Superoxide dismutation complexes

Superoxide-dismuting activity of copper rutin complex was confirmed by comparison of the inhibitory effects of this complex and rutin on superoxide production by xanthine oxidase and microsomes (measured via cytochrome c reduction and by lucigenin-amplified CL, respectively) with their effects on microsomal lipid peroxidation [166]. An excellent correlation between the inhibitory effects of both compounds on superoxide production and the formation of TBAR products was found, but at the same time the effect of copper rutin complex was five to nine times higher due to its additional superoxide dismuting capacity. 

Thus, the mechanism of MT antioxidant activity might be connected with the possible antioxidant effect of zinc. Zinc is a nontransition metal and therefore, its participation in redox processes is not really expected. The simplest mechanism of zinc antioxidant activity is the competition with transition metal ions capable of initiating free radical-mediated processes. For example, it has recently been shown [342] that zinc inhibited copper- and iron-initiated liposomal peroxidation but had no effect on peroxidative processes initiated by free radicals and peroxynitrite. These findings contradict the earlier results obtained by Coassin et al. [343] who found no inhibitory effects of zinc on microsomal lipid peroxidation in contrast to the inhibitory effects of manganese and cobalt. Yeomans et al. [344] showed that the zinc-histidine complex is able to inhibit copper-induced LDL oxidation, but the antioxidant effect of this complex obviously depended on histidine and not zinc because zinc sulfate was ineffective. We proposed another mode of possible antioxidant effect of zinc [345], It has been found that Zn and Mg aspartates inhibited oxygen radical production by xanthine oxidase, NADPH oxidase, and human blood leukocytes. The antioxidant effect of these salts supposedly was a consequence of the acceleration of spontaneous superoxide dismutation due to increasing medium acidity. 

The inhibition of lipid peroxidation by metalloporphyrins apparently depends on metal ions because only compounds with transition metals were efficient inhibitors. Therefore, the most probable mechanism of inhibitory effects of metalloporphyrins should be their disuniting activity. Manganese metalloporphyrins seem to be more effective inhibitors than Trolox (/5o = 204 pmol I 1) and rutin (/50 112 pmol I 1), and practically equal to SOD (/50= 15 pmol I 1). The mechanism of inhibitory activity of manganese and zinc metalloporphyrins might be compared with that of copper- and iron-flavonoid complexes [167,168], which exhibited enhanced antiradical properties due to additional superoxide-dismuting activity. 

Many copper(II) complexes, including Cu(DIPS)2 (DIPS = diisopro-pylsalicylate), Cu(salicylate)2, and Cu(Gly-His-Lys), are also active in superoxide dismutation (437, 438), but their use in vivo is limited by dissociation of Cu(II) and binding to natural ligands such as albumin (439). In contrast, the activity of Fe-93 is not affected by albumin (439, 440). 

Unlike Cu(II), free Mn(II) ions are not active in superoxide dismutation, but some Mn(II)-macrocycle complexes catalyze the dismutation of 02 and are biologically active (441). For example, complex 94 (SC-52608) inhibits neutrophil-mediated killing of human aortic endothelial cells in vitro, attenuates inflammation, protects against myo-... 

II. Catalytic Superoxide Dismutation by Seven-Coordinate Manganese and Iron Complexes as SOD Mimetics... 

Not many reduction potentials are known for copper complexes. That of the Cu2+/Cu+ couple is 0.16 V Since lo(Cu+/Cu°) is 0.52 V, the disproportionation of Cu+ to Cu° and Cu2+ is favourable. This reaction does indeed occur, which makes is impossible to study stable copper(I) solutions. Reduction potentials of copper(II)-/copper(I)-(l,10-phenanthroline)2 and a few derivatives have been calculated from a kinetic analysis of appropriate rate constants values range from 108 mV for the 5-methyl-l, 10-phenanthroline complex to 219 mV for the complex with a nitro group at the 5 position [52], Values of 0.17 V and 0.12 V are given by Phillips and Williams [53] for the phenanthroline and bipyridine complexes, respectively. Such complexes can thermodynamically catalyse both the superoxide dismutation and the one-electron reduction of hydrogen peroxide (see below). 

