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Muhammad RN, Albahairy MA, Abd El Fattah MA, Ibrahim WW. Empagliflozin-activated AMPK elicits neuroprotective properties in reserpine-induced depression via regulating dynamics of hippocampal autophagy/inflammation and PKCζ-mediated neurogenesis. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2024:10.1007/s00213-024-06663-0. [PMID: 39158617 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-024-06663-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 07/29/2024] [Indexed: 08/20/2024]
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RATIONALE Major depression has been an area of extensive research during the last decades, for it represents a leading cause of disability and suicide. The stark rise of depression rates influenced by life stressors, economic threats, pandemic era, and resistance to classical treatments, has made the disorder rather challenging. Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity are particularly sensitive to the dynamic interplay between autophagy and inflammation. In fact, the intricate balance between the two processes contributes to neuronal homeostasis and survival. OBJECTIVES Having demonstrated promising potentials in AMPK activation, a major metabolic sensor and autophagy regulator, empagliflozin (Empa) was investigated for possible antidepressant properties in the reserpine rat model of depression. RESULTS While the reserpine protocol elicited behavioral, biochemical, and histopathological changes relevant to depression, Empa outstandingly hindered these pathological perturbations. Importantly, hippocampal autophagic response markedly declined with reserpine which disrupted the AMPK/mTOR/Beclin1/LC3B machinery and, conversely, neuro-inflammation prevailed under the influence of the NLRP3 inflammasome together with oxidative/nitrative stress. Consequently, AMPK-mediated neurotrophins secretion obviously deteriorated through PKCζ/NF-κB/BDNF/CREB signal restriction. Empa restored hippocampal monoamines and autophagy/inflammation balance, driven by AMPK activation. By promoting the atypical PKCζ phosphorylation (Thr403) which subsequently phosphorylates NF-κB at Ser311, AMPK successfully reinforced BDNF/CREB signal and hippocampal neuroplasticity. The latter finding was supported by hippocampal CA3 toluidine blue staining to reveal intact neurons. CONCLUSION The current study highlights an interesting role for Empa as a regulator of autophagic and inflammatory responses in the pathology of depression. The study also pinpoints an unusual contribution for NF-κB in neurotrophins secretion via AMPK/PKCζ/NF-κB/BDNF/CREB signal transduction. Accordingly, Empa can have special benefits in diabetic patients with depressive symptoms. LIMITATIONS The influence of p-NF-κB (Ser311) on NLRP3 inflammasome assembly and activation has not been investigated, which can represent an interesting point for further research.
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- Radwa N Muhammad
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt
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Pfister JA, Ma C, D’Mello SR. Catalytic-independent neuroprotection by SIRT1 is mediated through interaction with HDAC1. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215208. [PMID: 30973934 PMCID: PMC6459503 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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SIRT1, a NAD+-dependent deacetylase, protects neurons in a variety of in vitro and in vivo models of neurodegenerative disease. We have previously described a neuroprotective effect by SIRT1 independent of its catalytic activity. To confirm this conclusion we tested a panel of SIRT1 deletion mutant constructs, designated Δ1–Δ10, in cerebellar granule neurons induced to undergo apoptosis by low potassium treatment. We find that deletions of its N-terminal, those lacking portions of the catalytic domain, as well as one that lacks the ESA (Essential for SIRT1 Activity) motif, are as protective as wild-type SIRT1. In contrast, deletion of the region spanning residues 542–609, construct Δ8, substantially reduced the neuroprotective activity of SIRT1. As observed with LK-induced apoptosis, all SIRT1 constructs except Δ8 protect neurons against mutant huntingtin toxicity. Although its own catalytic activity is not required, neuroprotection by SIRT1 is abolished by inhibitors of Class I HDACs as well as by knockdown of endogenous HDAC1. We find that SIRT1 interacts with HDAC1 and this interaction is greatly increased by deleting regions of SIRT1 necessary for its catalytic activity. However, SIRT1-mediated protection is not dependent on HDAC1 deacetylase activity. Although other studies have described that catalytic activity of SIRT1 mediates is neuroprotective effect, our study suggests that in cerebellar granule neurons its deacetylase activity is not important and that HDAC1 contributes to the neuroprotective effect of SIRT1.
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- Jason A. Pfister
- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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Qu Z, D'Mello SR. Proteomic analysis identifies NPTX1 and HIP1R as potential targets of histone deacetylase-3-mediated neurodegeneration. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2018; 243:627-638. [PMID: 29486577 DOI: 10.1177/1535370218761149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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A defining feature of neurodegenerative diseases is the abnormal and excessive loss of neurons. One molecule that is particularly important in promoting neuronal death in a variety of cell culture and in vivo models of neurodegeneration is histone deacetylase-3 (HDAC3), a member of the histone deacetylase family of proteins. As a step towards understanding how HDAC3 promotes neuronal death, we conducted a proteomic screen aimed at identifying proteins that were regulated by HDAC3. HDAC3 was overexpressed in cultured rat cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs) and protein lysates were analyzed by mass spectrometry. Of over 3000 proteins identified in the screen, only 21 proteins displayed a significant alteration in expression. Of these, 12 proteins were downregulated whereas 9 proteins were upregulated. The altered expression of five of these proteins, TEX10, NPTX1, TFG, TSC1, and NFL, along with another protein that was downregulated in the proteomic screen, HIP1R, was confirmed using Western blots and commercially available antibodies. Because antibodies were not available for some of the proteins and since HDAC3 is a transcriptional regulator of gene expression, we conducted RT-PCR analysis to confirm expression changes. In separate analyses, we also included other proteins that are known to regulate neurodegeneration, including HDAC9, HSF1, huntingtin, GAPDH, FUS, and p65/RELA. Based on our proteomic screen and candidate protein approach, we identify three genes, Nptx1, Hip1r, and Hdac9, all known to regulate neurodegeneration that are robustly regulated by HDAC3. Given their suggested roles in regulating neuronal death, these genes are likely to be involved in regulating HDAC3-mediated neurotoxicity. Impact statement Neurodegenerative diseases are a major medical, social, and economic problem. Recent studies by several laboratories have indicated that histone deacetylase-3 (HDAC3) plays a key role in promoting neuronal death. But the downstream mediators of HDAC3 neurotoxicity have yet to be identified. We conducted a proteomic screen to identify HDAC3 targets the results of which have been described in this report. Briefly, we identify Nptx1, Hip1r, and Hdac9 as genes whose expression is altered by HDAC3. Investigating how these genes are involved in HDAC3 neurotoxicity could shed valuable insight into neurodegenerative disease and identify molecules that can be targeted to treat these devastating disorders.
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- Zhe Qu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
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Hadem IKH, Majaw T, Kharbuli B, Sharma R. Beneficial effects of dietary restriction in aging brain. J Chem Neuroanat 2017; 95:123-133. [PMID: 29031555 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2017.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Revised: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Aging is a multifactorial complex process that leads to the deterioration of biological functions wherein its underlying mechanism is not fully elucidated. It affects the organism at the molecular and cellular level that contributes to the deterioration of structural integrity of the organs. The central nervous system is the most vulnerable organ affected by aging and its effect is highly heterogeneous. Aging causes alteration in the structure, metabolism and physiology of the brain leading to impaired cognitive and motor-neural functions. Dietary restriction (DR), a robust mechanism that extends lifespan in various organisms, ameliorates brain aging by reducing oxidative stress, improving mitochondrial function, activating anti-inflammatory responses, promoting neurogenesis and increasing synaptic plasticity. It also protects and prevents age-related structural changes. DR alleviates many age-associated diseases including neurodegeneration and improves cognitive functions. DR inhibits/activates nutrient signaling cascades such as insulin/IGF-1, mTOR, AMPK and sirtuins. Because of its sensitivity to energy status and hormones, AMPK is considered as the global nutrient sensor. This review will present an elucidative potential role of dietary restriction in the prevention of phenotypic features during aging in brain and its diverse mechanisms.
