期刊
JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY
卷 40, 期 4, 页码 607-615出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2003.12.021
关键词
chelatable iron; mitochondrial permeability transition; Fenton reaction; iron-oxygen species; Ferryl species; mitochondria; catalase mimic
Background/Aims: We previously described that the cold-induced apoptosis of cultured hepatocytes and liver endothelial cells is mediated by an increase in the cellular chelatable iron pool-in the absence of any increase in O-2(.-)/H2O2 formation. As this is an unusual mechanism, we here set out to assess whether an increase in cellular chelatable iron per se is sufficient to trigger cell injury/apoptosis. Methods: Cultured rat hepatocytes were acutely loaded with iron using the membrane-permeable complex Fe(III)/ 8-hydroxyquinoline and incubated under otherwise 'physiological' conditions. Results: Incubation with Fe(III)/8-hydroxyquinoline (15 muM/30 muM) increased the cellular chelatable iron and induced strong hepatocellular injury with morphological features of apoptosis, but also of necrosis. The iron-induced cell injury was oxygen-dependent, and although it was not inhibitable by extracellular catalase, it was strongly inhibited by the novel membrane-permeable catalase mimic TAA-1/Fe. The experimentally induced increase in cellular chelatable iron triggered a mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) as assessed using double-staining with calcein and tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester. The MPT inhibitor cyclosporine A partially and the well-known inhibitor combination trifluoperazine + fructose completely inhibited the iron-induced cell injury/apoptosis. Conclusions: These results show that iron per se can induce cell injury/apoptosis and that this injury is mediated via an NIPT. (C) 2004 European Association for the Study of the Liver. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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