Antioxidant activity of β-selenoamines and their capacity to mimic different enzymes

Mol Cell Biochem. 2012 Jun;365(1-2):85-92. doi: 10.1007/s11010-012-1246-6. Epub 2012 Feb 7.

Abstract

The antioxidant properties of organoselenium compounds have been extensively investigated because oxidative stress is a hallmark of a variety of chronic human diseases. Here, we reported the influence of substituent groups in the antioxidant activity of β-selenoamines. We have investigated whether they exhibited glutathione peroxidase-like (GPx-like) activity and whether they could be substrate of thioredoxin reductase (TrxR). In the DPPH assay, the β-selenium amines did not exhibit antioxidant activity. However, the β-selenium amines with p-methoxy and tosyl groups prevented the lipid peroxidation. The β-selenium amine compound with p-methoxy substituent group exhibited thiol-peroxidase-like activity (GPx-like activity) and was reduced by the hepatic TrxR. These results contribute to understand the influence of structural alteration of non-conventional selenium compounds as synthetic mimetic of antioxidant enzymes of mammalian organisms.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biphenyl Compounds / chemistry
  • Brain / drug effects
  • Brain / metabolism
  • Catalysis
  • Free Radical Scavengers / chemistry*
  • Free Radical Scavengers / pharmacology
  • Free Radicals / chemistry
  • Lipid Peroxidation
  • Liver / enzymology
  • Male
  • NADP / chemistry
  • Organoselenium Compounds / chemistry*
  • Organoselenium Compounds / pharmacology
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Peroxidases / chemistry*
  • Peroxidases / pharmacology
  • Picrates / chemistry
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances / metabolism
  • Thioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase / chemistry
  • Thioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Biphenyl Compounds
  • Free Radical Scavengers
  • Free Radicals
  • Organoselenium Compounds
  • Picrates
  • Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances
  • NADP
  • 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl
  • Peroxidases
  • Thioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase