title: Antioxidant defenses of cultured colonic epithelial cells against reactive oxygen metabolites.
abstract: Reactive oxygen metabolites produce colonic epithelial cellular injury. The present study evaluated the protective role of cellular superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione (GSH) redox cycle in cultured rabbit colonic cells. Cultured rabbit colonic epithelial cells were exposed to reactive oxygen metabolites generated by hypoxanthine (1 mM) and xanthine oxidase (1 mU/ml) for up to 5 h. Cytotoxicity was quantified by measuring 51Cr release from prelabeled cells. Pretreatment with diethyldithiocarbamate (inhibitor of superoxide dismutase) reduced activity of cellular superoxide dismutase and increased 51Cr release caused by hypoxanthine/xanthine oxidase from colonic cells. Pretreatment with diethyl maleate (covalently binds GSH as catalyzed by GSH transferase), or buthionine sulfoximine (inhibitor of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase) decreased cellular GSH and enhanced reactive oxygen metabolites induced injury. Pretreatment with bis(chloroethyl)-nitrosourea (inhibitor of GSH reductase) inhibited activity of GSH reductase and increased 51Cr release from colonic cells. Preincubation with aminotriazole (inhibitor of catalase) reduced cellular catalase, but did not affect cellular injury. Therefore, we concluded that both cellular superoxide dismutase and the GSH redox cycle appeared to play a role in detoxifying reactive oxygen metabolites and that cellular catalase may be less important in rabbit colonic epithelial cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, CA 90822, USA. hata-2im@h.u.tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawabe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hiraishi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Terano
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Ivey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D002374:Catalase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003106:Colon / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D004847:Epithelial Cells; D004848:Epithelium / Q000187:drug effects; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011817:Rabbits; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D014969:Xanthine Oxidase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D002374:Catalase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D014969:Xanthine Oxidase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D005978:Glutathione