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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 15, Pages 12035-12040Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M010603200
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We have investigated the effects of arachidonic and palmitic acids in isolated rat liver mitochondria and in rat hepatoma MH1C1 cells. We show that both compounds induce the mitochondrial permeability transition (PT). At variance from palmitic acid, however, arachidonic acid causes a PT at concentrations that do not cause PT-independent depolarization or respiratory inhibition, suggesting a specific effect on the PT pore. When added to intact MH1C1 cells, arachidonic acid but not palmitic acid caused a mitochondrial PT in situ that was accompanied by cytochrome c release and rapidly followed by cell death. All these effects of arachidonic acid could be prevented by cyclosporin A but not by the phospholipase A(2) inhibitor aristolochic acid. In contrast, tumor necrosis factor alpha caused phospholipid hydrolysis, induction of the PT, cytochrome c release, and cell death that could be inhibited by both cyclosporin A and aristolochic acid. These findings suggest that arachidonic acid produced by cytosolic phospholipase A(2) may be a mediator of tumor necrosis factor alpha cytotoxicity in situ through induction of the mitochondrial PT.
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