The role of mitochondrial glutathione and cellular protein sulfhydryls in formaldehyde toxicity in glutathione-depleted rat hepatocytes - PubMed (original) (raw)
The role of mitochondrial glutathione and cellular protein sulfhydryls in formaldehyde toxicity in glutathione-depleted rat hepatocytes
R H Ku et al. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1986.
Abstract
Depletion of cellular GSH by diethyl maleate (DEM) potentiates CH2O toxicity in isolated rat hepatocytes and it was postulated that this increase in toxicity is due to the further decrease in GSH caused by CH2O in DEM-pretreated hepatocytes (1). The present investigation was conducted to investigate further the effects of CH2O, DEM, and acrolein (a compound which is structurally related to CH2O and DEM) on subcellular GSH pools and on protein sulfhydryl groups (PSH). CH2O caused a decrease in cytosolic GSH but had no effect on mitochondrial GSH either in previously untreated hepatocytes or in DEM-pretreated hepatocytes in which GSH was approximately 25% of control. DEM decreased both cytosolic and mitochondrial GSH but it did not produce toxicity. Neither CH2O (up to 7.5 mM) nor DEM (20 mM) decreased PSH. However, in cells pretreated with 1 mM DEM, CH2O (7.5 mM) decreased PSH and this effect preceded cell death. Acrolein decreased both cytosolic and mitochondrial GSH and it also decreased PSH significantly prior to causing cell death. CH2O and acrolein stimulated phosphorylase alpha activity, indicative of an increase in cytosolic free Ca2+, by a PSH-independent and PSH-dependent mechanism, respectively. These results suggest that the further depletion of cellular GSH by CH2O in DEM-pretreated cells is not due to the depletion of mitochondrial GSH. CH2O toxicity in DEM-pretreated cells is, however, correlated with depletion of PSH. The critical sulfhydryl protein(s) responsible for cell death remain to be more clearly defined.
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