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A defect in the Werner syndrome protein (WRN) leads to the premature aging disease Werner syndrome (WS). Hallmark features of cells derived from WS patients include genomic instability and hypersensitivity to certain DNA-damaging agents. WRN contains a highly conserved region, the RecQ conserved domain, that plays a central role in protein interactions. We searched for proteins that bound to this region, and the most prominent direct interaction was with poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1), a nuclear enzyme that protects the genome by responding to DNA damage and facilitating DNA repair. In pursuit of a functional interaction between WRN and PARP-1, we found that WS cells are deficient in the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation pathway after they are treated with the DNA-damaging agents H2O2 and methyl methanesulfonate. After cellular stress, PARP-1 itself becomes activated, but the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of other cellular proteins is severely impaired in WS cells. Overexpression of the PARP-1 binding domain of WRN strongly inhibits the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation activity in H2O2-treated control cell lines. These results indicate that the WRN/PARP-1 complex plays a key role in the cellular response to oxidative stress and alkylating agents, suggesting a role for these proteins in the base excision DNA repair pathway.
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PMID:Central role for the Werner syndrome protein/poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 complex in the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation pathway after DNA damage. 1461 4

The antioxidant and anticancer properties of a medicinal plant, Betula platyphylla var. japonica were investigated. The total methanol extract of B. platyphylla var. japonica had protective effects against hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the Chinese hamster lung fibroblast (V79-4) cell line and induced apoptotic cell death in human promyelocytic leukemia (HL-60) cells, a cancer cell line. B. platyphylla var. japonica extract significantly increased cell viability against H2O2. The extract also showed high 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity (IC50 2.4 microg/ml) and lipid peroxidation inhibitory activity (IC50 below 4.0 microg/ml). Furthermore, B. platyphylla var. japonica extract reduced the number of V79-4 cells arrested in G2/M in response to H2O2 treatment and increased the activities of several cellular antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione peroxidase. Treatment with B. platyphylla var. japonica extract induced cytotoxicity and apoptosis in HL-60 cells, as shown by nucleosomal DNA fragmentation, increases in the subdiploid cell population, and fluorescence microscopy. B. platyphylla var. japonica extract gradually increased the expression of pro-apoptotic Bax and led to the activation of caspase-3 and cleavage of PARP. These findings suggest that B. platyphylla var. japonica exhibits potential antioxidant and anticancer properties.
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PMID:Antioxidant and anticancer activity of extract from Betula platyphylla var. japonica. 1467 57

Excessive oxidative stress has been implicated in the induction of cell death in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. In the present study, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced cell death in rat C6 glioma cells was used as a model system for studying the molecular events associated with oxidative stress-induced cell death in glial cells. We demonstrate that exposure of C6 glioma cells to H2O2 results in apoptotic cell death in a concentration-dependent manner, and caused activation of a member of the caspase-3-like family of proteases resulting in cleavage of the DNA repair enzyme poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase, PARP. Furthermore, H2O2 induced a transient activation of the transcription factor, nuclear factor kappa B (NF(Kappa)B). Pre-treatment of cells with the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine, (NAC), prevented both the activation of NF(Kappa)B and the induction of apoptosis by H2O2, suggesting a possible role for this transcription factor in oxidant-induced apoptosis in glial cells. Exposure of the cells to H2O2 led to transient activation of both c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and p38 kinase but has no effect on extracellular regulated kinase (ERK) activity. Inhibition of p38 by SB203580 did not protect the cells against H2O2-induced apoptosis suggesting that activation of p38 is not essential for H2O2-mediated cell death in C6 glioma cells.
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PMID:Oxidative stress induces apoptosis in C6 glioma cells: involvement of mitogen-activated protein kinases and nuclear factor kappa B. 1471 69

Hepatocarcinoma cells (TLT) were incubated in the presence of ascorbate and menadione, either alone or in combination. Cell death was only observed when such compounds were added simultaneously, most probably due to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) generated by ascorbate-driven menadione redox cycling. TLT cells were particularly sensitive to such an oxidative stress due to its poor antioxidant status. DNA strand breaks were induced by this association but this process did not correspond to oligosomal DNA fragmentation (a hallmark of cell death by apoptosis). Neither caspase-3-like DEVDase activity, nor processing of procaspase-3 and cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) were observed in the presence of ascorbate and menadione. Cell death induced by such an association was actively dependent on protein phosphorylation since it was totally prevented by preincubating cells with sodium orthovanadate, a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor. Finally, while H2O2, when administered as a bolus, strongly enhances a constitutive basal NF-kappaB activity in TLT cells, their incubation in the presence of ascorbate and menadione results in a total abolition of such a constitutive activity.
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PMID:Ascorbate potentiates the cytotoxicity of menadione leading to an oxidative stress that kills cancer cells by a non-apoptotic caspase-3 independent form of cell death. 1500 19

