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oxodG. These results suggest that a vitamin E and A and GSPE enriched-diets have a protective effect on oxidative DNA damage limited
In vitro studies have shown that procyanidins extracted
from grape seeds have remarkable free radical scavenging
activities (Da Silva et al., 1991) and can significantly delay
the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein and lipid-contain-
ing membranes induced by radical generators or metal ions
(Mazur et al., 1999; Teissedre et al., 1996).
Abbreviations: dG, 20-deoxyguanosine; GSPE, grape seed proanthocy-
anidin extract; 8-OxodG, 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydro-2 0-deoxyguanosine; 8-Oxod-
GTP, 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydro-20-deoxyguanosine-50-triphosphate; 8-OxoGua,
8-oxo-7, 8-dihydroguanine; 8-OxoGuo, 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydroguanosine.
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E-mail address: b.morin@ism.u-bordeaux1.fr (B. Morin).
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to rat leukocytes.
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Keywords: Oxidative DNA damage; 8-OxodG; Rats; Fat-soluble-vitamins; Proanthocyanidin; Grape seed extract
1. Introduction
Diets that are rich in plant have been associated with a
decreased risk for specific disease processes and certain
chronic diseases. In addition to essential macronutrients
and micronutrients, the flavonoids in a variety of plant
foodstuffs may have health-enhancing properties (Santos-
Buelga and Scalbert, 2000). Proanthocyanidins are natu-
rally occurring compounds widely available in fruits, vege-
tables, seeds, flowers and bark (Lazarus et al., 1999). They
are a class of phenolic compounds which take the form of
oligomers or polymers of polyhydroxy flavan-3-ol units,
such as (+)-catechin and (�)-epicatechin (Porter, 1986).
Grape seeds are particularly rich sources of proanthocyani-
dins, and only the procyanidin-type of proanthocyanidins
have been detected in the seeds (Santos-Buelga et al.,
1995; Fuleski and Ricardo da Silva, 1997).
b Bio-Tox, BP 34, 21 Avenue du Ge´ne´ral de Castelnau, 33886 Villenave d’Ornon Cedex, France
c Laboratoire Le´sions des Acides Nucle´iques, DRFMC/SCIB UMR-E No. 3 CEA-UJF, Grenoble, 17 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38054 Cedex 9, France
Received 27 November 2006; accepted 8 October 2007
Abstract
This study reports the effect of the fat-soluble vitamin A or vitamin E and grape seed proanthocyanidin extract (GSPE) on oxidative
DNA damage estimated by 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydro-2 0-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) contents in urine and leukocyte of rats. Little is known
about the antioxidant potency of dietary anthocyanidins and consequently, the aim of this study was to establish whether anthocyanidins
could act as putative antioxidant micronutrients. Seven groups of male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed during 47 days with the following
diets: a basic diet, two deficient vitamin A or E diets, two supplemented vitamin A or E diets and two supplemented diets enriched with
two doses of grape seed proanthocyanidin extract. At the end of the diet intervention period, 24 h, urine and blood were collected. The
levels of 8-oxodG in leukocytes rats were significantly lower in the supplemented vitamin A, E and GSPE diet groups with respect to the
control group. However, consumption of a-tocopherol, vitamin A or GSPE had no effect on the excretion of the oxidised nucleoside 8-
Effect of dietary fat-solu
proanthocyanidin-rich ex
oxidative DNA
Be´ne´dicte Morin a,*, Jean-Franc¸
Carine Badouard c,
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doi:10.1016/j.fct.2007.10.011
e vitamins A and E and
act from grape seeds on
amage in rats
Narbonne a, Daniel Ribera b,
ean-Luc Ravanat c
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An in vivo study using rabbits has shown that a proan-
thocyandin-rich extract from grape seeds increases antiox-
idative activity in plasma (Yamakoshi et al., 1999). To date
most of the studies on the antioxidant ability of flavan-3-
ols and procyanidins have been focused on lipids as
substrates for oxidation. The effect of flavan-3-ols and
procyanidins on the oxidation of DNA has received less
attention (Wei and Frenkel, 1993; Ottaviani et al., 2002).
