Nitrite enhances neutrophil-induced DNA strand breakage in pulmonary epithelial cells by inhibition of myeloperoxidase
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- 5 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Carcinogenesis: Integrative Cancer Research
- Vol. 26 (9), 1642-1648
- https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/bgi116
Abstract
Chronic inhalation of environmental particles is associated with pulmonary carcinogenesis. Although the mechanism has not yet been fully elucidated, influx of inflammatory cells, including neutrophils, is suggested to play a major role in this process. Typically, in the particle-exposed lung, influx of neutrophils is accompanied by an accumulation of nitrite. Previous studies indicated that nitrite may affect the toxicity of neutrophils, involving an interaction with neutrophil-derived myeloperoxidase (MPO). To evaluate the possible consequences of this interaction for inflammation-mediated genotoxicity, we investigated the effect of nitrite on neutrophil-induced DNA damage in pulmonary target cells. Therefore, activated neutrophils were co-cultured with alveolar type II epithelial cells (RLE), and DNA strand breakage was evaluated using single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet assay). In this system, addition of nitrite caused an increase in neutrophil-induced DNA strand breakage in RLE cells, which was associated with an inhibition of MPO activity. Similar results were obtained by co-culturing RLE cells with neutrophils in the presence of the specific MPO inhibitor 4-aminobenzoic acid hydrazide (4-ABAH). To further investigate the mechanism underlying these observations, in vitro experiments were performed using mixtures of nitrite, MPO and its substrate H 2 O 2 . DNA strand breakage by reagent H 2 O 2 was inhibited when it was allowed to react with MPO before addition to the RLE cells. However, when MPO and H 2 O 2 were pre-mixed in the presence of nitrite or 4-ABAH, the inhibitory effect of MPO on resultant DNA damage was reversed. Further studies using catalase indicated that DNA strand breakage by the pre-mixtures of MPO, H 2 O 2 and nitrite was H 2 O 2 -specific, suggesting that nitrite prevents consumption of H 2 O 2 by MPO. Collectively, our results show that nitrite enhances neutrophil-induced DNA strand breakage in pulmonary epithelial cells. This effect is probably due to an inhibition of MPO activity, which increases the availability of its DNA strand breaking substrate H 2 O 2 .Keywords
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