title: Butyrate increases catalase activity and protects rat pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells against hyperoxia.
abstract: A protective effect of butyrate against hyperoxia was found with adult rat pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Butyrate (5mM) when added just prior to the hyperoxic exposure (95%) markedly decreased lactate dehydrogenase release from cells during 68 hours of exposure (22% release with butyrate versus 98% without). The uptake and reduction of a tetrazolium compound as another index of cell viability also showed similar improvement with butyrate. Butyrate was associated with a striking increase of catalase to three times the control in the air exposed group while GSH content and the activities of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase were not significantly changed. In the groups exposed to hyperoxia alone, both enzyme activities were decreased compared to the air exposed controls. When butyrate was present with hyperoxia, the superoxide dismutase was maintained closer to the air exposed control values and the catalase activity remained nearly twice as high as the air exposed control cells. These results suggest that butyrate protects rat pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells from hyperoxia by increasing catalase activity which may help to preserve superoxide dismutase activity. This may be a good model to determine the biological significance of catalase and its interrelationships with other antioxidant systems within the cell.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine 90024-1690.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Tierney
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002087:Butyrates / Q000494:pharmacology*; D020148:Butyric Acid; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism*; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000633:toxicity*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002087:Butyrates; D020148:Butyric Acid; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D002374:Catalase; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D005978:Glutathione; D010100:Oxygen