Abstract：
:Oxidative stress has for a long time been associated with cell death, especially classical necrosis, however, its role in other cell death pathways is less clear. Here, we evaluated in a comparative way, the effect of four different reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavengers, N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), α-tocopherol and two superoxide dismutase mimetics, n(III)tetrakis(4-benzoic acid)porphyrin chloride, and 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl (Tempol), in four different cell death models, including menadione-triggered necrosis, staurosporine-induced apoptosis and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-induced apoptosis and necroptosis. While menadione-triggered necrosis was completely prevented by the classical ROS scavenger NAC and to a substantial amount by the other scavengers, ROS targeting was found to have a marginal effect on the other cell death modalities investigated. Despite its side-effects at higher concentrations, Tempol was able to substantially prevent TNF-induced apoptosis and to a somewhat lesser extent TNF-induced necroptosis. However, this seems to be separated from its ROS-scavenging function.
journal_name
Biol Chemjournal_title
Biological chemistryauthors
Kavčič N,Pegan K,Vandenabeele P,Turk Bdoi
10.1515/hsz-2017-0317subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-01-28 00:00:00pages
149-160issue
2eissn
1431-6730issn
1437-4315pii
/j/bchm.just-accepted/hsz-2017-0317/hsz-2017-0317.journal_volume
400pub_type
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