Time-course of hypericin phototoxicity and effect on mitochondrial energies in EMT6 mouse mammary carcinoma cells
Time-course of hypericin phototoxicity and effect on mitochondrial energies in EMT6 mouse mammary carcinoma cells
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DOI:
10.1016/s0891-5849(98)00052-5
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发表时间:
1998-07-15
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Pardini, RS
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作者:
Johnson, SAS;Dalton, AE;Pardini, RS
Photoactivated hypericin produces singlet oxygen and superoxide anion radical; however, the intracellular events contributing to toxicity are unknown. Clonogenic assays of oxygen-dependent hypericin phototoxicity to EMT6 cells have previously shown that 0.5 mu M hypericin + 1.5 J cm(-2) fluorescent light is non-toxic and that 1.0 mu M hypericin + 1.5 J cm(-2) fluorescent Light produces LD40 toxicity. Intracellular events leading to toxicity were revealed at these doses. Lactate dehydrogenase leakage was elevated for both 0.5 mu M and 1.0 mu M hypericin + light immediately following irradiation. While values eventually returned to control levels for 0.5 mu M hypericin + light, leakage increased over time for 1.0 mu M hypericin indicating reversible and irreversible toxicity, respectively. Increases in lipid and protein oxidation were measured immediately following irradiation; however, these parameters return to control levels within 0.5 h for both doses. Both total cellular ATP levels and cellular respiration were depressed by approximately 50% of control values for 1.0 mu M hypericin + light. These values were unchanged for 0.5 mu M hypericin + Light. Along with previously reported data demonstrating that light-activated hypericin can inhibit mitochondial succinoxidase in beef heart mitochondria in vitro, these data support oxidative stress-initiated mitochondrial damage as a key target in hypericin phototoxicity. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Inc.