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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 34, Pages 26096-26101Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M000120200
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG12141, AG09793] Funding Source: Medline
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Oxidative stress appears to play an important role in degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra (SN) associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), The SN of early PD patients have dramatically decreased levels of the thiol tripeptide glutathione (GSH), GSH plays multiple roles in the nervous system both as an antioxidant and a redox modulator. We have generated dopaminergic PC12 cell lines in which levels of GSH can be inducibly down-regulated via doxycycline induction of antisense messages against both the heavy and light subunits of gamma-glutamyl-cysteine synthetase, the rate-limiting enzyme in glutathione synthesis. Down-regulation of glutamyl-cysteine synthetase results in reduction in mitochondrial GSH levels, increased oxidative stress, and decreased mitochondrial function. Interestingly, decreases in mitochondrial activities in GSH-depleted PC12 cells appears to be because of a selective inhibition of complex I activity as a result of thiol oxidation. These results suggest that the early observed GSH losses in the SN may be directly responsible for the noted decreases in complex I activity and the subsequent mitochondrial dysfunction, which ultimately leads to dopaminergic cell death associated with PD.
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