From the Institute of Pathology and
Research
Laboratory Cardiology, Charité Hospital, D-10098 Berlin,
Germany and § Gerontology, Institute for Ageing and Health,
University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, United
Kingdom
Received for publication, August 5, 2002, and in revised form, November 17, 2002
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There is good evidence that telomere shortening
acts as a biological clock in human fibroblasts, limiting the number of
population doublings a culture can achieve. Oxidative stress also
limits the growth potential of human cells, and recent data show that the effect of mild oxidative stress is mediated by a stress-related increased rate of telomere shortening. Thus, fibroblast strains have
donor-specific antioxidant defense, telomere shortening rate, and growth potential. We used low-density gene expression array analysis of fibroblast strains with different antioxidant potentials and telomere shortening rates to identify gene products responsible for
these differences. Extracellular superoxide dismutase was identified as
the strongest candidate, a correlation that was confirmed by Northern
blotting. Over-expression of this gene in human fibroblasts with low
antioxidant capacity increased total cellular superoxide dismutase
activity, decreased the intracellular peroxide content, slowed the
telomere shortening rate, and elongated the life span of these cells
under normoxia and hyperoxia. These results identify
extracellular superoxide dismutase as an important antioxidant gene
product in human fibroblasts, confirm the causal role of oxidative
stress for telomere shortening, and strongly suggest that the
senescence-like arrest under mild oxidative stress is
telomere-driven.
There is increasing evidence from a great variety of studies that
aging is the result of the limited ability of biological systems to
avoid stress, especially oxidative stress, and to cope with the
resulting molecular damage (1-3). This might be true even for human
cellular replicative senescence, which is the complete and
irreversible loss of replicative capacity in telomerase-negative cells
after a number of population doublings, a number that is constant under
standard cell culture conditions. The ability to maintain telomeres
above a critical length appears to be crucial for replicative
senescence; mortal cells lose some DNA from the tips of telomeres with
every round of DNA replication until they senesce (4), and expression
of telomerase in the same cells stabilizes telomere length and allows
unlimited growth (5). Telomere shortening in telomerase-negative cells
is partly caused by the inability of the DNA replication machinery to
fully copy the very end of the lagging strand (the "end replication
problem" (6)), which sets a lower limit to the amount of telomeric
sequence lost per generation. In addition, mild oxidative stress
accelerates telomere shortening and is actually responsible for most of
the shortening seen, for instance, in human fibroblasts under standard culture conditions (7, 8).
Mild oxidative stress is not immediately cytostatic. However, it
diminishes the replicative capacity of cells. A good experimental example of mild oxidative stress is chronic hyperoxia, which, depending
on the oxygen partial pressure and the antioxidant properties of the
cells, increases markers of oxidative stress such as malondialdehydes, protein carbonyls (9), lipofuscin (10, 11), and intracellular peroxides
(12) and can seriously limit replicative capacity (8, 13, 14). On the
other hand, culture of cells under chronic hypoxia (down to about 3%
oxygen partial pressure) results in a slower accumulation of stress
markers (10) and an increased replicative life span (13, 15, 16),
indicating that the standard cell culture condition in itself already
poses a mild oxidative stress.
Interestingly, using different pro- and antioxidant treatments,
telomere shortening per cell division could be varied by 1-2 orders of
magnitude (for review, see Ref. 17). A highly significant variation of
telomere shortening rates was already found under constant
environmental conditions comparing human fibroblast strains from
different donors, and this variation was correlated to differences in
antioxidant defense capacity (18). However, such differences could not
be explained completely by expression patterns of CuZn superoxide
dismutase
(CuZn-SOD),1
manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD), and catalase
(19).
It was further shown that oxidative stress-induced single-strand breaks
accumulate preferentially in telomeres (7, 20) and that these breaks
lead to faster telomere loss during DNA replication (21), possibly by
transiently stalling the replication fork (22). These results suggested
that a telomere-specific deficiency of single-strand break repair
causes the stress-dependence of telomere shortening. However, the gene
products responsible for low telomeric repair efficiency are unknown.
