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. 2025 Jan;79(1):180-195.
doi: 10.1007/s11418-024-01852-9. Epub 2024 Nov 15.

Dendrobium nobile Lindl. alkaloids protect CCl4-induced acute liver injury via upregulating LAMP1 expression and activating autophagy flux

Nan Nan  1   2 , Yonggang Yang  1   2 , Xiaolong Fu  1   2 , Siting Xian  1   2 , Qin Wu  1   2 , Jingshan Shi  1   2 , Shaoyu Zhou  3   4
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Dendrobium nobile Lindl. alkaloids protect CCl4-induced acute liver injury via upregulating LAMP1 expression and activating autophagy flux

Nan Nan et al. J Nat Med. 2025 Jan.

Abstract

Dendrobium nobile Lindl. alkaloids (DNLA) are considered important active ingredients of Dendrobium, which have a variety of pharmacological functions. Recent studies indicate that DNLA has beneficial activity in acute liver injury. However, the specific mechanism by which DNLA produces liver protective effects is stills unclear. This study was designed to determine whether regulation of autophagy is involved in the mode of action of DNLA in liver protection. Using CCl4-induced acute liver injury (ALI) and cell culture models, the molecular mechanism of DNLA-mediated autophagy regulation was studied. The results showed that DNLA significantly improved CCl4-induced liver damage and oxidative stress, which was confirmed in AML-12 cells. DNLA promoted autophagy in cells treated with CCl4, manifested by reduced protein expressions of p62 and LC3-II. Fluorescence imaging showed a decrease in the number of autophagosomes in AML-12 cells transfected with mCherry-GFP-LC3B. In addition, DNLA inhibited lysosomal membrane permeabilization by upregulating lysosomal associated membrane protein-1 (LAMP1), thereby promoting autophagy, preventing CCl4-induced mitochondrial dysfunction, and reducing the production of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS). While pretreatment of cells with lysosomal inhibitor chloroquine weakened mitochondrial protection elicited by DNLA, overexpression of mitochondrial-targeted SOD2 in AML-12 cells significantly blocked CCl4 induced downregulation of LAMP1, thereby improving lysosome integrity and promoting lysosome dependent autophagy, suggesting that there may exist a bidirectional regulation between mitochondrial ROS and lysosome-autophagy activation. Collectively, these results demonstrated that DNLA can protect the liver injury mediated by dysregulation of lysosome-autophagy process through promoting ROS-lysosome-autophagy axis and improving mitochondrial damage.

Keywords: Dendrobium nobile Lindl. alkaloids; Autophagy; CCl4; LAMP1; Liver injury; Mitochondrial ROS.

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Declarations. Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Institutional review board statement: Animal handlings were fully compliance with the Chinese Experimental Animal Guideline and approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of Zunyi Medical University (ZMU21-2105–002) on 16 May 2021.

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