Induction of hepatic heme oxygenase activity by bromobenzene.
Induction of hepatic heme oxygenase activity by bromobenzene.
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溴苯诱导肝血红素加氧酶活性。
DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(79)90564-2
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
N. Elshourbagy
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作者:
P. Guzelian;N. Elshourbagy
Hepatic heme oxygenase, an enzyme which converts heme to carbon monoxide and bile pigmentin vitro, is inducible by heme but also by large “toxic” doses of such nonheme substances as hormones, endotoxin, and heavy metal ions. When we gave rats a single hepatotoxic dose of allyl alcohol, ethionine, acetaminophen, furosemide, or endotoxin, hepatic heme oxygenase activity rose modestly (two- to fivefold) after 20 h. In contrast, administration of bromobenzene (5 mmol/kg) induced heme oxygenase in the liver an average of 15-fold after 20 h but was without effect on the enzyme in the kidney or spleen. The change in heme oxygenase was accompanied by a loss in cytochromeP-450 concentration and, in rats labeled with 5-δ-amino[14C]levulinic acid, an increased rate of degradation of hepatic [14C]heme to14CO. Induction of heme oxygenase by bromobenzene was blocked by cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, but not by actinomycin D, an inhibitor of RNA synthesis. This suggests that bromobenzene stimulatesde novoenzyme synthesis at the step of translation. Subtoxic doses of bromobenzene (less than 1 mmol/kg) gave proportionately greater induction of heme oxygenase. Furthermore, induction of the enzyme remained unaffected when bromobenzene hepatotoxicity was blocked by pretreatment of rats with SKF-525A, 3-methylcholanthrene, or cysteine (which supplements liver sulfhydryl content), or when hepatotoxicity was enhanced by pretreatment with phenobarbital or with diethylmaleate (which depletes hepatic glutathione). These data suggest that with induction of heme oxygenase by bromobenzene, neither liver cell necrosis nor alteration in hepatic sulfhydryl metabolism is indispensible. The latter characteristic differs from induction of the enzyme by metal ions in which depletion of sulfhydryl-containing constituents has been thought to be essential. We conclude that bromobenzene is a novel inducer of heme oxygenase activity in the liver, differing from other nonheme substances in potency and specificity for the liver, and in utilizing mechanism(s) which require neither production of hepatotoxicity, depletion of hepatic glutathione, nor sensitivity to actinomycin D.