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Age-dependent regulation of antioxidant genes by p38α MAPK in the liver
2018
p38α is a redox sensitive MAPK activated by pro-inflammatory cytokines and environmental, genotoxic and endoplasmic reticulum stresses. The aim of this work was to assess whether p38α controls the antioxidant defense in the liver, and if so, to elucidate the mechanism(s) involved and the age-related changes. For this purpose, we used liver-specific p38α-deficient mice at two different ages: young-mice (4 months-old) and old-mice (24 months-old). The liver of young p38α knock-out mice exhibited a decrease in GSH levels and an increase in GSSG/GSH ratio and malondialdehyde levels. However, old mice deficient in p38α had higher hepatic GSH levels and lower GSSG/GSH ratio than young p38α knock-…
Transcriptional activation of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (Ape, Ref-1) by oxidative stress requires CREB.
1999
Abstract Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE alias Ref-1) is a multifunctional enzyme involved in DNA repair and redox regulation of transcription factors (e.g., AP-1). It also acts as a repressor of its own and other genes. Recently, it was shown that the level of APE mRNA and protein is enhanced upon treatment of cells with oxidative agents, such as hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), which gives rise to an adaptive response of cells to oxidative stress. Induction of APE is due to APE promoter activation. To elucidate the mechanism of transcriptional activation of APE by oxidative agents, we introduced mutations into the cloned human APE promoter and checked its activity in transient transf…