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Query: EC:1.6.3.1 (NADPH oxidase)
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Results are presented indicating that, although glutathione peroxidase activity inhibits lipid peroxidation in membranes, it does not appear to do so by reducing membrane lipid peroxides to lipid alcohols, as has been shown by others to be the case for free fatty acid peroxides in solution. Lipid peroxidation was studied in an enzymic system (microsomal NADPH oxidase) and in a non-enzymic system (mitochondria plus ascorbate). A study of the fatty acids in the phospholipids of microsomes and mitochondria demonstrated that detectable amounts of hydroxy fatty acids were not formed in the membranes when the latter were incubated in the presence of the glutathione peroxidase system even under conditions known to have generated significant levels of lipid peroxides in the membrane. Fatty acid analyses of the microsomal and mitochondrial particles indicated that glutathione peroxidase activity inhibited loss of polyunsaturated fatty acids when these organelles were exposed to peroxidizing conditions. If glutathione peroxidase activity were inhibiting the formation of malondialdehyde (a product of lipid peroxidation) by converting peroxide groups to alcohols, the loss of the constitutive polyunsaturated fatty acids in the membrane should not have been appreciably affected by addition of the peroxidase system. The protective effect cannot be due to quenching of an autocatalytic type of lipid peroxidation (at least in the microsomal system) since it has been established that the microsomal enzyme system (NADPH oxidase) catalyzes a continuous attack on microsomal polyunsaturated fatty acyl groups during the reaction and that the peroxidative process is not autocatalytic in nature. It appears, therefore, that glutathione peroxidase activity must exert its effect on this system by preventing free radical attack on the polyunsaturated membrane lipids in the first place. A possible mechanism for the interruption of a free radical attack on the lipids is proposed.
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PMID:Effect of glutathione peroxidase activity on lipid peroxidation in biological membranes. 94 86

A male child with chronic granulomatous disease is described in whom glutathione peroxidase deficiency of leukocytes was identified. Stability and activity of G-6-PD and activity of NADPH oxidase were normal. The leukocytes of the parents showed intermediate activities of glutathione peroxidase, suggesting the possibility of autosomal recessive inheritance.
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PMID:Leukocyte glutathione peroxidase deficiency in a male patient with chronic granulomatous disease. 125 15

Intraperitoneal administration of tuftsin-M [Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg-NH-(CH2)2-NH-CO-C15H31] to Balb/C mice has been shown to induce a respiratory burst in the peritoneal exudate cells. The macrophages exhibited enhanced levels of O2-, H2O2, NADPH oxidase and myeloperoxidase, but the activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione peroxidase remained virtually unchanged. The magnitude of the oxidative burst depended directly on the dose of tuftsin-M; higher activity was observed at higher doses of the peptide. Tuftsin-M enhanced the generation of both O2- and H2O2 under in vitro conditions, as did phorbol myristate acetate. These results suggest that tuftsin-M could enhance non-specific defence against infections by activating the macrophages.
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PMID:Respiratory burst in peritoneal exudate cells in response to a modified tuftsin. 133 Jun 71

Several types of compound exert their cytotoxicity by generating reactive oxygen species, notably the superoxide anion radical. These include quinoid and nitroaromatic compounds serving as redox cyclers, i.e. producing superoxide at the expense of NADPH and oxygen catalyzed by cellular reductases. In specialized cell-types employed in defense such as granulocytes, eosinophils and macrophages, myeloperoxidase, NADPH oxidase and nitric oxide synthase have been identified as major sources of reactive oxygen species in cell toxicity. These include hypochlorite, singlet oxygen, superoxide, nitric oxide and hydrogen peroxide. The interaction of superoxide and nitric oxide generates further oxidants such as peroxynitrite. Lumino-amplified chemiluminescence generated by Kupffer cells is partially sensitive to inhibitors of NO synthase. Superoxide dismutase has been found to catalyze a novel reaction, the reversible conversion of nitric oxide to the nitroxyl anion, the latter being viewed as another form of EDRF. In the defense against oxidative damage, there are enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidants. Regarding compounds used pharmacologically, we have been interested in ebselen, a seleno-organic compound exhibiting GSH peroxidase activity, which protects against reactive oxygen species generated, for example, at reoxygenation following a period of hypoxia. Further, we have studied lipoate and dihydrolipoate as antioxidant redox system and as singlet oxygen quencher, e.g. protecting against damage of deoxyguanosines in plasmid DNA generated by singlet oxygen.
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PMID:Role of reactive oxygen species in cell toxicity. 133 81

