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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M001434200 on May 3, 2000
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 29, 22461-22469, July 21, 2000
Myeloperoxidase Is Involved in
H2O2-induced Apoptosis of HL-60 Human Leukemia
Cells*
Brett A.
Wagner ,
Garry R.
Buettner§,
Larry W.
Oberley§,
Christine J.
Darby§, and
C. Patrick
Burns ¶
From the Departments of Medicine and
§ Radiology (Free Radical and Radiation Biology Graduate
Program), The University of Iowa College of Medicine and The University
of Iowa Cancer Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Received for publication, February 22, 2000, and in revised form, April 28, 2000
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ABSTRACT |
We examined the mechanism of
H2O2-induced cytotoxicity and its
relationship to oxidation in human leukemia cells. The HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cell line was sensitive to
H2O2, and at concentrations up to about 20-25
µM, the killing was mediated by apoptosis. There was
limited evidence of lipid peroxidation, suggesting that the effects of
H2O2 do not involve hydroxyl radical. When
HL-60 cells were exposed to H2O2 in the
presence of the spin trap
-(4-pyridyl-1-oxide)-N-tert-butylnitrone
(POBN), we detected a 12-line electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum
assigned to the POBN/POBN· N-centered spin adduct previously
described in peroxidase-containing cell-free systems. Generation of
this radical by HL-60 cells had the same H2O2
concentration dependence as initiation of apoptosis. In contrast,
studies with the K562 human erythroleukemia cell line, which is often
used for comparison with the HL-60, and with high passaged HL-60 cells
(spent HL-60) studied under the same conditions failed to generate
POBN·. Cellular levels of antioxidant enzymes superoxide
dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and catalase did not explain the
differences between these cell lines. Interestingly, the K562 and spent
HL-60 cells, which did not generate the radical, also failed to undergo H2O2-induced apoptosis. Based on this we
reasoned that the difference in H2O2-induced
apoptosis might be due to the enzyme myeloperoxidase. Only the
apoptosis-manifesting HL-60 cells contained appreciable immunoreactive protein or enzymatic activity of this cellular enzyme.
When HL-60 cells were incubated with methimazole or 4-aminobenzoic acid
hydrazide, which are inhibitors of myeloperoxidase, they no longer
underwent H2O2-induced apoptosis. Hypochlorous
acid stimulated apoptosis in both HL-60 and spent HL-60 cells,
indicating that another oxidant generated by myeloperoxidase induces
apoptosis and that it may be the direct mediator of
H2O2-induced apoptosis. Taken together these
observations indicate that H2O2-induced
apoptosis in the HL-60 human leukemia cell is mediated by
myeloperoxidase and is linked to a non-Fenton oxidative event marked by
POBN·.
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INTRODUCTION |
Neoplastic and normal cells produce H2O2
in the mitochondria, cytosol, and peroxisomes during physiologic
processes as a product of intracellular oxidases and superoxide
dismutase (SOD)1 (1).
H2O2 is an important intracellular compound
that influences cellular redox state (2), acts as or generates
signaling molecules (1, 2), and modulates gene expression (3). However,
as a reactive oxygen species, H2O2 can cause
tissue injury in many cell types by both apoptosis and necrosis (4). In
this regard, H2O2 has been implicated as a
possible intracellular mediator in the toxicity of external stimuli
such as ultraviolet radiation (5-8), ionizing radiation (9-11),
hematoporphyrin-mediated photodynamic therapy (12) and chemotherapy
(13-15). This cytotoxicity is likely mediated by some oxidative event.
H2O2 traverses membranes almost as rapidly as
water. Because it is only a weak oxidizing agent (kinetically), it is
generally assumed that it reacts with Fe2+ or
Cu+ to form ·OH via the Fenton reaction (16,
17).
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(Eq. 1)
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It is often assumed that this one-electron reduction is the
pathway to explain H2O2 toxicity (18). However,
we do not know if H2O2 itself or an oxidative
product such as ·OH targets membranes to react with
polyunsaturated fatty acids or cholesterol (19) or causes oxidation of
DNA or proteins to trigger cytotoxicity.
In phagocytes, microbicidal activity depends upon toxic oxygen-derived
products such as H2O2, HOCl derived from
H2O2, and subsequent oxidizing species such as
chloramines and ·OH (20). HOCl is generated by
H2O2 in the presence of chloride and the
granule protein myeloperoxidase (MPO) (donor:
H2O2 oxidoreductase, EC 1.11.1.7).
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(Eq. 2)
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Oxidative modification by this
H2O2/MPO/halide system may play a part in
inflammatory, neurologic, neoplastic, and vascular disease. One
specific marker of myeloperoxidase-related oxidation, 3-chlorotyrosine,
has been isolated from low density lipoprotein in human atherosclerotic
lesions at considerably higher concentrations than in normal aorta
(21). Furthermore, chlorotyrosine levels were higher in vivo
in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with acute
respiratory distress syndrome than those in control patients, and the
amounts correlated with myeloperoxidase concentration (22).
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, may be initiated by diverse
stimuli, some of which are pathologic and some of which are part of the
normal processes of development and homeostasis in living organisms. We
have a partial understanding of the signaling events that precede the
morphologic changes characteristic of apoptosis; however, we do not
understand how chemical stimuli such as H2O2
result in the induction of apoptosis (23-25). For many agents that
induce apoptosis, the target(s) or effectors that transduce the
initiation event are unidentified. There is evidence that reactive
oxygen species such as H2O2 may play a role in
this process especially with selected initiators, because antioxidants
inhibit apoptosis (26-28). In fact, both forms of cell death,
apoptosis and necrosis, can be blocked by antioxidants (29).
