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AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 4 856-L865, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society
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B. R. Pitt, M. Schwarz, E. S. Woo, E. Yee, K. Wasserloos, S. Tran, W. Weng, R. J. Mannix, S. A. Watkins, Y. Y. Tyurina, V. A. Tyurin, V. E. Kagan and J. S. Lazo
Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.
Metallothionein (MT) is a low-molecular-weight cysteine-rich protein with extensive metal binding capacity and potential nonenzymatic antioxidant activity. Despite the sensitivity of vascular endothelium to either heavy metal toxicity or oxidative stress, little is known regarding the role of MT in endothelial cells. Accordingly, we determined the sensitivity of cultured sheep pulmonary artery endothelial cells (SPAEC) that overexpressed MT to tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BOOH), hyperoxia, or 2,2'-azobis(2,4-dimethylvaleronitrile) (AMVN; peroxyl radical generator). Nontoxic doses of 10 microM Cd increased MT levels from 0.21 +/- 0.03 to 2.07 +/- 0.24 microg/mg and resulted in resistance to t-BOOH and hyperoxia as determined by reduction of Alamar blue or [3H]serotonin transport, respectively. SPAEC stably transfected with plasmids containing either mouse or human cDNA for MT were resistant to both t-BOOH and hyperoxia. In addition, we examined transition metal-independent, noncytotoxic AMVN-induced lipid peroxidation after metabolic incorporation of the oxidant-sensitive fluorescent fatty acid cis-parinaric acid into phospholipids and high-performance liquid chromatography separation. SPAEC that overexpressed MT after gene transfer completely inhibited peroxyl oxidation of phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, and sphingomyelin (but not phosphatidylethanolamine) noted in wild-type SPAEC. These data show for the first time that MT can 1) protect pulmonary artery endothelium against a diverse array of prooxidant stimuli and 2) directly intercept peroxyl radicals in a metal-independent fashion, thereby preventing lipid peroxidation in intact cells.
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