Glutathione-Dependent Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species by the Peroxidase-Catalyzed Redox Cycling of Flavonoids
- 19 May 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Chemical Research in Toxicology
- Vol. 12 (6) , 521-525
- https://doi.org/10.1021/tx980271b
Abstract
Catalytic concentrations of apigenin (a flavone containing a phenol B ring) and naringin or naringenin (flavanones containing a phenol B ring) caused extensive GSH oxidation at a physiological pH in the presence of peroxidase. Only catalytic H2O2 concentrations were required, indicating a redox cycling mechanism that generated H2O2 was involved. Extensive oxygen uptake ensued, the extent of which was proportional to the extent of GSH oxidation to GSSG and was markedly increased by superoxide dismutase. These results suggest that prooxidant phenoxyl radicals formed by these flavonoids co-oxidized GSH to form thiyl radicals which activated oxygen. GSH also prevented the peroxidase-catalyzed oxidative destruction of these flavonoids which suggests that phenoxyl radicals initiated the oxidative destruction. This is the first time that a group of flavonoids have been identified as prooxidants independent of autoxidation reactions catalyzed by the transition metal ions Fe3+, Fe2+, Mn2+, and Cu2+.Keywords
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