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Kim JS, Jin Y, Lemasters JJ. Reactive oxygen species, but not Ca2+ overloading, trigger pH- and mitochondrial permeability transition-dependent death of adult rat myocytes after ischemia-reperfusion. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006; 290:H2024-34. [PMID: 16399872 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00683.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 233] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We investigated the role of pH, reactive oxygen species (ROS), Ca2+, and the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) in pH-dependent ischemia-reperfusion injury to adult rat myocytes. Myocytes were incubated in anoxic Krebs-Ringer-HEPES buffer at pH 6.2 for 3 h to simulate ischemia. To simulate reperfusion, myocytes were reoxygenated at pH 6.2 or 7.4 for 2 h. Some myocytes were treated with MPT blockers (cyclosporin A and N-methyl-4-isoleucine cyclosporin) and antioxidants (desferal, diphenylphenylene diamine, and 2-mercaptopropionyl glycine). Mitochondrial membrane potential, inner membrane permeabilization, and ROS formation were imaged with tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester, calcein, and chloromethyldichlorofluorescein diacetate, respectively. For Ca2+ imaging, myocytes were coloaded with rhod-2 and fluo-4 to evaluate mitochondrial and cytosolic Ca2+, respectively. After 10 min of reperfusion at pH 7.4, calcein redistributed across the mitochondrial inner membrane, an event preceded by mitochondrial ROS formation and accompanied by hypercontracture, mitochondrial depolarization, and then cell death. Acidotic reperfusion, antioxidants, and MPT blockers each prevented the MPT, depolarization, hypercontraction, and cell killing. Antioxidants, but neither MPT blockers nor acidotic reperfusion, inhibited ROS formation after reperfusion. Furthermore, anoxic reperfusion at pH 7.4 prevented cell death. Both mitochondrial and cytosolic Ca2+ increased during ischemia but recovered in the first minutes of reperfusion. Mitochondrial and cytosolic Ca2+ overloading again occurred late after reperfusion. This late Ca2+ overloading was blocked by MPT inhibition. Intramitochondrial Ca2+ chelation by cold loading/warm incubation of BAPTA did not prevent cell death after reperfusion. In conclusion, mitochondrial ROS, together with normalization of pH, promote MPT onset and subsequent myocyte death after reperfusion. In contrast, Ca2+ overloading appears to be the consequence of bioenergetic failure after the MPT and is not a factor promoting MPT onset.
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- Jae-Sung Kim
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7090, USA
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Fuks B, Talaga P, Huart C, Hénichart JP, Bertrand K, Grimée R, Lorent G. In vitro properties of 5-(benzylsulfonyl)-4-bromo-2-methyl-3(2H)-pyridazinone: a novel permeability transition pore inhibitor. Eur J Pharmacol 2005; 519:24-30. [PMID: 16099453 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.06.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2005] [Revised: 06/23/2005] [Accepted: 06/30/2005] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Despite the increasing implication of the permeability transition pore (PTP) in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, few selective PTP inhibitors have been reported so far. Here, we evaluate the pharmacological properties of a novel PTP inhibitor, BBMP (5-(benzylsulfonyl)-4-bromo-2-methyl-3(2H)-pyridazinone). This drug was discovered from the screening of a compound library against the PTP using a functional assay with isolated mitochondria. Similarly to cyclosporin A, the drug prevented Ca2+-induced permeability transition and mitochondrial depolarization. BBMP appeared more potent that minocycline in both swelling and membrane potential assays displaying pIC50 values of 5.5+/-0.1 and 5.6+/-0.0, respectively. Unlike minocycline, BBMP dose-dependently prevented DNA fragmentation induced by KCl 25/5 mM shift and serum deprivation in cerebellar granule neurons with a pIC50 of 5.7+/-0.6. The inhibition of PTP-mediated cytochrome c release observed in isolated mitochondria at 10 and 100 microM may explain its neuroprotective properties in vitro. These data suggest that the mitochondrial PTP is potentially involved in neuronal cell death and that PTP inhibitors, like BBMP, may possess a therapeutic potential in neurodegenerative disorders.
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- Bruno Fuks
- UCB, Center for CNS Innovation, Chemin du Foriest, 1420 Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium.