To identify possible candidate genes for antioxidant defense and
telomere damage repair, we compared the expression patterns of
stress-related genes in seven human fibroblast strains with different
antioxidant capacity and different telomere shortening rates
under conditions of both normoxia and hyperoxia. Of 234 genes,
11 showed a variation in the expression pattern, which correlated to
antioxidant capacity and/or telomere shortening rate. Although there
were four DNA modification/repair genes among them, a correlation of
gene expression to telomere shortening rate was confirmed only for
topoisomerase 1 (TOP1). The expression of three heat
shock genes (HSP47, HSP90, and HSPB2)
as well as two genes known to be involved in drug metabolism
(NNMT and GST M1) correlated with differences in
antioxidant defense capacity between strains. Most strikingly, among
all antioxidant genes, extracellular superoxide dismutase
(EC-SOD) was the one with the highest expression level, the
greatest differences between cell strains, and the clearest correlation
to both steady-state peroxide levels and telomere shortening rate. This
result was confirmed using Northern blotting in a wider panel of cell
lines. Higher EC-SOD expression correlated with a higher SOD
activity in cell lysates. Over-expression of EC-SOD
increased cellular SOD activity, elongated the replicative life span
under normoxia and hyperoxia, and slowed down telomere shortening. We
conclude that EC-SOD has a major function in the protection of human
fibroblasts against mild oxidative stress and that prevention of
telomere damage is a major part of this function.
Cell Culture--
Human embryonic lung fibroblasts MRC-5 and
WI-38 were obtained from ECACC and ATCC, respectively. Human
foreskin fibroblasts (BJ strain) originated from the laboratory
of J. R. Smith (Houston, TX). All other strains were dermal
fibroblasts from adult donors. All strains were extensively
characterized in our laboratory in terms of oxidative stress markers,
growth potential and telomere length maintenance (12, 18, 23). Cells
were grown in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium plus 10% fetal calf
serum in parallel under either normoxia (control) or 40% normobaric
hyperoxia using a three-gas cell culture incubator (Zapf Instruments,
Sarstedt, Germany). An EC-SOD cDNA clone (24) was
obtained from S. L. Marklund (Umea, Sweden). Full-length cDNA was
cloned into pBabe-puro and verified by sequencing. MRC-5 fibroblasts at
a population doubling (PD) level of 25-30 were transduced with either
empty pBabe-puro or pBabe-EC-SOD retrovirus.
Antioxidative Defense Capacity--
Fibroblasts were grown for
at least 1 week in parallel under either normoxia or hyperoxia and then
stained with dihydrochlorofluorescin diacetate as described
(12). The fluorescence intensity of the intracellularly trapped
dihydrochlorofluorescein (DCF) indicates the amount of intracellular
peroxides and other oxidizing species. The DCF fluorescence in 2 × 104 cells was measured in a flow cytometer (PARTEC,
Munster, Germany) using blue excitation and green emission wavelengths.
The steady-state antioxidative capacity (AOC) was defined as the ratio
DCF(normoxia)/DCF(hyperoxia), resulting in an AOC of 1 for cell strains
that can completely counteract the rise in intracellular peroxides
under chronic hyperoxic stress.
Expression Arrays--
Atlas Human Stress Arrays
(Clontech) were used according to the
manufacturer's manual. Total RNA from 1-2 × 107
cells in logarithmic growth phase was DNase-treated, and poly(A) RNA
was enriched by hybridization to biotinylated oligo(dT). Probes were
labeled with 50 µCi of [ RT-PCR and Northern Blotting--
RNA was prepared either as
described above or using the RNeasy Total RNA kit (Qiagen). Northern
blots were probed for Mn-SOD, EC-SOD, GADD153, and
Genes for MTH1 and TOP1 were expressed at low
level and thus were analyzed by RT-PCR (SuperScipt One-Step RT-PCR,
Invitrogen). SOD Activity--
2 × 106 cells were carefully
washed and homogenized in 60 µl of phosphate buffer (25). After
centrifugation the total SOD activity in the supernatant was measured
using the Bioxytech SOD-525 Kit (OXIS Health Products).