We exposed cultured neurons prelabeled with 14C-adenine to H2O2 with or without the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor 3,4-Dihydro-5-[4-(1-piperidinyl)butoxy]-1(2H)-isoquinolinone (DPQ) to quantify its effects on acute ATP depletion, later ATP synthesis, cellular and nuclear morphology, extent of DNA fragmentation, and PARP cleavage. According to the extent of the acute ATP depletion, the exposures were classified as 'mild' (50 microM H2O2), 'moderate' (100-250 microM H2O2), or 'severe' (500 microM-1 mM H2O2) insults. Mild exposure had no significant effects on the parameters studied. In the 'moderately' exposed neurons, ATP depletion to 59+/-6% of control was associated with a decrease in the cell counts, apoptotic morphology, and cleavage of PARP. In this group, DPQ prevented the acute ATP (to 95+/-15% of control), preserved cell morphology, and improved cell survival. In the 'severe' group, ATP depletion to 18+/-4% was associated with necrosis and intact PARP. DPQ elevated ATP levels (to 44+/-12% of control) and post-insult ATP synthesis, improved cell counts, and altered cell morphology towards apoptosis rather than necrosis. Post-insult application of DPQ was less effective. Our results show that the extent of oxidant-induced ATP depletion and cell fate can be modified by PARP inhibition, to some extent also after the insult.
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PMID:Adenine nucleotide metabolism and cell fate after oxidant exposure of rat cortical neurons: effects of inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase. 1519 74

The ADP-ribosyltransferase (ADPRT) gene encodes a zinc-finger DNA-binding protein, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1), that modifies various nuclear proteins by poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation and functions as a key enzyme in the base excision repair pathway. We have conducted two studies to test whether an amino acid substitution variant, ADPRT V762A (T2444C), is associated with prostate cancer (CaP) risk and decreased enzyme function. The first study used genomic DNA samples from an ongoing, clinic-based case-control study (488 cases and 524 controls) to show that a higher percentage of the CaP cases carried the ADPRT 762 AA genotype than controls (4% versus 2%). In Caucasians, the AA genotype was significantly associated with increased CaP risk [odds ratio (OR), 2.65; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.08-6.49], and the VA genotype was associated with a slight but not significantly increased CaP risk (OR, 1.18; 95% CI, 0.85-1.64) using VV as the referent group after adjustment for age, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and family history. Furthermore, this association was stronger in younger (<65) men (OR, 4.77; 95% CI, 1.01-22.44) than older (> or =65) men (OR, 1.78; 95% CI, 0.55-5.82). The second study used freshly isolated peripheral lymphocytes from 354 cancer-free subjects to demonstrate that the ADPRT 762 A allele contributed to significantly lower adenosine diphosphate ribosyl transferase (ADPRT)/PARP-1 activities in response to H2O2 in a gene dosage-dependent manner (P < 0.0001, test for linear trend). The PARP-1 activities (mean +/- SD dpm/10(6) cells) were 18,554 +/- 9,070 (n=257), 14,847 +/- 7,082 (n=86), and 12,155 +/- 6,334 (n=11) for VV, VA, and AA genotypes, respectively. This study is the first to provide evidence that the ADPRT V762A-genetic variant contributes to CaP susceptibility and altered ADPRT/PARP-1 enzyme function in response to oxidative damage.
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PMID:The ADPRT V762A genetic variant contributes to prostate cancer susceptibility and deficient enzyme function. 1534 24

Growth differentiation factor-15/macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (GDF-15/MIC-1) is a new member of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) superfamily, which has most recently been found in activated macrophages (MPhi). We have now investigated GDF-15/MIC-1 in human MPhi after exposure to oxidized low-density lipoproteins (oxLDL) related mediators in vitro and in arteriosclerotic carotid arteries. Using RT-PCR and Western blotting a pronounced induction of GDF-15/MIC-1 expression by oxLDL, C6-ceramide, tumor necrosis factor (TNFalpha) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was found in cultured human MPhi. In 11 human arteriosclerotic carotid arteries, immunohistochemical analyses supported by computer-assisted morphometry and regression analyses demonstrated a significant colocalization of GDF-15/MIC-1 immunoreactivity (IR) with oxLDL IR and manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) IR in CD68 immunoreactive (ir) MPhi, which were also expressing AIF-IR (apoptosis-inducing factor), caspase-3-IR (CPP32), PARP-IR, c-Jun/AP-1-IR and p53-IR. Our data suggest that GDF-15/MIC-1 is inducible in human MPhi by oxLDL and its mediators in vitro and is supposed to contribute to oxidative stress dependent consequences in arteriosclerotic plaques, e.g. modulating apoptosis and inflammatory processes in activated MPhi.
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PMID:Involvement of growth differentiation factor-15/macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (GDF-15/MIC-1) in oxLDL-induced apoptosis of human macrophages in vitro and in arteriosclerotic lesions. 1545 68