Nevertheless, the few in vivo studies have established that
their consumption decreases DNA damage in human
(Simonetti et al., 2002) and rats. For instance, wine poly-
phenols given orally to rats were shown to limit DNA
oxidative damage in colon mucosal cells (Giovannelli
et al., 2000; Lodovici et al., 2000), in hepatic cells (Casalini
et al., 1999) and reduced the number of tumours in rats
enhance susceptibility to oxidative damage.
rial Institute) medium was obtained from Gibco (Invitrogen Corpora-
tion, UK). Lymphoprep was obtained from Nycomed Pharma (Oslo,
Norway).
Acetonitrile, methanol and dichloromethane were HPLC grade and
obtained from ICS Nationale (Belin Beliet, France).
2.2. Animal study design and sample collection
Eighty-four weaning male Sprague-Dawley rats (OFA strain, 38–59 g)
were purchased from IFFA CREDO (L’Arbresle – France). Prior to
experimental treatment, rats were acclimatized for at least 3–5 days and
provided with food and water ad libitum. Exposure was performed at
Phycher Bio-de´veloppement (Pessac, France) under quality assurance and
good laboratory practices.
Each group of animals was fed one of the seven diets (Table 1) for 47
days. A control diet group Control (n = 12; 0.05 mg a-tocopherol acetate/
g diet dry weight, 10 IU retinyl acetate/g diet dry weight, no GSPE), a
vitamin A-deficient diet Vit A� (n = 12; control diet without retinyl ace-
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In this study, we compared, in healthy male rats, the
protective abilities of dietary GSPE and vitamins A and
E against oxidative DNA damage as measured by 8-oxo-
7, 8-dihydro-2 0-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) in blood and
urine as noninvasive biomarkers for later studies in human.
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Chemicals
Nuclease P1, RNase IIIA, RNase T1, Triton X-100, NaCl, defer-
rioxamine mesylate, sodium dodecyl sulfate retinol, a-tocopherol, retinyl
palmitate, phosphate buffered saline and isoamyl alcohol were obtained
from Sigma–Aldrich Chimie SARL (St Quentin Fallavier, France).
Alkaline phosphatase and proteinase K were obtained from Roche
Diagnostic (Mannheim, Germany). RPMI-1640 (Roswell Park Memo-
Table 1
Control and experimental diets composition
Ingredient Control Experimental die
Vit E�
Diet mixa 920 920
Mineral mixb 70 70
Vitamin mixc 10 10
a-Tocopherol acetate (mg/g) 0.05 0
Retinyl acetate (IU/g) 10 10
GSPE (mg/g) 0 0
Values are g/kg diet dry wt, unless otherwise indicated.
a UAR 211A: the diet mixture provides the following amounts (g/kg diet
glycerol, 10; onagrine oil, 10.
b UAR 205B: the salt mixture provides the following amounts (g/kg diet
0.056; Cu, 0.0087; Zn, 0.031; Co, 0.00006; I, 0.00034.
treated with radical generators (Caderni et al., 2000; Bom-
ser et al., 1999). Similarly, a recent study has shown that an
anthocyanidin rich extract decreases indices of lipid perox-
idation and DNA damage in vitamin E depleted rats
(Ramirez-Tortosa et al., 2001). However, most of the work
concerning the antioxidant abilities of procyanidins in vitro
and in vivo have been undertaken with organisms under
oxidative stress conditions (induced by radical generators,
UV, metal ions, antioxidant deficient diets. . .) in order to
c UAR 200: the vitamin mixture provides the following amounts (mg/kg diet�
pyridoxine, 10; inositol, 150; cyanocobalamine, 0.05; menadione, 40; nicotinic a
tate), a vitamin E-deficient diet Vit E� (n = 12; control diet without a-
tocopherol acetate), a vitamin A-supplemented diet Vit A+ (n = 12; 200 IU
retinyl acetate/g diet dry weight), a vitamin E-supplemented diet Vit E+
(n = 12; 5 mg a-tocopherol acetate/g diet dry weight), a low GSPE sup-
plemented diet GSPE1 (n = 12; 0.04 mg/g diet dry weight) and a high
GSPE supplemented diet GSPE2 (n = 12; 0.4 mg/g diet dry weight). Each
diet was obtained from the U.A.R. Factory (Villemoison, Epinay-sur-
Orge, France) in a granule form. A commercially available, dried, pow-
dered GSPE (VITISOL� batch no. 2724) was kindly provided from the
Berkem Society (Gardonne, France) and was added to the control diet by
U.A.R.
