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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 1450-+Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1096/fj.01-0948fje
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redox-balance; oxidative stress; T cells; glutathione reductase; glutathione peroxidase; glutathione transferase
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Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) is a pleiotropic cytokine involved in several diseases. Various effects of TNF-alpha are mediated by the induction of a cellular state consistent with oxidative stress. Glutathione (GSH) is a major redox-buffer of eukaryotic cells and is important in the defense against oxidative stress. We hypothesized that persistent TNF-alpha secretion could induce oxidative stress through modulation of GSH metabolism. This hypothesis was examined in a transgenic mouse model with low, persistent expression of human TNF-alpha in the T cell compartment. Major findings were i) marked tissue-specific changes in GSH redox status and GSH regulating enzymes, with the most pronounced changes in liver; ii) moderate changes in GSH metabolism and up-regulation of GSH-regulating enzymes were observed in lung and kidney from transgenic mice; and iii) liver, lung and kidney from transgenic mice had decreased levels of total glutathione, whereas splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells had a marked increase in oxidized glutathione as the major change. Oxidative stress induced by persistent low-grade exposure to TNF-alpha in transgenic mice appears to involve marked organ-specific alterations in glutathione redox status and glutathione-regulating enzymes with the most pronounced changes in the liver. These mice constitute a useful model for immunodeficiency syndromes and chronic inflammatory diseases involving pathogenic interaction between TNF-alpha and oxidative stress.
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