlc as substrate. Diphenylene iodonium (DPI) is a non-competitive inhibitor of PMA-stimulated glucose-dependent superoxide production in macrophages, (Ki = 1-5 microM) and significantly reduces the activity of the PMA-induced hexose monophosphate shunt, (HMPS) (P < 0.01). However, DPI (1 microM) has no significant effect on the PMA-induced increase in 2-dGlc uptake, suggesting that the stimulus for HMPS activity and superoxide production is separate from the stimulus for hexose transport. A model is described which explains the observed differences in hexose transport and glucose- and 2-dGlc-dependent superoxide production in terms of the differences in metabolism of the two sugars. Accumulation of free 2-dGlc within the cytosol leads to saturation of hexokinase and hence, the effects of PMA and dexamethasone, which alter the coupling between hexokinase and the transporter, are only observed at low concentrations of 2-dGlc, where it is accumulated to sub-saturating levels. Since glucose is completely metabolized within the cell, PMA and dexamethasone increase and decrease, respectively, net uptake of sugar and superoxide production at all glucose concentrations.
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- R J Naftalin
- Biomedical Sciences Division, King's College London, UK
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Rist RJ, Naftalin RJ. Glucose- and phorbol myristate acetate-stimulated oxygen consumption and superoxide production in rat peritoneal macrophages is inhibited by dexamethasone. Biochem J 1993; 291 ( Pt 2):509-14. [PMID: 8387270 PMCID: PMC1132554 DOI: 10.1042/bj2910509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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1. Rat peritoneal macrophages stimulated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) (40 nM) show an increase in the rate of oxygen consumption (measured with an O2 electrode) and the production of superoxide (measured by cytochrome c reduction), which are both dependent on the presence of exogenous glucose. There is a 1:1 correlation between the oxygen consumed and the superoxide produced over a range of glucose concentrations (0-10 mM). 2. Preincubation of macrophages with dexamethasone (1 microM) for 3 h significantly decreased the Vmax. for PMA-induced glucose-dependent oxygen consumption (P < 0.001) and glucose-dependent superoxide production (P < 0.001). However, dexamethasone did not significantly change the Km for glucose in either PMA-induced oxygen consumption or superoxide production. Dexamethasone is therefore a non-competitive inhibitor of PMA-stimulated glucose-dependent oxygen consumption (Ki = 0.83 +/- 0.09 microM) and superoxide generation (Ki = 0.87 +/- 0.09 microM). 3. The PMA-induced rate of oxygen consumption by macrophages was decreased at oxygen concentrations below approx. 15 microM. The Km of oxygen for PMA-induced oxygen consumption was 1.28 +/- 0.13 microM (n = 12), and this was not significantly different in the presence of dexamethasone; Km = 1.61 +/- 0.31 microM (n = 12). It is therefore concluded that in vivo macrophage superoxide production is not limited by external oxygen or glucose concentrations, even in hypoxic joints.
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- R J Rist
- Biomedical Sciences Division, Kings College London, U.K
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Akimaru K, Utsumi T, Sato EF, Klostergaard J, Inoue M, Utsumi K. Role of tyrosyl phosphorylation in neutrophil priming by tumor necrosis factor-alpha and granulocyte colony stimulating factor. Arch Biochem Biophys 1992; 298:703-9. [PMID: 1384435 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(92)90469-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The ability of human tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) to induce phosphorylation of protein tyrosyl residues in human peripheral neutrophils (PMN) was investigated by Western blot analysis with antiphosphotyrosine antibody. Both TNF-alpha and G-CSF increased the tyrosyl phosphorylation of various proteins, such as species of 54-, 63-, 72-, 83-, 98-, 108-, and 115-kDa proteins. The ligand-stimulated tyrosyl phosphorylation of the 115-kDa protein was time- and concentration-dependent. When the 115-kDa protein was phosphorylated, it was recovered from membrane fractions. The phosphorylation of the 115-kDa protein was inhibited by genistein and alpha-cyano-3-ethoxy-4-hydroxy-5-phenylthiomethylcinnamamide (ST 638), inhibitors of tyrosine kinase (TK), and was enhanced by 1-(5-isoquinoline-sulfonyl) methyl-piperazine dihydrochloride (H-7) and staurosporine, inhibitors of Ca(2+)- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (PKC). Similar inhibition by the TK inhibitors and stimulation by the PKC inhibitors were also observed with formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP)-induced superoxide (O2.-) generation by TNF-alpha- or G-CSF-primed PMN. Phosphorylation of the 115-kDa protein occurred in parallel with the ligand-dependent generation of O2.-. These and other observations suggested that substrate proteins for tyrosine kinase, such as the 115-kDa protein, might play critical roles in the mechanism for priming of neutrophils. This is the first report describing that tyrosyl phosphorylation is involved in the priming of neutrophils by G-CSF and TNF-alpha.
