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Mechanisms of Cardiolipin Oxidation by Cytochrome c: Relevance to Pro- and Antiapoptotic Functions of Etoposide

Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health (Y.Y.T., V.K., V.A.T., I.I.V., J.J., A.A.K., N.A.B., J.C.Y., I.V.K., V.E.K.) and Pharmacology (J.C.Y., V.E.K.), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Execution of apoptotic program in mitochondria is associated with accumulation of cardiolipin peroxidation products required for the release of proapoptotic factors into the cytosol. This suggests that lipid antioxidants capable of inhibiting cardiolipin peroxidation may act as antiapoptotic agents. Etoposide, a widely used antitumor drug and a topoisomerase II inhibitor, is a prototypical inducer of apoptosis and, at the same time, an effective lipid radical scavenger and lipid antioxidant. Here, we demonstrate that cardiolipin oxidation during apoptosis is realized not via a random cardiolipin peroxidation mechanism but rather proceeds as a result of peroxidase reaction in a tight cytochrome c/cardiolipin complex that restrains interactions of etoposide with radical intermediates generated in the course of the reaction. Using low-temperature and ambient-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of H₂O₂-induced protein-derived (tyrosyl) radicals and etoposide phenoxyl radicals, respectively, we established that cardiolipin peroxidation and etoposide oxidation by cytochrome c/cardiolipin complex takes place predominantly on protein-derived radicals of cytochrome c. We further show that etoposide can inhibit cytochrome c-catalyzed oxidation of cardiolipin competing with it as a peroxidase substrate. Peroxidase reaction of cytochrome c/cardiolipin complexes causes cross-linking and oligomerization of cytochrome c. With nonoxidizable tetraoleoyl-cardiolipin, the cross-linking occurs via dityrosine formation, whereas bifunctional lipid oxidation products generated from tetralinoleoyl-cardiolipin participate in the production of high molecular weight protein aggregates. Protein aggregation is effectively inhibited by etoposide. The inhibition of cardiolipin peroxidation by etoposide, however, is realized at far higher concentrations than those at which it induces apoptotic cell death. Thus, oxidation of cardiolipin by the cytochrome c/cardiolipin peroxidase complex, which is essential for apoptosis, is not inhibited by proapoptotic concentrations of the drug.

Address correspondence to: Dr. E. Kagan, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of EOH, Bridgeside Point, 100 Technology Drive, Suite 350, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. E-mail: vkagan{at}eoh.pitt.edu

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