Effect of lycopene and β-carotene on peroxynitrite-mediated cellular modifications
| Autor: | Kentaro Q. Sakamoto, Zein Shaban, Shoichi Fujita, Khlood M. El Bohi, Akio Kazusaka, Mayumi Ishizuka, Kaampwe Muzandu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Antioxidant
Cell Survival DNA damage medicine.medical_treatment Biology Toxicology Antioxidants Cell Line Nitric oxide chemistry.chemical_compound Cricetulus Lycopene Cricetinae Peroxynitrous Acid medicine Animals Nitric Oxide Donors Carotenoid Reactive nitrogen species Pharmacology chemistry.chemical_classification beta Carotene Carotenoids Comet assay chemistry Biochemistry Molsidomine Tyrosine Comet Assay Peroxynitrite DNA Damage |
| Zdroj: | Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 215:330-340 |
| ISSN: | 0041-008X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.taap.2006.03.006 |
| Popis: | Peroxynitrite formed by the reaction of superoxide and nitric oxide is a highly reactive species with a role in various pathological processes such as cancer, chronic inflammation, and cardiovascular and neurological diseases. In the present study, the effect of the carotenoids, lycopene and beta-carotene, on peroxynitrite-mediated modifications in plasmid DNA as well as cellular DNA and proteins were investigated. In pUC18 plasmid DNA, these carotenoids strongly inhibited DNA strand breaks caused by peroxynitrite generated from 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1). SIN-1 was also used to determine effects on DNA damage and protein tyrosine nitration in Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts. SIN-1 dose-dependently increased nitration of proteins in cells above basal levels as determined by Western blotting. This nitration was inhibited in the presence of the uric acid as well as lycopene. Physiological concentrations (0.31-10 microM) of lycopene and beta-carotene also had protective effects on DNA damage, as measured by the comet assay. Lycopene significantly reduced DNA damage particularly, in the median range of concentrations (2.5 microM). The protective effects of lycopene and beta-carotene could be due to their scavenging of reactive oxygen (ROS) and/or nitrogen species (RNS) as they reduce the amount of intracellular ROS/RNS produced following treatment with SIN-1 by as much as 47.5% and 42.4%, respectively. The results obtained in this study suggest that carotenoids may alleviate some of the deleterious effects of peroxynitrite and possibly other reactive nitrogen species as well in vivo. |
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