Abstract：
:Protocatechuic acid (PA), a structurally typical phenolic acid in danshen, shows anti-angina efficacy. But until now, besides scavenging of oxygen free radicals, the understanding of its anti-angina mechanism has been limited. In our study, based on a novel metabolic route of PA identified in rat heart and its influence on fatty acid oxidation (FAO), we proposed a new mechanism for its anti-angina. In detail, three metabolites, catechol methylated metabolite, acyl-coenzyme (CoA) thioester and glycine conjugation, were identified in rat heart. A novel metabolic pathway was confirmed based on several metabolic systems incubated with heart mitochondria, cytosol, microsomes and homogenate. Results indicated that PA was firstly methylated in microsomes and cytosol, which was regarded as the prerequisite step for further metabolism and could be inhibited by tolcapone, and then the resulting methylated metabolite (vanillic acid) diffused into mitochondria where it was converted into acyl-CoA thioester, in similar with FAO. In addition, part of the acyl-CoA thioester was transformed into glycine conjugation, a step also localized within mitochondria. Furthermore, based on isolated rat heart perfusion, it was found that PA markedly decreased FAO, which was shown by higher residual fatty acid level in perfusate (p<0.05) and lower acy-CoA/CoA ratio in heart (p<0.05). The FAO inhibiting effect of PA could be largely reversed by its methylation inhibitor tolcapone, indicating the effect was closely related with the identified metabolic pathway of PA in heart. The decrease of FAO may switch heart energy substrate preference from fatty acid to glucose, which is beneficial for ischemia heart.
journal_name
Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Cao YG,Zhang L,Ma C,Chang BB,Chen YC,Tang YQ,Liu XD,Liu XQdoi
10.1016/j.bcp.2008.11.029subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-03-15 00:00:00pages
1096-104issue
6eissn
0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
S0006-2952(08)00861-7journal_volume
77pub_type
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