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Influence of pulmonary arterial endothelial cells on quinone redox status: effect of hyperoxia-induced NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1

Departments of ¹Anesthesiology, ²Pharmacology and Toxicology, and ³Pulmonary Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Departments of ⁴Biomedical Engineering and ⁵Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee; and ⁶Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Submitted 13 July 2005 ; accepted in final form 19 October 2005

The objective of this study was to examine the impact of chronic hyperoxic exposure (95% O₂ for 48 h) on intact bovine pulmonary arterial endothelial cell redox metabolism of 2,3,5,6-tetramethyl-1,4-benzoquinone (duroquinone, DQ). DQ or durohydroquinone (DQH₂) was added to normoxic or hyperoxia-exposed cells in air-saturated medium, and the medium DQ concentrations were measured over 30 min. DQ disappeared from the medium when DQ was added and appeared in the medium when DQH₂ was added, such that after 15 min, a steady-state DQ concentration was approached that was 4.5 times lower for the hyperoxia-exposed than the normoxic cells. The rate of DQ-mediated reduction of the cell membrane-impermeant redox indicator, potassium ferricyanide [Fe(CN)], was also approximately twofold faster for the hyperoxia-exposed cells. Inhibitor studies and mathematical modeling suggested that in both normoxic and hyperoxia-exposed cells, NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) was the dominant DQ reductase and mitochondrial electron transport complex III the dominant DQH₂ oxidase involved and that the difference between the net effects of the cells on DQ redox status could be attributed primarily to a twofold increase in the maximum NQO1-mediated DQ reduction rate in the hyperoxia-exposed cells. Accordingly, NQO1 protein and total activity were higher in hyperoxia-exposed than normoxic cell cytosolic fractions. One outcome for hyperoxia-exposed cells was enhanced protection from cell-mediated DQ redox cycling. This study demonstrates that exposure to chronic hyperoxia increases the capacity of pulmonary arterial endothelial cells to reduce DQ to DQH₂ via a hyperoxia-induced increase in NQO1 protein and total activity.

duroquinone; pulmonary endothelial cells; mathematical modeling

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