Arachidonic acid converts the glutathione depletion-induced apoptosis to necrosis by promoting lipid peroxidation and reducing caspase-3 activity in rat glioma cells

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Yoshihiro Higuchi, Tanihiro Yoshimoto

Abstract

Intracellular glutathione (GSH) depletion induced by buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) caused cell death that seemed to be apoptosis in C6 rat glioma cells. Arachidonic acid (AA) promoted BSO-induced cell death by accumulating reactive oxygen species (ROS) or hydroperoxides. AA inhibited caspase-3 activation and internucleosomal DNA fragmentation during the BSO-induced GSH depletion. Furthermore, AA reduced intracellular ATP content, induced dysfunction of mitochondrial membrane and enhanced 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG) production. There was significant increase of 12-lipoxygenase activity in the presence of AA under the BSO-induced GSH depletion in C6 cells. These results suggest that AA promotes cell death by changing to necrosis from apoptosis through lipid peroxidation initiated by lipid hydroperoxides produced by 12-lipoxygenase under the GSH depletion in C6 cells. Some ROS such as hydroperoxide produced by unknown pathway make hydroxy radicals and induce 8-OH-dG formation in the cells. The conversion of apoptosis to necrosis may be a possible event under GSH depleted conditions.

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