title: Cytochrome P450 2E1 metabolically activates propargyl alcohol: propiolaldehyde-induced hepatocyte cytotoxicity.
abstract: Pargyline, an antihypertensive agent and monoamine oxidase inhibitor, induces hepatic GSH depletion and hepatotoxicity in vivo in rats [E.G. De Master, H.W. Sumner, E. Kaplan, F. N. Shirota, H.T. Nagasawa, Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 65 (1982) 390-401]. Propargyl alcohol (2-propyn-1-ol), because of its structural similarity to allyl alcohol, was thought to be activated by alcohol dehydrogenase. However, it is a poor substrate compared to allyl alcohol and it was therefore proposed that propargyl alcohol-induced liver injury involved metabolic activation by catalase/H(2)O(2) [E.G. De Master, T. Dahlseid, B. Redfern, Chem. Res. Toxicol. 7 (1994) 414-419]. In the following we showed that; (1) propargyl alcohol-induced cytotoxicity was markedly enhanced in CYP 2E1-induced hepatocytes and prevented by various CYP 2E1 inhibitors but was only slightly affected when alcohol dehydrogenase was inhibited with methylpyrazole/DMSO or when catalase was inactivated with azide or aminotriazole, (2) hepatocyte GSH depletion preceded cytotoxicity and was inhibited by cytochrome P450 inhibitors but not by catalase/alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitors. GSH conjugate formation during propargyl alcohol metabolism by microsomal mixed function oxidase in the presence of GSH was also prevented by anti-rat CYP 2E1 or CYP 2E1 inhibitors, (3) cytotoxicity was prevented when lipid peroxidation was inhibited with antioxidants, desferoxamine (ferric chelator) or dithiothreitol. Propargyl alcohol-induced cytotoxicity and reactive oxygen species formation were markedly increased in GSH-depleted hepatocytes. All of this evidence suggests that propargyl alcohol-induced cytotoxicity involves metabolic activation by CYP 2E1 to form propiolaldehyde that causes hepatocyte lysis as a result of GSH depletion and lipid peroxidation.
authors: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, 19 Russell Street, M5S 2S2, Toronto, Ont., Canada
authors: M Y
authors: MY
authors: Moridani
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Khan
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Chan
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Teng
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Beard
authors: P J
authors: PJ
authors: O'Brien
mesh_terms: D000447:Aldehydes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000633:toxicity*; D000480:Alkynes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000633:toxicity*; D000818:Animals; D001711:Biotransformation; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D019392:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D022781:Hepatocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D020005:Propanols / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000633:toxicity*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; D000480:Alkynes; D020005:Propanols; C018132:propiolaldehyde; C028255:propargyl alcohol; D019392:Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1; D005978:Glutathione