Chemical Research in Toxicology p. 1281 - 1288 (2019)
Update date:2022-08-18
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Li, Ruihong
Li, Wei
You, Yutong
Guo, Xiucai
Peng, Ying
Zheng, Jiang
Aloe-emodin (AE) is a major anthraquinone ingredient of numerous traditional Chinese medicines with a variety of beneficial biological activities in vitro. Previous studies suggested that AE possessed cytotoxicity and genotoxicity. Nevertheless, the mechanisms of the toxic action of AE have not yet been fully clarified. The present study aimed at characterization of metabolic pathways of AE to better understand the mechanisms of AE-induced cytotoxicity. An AE-derived glutathione conjugate (AE-GSH) was observed in rat liver cytosol incubations containing AE and GSH, along with 3′-phosphoadenosine-5′-phosphosulfate (PAPS). Similar incubation fortified with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) in place of GSH offered an AE-NAC conjugate corresponding to the GSH conjugate. The formation of the two conjugates was found to require PAPS. The two conjugates were respectively detected in bile and urine of rats given AE. Sulfotransferase (SULT) inhibitor pentachlorophenol (PCP) suppressed the production of the observed AE-GSH/NAC conjugates in vivo, which suggested that SULTs participated in the process of the metabolic activation of AE. The presence of PCP attenuated cell susceptibility to AE-induced cytotoxicity. The present study illustrated potential association of sulfation-mediated bioactivation of AE with its cytotoxicity.
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