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- Department of Biochemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, Meghalaya, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, Meghalaya, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, Meghalaya, India.
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Yi CX, Walter M, Gao Y, Pitra S, Legutko B, Kälin S, Layritz C, García-Cáceres C, Bielohuby M, Bidlingmaier M, Woods SC, Ghanem A, Conzelmann KK, Stern JE, Jastroch M, Tschöp MH. TNFα drives mitochondrial stress in POMC neurons in obesity. Nat Commun 2017; 8:15143. [PMID: 28489068 PMCID: PMC5436136 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Consuming a calorically dense diet stimulates microglial reactivity in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) in association with decreased number of appetite-curbing pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons; whether the reduction in POMC neuronal function is secondary to the microglial activation is unclear. Here we show that in hypercaloric diet-induced obese mice, persistently activated microglia in the MBH hypersecrete TNFα that in turn stimulate mitochondrial ATP production in POMC neurons, promoting mitochondrial fusion in their neurites, and increasing POMC neuronal firing rates and excitability. Specific disruption of the gene expressions of TNFα downstream signals TNFSF11A or NDUFAB1 in the MBH of diet-induced obese mice reverses mitochondrial elongation and reduces obesity. These data imply that in a hypercaloric environment, persistent elevation of microglial reactivity and consequent TNFα secretion induces mitochondrial stress in POMC neurons that contributes to the development of obesity.
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- Chun-Xia Yi
- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Endocrine Research Unit, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Endocrine Research Unit, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220, USA
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- Max von Pettenkofer Institute and Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Max von Pettenkofer Institute and Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Technische Universität München, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 85764 München-Neuherberg, Germany
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Dvoriantchikova G, Pappas S, Luo X, Ribeiro M, Danek D, Pelaez D, Park KK, Ivanov D. Virally delivered, constitutively active NFκB improves survival of injured retinal ganglion cells. Eur J Neurosci 2016; 44:2935-2943. [PMID: 27564592 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2016] [Revised: 08/21/2016] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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As axon damage and retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss lead to blindness, therapies that increase RGC survival and axon regrowth have direct clinical relevance. Given that NFκB signaling is critical for neuronal survival and may regulate neurite growth, we investigated the therapeutic potential of NFκB signaling in RGC survival and axon regeneration. Although both NFκB subunits (p65 and p50) are present in RGCs, p65 exists in an inactive (unphosphorylated) state when RGCs are subjected to neurotoxic conditions. In this study, we used a phosphomimetic approach to generate DNA coding for an activated (phosphorylated) p65 (p65mut), then employed an adeno-associated virus serotype 2 (AAV2) to deliver the DNA into RGCs. We tested whether constitutive p65mut expression prevents death and facilitates neurite outgrowth in RGCs subjected to transient retinal ischemia or optic nerve crush (ONC), two models of neurotoxicity. Our data indicate that RGCs treated with AAV2-p65mut displayed a significant increase in survival compared to controls in ONC model (77 ± 7% vs. 25 ± 3%, P-value = 0.0001). We also found protective effect of modified p65 in RGCs of ischemic retinas (55 ± 12% vs. 35 ± 6%), but not to a statistically significant degree (P-value = 0.14). We did not detect a difference in axon regeneration between experimental and control animals after ONC. These findings suggest that increased NFκB signaling in RGCs attenuates retinal damage in animal models of neurodegeneration, but insignificantly impacts axon regeneration.
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- Galina Dvoriantchikova
- Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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Pfister JA, D'Mello SR. Regulation of Neuronal Survival by Nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) Is Dependent on Its Expression Level, Subcellular Localization, and Oligomerization Status. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:20787-97. [PMID: 27510036 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.723015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
NPM1 (nucleophosmin 1) is a nucleolar phosphoprotein that regulates many cellular processes, including ribosome biogenesis, proliferation, and genomic integrity. Although its role in proliferating cell types and tissues has been extensively investigated, little is known about its function in neurons and in the brain where it is highly expressed. We report that NPM1 protein expression is increased selectively in the striatum in both the R6/2 transgenic and 3-nitropropionic acid-injected mouse models of Huntington's disease. Examination of the effect of ectopic expression on cultured neurons revealed that increasing NPM1 is toxic to otherwise healthy cerebellar granule and cortical neurons. Toxicity is dependent on its cytoplasmic localization and oligomerization status. Forced retention of NPM1 in the nucleus, as well as inhibiting its ability to oligomerize, not only neutralizes NPM1 toxicity but also renders it protective against apoptosis. Although not blocked by pharmacological inhibition of the pro-apoptotic molecules, JNK, glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta, or caspases, toxicity is blocked by compounds targeting cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), as well as by dominant-negative forms of CDK1 and CDK2 and the pan-CDK inhibitor, p21(Cip1/Waf1) Although induced in in vivo Huntington's disease models, NPM1 protein levels are unchanged in cultured cerebellar granule and cortical neurons induced to die by low potassium or homocysteic acid treatment, respectively. Moreover, and counterintuitively, knockdown of its expression or inhibition of endogenous NPM1 oligomerization in these cultured neurons is toxic. Taken together, our study suggests that although neurons need NPM1 for survival, an increase in its expression beyond physiological levels and its translocation to the cytoplasm leads to death through abortive cell cycle induction.
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- Jason A Pfister
- From the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080 and
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275
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Williams AA, Mehler VJ, Mueller C, Vonhoff F, White R, Duch C. Apoptotic Activity of MeCP2 Is Enhanced by C-Terminal Truncating Mutations. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0159632. [PMID: 27442528 PMCID: PMC4956225 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) is a widely abundant, multifunctional protein most highly expressed in post-mitotic neurons. Mutations causing Rett syndrome and related neurodevelopmental disorders have been identified along the entire MECP2 locus, but symptoms vary depending on mutation type and location. C-terminal mutations are prevalent, but little is known about the function of the MeCP2 C-terminus. We employ the genetic efficiency of Drosophila to provide evidence that expression of p.Arg294* (more commonly identified as R294X), a human MECP2 E2 mutant allele causing truncation of the C-terminal domains, promotes apoptosis of identified neurons in vivo. We confirm this novel finding in HEK293T cells and then use Drosophila to map the region critical for neuronal apoptosis to a small sequence at the end of the C-terminal domain. In vitro studies in mammalian systems previously indicated a role of the MeCP2 E2 isoform in apoptosis, which is facilitated by phosphorylation at serine 80 (S80) and decreased by interactions with the forkhead protein FoxG1. We confirm the roles of S80 phosphorylation and forkhead domain transcription factors in affecting MeCP2-induced apoptosis in Drosophila in vivo, thus indicating mechanistic conservation between flies and mammalian cells. Our findings are consistent with a model in which C- and N-terminal interactions are required for healthy function of MeCP2.