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Wang Y, Perchellet EM, Ward MM, Lou K, Hua DH, Perchellet JPH. Rapid collapse of mitochondrial transmembrane potential in HL-60 cells and isolated mitochondria treated with anti-tumor 1,4-anthracenediones. Anticancer Drugs 2005; 16:953-67. [PMID: 16162972 DOI: 10.1097/01.cad.0000180123.24031.5a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Since synthetic analogs of 1,4-anthraquinone (AQ code number), such as AQ8, AQ9 and AQ10, can trigger cytochrome c release without caspase activation and retain their ability to induce apoptosis in multidrug-resistant (MDR) tumor cells, fluorescent probes of transmembrane potential have been used to determine whether these anti-tumor compounds might directly target mitochondria in cell and cell-free systems to cause the collapse of mitochondrial membrane potential (/Deltapsim) that is linked to permeability transition pore (PTP) opening. Using JC-1 dye, the abilities of various AQ analogs to induce the /Deltapsim in wild-type and MDR HL-60 cells are rapid (within 2.5-10 min), irreversible after drug removal, concentration dependent in the 0.256-10 micromol/l range and generally related to their anti-tumor activities in vitro. The /Deltapsim caused by AQ9 and AQ10, which are more potent than mitoxantrone, staurosporine and the reference depolarizing agent carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) in HL-60 cells, are not prevented by caspase-2 or -8 inhibitors, suggesting that activations of these apical caspases upstream of mitochondria are not involved in this process. Antitumor AQ analogs (0.256-10 micromol/l) also mimic the abilities of the known depolarizing agents CCCP, alamethicin, gramicidin A and 100 micromol/l CaCl2 to directly induce within 15 min the /Deltapsim in isolated mitochondria prepared from mouse liver and loaded with rhodamine 123 dye. The fact that 20 micromol/l Ca2+, which is insufficient to trigger depolarization on its own, is required to reveal the depolarizing effect of AQ9 in isolated mitochondria suggests that anti-tumor AQ analogs might interact with the PTP to alter its conformation and increase its Ca2+ sensitivity. Indeed, such Ca2+-dependent /Deltapsim of isolated mitochondria treated with 1.6 micromol/l AQ9 or 100 micromol/l Ca2+ are blocked by ruthenium red. Daunorubicin (DAU) is unable to mimic the rapid /Deltapsim caused by anti-tumor AQ analogs within 2.5-40 min of treatment in HL-60 cells or isolated mitochondria. Moreover, the /Deltapsim caused by 1.6 micromol/l AQ9 or 100 micromol/l Ca2+ in isolated mitochondria are similarly blocked by cyclosporin A (CsA), bongkrekic acid and decylubiquinone, which prevent PTP opening, suggesting that, in contrast to DAU, anti-tumor AQ analogs that directly target mitochondria to trigger the Ca2+-dependent and CsA-sensitive /Deltapsim, might induce PTP opening and the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis even in the absence of nuclear signals.
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- Yang Wang
- Anti-Cancer Drug Laboratory, Division of Biology, Ackert Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-4901, USA
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Tay VKS, Wang AS, Leow KY, Ong MMK, Wong KP, Boelsterli UA. Mitochondrial permeability transition as a source of superoxide anion induced by the nitroaromatic drug nimesulide in vitro. Free Radic Biol Med 2005; 39:949-59. [PMID: 16140214 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2005] [Revised: 05/09/2005] [Accepted: 05/10/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Nimesulide, a widely used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug containing a nitroaromatic moiety, has been associated with rare but serious hepatic adverse effects. The mechanisms underlying this idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity are unknown; however, both mitochondrial injury and oxidative stress have been implicated in contributing to liver injury in susceptible patients. The aim of this study was, first, to explore whether membrane permeability transition (MPT) could contribute to nimesulide's mitochondrial toxicity and, second, whether metabolism-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) were responsible for MPT. We found that isolated mouse liver mitochondria readily underwent Ca2+-dependent, cyclosporin A-sensitive MPT upon exposure to nimesulide (at >or=3 microM). Net increases in mitochondrial superoxide anion levels, determined with the fluorescent probe dihydroethidium, were induced by nimesulide only in the presence of Ca2+ and were cyclosporin A-sensitive, indicating that superoxide production was a consequence, rather than the cause, of MPT. In addition, nimesulide caused a rapid dissipation of the inner mitochondrial transmembrane potential (at >or=3 microM), followed by a concentration-dependent decrease in ATP biosynthesis. Because nimesulide, unlike the related nitroaromatic drug nilutamide, did not produce any detectable ROS during incubation with mouse hepatic microsomes, we conclude that mitochondrial uncoupling causes MPT and that ROS production is a secondary effect.
