Association between maternal micronutrient status, oxidative stress and common genetic variants in antioxidant enzymes at 15 weeks’ gestation in nulliparous women who subsequently develop pre-eclampsia

Mistry, Hiten D., Gill, Carolyn, Kurlak, L.O., Seed, Paul T., Hestketh, John, Meplan, Catherine, Schomburg, Lutz, Chappell, Lucy C., Morgan, Linda and Poston, Lucilla (2015) Association between maternal micronutrient status, oxidative stress and common genetic variants in antioxidant enzymes at 15 weeks’ gestation in nulliparous women who subsequently develop pre-eclampsia. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 78 . pp. 147-155. ISSN 1873-4596

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Abstract

Aims: Pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy-specific condition affecting 2-7% of women and a leading cause of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. Deficiencies of specific micronutrient antioxidant activities associated with copper, selenium, zinc and manganese, have previously been linked to pre-eclampsia at time of disease. Our aims were to investigate whether maternal plasma micronutrient concentrations and related antioxidant enzyme activities are altered prior to pre-eclampsia onset and to examine the dependence on genetic variations in these antioxidant enzymes.

Methods: Pre-disease plasma samples (15+1 weeks’ gestation) were obtained from women enrolled in the international SCreening fOr Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) study who subsequently developed pre-eclampsia (n=244), and age- and BMI-matched normotensive controls (n=472). Micronutrient concentrations were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; associated antioxidant enzyme activities, selenoprotein-P, caeruloplasmin concentrations and activities, antioxidant capacity and markers of oxidative stress were measured by colorimetric assays. Sixty four tagSNPs within genes encoding the antioxidant enzymes and selenoprotein-P were genotyped using allele-specific competitive PCR.

Results: Plasma copper and caeruloplasmin concentrations were modestly, but significantly elevated in women who subsequently developed pre-eclampsia (both P<0.001) compared to controls (median [IQR], copper: 1957.4 [1787, 2177.5] vs. 1850.0 [1663.5, 2051.5] µg/L; caeruloplasmin: 2.5[1.4, 3.2] vs. 2.2[1.2, 3.0] µg/ml). There were no differences in other micronutrients or enzymes between groups. No relationship was observed between genotype for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and antioxidant enzyme activity.

Conclusions: This analysis of a prospective cohort study reports maternal micronutrient concentrations in combination with associated antioxidant enzymes and SNPs in their encoding genes in women at 15 weeks’ gestation that subsequently developed pre-eclampsia. The modest elevation in copper may contribute to oxidative stress, later in pregnancy, in those women that go on to develop pre-eclampsia. The lack of evidence to support the hypothesis that functional SNPs influence antioxidant enzyme activity in pregnant women argues against a role for these genes in the aetiology of pre-eclampsia.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Micronutrients; Preeclampsia; Hypertension; Pregnancy; Antioxidants; Oxidative stress; Free radicals
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine > Division of Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Life Sciences
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.10.580
Depositing User: Mistry, Hiten
Date Deposited: 21 Jul 2017 10:06
Last Modified: 12 Oct 2017 23:07
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/44327

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