title: Relationship between reactive oxygen species and heme metabolism during the differentiation of Neuro2a cells.
abstract: Although neuronal cells are highly vulnerable to oxidative stress, recent studies suggest that production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) increases during and is essential for neuronal differentiation. In addition, we have previously found that heme biosynthesis is up-regulated during retinoic acid-induced differentiation of Neuro2a cells. In the current study, we showed that this up-regulation of heme biosynthesis during differentiation is ROS-dependent. Furthermore, we found that ROS-dependent induction of heme oxygenase, which degrades heme and acts as an anti-oxidant, and catalase, another anti-oxidant enzyme that contains heme as a prosthetic group, occurs during differentiation. These results suggest that heme biosynthesis following the degradation of heme protects Neuro2a cells from oxidative stress caused by ROS during differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shinjyo
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kita
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006418:Heme / Q000378:metabolism*; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) / Q000378:metabolism; D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D020675:Peroxisomes / Q000378:metabolism; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*; D015854:Up-Regulation
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D006418:Heme; D002374:Catalase; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing); D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1