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Ofloxacin induces apoptosis via β1 integrin-EGFR-Rac1-Nox2 pathway in microencapsulated chondrocytes
- Source :
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 267:74-87
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Quinolones (QNs)-induced arthropathy is an important toxic side-effect in immature animals leading to the restriction of their therapeutic use in pediatrics. Ofloxacin, a typical QN, was found to induce the chondrocytes apoptosis in the early phase (12–48 h) of arthropathy in our previous study. However, the exact mechanism(s) is unclear. Microencapsulated juvenile rabbit joint chondrocytes, a three-dimensional culture system, is utilized to perform the present study. Ofloxacin, at a therapeutically relevant concentration (10 μg/ml), disturbs the interaction between β1 integrin and activated intracellular signaling proteins at 12 h, which is inhibited when supplementing Mg 2 + . Intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) significantly increases in a time-dependent manner after exposure to ofloxacin for 12–48 h. Furthermore, ofloxacin markedly enhances the level of activated Rac1 and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) phosphorylation, and its inhibition in turn reduces the ROS production, apoptosis and Rac1 activation. Silencing Nox2, Rac1 or supplementing Mg 2 + inhibits ROS accumulation, apoptosis occurrence and EGFR phosphorylation induced by ofloxacin. However, depletion of Nox2, Rac1 and inhibition of EGFR do not affect ofloxacin-mediated loss of interaction between β1 integrin and activated intracellular signaling proteins. In addition, ofloxacin also induces Vav2 phosphorylation, which is markedly suppressed after inactivating EGFR or supplementing Mg 2 + . These results suggest that ofloxacin causes Nox2-mediated intracellular ROS production by disrupting the β1 integrin function and then activating the EGFR-Vav2-Rac1 pathway, finally resulting in apoptosis within 12–48 h exposure. The present study provides a novel insight regarding the potential role of Nox-driven ROS in QNs-induced arthropathy.
- Subjects :
- rac1 GTP-Binding Protein
Ofloxacin
Drug Compounding
Apoptosis
RAC1
Pharmacology
Biology
Toxicology
Chondrocytes
medicine
Animals
Receptor
Magnesium ion
Cells, Cultured
chemistry.chemical_classification
Reactive oxygen species
Membrane Glycoproteins
Integrin beta1
NADPH Oxidases
Cell biology
ErbB Receptors
chemistry
NADPH Oxidase 2
Phosphorylation
Rabbits
Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins
Intracellular
Signal Transduction
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0041008X
- Volume :
- 267
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4f1bc227f8c45463368747f7423a308b