Rats were randomly divided into seven groups and housed three per
wire cage. Food consumption and body weight were recorded weekly all
through the study. Clinical signs were checked daily.
After 47 days, rats were housed individually in metabolic cages and
24 h urine were collected and stored at �80� until analysed. At the end of
the urine collection, the rats were anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital
and blood was sampled by cardiac puncture and drawn into heparin
vacutainers to prevent coagulation. At sacrifice all rats were healthy.
Blood of three rats from the same diet group were combined and
divided into two fractions. One fraction (8 ml) was used to obtain the
plasma and the remaining (20–25 ml) was used to the leukocytes isolation.
Each fraction was kept on ice and used within 2 h.
2.3. Plasmatic vitamin determination
Blood (8 ml) was centrifuged at 1500g for 15 min at 4 �C. Plasma was
removed and aliquoted into 1 ml plastic tubes, snap-frozen in liquid
nitrogen and stored at �80 �C until vitamin analysis.
E+ Vit A� Vit A+ GSPE1 GSPE2
920 920 920 920
70 70 70 70
10 10 10 10
0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05
0 200 10 10
0 0 0.04 0.4
casein, 230; dextrose, 380; corn starch, 200; cellulose, 60; stearic acid, 30;
: Ca, 7; K, 0.42; Na, 2.8; Mg, 0.7; Fe, 0.21; P, 5.425; trace elements: Mn,
1): cholecalciferol, 0.0625; thiamin, 20; riboflavin, 15; panthotenic acid, 68;
cid, 99; paraaminobenzoic acid, 49; folic acid, 5; biotin, 0.3; choline, 1360.
the working standards solution were prepared as follows: a-tocopherol,
vigorous agitation and made up to 4.7 ml with buffer. SDS (300 ll) 10%
several times. The tube was left on ice for 10 min to facilitate DNA pre-
ical
(70:20:10, v/v/v) as eluant, at a flow rate of 1.2 ml/min. The UV detector
was programmed to monitor retinol at 325 nm from 0 to 4 min, tocopherol
at 292 nm from 4 to 8 min and retinyl palmitate at 325 nm from 8 to
5 min. Each vitamin was quantified on the basis of peak area using the
calibration curves previously obtained from the standard solution.
Detection limit tested for a-tocopherol, retinol and retinyl palmitate,
assuming that the signal-to-noise ratio should be at least three was found
to be 0.46, 0.02 and 0.014 lM, respectively.
2.7. Leukocyte preparation
To the anticoagulated whole blood sample (20–25 ml) in 50 ml
Falcon tubes, an equal volume of RPMI medium (20–25 ml) was added.
The solution was carefully layered onto an equal volume of Polymor-
phprep (Nycomed Pharma AS, Norway) with a density of 1.113 in two
50 ml Falcon tubes and centrifuged at 600g for 70 min at 20 �C without
breaking. A mixture of all leukocytes (lymphocytes, granulocytes and
monocytes) was collected from the interface layer and made up to 50 ml
with RPMI medium. The cells were spun down at 700g for 20 min at
20 �C with breaking and the supernatant was removed. Red blood cells
in the pellet were lysed by adding 4 ml of sterile water for 15 s. PBS
(2 ml) was then added to stop the lysis. The solution was transferred to a
15 ml Falcon tube and made up to 15 ml with PBS. The leukocytes were
analysis.
2.6. Chromatographic separation
The samples were analysed using an Agilent HPLC system (model
1100 series) equipped with an autoinjector with a 100 ll injection loop, a
quaternary pump and a spectrophotometer detector. We used a reverse-
phase Lichrosphere 100RP18 column (5 lm particle size, 150 mm
L · 4.6 mm ID) (Interchim, Montluc¸on, France).
