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LIVER AND BILIARY TRACT

Proteomic analysis of hepatic iron overload in mice suggests dysregulation of urea cycle, impairment of fatty acid oxidation, and changes in the methylation cycle

¹Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague; ²Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, California; ³Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague; and ⁴Institute of Pathophysiology and ⁵Institute of Inherited Metabolic Disorders, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Submitted 3 October 2006 ; accepted in final form 8 February 2007

Liver iron overload can be found in hereditary hemochromatosis, chronic liver diseases such as alcoholic liver disease, and chronic viral hepatitis or secondary to repeated blood transfusions. The excess iron promotes liver damage, including fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite significant research effort, we remain largely ignorant of the cellular consequences of liver iron overload and the cellular processes that result in the observed pathological changes. In addition, the variability in outcome and the compensatory response that likely modulates the effect of increased iron levels are not understood. To provide insight into these critical questions, we undertook a study to determine the consequences of iron overload on protein levels in liver using a proteomic approach. Using two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) combined with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS), we studied hepatic iron overload induced by carbonyl iron-rich diet in mice and identified 30 liver proteins whose quantity changes in condition of excess liver iron. Among the identified proteins were enzymes involved in several important metabolic pathways, namely the urea cycle, fatty acid oxidation, and the methylation cycle. This pattern of changes likely reflects compensatory and pathological changes associated with liver iron overload and provides a window into these processes.

hereditary hemochromatosis; liver disease; 2D-PAGE