Telomere Length--
Cells at subconfluency were embedded in
0.65% low-melting agarose plugs at a density of 107
cells/ml before treatment with proteinase K (7). DNA was digested completely by HinfI (60 units/plug, Roche Molecular
Biochemicals) at 37 °C. Plugs were analyzed in a 1% agarose gel by
pulsed field gel electrophoresis (BioRad). Gels were blotted to Hybond
N+ membranes (Amersham Biosciences) and hybridized with the telomeric
probe (TTAGGG)4 directly conjugated to alkaline phosphatase
(Promega, Madison, WI). A chemiluminescence signal was recorded on film within the linear range and analyzed in an imaging densitometer (BioRad). The average telomere length was calculated as the weighted mean of the optical density as described previously (20). The telomere
shortening rate per PD was calculated as the slope of the linear
regression. To test for nonspecific degradation of DNA, blots
were rehybridized with the minisatellite probe (CAC)8, which was end-labeled with [32P- We had shown previously that both the antioxidative capacity
(measured as the ability of cells to maintain their peroxidative potential under increased oxygen partial pressure) and the telomere shortening rate varied widely among fibroblast strains derived from
different donors (18). Interestingly, both parameters were significantly correlated, suggesting that oxidative stress might be a
major cause of telomere shortening in agreement with earlier data (for
review, see Ref. 17). To identify genes that might be responsible for
the observed differences, we selected seven fibroblast strains,
representing the extremes in terms of telomere shortening rate and
antioxidative capacity, for array analysis (Fig.
1). Four of the selected strains (BJ,
P30, P35, P36) showed low telomere shortening rates and either high
(BJ, P36) or moderate (P30, P35) antioxidative capacity, whereas two
others (MRC-5, WI-38) displayed a large increase in DCF fluorescence
under hyperoxia and high telomere shortening rates. One strain (P13)
showed a high telomere shortening rate and a moderate antioxidant
capacity.
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-33P]dATP during
reverse transcription. cDNA was purified by column chromatography
and hybridized to the arrays. Quantification was performed using
ImageQuaNT software (Amersham Biosciences). The threshold for a
hybridization signal was defined as at least two times background
variation (determined as the average of all absolute background
measurements). Signals lower than this threshold were excluded from the
analysis.
-Actin was used as the reference signal. Reproducibility
was demonstrated in two strains with independent RNA preparations. For
each strain, processing and arraying of normoxia and hyperoxia samples
were done in parallel. Threshold values were set at 2-fold for the
comparison of expression data between normoxia and hyperoxia within the
same strain, and at 3-fold for comparison of expression values between
cell strains.
-actin
as control. Probes were generated by RT-PCR or by PCR using the
EC-SOD cDNA (24) as template with the primers given in
Table I. Fragments were gel-purified, tested by restriction analysis,
and random prime labeled with 32P-dCTP. ImageQuaNT software
(Amersham Biosciences) was used for quantitation.
-Actin was included as the reference control in each
sample. Primers are given in Table I. PCR reactions were run for 30, 33, and 36 cycles to control the linearity of amplification. The expression of the EC-SOD transgene was also controlled by
RT-PCR. RNA was reverse transcribed using random priming with
Truescript RT (Hybaid-AGS), and cDNA equivalent to 50 ng of total RNA was used for a PCR reaction of 30 cycles at 58 °C.
Two different non-overlapping primer pairs were used (see Table
I). The 738-bp PCR band was cloned, and
its correspondence to the cDNA sequence of EC-SOD was
confirmed by sequencing.
Primers for Northern probe production and semiquantitative RT-PCR
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Fig. 1.
Correlation between telomere shortening rate
under 40% hyperoxia and AOC in human fibroblast strains from 15 different donors. Strains used for expression array
analysis are shown as filled circles.
In these seven cell strains, we measured the expression of 234 genes
involved in stress response under both normoxia and hyperoxia using
low-density arrays. Of these, 129 genes did not display any significant
differences between strains or under increased oxidative stress using
the significance levels as described under "Experimental
Procedures." Differences in the expression levels in most of the
remaining 105 genes were clearly not correlated to either the telomere
shortening rate or AOC. Only a few genes showed an expression pattern
that might suggest correlation to cellular peroxide levels or telomere
shortening rates. Among these were none of the kinases, cell
cycle-related genes, or structural proteins included in the arrays.
Those genes with potentially related patterns fall into four groups,
namely drug-metabolizing enzymes, heat shock proteins, DNA modification
and repair enzymes, and antioxidant enzymes (Fig.
