title: Stimulated production of ATP by H2O2 disproportionation in extracts from normal and xeroderma pigmentosum skins, and from normal, xeroderma pigmentosum, ataxia telangiectasia and simian virus 40 transformed cell lines.
abstract: It has been previously shown that xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) skin biopsies and their established cell lines exhibit a decrease in catalase activity and enhanced formation of photo-produced H2O2. Several in vivo and in vitro thermodynamic results suggest that the energy of H2O2 disproportionation produced by catalase could be sufficient to synthesize ATP with or without the help of intact mitochondria. In this paper, we first studied the properties of H2O2-stimulated ATP production in extracts of normal and pathological XP skin biopsies and cell lines. In acellular extracts of normal skin biopsies and/or cell lines, ATP production can be increased 2- to 3-fold, but only with a narrow range of H2O2 concentration. In contrast, in extracts of pathological skins or cells, ATP production was only observed when using 10- to 1000-fold less H2O2 concentration as defined for normal extracts. Similar results were noted with two cell lines derived from patients afflicted with ataxia telangiectasia (AT), and with simian virus 40 (SV40) transformed lines of normal, XP and AT cells, Although we have no proof that such a process may exist in vivo, we would like to suggest that both H2O2-stimulated ATP production and catalase activity are good indicators of the degree of normality or abnormality of skin biopsies and/or cell lines.
authors.affiliation: URA 686 CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vuillaume
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Best-Belpomme
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lafont
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hubert
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Decroix
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarasin
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D001260:Ataxia Telangiectasia / Q000378:metabolism*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000378:metabolism; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism*; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D006801:Humans; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007700:Kinetics; D012016:Reference Values; D013539:Simian virus 40 / Q000235:genetics*; D012867:Skin / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D013472:Sunlight; D014983:Xeroderma Pigmentosum / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D002374:Catalase