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ArticleScientific reports2013

Oxidant stress in mitochondrial DNA damage, autophagy and inflammation in atherosclerosis.

Zufeng Ding, Shijie Liu, Xianwei Wang, Magomed Khaidakov, Yao Dai, Jawahar L Mehta

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Article in Scientific reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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102citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 199 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zufeng DingCentral Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and the Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
Shijie Liu
Xianwei Wang
Magomed Khaidakov
Yao Dai
Jawahar L Mehta
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System · USUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our studies in HUVECs show that ox-LDL induced autophagy and damaged mtDNA leading to TLR9 expression. LOX-1 antibody or the ROS inhibitor apocynin attenuated ox-LDL-mediated autophagy, mtDNA damage and TLR9 expression, suggesting that these events are LOX-1 and ROS-dependent phenomena. Experiments using siRNA to DNase II indicated that DNase II digests mtDNA to protect the tissue from inflammation. Next, we studied and found intense autophagy, TLR9 expression and inflammatory signals (CD45 and CD68) in the aortas of LDLR knockout mice fed high cholesterol diet. Deletion of LOX-1 (LDLR/LOX-1 double knockout mice) attenuated autophagy, TLR9 expression as well as CD45 and CD68. Damaged mtDNA signal was also very high in LDLR knockout mice aortas, and this signal was attenuated by LOX-1 deletion. Thus, it appears that oxidative stress-mediated damaged mtDNA that escapes autophagy induces a potent inflammatory response in atherosclerosis.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, CDAntigens, Differentiation, MyelomonocyticApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsAtherosclerosisAutophagyBeclin-1CD68 MoleculeCells, CulturedDiet, High-FatDNA DamageDNA, MitochondrialEndodeoxyribonucleasesHumansHuman Umbilical Vein Endothelial CellsInflammationAntigens, CDAntigens, Differentiation, MyelomonocyticApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsBeclin-1Becn1 protein, mouseCD68 antigen, humanCD68 Moleculedeoxyribonuclease IIDNA, MitochondrialEndodeoxyribonucleasesLeukocyte Common AntigensLipoproteins, LDLMap1lc3b protein, mouseMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsOlr1 protein, mouseoxidized low density lipoproteinReactive Oxygen SpeciesReceptors, LDLRNA, Small InterferingScavenger Receptors, Class EToll-Like Receptor 9

Identifiers

PMID23326634
PMCPMC3546319
OpenAlexW2068933494

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