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  • Title: Intracellular oxidation of hydroethidine: compartmentalization and cytotoxicity of oxidation products.
    Author: Lyublinskaya OG, Zenin VV, Shatrova AN, Aksenov ND, Zemelko VI, Domnina AP, Litanyuk AP, Burova EB, Gubarev SS, Negulyaev YA, Nikolsky NN.
    Journal: Free Radic Biol Med; 2014 Oct; 75():60-8. PubMed ID: 25035077.
    Abstract:
    Hydroethidine (HE) is a blue fluorescent dye that is intracellularly converted into red-emitting products on two-electron oxidation. One of these products, namely 2-hydroxyethidium, is formed as the result of HE superoxide anion-specific oxidation, and so HE is widely used for the detection of superoxide in cells and tissues. In our experiments we exploited three cell lines of different origin: K562 (human leukemia cells), A431 (human epidermoid carcinoma cells), and SCE2304 (human mesenchymal stem cells derived from endometrium). Using fluorescent microscopy and flow cytometry analysis, we showed that HE intracellular oxidation products accumulate mostly in the cell mitochondria. This accumulation provokes gradual depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, affects oxygen consumption rate in HE-treated cells, and causes cellular apoptosis in the case of high HE concentrations and/or long cell incubations with HE, as well as a high rate of HE oxidation in cells exposed to some stimuli.
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