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- Vincent K S Tay
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 18 Medical Drive, Singapore 117597
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Griffiths DE. Psi-Screen, an In Vitro Toxicity Test System: Applications in the Bioassay of Perfumes and Fragrance Chemicals. Altern Lab Anim 2005; 33:471-86. [PMID: 16268759 DOI: 10.1177/026119290503300506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The effects of 65 perfume formulations (perfume oils, perfumes, eau de parfum, eau de toilette) on mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) and mitochondrial respiration have been investigated using a mitochondria-based assay for ΔΨm, termed Psi-Screen. All the perfume formulations tested are highly active in the Psi-Screen assay, and the major site of inhibition in all cases is NADH-ubiquinone reductase (Complex I). This is confirmed in studies on the inhibition of NADH oxidase and NADH-ubiquinone reductase. Some formulations also inhibit succinate oxidation at either Complex II or Complex III. Evidence for the inhibition of mitochondrial ATPase is presented, as well as for the induction of reactive oxygen species production by perfume inhibition of Complex I. Thus, perfume formulations are multiple inhibitor mixtures which inhibit multiple bioenergetic functions at high dilutions (103 to 7 × 104). The implications of these findings are discussed with respect to cell toxicity via necrosis and/or apoptosis. Twenty candidate fragrance chemicals were investigated and all inhibited Complex I (5 at < 35μM). Mass screening strategies and high-throughput screening assays are discussed.
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- David E Griffiths
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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Guo HX, Wang F, Yu KQ, Chen J, Bai DL, Chen KX, Shen X, Jiang HL. Novel cyclophilin D inhibitors derived from quinoxaline exhibit highly inhibitory activity against rat mitochondrial swelling and Ca2+ uptake/ release. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2005; 26:1201-11. [PMID: 16174436 PMCID: PMC7091716 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2005.00189.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2005] [Accepted: 06/10/2005] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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AIM To investigate methods for identifying specific cyclophilin D (CypD) inhibitors derived from quinoxaline, thus developing possible lead compounds to inhibit mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) pore opening. METHODS Kinetic analysis of the CypD/inhibitor interaction was quantitatively performed by using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and fluorescence titration (FT) techniques. IC(50) values of these inhibitors were determined by PPIase inhibition activity assays. RESULTS All the equilibrium dissociation constants (KD) of the seven compounds binding to CypD were below 10 mumol/L. The IC(50) values were all consistent with the SPR and FT results. Compounds GW2, 5, 6, and 7 had high inhibition activities against Ca(2+)-dependent rat liver mitochondrial swelling and Ca(2+) uptake/release. Compound GW5 had binding selectivity for CypD over CypA. CONCLUSION The agreement between the measured IC(50) values and the results of SPR and FT suggests that these methods are appropriate and powerful methods for identifying CypD inhibitors. The compounds we screened using these methods (GW1-7) are reasonable CypD inhibitors. Its potent ability to inhibit mitochondrial swelling and the binding selectivity of GW5 indicates that GW5 could potentially be used for inhibiting MPT pore opening.
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- Hong-xia Guo
- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
- School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237 China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203 China
- School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237 China
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Menze MA, Hutchinson K, Laborde SM, Hand SC. Mitochondrial permeability transition in the crustaceanArtemia franciscana: absence of a calcium-regulated pore in the face of profound calcium storage. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2005; 289:R68-76. [PMID: 15718386 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00844.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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When mammalian mitochondria are exposed to high calcium and phosphate, a massive swelling, uncoupling of respiration, and release of cytochrome c occur. These changes are mediated by opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (MPTP). Activation of the MPTP in vivo in response to hypoxic and oxidative stress leads to necrotic and apoptotic cell death. Considering that embryos of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana tolerate anoxia for years, we investigated the MPTP in this crustacean to reveal whether pore opening occurs. Minimum molecular constituents of the regulated MPTP in mammals are believed to be the voltage-dependent anion channel, the adenine nucleotide translocators, and cyclophilin D. Western blot analysis revealed that mitochondria from A. franciscana possess all three required components. When measured with a calcium-sensitive fluorescent probe, rat liver mitochondria are shown to release matrix calcium after addition of ≥100 μM extramitochondrial calcium (MPTP opening), whereas brine shrimp mitochondria continue to take up extramitochondrial calcium and do not release internal stores even up to 1.0 mM exogenously added calcium (no MPTP opening). Furthermore, no swelling of A. franciscana mitochondria in response to added calcium was observed, and no release of cytochrome c could be detected. HgCl2-dependent swelling and cytochrome c release were readily confirmed, which is consistent with the presence of an “unregulated pore.” Although the absence of a regulated MPTP in A. franciscana mitochondria could contribute to the extreme hypoxia tolerance in this species, we speculate that absence of the regulated MPTP may be a general feature of invertebrates.