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- Alison A. Williams
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
- Institute of Zoology- Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology- Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology- Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Gutierrez-Merino C, Marques-da-Silva D, Fortalezas S, K. Samhan-Arias A. The critical role of lipid rafts nanodomains in the cross-talk between calcium and reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in cerebellar granule neurons apoptosis by extracellular potassium deprivation. AIMS MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2016. [DOI: 10.3934/molsci.2016.1.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Vriend J, Ghavami S, Marzban H. The role of the ubiquitin proteasome system in cerebellar development and medulloblastoma. Mol Brain 2015; 8:64. [PMID: 26475605 PMCID: PMC4609148 DOI: 10.1186/s13041-015-0155-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Cerebellar granule cells precursors are derived from the upper rhombic lip and migrate tangentially independent of glia along the subpial stream pathway to form the external germinal zone. Postnatally, granule cells migrate from the external germinal zone radially through the Purkinje cell layer, guided by Bergmann glia fibers, to the internal granular cell layer. Medulloblastomas (MBs) are the most common malignant childhood brain tumor. Many of these tumors develop from precursor cells of the embryonic rhombic lips. Four main groups of MB are recognized. The WNT group of MBs arise primarily from the lower rhombic lip and embryonic brainstem. The SHH group of MBs originate from cerebellar granule cell precursors in the external germinal zone of the embryonic cerebellum. The cellular origins of type 3 and type 4 MBs are not clear. Several ubiquitin ligases are revealed to be significant factors in development of the cerebellum as well as in the initiation and maintenance of MBs. Proteasome dysfunction at a critical stage of development may be a major factor in determining whether progenitor cells which are destined to become granule cells differentiate normally or become MB cells. We propose the hypothesis that proteasomal activity is essential to regulate the critical transition between proliferating granule cells and differentiated granule cells and that proteasome dysfunction may lead to MB. Proteasome dysfunction could also account for various mutations in MBs resulting from deficiencies in DNA checkpoint and repair mechanisms prior to development of MBs. Data showing a role for the ubiquitin ligases β-TrCP, FBW7, Huwe1, and SKP2 in MBs suggest the possibility of a classification of MBs based on the expression (over expression or under expression) of specific ubiquitin ligases which function as oncogenes, tumor suppressors or cell cycle regulators.
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- Jerry Vriend
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rm129, BMSB, 745 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rm129, BMSB, 745 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.,Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM), College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0J9, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rm129, BMSB, 745 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. .,Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM), College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0J9, Canada.
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Kälin S, Heppner FL, Bechmann I, Prinz M, Tschöp MH, Yi CX. Hypothalamic innate immune reaction in obesity. Nat Rev Endocrinol 2015; 11:339-51. [PMID: 25824676 DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2015.48] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Findings from rodent and human studies show that the presence of inflammatory factors is positively correlated with obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Obesity-associated inflammatory responses take place not only in the periphery but also in the brain. The hypothalamus contains a range of resident glial cells including microglia, macrophages and astrocytes, which are embedded in highly heterogenic groups of neurons that control metabolic homeostasis. This complex neural-glia network can receive information directly from blood-borne factors, positioning it as a metabolic sensor. Following hypercaloric challenge, mediobasal hypothalamic microglia and astrocytes enter a reactive state, which persists during diet-induced obesity. In established mouse models of diet-induced obesity, the hypothalamic vasculature displays angiogenic alterations. Moreover, proopiomelanocortin neurons, which regulate food intake and energy expenditure, are impaired in the arcuate nucleus, where there is an increase in local inflammatory signals. The sum total of these events is a hypothalamic innate immune reactivity, which includes temporal and spatial changes to each cell population. Although the exact role of each participant of the neural-glial-vascular network is still under exploration, therapeutic targets for treating obesity should probably be linked to individual cell types and their specific signalling pathways to address each dysfunction with cell-selective compounds.
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- Stefanie Kälin
- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Centre for Health and Environment &Technische Universität München, 85748, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuropathology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Liebigstr. 13, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Freiburg, Breisacher Str. 64, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Centre for Health and Environment &Technische Universität München, 85748, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) protects neurons from death caused by the accumulation of misfolded proteins. It is believed that this protective effect is mediated by the transcriptional stimulation of genes encoding heat shock proteins (HSPs), a family of chaperones that refold or degrade misfolded proteins. Whether HSF1 is protective when neuronal death is not caused by protein misfolding has not been studied. Here, we report that HSF1 expression is necessary for the survival of rat neurons and that HSF1 mRNA and protein expression is reduced in neurons primed to die. Knock-down of HSF1 induces death of otherwise healthy neurons, whereas reestablishment of elevated levels of HSF1 protects neurons even when death is not due to accumulation of misfolded proteins. Neuroprotection by HSF1 does not require its trimerization, an event obligatory for the binding of HSF1 to heat shock elements within HSP gene promoters. Moreover, knock-down of HSP70 or blockade of HSP90 signaling does not reduce neuroprotection by HSF1. Although several neuroprotective molecules and signaling pathways, including CaMK, PKA, Casein kinase-II, and the Raf-MEK-ERK and PI-3K-Akt pathways, are not required for HSF1-mediated neuroprotection, protection is abrogated by inhibition of classical histone deacetylases (HDACs). We report that the novel mechanism of neuroprotection by HSF1 involves cooperation with SIRT1, an HDAC with well documented neuroprotective effects. Using a cell culture model of Huntington's disease, we show that HSF1 trimerization is not required for protection against mutant huntingtin-induced neurotoxicity, suggesting that HSF1 can protect neurons against both proteinopathic and nonproteinopathic death through a noncanonical pathway.
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Jang JH, Surh YJ. Possible role of NF-κB in Bcl-XLprotection against hydrogen peroxide-induced PC12 cell death. Redox Rep 2013; 9:343-8. [PMID: 15720830 DOI: 10.1179/135100004225006858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Bcl-X(L), a mitochondrial membrane protein, blocks apoptosis induced by a wide array of death signals. In spite of extensive research, the molecular milieu that characterizes the anti-apoptotic function of Bcl-X(L) is complex and not fully clarified. In the present work, we have investigated the role of Bcl-X(L) in protecting against oxidative death induced by H(2)O(2) in cultured rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells. PC12 cells exposed to H(2)O(2) underwent apoptotic cell death as determined by internucleosomal DNA fragmentation and an increased pro-apoptotic Bax to anti-apoptotic Bcl-X(L) ratio. Moreover, stable transfection with the bcl-X(L) gene rescued PC12 cells from apoptotic death caused by H(2)O(2). PC12 cells overexpressing bcl-X(L) exhibited relatively high constitutive transcriptional as well as DNA binding activities of NF-kappaB, compared with the vector-transfected control cells. Addition of NF-kappaB inhibitors, such as parthenolide and N-tosyl-L-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone, to the media aggravated H(2)O(2)-induced oxidative cell death. PC12 cells transfected with bcl-X(L) exhibited higher levels of the heme oxygenase-1, which may confer these cells protection against oxidative stress. These results suggest that the redox-sensitive transcription factor NF-kappaB may play a role in bcl-X(L)-mediated protection against oxidative cell death.
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- Jung-Hee Jang
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Zhuang Z, Sun XJ, Zhang X, Liu HD, You WC, Ma CY, Zhu L, Zhou ML, Shi JX. Nuclear factor-κB/Bcl-XL pathway is involved in the protective effect of hydrogen-rich saline on the brain following experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage in rabbits. J Neurosci Res 2013; 91:1599-608. [PMID: 24105634 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2013] [Revised: 05/22/2013] [Accepted: 06/26/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Early brain injury (EBI), a significant contributor to poor outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), is intimately associated with neuronal apoptosis. Recently, the protective role of hydrogen (H2 ) in the brain has been widely studied, but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Numerous studies have shown nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) as a crucial survival pathway in neurons. Here we investigated the role of H2 in EBI following SAH, focusing on the NF-κB pathway. A double blood injection model was used to produce experimental SAH, and H2 -rich saline was injected intraperitoneally. NF-κB activity within the occipital cortex was measured. Immunofluorescence was performed to demonstrate the activation of NF-κB; Bcl-xL and cleaved caspase-3 were determined via Western blot. Gene expression of Bcl-xL was detected by real-time PCR, and TUNEL and Nissl staining were performed to illustrate brain injury in the occipital cortex. SAH induced a significant increase of cleaved caspase-3. Correspondingly, TUNEL staining demonstrated obvious neuronal apoptosis following SAH. In contrast, H2 treatment markedly increased NF-κB activity and the expression of Bcl-xL and decreased the level of cleaved caspase-3. Additionally, H2 treatment significantly reduced post-SAH neuronal apoptosis. The current study shows that H2 treatment alleviates EBI in the rabbits following SAH and that NF-κB/Bcl-xL pathway is involved in the protective role of H2 .
