The Increase in H2O2-Induced Apoptosis by ADP-Ribosylation Inhibitors Is Related to Cell Blebbing

HN and LN are two phenotypic variants of the U937 monocytic cell line which differ in their basal NAD content; they respond in an opposite way to oxidative stress in the presence of the poly(ADP-ribosyl)polymerase (PARP) inhibitors 3-aminobenzamide (3ABA) and nicotinamide (NA): the inhibitors protect HN cells from stress-induced apoptosis, while they enhance it on LN cells (Coppola et al., 1995, Exp. Cell Res. 221,462-469). These opposite effects are due to two overlapping and contrasting phenomena occurring in LN cells, as shown by the bi-modal response of stressed LN cells to increasing 3ABA doses. Indeed H₂O₂-induced apoptosis is enhanced only at high 3ABA concentrations (i.e., sufficient to inhibit also mono-ADP-ribosylations); lower 3ABA concentrations, which specifically inhibit PARP, also protect LN U937 from stress-induced apoptosis. Unlike HN U937, H₂O₂-induced apoptosis in LN cells is accompanied by cell blebbing. High 3ABA doses strongly enhance blebbing, leading to cellular fragmentation. Blebbing could be blocked by interfering with actin polymerization with cytochalasin B and D: this eliminated the increase in apoptosis due to 3ABA, suggesting that it is indeed the consequence of excess blebbing. This is supported by the unusual finding that in U937 LN stressed in the presence of 3ABA or NA, blebbing, usually a late event in apoptosis, may even precede its onset.     

山黧豆根系对H2O2诱导氧化胁迫的生理应答

以水培7d苗龄的山黧豆幼苗为材料,向水培溶液中施加不同浓度H2O2处理山黧豆幼苗24h,分析山黧豆根系受氧化胁迫的程度与抗氧化系统的应答特征,以揭示山黧豆对氧化胁迫的耐受机制。结果显示:(1)随外源H2O2处理浓度的不断增加,山黧豆幼苗侧根的数目无显著变化,而其根的鲜重则显著降低。(2)同时,根系组织的内源H2O2染色范围和程度显著增高,但根尖区域始终保持较低水平的H2O2;相反,O-·2染色范围和程度明显减少,根尖区域却始终保持较高水平的O-·2。(3)同期根系抗坏血酸(ASC)含量及过氧化氢酶(CAT)、过氧化物酶(POD)与抗坏血酸过氧化物酶(APX)的活性均表现出了先升高后降低的趋势,而超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)一直表现为持续上升的趋势。研究表明,在外源H2O2胁迫条件下,山黧豆根系O-·2的积累可能与其生长和活力呈正相关,而根系H2O2的积累则与其受氧化胁迫程度呈正相关;低浓度的H2O2处理可以提高山黧豆抗氧化系统对体内活性氧的清除能力。     

Oral-aboral axis specification in the sea urchin embryo: III. Role of mitochondrial redox signaling via H2O2

In sea urchin embryos, specification of the secondary (oral-aboral) axis occurs via nodal, expression of which is entirely zygotic and localized to prospective oral ectoderm at blastula stage. The initial source of this spatial anisotropy is not known. Previous studies have shown that oral-aboral (OA) polarity correlates with a mitochondrial gradient, and that nodal activity is dependent both on mitochondrial respiration and p38 stress-activated protein kinase. Here we show that the spatial pattern of nodal activity also correlates with the mitochondrial gradient, and that the latter correlates with inhomogeneous levels of intracellular reactive oxygen species. To test whether mitochondrial H₂O₂ functions as a redox signal to activate nodal, zygotes were injected with mRNA encoding either mitochondrially-targeted catalase, which quenches mitochondrial H₂O₂ and down-regulates p38, or superoxide dismutase, which augments mitochondrial H₂O₂ and up-regulates p38. Whereas the former treatment inhibits the initial activation of nodal and entrains OA polarity toward aboral when confined to half of the embryo via 2-cell stage blastomere injections, the latter does not produce the opposite effects. We conclude that mitochondrial H₂O₂ is rate-limiting for the initial activation of nodal, but that additional rate-limiting factors, likely also involving mitochondria, contribute to the asymmetry in nodal expression.     

二苯乙烯苷对氧化诱导内皮细胞凋亡及Caspase-3和PARP表达的影响

为研究二苯乙烯苷对过氧化氢(H2O2)诱导人脐静脉内皮细胞凋亡的影响并初步探讨二苯乙烯苷抗凋亡的可能机制,采用不同浓度H2O2和二苯乙烯苷处理内皮细胞24 h,以MTT法检测细胞生长活力、Hoechst33258染色观察细胞形态、流式细胞仪检测凋亡率等方法筛选造模内皮细胞凋亡的H2O2浓度和二苯乙烯苷最佳的抗内皮细胞凋亡作用浓度.RT-PCR、Western-blot分别检测Caspase-3、PARP mRNA及蛋白质的表达.结果发现,与空白对照组相比,300μmol/L H2O2作用后,内皮细胞增殖明显受到抑制,Hoechst33258染色可见大量凋亡细胞,细胞凋亡率显著增加,流式细胞仪检测出明显的凋亡峰,Caspase-3和多聚腺苷酸二磷酸核糖基聚合酶(PARP)的表达量显著增加.经二苯乙烯苷处理后,随着二苯乙烯苷浓度增加,细胞的增殖率随之增加,凋亡细胞数减少,凋亡率逐渐降低,与H2O2组比较,10μmol/L的二苯乙烯苷能够显著提高细胞增殖率,降低细胞凋亡率,并显著减少Caspase-3和PARP表达.以上结果表明,二苯乙烯苷能够抑制由H2O2诱导的人脐静脉内皮细胞凋亡,增加细胞生长活性,降低细胞凋亡率,其作用机制可能与下调Caspase-3和多聚腺苷酸二磷酸核糖基聚合酶(PARP)的表达有关.