Recent studies indicate that NF-E2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a substrate for the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The present study is aimed to determine whether increased protein stability is a mechanism by which quinone compounds, like tert-butylhydroquinone (tBHQ), may enhance Nrf2-mediated transcriptional activation and subsequent antioxidant protection. H2O2-induced necrotic cell death, evidenced by transmission electronic microscope (TEM) imaging with no caspase 3 activation and PARP cleavage, was significantly attenuated by pretreatment with tBHQ or overexpression of Nrf2 through advenovirus-mediated infection in human neural stem cells (hNSCs). Microarray analysis showed that those identified antioxidant genes, responsible for antiapoptotic action in IMR-32 cells (J. Li et al., 2002, J. Biol. Chem. 277, 388-394), were also coordinately upregulated through Nrf2-dependent antioxidant responsive element (ARE) activation in hNSC. The stabilization of Nrf2 by tBHQ in IMR-32 cells was evidenced by a pulse-chase assay showing no significant increase in Nrf2 protein synthesis after tBHQ treatment, and by ubiquitin immunoprecipitation showing that tBHQ stabilized ubiquitinated Nrf2. An in vitro proteasomal activity assay showed that tBHQ did not act as a 20S/26S proteasome inhibitor. Nrf2 stabilization by tBHQ also was observed in hNSCs. Taken together, this study suggests that identified antioxidant genes, which were upregulated through tBHQ induced Nrf2 stabilization, confer protection on target cells against H2O2-induced apoptotic cell death in neuroblastoma cells as well as the necrotic cell death in the hNSC. Nrf2 stabilization by pharmacological modulation or adenovirus-mediated Nrf2 overexpression, therefore, might be viable strategies to prevent a wide-spectrum of oxidative stress-related neuronal cell injuries.
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PMID:Stabilization of Nrf2 by tBHQ confers protection against oxidative stress-induced cell death in human neural stem cells. 1552 90

As an enzyme implicated in the stress response, we investigated poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in the response of GH3 rat pituitary tumor cells to oxidants. These cells are unusual in that they undergo rapid cell death (90 min) with low doses of the prooxidant, H2O2 (50-200 microm), whereas at higher doses (1 mm), death occurs some hours later (4-5 h). Measurement of PARP activity shows that low doses of H2O2 (50-200 microm) fail to increase the activity of PARP, whereas at 0.5 and 1 mm, the enzyme becomes activated. In parallel with the activation of PARP, cellular ATP concentrations fall at high H2O2 doses and the PARP inhibitors, 3-aminobenzamide and nicotinamide (NIC) partially prevent this fall. Using NIC to inhibit PARP activity, we show that treatment of cells with NIC before the addition of H2O2 (0.5-1 mm), results in rapid cell death (90 min). In contrast, prior exposure to H2O2 (0.5-1 mm) for 1 h, before withdrawal and exposure to 1 mm NIC, allows cell survival for many hours. These data suggest that PARP is involved in blocking rapid death of GH3 cells in response to oxidants. In contrast to other cell types tested here, in which inhibitor studies show that PARP is activated at low H2O2 doses and this decreases the extent of apoptosis, GH3 cells are unable to sufficiently activate PARP to prevent rapid cell death.
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PMID:The role of poly (adenosine 5'-diphosphate-ribose) polymerase in the response of pituitary tumor cells to reactive oxygen species. 1556 35

The effects of diallyl disulfide (DADS), a garlic-derived compound, on the viability of neuronal cells and cell signals, including phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt, glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3), cytochrome c, caspase-3, and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), were investigated in PC12 cells neuronally differentiated by nerve growth factor. To evaluate the toxicity of DADS itself, nPC12 cells were treated with several concentrations of DADS, and 3,(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and trypan blue stain revealed that the viability was not affected by low concentration of DADS, up to 20 microM, but it was decreased at higher than this concentration. The levels of free radicals and membrane lipid peroxidation were significantly increased in nPC12 cells when treated with more than 50 microM DADS, and treatment of PC12 cells with 100 microM DADS killed the cells by inhibiting PI3K/Akt and by promoting activation of GSK-3 and caspase-3, release of cytochrome c, and cleavage of PARP. To evaluate the protective effects of low concentration of DADS on oxidative stress-injured nPC12 cells, the viability of the cells (pretreated with DADS for 2 h vs. not pretreated) was evaluated 24 h after exposure to 100 microM H2O2 for 30 min. Compared to the cells treated with 100 microM H2O2 only, pretreatment of the cells with 20 microM DADS before exposure to 100 microM H2O2 increased the viability and induced activation of PI3K and Akt, inactivation of GSK-3, and inhibition of cytochrome c release, caspase-3 activation, and PARP cleavage. These results indicate that low concentration of DADS has neuroprotective effects by activating PI3K/Akt and by inhibiting GSK-3 activation, cytochrome c release, caspase-3 activation, and PARP cleavage, whereas high concentration is rather cytotoxic. Therefore, some specific optimum concentration of DADS may be a new potential therapeutic strategy for oxidative stress injured in vitro model of neurodegenerative diseases.
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PMID:Protective effect of diallyl disulfide on oxidative stress-injured neuronally differentiated PC12 cells. 1571 Feb 34


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