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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS
Volume 1620, Issue 1-3, Pages 245-251Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4165(03)00003-5
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ROS; SOD; oxidative stress; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Eukaryotic cells have developed mechanisms to rapidly respond towards the environment by changing the expression of a series of genes. There is increasing evidence that reactive oxygen species (ROS), besides causing damage, may also fulfill an important role as second messengers involved in signal transduction. Recently, vie have demonstrated that deletion of SOD1 is beneficial for the acquisition of tolerance towards heat and ethanol stresses. The present report demonstrates that a sod1 mutant was the only one capable of acquiring tolerance against a subsequent stress produced by menadione, although this mutant strain had exhibited high sensitivity to oxidative stress. By measuring the level of intracellular oxidation, lipid peroxidation as well as glutathione metabolism, we have shown that in the SOD1-deleted strain, an unbalance occurs in the cell redox status. These results indicated that the capacity of acquiring tolerance to oxidative stress is related to a signal given by one or all of the above factors. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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