Role of Oxidative Stress Ausˇra Nemeikaite˙-Cˇ E˙Niene˙ A, Egle˙ Sergediene˙ B, Henrikas Nivinskasb and Narimantas Cˇ E˙Nasb* a Institute of Immunology, Mole˙Tu˛ Pl
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Cytotoxicity of Natural Hydroxyanthraquinones: Role of Oxidative Stress Ausˇra Nemeikaite˙-Cˇ e˙niene˙ a, Egle˙ Sergediene˙ b, Henrikas Nivinskasb and Narimantas Cˇ e˙nasb* a Institute of Immunology, Mole˙tu˛ Pl. 29, Vilnius 2021, Lithuania b Institute of Biochemistry, Mokslininku˛ St. 12, Vilnius 2600, Lithuania. Fax: 370-2-729196. E-mail: [email protected] * Author for correspondence and reprint requests Z. Naturforsch. 57c, 822Ð827 (2002); received April 29/June 3, 2002 Hydroxyanthraquinones, Cytotoxicity, Oxidative Stress In order to assess the role of oxidative stress in the cytotoxicity of natural hydroxyanthra- quinones, we compared rhein, emodin, danthron, chrysophanol, and carminic acid, and a series of model quinones with available values of single-electron reduction midpoint potential 1 at pH 7.0 (E 7), with respect to their reactivity in the single-electron enzymatic reduction, and their mammalian cell toxicity. The toxicity of model quinones to the bovine leukemia virus-transformed lamb kidney fibroblasts (line FLK), and HL-60, a human promyelocytic 1 leukemia cell line, increased with an increase in their E 7. A close parallelism was found between the reactivity of hydroxyanthraquinones and model quinones with single-electron transferring flavoenzymes ferredoxin: NADP+ reductase and NADPH: cytochrome P-450 reductase, and their cytotoxicity. This points to the importance of oxidative stress in the toxicity of hydroxyanthraquinones in these cell lines, which was further evidenced by the protective effects of desferrioxamine and the antioxidant N,NЈ-diphenyl-p-phenylene di- amine, by the potentiating effects of 1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea, and an increase in lipid peroxidation. Introduction somerase II (Müller et al., 1996) and protein ki- Natural 1,8-dihydroxyanthraquinones rhein, nase C (Chan et al., 1993), and the inhibition of danthron, emodin (Fig. 1) are used in pharmacy as glycolysis and mitochondrial functions (Floridi laxatives, other hydroxylated anthraquinones are et al., 1989, 1990) are considered as potential used in industry as textile dyes or food colourants, mechanisms of the cytotoxicity of hydroxyanthra- e.g. carminic acid (Fig. 1). Although hydroxylated quinones. The relative importance of these mecha- anthraquinones were considered as potential anti- nisms is insufficently understood so far, although tumour agents (Koyama et al., 2001), their intake it may be important in view of the diverse fields may be associated with increased colon cancer and of hydroxy-anthraquinone use, as well as of some adenoma risk (Schörkhuber et al., 1998). These similarity of their structure to other important qui- compounds also possess immunosuppressive nones, anthracycline antibiotics adriamycin and (Huang et al., 1992), photosensitizing (Rahimipour et al., 2001), mutagenic and cytotoxic properties (Mian et al., 1991; Müller et al., 1996). The enzy- matic redox cycling and subsequent oxidative stress (Mian et al., 1991; Bironaite˙ and Öllinger 1997, Ka˚gedal et al., 1999), the inhibition of topoi- 1 Abbreviations:E7, single-electron reduction midpoint potential at pH 7.0; cL50, the concentration of compound for 50% cell survival; FNR, ferredoxin:NADP+ reduc- tase; P-450R, NADPH: cytochrome P-450 reductase; Q, quinone; kcat, catalytic constant; kkcat/Km, bimolecular rate constant; DPPD, N,NЈ-diphenyl-p-phenylene di- Fig. 1. The structures of hydroxyanthraquinones used in amine; BCNU, 1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea. this study. 0939Ð5075/2002/0900Ð0822 $ 06.00 ” 2002 Verlag der Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Tübingen · www.znaturforsch.com · D A. Nemeikaite˙-Cˇ e˙niene˙ et al. · Cytotoxicity of Natural Hydroxyanthraquinones 823 daunorubicin, whose mechanisms of cytotoxicity described previously (Pueyo and Gomez-Moreno, remain the subject of considerable controversy 1991) and was a generous gift of Dr. M. Martinez- (Gewirtz, 1999). Julvez and Professor C. Gomez-Moreno (Zara- Frequently, the aerobic cytoxicity of quinones or goza University, Spain). The enzyme concentra- ε Ð1 Ð1 nitroaromatic compounds, the other important tion was determined using 459 = 9.4 mm cm . group of prooxidants, increases with an increase in The activity of FNR using 1 mm ferricyanide as their single-electron reduction midpoint potential electron acceptor (concentration of NADPH, 1 ∆ µ µ Ð1 Ð1 at pH 7.0 (E 7) with a relationship log cL50/ 200 m) was equal to 330 mol mg min .The ∆ 1 ϳ Ð1 E 7 Ð10 V , where cL50 is the concentration catalytic constant (kcat) and the bimolecular rate of compound for 50% cell survival (Guissany constant (kcat/Km) of quinone reduction corre- et al., 1990; O’Brien, 1991). This points to the oxi- spond to the reciprocal intercepts and slopes of dative stress as to the main factor of cytotoxicity, plots [E]/v vs. 1/[Q], where [E] is the enzyme con- since, as a rule, the rates of single-electron reduc- centration, and [Q] is the concentration of qui- tion of quinones or nitroaromatics by flavoen- none. kcat is the number of NADPH molecules ox- 1 zymes initiating redox cycling increase with E 7 of idized by the single active center of an enzyme per oxidants (Butler and Hoey, 1993; Anusevicˇius second. The rate of oxygen consumption during et al., 1997). However, the studies of natural enzymatic reactions was monitored using a Clark hydroxyanthraquinones in this direction are ham- electrode. 