S-METHYL N,N-DIETHYLTHIOCARBAMATE SULFONE, A POTENTIAL METABOLITE OF DISULFIRAM AND POTENT INHIBITOR OF LOW K-M MITOCHONDRIAL ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE
S-METHYL N,N-DIETHYLTHIOCARBAMATE SULFONE, A POTENTIAL METABOLITE OF DISULFIRAM AND POTENT INHIBITOR OF LOW K-M MITOCHONDRIAL ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-2952(94)00504-f
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发表时间:
1995-03-01
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
LIPSKY, JJ
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作者:
MAYS, DC;NELSON, AN;LIPSKY, JJ
Disulfiram inhibits hepatic aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) causing an accumulation of acetaldehyde after ethanol ingestion. it is thought that disulfiram is too short-lived in vivo to directly inhibit ALDH, but instead is biotransformed to reactive metabolites that inhibit the enzyme. S-Methyl N,N-diethylthiocarbamate (MeDTC) sulfoxide has been identified in the blood of animals given disulfiram and is a potent inhibitor of ALDH (Hart and Faiman, Biochem Pharmacol 46: 2285-2290, 1993). MeDTC sulfone is a logical metabolite of MeDTC sulfoxide. Therefore, we investigated the effects of MeDTC sulfone on the activity of rat hepatic low K-m mitochondrial ALDH, the major enzyme in the metabolism of acetaldehyde. MeDTC sulfone inhibited the low K,mitochondrial ALDH in vitro with an IC50 of 0.42 +/- 0.04 mu M (mean +/- SD, N = 5) compared with disulfram, which had an IC50 of 7.5 +/- 1.2 mu M under the same conditions, The inhibition of ALDH by MeDTC sulfone was time dependent. The decline in ALDH activity followed pseudo first-order kinetics with an apparent half-life of 2.1 min at 0.6 mu M MeDTC sulfone. Inhibition of ALDH by MeDTC sulfone was apparently irrversible; dilution of the inhibited enzyme did not restore lost activity. The substrate (acetaldehyde, 80 mu M) and cofactor (NAD, 0.5 mM) together completely protected ALDH from inhibition by MeDTC sulfone; substrate alone partially protected the enzyme. Addition of either thiol-containing compound glutathione (GSH) or dithiothreitol (DTT) to MeDTC sulfone before incubation with the enzyme increased the IC50 of MeDTC sulfone by 7- to 14-fold. Neither GSH nor DTT could restore lost ALDH activity after exposure of the enzyme to MeDTC sulfone. Results of these studies indicate that MeDTC sulfone, a potential metabolite of disulfram, is a potent, irreversible inhibitor of low K-m mitochondrial ALDH.