Extensive protein carbonylation precedes acrolein-mediated cell death in mouse hepatocytes
✍ Scribed by Philip C. Burcham; Frank Fontaine
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1095-6670
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Allyl alcohol hepatotoxicity is mediated by an alcohol dehydrogenase‐derived biotranformation product, acrolein. This highly reactive α,β–unsaturated aldehyde readily alkylates model proteins in vitro, forming, among other products, Michael addition adducts that possess a free carbonyl group. Whether such damage accompanies acrolein‐mediated toxicity in cells is unknown. In this work we established that allyl alcohol toxicity in mouse hepatocytes involves extensive carbonylation of a wide range of proteins, and that the severity of such damage to a subset of 18–50 kDa proteins closely correlated with the degree of cell death. In addition to abolishing cytotoxicity and glutathione depletion, the alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitor 4‐methyl pyrazole strongly attenuated protein carbonylation. Conversely, cyanamide, an aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor, enhanced cytotoxicity and protein carbonylation. Since protein carbonylation clearly preceded the loss of membrane integrity, it may be associated with the toxic process leading to cell death. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 15:309–316, 2001