A Proteomics- and Metabolomics-Based Study Revealed That Disorder of Palmitic Acid Metabolism by Aconitine Induces Cardiac Injury.

Currently, research on cardiac injury by aconitine focuses on its effect to directly interfere with the function of cardiac ion channels. Further, abnormal lipid metabolism could cause cardiac injury via inflammatory signaling pathway. In our preliminary study, we discovered that aconitine could alter the metabolism processes of various substances, including palmitic acid. Inspired by these studies, we investigated how elevation of palmitic acid by aconitine causes cardiac injury. Aconitine induced cardiac injury in rats (0.32 mg/kg, d = 7), and the cardiac injury was confirmed by electrocardiogram and serum biochemical study. The proteomic and metabolomic results showed that the palmitic acid level increases in heart tissue, and the NOD-like receptor (NLR) signaling pathway showed a strong effect of cardiac injury. The palmitic acid results in cell viability decline and activates NLR signaling in vitro. The shRNA-mediated knockdown of NLRP3 and NOD1/2 attenuates palmitic acid-induced inhibitory effect on cells and inhibited activation of the NLR signaling pathway. Collectively, this study reveals that aconitine provoked palmitic acid elevation could aggravate cardiac injury via the NLR signaling pathway. This study suggests that drug triggered disorder of the metabolism process could evoke cardiac injury and could propose a new strategy to study drug cardiac injury.

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