title: Modification of proteins in endothelial cell death during oxidative stress.
abstract: Exposure of bovine aortic endothelial cells in vitro to oxidative stress causes a cascade of changes in cell function, culminating in cell death if the stress is sufficiently severe. Oxidative modification of proteins, as measured by the reaction of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine with carbonyl groups of oxidized proteins, increased three- to fourfold in endothelial cells exposed to hydrogen peroxide or to a xanthine/xanthine oxidase system. The increase in oxidative modification of protein occurred rapidly, preceding loss of cellular ATP and eventual cell death. Oxidative modification of protein was paralleled by loss of activity of the key metabolic enzymes, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. The finding that oxidative modification of protein is an early event following oxidative stress suggests that oxidative modification of protein is not only a marker for oxidative damage but also a causal factor in oxidative injury.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0320, USA.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Ciolino
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Levine
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta; D002417:Cattle; D016923:Cell Death; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002712:Chlorides; D002857:Chromium / Q000378:metabolism; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D005290:Ferric Compounds / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases / Q000378:metabolism; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000494:pharmacology; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D015125:Oxyquinoline / Q000378:metabolism; D010659:Phenylhydrazines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002712:Chlorides; D005290:Ferric Compounds; D010659:Phenylhydrazines; D011506:Proteins; D002857:Chromium; C004787:2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine; D015125:Oxyquinoline; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases; C024555:ferric chloride