Impaired uptake of glutathione by hepatic mitochondria from chronic ethanol-fed rats. Tracer kinetic studies in vitro and in vivo and susceptibility to oxidant stress.
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Fernández-Checa, J C
RESUMO
Isolated hepatocytes incubated with [35S]-methionine were examined for the time-dependent accumulation of [35S]-glutathione (GSH) in cytosol and mitochondria, the latter confirmed by density gradient purification. In GSH-depleted and -repleted hepatocytes, the increase of specific activity of mitochondrial GSH lagged behind cytosol, reaching nearly the same specific activity by 1-2 h. However, in hepatocytes from ethanol-fed rats, the rate of increase of total GSH specific radioactivity in mitochondria was markedly suppressed. In in vivo steady-state experiments, the mass transport of GSH from cytosol to mitochondria and vice versa was 18 nmol/min per g liver, indicating that the half-life of mitochondrial GSH was approximately 18 min in controls. The fractional transport rate of GSH from cytosol to mitochondria, but not mitochondria to cytosol, was significantly reduced in the livers of ethanol-fed rats. Thus, ethanol-fed rats exhibit a decreased mitochondrial GSH pool size due to an impaired entry of cytosol GSH into mitochondria. Hepatocytes from ethanol-fed rats exhibited a greater susceptibility to the oxidant stress-induced cell death from tert-butylhydroperoxide. Incubation with glutathione monoethyl ester normalized the mitochondrial GSH and protected against the increased susceptibility to t-butylhydroperoxide, which was directly related to the lowered mitochondrial GSH pool size in ethanol-fed cells.
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