In the present study we investigated the oxidative events that are
associated with H2O2-induced apoptosis in the
human HL-60 leukemia cell. We found that the generation of a POBN free
radical correlated with programmed cell death in human leukemia cells and both seemed to be mediated by cellular MPO.
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EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
Cell Culture and Membrane Damage Assessment--
HL-60 and K562
cells (obtained from the American Type Tissue Culture, Rockville, MD)
were cultured at 37 °C in humidified air in RPMI 1640 with 10%
fetal bovine serum (FBS; Life Technologies, Inc.) and supplemented with
2 mM L-glutamine, 85 units/ml penicillin, and
85 µg/ml streptomycin. HL-60 is a human myeloid leukemia cell that
grows as a suspension culture (30). HL-60 cells produce MPO that has
the same electrophoretic behavior as MPO found in normal human
neutrophils (31). HL-60 cells can be induced by chemicals and drugs to
differentiate, but in this study the undifferentiated line was used. It
is known to undergo apoptosis when exposed to anticancer agents (32).
High-passaged HL-60 cells that had lost much of their biological
versatility, including the ability to undergo
H2O2-induced apoptosis, are referred to as
spent HL-60 cells. These cells were passed greater than 85 times, and
at about that point they began to change biologically. K562 cells are a human myeloid leukemia cell line derived from the bone marrow of a
patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia (33). K562 cells grow as a
suspension culture and are often used for comparison to HL-60 (34).
Cells in the log phase (48-h cultures) were washed and placed in the
above media with the cell density adjusted to 10 × 106/ml (electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR)
studies) or 0.5 × 106/ml (apoptosis studies). All
experiments were done in the presence of RPMI 1640 plus 10% fetal calf
serum unless specified otherwise. Cells were counted with a cell
counter (model Zf; Coulter, Inc., Hialeah, FL). Trypan blue dye
exclusion was used to assess membrane damage during exposures to
H2O2.
DNA Fragmentation Analysis by Agarose Gel
Electrophoresis--
After treatment, cells were washed and
resuspended in phosphate-buffered saline, and a cell pellet was formed
by centrifugation at 500 × g in an Eppendorf Model
5415C centrifuge. The supernatants were removed, and 330 µl of
Sarkosyl detergent lysis buffer (50 mM Tris, 10 mM EDTA, 0.5% w/v sodium-N-lauroyl sarcosine,
pH 7.5) and 13 µl of Proteinase K (15.6 mg/ml) (Roche Molecular
Biochemicals GmbH, Germany) were added, vortexed, and allowed to digest
overnight at 37 °C. RNase A (0.3 mg/ml) was added, and the samples
were incubated for 1 h at 56 °C. The lysates were then
extracted with phenol/chloroform/isoamyl alcohol (25:24:1), vortexed,
and centrifuged at 16,000 × g for 5 min. The upper
phase containing the DNA was transferred to new tubes, 40 µl of 3 M sodium acetate and 1 ml of 100% ethanol were added, and
the samples were kept overnight at 20 °C to precipitate DNA. The
sample was then centrifuged at 16,000 × g for 10 min,
the supernatant was removed, and 0.5 ml of 70% ethanol was added to
the DNA pellet. The sample was centrifuged for 5 min at 16,000 × g, and the supernatant was removed. The DNA pellet was then
placed under a vacuum until a dry pellet was obtained. The DNA was
solubilized in Tris/EDTA (10 mM/1 mM) buffer
and mixed. The resultant DNA in solution was then quantitated spectrophotometrically at 260/280 nm. Total DNA (2 µg) was mixed with
10× BlueJuice gel loading buffer (Life Technologies, Inc.) and
tracking dye and loaded on 1% agarose gels containing ethidium bromide. Gels were electrophoresed for 2.5 h at 50 V, destained with water, and illuminated with ultraviolet light for examination and photography.
Morphological Assessment of Apoptosis by Cytospin
Preparations--
Following experimental exposures to oxidants, cells
underwent a 24-h additional incubation at 37 °C, and then aliquots
were centrifuged for 5 min at 300 × g. The cell
pellets were then resuspended in 0.9% NaCl with 0.5 mg/ml bovine serum
albumin. Cytospin preparations were made with the resuspended cells.
Dried slide preparations were then stained with Wright's stain, and
morphological evaluations were made by light microscopy. Triplicate
100-cell counts on consecutive cells in at least three regions of each
slide from different samples were done to determine the percentage of
apoptotic cells. The morphologic features of apoptosis in the HL-60
cells have been described (35). Cells were scored as apoptotic if there
was clear expression of either densely condensed nuclear chromatin, including chromatin collapsed down into crescents along the nuclear envelope, or apoptotic bodies. If these features were absent, then both
cell shrinkage and membrane blebbing were required.
