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Title: Heme-oxygenase-1 promotes polychlorinated biphenyl mixture aroclor 1254-induced oxidative stress and dopaminergic cell injury.

Authors: Lee, Donna W; Gelein, Robert M; Opanashuk, Lisa A

Published In Toxicol Sci, (2006 Mar)

Abstract: Dopaminergic (DAergic) systems have been identified as putative targets for polycholorinated biphenyl (PCB) actions. However, the precise mechanisms leading to neurotoxicity are unresolved. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) were recently shown to mediate injury in DAergic MN9D cells following exposure to Aroclor 1254 (A1254), a commercial PCB mixture. The oxidative stress response in DAergic cells included a persistent expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1). This study tested the hypothesis that a sustained PCB-induced HO-1 response leads to abnormally high Fe levels, which generates ROS production and mediates death in the MN9D DAergic cell model. Accordingly, results indicated that A1254 augmented intracellular Fe levels in MN9D cells after 24 h. Fe chelation by desferoxamine or pharmacologic inhibition of HO activity with tin-protoporphyrin reduced Fe accumulation, ROS production, and cytotoxicity following A1254 exposure. HO-1 over-expression predisposed MN9D DAergic cells to enhanced ROS production and cell death in response to PCBs. Conversely, antisense inhibition of HO-1 expression prevented PCB-induced ROS production and cell death. These observations suggest that enhanced HO-1 catalytic activity and subsequent liberation of Fe participate in neurotoxic DAergic cell injury caused by A1254 exposure in vitro.

PubMed ID: 16319092 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Animals; Cell Line; Cell Survival/drug effects; Chlorodiphenyl (54% Chlorine)/toxicity*; Deferoxamine/pharmacology; Dopamine/metabolism*; Environmental Pollutants/toxicity*; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology; Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects; Heme Oxygenase-1/antagonists & inhibitors; Heme Oxygenase-1/genetics; Heme Oxygenase-1/metabolism*; Iron/metabolism; Metalloporphyrins/pharmacology; Mice; Neurons/drug effects*; Neurons/metabolism; Oligoribonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology; Oxidative Stress/drug effects; Protoporphyrins/pharmacology; Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism

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