Hypericum perforatum regulates glutathione redox stress and normalizes Ggt1/Anpep signaling to alleviate OVX-induced kidney dysfunction. - GreenMedInfo Summary
L. Regulates Glutathione Redox Stress and Normalizes Ggt1/Anpep Signaling to Alleviate OVX-Induced Kidney Dysfunction.
Front Pharmacol. 2021 ;12:628651. Epub 2021 Apr 26. PMID: 33981220
Yan-Ru Liu
Menopause and associated renal complications are linked to systemic redox stress, and the causal factors remain unclear. As the role ofL. (HPL) in menopause-induced kidney disease therapy is still ambiguous, we aim to explore the effects of HPL on systemic redox stress under ovariectomy (OVX)-induced kidney dysfunction conditions. Here, using combined proteomic and metabolomic approaches, we constructed a multi-scaled "HPL-disease-gene-metabolite" network to generate a therapeutic "big picture" that indicated an important link between glutathione redox stress and kidney impairment. HPL exhibited the potential to maintain cellular redox homeostasis by inhibiting gamma-glutamyltransferase 1 (Ggt1) overexpression, along with promoting the efflux of accumulated toxic amino acids and their metabolites. Moreover, HPL restored alanyl-aminopeptidase (Anpep) expression and metabolite shifts, promoting antioxidative metabolite processing, and recovery. These findings provide a comprehensive description of OVX-induced glutathione redox stress at multiple levels and support HPL therapy as an effective modulator in renal tissues to locally influence the glutathione metabolism pathway and subsequent redox homeostasis.