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In vitro and in vivo oxidative stress associated with Alzheimer's amyloid beta-peptide (1-42)

Abstract：

:The amyloid beta-peptide (A beta)-associated free radical oxidative stress model for neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain predicts that neuronal protein oxidation is a consequence of A beta-associated free radicals [8]. In this study we have used both in vitro and in vivo models of beta-amyloid (A beta) toxicity to detect free radical induced oxidative stress by the measure of protein carbonyl levels. These model systems employed cultured hippocampal neurons exposed to exogenous synthetic A beta(1-42) and transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) animals expressing A beta(1-42). We also investigated the importance of the A beta(1-42) Met35 residue for free radical formation in peptide solution and for peptide-induced protein oxidation and neuronal toxicity in these model systems. A beta(1-42) in solution yielded an EPR spectrum, suggesting that free radicals are associated with this peptide; however, neither the reverse [A beta(42-1)] nor methionine-substituted peptide [A beta(1-42)Met35Nlc] gave significant EPR spectra, suggesting the importance of the methionine residue in free radical formation. A beta(1-42) addition to cultured hippocampal neurons led to both neurotoxicity (30.1% cell death, p < 0.001) and increased protein oxidation (158% of controls, p < 0.001). and both of those effects were not observed with reverse or Met35Nle substituted peptides. C. elegans transgenic animals expressing human A beta(1-42) also had significantly increased in vivo protein carbonyls (176% of control animals, p < 0.001), consistent with our model. In contrast, transgenic animals with a Met35cys substitution in A beta(1-42) showed no increased protein carbonyls in vivo, in support of the hypothesis that methionine is important in A beta-associated free radical oxidative stress. These results are discussed with reference to the A beta-associated free radical oxidative stress model of neurotoxicity in AD brain.

journal_name

Neurobiol Aging

journal_title

Neurobiology of aging

authors

Yatin SM,Varadarajan S,Link CD,Butterfield DA

doi

10.1016/s0197-4580(99)00056-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-05-01 00:00:00

pages

325-30; discussion 339-42

issue

eissn

0197-4580

issn

1558-1497

pii

S0197458099000561

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In vitro and in vivo oxidative stress associated with Alzheimer's amyloid beta-peptide (1-42)