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1Cardiology Section and 2Molecular Biology Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco; and Departments of 3Medicine and 4Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California
Submitted 15 November 2004 ; accepted in final form 20 January 2005
Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is one of the main antioxidant enzymes that protects the heart against ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) is a short period of ischemia-reperfusion that reduces subsequent prolonged I/R injury. Although MnSOD localizes in mitochondria, the immediate subcellular distribution of MnSOD in heart after IPC and I/R has not been studied. In a Langendorff mouse heart model, IPC significantly improved cardiac function and reduced the infarction size induced by I/R. Immunoblotting and double immunostaining in fresh preparations revealed that I/R resulted in an increase in cytosolic MnSOD content accompanied by the release of cytochrome c. In contrast, IPC increased mitochondrial MnSOD and reduced cytosolic MnSOD and cytochrome c release induced by I/R. We found that compared with freshly prepared fractions, the freeze-thaw approach results in mitochondrial integrity disruption and release of large amounts of MnSOD into the cytosol along with mitochondrial markers even in the absence of I/R. In contrast, fresh preparations exhibit early MnSOD release into the cytosol after I/R that is prevented by IPC and cyclosporin A administration.
manganese superoxide dismutase; reactive oxygen species; myocardial infarction; mitochondria; cytosol; permeability transition pore
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