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GLUTATHIONE TRAPPING TO MEASURE MICROSOMAL OXIDATION OF FURAN TO CIS-2-BUTENE-1,4-DIAL

Division of Environmental Health Sciences (L.A.P., M.E.C., C.C.V.) and The Cancer Center (L.A.P., M.E.C., C.C.V., B.A.M.), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

(Received February 23, 2005; accepted June 29, 2005)

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Furan is a liver carcinogen and toxicant. Furan is oxidized to the reactive dialdehyde, cis-2-butene-1,4-dial, by microsomal enzymes. This reactive metabolite readily reacts with glutathione nonenzymatically to form conjugates. A high-performance liquid chromatography-electrochemical method for the detection of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-glutathione (GSH) conjugates in microsomal preparations was developed to measure the extent of furan metabolism to cis-2-butene-1,4-dial in vitro. Previously unobserved mono-GSH reaction products of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial were detected in addition to the already characterized bis-GSH conjugates. Chemical characterization of these compounds indicated that the -amino group of glutathione had reacted with cis-2-butene-1,4-dial to form a thiol-substituted pyrrole adduct. The analytical method was used to estimate the extent of furan oxidation in rat liver microsomes from untreated or acetone-pretreated F344 rats as well as in human P450 2E1 Supersomes. Our results confirm that cytochrome P450 2E1 can catalyze the oxidation of furan to cis-2-butene-1,4-dial. However, the data are also consistent with the involvement of other P450 enzymes in the oxidation of furan in untreated animals. This assay will be a valuable tool to explore tissue and species differences in rates of furan oxidation.

Furan toxicity requires metabolism. Furan is transformed into a protein binding intermediate via a cytochrome P450-dependent process both in vivo and in vitro (Burka et al., 1991; Parmar and Burka, 1993). The reactive metabolite is efficiently trapped with glutathione (GSH), reducing protein binding by >85% (Parmar and Burka, 1993). Furan depletes GSH and reduces cell viability at biologically relevant doses in freshly isolated hepatocytes (Carfagna et al., 1993). Furan also depletes ATP in isolated hepatocytes and uncouples oxidative phosphorylation both in vitro and in vivo (Mugford et al., 1997). These effects are inhibited by cytochrome P450 inhibitors such as 1-phenylimidazole and induced by acetone pretreatment (induction of cytochrome P450 2E1), paralleling the effects of inhibitors and inducers of furan metabolism (Kedderis et al., 1993).

The initial oxidation product of furan is cis-2-butene-1,4-dial (Fig. 1). This compound is reactive and difficult to isolate and characterize directly. In previous studies, the formation of this metabolite was monitored by trapping with semicarbazide or [³H]GSH as the bis-semicarbazone or the bis-GSH conjugates, respectively (Chen et al., 1995, 1997).

View larger version (12K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 1. Metabolism of furan to cis-2-butene-1,4-dial and the subsequent reaction of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial with GSH to form mono- and bis-GSH reaction products.

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Solutions of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial were prepared and quantified as reported previously (Peterson et al., 2000; Byrns et al., 2004). Glucose 6-phosphate, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, NADP⁺, GSH, and p-nitrophenol were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO). Furan was obtained from Acros Organics (Fairlawn, NJ) and was distilled before storage at -20°C. Tris-(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP) was purchased from Strem Chemicals (Newburyport, MA). Human CYP2E1 Supersomes containing P450 reductase and cytochrome b₅ were obtained from BD Biosciences (Woburn, MA). All other chemicals used were reagent grade obtained from commercial sources. ¹H NMR spectra were obtained with either a Varian Inova-300 or 500 NMR spectrometer in CDCl₃ and are reported in ppm relative to an external standard.

Preparation of Rat Liver Microsomes. Male F344 rats (200-300 g) were purchased from Charles River Laboratories (Kingston, NY). In some cases, the rats received 1% acetone in their drinking water for 1 week before sacrifice (Kedderis et al., 1993). Liver microsomes were isolated as described previously (Guengerich, 1982).

