Time course of the carbon tetrachloride-induced decrease in mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase activity.

J J Hjelle; J H Grubbs; D G Beer; D R Petersen

doi:10.1016/0041-008x(83)90220-x

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Time course of the carbon tetrachloride-induced decrease in mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase activity.

J J Hjelle·J H Grubbs·D G Beer·D R Petersen

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Hepatic microsomal enzymes like cytochrome P-450 and glucose 6-phosphatase are inhibited after exposure to CCl4 in vivo. Since comparatively less is known about the effects of CCl4 on nonmicrosomal enzymes, we investigated the rapidity by which CCl4 inhibits the low Km mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) isozyme, an enzyme known to be inhibited 24 hr after CCl4 treatment. The activity of this ALDH isozyme was significantly lowered 6 and 12 hr after a single 1 ml/kg intragastric dose of CCl4. The mitochondrial low Km ALDH specific activities exhibited a similar pattern of destruction/inhibition to the documented target enzyme microsomal cytochrome P-450 in that lowest values were observed 6 hr after CCl4. These values were 44 and 37% of control for cytochrome P-450 content and the low Km ALDH activity, respectively. Alcohol dehydrogenase activity, expressed as activity per gram liver, was depressed 12 hr after CCl4 dosing. Finally, the activity of the low Km cytosolic ALDH, the isozyme that metabolizes malondialdehyde at low concentrations, was not affected by CCl4 treatment. The CCl4-induced decline in the activity of the matrix ALDH isozyme occurs earlier than previously reported mitochondrial damage. The study of sensitive enzymes like the low Km ALDH may provide valuable information by which it may be possible to determine the relationship of the truly rapid biochemical effects of CCl4 such as microsomal lipid peroxidation with later effects on nonmicrosomal components.

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J J Hjelle, J H Grubbs, D G Beer, D R Petersen. 1983. Time course of the carbon tetrachloride-induced decrease in mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase activity.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0041-008x(83)90220-x

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