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- Zong Zhuang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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Manecka DL, Mahmood SF, Grumolato L, Lihrmann I, Anouar Y. Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) promotes both survival and neuritogenesis in PC12 cells through activation of nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) pathway: involvement of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), calcium, and c-REL. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:14936-48. [PMID: 23564451 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.434597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a trophic factor that promotes neuronal survival and neurite outgrowth. However, the signaling pathways and the transcriptional mechanisms involved are not completely elucidated. Our previous studies aimed at characterizing the transcriptome of PACAP-differentiated PC12 cells revealed an increase in the expression of nuclear factor κB2 (NF-κB2) gene coding for p100/p52 subunit of NF-κB transcription factor. Here, we examined the role of the NF-κB pathway in neuronal differentiation promoted by PACAP. We first showed that PACAP-driven survival and neuritic extension in PC12 cells are inhibited following NF-κB pathway blockade. PACAP stimulated both c-Rel and p52 NF-κB subunit gene expression and nuclear translocation, whereas c-Rel down-regulation inhibited cell survival and neuritogenesis elicited by the neuropeptide. PACAP-induced c-Rel nuclear translocation was inhibited by ERK1/2 and Ca(2+) blockers. Furthermore, the neuropeptide stimulated NF-κB p100 subunit processing into p52, indicative of activation of the NF-κB alternative pathway. Taken together, our data show that PACAP promotes both survival and neuritogenesis in PC12 cells by activating NF-κB pathway, most likely via classical and alternative signaling cascades involving ERK1/2 kinases, Ca(2+), and c-Rel/p52 dimers.
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- Destiny-Love Manecka
- INSERM, U982, Laboratory of Neuronal and Neuroendocrine Differentiation and Communication, Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine, University of Rouen, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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Peluffo H, Gonzalez P, Acarin L, Arís A, Beyaert R, Villaverde A, Gonzalez B. Overexpression of the nuclear factor kappaB inhibitor A20 is neurotoxic after an excitotoxic injury to the immature rat brain. Neurol Res 2012; 35:308-19. [PMID: 23336395 DOI: 10.1179/1743132812y.0000000139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND The zinc finger protein A20 is an ubiquitinating/deubiquitinating enzyme essential for the termination of inflammatory reactions through the inhibition of nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) signaling. Moreover, it also shows anti-apoptotic activities in some cell types and proapoptotic/pronecrotic effects in others. Although it is known that the regulation of inflammatory and cell death processes are critical in proper brain functioning and that A20 mRNA is expressed in the CNS, its role in the brain under physiological and pathological conditions is still unknown. METHODS In the present study, we have evaluated the effects of A20 overexpression in mixed cortical cultures in basal conditions: the in vivo pattern of endogenous A20 expression in the control and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) excitotoxically damaged postnatal day 9 immature rat brain, and the post-injury effects of A20 overexpression in the same lesion model. RESULTS Our results show that overexpression of A20 in mixed cortical cultures induced significant neuronal death by decreasing neuronal cell counts by 45 ± 9%. in vivo analysis of endogenous A20 expression showed widespread expression in gray matter, mainly in neuronal cells. However, after NMDA-induced excitotoxicity, neuronal A20 was downregulated in the neurodegenerating cortex and striatum at 10-24 hours post-lesion, and it was re-expressed at longer survival times in reactive astrocytes located mainly in the lesion border. When A20 was overexpressed in vivo 2 hours after the excitotoxic damage, the lesion volume at 3 days post-lesion showed a significant increase (20.8 ± 7.0%). No A20-induced changes were observed in the astroglial response to injury. CONCLUSIONS A20 is found in neuronal cells in normal conditions and is also expressed in astrocytes after brain damage, and its overexpression is neurotoxic for cortical neurons in basal mixed neuron-glia culture conditions and exacerbates postnatal brain excitotoxic damage.
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- Hugo Peluffo
- Insitut Pasteur de Montevideo, Mataojo 2020, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay.
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Ho JWM, Ho PWL, Liu HF, So DHF, Chan KH, Tse ZHM, Kung MHW, Ramsden DB, Ho SL. UCP4 is a target effector of the NF-κB c-Rel prosurvival pathway against oxidative stress. Free Radic Biol Med 2012; 53:383-94. [PMID: 22580300 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2012.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2011] [Revised: 04/08/2012] [Accepted: 05/01/2012] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Mitochondrial uncoupling protein-4 (UCP4) enhances neuronal survival in 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP(+)) toxicity by suppressing oxidative stress and preserving intracellular ATP and mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP). NF-κB regulates neuronal viability via its complexes, p65 mediating cell death and c-Rel promoting cell survival. We reported previously that NF-κB mediates UCP4 neuroprotection against MPP(+) toxicity. Here, we investigated its link with the NF-κB c-Rel prosurvival pathway in alleviating mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. We overexpressed a c-Rel-encoding plasmid in SH-SY5Y cells and showed that c-Rel overexpression induced NF-κB activity without affecting p65 level. Overexpression of c-Rel increased UCP4 promoter activity and protein expression. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that H(2)O(2) increased NF-κB binding to the UCP4 promoter and that NF-κB complexes were composed of p50/p50 and p50/c-Rel dimers. Under H(2)O(2)-induced oxidative stress, UCP4 knockdown significantly increased superoxide levels, decreased reduced glutathione (GSH) levels, and increased oxidized glutathione levels, compared to controls. UCP4 expression induced by c-Rel overexpression significantly decreased superoxide levels and preserved GSH levels and MMP under similar stress. These protective effects of c-Rel overexpression in H(2)O(2)-induced oxidative stress were significantly reduced after UCP4 knockdown, indicating that UCP4 is a target effector gene of the NF-κB c-Rel prosurvival pathway to mitigate the effects of oxidative stress.
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- Jessica Wing-Man Ho
- Division of Neurology, University Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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Sarnico I, Branca C, Lanzillotta A, Porrini V, Benarese M, Spano PF, Pizzi M. NF-κB and epigenetic mechanisms as integrative regulators of brain resilience to anoxic stress. Brain Res 2012; 1476:203-10. [PMID: 22575713 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2011] [Revised: 03/27/2012] [Accepted: 04/09/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Brain cells display an amazing ability to respond to several different types of environmental stimuli and integrate this response physiologically. Some of these responses can outlive the original stimulus by days, weeks or even longer. Long-lasting changes in both physiological and pathological conditions occurring in response to external stimuli are almost always mediated by changes in gene expression. To effect these changes, cells have developed an impressive repertoire of signaling systems designed to modulate the activity of numerous transcription factors and epigenetic mechanisms affecting the chromatin structure. Since its initial characterization in the nervous system, NF-κB has shown to respond to multiple signals and elicit pleiotropic activities suggesting that it may play a pivotal role in integration of different types of information within the brain. Ample evidence demonstrates that NF-κB factors are engaged in and necessary for neuronal development and synaptic plasticity, but they also regulate brain response to environmental noxae. By focusing on the complexity of NF-κB transcriptional activity in neuronal cell death, it emerged that the composition of NF-κB active dimers finely tunes the neuronal vulnerability to brain ischemia. Even though we are only beginning to understand the contribution of distinct NF-κB family members to the regulation of gene transcription in the brain, an additional level of regulation of NF-κB activity has emerged as operated by the epigenetic mechanisms modulating histone acetylation. We will discuss NF-κB and epigenetic mechanisms as integrative regulators of brain resilience to anoxic stress and useful drug targets for restoration of brain function. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Brain Integration.