2).
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Among the drug-metabolizing enzymes (Fig. 2A), nicotinamide-n-methyltransferase (NNMT) was expressed at a significantly lower level in strains with low antioxidant capacity. By catalyzing NAD methylation, NNMT might be involved in free radical defense. On the other hand, glutathione S-transferase M1 (GST M1) tended to be higher in MRC-5 and WI-38. GST M1 transfers reduced glutathione to a wide variety of exogenous and endogenous substances to detoxify them.
Three heat shock proteins, HSPB2, HSP90, and HSP47, showed lower mRNA levels in those fibroblast strains with low AOC. None of these mRNAs appeared to be regulated by hyperoxia (Fig. 2B). It is possible that a relative deficiency in these gene products contributes to an increased pro-oxidant state in MRC-5 and WI-38 fibroblasts.
Among the DNA modification and repair genes, four of them showed expression patterns in the arrays that appeared related to antioxidant capacity and telomere shortening rate (Fig. 2C). However, such a correlation remains to be evaluated in the case of replication factor A 2 (RPA2), whereas Northern blotting and semiquantitative RT-PCR failed to confirm a significant correlation of either MTH1 or GADD153 expression with telomere shortening rate (data not shown).
Topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) mRNA expression was at the
limit of significance in the array data (Fig. 2C). However,
topoisomerases have been implicated in telomere stability in both yeast
(26) and human cells (27). Thus, the expression pattern warranted further examination by RT-PCR. Results from seven fibroblast strains showed a significant inverse correlation between TOP1 levels
and telomere shortening rates (Fig. 3,
A and B).
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The mRNA levels for the antioxidant enzymes CuZn-SOD, glutathione peroxidase, heme oxygenase 1, and catalase were generally low and were hardly different between strains and between normoxia and hyperoxia (Fig. 2D). This result is not unexpected in the case of catalase, which is known to be posttranscriptionally regulated. In fact, Western blotting showed significantly higher catalase immunoreactivity in BJ as compared with MRC-5 or WI-38 (not shown). The array analysis indicated a higher Mn-SOD content in BJ fibroblasts as compared with all other strains (Fig. 2D), a result that has been confirmed by Northern blotting (not shown). However, the most striking result was the considerable difference in EC-SOD mRNA levels between cells with low and high peroxide contents (Fig. 2D). Moreover, hyperoxia resulted in a compensatory up-regulation of this mRNA in the two strains with the best antioxidant capacity (BJ and P36).
These results were confirmed by Northern blot (Fig. 3C). The
correlation between array and Northern blot results for
EC-SOD was significant (p = 0.02, hyperoxia). To establish the relevance of EC-SOD expression
more firmly, additional fibroblast strains (including those shown in
Fig. 1), which had previously been characterized in terms of DCF
fluorescence and telomere shortening rate (18), were included in the
analysis. Up-regulation of EC-SOD by hyperoxia was observed
in a number of cell strains, especially those with high antioxidant
capacity (Fig. 3C). In one strain (P30), up-regulation by
hyperoxia was seen by Northern, but not in the arrays, possibly because
of a higher noise level in the arrays. For 13 of 18 examined fibroblast
strains grown under normoxia, EC-SOD expression correlated strongly with cellular antioxidative capacity (Fig.
4A). Essentially the same
result was found for the correlation between EC-SOD
expression under hyperoxia and antioxidant capacity (Fig.
4B), although only 11 strains were examined there. The two
strains with high EC-SOD expression but comparatively low antioxidant
capacity (Fig. 4A) displayed conspicuous deregulation of the
catalase protein content (data not shown). We have not yet identified a
plausible explanation for the deviation from the common trend
toward high antioxidant capacity in three strains.
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EC-SOD expression is not only a strong statistical predictor of antioxidant defense in most fibroblast strains; it is also significantly inversely correlated to the rate of telomere shortening both under normoxia (Fig. 4C) and under hyperoxia (Fig. 4D). Interestingly, even strains that do not fit the general trend, in Fig. 4, A and B, did not obviously deviate from the correlations shown in Fig. 4, C and D, which might indicate that a moderately good antioxidant capacity suffices to maintain a low telomere shortening rate. Taken together, these correlative data point to EC-SOD as the strongest candidate for maintaining low levels of oxidative stress in human fibroblasts under hyperoxia and low rates of telomere shortening.
