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Toxicological Sciences 76, 376-383 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 by the Society of Toxicology
IN VITRO TOXICOLOGY |
Promyelocytic HL60 Cells Express NADPH Oxidase and Are Excellent Targets in a Rapid Spectrophotometric Microplate Assay for Extracellular Superoxide
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* Institute of Cancer Research, Division Oncological Toxicology and
Division of Applied and Experimental Oncology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
ABSTRACT
A great number of drugs, toxicants, and growth factors induce the generation of intermediary reactive oxygen species (ROS). The human promyelocytic leukemia HL60 cell line differentiated along the macrophage or neutrophil lineage is a model system that is frequently used for the generation of ROS by various agents. As a primary source of ROS the superoxide anion produced by an enzymatic complex, NADPH oxidase, is well established. The present study shows that nondifferentiated HL60 cells contain NADPH oxidase and can be used as a model for the assessment of oxidant as well as antioxidant compounds. The expression of the multicomponent NADPH oxidase was demonstrated in nondifferentiated HL60 cells at the molecular level by detection of the mRNAs of the components gp91phox, p47phox, and p67phox as well as functionally by phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA)-stimulated generation of superoxide, which was susceptible to inhibition by diphenyleneiodonium. The functional assay was performed using the cells in a log growth phase by adapting a standard microplate assay based on the classic superoxide dismutase-inhibitable reduction of cytochrome c. Validation of the microplate assay was carried out both with nonadherent differentiated HL60 cells and the adherent mouse monocyte-macrophage–like RAW 264.7 cell line, as well as with various compounds of oxidant (bleomycin sulfate, cis-diammineplatinum(II), camptothecin, TNF-alpha, IL-1beta), nonoxidant (4alpha-PMA, piracetam), and antioxidant (alpha-tocopherol, ascorbic acid) activity. In summary, we established a highly specific, reproducible and—with the aid of the nondifferentiated HL60 cell line—time-saving superoxide microplate assay as a valuable tool for the rapid screening of compounds for oxidative and antioxidative activity.
Key Words: promyelocytic HL60; NADPH oxidase; superoxide microplate assay; PMA; prooxidants; antioxidants.
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