Published ahead of print on April 29, 2004, doi:10.1164/rccm.200309-1282OC
Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 170, Number 3, August 2004, 313-318
A more recent version of this article appeared on August 1, 2004
Submitted on September 15, 2003
Accepted on April 25, 2004
Discordant Extracellular Superoxide Dismutase Expression and Activity in Neonatal Hyperoxic Lungs
Lisa B Mamo1, Hagir B Suliman2, Brenda-Louise Giles3, Richard L Auten1, Claude A Piantadosi2, and Eva Nozik-Grayck1*
1 Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA,
2 Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA,
3 Department of Pediatrics, Manitoba Institute of Child Health and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: grayc001{at}mc.duke.edu.
Antioxidant defenses in the neonatal lung are required to adapt to the oxygen (O2)-rich post-natal environment, and oxidant/antioxidant imbalance predisposes to lung injury when high inspired O2 concentrations are used in neonatal lung diseases. The lung's main extracellular enzymatic defense against superoxide, extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD), is closely regulated during development. In testing the hypothesis that developmental change in EC-SOD expression and activity in the immature lung would be disrupted by hyperoxia we found doubling of lung EC-SOD protein in newborn rats exposed to 95% O2 for 1 week. Furthermore, EC-SOD protein secretion increased but EC-SOD enzyme activity did not change with O2 exposure. EC-SOD mRNA did not change at multiple points between 6 hours and 8 days. Lung EC-SOD recovered by immunoprecipitation after 1 week of O2 showed strong increases in protein nitrotyrosine and variable, non-significant differences in protein carbonyl content. These data provide the first direct evidence that EC-SOD is itself a target of nitration in hyperoxia, and offer a plausible explanation for low EC-SOD activity despite its increased secretion by O2-exposed neonatal lung.
Key words: nitrotyrosine, protein carbonyl, antioxidant, oxygen
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