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Effects of oxidants and antioxidants on nuclear factor kappa B activation in three different cell lines: evidence against a universal hypothesis involving oxygen radicals

Brennan, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8792-0499 and O'Neill, L. A. 1995. Effects of oxidants and antioxidants on nuclear factor kappa B activation in three different cell lines: evidence against a universal hypothesis involving oxygen radicals. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica 1260 (2) , pp. 167-175. 10.1016/0167-4781(94)00186-7

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Abstract

A model for NF kappa B activation involving reactive oxygen intermediates has recently been proposed. We have explored this model in three cell lines, Jurkat T cells, EL4.NOB-1 T cells and KB epidermal cells using hydrogen peroxide and two physiological activators of NF kappa B, interleukin-1 (IL1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) as stimuli. In agreement with earlier studies hydrogen peroxide activated NF kappa B in Jurkat, although only at much higher concentrations (10 mM) than those previously reported. However, hydrogen peroxide failed to activate in the two other cell lines under a range of conditions. Similarly, N-acetylcysteine only proved inhibitory in hydrogen peroxide and TNF treated Jurkat and failed to inhibit IL1 and TNF-activated NF kappa B in EL4.NOB-1 and KB cells respectively. N-Acetylcysteine inhibited IL1-induced interleukin-2 in EL4, however, demonstrating that N-acetylcysteine was biologically active. These results suggest that the reactive oxygen model of NF kappa B activation may be cell-type restricted. In contrast to the results with N-acetylcysteine, the antioxidant and metal chelator, pyrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) inhibited NF kappa B activation, although these effects may be unrelated to any antioxidant properties. PDTC also inhibited IL1-induced interleukin-2. Finally, studies with the pro-oxidant diamide showed that this could not activate NF kappa B in any of the cells and in contrast proved inhibitory. The results from this study therefore suggest that the reactive oxygen model of NF kappa B activation may be restricted to certain cell types and that the presence of such a system is not required for the activation of NF kappa B by IL1 and TNF.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Acetylcysteine/pharmacology, Animals, Base Sequence, Cell Line, Free Radicals, Humans, Hydrogen Peroxide/pharmacology, Interleukin-1/pharmacology, Mice, Molecular Sequence Data, NF-kappa B/metabolism, Oxygen/metabolism, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/pharmacology
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0006-3002
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 09:06
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57260

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