AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 265, Issue 3 435-F439, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Gentamicin-induced mobilization of iron from renal cortical mitochondria

N. Ueda, B. Guidet and S. V. Shah
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock.

Iron, presumably by participating in generation of hydroxyl radical or other oxidant species or initiation of lipid peroxidation, has been shown to play an important role in several models of tissue injury, including acute renal failure induced by the antibiotic gentamicin. However, the sources of iron remain unknown. Rat renal mitochondria incubated at 37 degrees C with gentamicin resulted in a time- (15-60 min) and a dose-dependent (0.01-5 mM) iron release as measured by formation of iron-bathophenanthroline sulfonate complex FeII-(BPS)3 [at 60 min, control: 1.2 +/- 0.1 nmol/mg protein, n = 7; gentamicin (5 mM): 5.1 +/- 0.4 nmol/mg protein, n = 7]. No formation of FeII(BPS)3 complex was detected in the absence of mitochondria or when incubations were carried out at 0 degrees C. Similar results were obtained when 2,2'-dipyridyl, another iron chelator, was used for measurement of iron release. On the basis on our previous study that gentamicin enhances generation of hydrogen peroxide by renal cortical mitochondria, we examined whether effect of gentamicin on iron release is mediated by hydrogen peroxide. Catalase (which decomposes hydrogen peroxide), but not heat-inactivated catalase, as well as pyruvate, a potent scavenger of hydrogen peroxide, prevented gentamicin-induced iron mobilization. Superoxide dismutase, a scavenger of superoxide anion, or hydroxyl radical scavengers (dimethylthiourea or sodium benzoate) had no effect. Taken together, the data with scavengers indicate that gentamicin-induced iron mobilization from mitochondria is mediated by hydrogen peroxide.

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