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ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 39-47Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2010.3496
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- National Institutes of Health [HL58984, DK64959]
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The synthesis of glutathione, a major cellular antioxidant with a critical role in T cell proliferation, is limited by cysteine. In this study, we evaluated the contributions of the x(C)(-) cystine transporter and the transsulfuration pathway to cysteine provision for glutathione synthesis and antioxidant defense in naive versus activated T cells and in the immortalized T lymphocyte cell line, Jurkat. We show that the x(C)(-) transporter, although absent in naive T cells, is induced after activation, releasing T cells from their cysteine dependence on antigen-presenting cells. We also demonstrate the existence of an intact transsulfuration pathway in naive and activated T cells and in Jurkat cells. The flux through the transsulfuration pathway increases in primary but not in transformed T cells in response to oxidative challenge by peroxide. Inhibition of the transsulfuration pathway in both primary and transformed T cells decreases cell viability under oxidative-stress conditions. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 15, 39-47.
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