MPO Assay--
Peroxidase activity was determined by the ability
to oxidize tetramethylbenzidine (36, 37). Briefly, cells were washed twice using 0.9% NaCl, and the cell density was adjusted to 1 × 106 cells/ml using the Coulter Model Zf cell counter. Cells
(200,000 total) were then placed in 3.05 ml of MPO assay buffer (50 mM sodium acetate, pH 5.4) and sonicated for 10 s with
an ultrasonic probe. The cellular lysate was equilibrated to room
temperature, then 50 µl of 100 mM
3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine in dimethylformamide was added and the
assay was initiated with 200 µl of 5.25 mM
H2O2 in assay buffer. The sample was mixed and
allowed to incubate for 3 min prior to the addition of 100 µl of
catalase (0.3 mg/ml in water), then 3.4 ml of ice-cold 200 mM acetic acid in water was added to quench the reaction.
The samples were briefly centrifuged to remove cell debris, and the
absorbance was read at 655 nm.
Western Blot Analysis--
Washed cells were sonicated on ice
(three times for 30 s each) using a Vibra Cell cup horn sonicator
(Sonics and Materials, Inc., Newtown, CT) at maximum power. Protein
from 1.5 × 105 cells was placed in each well,
separated by electrophoresis on 12.5% polyacrylamide gels (38), and
subjected to Western analysis. Briefly, separated proteins were
transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes and blocked in 5% dry milk
in 0.01 M Tris/0.15 M NaCl buffer, pH 8.0, and
0.1% Tween 20. Blots were rinsed three times and incubated with MPO
antibodies for 1 h at room temperature. Monospecific rabbit
polyclonal antiserum against MPO was acquired from Dr. William M. Nauseef (39) and diluted 1:500 for use. After further washing, the blot
was incubated in goat anti-rabbit IgG conjugated with horseradish
peroxidase at a 1:10,000 dilution for 1 h at room temperature.
Blots were washed again, and bands were visualized using chemiluminescence.
Detection of Radicals--
To a HL-60 cell suspension (10 × 106/ml) in RPMI 1640/10% FBS were added 50 mM POBN and then H2O2. Immediately,
an aliquot of the sample was placed into an EPR quartz flat cell and
positioned in a TM110 cavity of a Bruker ESP-300 EPR
spectrometer. The EPR scans were initiated in the "additive" mode
for 80 consecutive scans, with approximately 55 min of monitoring time.
To monitor ·OH radical production, as hydroxyethyl radical
adducts, experiments were set up as described above but with the
addition of 1% ethanol. EPR instrument settings were as follows:
40-milliwatt microwave power at a frequency of 9.78 GHz; modulation
frequency of 100 kHz; receiver gain 2.5 × 105;
modulation amplitude 0.7 G; and scanning rate 50 G/42 s with a time
constant of 20.5 ms. Spin adduct concentration estimates were made
using 3-carboxyproxyl (Aldrich) as a standard (40).
Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances--
Cell samples were
pelleted at 300 × g for 10 min and washed once with
phosphate-buffered saline and additionally with 0.9% NaCl. The sample
pellet was suspended in 2 ml of 0.9% NaCl, and then butylated
hydroxytoluene in ethanol (385 µM final concentration) was added to the samples, which were then frozen at 20 °C until assay. Samples were thawed and vortexed vigorously, and an aliquot was
taken for a Lowry protein assay (41). To the remaining sample was added
230 µl of trichloroacetic acid-saturated solution (250 g of
trichloroacetic acid to 100 ml of water), which was then vortexed, and
centrifuged at 3000 × g (10 min) to precipitate protein. Supernatant (1.6 ml) was placed in glass test tubes, and 200 µl of 14.4 mg/ml 2-thiobarbituric acid in 0.1 N NaOH
solution was added. The samples were incubated for 30 min at 75 °C.
Standards were prepared from the hydrolysis of 1,1,2,2-ethoxypropane in a 40% trichloroacetic acid solution. After cooling, the absorbances of
the samples were read at 535 nm and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) values were calculated as both nanomoles/2.5 × 106 cells and nanomoles/mg of cell protein.
Antioxidant Enzymes--
Mn-SOD and CuZn-SOD (42), catalase
(43), and glutathione peroxidase (44) enzymatic activities were
determined in washed cells after sonication.
Statistical Analysis--
The results are expressed as mean ± S.E. Significant differences were evaluated with the unpaired
Student's t test or one-way analysis of variance.
Dunnett's test was used for pairwise comparisons versus
control (45). All statistical tests were carried out at the 5% level
of significance.
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RESULTS |
Analysis of Apoptosis by DNA
Fragmentation--
H2O2 is a natural product
of metabolism, but at sufficient concentrations it produces cell
damage. To demonstrate whether H2O2 induces
apoptosis in HL-60 cells, we treated HL-60 cells with incremental
concentrations of H2O2 for 24 h, isolated
genomic DNA, and separated it on agarose gels looking for the important hallmark of apoptosis, endonuclease fragmentation of DNA. Fig. 1 is a representative gel showing DNA
laddering induced by H2O2. Cells incubated with
0 or 2 µM of H2O2 showed no
evidence of DNA fragmentation. However, cells treated with 20 µM H2O2 showed considerable DNA
fragmentation with the internucleosomal base pair fragments that were
similar to those produced by UV light in the lane 2 positive
control. Studies at intermediate concentrations indicated that the
threshold for apoptosis was 10-15 µm (data not shown). At >20
µM H2O2 concentrations,
nonspecific DNA degradation predominated (loss of high molecular weight
DNA and non-endonuclease-associated fragmentation of DNA resulting in
smearing). This loss of high molecular weight DNA and background
smearing is consistent with cell necrosis. Therefore,
H2O2 induces apoptosis in HL-60 cells at lower
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Fig. 1.
