Tocopheramine succinate and tocopheryl succinate: Mechanism of mitochondrial inhibition and superoxide radical production
作者:Julia Gruber、Katrin Staniek、Christopher Krewenka、Rudolf Moldzio、Anjan Patel、Stefan Böhmdorfer、Thomas Rosenau、Lars Gille
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2013.12.036
日期:2014.1
Tocopherols (TOH) are lipophilic antioxidants which require the phenolic OH group for their redox activity. In contrast, non-redox active esters of alpha-TOH with succinate (alpha-TOS) were shown to possess proapoptotic activity in cancer cells. It was suggested that this activity is mediated via mitochondrial inhibition with subsequent O-2(center dot-) production triggering apoptosis and that the modification of the linker between the succinate and the lipophilic chroman may modulate this activity. However, the specific mechanism and the influence of the linker are not clear yet on the level of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Therefore, this study systematically compared the effects of alpha-TOH acetate (alpha-TOA), alpha-TOS and alpha-tocopheramine succinate (alpha-TNS) in cells and submitochondrial particles (SMP). The results showed that not all cancer cell lines are highly sensitive to alpha-TOS and alpha-TNS. In HeLa cells alpha-TNS did more effectively reduce cell viability than alpha-TOS. The complex I activity of SMP was little affected by alpha-TNS and alpha-TOS while the complex II activity was much more inhibited (IC50 = 42 +/- 8 mu M alpha-TOS, 106 +/- 8 mu M alpha-TNS, respectively) than by alpha-TOA (IC50 > 1000 mu M). Also the complex III activity was inhibited by alpha-TNS (IC50 = 137 +/- 6 lM) and alpha-TOS (IC50 = 315 +/- 23 lM). Oxygen consumption of NADH-or succinate-respiring SMP, involving the whole electron transfer machinery, was dose-dependently decreased by alpha-TOS and alpha-TNS, but only marginal effects were observed in the presence of alpha-TOA. In contrast to the similar inhibition pattern of alpha-TOS and alpha-TNS, only alpha-TOS triggered O-2 center dot- 2 formation in succinate- and NADH-respiring SMP. Inhibitor studies excluded complex I as O-2(center dot-) 2 source and suggested an involvement of complex III in O-2(center dot-) 2 production. In cancer cells only alpha-TOS was reproducibly able to increase O-2(center dot-) 2 levels above the background level but neither alpha-TNS nor alpha-TOA. Furthermore, the stability of alpha-TNS in liver homogenates was significantly lower than that of alpha-TOS. In conclusion, this suggests that alpha-TNS although it has a structure similar to alpha-TOS is not acting via the same mechanism and that for alpha-TOS not only complex II but also complex III interactions are involved. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.