Journal
CHEMICO-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS
Volume 179, Issue 2-3, Pages 125-130Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2008.11.016
Keywords
Mesoionic compound; Lipid peroxidation; Uncoupling effect; Scavenging activity
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- CNPq
- CAPES
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Important biological activities have been described for mesoionic compounds. We previously reported that MI-D (4-phenyl-5-(4-nitro-cinnamoyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazolium-2-phenylamine chloride) inhibited the respiratory chain, collapsed the transmembrane potential, and stimulated ATPase activity in intact rat liver mitochondria. It is known that drugs that affect mitochondrial membrane potential may facilitate the induction of cell death by apoptosis. Mitochondria have also a central role in the generation of reactive oxygen species, therefore it would be important to investigate how MI-D could affect processes related to oxidative stress. In this work, we evaluated the effects of MI-D on the lipoperoxidation and its ability to scavenge free radicals. Interestingly, it was observed that MI-D promoted a strong inhibition of the lipoperoxidation induced by Fe3+-ADP/2-oxoglutarate in isolated mitochondria (95%+/- 0.27 at the highest concentration of 80 nmol mg(-1) protein) in a dose-dependent manner. However, at the same concentration its effect was less intense (22%+/- 3.46) when the lipoperoxidation was initiated by peroxyl radicals generated from the azocompound AAPH. Lipid peroxidation in both coupled and uncoupled submitochondrial particles initiated with Fe2+/NADH was also inhibited by MI-D. The inhibition was about four times greater in coupled particles (similar to 34% at 80 nmol mg(-1) protein) in relation to uncoupled. MI-D inhibited the soybean phosphatidylcholine liposomes lipoperoxidation in a dose-dependent manner (5-80 mu M) regardless of the radical being generated in lipid or aqueous phase. The mesoionic compound showed ability of scavenging superoxide radical (7, 11 and 31% for 25, 38 and 80 mu M, respectively). Our results strongly suggest that the inhibition of lipoperoxidation promoted by MI-D is due to its scavenger action and to its previously described uncoupling effect. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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