H2O2 induces
apoptosis in HL-60 cells by DNA fragmentation analysis.
HL-60 cells were treated with H2O2 for 24 h, and genomic DNA was isolated, separated on a 1% agarose gel for
2.5 h at 50 V (2 µg per lane), and stained with ethidium
bromide. Lanes from left to right are
100-base pair DNA ladder standards (Life Technologies, Inc.), HL-60
cells ultraviolet light-irradiated at 302 nm for 5 min and incubated an
additional 3 h; the remaining lanes are HL-60 cells
treated with increasing concentrations of H2O2
for 24 h.
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Membrane Damage by H2O2--
Increasing
concentrations of H2O2 were added to the growth
media of HL-60 cells, and after 24 h, trypan blue exclusion was measured as an estimate of membrane damage. As can be seen in Fig.
2, 85% of the cells were capable of
excluding the dye at 2 µM H2O2
and more than 71% at 20 µM. Beginning at 200 µM H2O2 the value differed
significantly from the control mean; therefore, at higher
concentrations, the membrane became permeable. This indicates that the
necrosis observed at H2O2 concentrations of 200 µM and above is associated with, and possibly due to,
acute membrane damage.

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Fig. 2.
H2O2 increases
membrane permeability. HL-60 cells were incubated with
increasing concentrations of H2O2 for 24 h, and membrane integrity was estimated by trypan blue exclusion. Each
point represents the mean and S.E. of independent determinations from
seven different experiments. The overall test of differences among the
H2O2 concentrations was statistically
significant (p = 0.007 by one-way analysis of
variance); only the 200 µM level differed significantly
from the control mean and is so indicated by the asterisk.
The replicates at 2000 and 20,000 µM were all zero and
are also likely to be significantly lower than the controls.
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Minimum Time of H2O2 Exposure Required for
Apoptosis--
To determine the minimum duration of
H2O2 exposure time required to induce apoptosis
in HL-60 cells, we exposed them to 20 µM
H2O2, and then, at 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 5 min,
catalase (1000 units/ml) was added to remove the
H2O2. The cells were then allowed to incubate
for 24 h before the DNA was extracted for agarose gel
electrophoresis. Fig. 3 shows that, at
the minimum, 1.5 min of exposure to 20 µM
H2O2 is required to induce apoptosis.

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Fig. 3.
Initiation of apoptosis requires a 90-s
exposure to H2O2. HL-60 cells were
exposed to 20 µM H2O2, catalase
(1000 units/ml) was added at the times shown to remove
H2O2, and then the cells were incubated at
37 °C for 24 h. Cells were harvested, DNA isolated, and
laddering was examined. Lanes from left to
right are catalase alone, H2O2
alone, then H2O2 plus catalase added at the
times shown. At time 0, catalase and H2O2 were
added simultaneously.
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Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances--
To determine if lipid
peroxidation has a role in H2O2-induced
apoptosis, we evaluated the levels of TBARS from cells treated with
different concentrations of H2O2 for 24 h
(Fig. 4). There was a low level of TBARS
production from H2O2 at all concentrations. For
comparison, the greater TBARS generation from Fe2+ is also
shown. This suggests that lipid peroxidation is not being induced to
any great extent by the H2O2. The TBARS
production was also determined as nanomoles/mg of protein, and the
conclusions were similar.

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Fig. 4.
Limited production of TBARS by
H2O2. HL-60 cells (2.5 × 106 cells/ml) were incubated for 24 h with increasing
concentrations of either H2O2 or, for
comparison, Fe2+ in RPMI 1640 plus 10% FBS, then TBARS
were determined. Values expressed as nmol per 2.5 × 106 cells are the means ± S.E. of samples from three
separate determinations and have been normalized to 0 µM
to represent the specific production resulting from
H2O2 or Fe2+. The TBARS production
by H2O2 was significantly lower than
Fe2+ at all concentrations above 2 µM (20 µM, p = 0.03; 200 µM,
p = 0.0001; 2000 and 20,000 µM,
p < 0.0001) as indicated by
asterisks.
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It is known that TBARS are unstable in the presence of
H2O2 (46), and such degradation could explain
our low TBARS values. However, this instability is usually seen at
mM concentrations and, in fact, 20 mM
H2O2, the highest concentration we used in any
experiment, degraded the malondialdehyde-thiobarbituric acid complex by
less than 6% (46).
Limited Hydroxyl Radical Production by Cells--
We next measured
the generation of ·OH measured as hydroxyethyl adducts of POBN
detected by EPR after exposing HL-60 cells to 20 µM
H2O2 in RPMI 1640/10% FBS in the presence of
50 mM POBN under the same conditions as those for
apoptosis. There was generation of hydroxyethyl adduct, but the
magnitude of the adduct production was no greater than that produced by
the cell-free media exposed to H2O2 (data not
shown). This observation does not preclude the possibility of
production of ·OH by the cells but only that the amount produced
by the cells is not distinguishable from that produced in a cell-free
environment. This can be compared with the generation of about 20-fold
more ·OH when HL-60 cells are exposed to Fe2+.
Generation of POBN/·POBN Adduct by HL-60 Cells Exposed to
H2O2--
We next examined other free radical
events resulting from H2O2 exposure using the
same conditions as those for apoptosis. Fig.