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- Ilenia Sarnico
- Department of Biomedical Sciences & Biotechnologies, University of Brescia and Istituto Nazionale di Neuroscienze, Italy
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Folch J, Junyent F, Verdaguer E, Auladell C, Pizarro JG, Beas-Zarate C, Pallàs M, Camins A. Role of Cell Cycle Re-Entry in Neurons: A Common Apoptotic Mechanism of Neuronal Cell Death. Neurotox Res 2011; 22:195-207. [DOI: 10.1007/s12640-011-9277-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2011] [Revised: 09/02/2011] [Accepted: 09/13/2011] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Signs of lower urinary tract (LUT) disease in domestic cats can be acute or chronic, and can result from variable combinations of abnormalities within the lumen of the LUT, the parenchyma of the LUT itself, or other organ system(s) that then lead to LUT dysfunction. In the majority of cats with chronic signs of LUT dysfunction, no specific underlying cause can be confirmed after standard clinical evaluation of the LUT, so these cats typically are classified as having idiopathic cystitis. A syndrome in human beings commonly known as interstitial cystitis (IC) shares many features in common with these cats, permitting comparisons between the two species. A wide range of similarities in abnormalities has been identified between these syndromes outside as well as inside the LUT. A variety of potential familial and developmental risk factors also have been identified. These results have permitted generation of the hypothesis that some of these people have a disorder affecting the LUT rather than a disorder of the LUT. This perspective has suggested alternative diagnostic strategies and novel approaches to treatment, at least in cats. The purpose of this review is to summarize research investigations into the various abnormalities present in cats, to compare some of these findings with those identified in human beings, and to discuss how they might modify perceptions about the etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of cats with this disease. Dedication: I dedicate this contribution to Professor Dennis J. Chew, whose collaboration, patience, and support made it all possible.
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- C A T Buffington
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1089, USA.
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The canonical nuclear factor-κB pathway regulates cell survival in a developmental model of spinal cord motoneurons. J Neurosci 2011; 31:6493-503. [PMID: 21525290 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0206-11.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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In vivo and in vitro motoneuron survival depends on the support of neurotrophic factors. These factors activate signaling pathways related to cell survival or inactivate proteins involved in neuronal death. In the present work, we analyzed the involvement of the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway in mediating mouse spinal cord motoneuron survival promoted by neurotrophic factors. This pathway comprises ubiquitously expressed transcription factors that could be activated by two different routes: the canonical pathway, associated with IKKα/IKKβ kinase phosphorylation and nuclear translocation RelA (p65)/p50 transcription factors; and the noncanonical pathway, related to IKKα kinase homodimer phosphorylation and RelB/p52 transcription factor activation. In our system, we show that neurotrophic factors treatment induced IKKα and IKKβ phosphorylation and RelA nuclear translocation, suggesting NF-κB pathway activation. Protein levels of different members of the canonical or noncanonical pathways were reduced in a primary culture of isolated embryonic motoneurons using an interference RNA approach. Even in the presence of neurotrophic factors, selective reduction of IKKα, IKKβ, or RelA proteins induced cell death. In contrast, RelB protein reduction did not have a negative effect on motoneuron survival. Together these results demonstrated that the canonical NF-κB pathway mediates motoneuron survival induced by neurotrophic factors, and the noncanonical pathway is not related to this survival effect. Canonical NF-κB blockade induced an increase of Bim protein level and apoptotic cell death. Bcl-x(L) overexpression or Bax reduction counteracted this apoptotic effect. Finally, RelA knockdown causes changes of CREB and Smn protein levels.
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The transcription factor FoxG1 regulates neurogenesis in the embryonic telencephalon as well as a number of other neurodevelopmental processes. While FoxG1 continues to be expressed in neurons postnatally and through adulthood, its role in fully differentiated neurons is not known. The current study demonstrates that FoxG1 promotes the survival of postmitotic neurons. In cerebellar granule neurons primed to undergo apoptosis, FoxG1 expression is reduced. Ectopic expression of FoxG1 blocks neuronal death, whereas suppression of its expression induces death in otherwise healthy neurons. The first 36 residues of FoxG1 are necessary for its survival-promoting effect, while the C-terminal half of the protein is dispensable. Mutation of Asp219, a residue necessary for DNA binding, abrogates survival promotion by FoxG1. Survival promotion is also eliminated by mutation of Thr271, a residue phosphorylated by Akt. Pharmacological inhibition of Akt blocks the survival effects of wild-type FoxG1 but not forms in which Thr271 is replaced with phosphomimetic residues. Treatment of neurons with IGF-1, a neurotrophic factor that promotes neuronal survival by activating Akt, prevents the apoptosis-associated downregulation of FoxG1 expression. Moreover, the overexpression of dominant-negative forms of FoxG1 blocks the ability of IGF-1 to maintain neuronal survival suggesting that FoxG1 is a downstream mediator of IGF-1/Akt signaling. Our study identifies a new and important function for FoxG1 in differentiated neurons.
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Chen HL, D'Mello SR. Induction of neuronal cell death by paraneoplastic Ma1 antigen. J Neurosci Res 2010; 88:3508-19. [PMID: 20936693 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2010] [Revised: 07/27/2010] [Accepted: 08/12/2010] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Paraneoplastic Ma1 (PNMA1) is a member of a family of proteins involved in an autoimmune disorder called paraneoplastic neurological syndrome. Although it is widely expressed in brain, nothing is known about the function of PNMA1 in neurons. We find that PNMA1 expression is highest in the perinatal brain, a period during which developmentally regulated neuronal death occurs. PNMA1 expression increases in cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs) induced to die by low potassium (LK) and in cortical neurons following homocysteic acid (HCA) treament. Elevated PNMA1 expression is also observed in the degenerating striatum in two separate mouse models of Huntington's disease, the R6/2 transgenic model and the 3-nitropropionic acid-induced chemical model. Suppression of endogenous PNMA1 expression inhibits LK-induced neuronal apoptosis. Ectopic expression of PNMA1 promotes apoptosis even in medium containing high potassium, a condition that normally ensures survival of CGNs. Deletion of the N-terminal half of the PNMA1 protein abrogates its apoptotic activity, whereas deletion of the C-terminal half renders the protein more toxic. Within the N-terminal half, the ability to induce neuronal death depends on the presence of a BH3-like domain. In addition to being necessary for apoptosis, the BH3-like domain is necessary for self-association of PNMA1. Apoptosis by PNMA1 expression is inhibited by overexpression of Bcl2, suggesting that PNMA1-induced neuronal death may depend on the binding of a proapoptotic member of the Bcl2 family to the BH3 domain. Taken together, our results suggest that PNMA1 is a proapoptotic protein in neurons, elevated expression of which may contribute to neurodegenerative disorders.