The HPLC mobile phase was acetonitrile/dichloromethane/methanol
retinol and retinyl palmitate stock solutions were mixed 1/1/1 (v/v/v) and
were diluted 10, 20, 40, 80 and 200 times with ethanol. In microtube,
150 ll of the working standard solutions were mixed with 50 ll chloro-
form and 100 ll water, vortex mixed for 1 min, allowed to stand for 5 min
and mixed for a further 1 min. After centrifugation at 2000g for 8 min at
room temperature, the clear supernatant was transferred to an amber
autosampler vial. Forty microlitres was injected into the HPLC system for
analysis.
2.5. Sample preparation
The extraction procedure was carried out in a room protected from
direct sunlight. Plasma (100 ll) was mixed with 200 ll ethanol–chloroform
(3:1, v/v), vortex mixed for 1 min, allowed to stand for 5 min and mixed
for a further 1 min. After centrifugation at 2000g for 8 min at room
temperature, the clear supernatent was transferred to an amber auto-
sampler vial. Forty microlitres was injected into the HPLC system for
A sensitive HPLC assay was adapted from a recent article (Taibi and
Nicotra, 2002) and validated for a-tocopherol, retinol and retinyl palmi-
tate in plasma using liquid–liquid extraction and UV detection.
2.4. Standards preparation
Individual stock solution of commercial vitamins was prepared in
ethanol and consisted in 2 mM of a-tocopherol, 223 lM of retinol and
25 lM of retinyl palmitate. These solutions were stored in aluminum foil-
covered glass containers and kept at �20 �C. Absorbance was determined
using a spectrophotometer and concentrations were calculated from the
standard absorbance E (1 cm/1%): retinol, 1850 at 325 nm; a-tocopherol,
75.8 at 292 nm; retinyl palmitate, 975 at 325 nm. On the day of the assay,
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centrifuged at 700g for 20 min at 20 �C and the supernatant was
discarded.
cipitation. Ethanol was then removed and DNA washed with 10 ml of ice-
cold 70% ethanol, three times, ethanol being removed by aspiration.
Finally, DNA was recovered by centrifugation, and dissolved into 10 mM
Tris–HCl prior to DNA digestion.
The DNA hydrolysis was performed with nuclease P1 and alkaline
phosphatase as described previously (Ravanat et al., 2002, Protocol
Dig-2).
2.9. HPLC–EC measurement of 8-oxodG in leukocytes
For analysis, a Beckman series pump system equipped with a pulse
damper, a cooling autosampler and a spectrophotometric detector, set at
254 nm, connected to a Kontron amperometric detector, was used. The
electrochemical cell was equipped with a glassy carbon working electrode,
operated at 650 mV vs an Ag/AgCl reference electrode. The system was
operated at 0.5 nA full range detection. The HPLC separation was
obtained on a Uptisphere ODB C18 column (5 lm particle size,
250 · 4.6 mm) equipped with a Uptisphere ODB C18 guard column (5 lm
particle size, 50 · 4.6 mm) (Interchim, Montluc¸on, France). The mobile
phase used for isocratic elution of 8-oxodG was composed of 50 mM
ammonium acetate pH 5.5 containing 10% methanol at a flow rate of
0.8 ml/min and the injection volume was 100 ll. The concentration of dG
was estimated from the UV peak and the concentration of 8-oxodG from
the electrochemical signal using an external calibration. Results are
expressed as the number of residues of 8-oxodG per 106 dG. The LOD was
determined around 20 fmol injected corresponding to 0.6 8-oxodG/106 dG
for 50 lg of injected DNA.
