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Hypocatalasemic Fibroblasts Accumulate Hydrogen Peroxide and Display Age‐Associated Pathologies

2005· article· en· W1742842239 on OpenAlex
Christopher S. Wood, Jay I. Koepke, Hua Teng, Krissy K. Boucher, Sharon Katz, Patrick Chang, Laura J. Terlecky, Irene Papanayotou, Paul A. Walton, Stanley R. Terlecky

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Bibliographic record

VenueTraffic · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicEndoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersNational Institute of Environmental Health SciencesNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institutes of Health
KeywordsPeroxisomeCatalaseBiologyHydrogen peroxideCell biologyOrganelleOxidative stressBiogenesisDNA damageFibroblastBiochemistryDNACell cultureGeneticsGene

Abstract

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Human epidemiological studies point to an association of hypocatalasemia and an increased risk of age-related disease. Unfortunately, the cellular and molecular manifestations of hypocatalasemia are only poorly understood. In this analysis, we have extensively characterized hypocatalasemic human fibroblasts and report that they amass hydrogen peroxide and are oxidatively damaged. Protein and DNA alike are affected, as are functioning and biogenesis of peroxisomes - the subcellular organelles which normally house catalase. Despite these pathologies and their relative inability to grow, the cells do not appear to be intrinsically senescent. With the goal of restoring oxidative balance and perhaps reversing some of the accumulated damage to critical cellular components, we transduced hypocatalasemic fibroblasts with a form of catalase specifically designed to efficiently traffic to peroxisomes. We show the strategy is extremely effective, with dramatic reductions seen in cellular hydrogen peroxide levels. Future longitudinal studies aimed at examining the effects of a more continuous and long-term protein therapy may now commence.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.108
Threshold uncertainty score0.655

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it