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- Huai-Lu Chen
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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Zhao K, Ippolito G, Wang L, Price V, Kim MH, Cornwell G, Fulenchek S, Breen GA, Goux WJ, D'Mello SR. Neuron-selective toxicity of tau peptide in a cell culture model of neurodegenerative tauopathy: Essential role for aggregation in neurotoxicity. J Neurosci Res 2010; 88:3399-413. [DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Gupta SC, Sundaram C, Reuter S, Aggarwal BB. Inhibiting NF-κB activation by small molecules as a therapeutic strategy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2010; 1799:775-87. [PMID: 20493977 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2010.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 575] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2010] [Accepted: 05/08/2010] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Because nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) is a ubiquitously expressed proinflammatory transcription factor that regulates the expression of over 500 genes involved in cellular transformation, survival, proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, metastasis, and inflammation, the NF-κB signaling pathway has become a potential target for pharmacological intervention. A wide variety of agents can activate NF-κB through canonical and noncanonical pathways. Canonical pathway involves various steps including the phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and degradation of the inhibitor of NF-κB (IκBα), which leads to the nuclear translocation of the p50-p65 subunits of NF-κB followed by p65 phosphorylation, acetylation and methylation, DNA binding, and gene transcription. Thus, agents that can inhibit protein kinases, protein phosphatases, proteasomes, ubiquitination, acetylation, methylation, and DNA binding steps have been identified as NF-κB inhibitors. Because of the critical role of NF-κB in cancer and various chronic diseases, numerous inhibitors of NF-κB have been identified. In this review, however, we describe only small molecules that suppress NF-κB activation, and the mechanism by which they block this pathway.
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- Subash C Gupta
- Cytokine Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Chaïb-Oukadour I, Gil C, Rodríguez-Alvarez J, Ortega A, Aguilera J. Tetanus toxin H(C) fragment reduces neuronal MPP+ toxicity. Mol Cell Neurosci 2009; 41:297-303. [PMID: 19344769 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2009.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2008] [Revised: 03/03/2009] [Accepted: 03/23/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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The non-toxic carboxi-terminal domain of the heavy chain of tetanus toxin (H(C)) elicits neuroprotection of cerebellar granule neurons against apoptotic death induced by potassium deprivation. In this study we sought to determine whether H(C) also prevents the apoptosis induced by the mitochondrial poison 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+), which induces a form of Parkinsonism. Pre-treatment of cultures with H(C) prevented MPP+-induced cell death, as well as impaired the MPP+-triggered apoptotic cascade. Cytochrome c release from the mitochondria, procaspase-3 activation and chromatin condensation, were significantly reduced in H(C)-pre-treated neurons. Moreover, H(C) induced Ser(112) and Ser(136) BAD phosphorylation, which correlated with the detachment of BAD from Bcl-X(L) and its association to 14-3-3. In turn, Bcl-X(L) remained bound to Bax, impairing its translocation to mitochondria of stressed neurons. The use of Wortmannin or PD98059 demonstrated the involvement of the PI3K/Akt as well as the ERK1/2 transduction pathways in the H(C) fragment effect. Interestingly, the H(C) fragment also induces an increase in the DNA binding activity of NF-kappaB, a well-established transcription factor involved in the prevention of neuronal death. Taken together, our results strongly suggest that the recombinant H(C) fragment of tetanus toxin can act as a neuroprotector in a model of MPP(+)-triggered apoptosis.
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- Imane Chaïb-Oukadour
- Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular, Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
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Chen HM, Wang L, D'Mello SR. A chemical compound commonly used to inhibit PKR, {8-(imidazol-4-ylmethylene)-6H-azolidino[5,4-g] benzothiazol-7-one}, protects neurons by inhibiting cyclin-dependent kinase. Eur J Neurosci 2009; 28:2003-16. [PMID: 19046382 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06491.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Activation of the double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. We find that a compound widely used as a pharmacological inhibitor of this enzyme, referred to as PKR inhibitor (PKRi), {8-(imidazol-4-ylmethylene)-6H-azolidino[5,4-g]benzothiazol-7-one}, protects against the death of cultured cerebellar granule and cortical neurons. PKRi also prevents striatal neurodegeneration and improves behavioral outcomes in a chemically induced mouse model of Huntington's disease. Surprisingly, PKRi fails to block the phosphorylation of eIF2alpha, a downstream target of PKR, and does not reduce the autophosphorylation of PKR enzyme immunoprecipitated from neurons. Furthermore, neurons lacking PKR are fully protected from apoptosis by PKRi, demonstrating that neuroprotection by this compound is not mediated by PKR inhibition. Using in vitro kinase assays we investigated whether PKRi affects any other protein kinase. These analyses demonstrated that PKRi has no major inhibitory effect on pro-apoptotic kinases such as the c-Jun N-terminal kinases, the p38 MAP kinases and the death-associated protein kinases, or on other kinases including c-Raf, MEK1, MKK6 and MKK7. PKRi does, however, inhibit the activity of certain cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), including CDK1, CDK2 and CDK5 both in vitro and in low potassium-treated neurons. Consistent with its inhibitory action on mitotic CDKs, the treatment of HT-22 and HEK293T cell lines with PKRi sharply reduces the rate of cell cycle progression. Taken together with the established role of CDK activation in the promotion of neurodegeneration, our results suggest that PKRi exerts its neuroprotective action by inhibiting CDK.
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- Hsin-Mei Chen
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083, USA
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Zhang M, Guo RX, Mo LQ, Liao XX, Li W, Zhi JL, Sun SN, Wang YL, Cui Y, Liu W, Feng JQ, Chen PX. NUCLEAR FACTOR-κB MEDIATES CYTOPROTECTION OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE PRECONDITIONING AGAINST APOPTOSIS INDUCED BY OXIDATIVE STRESS IN PC12 CELLS. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2009; 36:304-11. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2008.05066.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pizzi M, Sarnico I, Lanzillotta A, Battistin L, Spano P. Post-ischemic brain damage: NF-kappaB dimer heterogeneity as a molecular determinant of neuron vulnerability. FEBS J 2009; 276:27-35. [PMID: 19087197 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06767.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) has been proposed to serve a dual function as a regulator of neuron survival in pathological conditions associated with neurodegeneration. NF-kappaB is a transcription family of factors comprising five different proteins, namely p50, RelA/p65, c-Rel, RelB and p52, which can combine differently to form active dimers in response to external stimuli. Recent research shows that diverse NF-kappaB dimers lead to cell death or cell survival in neurons exposed to ischemic injury. While the p50/p65 dimer participates in the pathogenesis of post-ischemic injury by inducing pro-apoptotic gene expression, c-Rel-containing dimers increase neuron resistance to ischemia by inducing anti-apoptotic gene transcription. We present, in this report, the latest findings and consider the therapeutic potential of targeting different NF-kappaB dimers to limit ischemia-associated neurodegeneration.
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- Marina Pizzi
- Division of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
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Sarnico I, Lanzillotta A, Benarese M, Alghisi M, Baiguera C, Battistin L, Spano P, Pizzi M. NF-kappaB dimers in the regulation of neuronal survival. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2009; 85:351-62. [PMID: 19607980 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7742(09)85024-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) is a dimeric transcription factor composed of five members, p50, RelA/p65, c-Rel, RelB, and p52 that can diversely combine to form the active transcriptional dimer. NF-kappaB controls the expression of genes that regulate a broad range of biological processes in the central nervous system such as synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis, and differentiation. Although NF-kappaB is essential for neuron survival and its activation may protect neurons against oxidative-stresses or ischemia-induced neurodegeneration, NF-kappaB activation can contribute to inflammatory reactions and apoptotic cell death after brain injury and stroke. It was proposed that the death or survival of neurons might depend on the cell type and the timing of NF-kappaB activation. We here discuss recent evidence suggesting that within the same neuronal cell, activation of diverse NF-kappaB dimers drives opposite effects on neuronal survival. Unbalanced activation of NF-kappaB p50/RelA dimer over c-Rel-containing complexes contributes to cell death secondary to the ischemic insult. While p50/RelA acts as transcriptional inducer of Bcl-2 family proapoptotic Bim and Noxa genes, c-Rel dimers specifically promote transcription of antiapototic Bcl-xL gene. Changes in the nuclear content of c-Rel dimers strongly affect the threshold of neuron vulnerability to ischemic insult and agents, likewise leptin, activating a NF-kappaB/c-Rel-dependent transcription elicit neuroprotection in animal models of brain ischemia.
