Journal
ACTA BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA SINICA
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 19-29Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/abbs/gmq108
Keywords
alcohol; liver fibrosis; 2-DE-MS; keratin 18; iTRAQ
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- Shanghai Natural Science Foundation [09ZR1426300]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2011CB910700]
- National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) [2006AA02A411]
- Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission [09411965800]
- National Key Technologies R&D Program of China [2008ZX10002-006]
- Wang Bao En Liver Fibrosis of China liver disease [20070026]
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In humans, the over-consumption of alcohol can lead to serious liver disease. To examine the early effects of alcohol on liver disease, rats were given sufficient ethanol to develop liver cirrhosis. Rats before the onset of fibrosis were studied in this work. Plasma membranes (PM) of liver were extracted by twice sucrose density gradient centrifugation. The proteome profiles of PM from ethanol-treated rats and the controls were analyzed using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) technology. Ethanol treatment altered the amount of 15 different liver proteins: 10 of them were detected by 2-DE and 5 by iTRAQ. Keratin 8 was detected by both methods. Gene ontology analysis of these differentially detected proteins indicated that most of them were involved in important cell functions such as binding activity (including ion, DNA, ATP binding, etc.), cell structure, or enzyme activity. Among these, annexin A2, keratin 8, and keratin 18 were further verified using western blot analysis and annexin A2 was verified by immunohistochemistry. Our results suggested that alcohol has the potential to affect cell structure, adhesion and enzyme activity by altering expression levels of several relevant proteins in the PM. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to study the effect of alcohol on the liver PM proteome and it might be helpful for understanding the possible mechanisms of alcohol-induced liver disease.
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