Effects of Calpain on Antioxidant Enzyme Activities |
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Authors: | Peter Johnson Janet L. Hammer |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Chemistry and College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA |
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Abstract: | The activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione reductase were not affected by in vitro incubation with the intracellular proteinase calpain, suggesting that these enzymes are not in vivo substrates of calpain. In contrast, the activity of another important antioxidant enzyme, glutathione peroxidase, is stimulated in vitro by calpain. This may explain the correlation between elevations in glutathione peroxidase activity and calpain activity which occur in aging, exercised and dystrophic muscle. Calpain treatment in vitro caused a large decrease in the activity of carnosine synthetase which is involved in the synthesis of the putative antioxidant carnosine. This may be the reason for the in vivo correlation between elevated calpain and diminished carnosine levels in aging, hypertensive, denervated and dystrophic muscles. |
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Keywords: | Calpain calcium-activated neutral proteinase glutathione peroxidase carnosine synthetase |
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