5 shows representative EPR spectra
obtained from HL-60 cells treated with different concentrations of
H2O2 in the presence of the spin trap 4-POBN.
Unexpectedly, a 12-line spin adduct was observed. It had a
concentration threshold of 20 µM
H2O2 and was not detected at 2 µM
or in the absence of H2O2. There was no
concentration dependence above 20 µM. This signal has a
configuration (aN1 = 14.95 G,
aN2 = 1.56 G, aH = 1.85 G) that is
compatible with the POBN/POBN· adduct previously described in a
cell-free system (37). In addition, human MPO,
H2O2, and POBN in the absence of cells generate a strong EPR signal identical to the one observed in the cells, and
this can be blocked by methimazole (spectra not shown). In our studies
with HL-60 cells, the radical depends upon the presence of POBN and
H2O2, but it was eliminated if catalase (1000 units/ml) was present. This signal was not observed in the absence of
cells. Using 3-carboproxyl standards, we estimate that the maximal
concentration of the POBN/POBN· adduct is 60-80 nM.
HL-60 cells studied in RPMI 1640 alone or normal saline without serum
also generated the POBN/POBN· when exposed to
H2O2. It is not known whether the POBN·
is a determinant of H2O2 cytotoxicity or a
marker of a resultant oxidative event. In any case, the overall pattern
of radical generation from increasing concentrations of
H2O2 quantitatively paralleled that of
apoptosis (Figs. 1 and 5), suggesting a relationship exists.

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Fig. 5.
Spin trapping: POBN/POBN· radical
adduct is generated by exposure of HL-60 cells to
H2O2. Results are representative spectra
from one of at least three independent experiments. HL-60 cells (10 ×106) were exposed to increasing concentrations of
H2O2 in the presence of 50 mM POBN
in RPMI 1640/10% FBS.
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Lack of POBN· Generation by K562 Cells and Spent HL-60
Cells--
We next studied human erythroblastic K562 cells, a line
often used for comparison to HL-60 cells. When exposed to 20 µM H2O2 under identical
conditions as the HL-60 cell, there was no generation of
POBN/POBN· adduct by the K562 cells; however, a small
carbon-centered radical consistent with a lipid-derived radical was
detected (47, 48) (Fig. 6). A loss of the
ability to generate POBN· was also noted in a high passaged
HL-60 cell line referred to as spent HL-60 cells. This latter
observation provides a particularly appropriate comparison, because the
spent HL-60 line has the same lineage as the HL-60 line.

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Fig. 6.
Lack of POBN/POBN·
radical adduct from K562 and spent HL-60 cells.
Shown is the spin trapping of a small carbon-centered lipid-derived
radical when K562 cells, spent HL-60, and cell-free media were exposed
to 20 µM H2O2 in RPMI 1640/10%
FBS in the presence of 50 mM POBN.
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Antioxidant Enzyme Activity--
Table
I shows the activity of the major
antioxidant enzymes in the three cell types. There were few
statistically significant differences. The content of Mn-SOD was higher
in the HL-60 cells than that of the K562 (p = 0.005)
cells but not of the spent HL-60 cells. Likewise, the cellular content
of catalase was significantly higher in the HL-60 cells compared with
K562 (p = 0.0001) and spent HL-60 cells
(p = 0.0002). However, these differences were small,
and except for the small differences in catalase, they were not
corroborated by statistical analysis when expressed as activity per
cell number rather than per milligram of protein. Thus, it seems
unlikely that antioxidant enzymes explain the differences in radical
generation or the apoptosis observations.
Lack of Apoptosis in K562 Cells and Spent HL-60 Cells--
To
further explore a possible relationship of the POBN· to
apoptosis, we exposed K562 and spent HL-60 cells, neither of which generate the radical, to 20 µM
H2O2 under the same conditions that induced
apoptosis in the HL-60 cells. No apoptosis by these cell lines was
detected (Fig. 7). In other experiments
not shown, we found no apoptosis at higher H2O2
concentrations, which were tested up to 2 mM. Studies with
the K562 and spent HL-60 cells showed only necrosis beginning above 200 µM.

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Fig. 7.
Lack of apoptosis by K562 and spent HL-60
cells. Cells were treated with 20 µM
H2O2 for 24 h, and apoptosis was measured
by DNA fragmentation. Lanes are from left to
right DNA ladder standard, K562 exposed to 0 µM H2O2, K562 exposed to 20 µM H2O2, spent HL-60 cells
exposed to 0 µM H2O2, spent HL-60
cells exposed to 20 µM H2O2,
HL-60 cells exposed to 0 µM H2O2,
and HL-60 cells exposed to 20 µM
H2O2.
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Analysis of Apoptosis by Morphology--
We also analyzed
apoptosis of the leukemic cells using Wright's stained smears of the
cell suspensions. This complementary assessment of apoptosis confirmed,
in general, the conclusions of the DNA fragmentation studies. Fig.
8 shows the percentage of apoptotic cells
after 24 h of exposure of the three cell lines to increasing
concentrations of H2O2. There was a
concentration-dependent increase in apoptosis in the HL-60
cell line up to 200 µM. Neither the K562 nor the spent
HL-60 cells showed appreciable apoptosis even at the higher
concentrations of H2O2.

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Fig. 8.
