Elsevier

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volume 36, Issue 13, 1 July 1987, Pages 2087-2093
Biochemical Pharmacology

Hydrogen peroxide-induced glutathione depletion and aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in erythrocytes

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Abstract

To study relationships between lipid peroxidation and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) inhibition, the Stocks and Dormandy model of H2O2-induced lipid peroxidation in erythrocytes was employed. Hydrogen peroxide treatment of erythrocytes and erythrocyte lysates caused a dose-dependent inhibition and depletion of ALDH and reduced glutathione (GSH) respectively. Complete ALDH inhibition and glutathione depletion occurred before significant lipid peroxidation was detected by HPLC analysis of malondialdehyde-thiobarbituric acid adducts. Hydroxyl radical scavengers did not antagonize the hydrogen peroxide-induced enzyme inhibition. Studies with the iron chelator desferrioxamine suggested that the hydrogen peroxide-induced ALDH inhibition was mediated by iron in erythrocyte lysates but not in semi-purified (and Chelex-treated) ALDH preparations. Glutathione peroxidase reduction of H2O2 exhibited an anomalous GSH dependence which was not in agreement with the accepted reaction mechanism. Reduced glutathione also antagonized the hydrogen peroxide-induced ALDH inhibition by possible complex formation with the enzyme. A hypothetical model is presented which accounts for the observed responses to hydrogen peroxide.

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