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- Michael A Menze
- Division of Cellular, Developmental and Integrative Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 202 Life Sciences Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
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Whiteman M, Rose P, Siau JL, Cheung NS, Tan GS, Halliwell B, Armstrong JS. Hypochlorous acid-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in human hepatoma HepG2 and human fetal liver cells: role of mitochondrial permeability transition. Free Radic Biol Med 2005; 38:1571-84. [PMID: 15917186 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.02.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2004] [Revised: 01/14/2005] [Accepted: 02/18/2005] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Liver cirrhosis is often preceded by overt signs of hepatitis, including parenchymal cell inflammation and infiltration of polymorphonuclear (PMN) leukocytes. Activated PMNs release both reactive oxygen species and reactive halogen species, including hypochlorous acid (HOCl), which are known to be significantly cytotoxic due to their oxidizing potential. Because the role of mitochondria in the hepatotoxicity attributed to HOCl has not been elucidated, we investigated the effects of HOCl on mitochondrial function in the human hepatoma HepG2 cell line, human fetal liver cells, and isolated rat liver mitochondria. We show here that HOCl induced mitochondrial dysfunction, and apoptosis was dependent on the induction of the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT), because HOCl induced mitochondrial swelling and collapse of the mitochondrial membrane potential with the concomitant release of cytochrome c. These biochemical events were inhibited by the classical MPT inhibitor cyclosporin A (CSA). Cell death induced by HOCl exhibited several classical hallmarks of apoptosis, including annexin V labeling, caspase activation, chromatin condensation, and cell body shrinkage. The induction of apoptosis by HOCl was further supported by the finding that CSA and caspase inhibitors prevented cell death. For the first time, these results show that HOCl activates the MPT, which leads to the induction of apoptosis and provides a novel insight into the mechanisms of HOCl-mediated cell death at sites of chronic inflammation.
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- Matthew Whiteman
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 8 Medical Drive, Republic of Singapore 117597.
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Rotem R, Heyfets A, Fingrut O, Blickstein D, Shaklai M, Flescher E. Jasmonates: novel anticancer agents acting directly and selectively on human cancer cell mitochondria. Cancer Res 2005; 65:1984-93. [PMID: 15753398 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-04-3091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We reported previously that jasmonates can kill human cancer cells. Many chemotherapeutic drugs induce mitochondrial membrane permeability transition, membrane depolarization, osmotic swelling, and release of cytochrome c, involving the opening of the permeability transition pore complex (PTPC). Because jasmonates exert their cytotoxic effects independent of transcription, translation, and p53 expression, we hypothesized that these compounds may act directly on mitochondria. Mitochondrial membrane depolarization was determined by flow cytometry, and cytochrome c release by Western blotting. Mitochondria were isolated by mechanical lysis and differential centrifugation. Cytotoxicity was measured by a tetrazolium-based assay, and mitochondrial swelling by spectrophotometry. Jasmonates induced membrane depolarization and cytochrome c release in intact human cancer cell lines. Jasmonates induced swelling in mitochondria isolated from Hep 3B hepatoma cells, but not in mitochondria isolated from 3T3 nontransformed cells or from normal lymphocytes, in a PTPC-mediated manner. Methyl jasmonate induced the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria isolated from cancer cell lines in a PTPC-mediated manner, but not from mitochondria isolated from normal lymphocytes. A correlation was found between cytotoxicity of methyl jasmonate and the percentage of leukemic cells in the blood of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Jasmonates induced membrane depolarization in CLL cells, and swelling and release of cytochrome c in mitochondria isolated from these cells. In conclusion, jasmonates act directly on mitochondria derived from cancer cells in a PTPC-mediated manner, and could therefore bypass premitochondrial apoptotic blocks. Jasmonates are promising candidates for the treatment of CLL and other types of cancer.
