High chronic fructose consumption has been linked to many diseases. Sugar metabolites, especially glyoxal and methylglyoxal can form advanced glycation products, which contribute to the pathology of diabetic complications. Our objective was to study the metabolism of these metabolites and the associated protein carbonyation and cytotoxicity in isolated hepatocytes. In addition, the effect of oxidative stress on the metabolism of these toxins was also investigated. Methylglyoxal and glyoxal can induce protein carbonylation, which contributes to hepatocyte toxicity. Methylglyoxal, but not glyoxal, was detoxified mainly by the glyoxalase system. Both toxins can be metabolized by mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase. The detoxification of glyoxal was impaired under oxidative stress conditions (i.e. increased hydrogen peroxide level). Glyoxal was found to be a common autoxidation product from glyceraldehyde, hydroxypyruvate and glycolaldehyde. Glyoxal and the reactive oxygen species formation during the autoxidation process contributed to the hepatocyte toxicity of glyceraldehyde, hydroxypyruvate and glycolaldehyde.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/31650 |
| Date | 04 January 2012 |
| Creators | Yang, Kai |
| Contributors | O'Brien, Peter J. |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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