1. Lindane administered to untreated rats or rats pretreated with phenobarbital (PB) or 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) increased liver lipid peroxidation, of the same magnitude in all groups. 2. PB pretreatment produced a 50% increase in lipid peroxidation (TBAR) by liver homogenates and microsomes, an effect accompanied by increases in cytochrome P-450, NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, NADPH oxidase and microsomal superoxide anion production, MC pretreatment resulted in increases in liver cytochrome P-450 and NADPH oxidase only. 3. Pretreatment of rats with PB, but not MC or lindane, gave increases in glutathione peroxidase and reductase. 4. Pretreatment with PB, but not MC, increased liver GSH. Lindane decreased liver GSH to the same extent as PB plus lindane. 5. Biliary GSH, GSSG and bile flow were decreased by lindane to similar extents in all groups. 6. Lindane induced periportal necrosis with haemorrhagic foci in all groups. 7. Data presented indicate that the early lipid peroxidative response of liver to lindane was unchanged by PB- or MC-stimulated hepatic microsomal enzyme induction.
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PMID:Effect of phenobarbital and 3-methylcholanthrene on the early oxidative stress component induced by lindane in rat liver. 172 29

We studied the release of superoxide anion (O-2) in peritoneal macrophages from autoimmuneprone MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr (MRL/l) mice. Compared to resident peritoneal macrophages from control MRL/Mp-+/+ (MRL/n) mice, macrophages from MRL/l mice exhibited an age-related increase of spontaneous and PMA-induced O-2 secretion in association with the development of the autoimmune process. Analysis of the kinetic parameters of NADPH oxidase in macrophages revealed that MRL/l macrophages were in a primed state, as shown by the decreased Km value of the oxidase for NADPH. Furthermore, we studied several key enzymes for their ability to scavenge the oxygen radicals in the macrophages. Among the enzymes studied, only glutathione peroxidase (GSH Px) activity was increased in peritoneal macrophages from MRL/l mice and this change was closely correlated with the increase in O-2 production. Thus, GSH Px activity in macrophages seems to play an important role in macrophage functions under increased oxidative stress.
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PMID:Increased superoxide anion production and glutathione peroxidase activity in peritoneal macrophages from autoimmune-prone MRL/Mp-Ipr/lpr mice. 284 85

Mixed-function oxidation systems comprised of Fe3+, O2, and electron donors such as thiol compounds, ascorbate, NAD(P)H/NAD(P)H oxidase, and xanthine oxidase/hypoxanthine, catalyze the inactivation of many enzymes. This report describes the isolation and purification of a soluble protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which specifically inhibits the inactivation of various enzymes by a nonenzymatic Fe3+/O2/thiol mixed-function oxidase system. When thiol is replaced with another electron donor (e.g. ascorbate), this specific protein no longer protects against iron (or copper)/O2-dependent radical-induced enzyme inactivation. Purification steps included a polyethylene glycol precipitation followed sequentially by a chromatography on DE52 and high pressure liquid chromatography on phenyl, DEAE, and gel-filtrated columns. The final gel filtration step yielded two protein peaks exhibiting protector activity and possessing a Mr of 500,000 and 90,000. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of these two fractions gave a single band at 27 kDa suggesting that these protein species simply represent different oligomeric structures. The protector protein did not possess catalase, glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, or iron chelation activities. Since the protection activity reported herein is specific for mixed-function oxidation systems containing thiols, we propose that the protector protein functions as a sulfur radical scavenger.
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PMID:The isolation and purification of a specific "protector" protein which inhibits enzyme inactivation by a thiol/Fe(III)/O2 mixed-function oxidation system. 289 5

We are attempting to identify cytokines that regulate macrophage secretion of reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) and to analyse the biochemical basis of their effects. In both humans and mice, interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) appears to be the chief factor secreted by clonally unselected lymphocytes that enhances macrophage oxidative metabolism and antiprotozoal activity. In vivo administration of recombinant IFN-gamma enhances the ROI secretory capacity of monocytes in humans, and the secretion of ROI and killing of protozoa by peritoneal macrophages in mice. A protein secreted by murine tumours and certain non-malignant cells exerts opposing effects. This macrophage deactivation factor (MDF) both blocks the induction of activation by IFN-gamma and reverses pre-existent activation. MDF action is non-toxic and selective, suppressing the secretion of ROI, killing of intracellular protozoa, and expression of Ia antigen, without inhibiting secretion of several other products, or synthesis of protein, ingestion of particles or adherence to culture vessels. The suppressive effect of MDF is reversed over several days after its removal. This reversal is hastened by IFN-gamma. Profound suppression of oxidative metabolism accompanies the differentiation of murine monocytes into Kupffer cells. The capacity of Kupffer cells to secrete ROI and kill intracellular protozoa remains deficient even after exposure to IFN-gamma. Thus, four states of macrophage activation can provisionally be discerned: the transition of mouse peritoneal macrophages from the non-activated to the activated state is accompanied by a ninefold increase in affinity of the superoxide-producing enzyme for NADPH, without a marked increase in cellular Vmax or content of cytochrome b559. The MDF-induced transition of mouse peritoneal macrophages from the activated to the deactivated state is accompanied by both an increase in Km and a decrease in apparent V max of the oxidase. There are no changes in the phorbol myristate acetate receptor number or affinity, glucose transport, NADPH levels, cytochrome b559 content, catalase (EC 1.11.1.6) GSH, GSH peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9), GSH reductase (EC 1.6.4.2) or myeloperoxidase, consistent with the suppressed ROI secretory capacity and antiprotozoal activity of these cells. The Kupffer cell, whose non-responsiveness to IFN-gamma may mark it as inactivated, appears to lack detectable NADPH oxidase activity, despite the probable presence of cytochrome b559, and in this regard differs from both non-activated and deactivated macrophages.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Secretion of toxic oxygen products by macrophages: regulatory cytokines and their effects on the oxidase. 308 12

Phagocytosis by rabbit alveolar macrophages (AM) is accompanied by increases in O(2) consumption, glucose oxidation, and H(2)O(2) formation. Two aspects of the interrelations between these metabolic features of phagocytosis have been studied.First, the following evidence indicates that glutathione, glutathione reductase, and peroxidase serve as a cytoplasmic shuttle between H(2)O(2) and NADPH-dependent glucose oxidation: (a) AM contain 5.9 mmumoles of reduced glutathione per 10(6) cells and exhibit glutathione peroxidase and NADPH-specific glutathione reductase activity; (b) oxidized glutathione potentiates NADP stimulation of glucose oxidation; (c) an artificial H(2)O(2)-generating system stimulates glucose oxidation; (d) the cell penetrating thiol inhibitor, N-ethylmaleimide diminishes glucose oxidation. This effect largely depends on inhibition of the glutathione system rather than on inhibition of either H(2)O(2) formation or enzymes directly subserving glucose oxidation.Second, three potential H(2)O(2)-generating oxidases have been sought. No cyanide-insensitive NADH or NADPH oxidase activity could be detected. D-amino acid oxidase activity was 0.48 +/-0.07 U/10(6) cells with D-alanine as substrate.
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PMID:Glutathione-dependent peroxidative metabolism in the alveolar macrophage. 439 62

Parameters related to oxidative stress in rat liver and erythrocytes were studied after short-term administration (60 and 90 days) of 1000 ppm of lindane in the diet. Lindane induced an oxidative stress condition in the liver, which is related to an enhancement in microsomal NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and NADPH oxidase activities, superoxide radical formation and cytochrome P450 content, produced independently of the time of treatment. Also, decreased activities of glutathione peroxidase and catalase were concomitantly observed. Although these changes were paralleled by an increase in lipid peroxidation indices, such as production of thiobarbituric acid reactants and spontaneous chemiluminescence, no evidence of liver injury was obtained. Lindane treatment did not exert quantitatively important changes in the pro-oxidant/anti-oxidant status of the erythrocyte, with reduction in the red blood cell mass possibly reflecting actions of the insecticide on the erythropoietic process.
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PMID:Differential effects of short-term lindane administration on parameters related to oxidative stress in rat liver and erythrocytes. 750 13


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