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. Cisplatin is a potent chemotherapeutic agent that is used to treat many human malignancies. Unfortunately, in addition to side effects such as ototoxicity, anaphylaxis, and bone marrow suppression, a significant percentage of patients receiving cisplatin develop severe nephrotoxicity. Mitochondrial dysfunction that is mediated via the generation of reactive oxygen species has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cisplatin-induced renal injury. To address the mechanism, it was hypothesized that overexpression of antioxidant enzymes, such as mitochondria-localized manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) or mitochondria-targeted catalase (mito-Cat), would be cytoprotective in cisplatin-induced cell injury. To this end, human MnSOD or a mito-Cat vector were stably transfected into human embryonic kidney 293 cells. Cells that overexpressed MnSOD exhibited significantly less cell rounding and detachment compared with both mito-Cat and vector controls after exposure to 20 μM cisplatin. Cell injury as assessed by DNA fragmentation and annexin V binding assays was significantly decreased in the cells that overexpressed MnSOD compared with vector alone and mito-Cat. In addition, elevated levels of MnSOD were strongly associated with increased clonogenic potential after cisplatin challenge. Thus, overexpression of MnSOD, and not catalase, protects against cisplatin-induced renal epithelial cell injury. These results demonstrate the importance of reactive oxygen species in the mechanism that underlies cisplatin-induced renal injury and specifically implicate the superoxide radical, and not hydrogen peroxide, as the mediator.

Manganese Superoxide Dismutase Attenuates Cisplatin-Induced Renal Injury