title: [Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection of vascular endothelial cells by new synthetic mimics of glutathione peroxidase].
abstract: New selenium-containing compounds behave as GPx mimics and protect endothelial cells (HUVEC) from damage upon exposure to 55 microM linoleic acid hydroperoxide or to 200 microM hydrogen peroxide. The simultaneous presence of the GPx mimic and the hydroperoxyde is not necessary, since a pre-treatment of endothelial monolayers with 1 to 10 microM of such compounds, preserves their morphology, their cell density and their longer-term viability. The compounds which are most efficient in this model of oxidative stress also protect endothelial monolayers which have been incubated with an excess (10:1) of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) and with 1 ng/ml of TNF-alpha, if such monolayers are pre- and co-treated (10 microM). They inhibit the adhesion of activated neutrophils which show-up as polymorphous and very dense particles, in the vicinity of which endothelial alterations can be seen. The inhibition of leucocyte adhesion and that of endothelial activation/alteration have been quantified by means of immunoassays of myeloperoxidase and von Willebrand factor (vWf). The lead-compound BXT-51072 is not a direct inhibitor of the NADPH oxidase of PMN. TNF-alpha alone induces the endothelial release of Interleukin-8 (Il-8) as well as the expression of P- and E-selectin. The extent and the kinetics of inhibition of such processes by compound BXT-51072 would explain several of the effects observed in the presence of PMN. The GPx mimics also inhibit the endothelial production of Il-8 which is induced by Interleukin-1 alpha. Finally, compound BXT-51072 inhibits the endothelial expression of the adhesion factor VCAM-1 which is more slowly induced by TNF-alpha. Such antioxidant catalysts therefore protect endothelial cells from the toxic effects of TNF-alpha through mechanisms which include a down-regulation of cytokines and cell-adhesion factors.
authors.affiliation: OXIS International SA, Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Paris.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chaudière
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moutet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: D'Alessio
mesh_terms: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000378:metabolism*; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism*; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008041:Linoleic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D008054:Lipid Peroxides / Q000494:pharmacology; D018716:Molecular Mimicry; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000502:physiology; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D000975:Antioxidants; D008041:Linoleic Acids; D008054:Lipid Peroxides; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; C008285:linoleic acid hydroperoxide; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase
vernacular_title: Protection antioxydante et anti-inflammatoire des cellules endothéliales vasculaires par de nouveaux mimes synthétiques de la glutathion peroxydase.