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  • Title: Involvement of glutathione peroxidase activity in the stimulation of 5-lipoxygenase activity by glutathione-depleting agents in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
    Author: Hatzelmann A, Schatz M, Ullrich V.
    Journal: Eur J Biochem; 1989 Apr 01; 180(3):527-33. PubMed ID: 2496978.
    Abstract:
    We recently demonstrated activation of 5-lipoxygenase activity in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) on preincubation of the cells with glutathione-depleting agents, namely 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (Dnp-C1) and azodicarboxylic acid bis[dimethylamide] (diamide). In this paper we show that Dnp-C1, but not diamide, impairs the reduction of added organic peroxides in whole PMN. Also, since co-incubation of fatty acid hydroperoxides with arachidonate caused activation of 5-lipoxygenase, we propose that Dnp-C1 increases the peroxide level in PMN which is required for the onset of lipoxygenase activity. This could be substantiated in PMN homogenates by a glutathione-dependent depression of arachidonate 5-lipoxygenation. At higher arachidonate concentrations and in the presence of Ca2+ the glutathione effect was not observed but additional glutathione peroxidase also blocked this maximally stimulated 5-lipoxygenase. Together with other experiments, it became obvious that the formation of leukotrienes, but also of 15-lipoxygenase products, requires a sharply defined threshold level of fatty acid hydroperoxides which are generated by the lipoxygenases and counteracted by glutathione-dependent peroxidase(s). Dnp-C1 influences this equilibrium by removing glutathione and thereby inhibiting glutathione-dependent peroxidase activity. From our data we conclude that it is the physiological function of the peroxidase activity in PMN to determine an efficiently regulated threshold level of hydroperoxide products, below which no activation of 5-lipoxygenase or 15-lipoxygenase can occur.
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