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MESH Headings
- Acetates/pharmacology
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Blotting, Western
- Calcium/metabolism
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/drug therapy
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/metabolism
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/pathology
- Cell Membrane Permeability/drug effects
- Cells, Cultured
- Cyclopentanes/pharmacology
- Cytochromes c/metabolism
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Ion Channels/antagonists & inhibitors
- Ion Channels/metabolism
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/metabolism
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Liver Neoplasms/drug therapy
- Liver Neoplasms/metabolism
- Liver Neoplasms/pathology
- Lymphocytes/drug effects
- Membrane Potentials/drug effects
- Mice
- Mitochondria/drug effects
- Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins
- Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore
- Mitochondrial Swelling
- Oxylipins
- Plant Growth Regulators/pharmacology
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- Ronit Rotem
- Department of Human Microbiology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Kristian T, Fiskum G. A fluorescence-based technique for screening compounds that protect against damage to brain mitochondria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 13:176-82. [PMID: 15296855 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresprot.2004.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/26/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mitochondrial failure to generate ATP can be due to damage to their membranes, which leads to release of solutes, e.g., pyridine nucleotides, from the mitochondrial matrix. We developed a highly sensitive fluorescence assay for detecting a pathologic increase in mitochondrial membrane permeability. The assay is based on coupled enzymatic reactions that produce hydrogen peroxide in the presence of the reduced or oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH/NAD). The hydrogen peroxide is a substrate for horseradish peroxidase that converts Amplex Red into highly fluorescent Resorufin. The assay is able to detect nanomolar levels of pyridine nucleotides in the medium. Calcium additions to isolated rat brain or liver mitochondria incubated in a potassium-based medium with added enzymes caused osmotic swelling, as detected with light scattering, and production of Resorufin, due to release of NADH/NAD. These events were blocked by cyclosporin A (CsA) or Bongkrekic acid (BKA), inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT). These results indicate that the NADH/NAD release assay is a simple, reliable, and sensitive method for detecting mitochondrial damage and for screening of compounds that protect mitochondria from injury.
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- Tibor Kristian
- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, 685 West Baltimore Street, MSTF 5-34, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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Whiteman M, Armstrong JS, Cheung NS, Siau JL, Rose P, Schantz JT, Jones DP, Halliwell B. Peroxynitrite mediates calcium-dependent mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death via activation of calpains. FASEB J 2004; 18:1395-7. [PMID: 15240564 DOI: 10.1096/fj.03-1096fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Chondrocyte cell death is a hallmark of inflammatory and degenerative joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA), but the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved have yet to be elucidated. Because 3-nitrotyrosine, a marker for reactive nitrogen species such as peroxynitrite, has been observed in OA and RA cartilage and has been associated with chondrocyte cell death, we investigated the mechanisms by which peroxynitrite induces cell death in human articular chondrocytes. The earliest biochemical event observed, subsequent to treatment with either peroxynitrite or the peroxynitrite generator SIN-1, was a rapid rise in intracellular calcium that lead to mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death. Although, chondrocyte death exhibited several classical hallmarks of apoptosis, including annexin V labeling, increased fraction of cells with subG1 DNA content and DNA condensation, we did not find evidence for caspase involvement either by Western blotting, fluorimetric assays, or caspase inhibition. Additionally, peroxynitrite did not inhibit cellular caspase activity. Furthermore, using other established assays of cell viability, including the MTT assay and release of lactate dehydrogenase, we found that the predominant mode of cell death involved calcium-dependent cysteine proteases, otherwise known as calpains. Our data show, for the first time, that peroxynitrite induces mitochondrial dysfunction in cells via a calcium-dependent process that leads to caspase-independent apoptosis mediated by calpains.
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- Matthew Whiteman
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 8 Medical Dr., Republic of Singapore 117597.
