Experiments were performed with K562 erythroleukemia cells to further characterize the observation that hemin protects hemopoietic cells from the cytotoxic effects of anthracycline drugs. The present studies demonstrate that this protective effect of hemin applies only to anthracyclines and not to other classes of antineoplastic agents. Hemin interferes with the cellular accumulation of various...

Hemin treatment of mouse Friend virus-transformed cells in cultured caused a dose-dependent increase in hemoglobin synthesis. By the addition of radioactively labeled hemin and by the analysis of the radioactive heme in hemoglobin, only 60 to 70% of heme in the newly synthesized hemoglobin was accounted for by the exogenously added hemin. In keeping with this finding, hemin treatment increased ...

1) The effect of hemin on heme synthesis was studied in vivo. Heme synthesis was measured by determining red cell (59)Fe uptake and glycine-2-(14)C incorporation into red cell hemin in normal CF(1) female mice.2) Both bovine and human hemin significantly decreased red cell (59)Fe uptake 48, 72, and 96 hours after hemin injection.3) Glycine-2-(14)C incorporation into red cell hemin was decreased...

Malaria is a parasitic disease that causes severe hemolytic anemia in Plasmodium-infected hosts, which results in the release and accumulation of oxidized heme (hemin). Although hemin impairs the establishment of Plasmodium immunity in vitro and in vivo, mice preconditioned with hemin develop lower parasitemia when challenged with Plasmodium chabaudi adami blood stage parasites. In order to und...

Heme, a ubiquitous iron-containing compound, is present in large amounts in many cells and is inherently dangerous, particularly when it escapes from intracellular sites. The release of heme from damaged cells and tissues is supposed to be higher in diseases such as malaria and hemolytic anemia or in trauma and hemorrhage. We investigated here the role of free ferriprotoporphyrin IX (hemin) as ...

Heme (Fe(2+) protoporphyrin IX) and hemin (Fe(3+)), the prosthetic group of hemoprotein, are cytotoxic due to their ability to contribute to the production of reactive oxygen species, increased intracellular calcium levels, and stimulate glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity. Previous work by our group showed that blockade of the prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)-EP1 receptor reduced hemin-induced cytotoxici...

Hemin, an oxidized form of heme, is an essential regulator of gene expression and cell cycle progression. Our laboratory previously reported (34) that chronic hemin treatment of spontaneously hypertensive rats reversed the eutrophic inward remodeling of small peripheral arteries. Whether long-term treatment of cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) with hemin alters the proliferation sta...

Hemin plays a key role in mediating secondary neuronal injury after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and the cell toxicity of hemin is thought to be due to iron that is liberated when hemin is degraded. In a recent study, we demonstrated the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin reduces brain iron in iron-overloaded rats. Therefore, we hypothesized that hepcidin might be able to reduce iron and then p...

In this article newly synthesized azide derivative of hemin and DNA-hemin conjugate are characterized. Hemin-azide was purified using HPLC and characterized using elemental analysis, IR and NMR. The DNA-hemin conjugate was obtained via click chemistry [1] and click reaction was carried out using traditional Cu-catalyzed and Cu-free approaches. The final product was successfully obtained using C...

We have previously shown that physiologic concentrations of hemin cause marked inhibition of several red blood cell (RBC) enzymes. Because endogenous heme content is elevated in sickle RBCs, we have examined the activity of hemin-sensitive enzymes in these RBCs. One of the hemin-sensitive enzymes, pyrimidine nucleoside monophosphate kinase (PNMK), was shown to have decreased activity in sickle ...