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Lipid peroxidation has been invoked as a mechanism of alcoholic liver injury but its role has been controversial and the mechanism by which it occurs is unclear. Catalytic iron is known to play an important role in cellular injury and is produced during mobilization of ferritin iron. In vivo administration of a large acute dose of ethanol (5 g/kg) which produces hepatic lipid peroxidation in chow-fed rats resulted in mobilization of non-heme iron. The generation of NADH from alcohol metabolism via ADH or superoxide from acetaldehyde-xanthine oxidase mobilized iron from horse spleen ferritin in vitro. Chronic feeding of alcohol as 36% of energy for 6 weeks does not itself produce peroxidation in the rat but potentiates acute effects of ethanol. It produced microsomal induction which enhanced iron-stimulated lipid peroxidation and increased hepatic non-heme iron. Carbon monoxide increased rather than decreased accumulation of microsomal peroxidation products in vitro suggesting that cytochrome P-450 reductase mediates peroxidation but cytochrome P-450 may metabolize products. Incubation at lowered oxygen tensions equivalent to those observed in the perivenular zone (pO2 = 24 mmHg) enhanced in vitro iron mobilization but decreased peroxidation. Lipid peroxidation and its stimulation by iron mobilization and microsomal induction may be an important contributory mechanism of alcohol-induced liver injury.
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PMID:Lipid peroxidation as a mechanism of alcoholic liver injury: role of iron mobilization and microsomal induction. 313 9

Administration of ethanol (5 g/kg p.o.) to female Sprague-Dawley rats resulted in conversion of a portion of hepatic xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase 12 hr after treatment. Conversion was partly reversed in vitro by treatment of hepatic 100,000 X g supernatant with dithiothreitol, whereas pretreatment of rats with pyrazole (100 mg/kg i.p.) prevented conversion 18 hr after ethanol administration. Incubation of acetaldehyde with rat liver supernatant at 37 degrees C converted xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase in a dose-dependent manner, whereas incubation of ethanol with rat liver supernatant did not lead to conversion. Acetaldehyde-induced conversion in vitro was reversed by treatment with dithiothreitol, and was partially blocked by addition of equimolar concentrations of reduced glutathione. These data suggest that biotransformation of ethanol is required for conversion of hepatic xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase. Because xanthine oxidase utilizes molecular oxygen to produce superoxide radical, ethanol-induced conversion of xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase could contribute to the enhanced lipid peroxidation reported previously after administration of a single dose of ethanol.
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PMID:Effects of acute ethanol administration on the hepatic xanthine dehydrogenase/oxidase system in the rat. 316 90

A single oral administration of ethanol (5 g/kg) to rats induced a marked increase in lipid peroxidation, in the liver and kidney within 9 hr, as assessed by malondialdehyde accumulation. The pretreatment with alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) inhibitor, 4-methylpyrazole (1 mmol/kg) caused approximately 50% inhibition of the hepatic ADH activity and abolished this ethanol-induced lipid peroxidation. The disulfiram treatment (100 mg/kg) significantly inhibited 63% of the hepatic low Km aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) but not the high Km ALDH. The cyanamide treatment (15 mg/kg) effectively decreased 83% of the low Km and 70% of the high Km ALDH in the liver. Although there was more than a 20-fold elevation of acetaldehyde levels by the inhibition of acetaldehyde metabolism with disulfiram or cyanamide, the ethanol-induced lipid peroxidation was significantly suppressed by pretreatment with these drugs. More than 90% inhibition of xanthine oxidase and dehydrogenase by the pretreatment with allopurinol (100 mg/kg), with no effect on the hepatic ADH and ALDH activities, did not alter the enhancement of lipid peroxidation following ethanol administration. We propose that the metabolism of acetaldehyde (probably via the low Km ALDH) and not acetaldehyde itself is responsible for the ethanol-induced lipid peroxidation in vivo and that the contribution of xanthine oxidase, as an initiator of lipid peroxidation through acetaldehyde oxidation is minute during acute intoxication.
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PMID:The metabolism of acetaldehyde and not acetaldehyde itself is responsible for in vivo ethanol-induced lipid peroxidation in rats. 317 76

