title: Cytotoxicity of fatty acid oxygenase activation in rat basophilic leukemia cells.
abstract: Apart from the generation of potent inflammatory mediators, the effects of fatty acid oxygenase activation, per se, on the host cell have not been well-delineated. Fatty acid oxygenases were activated in rat basophilic leukemia cells (RBL-1) by incubating them for 2-4 hr with 33-300 microM of arachidonic acid (AA) or linoleic acid (LA). As a control, the cells were incubated with one of two analogs of these fatty acids which are not oxygenase substrates: eicosatetraynoic acid or linoelaidic acid. Effects of oxygenase activation on cell viability were monitored by an assay for mitochondrial function. Cytotoxicity occurred in incubations with exogenous AA or LA in direct proportion to the substrate concentration but was not found in the control incubations or in incubations with the principal monohydroxylated AA products, 5-, 15-, and 12-HETE. Nordihydroguaiaretic acid (80 microM) and alpha-tocopherol (100 microM) significantly decreased the cell death observed during incubations with AA or LA. It is concluded that extensive oxygenase activation can result in cell death from intermediates produced proximal to the stable monohydroxylated derivatives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo 14215.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Baer
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Costello
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D002470:Cell Survival; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D006893:Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acids / Q000096:biosynthesis; D015471:Leukemia, Basophilic, Acute / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology*; D019787:Linoleic Acid; D008041:Linoleic Acids / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000494:pharmacology; D008084:Lipoxygenase / Q000502:physiology*; D009637:Masoprocol / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D006893:Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acids; D008041:Linoleic Acids; D014810:Vitamin E; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; C022022:5-hydroxy-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid; C024348:13-hydroxy-9,11-octadecadienoic acid; D009637:Masoprocol; D019787:Linoleic Acid; D008084:Lipoxygenase