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Esterbauer, H; Benedetti, A; Lang, J; Fulceri, R; Fauler, G; Comporti, M.
Studies on the mechanism of formation of 4-hydroxynonenal during microsomal lipid peroxidation.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 1986; 876(1): 154-166.
Doi: 10.1016/0005-2760(86)90329-2
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- The mechanism of the formation of 4-hydroxynonenal through the NADPH-linked microsomal lipid peroxidation was investigated. The results were as follows: 4-hydroxynonenal arises exclusively from arachidonic acid contained in the polar phospholipids, neither arachidonic acid of the neutral lipids nor linoleic acid of the polar or neutral lipids are substrates for 4-hydroxynonenal generation. This finding results from the estimation of the specific radioactivity of 4-hydroxynonenal produced by microsomes prelabelled in vivo with [U-14C]arachidonic acid. Phospholipid-bound 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid would have the structural requirements needed for 4-hydroxynonenal (CH3-(CH2)4-CH(OH)-CH=CH-CHO). Microsomes supplemented with 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid and NADPH, ADP/iron converted only minimal amounts (0.6 mol%) of 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid into 4-hydroxynonenal; similarly, 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid incubated at pH 7.4 in the presence of ascorbate/iron yielded only small amounts of 4-hydroxynonenal with a rate orders of magnitude below that observed with microsomes. Phospholipid-bound 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid is therefore not a likely intermediate in the reaction pathway leading to 4-hydroxynonenal. The rate of 4-hydroxynonenal formation is highest during the very initial phase of its formation and the onset does not show a lag phase, suggesting a transient intermediate predominantly formed during the early phase of microsomal lipid peroxidation. After 60 min of incubation, 204 nmol polyunsaturated fatty acids (20 nmol 18:2, 143 nmol 20:4, 41 nmol 22:6) were lost per mg microsomal protein and the incubation mixture contained 206 nmol lipid peroxides, 71.6 nmol malonic dialdehyde and 4.6 nmol 4-hydroxynonenal per mg protein. Under artificial conditions (pH 1.0, ascorbate/iron, 20 h of incubation) not comparable to the microsomal peroxidation system, 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid can be decomposed in good yields (15 mol%) into 4-hydroxynonenal. Autoxidation of arachidonic acid in the presence of ascorbate/iron gave after 25 h of incubation 2.8 mol% (pH 7.4) and 1.5 mol% (pH 1.0) 4-hydroxynonenal. The most remarkable difference between the non-enzymic system and the enzymic microsomal system is that the latter forms 4-hydroxynonenal at a much higher rate.
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