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Publication : Genetic requirement of p47phox for superoxide production by murine microglia.

First Author  Lavigne MC Year  2001
Journal  FASEB J Volume  15
Issue  2 Pages  285-7
PubMed ID  11156938 Mgi Jnum  J:67554
Mgi Id  MGI:1930845 Doi  10.1096/fj.00-0608fje
Citation  Lavigne MC, et al. (2001) Genetic requirement of p47phox for superoxide production by murine microglia. FASEB J 15(2):285-7
abstractText  An NADPH oxidase is thought to function in microglial cells of the central nervous system. These conclusions are based on pharmacological and immunochemical evidence, although these approaches are indirect and raise issues of specificity. For example, diphenyleneiodonium inhibits a variety of flavoenzymes, including xanthine oxidase, NADH dehydrogenase, and NADPH oxidase. Here, we provide genetic evidence that p47phox, an essential component of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase, is required for superoxide anion release from microglia. Microglia derived from newborn wild-type mice, but not from newborn p47phox-deficient (knockout; -/-) mice, produced superoxide after stimulation by opsonized zymosan or phorbol myristate acetate. Endogenous p47phox was detected only in wild-type microglia, consistent with selective superoxide production in these cells. Superoxide release was restored in p47phox-deficient microglia that were retrovirally transduced with human p47phox cDNA. Similar kinetics of superoxide generation were observed, consistent with the same enzyme functioning in wild-type and restored microglia. Immuno-detection of p47phox in transduced cells confirmed that restoration of superoxide release correlated with production of recombinant protein. These data provide genetic proof that p47phox is necessary for superoxide release by microglial cells and indicate that a system related to the phagocyte oxidase is active in these cells.
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