Importance of mitochondrial dysfunction in oxidative stress response: A comparative study of gene expression profiles

Autor: Tetsu Uchida, Kazunori Mori, Fumihiro Ishikawa, Kyota Ushida, Motoko Shibanuma, Anna Inoue, Kiyoshi Nose
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Free Radical Research. 45:672-680
ISSN: 1029-2470
1071-5762
DOI: 10.3109/10715762.2011.564169
Popis: Mitochondria are considered to play an important role in oxidative stress response since they are a source of reactive oxygen species and are also targeted by these species. This study examined the mitochondrial conditions in cells of epithelial origin that were exposed to H(2)O(2) and found a decline in the membrane potential along with a specific loss of UQCRC1, a sub-unit of complex III, suggesting that mitochondrial dysfunction occurs upon exposure to oxidative stress. This observation led to the hypothesis that certain cellular responses to oxidative stress occurred because of mitochondrial dysfunction. When mitochondria-less (pseudo ρ0) cells were examined as a model of mitochondrial dysfunction, striking similarities were found in their cellular responses compared with those found in cells exposed to oxidative stress, including changes in gene expression and gelatinolytic enzyme activities, thus suggesting that cellular responses to oxidative stress were partly mediated by mitochondrial dysfunction. This possibility was further validated by microarray analysis, which suggested that almost one-fourth of the cellular responses to oxidative stress were mediated by mitochondrial dysfunction that accompanies oxidative stress, thereby warranting a therapeutic strategy that targets mitochondria for the treatment of oxidative stress-associated diseases.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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