Metabolic remodeling associated with subchronic doxorubicin cardiomyopathy.
Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) is a potent and broad-spectrum antineoplastic agent, the clinical utility of which is restricted by a cumulative and progressive cardiomyopathy that develops with repeated dosing. Fundamental to the cardiac failure is an interference with mitochondrial respiration and inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation. Global gene expression arrays in cardiac tissue indicate that inhibition of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by doxorubicin (DOX) is accompanied by a decreased expression of genes related to aerobic fatty acid oxidation and a corresponding increase in expression of genes involved in anaerobic glycolysis, possibly as an alternate source for ATP production. The aim of this investigation was to determine whether this is also manifest at the metabonomic level as a switch in metabolic flux in cardiac tissue, and whether this can be averted by co-administering the cardioprotective drug, dexrazoxane (DZR). (13)C-isotopomer analysis of isolated perfused hearts from male Sprague-Dawley rats receiving 6 weekly s.c. injections of 2mg/kg DOX demonstrated a shift from the preferential oxidation of fatty acids to enhanced oxidation of glucose and lactate plus pyruvate, indicative of a compensatory shift towards increased pyruvate dehydrogenase activity. Substrate-selective isotopomer analysis combined with western blots indicate an inhibition of long-chain fatty acid oxidation and not MCAD activity or fatty acyl-carnitine transport. Co-administering DZR averted many treatment-related changes in cardiac substrate metabolism, consistent with DZR being an effective cardioprotective agent against DOX-induced cardiomyopathy. This switch in substrate metabolism resembles that described for other models of cardiac failure; accordingly, this change in metabolic flux may represent a general compensatory response of cardiac tissue to imbalances in bioenergetic demand and supply, and not a characteristic unique to DOX-induced cardiac failure itself.
NMR Center, Department of Biochemistry, Apartado 3126, University of Coimbra, 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal. carvalho@ci.uc.pt
Rui A
RA
Carvalho
Rui P B
RP
Sousa
Virgilio J J
VJ
Cadete
Gary D
GD
Lopaschuk
Carlos M M
CM
Palmeira
James A
JA
Bjork
Kendall B
KB
Wallace
D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000633:toxicity*; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D002952:Citric Acid Cycle / Q000187:drug effects; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000633:toxicity*; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000187:drug effects; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000187:drug effects; D006019:Glycolysis / Q000187:drug effects; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008929:Mitochondria, Heart / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D015854:Up-Regulation / Q000187:drug effects
D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D005227:Fatty Acids; D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A; D004317:Doxorubicin