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- Ilenia Sarnico
- Division of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia 25123, Italy
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Opposing effects of sirtuins on neuronal survival: SIRT1-mediated neuroprotection is independent of its deacetylase activity. PLoS One 2008; 3:e4090. [PMID: 19116652 PMCID: PMC2605257 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2008] [Accepted: 11/27/2008] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Growing evidence suggests that sirtuins, a family of seven distinct NAD-dependent enzymes, are involved in the regulation of neuronal survival. Indeed, SIRT1 has been reported to protect against neuronal death, while SIRT2 promotes neurodegeneration. The effect of SIRTs 3-7 on the regulation of neuronal survival, if any, has yet to be reported. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We examined the effect of expressing each of the seven SIRT proteins in healthy cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs) or in neurons induced to die by low potassium (LK) treatment. We report that SIRT1 protects neurons from LK-induced apoptosis, while SIRT2, SIRT3 and SIRT6 induce apoptosis in otherwise healthy neurons. SIRT5 is generally localized to both the nucleus and cytoplasm of CGNs and exerts a protective effect. In a subset of neurons, however, SIRT5 localizes to the mitochondria and in this case it promotes neuronal death. Interestingly, the protective effect of SIRT1 in neurons is not reduced by treatments with nicotinamide or sirtinol, two pharmacological inhibitors of SIRT1. Neuroprotection was also observed with two separate mutant forms of SIRT1, H363Y and H355A, both of which lack deacetylase activity. Furthermore, LK-induced neuronal death was not prevented by resveratrol, a pharmacological activator of SIRT1, at concentrations at which it activates SIRT1. We extended our analysis to HT-22 neuroblastoma cells which can be induced to die by homocysteic acid treatment. While the effects of most of the SIRT proteins were similar to that observed in CGNs, SIRT6 was modestly protective against homocysteic acid toxicity in HT-22 cells. SIRT5 was generally localized in the mitochondria of HT-22 cells and was apoptotic. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Overall, our study makes three contributions - (a) it represents the first analysis of SIRT3-7 in the regulation of neuronal survival, (b) it shows that neuroprotection by SIRT1 can be mediated by a novel, non-catalytic mechanism, and (c) that subcellular localization may be an important determinant in the effect of SIRT5 on neuronal viability.
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Zhuravliova E, Barbakadze T, Narmania N, Sepashvili M, Mikeladze DG. Hypoinsulinemia alleviates the GRF1/Ras/Akt anti-apoptotic pathway and induces alterations of mitochondrial ras trafficking in neuronal cells. Neurochem Res 2008; 34:1076-82. [PMID: 19002579 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-008-9877-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/23/2008] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Recent observations have established that interruption of insulin production causes deficits in learning and memory formation. We have studied the mechanism of insulin's neuroprotective effect on primary neuronal cells and in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rat brain. We have found that in hippocampal neuronal cells insulin increases the content of farnesylated Ras and phosphorylated form of Akt. Besides, the treatment of cells by insulin leads to the activation of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, which is inhibited by manumycin, a farnesyltransferase inhibitor. During experimental diabetes, the content of membrane-bound GRF1 was decreased in rat hippocampus that was correlated with the reduction in mitochondrial Ras and phosphorylated forms of Akt. This redistribution in Ras-GRF system was accompanied by the alteration in the activities of CREB, NF-kB (p65) and c-Rel transcription factors. We have proposed that hypoinsulinemia induces the inhibition of Ras signalling in the neuronal cells additionally by abnormality of Ras trafficking into mitochondria.
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- E Zhuravliova
- Department of Biochemistry, I. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Zhang X, Chen HM, Jaramillo E, Wang L, D'Mello SR. Histone deacetylase-related protein inhibits AES-mediated neuronal cell death by direct interaction. J Neurosci Res 2008; 86:2423-31. [PMID: 18438919 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Histone deacetylase-related protein (HDRP), an alternatively spliced and truncated form of histone deacetylase-9 that lacks a C-terminal catalytic domain, protects neurons from death. In an effort to understand the mechanism by which HDRP mediates its neuroprotective effect, we screened for proteins in the brain that interact with HDRP by using a yeast two-hybrid assay. One of the HDRP-interacting proteins identified in this screen was amino enhancer of split (AES), a 197-amino acid protein belonging to the Groucho family. Interaction between HDRP and AES was verified by in vitro binding assays, coimmunoprecipitation, and colocalization studies. To investigate the significance of the HDRP-AES association to the regulation of neuronal survival, we used cultured cerebellar granule neurons, which undergo apoptosis when treated with low potassium (LK) medium. We found that in contrast to HDRP, whose expression is markedly reduced by LK treatment, AES expression was not appreciably altered. Forced expression of AES in healthy neurons results in cell death, an action that is blocked by the coexpression of HDRP. AES is a truncated version of larger Groucho-related proteins, one of which is transducin-like enhancer of split (TLE)-1. We found that the expression of TLE1 is reduced in LK-treated neurons and the forced expression of TLE1 blocks LK-induced neuronal death as well as death induced by AES. Our results show that AES has apoptotic activity in neurons and suggest that neuroprotection by HDRP is mediated by the inhibition of this activity through direct interaction.
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- Xiaoguang Zhang
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA
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Majdzadeh N, Wang L, Morrison BE, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN, D'Mello SR. HDAC4 inhibits cell-cycle progression and protects neurons from cell death. Dev Neurobiol 2008; 68:1076-92. [PMID: 18498087 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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HDAC4 is a Class II histone deacetylase (HDAC) that is highly expressed in the brain, but whose functional significance in the brain is not known. We show that forced expression of HDAC4 in cerebellar granule neurons protects them against low potassium-induced apoptosis. HDAC4 also protects HT22 neuroblastoma cells from death induced by oxidative stress. HDAC4-mediated neuroprotection does not require its HDAC catalytic domain and cannot be inhibited by chemical inhibitors of HDACs. Neuroprotection by HDAC4 also does not require the Raf-MEK-ERK or the PI-3 kinase-Akt signaling pathways and occurs despite the activation of c-jun, an event that is generally believed to condemn neurons to die. The protective action of HDAC4 occurs in the nucleus and is mediated by a region that contains the nuclear localization signal. HDAC4 inhibits the activity of cyclin-dependent kinase-1 (CDK1) and the progression of proliferating HEK293T and HT22 cells through the cell cycle. Mice-lacking HDAC4 have elevated CDK1 activity and display cerebellar abnormalities including a progressive loss of Purkinje neurons postnatally in posterior lobes. Surviving Purkinje neurons in these lobes have duplicated soma. Furthermore, large numbers of cells within these affected lobes incorporate BrdU, indicating cell-cycle progression. These abnormalities along with the ability of HDAC4 to inhibit CDK1 and cell-cycle progression in cultured cells suggest that neuroprotection by HDAC4 is mediated by preventing abortive cell-cycle progression.