Differences in apoptosis induced by
H2O2 in the three cell lines assessed by
morphology. Cells were exposed to
H2O2 at increasing concentrations for 24 h, and slides were prepared using a cytospin. The slides were treated
with Wright's stain and examined by light microscopy. Shown are the
mean and S.E. of independent determinations on three separate
experiments. Apoptosis of the HL-60 cells was significantly higher at
20 and 200 µM (p = 0.0001 and
p = 0.0002, respectively, by one-way analysis of
variance) compared with the K562 cells and spent HL-60 as indicated by
asterisks.
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Lack of Effect of HL-60-conditioned Media and Exogenous
MPO--
To test whether a soluble mediator of apoptosis was secreted
by the HL-60 cells, we prepared HL-60 cell-conditioned media by
incubating HL-60 cells in RPMI 1640 with 10% fetal bovine serum for
48 h prior to removal of the HL-60 cells by centrifugation. When
this conditioned media was used as the growth media, K562 cells did not
undergo H2O2-induced apoptosis as measured by
DNA fragmentation. These experiments suggest that there is no soluble mediator secreted from the HL-60 cells and contained in the conditioned media that is capable of reaching a critical cellular site to mediate
apoptosis. We also carried out experiments assessing the effect of
exogenously added human leukocyte MPO (Sigma) on the ability of
H2O2 to induce apoptosis by the spent HL-60
cells. Human MPO added to the medium would not support apoptosis
induced by H2O2. Both time and concentration
experiments were done. In the concentration experiments, 0, 2, 18, and
36 nM MPO was added to the medium that also contained 20 µM H2O2 and spent HL-60 cells. After 24-h exposure, the cells were washed and apoptosis was assessed by DNA banding. In the time experiments, a higher concentration of
H2O2 (500 µm) was used in the presence of 14 nM MPO and spent HL-60 cells. In these experiments, it was
necessary to shorten the time of exposure to avoid
H2O2-induced necrosis, so catalase (1000 units/ml) was added at 0, 2.5, 5, and 10 min. None of these experiments
resulted in apoptosis by the spent HL-60 cells. There appeared to be
sufficient MPO present in the medium even 24 h after the
experiment, because an aliquot of the incubation medium used for
the 36 nM study had detectable MPO activity and was capable of generating POBN/POBN· when H2O2 and
POBN were added (results not shown). We suspect that exogenous MPO
fails to support H2O2-induced apoptosis,
because it cannot reach the critical intracellular site to support the oxidative chemistry required for apoptosis. This suggests that the
interaction of H2O2 with MPO occurs within the cell.
MPO Activity--
The detection of the POBN· suggested the
possibility that MPO, which is known to be present in the HL-60 cells,
is responsible for the POBN·, because earlier work had shown
that its production is peroxidase-dependent in a cell-free
system (37). Fig. 9A shows the
comparative MPO activity of the three cell lines. The HL-60 line, which
undergoes H2O2-induced apoptosis, contains
appreciable activity that was significantly higher than that of the
K562 cell line (p = 0.003). Most interesting was the
observation that the spent HL-60 cells, which similar to the K562 cells
fail to undergo apoptosis, contained only trace amounts of activity
that was significantly less than that of the HL-60 cell line
(p = 0.00002). This assay measures the activity of
heme-peroxidase, and although optimized for MPO and eosinophil
peroxidase, it is not specific for any one form of the enzyme (36).
Therefore, we performed Western analysis using an antibody to MPO (39).
The inset in Fig. 9A shows that the heavy subunit
of MPO and precursor MPO are present in the HL-60 cells. No MPO protein
was detected in the spent HL-60 or K562 cell lines.

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Fig. 9.
MPO activity of the cell lines and
concentration dependence of the inhibitory effect of methimazole on MPO
activity in the HL-60 cells. A, MPO activity of the
HL-60, K562, and spent HL-60 cell lines. MPO activity of the cells was
determined by the ability to oxidize tetramethylbenzidine. The
absorbance at 655 nm of cellular homogenates from 2 × 105 cells/ml was determined at 25 °C. The absorbance of
the homogenates from the HL-60 cells was significantly higher than
those from the spent HL-60 and K562 cells (p = 0.003)
as indicated by the asterisks. Inset, MPO protein
is expressed only in the HL-60 cell line. MPO protein expression of the
three leukemia cell lines was measured using Western analysis.
Monospecific rabbit polyclonal antiserum against MPO detected precursor
MPO at 85-90 kDa and glycosylated heavy subunit at about 59 kDa only
in the HL-60 cell line. B, concentration dependence of the
inhibitory effect of methimazole on MPO activity of the HL-60 cells.
Shown are the means and S.E. of triplicate determinations on three
different samples. The overall difference in MPO activity across the
levels of methimazole was highly significant (p < 0.001 by one-way analysis of variance). Dunnett's test showed that all
pairwise comparisons versus control were significantly
different as indicated by asterisks.
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Inhibition of Apoptosis by Methimazole--
To further explore our
hypothesis that MPO is essential for
H2O2-induced apoptosis in the HL-60 cell, we
used the antithyroid drug methimazole (1-methylimidazole-2-thiol) to
inhibit MPO. First, studies on the concentration dependence of
peroxidase inhibition by methimazole were carried out (Fig.
9B). Methimazole inhibited the MPO activity in the HL-60
line in a concentration-dependent fashion with full
inhibition at 1 mM.