Identification of Mono-GSH Conjugates of cis-2-Butene-1,4-Dial. cis-2-Butene-1,4-dial (0.42 mg; 5.0 µmol) and GSH (7.7 mg; 25 µmol) were combined in 100 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4 (total volume 0.5 ml). After 30 min at room temperature, TCEP (7.2 mg; 25 µmol) was added, and the reaction was continued for an additional 30 min. cis-2-Butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates were purified by HPLC with UV detection on a Synergi HPLC column (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA; 4.6 x 250 mm, 4 µm) using solvents A (100 mM ammonium acetate) and B (95% acetonitrile) at a flow of 1 ml/min. The mixture was eluted with a linear gradient from 100% A to 90% A/10% B over 15 min. The mono-GSH conjugate eluted at 6 min. N-[4-Carboxy-4-(2-mercapto-1H-pyrrol-1-yl)-1-oxobutyl]-L-cysteinylglycine cyclic sulfide, isomer 1: ¹H NMR (300 MHz, D₂O) : 6.85 (bs, 1H, H-5), 6.58 (d, 1H, H-3), 6.09 (d, 1H, H-4), 4.60 (m, 1H, Glu -CH), 4.24 (d, 1H, Cys -CH), 3.62 (s, 2H, Gly CH₂), 2.74-2.86 (m, 2H, Cys ß-CH₂), 2.1-2.3 (m, 4H, Glu -CH₂ and ß-CH₂). N-[4-Carboxy-4-(3-mercapto-1H-pyrrol-1-yl)-1-oxobutyl]-L-cysteinylglycine cyclic sulfide, isomer 2: ¹H NMR (300 MHz, D₂O) :6.73 (bs, 1H, H-5), 6.70 (bs, 1H, H-2), 6.26 (d, 1H, H-4), 4.60 (m, 1H, Glu -CH), 4.16 (d, 1H, Cys -CH), 3.62 (s, 2H, Gly CH₂), 3.30 (m, 1H, Cys ß-CHa), 2.90 (m, 1H, Cys ß-CHb), 2.1-2.3 (m, 4H, Glu -CH₂ and ß-CH₂).

Microsomal Metabolism of Furan. Furan (0-4 mM) was incubated in the presence of untreated or acetone-pretreated rat liver microsomes (250 or 50 µg/ml, respectively) or human P450 2E1 Supersomes (15 µg/ml) containing 100 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, 25 mM glucose 6-phosphate, 2 units/ml glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 4 mM NADP⁺, 3 mM MgCl₂, 1 mM EDTA, and 8 mM GSH for 10-60 min at 37°C in sealed tubes (final volume 250-500 µl). Incubations were started by the addition of furan as an aqueous solution. This solution was prepared by initially dissolving furan (0.5 M) in acetonitrile. This concentrated solution was then diluted with water to obtain the final solution added to the microsomal incubations. The final concentration of acetonitrile in the microsomal incubations never exceeded 0.4%. Each reaction was performed in triplicate. Controls were performed in the absence of NADPH, furan, or GSH. In some cases, the incubations were performed in the presence of p-nitrophenol (50 or 100 µM). The reactions were terminated by adding 0.3N Ba(OH)₂ and 0.3N ZnSO₄ (25-50 µl each). The precipitate was removed by centrifugation, and the supernatant was filtered through a 0.45-µm 0.4-mm nylon syringe filter (Millex-HN; Millipore Corporation, Billerica, MA). The filtrate (84 µl) was combined with 40 mM TCEP (12 µl), and the resulting solution was analyzed by HPLC with EC detection (injection volume 75 µl). The HPLC system consisted of an ESA (Chelmsford, MA) CoulArray electrochemical detector equipped with two electrochemical cells with four channels each, ESA 582 HPLC pumps, and an ESA 542 autosampler. The system was operated through the CoulArray for Windows software, version 1.04, from ESA. The incubation mixtures were analyzed on a Bondclone C18 column (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA; 300 x 3.9 mm; 10 µm) using solvents C (100 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 2) and D (acetonitrile containing 5% water). They were separated with a linear gradient from 97% C/3% D to 75% C/25% D over 25 min at a flow rate of 1 ml/min. The electrochemical detector's channel 1 was set at -700 mV, and channel 2 was set at +675 mV. The -700-mV potential of the first channel was used to ensure all analytes were fully reduced before detection by oxidation at +675 mV.

Calibration curves for cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates were prepared by incubating cis-2-butene-1,4-dial (0-100 µM) in the presence of untreated or acetone-pretreated rat liver microsomes (250 or 50 µg/ml, respectively) or human P450 2E1 Supersomes (15 µg/ml) containing 100 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, 25 mM glucose 6-phosphate, 2 units/ml glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 4 mM NADP⁺, 3 mM MgCl₂, 1 mM EDTA, and 8 mM GSH for 60 min at 37°C (total volume 250 µl). The incubations were stopped by the addition of 0.3 N Ba(OH)₂ and 0.3 N ZnSO₄ (25 µl each). TCEP was added before analysis as described above. The sum of the peak areas for the mono- and bis-cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH reaction products were plotted against the concentration of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial added to the reaction mixture.

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 2. Electrochemical chromatograms of a reaction mixture of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial and GSH (A), a microsomal incubation mixture of 1.5 mM furan in the presence of required cofactors (B), a microsomal incubation in the absence of furan (C), and a microsomal incubation of 1.5 mM furan in the absence of NADPH (D). The microsomal incubations were performed with untreated rat liver microsomes (250 µg protein/ml) in the presence of 8 mM GSH and required cofactors for 10 min at 37°C. TCEP was added before the analysis to reduce any disulfide bonds (Burns et al., 1991; Krijt et al., 2001).

