Bioenergetic and Oxidative Effects of Free 3-nitrotyrosine in Culture: Selective Vulnerability of Dopaminergic Neurons and Increased Sensitivity of Non-dopaminergic Neurons to Dopamine Oxidation.
From: Division of Pharmacology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Journal of neurochemistry
- Publish Date: Oct 2007
- ISSN: 0022-3042
- Volume: 103
- Issue: 1
- Pages: 131-44
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Ma Thong C, Mihm Michael J, Bauer John Anthony, et al. Bioenergetic and Oxidative Effects of Free 3-nitrotyrosine in Culture: Selective Vulnerability of Dopaminergic Neurons and Increased Sensitivity of Non-dopaminergic Neurons to Dopamine Oxidation.. J. Neurochem. Oct 2007;103:131-44
Abstract
Protein bound and free 3-nitrotyrosine (3NT) levels are elevated in neurodegenerative diseases and have been used as evidence for peroxynitrite generation. Intrastriatal injection of free 3NT causes dopaminergic neuron injury and represents a new mouse model of Parkinson’s disease (PD). We are investigating the nature of free 3NT neurotoxicity. In primary ventral midbrain cultures, free 3NT damaged dopaminergic neurons, while adjacent non-dopaminergic neurons were unaffected. Combined treatment with free 3NT and subtoxic amounts of dopamine caused extensive death of non-dopaminergic forebrain neurons in culture. Free 3NT alone directly inhibited mitochondrial complex I, decreased ATP, sensitized neurons to mitochondrial depolarization, and increased superoxide production. Subtoxic concentrations of rotenone (instead of free 3NT) caused similar results. Additionally, free 3NT and dopamine combined increased extraneuronal hydrogen peroxide and decreased intraneuronal glutathione levels more than dopamine alone. Oxidative and bioenergetic processes have been proposed to contribute to neurodegeneration in PD. As free 3NT is a compound that is increased in PD, damages dopamine neurons in vivo and in vitro and has detrimental effects on neuronal bioenergetics, it is possible that free 3NT is an endogenous contributing factor to neuronal loss, in addition to being a marker of oxidative and nitrative processes.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Adenosine Triphosphate, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Cell Death, Cells, Cultured, Dopamine, Electron Transport Complex I, Energy Metabolism, Glutathione, Hydrogen Peroxide, Mice, Neurons, Oxidation-Reduction, Prosencephalon, Rotenone, Tyrosine
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