Monitoring of chronic alcoholism would be facilitated by using sensitive biochemical markers in blood cells, mainly to detect differences between alcoholic subjects with or without liver injury. We propose two types of markers: the first one is superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity involved in the conversion of superoxide radicals (O2-.) formed during acetaldehyde oxidation by xanthine oxidase after chronic alcohol consumption; the second one is enolase activity with both isoenzyme forms: nonneuronal enolase (NNE) and neuron specific enolase (NSE) which has been shown to be modified in many injuries related to the glycolytic pathways. For SOD activity we found a significant increase in alcoholic patients with liver injury and mainly in cirrhotic patients with ascitis. Both enolase activities were also found to be significantly increased in alcoholic patients with liver injury but NNE activity was also increased in alcoholics without apparent liver disease. Our results suggest that increased activity of SOD and NSE in blood cells may be related to liver injury mainly in alcoholism while increased NNE activity may also be a marker of alcohol abuse without liver injury.
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PMID:Blood cell superoxide dismutase and enolase activities as markers of alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver diseases. 321 86

Deuterium isotope effects [D(V/K)] and stereoselectivity of ethanol oxidation in cytochrome P-450 containing systems and in the xanthine-xanthine oxidase system were compared with those of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase. The isotope effects were determined by using both a noncompetitive method, including incubation of unlabeled or [1,1-2H2]ethanol at various concentrations, and a competitive method, where 1:1 mixtures of [1-13C]- and [2H6]ethanol or [2,2,2-2H3]- and [1,1-2H2]ethanol were incubated and the acetaldehyde formed was analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The D(V/K) isotope effects of the cytochrome P-450 dependent ethanol oxidation were about 4 with liver microsomes from imidazole-, phenobarbital- or acetone-treated rabbits or with microsomes from acetone- or ethanol-treated rats. Similar isotope effects were reached with reconstituted membranes containing the rabbit ethanol-inducible cytochrome P-450 (LMeb), whereas control rat microsomes and membranes containing rabbit phenobarbital-inducible P-450 LM2 oxidized the alcohol with D(V/K) of about 2.8 and 1.8, respectively. Addition of FeIIIEDTA either to microsomes from phenobarbital-treated rabbits or to membranes containing P-450 LMeb significantly lowered the isotope effect, which approached that of the xanthine-xanthine oxidase system (1.4), whereas desferrioxamine had no significant effect. Incubations of all cytochrome P-450 containing systems or the xanthine-xanthine oxidase systems with (1R)- and (1S)-[1-2H]ethanol, revealed, taking the isotope effects into account, that 44-66% of the ethanol oxidized had lost the 1-pro-R hydrogen.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Cytochrome P-450 dependent ethanol oxidation. Kinetic isotope effects and absence of stereoselectivity. 342 76

Exposure of red blood cells to oxygen radicals can induce hemoglobin damage and stimulate protein degradation, lipid peroxidation, and hemolysis. To determine if these events are linked, rabbit erythrocytes were incubated at 37 degrees C with various oxygen radical-generating systems and antioxidants. Protein degradation, measured by the production of free alanine, increased more than 11-fold in response to xanthine (X) + xanthine oxidase (XO). A similar increase in proteolysis occurred when the cells were incubated with acetaldehyde plus XO, with ascorbic acid plus iron (Asc + Fe), or with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) alone. Upon addition of XO, increased proteolysis was evident within 5 min and was linear for up to 5 h. In contrast, lipid peroxidation, as shown by the production of malonyldialdehyde, conjugated dienes, or lipid hydroperoxides was observed only after 2 h of incubation with X + XO, acetaldehyde + XO, or H2O2. Ascorbate plus Fe2+ induced both protein degradation and lipid peroxidation; however, the addition of various antioxidants (urate, xanthine, glucose, or butylated hydroxytoluene) decreased lipid peroxidation without affecting proteolysis. Thus, these processes seem to occur by distinct mechanisms. Furthermore, at low concentrations of XO, protein degradation was clearly increased in the absence of detectable lipid peroxidation products. Hemolysis occurred only in a small number of cells (9%) and followed the appearance of lipid peroxidation products. Thus, an important response of red cells to oxygen radicals is rapid degradation of damaged cell proteins. Increased proteolysis seems to occur independently of membrane damage and to be a more sensitive indicator of cell exposure to oxygen radicals than is lipid peroxidation.
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PMID:Oxygen radicals stimulate intracellular proteolysis and lipid peroxidation by independent mechanisms in erythrocytes. 359 72