Data Analysis. Kinetic parameters (K_m and V_max) were determined by curve fitting and nonlinear regression using SigmaPlot 2001 enzyme kinetics module 1.1 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL). The values are the average ± S.D. from two experiments (n = 6 for each concentration).

LC-MS Analysis. The cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH reaction mixture and 60 min microsomal incubation mixtures of 2 mM furan were analyzed by LC-MS. Analyses were performed with an Agilent Zorbax C18 capillary column (0.5 x 150 mm; 5 µm) linked to an Agilent (Palo Alto, CA) 1100 series LC/MSD Trap SL mass spectrometer in positive ion mode. Full-scan LC/MS was performed with a scan range of m/z 150-1500, with MS/MS performed on the most abundant ion. The elution buffers were E (0.06% trifluoroacetic acid in water) and F (acetonitrile containing 5% water). The mixtures were separated with a linear gradient from 97% E/3% F to 50% E/50% F over 25 min at a flow rate of 0.2 ml/min. The first 5 min were diverted to waste to reduce the amount of salt entering the mass spectrometer.

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Initial attempts to measure the levels of GSH conjugate formation with [³H]GSH were complicated by high radioactive background from the presence of excess [³H]GSH (Chen et al., 1997). Since radiolabeled furan was not available, nonradioactive methods were considered. We decided to explore HPLC-EC detection since it has been used as a method for quantitation of GSH and other thiol-containing compounds (Manna et al., 1999; Melnyk et al., 1999; Remião et al., 2000). The HPLC-EC detection method was developed with a solution of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial in the presence of excess GSH; cis-2-butene-1,4-dial reacts readily with GSH to form GSH reaction products (Chen et al., 1997). This reaction is complete within 15 min (data not shown). HPLC analysis of this reaction mixture indicated the presence of two major peaks corresponding to reaction products (Fig. 2A).

To confirm the identity of the electrochemically active peaks as GSH reaction products, the reaction mixtures were analyzed by LC-MS/MS analysis. The second peak (12.5 min) contains both the 2- and 3-substituted bis-GSH conjugates (Fig. 1). Consistently, the molecular ion of the compounds contained in this peak was m/z 663 (Fig. 3A), and the daughter ion spectrum was consistent with the formation of the previously characterized bis-GSH conjugates of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial (Figs. 1 and 3A) (Chen et al., 1997). The earlier eluting reaction product (11 min) produced a molecular ion at m/z 356. The daughter ion spectrum contains an ion at m/z 338 which results from the loss of water (Fig. 3A). This molecular ion is consistent with the formation of a mono-GSH conjugate (Fig. 1). The absence of significant fragmentation patterns indicated that both the amino and the sulfhydryl groups of GSH are involved in conjugate formation. ¹H NMR data support the conclusion that the -amino group of GSH is involved in pyrrole ring formation. The patterns of the aromatic protons indicate that the thiol group of GSH is attached to either the 2- or 3-position of the pyrrole ring (Chen et al., 1997). Integration of these aromatic protons is consistent with an approximately 1:1 mixture of the 2- and 3-substituted cyclic mono-GSH reaction product (Fig. 1).

View larger version (28K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 3. Mass chromatograms and daughter ion spectra of the cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates observed in reaction mixture of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial with GSH (A) or microsomal incubations of 2 mM furan with rat liver microsomes in the presence of the required P450 cofactors and GSH (B).

The signal for the cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates was maximal at an electrode potential of +675 mV. Quantification of the cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates was achieved through the use of calibration curves for the GSH conjugates (Fig. 4). The calibration solutions were prepared by reacting increasing amounts of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial with an excess of GSH in the presence or absence of microsomal protein. The limits of detection for the GSH-conjugates were approximately 25 pmol on column. A linear correlation was observed between the cis-2-butene-1,4-dial concentration and each of the HPLC peaks corresponding to the various GSH-cis-2-butene-1,4-dial reaction products, but we found it convenient to sum all of these peaks for our studies below. Figure 4 displays the calibration curve for cis-2-butene-1,4-dial using the total sum of the peak areas (r² = 0.99; Fig. 4). The variation between multiple samples prepared at the same concentration of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial and analyzed within 3 days of preparation was 2 to 10%. The variation increased when the samples were stored frozen for more than 1 week. The reason for this variation is unknown. To reduce error in the analyses, all samples were analyzed within 3 days of preparation.

View larger version (15K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 4. Calibration curves for cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates generated from cis-2-butene-1,4-dial (0-1 mM) and 8 mM GSH in the absence (square) and presence (diamond) of rat liver microsomal proteins (1 mg protein/ml) containing an NADPH-regenerating system. Data are average values from three individual samples. The error bars represent standard deviation.

