Mechanisms of vitamin C stabilization by K562 erythroleukemic cells |
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Authors: | H. Goldenberg E. Schweinzer |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna;(2) Institut für Medizinische Chemie, Universität Wien, Währingerstrasse 10, A-1090 Wien, Austria |
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Abstract: | Summary K562 cells display several possibilities to keep ascorbic acid in the surrounding medium in the reduced state and prevent its loss by degradation of the oxidized form, dehydroascorbic acid: (1) A semidehydroascorbic acid reductase with high affinity for the ascorbate radical scavenges this before it disproportionates into the two parent forms of vitamin C (ascorbate and dehydroascorbic acid). (2) Dehydroascorbic acid in the extracellular medium is slowly converted to ascorbate by a different mechanism with low affinity which may or may not involve uptake of the oxidized and release of the reduced form. (3) Ascorbate remains relatively stable in the cell culture medium in presence, but also in absence of the cells after their removal, This is most probably due to the presence of released peptides in the cell-conditioned medium which can chelate transition metal ions and thus prevent catalytic autoxidation of ascorbate. |
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Keywords: | K562 cells Vitamin C Monodehydroascorbate reductase Ascorbate uptake Membrane potential Iron |
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