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Morphological and oxidative alterations on Sertoli cells cytoskeleton due to retinol-induced reactive oxygen species.

Abstract：

:Retinol (vitamin A) is involved in several cellular processes, like cell division, differentiation, transformation and apoptosis. Although it has been shown that retinol is a limitant factor for all these processes, the precise mechanisms by which retinol acts are still unknown. In the present study we hypothesised that alterations in the cytoskeleton of Sertoli cells induced by retinol supplementation could indicate an adaptive maintenance of its functions, since it plays an important role in the transformation process that we observed. Previous results demonstrated that Sertoli cells treated with retinol showed an oxidative imbalance, that leads the cell to two phenotypes: apoptosis or transformation. Our group has identified characteristics of Sertoli cells transformed by retinol which results in normal cell functions modification. In the present study the actin filament fluorescence assay and the deformation coefficient showed a modification in the morphology induced by retinol. We also observed an oxidative alteration in isolated cytoskeleton proteins and did not show alterations when these proteins are analyzed by electrophoreses. Our results showed an increase in mitochondria superoxide production and a decrease in nitric oxide levels. All results were partially or completely reverted by co-treatment of the antioxidant Trolox. These findings suggest that the cytoskeleton components suffer individual alterations in different levels and that these alterations generate a global phenotype modification and that these processes are probably ROS dependent. We believe that the results from this study indicate an adaptation of the cytoskeleton to oxidative imbalance since there was not a loss of its function.

journal_name

Mol Cell Biochem

journal_title

Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors

de Oliveira RB,Klamt F,Castro MA,Polydoro M,Zanotto Filho A,Gelain DP,Dal-Pizzol F,Moreira JC

doi

10.1007/s11010-005-6339-z

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-03-01 00:00:00

pages

189-96

issue

1-2

eissn

0300-8177

issn

1573-4919

journal_volume

271

pub_type

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Morphological and oxidative alterations on Sertoli cells cytoskeleton due to retinol-induced reactive oxygen species.