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. 2001 Jan 1;353(Pt 1):91–100.

Evidence for the presence of phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase in human platelets: implications for its involvement in the regulatory network of the 12-lipoxygenase pathway of arachidonic acid metabolism.

M Sutherland 1, P Shankaranarayanan 1, T Schewe 1, S Nigam 1
PMCID: PMC1221546  PMID: 11115402

Abstract

The 12-lipoxygenase pathway of arachidonic acid metabolism in platelets and other cells is bifurcated into a reduction route yielding 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (12-HETE) and an isomerization route forming hepoxilins. Here we show for the first time the presence of phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (PHGPx) protein and its activity in platelets. The ratio of the activity of PHGPx to that of cytosolic glutathione peroxidase (GPx-1) was consistently found to be approx. 1:60 in platelets and UT7 megakaryoblasts. Moreover, short-lived PHGPx mRNA was detected in megakaryocytes but not in platelets. Carboxymethylation of selenium-containing glutathione peroxidases by iodoacetate, which results in the inactivation of PHGPx and GPx-1 without inhibition of 12-lipoxygenase, markedly altered the pattern of arachidonic acid metabolism in human platelets. Whereas the formation of 12-HETE was inhibited by 80%, a concomitant accumulation of 12-hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid (12-HpETE) by two orders of magnitude as well as the formation of hepoxilins A(3) and B(3) were observed. The formation of hepoxilins also occurred when 12-HpETE was added to untreated platelets. In selenium-deficient UT7 cells, which were devoid of GPx-1 but not of PHGPx, the reduction of 12-HPETE was retained, albeit with a lower rate than in control cells containing GPx-1. We therefore believe that both GPx-1 and PHGPx are involved in the regulatory network of the 12-lipoxygenase pathway in platelets and other mammalian cells. Moreover, the diminution of hydroperoxide tone in platelets incubated with arachidonic acid leads primarily to the formation of 12-HETE, whereas the increase in hydroperoxide tone (a situation found under oxidative stress or selenium deficiency or on incubation with 12-HPETE) partly diverts the 12-lipoxygenase pathway from the reduction route to the isomerization route, thus resulting in the formation of hepoxilins.

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