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- Title
Derivatization of haemoglobin with periodate-generated reticulation agents: evaluation of oxidative reactivity for potential blood substitutes.
- Authors
Deac, Florina; Iacob, Bianca; Fischer-Fodor, Eva; Damian, Grigore; Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Radu
- Abstract
Periodate modification of the sugar moiety in sugars, including adenosine triphosphate (ATP), has previously been employed in order to prepare dialdehyde-type reagents, which were then utilized in crosslinking reactions on haemoglobin, yielding polymerized material with useful dioxygen-binding properties and hence proposed as possible artificial oxygen carriers (‘blood substitutes’). Here, the periodate protocol is shown to be applicable to a wider range of oxygen-containing compounds, illustrated by starch and polyethylene glycol. Derivatization protocols are described for haemoglobin with such periodate-treated crosslinking agents, and the dioxygen-binding properties and redox reactivities are investigated for the derivatized haemoglobins, with emphasis on pro-oxidative properties. There is a general tendency of the derivatization to result in higher autooxidation rates. The peroxide reactivity of the met (ferric) form is also affected by derivatization, as witnessed, among others, by varying yields of ferryl [Fe (IV)-oxo] and free radical generated. In cell, culture tests (human umbilical vein epithelial cells, HUVEC), the derivatization protocols show no toxic effect.
- Subjects
DERIVATIZATION; HEMOGLOBINS; OXIDATIVE stress; BLOOD substitutes; OXIDATION-reduction reaction; FREE radicals; EPITHELIAL cells
- Publication
Journal of Biochemistry, 2011, Vol 149, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0021-924X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jb/mvq123