Mecanismos moleculares da ação tóxica pró-oxidante de 1,4-diamino-2-butanona, um análogo de putrescina, sobre células de mamíferos e Trypanosoma cruzi / The Molecular mechanisms of pro-oxidant activity of 1,4-diamino-2-butanone, a putrescine analogue, to mammalian cells and Trypanosoma cruzi

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

22/06/2012

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α-Aminocarbonyl componds such as 5-aminolevunilic acid (ALA) and aminoacetone (AA) have been shown to exhibit pro-oxidant properties. These compounds undergo phosphate-catalyzed enolization in physiological pH and subsequent aerobic oxidation, yielding reactive oxygen species, NH4+ ions and an α-oxoaldehyde highly cytotoxic. The α-aminoketone 1,4-diamino-2-butanone (DAB) is a putrescine analogue and a microbicidal agent to various parasites including Trypanosoma cruzi. The mechanism of DAB toxicity to these parasites is attributed to DAB competitive inhibition of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), a key enzyme on polyamine biosynthesis, although it has also been shown DAB isto implicated in oxidative damage to these parasites. Our aim is to clarify the mechanism of DAB aerobic oxidation and of its putative pro-oxidant activity to mammalian cell cultures (LLC-MK2 and RKO cell linages) and to Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes. Here we show that, similar to ALA and AA, DAB undergoes aerobic oxidation in presence of phosphate ions and of transition metal ions such as Fe(II) and Cu(II), yielding oxygen radicals, H2O2, NH4+ and 2-oxo-4-aminobutanal accompanied by its condensation cyclic products displaying pyrrolic characteristics. Oxidative alterations to ferritin, apotransferrin and liposomes of cardiolipin and phosphatidylcholine (20:80) were observed under DAB treatment strongly supporting our hypothesis of DAB pro-oxidative activity. DAB treatment of mammalian cultured cells LLC-MK2 (IC50 1.5 mM, 24 h incubation) and RKO (IC50 0.3 mM, 24 h incubation) resulted in redox imbalance, induction of antioxidant response, activation of apoptosis pathway and cell cycle arrest. DAB is shown here to trigger Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes decreased parasite motility and viability (IC50 0.2 mM, 4 h incubation), as well as redox thiol imbalance parallel to increase TcSOD activity. In addition, DAB efficiently hampered host cell (LLC-MK2) invasion by trypomastigotes. In addition, intracellular amastigotes showed to be susceptible to DAB toxicity, although strongly related to necrosis of infected host cells, which are more vulnerable to oxidative stress. Altogether, these data support our hypothesis that oxidative stress contributes to DAB cytotoxicity.

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1;4-diamino-2-butanona 1;4-diamino-2-butanone células llc-mk2 α-aminocetona α-aminocetona células rko espécies reativas de oxigênio llc-mk2 cells reactive oxygen species rko cells trypanosoma cruzi trypanosoma cruzi

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