To discover whether cellular SOD activity is dependent on the level of
transcription of EC-SOD mRNA, we measured total SOD activity in cell extracts from the most extreme cell strains, BJ and
MRC-5. SOD activity in BJ cells was significantly higher than that in
MRC-5 (Fig. 5). Retroviral transduction
of an EC-SOD cDNA (24) resulted in an at least a 10-fold
over-expression of EC-SOD mRNA in MRC-5 fibroblasts as
judged by RT-PCR (not shown). This increased the total cellular SOD
activity in MRC-5 mass cultures up to a level similar to that in BJ
fibroblasts (Fig. 5). Thus, we conclude that expression of
EC-SOD contributes significantly to cellular SOD
activity.
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Over-expression of EC-SOD markedly decreased the
concentration of intracellular peroxides as measured by cellular median
DCF fluorescence intensity, both under normoxia and under hyperoxia (Fig. 6A). In accordance with
their lower antioxidant capacity, MRC-5 fibroblasts achieve
significantly less population doublings than BJ fibroblasts, both under
normoxia and, even more so, under hyperoxia (7, 12). The replicative
life span of MRC-5 fibroblasts under normoxia increased by about 25%
after transfection with EC-SOD as compared with parallel
vector only-transfected controls (Fig. 6B). This is
comparable with the magnitude of effect of typical antioxidants and
free radical scavengers (7, 8, 16). When parental MRC-5 and
vector-transfected cells were transferred to hyperoxia at a PD of about
30, they became senescent after about 1 PD in accordance with earlier
results (7, 8). EC-SOD over-expression sustained growth of
MRC-5 cells under hyperoxia more than twice as long (Fig.
6B).
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To examine whether EC-SOD expression would influence the
telomere shortening rate of MRC-5 cells, we measured telomere lengths in both vector-transfected and EC-SOD-over-expressing MRC-5
fibroblasts. Cells transduced with empty virus showed an even faster
rate of telomere shortening under hyperoxia than parental ones.
This was not because of unspecific DNA degradation, as shown by
rehybridization of the blots with an interstitial minisatellite probe
(Fig. 7A). Mitochondrial
uncoupling results in an even more exaggerated telomere shortening
within a single cell cycle in mouse zygotes (28). Over-expression of
EC-SOD resulted in a significantly lower shortening rate
under both normoxia and hyperoxia (Fig. 7). Telomere shortening in
EC-SOD-over-expressing fibroblasts under hyperoxia was even slower than in control cells under normoxia. Thus, increased expression of EC-SOD both slows down telomere shortening and postpones
replicative senescence in MRC-5 fibroblasts under normoxic and
hyperoxic culture conditions.
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We used low-density arrays of stress-related genes to identify possible candidates involved in the control of telomere shortening rate and antioxidant capacity in human fibroblasts under mild oxidative stress. This resulted in the identification of only one of the DNA modification and repair enzymes; high TOP1 expression was correlated significantly to low telomere shortening rate. A number of data link the action of topoisomerases to telomeres. Loss of topoisomerase III leads to telomere shortening in yeast (26). Topoisomerase II was shown to cleave telomeres preferentially (29). Topoisomerases interact with members of the RecQ helicase family (30), which are known to bind telomeres. Telomerase activity modifies the sensitivity of human cells to topoisomerase inhibitors (27). TOP1 is involved in the resolution and repair of single-strand breaks, and we have shown that oxidant-induced single-strand breaks in telomeres are a major determinant of the telomere shortening rate (7, 21). It will be interesting, therefore, to examine the possible role of TOP1 in telomere repair and length maintenance more closely.
