Diabetes, Vol 48, Issue 11 2215-2220, Copyright © 1999 by American Diabetes Association

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Diabetes induces an impairment in the proteolytic activity against oxidized proteins and a heterogeneous effect in nonenzymatic protein modifications in the cytosol of rat liver and kidney

M Portero-Otin, R Pamplona, MC Ruiz, E Cabiscol, J Prat and MJ Bellmunt
Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Lleida, Spain. manuel.portero@cmb.udl.es

It is assumed that increased oxidative stress contributes to the development of complications in diabetes. In this study, several markers of protein structural modifications directly induced by free radicals were investigated in the liver and kidney cytosolic fractions of rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Sulfydryl residue and side-chain amino group analyses, as well as immunoblotting and chromatographic measurements of protein-bound carbonyl, suggest that protein oxidative modification is not increased by diabetes, with the exception of sulfydryl groups in renal cytosol. The levels of the glycation-derived carbonyl N epsilon-fructosyl-lysine are significantly increased by diabetes. Furthermore, unchanged proteolytic activity against in vivo-oxidized proteins, significant decreases both in activity against H2O2-modified proteins and in proteasome activity, measured by the degradation of a specific fluorogenic substrate, suggest that the unchanged oxidative protein modification in the diabetic state cannot be attributed to an increased cytosolic proteolytic activity in these tissues. These results provide evidence against a generalized increase in protein oxidative damage and demonstrate a diabetes-induced alteration in cytosolic proteolytic pathways, suggesting that proteasome activity may be impaired in these organs.
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