Other than in prokaryotic cells which lack mitochondria and chloroplasts, manganese superoxide dismutases are apparently restricted to the above two organelles in eukaryotic cells (51, 52) this forms strong support for the symbiotic hypothesis for the origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts (53, 54). Kinetic studies of superoxide dismutation by these enzymes indicate three oxidation states of Mn (presumably divalent, trivalent, and tetravalent) are involved in the catalytic cycle (57, 58). They also show that a Mn-02 complex may conceivably be formed. Well-characterized Mn-dioxygen (i.e., 02,02 , 022 ) adducts are extremely rare, the first structurally characterized example being reported only in 1987 (60). 

It has recently been shown that organic Cu-complexes increase the decay rate of 02 in natural waters. Voelker et al. [30] found that organically complexed copper significantly lowered steady state 02 concentrations in marine waters. Goldstone and Voelker [78] also demonstrated that DOM contains a non-metallic, non-enzymatic fraction that can catalyze superoxide dismutation. When copper-DOM reactions are considered, estimated steady state concentrations of 02 in coastal waters are 100- to 1000-fold lower than predicted concentrations, which only consider its decay through bimolecular dismutation [78]. Thus, the photochemical redox cycling of DOM via 02 reactions may... 

The manganese complexes that have been prepared to date cover a range of structural types and ligands. Due to the self-dismutation of superoxide (2.0-3.2 X 10s M [ s ) (52, 63), these complexes need to be quite efficient to quality as catalysts of superoxide dismutation. Several complexes have proven to be competent MnSOD mimics. Un-... 

Fig. 55. Reaction scheme of superoxide dismutation following the bovine enzyme numbering. The first O2 molecule binds to Cu(II) and is stabilized by the H bond to Arg-141. A second superoxide molecule then approaches the active site and, by an outer-sphere electron transfer via the Cu-bound first O2 molecule, reduces the copper to Cud) 44) (step III). Alternatively, O2" directly reduces superoxide to peroxide 336) (step IV), leaving as dioxygen. Note that the Cu(I)-superoxide and Cu(II)-peroxide complexes are resonant forms of the same molecular arrangement. The newly formed peroxide is protonated by Arg-141 and leaves as HO2. Arg-141 receives a proton from the solvent, restoring the active enz5Tne (I). These reaction proposals do not require the breaking and reforming of the Cu-His-61 bridge.

In the past years, it has been shown by us and others 5b,15b,27) that the mechanism of superoxide dismutation by small metal complexes proceeds predominantly by an inner-sphere mechanism. 

Fig. 8. Pustulated mechanism for superoxide dismutation by manganese pentaazamacrocyclic complexes (modified from Ref. 7b).

For the superoxide dismutation by a metal complex, it is necessary that the complex redox potential falls between the redox potentials for the reduction and oxidation of O2 (Scheme 3). The potential range between —0.16V (or —0.33V with respect to a standard state of latm O2 pressure the reevaluated standard redox potential of the oxygen/superoxide couple is —0.137V) (28) and -I-0.89V versus NHE is commonly accepted in the literature as the range in which a metal center should exhibit its redox potential for having SOD activity (29). However,... 

That inner-sphere electron transfer plays an important role within the SOD mechanism is shown by our preliminary experiments with the eight-coordinate Mn(II) complex (Fig. 11). Although the redox potential of this complex is similar to the redox potentials of some proven seven-coordinate Mn(II) SOD mimetics (approximately +0.78V vs. NHS) (13a,g,31), the studied eight-coordinate Mn(II) complex demonstrates no ability for catalytic superoxide dismutation. This can be explained in terms of the saturated coordination geometry around the metal center and shows that, for SOD activity, the complex redox potential is not the only important requirement. In the case of these complexes, with a relatively high redox potential, coordination of superoxide is crucial for its efficient reduction. 

