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Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71130-3932, USA; and
* Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan
1Correspondence: Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, USA. E-mail: taw{at}lsuhsc.edu
Intracellular redox status plays a critical role in cell function, such as proliferation. Oxidative stress, which elicits redox imbalance, also affects cell growth. Therefore, it is often difficult to distinguish the effects of redox imbalance from those of oxidative stress. The objective of this study was to determine the role of redox imbalance independent of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, in proliferation of human colonic CaCo-2 cells. Low concentrations of diamide plus 1,3-bis(2 chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) increased intracellular GSSG and decreased GSH and the GSH:GSSG ratio. These changes occurred within 30 min, which preceded a decrease in thymidine incorporation at 6 and 24 h. ROS formation was not detected under these conditions. This suppression of cell proliferative activity was attenuated by N-acetyl cysteine, in parallel with restoration of the intracellular GSH redox status. DL-buthionine-[S, R]-sulfoximine (BSO) decreased intracellular GSH level, but did not change the GSH:GSSG ratio. BSO alone had no effect on cell proliferation, but its presence exaggerated the suppressive effect of diamide plus BCNU. Flow cytometric analysis showed that cells were arrested at G1-to-S transition and G2/M phase. Collectively, this study shows that mild intracellular redox imbalance inhibited cell proliferation independent of ROS generation. Moreover, cells with compromised cellular GSH were susceptible to redox imbalance-induced inhibition of proliferation.—Noda, T., Iwakiri, R., Fujimoto, K., Aw, T. Y. Induction of mild intracellular redox imbalance inhibits proliferation of CaCo-2 cells.
Key Words: cellular redox • GSH:GSSG ratio • cell cycle arrest • intestinal cell turnover • EGF
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