Our array studies revealed that the expression of only one superoxide dismutase, EC-SOD, correlated strongly with antioxidant defense capacity in human fibroblast strains. Steady-state levels of EC-SOD mRNA in antioxidatively competent strains were between 5 and 20 times higher than levels of CuZn-SOD. They were also 5-20 times higher than EC-SOD levels in incompetent strains. This is in agreement with earlier data showing up to 100-fold variation in EC-SOD expression between human fibroblast strains (25). EC-SOD expression was found to be inducible by mild chronic hyperoxia in some (generally antioxidatively competent) strains but not in others. Such noninducibility has been reported previously (31). Strains with high expression of EC-SOD (either endogenously or from a transgene) showed high total SOD activity in cellular lysates, suggesting that EC-SOD contributes significantly to the cellular superoxide dismutase activity. It has previously been shown that between 5 and 25% of EC-SOD protein is not secreted but is retained in the cell lysates (25). This retained fraction is not bound to extracellular heparin sulfate proteoglycan, but little more is known about its distribution.
The two most obvious locations for cell-bound EC-SOD protein are at the plasma membrane and within the endolysosomal system. In both locations, the enzyme might contribute significantly to cellular antioxidant defenses; NADH oxidation by the plasma membrane oxidoreductase system has recently been suggested as a likely source of superoxide (32). SOD activity at the plasma membrane might thus block the generation of reactive oxygen species at source. Alternatively, lysosomes are a major site for cellular iron storage and are thus highly susceptible to damage by hydrogen peroxide (33). The presence of EC-SOD in the endolysosomal system could inhibit superoxide-dependent recycling of catalytically active iron.
In line with these hypotheses, over-expression of EC-SOD was found to decrease the amount of cellular peroxides and to slow down telomere shortening, under both standard conditions and increased oxidative load, i.e. hyperoxia. This result confirms that telomere shortening under conditions of low to mild oxidative stress is to a large extent caused by telomeric DNA damage (7, 17).
The senescence-like growth arrest of human fibroblasts exposed to mild oxidative stress is undistinguishable from "Hayflick senescence" under standard culture conditions, in terms of telomere length (8, 23) and phenotype (34, 35). The fact that over-expression of an antioxidant, EC-SOD, slows down telomere shortening and extends the replicative life span under both normoxia and hyperoxia in parallel strongly suggests that senescence under such mild oxidative stress conditions is telomere-driven.
In mice, EC-SOD over-expression or knockout phenotypes are
comparatively mild. However, EC-SOD knockout mice are more
sensitive to hyperoxia (36), and this increased sensitivity does not
seem to be due to modification of the inflammatory response in the lungs (37). More interestingly, EC-SOD plays an important role in brain
function, as both young EC-SOD-over-expressing and knockout mice are impaired in spatial learning and memory, which has been attributed to a deregulation of nitric oxide catabolism (38, 39).
Conversely, knockout mice are more sensitive to focal cerebral ischemia
(40), and EC-SOD over-expression increases the resistance of
mice to global ischemia (41). Furthermore, improved learning and memory
performance in aged mice over-expressing EC-SOD has been
demonstrated recently (42). Together, these data suggest a protective
role of EC-SOD in the brain, possibly related to its antioxidant
function rather than to its role in nitric oxide turnover. In humans,
we found short telomeres in patients with stroke-related (vascular)
dementia. We assumed that short telomeres might indicate low
antioxidant capacity and thus higher risk of stroke-induced brain
damage in vivo (18). Data demonstrating a protective role
for EC-SOD against ischemic brain damage (40, 41) and age-related
deterioration (42) together with the demonstration of a role for EC-SOD
in telomere maintenance in human cells (this study) are in agreement
with this interpretation.
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We thank Stefan Marklund (Umea, Sweden) for the gift of EC-SOD cDNA and for helpful discussions. We thank B. Keys for expert technical assistance and C. Martin-Ruiz for critical reading the manuscript.
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* The work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Medical Research Council, United Kingdom.The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
¶ To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 44-191-256-3310; Fax: 44-191-219-5074; E-mail: t.vonzglinicki@ncl.ac.uk.
Published, JBC Papers in Press, December 9, 2002, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M207939200
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The abbreviations used are: SOD, superoxide dismutase; AOC, antioxidative capacity; DCF, dihydrochlorofluorescein; EC-SOD, extracellular superoxide dismutase; GADD153, growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible protein 153; GST M1, glutathione S-transferase M1; MTH1, 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine triphosphatase; NNMT, nicotinamide-n-methyltransferase; PD, population doubling; TOP1, topoisomerase 1; ANOVA, analysis of variance; RT, reverse transcription.
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