Mode of Action of Toxin 6-Hydroxydopamine in SH-SY5Y Using NMR Metabolomics
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Mellick, George D
Schirra, Horst Joachim
Feng, Yunjiang
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This study used NMR-based metabolomics to investigate the mode of action (MoA) of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) toxicity in the SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell model. 6-OHDA, a structural analogue of dopamine, has been used to create a Parkinson’s disease model since 1968. Its selective uptake via catecholaminergic transporters leads to intracellular oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. SH-SY5Y cells were treated with 6-OHDA at its IC50 concentration of 60 μM, and samples of treated and untreated groups were collected after 24 h. The endo metabolome was extracted using a methanol–water mixture, while the exo metabolome was represented by the culture media. Further, endo- and exo metabolomes of treated and untreated cells were analysed for metabolic changes. Our results demonstrated significantly high levels of glutathione, acetate, propionate, and NAD+, which are oxidative stress markers, enhanced due to ROS production in the system. In addition, alteration of myoinositol, taurine, and o-phosphocholine could be due to oxidative stress-induced membrane potential disturbance. Mitochondrial complex I inhibition causes electron transport chain (ETC) dysfunction. Changes in key metabolites of glycolysis and energy metabolism, such as glucose, pyruvate, lactate, creatine, creatine phosphate, glycine, and methionine, respectively, demonstrated ETC dysfunction. We also identified changes in amino acids such as glutamine, glutamate, and proline, followed by nucleotide metabolism such as uridine and uridine monophosphate levels, which were decreased in the treated group.
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Molecules
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30
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© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tamuli, R; Mellick, GD; Schirra, HJ; Feng, Y, Mode of Action of Toxin 6-Hydroxydopamine in SH-SY5Y Using NMR Metabolomics, Molecules, 30 (16), pp. 3352