We have suggested that red blood cell proteolytic systems can degrade oxidatively damaged proteins, and that both damage and degradation are independent of lipid peroxidation (Davies, K. J. A., and Goldberg, A. L. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 8220-8226. These ideas have now been tested in cell-free extracts of rabbit erythrocytes and reticulocytes. Exposure to oxygen radicals or H2O2 increases the degradation of endogenous proteins in cell-free extracts, as in intact cells. Various radical-generating systems (acetaldehyde or xanthine + xanthine oxidase, ascorbic acid + iron, H2O2 + iron) and H2O2 alone enhanced the rates of proteolysis severalfold. Since these extracts were free of membrane lipids, protein damage and degradation must be independent of lipid peroxidation. An antioxidant buffer consisting of HEPES, glycerol, and dithiothreitol inhibited the increased proteolysis by 60-100%. Mannitol caused a 50-80% reduction in proteolysis suggesting that the hydroxyl radical (.OH), or a species with similar reactivity, may be the initiator of protein damage. When casein or bovine serum albumin were exposed to .OH (generated by H2O2 + Fe2+, or COCo radiation) these proteins were degraded up to 50 times faster than untreated proteins during subsequent incubations with red cell extracts. Mannitol inhibited this increase in proteolysis only if present during .OH exposure; mannitol did not affect the degradative system. Although ATP increased the degradation of untreated proteins 4- to 6-fold in reticulocyte extracts, it had little or no effect on the degradation of proteins exposed to .OH. ATP also did not stimulate hydrolysis of .OH-treated proteins in erythrocyte extracts. Leupeptin did not affect the degradative processes in either extract; thus lysosomal or Ca2+-activated thiol proteases were not involved. We propose that red cells contain a soluble, ATP-independent proteolytic pathway which may protect against the accumulation of proteins damaged by .OH or other active oxygen species.
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PMID:Proteins damaged by oxygen radicals are rapidly degraded in extracts of red blood cells. 359 73

Using isolated hemoglobin-free perfused rat livers we investigated the hepatotoxic effects of hypoxia, ethanol or the combination of both. Hypoxia only (90 min) led to a weak toxicity as evidenced by the efflux of the enzymes glutamate-pyruvate-transaminase (GPT) and sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH). This toxic effect was slightly higher in livers treated with ethanol (3 g/l) under normoxic conditions. Ethanol added under hypoxic conditions, however, showed a strong hepatotoxic effect. Under hypoxic conditions, lactate + pyruvate production was increased fivefold over control, indicating that glycolysis was more effectively undergone as main source of energy. Addition of ethanol suppressed this effect, indicating that ethanol inhibited glycolysis. These results indicate that ethanol potentiates hypoxic liver damage by inhibiting the main metabolic pathway yielding ATP under low oxygen tension resulting in a severe energy deficit. Allopurinol (100 mg/l) inhibited the toxic effects seen with ethanol + hypoxia. Also, the inhibitory action of ethanol on glycolysis was antagonized. Our results are consistent with the following model: hypoxia converts NAD-dependent xanthine dehydrogenase (XD) into the oxygen-dependent xanthine oxidase (XO). Due to hypoxia and ethanol, purine metabolites and acetaldehyde accumulate and are metabolized via XO. This process leads to the production of oxygen radicals which most probably mediate both the inhibition of glycolysis and the direct toxic effects towards liver cells.
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PMID:Enhancement of hypoxic liver damage by ethanol. Involvement of xanthine oxidase and the role of glycolysis. 363 22

Single doses of ethanol (5 g/kg, intragastric) produce oxidative stress in the liver as well as in the heart. The metabolism of acetaldehyde through xanthine oxidase appears to play an important role in the production of oxidative stress in the heart, but it has only a contributory role in the liver. It is suggested that, as oxidative stress through lipid peroxidation may produce organ pathology, the metabolic pathway of acetaldehyde through xanthine oxidase may be one of the mechanisms which mediate cardiac pathology in alcoholism.
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PMID:Role of acetaldehyde and xanthine oxidase in ethanol-induced oxidative stress. 375 47

The parameters of enzyme electrodes based on organic metals are presented. Cytochrome b2 (E.C. 1.1.2.3), glucose oxidase (E.C. 1.1.3.4), xanthine oxidase (E.C. 1.2.3.2) and peroxidase (E.C. 1.11.1.7) were used in electrodes sensitive to L-lactate, glucose, hypoxanthine and hydrogen peroxide. Electrocatalytic oxidation of NADH on organic metals and ethanol and acetaldehyde sensitive electrodes containing alcohol dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.1.1.1) were studied. Biocatalytic charge accumulation, the mechanism of electron exchange between the enzyme active centres and organic metals, and the future application of organic metals are discussed.
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PMID:Enzyme electrodes based on organic metals. 379 Jan 76


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