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Mice with a homozygous null mutation for the most abundant glutathione peroxidase, Gpx1, show increased susceptibility to the oxidative stress-inducing agents paraquat and hydrogen peroxide

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posted on 1998-08-28, 00:00 authored by J B de Haan, C Bladier, P Griffiths, M Kelner, R D O'Shea, Steve Cheung, R T Bronson, M J Silvestro, S Wild, S S Zheng, P M Beart, P J Hertzog, I Kola
Glutathione peroxidases have been thought to function in cellular antioxidant defense. However, some recent studies on Gpx1 knockout (-/-) mice have failed to show a role for Gpx1 under conditions of oxidative stress such as hyperbaric oxygen and the exposure of eye lenses to high levels of H2O2. These findings have, unexpectedly, raised the issue of the role of Gpx1, especially under conditions of oxidative stress. Here we demonstrate a role for Gpx1 in protection against oxidative stress by showing that Gpx1 (-/-) mice are highly sensitive to the oxidant paraquat. Lethality was already detected within 24 h in mice exposed to paraquat at 10 mg.kg-1 (approximately (1)/(7) the LD50 of wild-type controls). The effects of paraquat were dose-related. In the 30 mg.kg-1-treated group, 100% of mice died within 5 h, whereas the controls showed no evidence of toxicity. We further demonstrate that paraquat transcriptionally up-regulates Gpx1 in normal cells, reinforcing a role for Gpx1 in protection against paraquat toxicity. Finally, we show that cortical neurons from Gpx1 (-/-) mice are more susceptible to H2O2; 30% of neurons from Gpx1 (-/-) mice were killed when exposed to 65 microM H2O2, whereas the wild-type controls were unaffected. These data establish a function for Gpx1 in protection against some oxidative stressors and in protection of neurons against H2O2. Further, they emphasize the need to elucidate the role of Gpx1 in protection against different oxidative stressors and in different disease states and suggest that Gpx1 (-/-) mice may be valuable for studying the role of H2O2 in neurodegenerative disorders.

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Journal

Journal of biological chemistry

Volume

273

Issue

35

Pagination

22528 - 22536

Publisher

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Location

[Rockville, Md.]

ISSN

0021-9258

eISSN

1083-351X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1998, The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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