Sources of Reactive Oxygen Species in Normoxic and Hypoxic Naked Mole-Rat Brain

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Liam Eaton John Bengtsson Isabella Welch Abdul K. Halal Matthew E. Pamenter

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Oxygen availability dictates the rate of reactive oxygen species production from various cellular sources; excessive ROS accumulation can be cytotoxic. Mitochondria are usually the primary contributors to basal reactive oxygen species generation in the brain; however, xanthine oxidoreductase and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase can also produce considerable reactive oxygen species during hypoxia/reoxygenation. In the brains of most mammals, cellular death accompanies hypoxia-mediated surges in reactive oxygen species production, but this is avoided in the cortex of hypoxia-tolerant naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber). However, the contributions of various reactive oxygen species generators towards total reactive oxygen species homeostasis in naked mole-rat brain is unknown. We hypothesized that mitochondria remain the primary reactive oxygen species generators in naked mole-rat cortex and predicted that pharmacological inhibition of mitochondrial complex I would induce greater fluctuations in superoxide (O2•-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) than inhibition of xanthine oxidoreductase or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase. To test this, we used fluorescence microscopy to measure H2O2 and O2•- production from cortical slices during normoxia and hypoxia while pharmacologically inhibiting mitochondrial complex I, xanthine oxidoreductase, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase. Unexpectedly, we found xanthine oxidoreductase inhibition induced the greatest increase in O2•- during normoxia and hypoxia (~100% and 70%, respectively). Hypoxic inhibition of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase induced the greatest decrease in H2O2 by ~35% below baseline. Finally, although inhibition of mitochondrial complex I during hypoxia yielded significant fluctuations in O2•- and H2O2, these changes were considerably smaller than fluctuations induced by inhibiting xanthine oxidoreductase or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase. Together, and unlike in other rodent brain, our results suggest that xanthine oxidoreductase is the primary contributor to reactive oxygen species production in naked mole-rat cortex.

Keywords: NADPH oxidase, mitochondria, electron transport system, xanthine oxidoreductase, superoxide, hydrogen peroxide, reactive oxygen species, hypoxia

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EATON, Liam et al. Sources of Reactive Oxygen Species in Normoxic and Hypoxic Naked Mole-Rat Brain. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 1, jan. 2024. ISSN 2375-1924. Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/4857>. Date accessed: 07 dec. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v12i1.4857.
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