Next, we studied the effect of peroxidase inhibition on
H2O2-induced apoptosis. HL-60 cells were
incubated with 100, 250, 500, and 1000 µM methimazole,
and then exposed to 20 µM H2O2
(Fig. 10). Methimazole
alone did not induce apoptosis at any of the concentrations. When the
effects of methimazole were studied using morphology to assess
apoptosis, the results were confirmatory.
H2O2-induced apoptosis in the HL-60 cells was
inhibited by methimazole as estimated by morphology (0 µM, 34% of cells apoptotic; 0.1 µM, 8%;
0.25 µM, 2%; 0.5 µM, 1%; 1 µM, 0.7%). This demonstrates that methimazole inhibits
H2O2-induced apoptosis in the HL-60 cell.

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Fig. 10.
Inhibition of apoptosis by methimazole.
HL-60 cells were incubated with methimazole (Meth) for 10 min then treated with 20 µM H2O2
for 24 h. Lanes from left to
right are DNA ladder standard, UV light-treated positive
control, no methimazole and no H2O2, then
H2O2 (20 µM) and increasing
concentrations of methimazole. Shown is a representative gel from one
of three independent experiments.
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For confirmation, we also studied the effect of another heme inhibitor
4-aminobenzoic acid hydrazide. It inhibited
H2O2-induced apoptosis across a broad range of
concentrations from 50 µM to 1 mM (data not
shown). At 10 mM, but not at lower concentrations, the
inhibitor induced apoptosis in the absence of
H2O2. In an activity assay, it inhibited MPO
93% at 50 µM and 100% at 100 µM.
Hypochlorous Acid Induces Apoptosis in Both HL-60 and Spent HL-60
Cells--
We also carried out experiments using the derivative
oxidant hypochlorous acid (HOCl). HL-60 cells were incubated with HOCl for 24 h and handled as in the H2O2
apoptosis experiments. We found that HOCl stimulates apoptosis in the
HL-60 with a threshold of about 62 µM (Fig.
11A). These observations
indicate that an oxidative substance generated by MPO induces
apoptosis. Most interestingly, spent HL-60 cells, which fail to undergo
apoptosis when exposed to H2O2, also responded
to HOCl with apoptosis beginning at 93 µM (Fig.
11B).

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Fig. 11.
HOCl stimulates apoptosis in both HL-60 and
spent HL-60 cells. Cells were treated with HOCl for 24 h, and
apoptosis was measured by DNA fragmentation. A, HOCl-induced
apoptosis in HL-60 cells. Apoptosis is evident at 62 µM
HOCl and higher. B, HOCl-induced apoptosis in spent HL-60
cells. Apoptosis is evident at 93 µM HOCl and
higher.
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DISCUSSION |
MPO is a heme-protein that is abundant in the granules of many
cells, including neutrophils, neutrophil precursors, and macrophages, where its activity in the presence of H2O2 is
important in the killing of ingested organisms (49-51). It is
contained in the neutrophil primary azurophilic granules, which appear
at the promyelocyte stage of myeloid maturation, and this fact explains
its abundance in the HL-60 cell. Although one role is
H2O2 removal, MPO uses H2O2 to oxidize a wide variety of substrates
(52) resulting in the modification of lipids and proteins (53).
However, a central role for peroxidase in conjunction with
H2O2 in apoptosis had not been previously
shown. The correlation of the presence of MPO in the HL-60 cell that
undergoes apoptosis in response to H2O2, and
its absence in the apoptotically silent corresponding K562 suggests a
role for MPO. Most importantly, when the HL-60 cell is grown to high
passage number and loses its MPO, it is no longer capable of responding
to H2O2 to undergo apoptosis. In addition,
inhibition of peroxidase activity in the HL-60 cell with methimazole
eliminates apoptosis. Taken together this evidence strongly suggests
that MPO has a central role in H2O2-induced apoptosis.
The peroxidase-dependent production of POBN· by the
HL-60 cell during H2O2-induced apoptosis and
the similarity of the H2O2 dose dependencies
for apoptosis and radical generation (Figs. 1 and 5) are consistent
with the possibility that the POBN· is marking a
peroxidase-mediated oxidative event leading to, or associated with,
apoptosis induced by this oxidant. The lack of radical production by
the K562 and spent HL-60 cell lines that do not contain MPO or undergo
H2O2-induced apoptosis are compatible with that
interpretation. The characteristic pattern of POBN· generation
in the two cell types is not due to a difference in antioxidant
profile, because there is no difference in SOD or glutathione
peroxidase and only small differences in catalase.
We postulate that H2O2 reacts with MPO leading
to its reduction, generation of the MPO forms of compounds I and II
(MPO-I, MPO-II), and a sequence of reductive events that generates
POBN· at one or both of two possible sites (Fig.
12). There may also be an unidentified
oxidative intermediate such as tyrosine free radical (54) or another
highly reactive product of H2O2/MPO. Any one of
these, or another reactive product such as HOCl, NO2
(55), NO2Cl (56), or chlorhydrin (57), could be the
subsequent mediator of apoptosis. In any case, the evidence presented
supports this chemistry rather than Fenton-type reactions.

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Fig. 12.
Reaction of H2O2
with MPO to generate MPO compounds I and II (MPO-I, MPO-II) and
possible sites of generation of POBN·.
