Abstract
Erythroid cells are highly prone to oxidative damage generated during erythropoiesis and thus are well equipped with antioxidant defense systems. However, their roles have been poorly characterized. Here, we investigated the role of peroxiredoxin II in mouse erythropoiesis. Loss of Prx II significantly increased apoptosis and cell cycle arrest leading to abnormal erythropoiesis at 3weeks of age when erythropoietin levels were almost same between wild type and Prx II -/-. In Prx II -/- bone marrow cells, DNA tail length as an indicator of the oxidative damage was greatly increased and mRNAs of the molecules associated with DNA damage and repair and transcription regulators of antioxidant enzymes were also significantly increased. In addition, N-Acetyl-l-Cysteine treatment significantly decreased immature erythroblasts and apoptotic cells increased in Prx II -/- BMCs. These results strongly demonstrate that Prx II plays an essential role in maintaining normal erythropoiesis by protecting DNA damage.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 189-195 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
Volume | 424 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 20 Jul 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the World Class Institute (WCI) Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea (MEST), by the Grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea ( 0020877 ), the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea , and by the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MEST) (No. 2011-0030134) and by the KRIBB Research Initiative Program Grant ( KGM2140712 ) in Korea. Do Young Yoon was supported by a Korea Research Foundation (2010-0019306) in Korea. We thanks Dr. Cynthia Dunbar in NHLBI/NIH, MD, U.S.A for technical assistance with experiment of Colony-forming assays.
Keywords
- Apoptosis
- Cell cycle arrest
- DNA damage
- Erythropoiesis
- Knockout mouse
- Peroxiredoxin II