• Daiane Grigolo Bardemaker Rodrigues, de Moura CoelhoDaniellaDServiço de Genética Médica, HCPA, R. Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, CEP 90035-003 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., Ângela Sitta, Carlos Eduardo Diaz Jacques, Tatiane Hauschild, Vanusa Manfredini, Abdellatif Bakkali, Eduard A Struys, Cornelis Jakobs, Moacir Wajner, and Carmen Regla Vargas.
• Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Farmácia, UFRGS, Av. Ipiranga, 2752, CEP 90610-000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; Serviço de Genética Médica, HCPA, R. Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, CEP 90035-003 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Electronic address: daianegbr@hotmail.com.
• Toxicol In Vitro. 2017 Aug 1; 42: 47-53.

Abstractd-2-hydroxyglutaric (D-2-HGA) and l-2-hydroxyglutaric (L-2-HGA) acidurias are rare neurometabolic disorders biochemically characterized by increased levels of d-2-hydroxyglutaric acid (D-2-HG) and l-2-hydroxyglutaric acid (L-2-HG) respectively, in biological fluids and tissues. These diseases are caused by mutations in the specific enzymes involved in the metabolic pathways of these organic acids. In the present work, we first investigated whether D-2-HG and L-2-HGA could provoke DNA oxidative damage in blood leukocytes and whether l-carnitine (LC) could prevent the in vitro DNA damage induced by these organic acids. It was verified that 50μM of D-2-HG and 30μM of L-2-HG significantly induced DNA damage that was prevented by 30 and 150μM of LC. We also evaluated oxidative stress parameters in urine of L-2-HGA patients and observed a significant increase of oxidized guanine species and di-tyrosine, biomarkers of oxidative DNA and protein damage, respectively. In contrast, no significant changes of urinary isoprostanes and reactive nitrogen species levels were observed in these patients. Taken together, our data indicate the involvement of oxidative damage, especially on DNA, in patients affected by these diseases and the protective effect of LC.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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