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Peroxidase and H2O2 are known to generate
radical products from several redox-active compounds, including NADPH,
glutathione, ascorbate, and trolox; the yield is amplified by the
presence of NO2 (55). Lactoperoxidase combined with
H2O2 forms a strong oxidant capable of
converting NO2 to a strongly oxidizing metabolite
(55), perhaps ·NO2 (58), and to oxidize melanin (59)
and mitoxantrone (58). Similarly, MPO and H2O2
oxidize low density lipoprotein (21). The iron chelator deferoxamine
reacts with MPO, lactoperoxidase, or horseradish peroxidase in the
presence of H2O2 to form the deferoxamine
radical, and POBN· in the absence of deferoxamine at high
concentrations of POBN (37). These studies were all done in cell-free
systems. It seems likely that, in our experiments with cells,
POBN· is a product of the action of
peroxidase/H2O2 by a similar reaction.
Methimazole is a known inhibitor of peroxidases, including MPO
(60-63). Most work has been done on thyroid peroxidase, because methimazole is used clinically to treat hyperthyroidism. Oxidation of
thyroid peroxidase by H2O2 produces an active
radical heme-compound I that results in the iodination of thyroid
hormone (62). Methimazole inactivates thyroid peroxidase reversibly or
irreversibly depending upon conditions (61, 62). In our experiments,
the inhibition of both POBN· formation and apoptosis by
methimazole is consistent with compounds I and II being necessary
species in these events.
The experiments with HOCl provide insight into the mechanism of the
H2O2-induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells. They
demonstrate that HOCl, a diffusible oxidant generated by MPO, is
capable of directly inducing apoptosis in the HL-60 cells. Furthermore,
HOCl induced apoptosis in the spent HL-60 cells, which do not undergo apoptosis in the presence of H2O2. These spent
cells lack MPO activity, thus they are incapable of generating HOCl
from H2O2. However HOCl added to the culture
media is able to bypass the need for active MPO and induce apoptosis
directly. This suggests that HOCl is the actual mediator of apoptosis.
Because H2O2 is a reactive oxidative substance,
it has previously been assumed that its mechanism involves lipid
peroxidation particularly as mediated by its metabolic product
·OH (64-67). Our observations, particularly at the
concentrations inducing apoptosis, suggest that
H2O2-mediated oxidative events at
physiologically relevant concentrations may not necessarily be mediated
primarily by Fenton chemistry. Oxidation by
H2O2 leads to the formation of a profile of
oxidative products quantitatively and qualitatively different from that
of Fenton reagent (H2O2 + Fe2+);
therefore, the apoptosis we observed may have an oxidative basis other
than lipid peroxidation. Only at the higher concentrations of
H2O2, which induce necrosis, is there
appreciable TBARS formation. It is possible that only the high
concentrations of H2O2 that induce necrosis are
mediated predominantly by Fenton chemistry reactions.
Our observations are important, because H2O2 is
known to be a mediator of the toxicity of UV and ionizing radiation.
UV-B produces H2O2, and there is evidence that
H2O2 mediates the observed toxicity (6-8, 68).
There are reports that the toxicity of ionizing radiation is due, at
least in part, to H2O2 (10, 69-72). The best
evidence for this is that catalase and glutathione peroxidase protect
cells against its damaging effect (73-77). Similarly,
H2O2 may mediate the toxicity of
immunomodulators and chemotherapy (2, 14, 78-80). It is known that
reactive oxygen species, including H2O2, can
induce apoptosis in many cells types, including lymphocytes (81, 82),
blastocysts (83), neutrophils (84), and HL-60 cells (85, 86). Jing
et al. (87) showed that arsenic trioxide, a chemotherapeutic
agent used to treat acute promyelocytic leukemia, induces apoptosis
through an H2O2-dependent pathway. Tada-Oikawa et al. (80) showed that, during the apoptosis
induced by the DNA-alkylating agent duocarmycin A, which is not a
redox-cycling agent, the generation of a reactive oxygen species,
possibly H2O2, precedes any change in
mitochondrial potential and caspase activation in HL-60 cells. This
suggests that an early oxidative event precedes any subsequent
signaling event in the apoptotic process. If
H2O2 mediates the toxicity of many important
anticancer modalities, then our observations offer possible strategies
for the therapeutic modulation of cellular oxidative balance and of
therapies that have an oxidative component.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
We thank Dr. William M. Nauseef for the
antibody to MPO, Dr. Charles S. Davis for statistical assistance, Lori
Manzel for advice on apoptosis gel techniques, and Drs. Bradley E. Britigan and Krysztof Reszka for helpful discussions.
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FOOTNOTES |
*
This investigation was supported by Grant P01 CA66081
awarded by the National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and
Human Services; The Iowa Leukemia and Cancer Research Fund; The Dr. Richard O. Emmons Memorial Fund; and The Mamie C. Hopkins Fund.The costs of publication of this
article were defrayed in part by the
payment of page charges. The article
must therefore be hereby marked
"advertisement" in
accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section
1734 solely to indicate this fact.
¶
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Medicine,
University Hospitals, Iowa City, IA 52242. Tel.: 319-356-2038; Fax:
319-353-8383; E-mail: c-burns@uiowa.edu.
Published, JBC Papers in Press, May 3, 2000, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M001434200
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ABBREVIATIONS |
The abbreviations used are:
SOD, superoxide
dismutase;
POBN, [ -(4-pyridyl-1-oxide)-N-tert-butylnitrone];
MPO, myeloperoxidase;
MPO-I, MPO-II, MPO compounds I and II;
FBS, fetal
bovine serum;
EPR, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy;
TBARS, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances.
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