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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Experimental traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in a significant loss of cortical tissue at the site of injury, and in the ensuing hours and days a secondary injury exacerbates this primary injury, resulting in significant neurological dysfunction. The mechanism of the secondary injury is not well understood, but evidence implicates a critical role for mitochondria in this cascade. This mitochondrial dysfunction is believed to involve excitotoxicity, disruption of Ca(2+) homeostasis, production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), ATP depletion, oxidative damage of mitochondrial proteins, and an overall breakdown of mitochondrial bioenergetics. Although oxidative damage occurs following TBI, the identities of proteins undergoing oxidative modification after TBI have not been investigated. In the present study, we utilized the 3-h post-injury controlled cortical impact model of experimental TBI in 20 young adult male Sprague-Dawley rats, coupled with proteomics to identify specific mitochondrial fraction proteins from the cortex and hippocampus that were oxidatively modified after TBI. We identified, from the cortex, pyruvate dehydrogenase, voltage-dependent anion channel, fumarate hydratase 1, ATP synthase, and prohibitin. From the hippocampus, we identified cytochrome C oxidase Va, isovaleryl coenzyme A dehydrogenase, enolase-1, and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase as proteins that had undergone oxidative modification following TBI. In addition, we have also shown that, following TBI, there is a reduction in the activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), complex I, and complex IV. These findings demonstrate that, following TBI, several proteins involved in mitochondrial bioenergetics are highly oxidatively modified, which may possibly underlie the massive breakdown of mitochondrial energetics and eventual cell death known to occur in this model. The identification of these proteins provides new insights into the mechanisms that take place following TBI and may provide avenues for possible therapeutic interventions after TBI.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0897-7151
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
772-89
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Adenosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Brain Injuries, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Energy Metabolism, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Enzymes, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Mitochondrial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Nerve Degeneration, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Oxidation-Reduction, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Oxidative Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Oxidative Stress, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Proteomics, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Reactive Oxygen Species, pubmed-meshheading:17518533-Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Proteomic identification of oxidized mitochondrial proteins following experimental traumatic brain injury.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural