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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 417, Issue 2, Pages 194-202Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9861(03)00368-0
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initiation factor 2; N-acetyl-cysteine; oxidative stress; PC12 cells; serine/threonine protein phosphatases; protein synthesis
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Oxidative inactivation of protein tyrosine phosphatases and calcineurin is a well established mechanism; however, little information with regard to the effect of oxidants on PP1 and PP2A activity is available. Herein, we show that PP1 activity is inhibited by H2O2 treatment in differentiated PC12 cells both in vitro and in vivo experiments. Thiol-antioxidant N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) and reduced glutathione (GSH), when added in vitro to lysates from H2O2-treated cells, reversed PP1 inhibition. H2O2 treatment increased eIF2alpha phosphorylated levels eIL2alphaP in a time- and dose-dependent fashion and promoted protein synthesis inhibition. Interestingly, NAC pretreatment protected cells from H2O2-induced PP1 inactivation and, consequently, it abolished increased H2O2-induced eIF2alpha phosphorylation and protein synthesis inhibition. In addition, PP1 inhibitor tautomycin prevented both NAG induced PP1 reactivation and eIF2alphaP dephosphorylation in H2O2-treated cells. Taken together, our findings support a role for PP1 in eIF2alpha phosphorylation and oxidative stress-triggered translation down regulation. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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