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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages 1972-+Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.03-0240fje
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idebenone; mitochondrial oxidative stress; MitoQ; frataxin
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Friedreich Ataxia ( FRDA), the most common inherited ataxia, arises from defective expression of the mitochondrial protein frataxin, which leads to increased mitochondrial oxidative damage. Therefore, antioxidants targeted to mitochondria should be particularly effective at slowing disease progression. To test this hypothesis, we compared the efficacy of mitochondria-targeted and untargeted antioxidants derived from coenzyme Q(10) and from vitamin E at preventing cell death due to endogenous oxidative stress in cultured fibroblasts from FRDA patients in which glutathione synthesis was blocked. The mitochondria- targeted antioxidant MitoQ was several hundredfold more potent than the untargeted analog idebenone. The mitochondria- targeted antioxidant MitoVit E was 350-fold more potent than the water soluble analog Trolox. This is the first demonstration that mitochondria- targeted antioxidants prevent cell death that arises in response to endogenous oxidative damage. Targeted antioxidants may have therapeutic potential in FRDA and in other disorders involving mitochondrial oxidative damage.
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