The HPLC-EC analytical method was applied to estimate the extent of microsomal oxidation of furan to cis-2-butene-1,4-dial. The formation of the GSH conjugates required the presence of furan, GSH and NADPH (Fig. 2, B-D). LC-MS/MS analysis confirmed that the conjugates detected by HPLC-EC were the same conjugates observed in reactions of GSH and cis-2-butene-1,4-dial (Fig. 3B).

The kinetics of furan oxidation to cis-2-butene-1,4-dial was measured in rat liver microsomes from both untreated and acetone-pretreated rats as well as human P450 2E1 Supersomes (Table 1). Reaction times and protein levels were adjusted so that less than 5% of furan had been converted to the GSH-conjugates. This allowed for more accurate determination of the kinetic parameters. Acetone pretreatment of the rats lowered the K_m but increased the V_max for furan oxidation in liver microsomes. The increased rate of oxidation is consistent with previous reports that acetone increases cytochrome P450 2E1 activity as well as furan metabolism in hepatocytes (Kedderis et al., 1993). The unexpected change in K_m may indicate that there are other P450s contributing to the oxidation of furan in the uninduced microsomes. Consistent with this hypothesis, furan oxidation was less sensitive to inhibition by the P450 2E1 substrate, p-nitrophenol, in the uninduced microsomes (Fig. 5). Human P450 2E1 Supersomes containing cytochrome b₅ also catalyzed the oxidation of furan, with a K_m higher than that observed with rat liver microsomes (Table 1). p-Nitrophenol inhibited the formation of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates to a similar extent in the human P450 2E1 Supersomes and the microsomes from acetone-pretreated rats (Fig. 5).

View larger version (39K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 5. Inhibition of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-glutathione conjugate formation in rat liver microsomes (RLMs) and Supersomes expressing human P450 2E1 by p-nitrophenol (NP). NP (0-100 µM) was added to incubations of furan (25 µM) with human 2E1 Supersomes (15 µg protein/ml) or liver microsomes from either untreated (250 µg protein/ml) or acetone-pretreated F344 rats (50 µg protein/ml) in the presence of an NADPH-regenerating system. The extent of furan metabolism was determined by EC-HPLC analysis.

Previously, Kedderis and coworkers reported evidence that P450 2E1 was responsible for the metabolism of furan in rat hepatocytes (Kedderis et al., 1993). Furan metabolism was determined by measuring the disappearance of furan. These studies indicated that the disappearance of furan was a single saturable process with a K_m of 0.4 µM in rat hepatocytes. Subsequent studies with human hepatocytes yielded a K_m in the range of 2.1-3.3 µM (Kedderis and Held, 1996).

The K_m in our microsomal reactions was at least an order of magnitude higher than that observed in the hepatocytes experiments. The reason for this discrepancy is unknown. The methods of analysis are different in the two studies; the kinetic parameters in the hepatocyte studies were obtained by measuring the disappearance of furan, whereas the kinetic parameters in our experiments were determined by measuring product formation. We believe that the oxidation of furan to cis-2-butene-1,4-dial is the overall rate-determining step in the formation of the GSH conjugates since the reaction with GSH is very rapid and is not thought to involve an enzymatically mediated pathway. In the hepatocyte studies, the observed kinetics is a composite of a larger variety of rate-determining steps. The actual concentration at the site of the enzymes is unknown.

In summary, we have developed an assay for the quantification of cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-GSH conjugates formed in metabolic reactions. This led to the identification of a previously uncharacterized GSH-reaction product, the mono-GSH conjugates. Preliminary results with rat liver microsomes indicate that cytochrome P450 2E1 is a catalyst for the oxidation of furan to cis-2-butene-1,4-dial but that other P450s may also be involved in the metabolic activation of this compound. This assay will be used to investigate the ability of other P450 enzymes to carry out this reaction as well as explore tissue and species differences in furan oxidation.

	Acknowledgments

 
We thank Jacqueline Chan for assistance in the chemical characterization of the cis-2-butene-1,4-dial-mono-GSH reaction product.

	Footnotes

 
This research was funded by ES-10577 from the National Institutes of Health. An instrument grant from the Minnesota Medical Foundation was used to purchase the electrochemical detector. Portions of this research were presented at the 2004 Fall National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as at the 7th International Meeting for the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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doi:10.1124/dmd.105.004432.

ABBREVIATIONS: GSH, glutathione; TCEP, tris-(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine; HPLC-EC, high-performance liquid chromatography-electrochemical detection; LC-MS, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Address correspondence to: Dr. Lisa Peterson, The Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Mayo Mail Code 806, 420 Delaware St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail: peter431{at}umn.edu

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