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Abstract
Lipid peroxidation is highly associated with chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer. 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal is one of the major products of lipid peroxidation. 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal can interact with biomolecules, changing their conformation and activity. This study presents 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal-protein adducts formation in the first stages of Long-Evans Cinnamon rat hepatitis, a well recognized model for oxidative stress-associated hepatocarcinogenesis. 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal-protein adducts appeared in hepatocyte cytoplasm before the beginning of hepatitis and their presence was very strong during hepatitis, while a transient perinuclear expression of 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal-protein adducts was shown mainly at early hepatitis stages. 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal-protein adducts formation correlated to the expression of the tumour marker glutathione S-transferase P-form. These results show that lipid peroxidation modification of proteins might be implicated in the first stages of hepatocyte cancer initiation in Long-Evans Cinnamon rats.
Acknowledgement
This study was supported by the bilateral French-Croatian science project COGITO, by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, by COST B35 Action, by the Program Alβan, the European Union Program of High Level Scholarships for Latin America, scholarship No. E04D035320MX, ECOS-ANUIES grant M02-S01,CONACYT grant 39525-M and a fellowship from CONACYT AMQ165505.
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
This paper was first published online on Early Onilne on 21 October 2009.