2.10. HPLC–MS/MS measurement of 8-oxodG and 8-oxoGuo in
urine
On-line HPLC–MS/MS measurements were carried out using an
Agilent (Massy, France) 1100 HPLC system, equipped with a thermo-
stated autosampler, a binary HPLC pumping system, an oven and a UV
detector. Separations were performed using a reversed phase C18 (5 lm,
250 · 2 mm) column from Alltech (Deerfield, Ilinois, USA). The elution
was added to the nuclear suspension to obtain a final concentration of
0.6%. At this stage, the pellet must be well dispersed otherwise SDS fails to
lyse all the nuclear membrane. The tube is gently inverted several times to
mix and incubate 10 min at 37 �C. Thereafter, 200 ll RNase IIIA (1 mg/
ml) in RNase buffer (10 mM Tris–HCl, 0.4 M NaCl, pH 8) and 10 ll
RNase T1 (1 U/ll in RNase buffer) were added and incubated for 30 min
at 37 �C. Proteinase K (1 mg) was then added prior to incubation for
30 min at 37 �C. The solution was cooled at room temperature and
transferred to a stoppered glass tube. An equal volume of chloro-
form:isoamyl alcohol (24:1) was added. After 15 s of vigorous shaking, the
solution was centrifuged for 10 min at 2400g at 20 �C with no brake. The
upper phase was collected, taking care not to disturb the cloudy interface.
The chloroform and isoamyl alcohol extraction step was repeated with the
aqueous phase. The aqueous layer was transferred to a 15 ml Falcon tube
and the volume was measured. Y ml of 6 M NaCl (where Y = 0.311·
measured volume) was added, vortexed for 10 s and centrifuged for 10 min
at 200g at room temperature. The supernatant was carefully decanted in a
15 ml tube and cooled on ice for 5 min. Two volumes of cold ethanol were
then added. DNA precipitation was achieved by gently inverting the tube
2.8. DNA extraction from leukocytes
Three millilitres of lysis buffer (10 mM Tris–HCl, 0.4 M NaCl, 1 mM
deferoxamine mesylate pH 8, 0.5% Triton X-100) was added to the leu-
kocyte pellet. After agitation, the nuclei were collected by centrifugation at
1200g for 5 min at 4 �C and washed with 5 ml Triton-free lysis buffer. To
the nuclear pellet, obtained by centrifugation (1200g for 5 min at 4 �C),
1 ml Triton-free buffer was added. The pellet was well dispersed by a
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was achieved at a flow rate of 0.2 ml/min in the gradient mode, the column
being maintained at 28 �C. The proportion of acetonitrile in 5 mM
ammonium acetate (pH 6.5), starting from 0%, reached 3% within 5 min,
and 12% within 25 min for the measurement of both 8-oxodG and its
corresponding ribonucleoside, 8-oxoGuo. After the completion of the
HPLC analysis (30 min), the column was reequilibrated with 100%
ammonium acetate for 15 min before next injection. After addition of
MeOH (0.1 ml/min) at the output of the UV detector, set at 260 nm, the
mobile phase was directed onto a API3000 tandem mass spectrometer
(Applied Biosystems) through a ‘‘Turbospray’’ electrospray source (Sciex,
Thornil Canada) as described in details elsewhere for the 8-oxodG
(Ravanat et al., 1998; Frelon et al., 2000). The same conditions were
applied for the 8-oxoGuo analysis. The system was entirely controlled by
Analyst software 1.2. Quantification of 8-oxdG and 8-oxoGuo was
obtained by using isotopically labeled internal standards. For that pur-
pose, each urine sample was diluted with an equal volume of the mobile
rats was the lowest (45 ± 4 g). Vitamins A, E and proanth-
ocyanidin intakes are shown in Table 2. The rats did not
exhibit clinical symptoms.
3.2. Fat-soluble vitamin concentration in plasma
The endogenous concentrations in plasma retinol, reti-
nyl ester and a-tocopherol were consistent with values in
healthy male rats reported in the literature (Danelisen
et al., 2002; Henning et al., 1997). Plasma concentrations
of a-tocopherol and retinol were high (Table 3) (relative
to the limits of detection of our method) so that even the
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was observed among the other groups compared to the
control animals.
No significant change in weekly food intake was
observed in the dietary group (Fig. 1). Although, the mean
food consumption was lower for GSPE1 diet, the body
weight gain was not significantly different from the control
group (Table 2). The initial body weight of the GSPE1 diet
Table 2
Body weight gain and vitamin E, vitamin A and