Journal article
Membrane peroxidative damage enhancement by the ether lipid class of antineoplastic agents
Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.), Vol.52(21), pp.6045-6051
1992
PMID: 1394229
Abstract
The ether lipid antineoplastic agents have no known interaction with DNA, but rather they appear to target membranes. The primary mechanism of action is unknown but effects on membrane biology are documented. We have studied the effect of two ether lipids on membrane lipids and examined the hypothesis that membrane peroxidative damage may be involved in their mechanism of action. With the use of cells having membranes enriched in polyunsaturated fatty acids of the w-3 family of fatty acids, we have demonstrated that the prototypical ether lipid l-0-octadecyl-2-0-methyl-mc-glycero-3-phosphocholine and a thioether lipid analogue, 1 -0-hexadecylmercapto-2-methoxymethy 1-roc-glycero-3-phosphocholine, increase membrane lipid peroxidation and cytotoxicity in a time- and drug concentration-dependent manner. The oxidative cofactors Fe2+ and ascorbic acid were required. The pattern of cell death did not fully correspond to the peroxidation, since cofactors were required for peroxidation but not cytotoxicity. However, the rate of decrease in cell viability after exposure to the drug and cofactors corresponded to the peroxidation rate. In addition, when LI 210 cells modified with the monounsaturated fatty acid oleic acid or unmodified cells were used, there was no ether lipid-enhanced peroxidation, and the cells were significantly less sensitive to the drug, with or without cofactors. The lipid-soluble antioxidant vitamin E inhibited l-0-octadecyl-2-0-methyl-rac-glycero-3-phosphocholine peroxidation and cytotoxicity in a concentration-dependent manner in the presence of cofactors but not consistently without them. Depletion of cellular glutathione content of L1210 cells using L-buthionine-(SR)sulfoximine resulted in 40% augmentation of cofactor-facilitated cytotoxicity of 1 -O-octadecyl-2-O-methyl-mc-glycero-3-phosphocholine and a borderline effect on peroxidation. Another ether lipid, the thio compound l-O-hexadecylmercapto-2-methoxymethyl-roc-glycero-3-phosphocholine, enhanced peroxidation in the presence of cofactors with kinetics corresponding to those of cytotoxicity. In the presence of ether lipid and cofactors the intensity of ascorbate free radical increased, consistent with oxidative stress. We conclude that the ether lipids stimulate membrane lipid peroxidation in a time- and drug concentration-dependent manner in the presence of oxidative cofactors. Even though peroxidation may not fully explain the cytotoxic effect of the ether lipid class of anticancer drugs, this observation provides further information on the nature of the membrane damage induced by the drugs. Since the ether lipids generate no known free radical intermediates directly, this suggests that membrane damage indirectly results in a process involving a peroxidative reaction.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Membrane peroxidative damage enhancement by the ether lipid class of antineoplastic agents
- Creators
- B. A WAGNER - Univ. Iowa coll. medicine, dep. medicine, Iowa City IA 52242, United StatesG. R BUETTNER - Univ. Iowa coll. medicine, dep. medicine, Iowa City IA 52242, United StatesC. P BURNS - Univ. Iowa coll. medicine, dep. medicine, Iowa City IA 52242, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.), Vol.52(21), pp.6045-6051
- Publisher
- American Association for Cancer Research; Philadelphia, PA
- PMID
- 1394229
- ISSN
- 0008-5472
- eISSN
- 1538-7445
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1992
- Academic Unit
- Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation; Radiation Oncology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984047627002771
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