Besides the superoxide dismutation mechanism, the reactivity of metal centers, in particular manganese complexes, toward NO is very much dependent on the possibility for binding a substrate molecule. As it will be shown later, the possibility that MnSOD enzymes and some mimetics can react with NO has been wrongly excluded in the literature, simply based on the known redox potential for the (substrate) free enzymes, mimetics, and NO, respectively. Therefore, the general fact that, upon coordination, redox potentials of both the metal center and a coordinated species are changed should be considered in the case of any inner-sphere electron-transfer process as a possible reaction mechanism. 

As is seen the iron(iii) product complexes catalyse the decomposition of Ha02 to O2. In the catalysis of superoxide dismutation by iron-edta complexes, evidence has been presented for an iron(rii)-edta-peroxo complex. In the absence of metal complex the dismutation is second-order. With Fe -edta first-order behaviour is observed although the complex is 1—2 x 10 times less effective than bovine Zn/Cu superoxide dismutase. 

Another area of active research is the development of stable low molecular weight metal complexes, which could serve as SOD mimics. Fridovich has described a complex of mangsmese (III) with desferral, which can catalyse the dismutation of superoxide anion in vitro and can protect green algae against paraquat toxicity (Beyer and Fridovich, 1989). This manganese-desferral complex was evaluated in models of circulatory shock and also found to improve survival rate (de Garavilla etal., 1992). 

The imidazolate bridged Cu/Zn bimetallic complex of the cryptand (13) was structurally characterized and shown to have a Cu-Zn distance of 5.93 A (native Cu, Zn-SOD 6.2 A).146 The complex shows some activity in the dismutation of superoxide at biological pH that is retained in the presence of bovine serum albumin. 

In 1989, we showed [142] that the Fe2+(rutin)2 complex is a more effective inhibitor than rutin of asbestos-induced erythrocyte hemolysis and asbestos-stimulated oxygen radical production by rat peritoneal macrophages. Later on, to evaluate the mechanisms of antioxidant activities of iron rutin and copper-rutin complexes, we compared the effects of these complexes on iron-dependent liposomal and microsomal lipid peroxidation [165], It was found that the iron rutin complex was by two to three times a more efficient inhibitor of liposomal peroxidation than the copper-rutin complex, while the opposite tendency was observed in NADPH-dependent microsomal peroxidation. On the other hand, the copper rutin complex was much more effective than the iron rutin complex in the suppression of microsomal superoxide production, indicating that the copper rutin complex indeed acquired additional SOD-dismuting activity because superoxide is an initiator of NADPH-dependent... 

Many transition metal complexes have been considered as synzymes for superoxide anion dismutation and activity as SOD mimics. The stability and toxicity of any metal complex intended for pharmaceutical application is of paramount concern, and the complex must also be determined to be truly catalytic for superoxide ion dismutation. Because the catalytic activity of SOD1, for instance, is essentially diffusion-controlled with rates of 2 x 1 () M 1 s 1, fast analytic techniques must be used to directly measure the decay of superoxide anion in testing complexes as SOD mimics. One needs to distinguish between the uncatalyzed stoichiometric decay of the superoxide anion (second-order kinetic behavior) and true catalytic SOD dismutation (first-order behavior with [O ] [synzyme] and many turnovers of SOD mimic catalytic behavior). Indirect detection methods such as those in which a steady-state concentration of superoxide anion is generated from a xanthine/xanthine oxidase system will not measure catalytic synzyme behavior but instead will evaluate the potential SOD mimic as a stoichiometric superoxide scavenger. Two methodologies, stopped-flow kinetic analysis and pulse radiolysis, are fast methods that will measure SOD mimic catalytic behavior. These methods are briefly described in reference 11 and in Section 3.7.2 of Chapter 3. 

Mn(II) ions complexed by porphyrinato(2 ) ligands have shown catalytic superoxide anion dismutation. One SOD mimic, M40403, complexes Mn(II) via a macrocyclic ligand, 1,4,7,10,13-pentaazacyclopentadecane, containing added bis(cyclohexyl) and pyridyl functionalities. M40403 carries the systematic name [manganese(II) dichloro] 4R,9R, 14/s, 19/ )-3,10,13,20,26-pentaazatetracyclo[20.3. 1.0(4,9)0(14,19)]hexacosa-l(26),-22(23),24-triene ]. The molecule is shown in... 

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