1 pered by the absence of E 7 values for a number The culture of bovine leukemia virus-trans- of important compounds (Wardman, 1989; Rath formed lamb kidney fibroblasts (line FLK) was et al., 1996). grown and maintained in Eagle’s medium supple- In this work, we have compared the cytotoxicity mented with 10% fetal bovine serum at 37 ∞Cas of several natural hydroxyanthraquinones (Fig. 1) described previously (Nemeikaite˙ and Cˇ e˙nas, with their reactivity towards single-electron trans- 1993). HL-60, a human promyelocytic leukemia ferring flavoenzymes NADPH:cytochrome P-450 cell line, was cultured in RPMI-1640 medium with reductase (EC 1.6.2.4) and ferredoxin: NADP+ re- 10% fetal serum (Dicˇkancaite˙ et al., 1997). In the ductase (EC 1.18.1.2). Taken together with the cytotoxicity experiments, cells (3.0 ¥ 104/ml, FLK, analogous data of the model quinone compounds or 3.0 ¥ 105/ml, HL-60) were grown in the pres- 1 with available E 7 values, our results demonstrate ence of various amounts of quinones for 24 h, and that the oxidative stress may be the main factor of counted using a hematocytometer with viability the cytotoxicity of hydroxyanthraquinones. determined by exclusion of Trypan blue. Before the count, FLK cells were trypsinized. After the 24 h incubation of the cells with quinones, lipid Materials and Methods peroxidation was monitored according to the for- Hydroxyanthraquinones (Fig. 1) and other rea- mation of malondialdehyde, using the thiobarbi- gents were obtained from Sigma or Aldrich, and turic acid test (Ramanathan et al., 1994). used as received. The kinetic measurements were carried out spectrophotometrically using a Hi- Results and Discussion tachi-557 spectrophotometer in 0.1 m K-phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) containing 1 mm EDTAat25∞C. The single-electron reduction of quinones by NADPH: cytochrome P-450 reductase (P-450R) flavoenzymes ferredoxin: NADP+ reductase and from pig liver was prepared as described pre- NADPH:cytochrome P-450 reductase is exten- viously (Yasukochi and Masters, 1976), the en- sively documented (Butler and Hoey, 1993; Anu- ε zyme concentration was determined using 460 = sevicˇius et al., 1997;). Therefore, we used FNR and 22 mmÐ1cmÐ1. The activity of P-450R using 50 µm P-450R as model systems for the evaluation of the cytochrome c as an electron acceptor (NADPH redox cycling activity of natural hydroxyanthraqu- concentration, 100 µm) was 77 µmol mgÐ1 minÐ1. inones. Their reduction by FNR and P-450R was The reduction of cytochrome c was monitored analogous to the single-electron reactions of other ∆ε Ð1 Ð1 + using 550 =20mm cm . Ferredoxin: NADP low-potential quinones under aerobic conditions, reductase (FNR) from Anabaena was prepared as i.e., quinones oxidized excess NADPH, with the 824 A. Nemeikaite˙-Cˇ e˙niene˙ et al. · Cytotoxicity of Natural Hydroxyanthraquinones consumption of a stoichiometric amount of O2 per mole of NADPH. For example, in the presence of 150 µm NADPH and 20 nM P-450R, 10 µm 5-hydroxy-, 5,8-dihydroxy-, or 2-methyl-1,4-naph- thoquinone, or 9,10-phenanthrene quinone oxi- dized 50Ð70 µm NADPH in 1.5 min, whereas 10 µm danthron, rhein, emodin, chrysophanol, or carminic acid oxidized 30Ð60 µm NADPH in 50 min. FNR catalyzed the reduction of added cy- tochrome c (50 µm) by hydroxyanthraquinones, at the rate of 180Ð190% NADPH oxidation rate. The reduction of cytochrome c was inhibited by 80Ð90% by 30 µg/ml superoxide dismutase. Taken together, our data show that natural hydroxy- anthraquinones undergo P-450R- and FNR-cata- lyzed redox cycling with the formation of superox- Fig. 2. The dependence of bimolecular rate constants of reduction (kcat/Km) of model quinones and danthron by ide (reactions (1,2), where Q is quinone, and Q.- NADPH:cytochrome P-450 reductase (A) and ferre- is semiquinone): doxin:NADP+ reductase (B) on their single-electron re- 1 duction midpoint potentials (E 7). The numbers of com- P-450R, FNR pounds are taken from Table I. 2Q + NADPH 444445 2Q.- + NADP+ +H+ (1) .- 444445 .- Q +O2 Q+O2 (2) line. Table I shows the concentrations of hydroxy- We were unable to determine the kcat values of anthraquinones for 50% cell survival (cL50), and the reaction, since at their concentrations above the cL50 values for model compounds (partly de- 30 µm, danthron, chrysophanol and carminic acid termined in the present study, and partly taken inhibited P-450R, and emodin, chrysophanol and from our previous works (Nemeikaite˙ and Cˇ e˙nas, danthron inhibited FNR. In the other cases, the 1993; Dicˇkancaite˙ et al., 1997)). It is evident, that reaction rates followed the linear dependence on the cytotoxicity of model quinone compounds and the hydroxyanthraquinone concentrations up to danthron towards both cell lines increases with an µ 1 150Ð200 m.