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SOD2 deficiency in hematopoietic cells in mice results in reduced red blood cell deformability and increased heme degradation.

Abstract
Among the three types of super oxide dismutases (SODs) known, SOD2 deficiency is lethal in neonatal mice owing to cardiomyopathy caused by severe oxidative damage. SOD2 is found in red blood cell (RBC) precursors, but not in mature RBCs. To investigate the potential damage to mature RBCs resulting from SOD2 deficiency in precursor cells, we studied RBCs from mice in which fetal liver stem cells deficient in SOD2 were capable of efficiently rescuing lethally irradiated host animals. These transplanted animals lack SOD2 only in hematopoietically generated cells and live longer than SOD2 knockouts. In these mice, approximately 2.8% of their total RBCs in circulation are iron-laden reticulocytes, with numerous siderocytic granules and increased protein oxidation similar to that seen in sideroblastic anemia. We have studied the RBC deformability and oxidative stress in these animals and the control group by measuring them with a microfluidic ektacytometer and assaying fluorescent heme degradation products with a fluorimeter, respectively. In addition, the rate of hemoglobin oxidation in RBCs from these mice and the control group were measured spectrophotometrically. The results show that RBCs from these SOD2-deficient mice have reduced deformability, increased heme degradation products, and an increased rate of hemoglobin oxidation compared with control animals, indicative of increased RBC oxidative stress.
AuthorsJoy G Mohanty, Enika Nagababu, Jeffrey S Friedman, Joseph M Rifkind
JournalExperimental hematology (Exp Hematol) Vol. 41 Issue 3 Pg. 316-21 (Mar 2013) ISSN: 1873-2399 [Electronic] Netherlands
PMID23142655 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightPublished by Elsevier Inc.
Chemical References
  • Hemoglobins
  • Heme
  • Peroxiredoxins
  • Superoxide Dismutase
  • superoxide dismutase 2
Topics
  • Animals
  • Erythrocyte Deformability (genetics, physiology)
  • Erythrocytes (enzymology, metabolism, physiology)
  • Erythroid Precursor Cells (enzymology, metabolism, physiology)
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells (enzymology, metabolism, physiology)
  • Heme (metabolism)
  • Hemoglobins (metabolism)
  • Mice
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Oxidative Stress (physiology)
  • Peroxiredoxins (deficiency, genetics)
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence
  • Superoxide Dismutase (deficiency, genetics)

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