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Lecoeur H, Langonné A, Baux L, Rebouillat D, Rustin P, Prévost MC, Brenner C, Edelman L, Jacotot E. Real-time flow cytometry analysis of permeability transition in isolated mitochondria. Exp Cell Res 2004; 294:106-17. [PMID: 14980506 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2003.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2003] [Revised: 09/29/2003] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Mitochondrial membrane permeabilization (MMP) is a key event in necrotic and (intrinsic) apoptotic processes. MMP is controlled by a few major rate-limiting events, one of which is opening of the permeability transition pore (PTP). Here we develop a flow cytometry (FC)-based approach to screen and study inducers and blockers of MMP in isolated mitochondria. Fixed-time and real-time FC permits to co-evaluate and order modifications of mitochondrial size, structure and inner membrane (IM) electrochemical potential (DeltaPsi(m)) during MMP. Calcium, a major PTP opener, and alamethicin, a PTP-independent MMP inducer, trigger significant mitochondrial forward scatter (FSC) increase and side scatter (SSC) decrease, correlating with spectrophotometrically detected swelling. FC-based fluorescence detection of the DeltaPsi(m)-sensitive cationic lipophilic dye JC-1 permits to detect DeltaPsi(m) variations induced by PTP openers or specific inducers of inner MMP such as carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (mClCCP). These simple, highly sensitive and quantitative FC-based methods will be pertinent to evaluate compounds for their ability to control MMP.
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- Hervé Lecoeur
- Theraptosis Research Laboratory, Theraptosis S.A., Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
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Elmore SP, Nishimura Y, Qian T, Herman B, Lemasters JJ. Discrimination of depolarized from polarized mitochondria by confocal fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Arch Biochem Biophys 2004; 422:145-52. [PMID: 14759601 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2003.12.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2003] [Revised: 12/03/2003] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Mitochondrial depolarization promotes apoptotic and necrotic cell death and possibly other cellular events. Polarized mitochondria take up cationic tetramethylrhodamine methylester (TMRM), which is released after depolarization. Thus, TMRM does not label depolarized mitochondria. To identify both polarized and depolarized mitochondria in living cells, cultured rat hepatocytes, and sinusoidal endothelial cells were co-loaded with green-fluorescing MitoTracker Green FM (MTG) and red-fluorescing TMRM for imaging by laser scanning confocal microscopy. Like TMRM, MTG is a cationic fluorophore that accumulates electrophoretically into polarized mitochondria. Unlike TMRM, MTG binds covalently to intramitochondrial protein thiols and remains bound after depolarization. In cells labeled only with MTG, excitation with blue (488 nm) light yielded green but almost no red fluorescence. After subsequent loading with TMRM, green MTG fluorescence became quenched. Instead, blue excitation yielded red fluorescence. Mitochondrial de-energization restored green fluorescence and abolished red fluorescence. Conversely, when MTG was added to TMRM-labeled cells, red fluorescence excited by blue light was enhanced, an effect again reversed by de-energization. These observations of reversible quenching of donor fluorescence and augmentation of acceptor fluorescence signify fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). In undisturbed hepatocytes, spontaneous depolarization of a subfraction of mitochondria was an ongoing phenomenon. In conclusion, confocal FRET discriminates individual depolarized mitochondria against a background of hundreds of polarized mitochondria.
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- Steven P Elmore
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and Curriculum in Toxicology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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He L, Lemasters JJ. Heat shock suppresses the permeability transition in rat liver mitochondria. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:16755-60. [PMID: 12611884 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300153200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Heat shock proteins inhibit apoptotic and necrotic cell death in various cell types. However, the specific mechanism underlying protection by heat shock proteins remains unclear. To test the hypothesis that heat shock proteins inhibit cell death by blocking opening of mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) pores, mitochondria from heat-preconditioned rat livers were isolated by differential centrifugation. Heat shock inhibited MPT pore opening induced by 50 microm CaCl(2) plus 5 microm HgCl(2) or 1 microm mastoparan and by 200 microm CaCl(2) alone. Half-maximal swelling was delayed 15 min or more after heat shock compared with control. Heat shock also increased the threshold of unregulated (Ca(2+)-independent and cyclosporin A-insensitive) MPT pore opening induced by higher doses of HgCl(2) and mastoparan. Heat shock treatment decreased mitochondrial reactive oxygen species formation by 27% but did not change mitochondrial respiration, membrane potential, Ca(2+) uptake, or total glutathione in mitochondrial and cytosolic extracts of liver. Western blot analysis showed that mitochondrial Hsp25 increased, whereas Hsp10, Hsp60, Hsp70, Hsp75, cyclophilin D, and voltage-dependent anion channel did not change after heat shock. These results indicate that heat shock causes resistance to opening of MPT pores, which may contribute to heat shock protection against cellular injury.
