Effect of gossypol on intracellular Ca2+ regulation in human hepatoma cells |
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Authors: | Cheng Jin-Shiung Lo Yuk-Keung Yeh Jeng-Hsien Cheng He-Hsiung Liu Chun-Peng Chen Wei-Chuan Jan Chung-Ren |
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Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan. |
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Abstract: | Gossypol is a natural toxicant present in cottonseeds, and is hepatotoxic to animals and human. The effect of gossypol on cytosolic free Ca2+ levels (Ca2+]i) in HA22/VGH human hepatocytes was explored using fura-2 as a fluorescent Ca2+ indicator. Gossypol increased Ca2+]i in a concentration-dependent manner with an EC50 value of 2 microM. The Ca2+ signal was reduced by removing extracellular Ca2+ or by 10 microM La3+, but was not affected by nifedipine, verapamil or diltiazem. Pretreatment with 1 microM thapsigargin (an endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pump inhibitor) to deplete the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ partly reduced 10 microM gossypol-induced Ca2+ release; and conversely pretreatment with gossypol abolished thapsigargin-induced Ca2+ release. The Ca2+ release induced by 10 microM gossypol was not changed by inhibiting phospholipase C with 2 microM U73122 or by depleting ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ stores with 50 microM ryanodine. Together, the results suggest that in human hepatocytes, gossypol induced a Ca2+]i increase by causing store Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a phospholipase C-independent manner, and by inducing Ca2+ influx. |
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