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Involvement of hydrogen peroxide in asbestos-induced NFAT activation.

Li-J; Huang-B; Shi-X; Castranova-V; Vallyathan-V; Huang-C

Mol Cell Biochem 2002 May; 234-235(1-2):161-168

http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1015962916195

20022959

The present study investigated the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in activation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT), a pivotal transcription factor responsible for regulation of cytokines, by asbestos in mouse embryo fibroblast PW cells. Exposure of cells to asbestos led to the transactivation of NFAT in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Scavenging of asbestos-induced H2O2 with N-acety-L-cyteine (NAC, a general antioxidant) or catalase (a specific H2O2 inhibitor) resulted in inhibition of NFAT activation. In contrast, an increase in H2O2 generation by the addition of superoxide dismutase (SOD) slightly enhanced asbestos-induced NFAT activation. In addition, pretreatment of cells with sodium formate did not exhibit any inhibition of NFAT activity induced by asbestos. These results demonstrated that H2O2 appeared to play an important role in asbestos-induced NFAT transactivation. Furthermore, it was observed that incubation of cells with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) not only resulted in NFAT activation by itself, but also enhanced asbestos-induced NFAT induction. Pretreatment of cells with cyclosporin A (CSA), a pharmacological inhibitor of the phosphatase calcineurin, blocked both asbestos- and TPA plus asbestos-induced NFAT activation. These data suggest that asbestos is able to induce NFAT activation through H2O2-dependent and CSA-sensitive pathways, which may be involved in asbestos-induced carcinogenesis.

Animal-studies; Cell-function; Cell-alteration; Dose-response; In-vitro-study

Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 57 Old Forge Road,Tuxedo 10987, USA

MCBIB8

20020501

Journal Article

chuanshu@env.med.nyu.edu

2002

1-2

0300-8177

HELD

Research Tools and Approaches: Cancer Research Methods

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

MD; WV