title: Reduced glutathione protection against rat liver microsomal injury by carbon tetrachloride. Dependence on O2.
abstract: Rat liver microsomal membranes contain a reduced-glutathione-dependent protein(s) that inhibits lipid peroxidation in the ascorbate/iron microsomal lipid peroxidation system. It appears to exert its protective effect by scavenging free radicals. The present work was carried out to assess the effect of this reduced-glutathione-dependent mechanism on carbon tetrachloride-induced microsomal injury and on carbon tetrachloride metabolism because they are known to involve free radicals. Rat liver microsomes were incubated at 37 degrees C with NADPH, EDTA and carbon tetrachloride. The addition of 1 mM-reduced glutathione (GSH) markedly inhibited lipid peroxidation and glucose 6-phosphatase inactivation and, to a lesser extent, inhibited cytochrome P-450 destruction. GSH also inhibited covalent binding of [14C]carbon tetrachloride-derived 14C to microsomal protein. These results indicate that a GSH-dependent mechanism functions to protect the microsomal membrane against free-radical injury in the carbon tetrachloride system as well as in the iron-based systems. Under anaerobic conditions, GSH had no effect on chloroform formation, carbon tetrachloride-induced destruction of cytochrome P-450 or covalent binding of [14C]carbon tetrachloride-derived 14C to microsomal protein. Thus, the GSH protective mechanism appears to be O2-dependent. This suggests that it may be specific for O2-based free radicals. This O2-dependent GSH protective mechanism may partly underlie the observed protection of hyperbaric O2 against carbon tetrachloride-induced lipid peroxidation and hepatotoxicity.
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D002251:Carbon Tetrachloride / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D005609:Free Radicals; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D005978:Glutathione / Q000494:pharmacology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008054:Lipid Peroxides / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D005609:Free Radicals; D008054:Lipid Peroxides; D002251:Carbon Tetrachloride; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase; D005978:Glutathione