Abstract:
:In previous studies cadmium chloride (CdCl2) nonlethally inhibited Y-1 adrenal mouse adrenal tumour cell 20-dihydroxyprogesterone (20DHP) secretion, affecting unstimulated and stimulated steroidogenic pathway sites differently. We studied CdCl2 effects on unstimulated steroidogenesis using Y-1 cells incubated 0.5 h in medium with or without cadmium (using the concentration that inhibited ACTH-stimulated steroid secretion by 50%). Exogenously added 20-hydroxycholesterol (20OHC), 22(R)-hydroxycholesterol (22OHC), 25-hydroxycholesterol (25OHC), pregnenolone (PREG), or progesterone (PROG) were used to bypass any rate-limited steroidogenic pathway sites that CdCl2 might inhibit. 25OHC is a biologically active nonpathway steroid, while 20OHC, 22OHC, PREG, and PROG are pathway steroids; each increased unstimulated 20DHP secretion nearly 10-fold. Although CdCl2 could not reduce dibutyryl cyclic AMP- (dbcAMP)-stimulated 20DHP secretion significantly, it did significantly reduce basal and 25OHC-induced 20DHP secretion 25% below untreated levels. When 20OHC, 22OHC, PREG, or PROG were incubated with unstimulated Y-1 cells, their synthesis into 20DHP was unaffected by cadmium. dbcAMP bypasses the plasma membrane enzyme complex that synthesizes intracellular cAMP during exogenous ACTH stimulation; dbcAMP was not inhibited by CdCl2. The rate-limited step accelerated by cAMP involves plasma membrane and/or cytoplasmic cholesterol transport to and through outer and inner mitochondrial membranes before the cholesterol is synthesized into pregnenolone by side-chain cleavage enzymes on the inner membrane matrix face. Little is known regarding the mechanisms controlling unstimulated steroidogenesis. Under unstimulated conditions the 25-, 20- and 22(R)-monohydroxyls of cholesterol facilitate plasma membrane, cytoplasm and inner and outer mitochondrial solubility, diffusion and/or transport to bypass rate-limited steps and augment unstimulated steroid synthesis. Since conversion of endogenous mitochondrial cholesterol and 25OHC, but not dbcAMP-mobilized cytoplasmic cholesterol, 20OHC or 22OHC conversion, to 20DHP is inhibited by CdCl2, this suggests that (a) control of mitochondrial cholesterol supplies is independent of the cAMP-regulated mitochondrial steps in the 20DHP steroid synthetic pathway, (b) CdCl2 specifically inhibited endogenous mitochondrial cholesterol and 25OHC utilization, (c) CdCl2 toxicity may affect adrenal, testicular, ovarian, and placental basal steroidogenic functions, and (d) 25OHC may be a useful compound to examine unstimulated steroid synthesis.
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Cell Biol Toxicoljournal_title
Cell biology and toxicologyauthors
Mgbonyebi OP,Smothers CT,Mrotek JJdoi
10.1007/BF00757184subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-02-01 00:00:00pages
23-33issue
1eissn
0742-2091issn
1573-6822journal_volume
10pub_type
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