The all-trans-retinal dimer series of lipofuscin pigments in retinal pigment epithelial cells in a recessive Stargardt disease model
The all-trans-retinal dimer series of lipofuscin pigments in retinal pigment epithelial cells in a recessive Stargardt disease model
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0708714104
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发表时间:
2007-12-04
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Sparrow, Janet R.
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作者:
Kim, So R.;Jang, Young P.;Sparrow, Janet R.
The bis-retinoid pigments that accumulate in retinal pigment epithelial cells as lipofuscin are associated with inherited and age-related retinal disease. In addition to A2E and related cis isomers, we previously showed that condensation of two molecules of all-traps-retinal leads to the formation of a protonated Schiff base conjugate, all-traps-retinal dinner-phosphatidylethanolamine. Here we report the characterization of the related pigments, all-traps-retinal dinner-ethanolamine and unconjugated all-transretinal dinner, in human and mouse retinal pigment epithelium. In eyecups of Abcr(-/-) mice, a model of recessive Stargardt macular degeneration, all-traps-retinal dinner-phosphatidylethanolamine was increased relative to wild type and was more abundant than A2E. Total pigment of the all-traps-retinal dimer series (sum of all-traps-retinal dinner-phosphatidylethanolamine, all-traps-retinal dinner-ethanolamine, and all-traps-retinal dimer) increased with age in Abcr(-/-) mice and was modulated by amino acid variants in Rpe65. In in vitro assays, enzyme-mediated hydrolysis of all-transretinal dinner-phosphatidylethanolamine generated all-transretinal dinner-ethanolamine, and protonation/deprotonation of the Schiff base nitrogen of all-traps-retinal dinner-ethanolamine was pH-dependent. Unconjugated all-traps-retinal dinner was a more efficient generator of singlet oxygen than A2E, and the all-traps-retinal dinner series was more reactive with singlet oxygen than was A2E. By analyzing chromatographic properties and UV-visible spectra together with mass spectrometry, mono- and bis-oxygenated all-traps-retinal dinner photoproducts were detected in Abcr(-/-) mice. The latter findings are significant to an understanding of the adverse effects of retinal pigment epithelial cell lipofuscin.