Plasma membrane proteome analysis of the early effect of alcohol on liver: implications for alcoholic liver disease

Abstract

In humans, the over-consumption of alcohol can lead to serious liver disease. To examine the early effects of alcohol on liver disease, rats were given sufficient ethanol to develop liver cirrhosis. Rats before the onset of fibrosis were studied in this work. Plasma membranes (PM) of liver were extracted by twice sucrose density gradient centrifugation. The proteome profiles of PM from ethanol-treated rats and the controls were analyzed using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) technology. Ethanol treatment altered the amount of 15 different liver proteins: 10 of them were detected by 2-DE and 5 by iTRAQ. Keratin 8 was detected by both methods. Gene ontology analysis of these differentially detected proteins indicated that most of them were involved in important cell functions such as binding activity (including ion, DNA, ATP binding, etc.), cell structure, or enzyme activity. Among these, annexin A2, keratin 8, and keratin 18 were further verified using western blot analysis and annexin A2 was verified by immunohistochemistry. Our results suggested that alcohol has the potential to affect cell structure, adhesion and enzyme activity by altering expression levels of several relevant proteins in the PM. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to study the effect of alcohol on the liver PM proteome and it might be helpful for understanding the possible mechanisms of alcohol-induced liver disease.

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