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- Lihua He
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7090, USA
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Huang SG. Development of a high throughput screening assay for mitochondrial membrane potential in living cells. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR SCREENING 2002; 7:383-9. [PMID: 12230893 DOI: 10.1177/108705710200700411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The mitochondrion plays a pivotal role in energy metabolism in eukaryotic cells. The electrochemical potential across the mitochondrial inner membrane is regulated to cope with cellular energy needs and thus reflects the bioenergetic state of the cell. Traditional assays for mitochondrial membrane potential are not amenable to high-throughput drug screening. In this paper, I describe a high-throughput assay that measures the mitochondrial membrane potential of living cells in 96- or 384-well plates. Cells were first treated with test compounds and then with a fluorescent potentiometric probe, the cationic-lipophilic dye tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester (TMRM). The cells were then washed to remove free compounds and probe. The amount of TMRM retained in the mitochondria, which is proportional to the mitochondrial membrane potential, was measured on an LJL Analyst fluorescence reader. Under optimal conditions, the assay measured only the mitochondrial membrane potential. The chemical uncouplers carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone and dinitrophenol decreased fluorescence intensity, with IC(50) values (concentration at 50% inhibition) similar to those reported in the literature. A Z' factor of greater than 0.5 suggests that this cell-based assay can be adapted for high-throughput screening of chemical libraries. This assay may be used in screens for drugs to treat metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes, as well as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Shu-Gui Huang
- Biology II, Tularik Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
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Jacobson J, Duchen MR, Heales SJR. Intracellular distribution of the fluorescent dye nonyl acridine orange responds to the mitochondrial membrane potential: implications for assays of cardiolipin and mitochondrial mass. J Neurochem 2002; 82:224-33. [PMID: 12124423 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2002.00945.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cardiolipin, a polyunsaturated acidic phospholipid, is found exclusively in bacterial and mitochondrial membranes where it is intimately associated with the enzyme complexes of the respiratory chain. Cardiolipin structure and concentration are central to the function of these enzyme complexes and damage to the phospholipid may have consequences for mitochondrial function. The fluorescent dye, 10 nonyl acridine orange (NAO), has been shown to bind cardiolipin in vitro and is frequently used as a stain in living cells to assay cardiolipin content. Additionally, NAO staining has been used to measure the mitochondrial content of cells as dye binding to mitochondria is reportedly independent of the membrane potential. We used confocal microscopy to examine the properties of NAO in cortical astrocytes, neonatal cardiomyocytes and in isolated brain mitochondria. We show that NAO, a lipophilic cation, stained mitochondria selectively. However, the accumulation of the dye was clearly dependent upon the mitochondrial membrane potential and depolarisation of mitochondria induced a redistribution of dye. Moreover, depolarisation of mitochondria prior to NAO staining also resulted in a reduced NAO signal. These observations demonstrate that loading and retention of NAO is dependant upon membrane potential, and that the dye cannot be used as an assay of either cardiolipin or mitochondrial mass in living cells.
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- Jake Jacobson
- Department of Molecular Pathogenesis, Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.
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He L, Lemasters JJ. Regulated and unregulated mitochondrial permeability transition pores: a new paradigm of pore structure and function? FEBS Lett 2002; 512:1-7. [PMID: 11852041 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03314-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 306] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Cyclosporin A (CsA) inhibits the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT), but not always. To characterize the CsA-sensitive and -insensitive MPT, rat liver mitochondria were exposed to low and high doses of various MPT inducers. Mitochondrial swelling, cyclophilin D membrane binding and permeability transition (PT) pore diameter were measured. The results indicate two conductance modes for the PT pore: one activated by Ca(2+) and inhibited by CsA and Mg(2+) and the other unregulated. We propose a new model of pore formation and gating in which PT pores form by aggregation of misfolded integral membrane proteins damaged by oxidant and other stresses. Chaperone-like proteins initially block conductance through these misfolded protein clusters; however, increased Ca(2+) opens these regulated PT pores, an effect blocked by CsA. When protein clusters exceed chaperones available to block conductance, unregulated pore opening occurs.
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- Lihua He
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB#7090, 236 Taylor Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7090, USA
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