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- K Akimaru
- Department of Medical Biology, Kochi Medical School, Japan
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The concept of chemiosmotic systems arises from the pioneering work of Peter Mitchell on two fronts. One is concerned with the mechanisms by which molecules are transported across membranes which are generally barriers to such transport. These mechanisms are inevitably molecular, and are now yielding their secrets to a combination of structural protein chemistry and molecular biology. The other front is more physiological, and explores the functional relationships between metabolism and transport. Nevertheless, the two fronts form a continuum of mutually related structure and function. Chemiosmotic systems provide a hierarchy of complexity, starting from say a uniporter reconstituted in a chemically defined bilayer, and proceeding to greater complexity in mitochondria, chloroplasts, eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell membranes, and multicellular systems. Their relationship to medicine is profound, because they provide many opportunities for therapeutic intervention. In this paper I present an overview of chemiosmotic systems at different levels of complexity, both molecular and biological, of their involvements in pathology, and of possible pharmacological treatment or prevention of disease.
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- P B Garland
- Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London
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Morel F, Doussiere J, Vignais PV. The superoxide-generating oxidase of phagocytic cells. Physiological, molecular and pathological aspects. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 201:523-46. [PMID: 1657601 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb16312.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 389] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Professional phagocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, monocytes and macrophages) possess an enzymatic complex, the NADPH oxidase, which is able to catalyze the one-electron reduction of molecular oxygen to superoxide, O2-. The NADPH oxidase is dormant in non-activated phagocytes. It is suddenly activated upon exposure of phagocytes to the appropriate stimuli and thereby contributes to the microbicidal activity of these cells. Oxidase activation in phagocytes involves the assembly, in the plasma membrane, of membrane-bound and cytosolic components of the oxidase complex, which were diassembled in the resting state. One of the membrane-bound components in resting phagocytes has been identified as a low-potential b-type cytochrome, a heterodimer composed of two subunits of 22-kDa and 91-kDa. The link between NADPH and cytochrome b is probably a flavoprotein whose subcellular localization in resting phagocytes remains to be determined. Genetic defects in the cytochrome b subunits and in the cytosolic factors have been shown to be the molecular basis of chronic granulomatous disease, a group of inherited disorders in the host defense, characterized by severe, recurrent bacterial and fungal infections in which phagocytic cells fail to generate O2- upon stimulation. The present review is focused on recent data concerning the signaling pathway which leads to oxidase activation, including specific receptors, the production of second messengers, the organization of the oxidase complex and the molecular defects responsible for granulomatous disease.
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- F Morel
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Grenoble, France
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Leto T, Garrett M, Fujii H, Nunoi H. Characterization of neutrophil NADPH oxidase factors p47-phox and p67-phox from recombinant baculoviruses. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55064-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Phosphorylation of neutrophil 47-kDa cytosolic oxidase factor. Translocation to membrane is associated with distinct phosphorylation events. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)45459-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Reactions of reduced cellobiose oxidase with oxygen. Is cellobiose oxidase primarily an oxidase? Biochem J 1990; 270:265-7. [PMID: 2396987 PMCID: PMC1131709 DOI: 10.1042/bj2700265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We report rapid-mixing experiments in which cellobiose oxidase, fully reduced with cellobiose, is allowed to react with excess molecular O2. Analysis of the progress curves and their comparison with computer simulations suggests that O2 reacts only with the cytochrome b-type haem and with a rate constant of approx. 0.5 s-1. In steady state the cytochrome b is partially oxidized, whereas the flavin remains largely reduced. This situation may be contrasted with that when dichloroindophenol is substituted for O2. Under these conditions the reactions are rapid (millisecond time range), and the redox centres in the enzyme appear to be oxidized simultaneously.
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Yea CM, Cross AR, Jones OT. Purification and some properties of the 45 kDa diphenylene iodonium-binding flavoprotein of neutrophil NADPH oxidase. Biochem J 1990; 265:95-100. [PMID: 2154184 PMCID: PMC1136618 DOI: 10.1042/bj2650095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The 45 kDa diphenylene iodonium-binding flavoprotein of the human neutrophil superoxide-generating oxidase has been purified by affinity chromatography. The polypeptide was eluted from Blue Memsep or 2',5'-ADP-agarose columns with either NADP or low concentrations of the specific inhibitor diphenylene iodonium. The purified protein was shown to bind FAD at a ratio of 1.09 mol of FAD/mol of protein. The reconstituted flavoprotein had a fluorescence spectrum similar, but not identical, to that of free FAD. It had an isoelectric point of approx. 4.0. The reconstituted flavoprotein displayed no diaphorase activity towards a range of artificial electron acceptors. Polyclonal antibodies raised against the pure protein inhibited superoxide generation by solubilized oxidase in a dose-dependent manner, and inhibited superoxide generation when incubated with either cytosol or membrane fractions in a reconstituted system. These antibodies precipitated the 45 kDa polypeptide together with a haem-containing 23 kDa protein thought to be the small subunit of cytochrome b-245. Antibodies raised against cytochrome P-450 reductase also precipitated these two polypeptides. These results are consistent with the 45 kDa polypeptide being the flavoprotein of the neutrophil superoxide-generating oxidase.
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- C M Yea
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, U.K
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