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- Nazanin Majdzadeh
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083, USA
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Chen HM, Wang L, D’Mello SR. Inhibition of ATF-3 expression by B-Raf mediates the neuroprotective action of GW5074. J Neurochem 2008; 105:1300-12. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2008.05226.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Verdaguer E, Susana GDA, Clemens A, Pallàs M, Camins A. Implication of the transcription factor E2F-1 in the modulation of neuronal apoptosis. Biomed Pharmacother 2007; 61:390-9. [PMID: 17178208 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2006.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2006] [Accepted: 11/07/2006] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders remain major problem worldwide since is currently no effective treatment. Thus, studying the mechanisms involved in neuronal apoptotic pathways is imperative if drugs that might stop or delay these disease processes are to be synthesized. In recent years it has become evident that mitochondria are key component of the neuronal apoptotic route. In addition to mitochondria, other intracellular components have been implicated in this process. Thus, DNA damage and re-entry into the cell cycle may constitute a common pathway in apoptosis in neurological diseases. The implication of cell cycle in neurodegenerative disorders is supported by data on the brain of patients who showed an increase in cell cycle protein expression. Indeed, studies performed in neuronal cell preparations indicate that re-entry into the cell cycle and, more specifically, an increase in the expression of E2F-1 transcription role of DNA damage/repair as a potential mechanism in cell cycle re-entry. In this context, ataxia telangiectasia mutated protein could be the enzyme responsible for neuronal apoptosis activation. Furthermore, the potential routes involved in E2F-1 induced apoptosis, p53-dependent and p53-independent, are similarly reviewed. Under this hypothesis, multiple pathways have been suggested, including the route of caspases. Finally, given the increasing experimental data on the neuroprotective and antiapoptotic effects of cyclin dependent kinase CDK inhibitory drugs, including flavopiridol, their application for the treatment of neurological disorders is proposed.
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- Ester Verdaguer
- Departament de Farmacologia i Toxicologia, IIBB-CSIC, IDIBAPS, Rossello 161, Planta 6, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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Anggono V, Robinson PJ. Syndapin I and endophilin I bind overlapping proline-rich regions of dynamin I: role in synaptic vesicle endocytosis. J Neurochem 2007; 102:931-43. [PMID: 17437541 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04574.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Dynamin I mediates vesicle fission during synaptic vesicle endocytosis (SVE). Its proline-rich domain (PRD) binds the Src-homology 3 (SH3) domain of a subset of proteins that can deform membranes. Syndapin I, amphiphysin I, and endophilin I are its major partners implicated in SVE. Syndapin binding is controlled by phosphorylation at Ser-774 and Ser-778 in the dynamin phospho-box. We now define syndapin and endophilin-binding sites by peptide competition and site-directed mutagenesis. Both bound the same region of the dynamin PRD and both exhibited unusual bidirectional binding modes around core PxxP motifs, unlike amphiphysin which employed a class II binding mode. Endophilin binds to tandem PxxP motifs in the sequence (778)SPTPQRRAPAVPPARPGSR(796) in dynamin, with SPTPQ being an overhang sequence. In contrast, syndapin binding involves two components in the region (772)RRSPTSSPTPQRRAPAVPPARPGSR(796). It required a single PxxP core and a non-PxxP N-terminally anchored extension which bridges the phospho-box and may contribute to binding specificity and affinity. Syndapin binding is exquisitely sensitive to the introduction of negative charges almost anywhere along this region, explaining why it is a highly tuned phospho-sensor. Over-expression of dynamin point mutants that fail to bind syndapin or endophilin inhibit SVE in cultured neurons. Due to overlapping binding sites the interactions between dynamin and syndapin or endophilin were mutually exclusive. Because syndapin acts as a phospho-sensor, this supports its role in depolarization-induced SVE at the synapse, which involves dynamin dephosphorylation. We propose syndapin and endophilin function either at different stages during SVE or in mechanistically distinct types of SVE.
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- Victor Anggono
- Cell Signalling Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia
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Becker S, Reinehr R, Graf D, vom Dahl S, Häussinger D. Hydrophobic bile salts induce hepatocyte shrinkage via NADPH oxidase activation. Cell Physiol Biochem 2007; 19:89-98. [PMID: 17310103 DOI: 10.1159/000099197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/06/2006] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Hydrophobic bile salts activate NADPH oxidase through a ceramide and protein kinase Czeta-dependent pathway as an important upstream event of bile salt-induced hepatocyte apoptosis. As shown in the present study, hydrophobic bile salts such as glycochenodeoxycholate, taurochenodeoxycholate or taurolithocholylsulfate (TLCS) also induce within 30 min hepatocyte shrinkage in perfused rat liver. TLCS-induced hepatocyte shrinkage was strongly blunted in presence of desipramine, apocynin, bafilomycin and DIDS, i.e. maneuvres previously shown to inhibit TLCS-induced NADPH oxidase activation and the subsequent oxidative stress response. The antioxidant N-acetylcysteine inhibited TLCS-induced hepatocyte shrinkage. N-acetylcysteine by itself increased hepatocyte hydration, suggesting that a basal production of reactive oxygen intermediates is involved in the regulation of liver cell hydration. TLCS failed to induce shrinkage of hepatocytes from p47(phox) knock-out, but not control mice. Likewise, hepatocytes from p47(phox) knock-out mice were resistant towards TLCS-induced apoptosis and failed to activate the CD95 system. No cell shrinkage was observed in response to taurocholate and tauroursodesoxycholate, i.e. bile salts which do not induce an oxidative stress signal and apoptosis. NADPH oxidase activation also counteracts volume recovery in response to hyperosmotic hepatocyte shrinkage. The findings indicate that hydrophobic, proapoptotic bile salts induce hepatocyte shrinkage largely through NADPH oxidase-derived oxidative stress. Because cell shrinkage in turn activates NADPH oxidase, which blunts cell volume recovery, a vicious cycle ensues between oxidative stress and cell shrinkage, which propagates CD95 activation and may finally lead to apoptosis. In addition, cell shrinkage induced by proapoptotic bile salts may augment apoptosis by increasing protein breakdown and induction of cholestasis.
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- Stephan Becker
- Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology; Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
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Wang HL, He CY, Chou AH, Yeh TH, Chen YL, Li AH. Polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-7 decreases nuclear translocation of NF-κB p65 and impairs NF-κB activity by inhibiting proteasome activity of cerebellar neurons. Cell Signal 2007; 19:573-81. [PMID: 17005371 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2006.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2006] [Accepted: 08/13/2006] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Our recent study indicated that polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-7-Q75 induced apoptotic death of cultured cerebellar neurons by downregulating Bcl-x(L) expression and activating mitochondrial apoptotic cascade. Mutant polyglutamine-expanded proteins are believed to impair the proteolytic function of ubiquitin-proteasome system by sequestering components of proteasomes. Proteasome degradation of IkappaBalpha permits nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB and is required for continuous NF-kappaB activity, which supports the survival of cultured cerebellar neurons by inducing Bcl-x(L) expression. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that mutant ataxin-7-Q75 causes proteasome dysfunction and impairs NF-kappaB activity, leading to reduced Bcl-x(L) expression, caspase activation and cerebellar neuronal death. EMSA assays indicate that DNA-binding activity of NF-kappaB was significantly decreased in cerebellar neurons expressing ataxin-7-Q75. Similar to mutant ataxin-7-Q75, NF-kappaB inhibitor APEQ induced cerebellar neuronal death by decreasing Bcl-x(L) expression and activating caspase-9. Mutant ataxin-7-Q75 inhibited the proteolytic activity of proteasomes in cerebellar neurons. Proteasome inhibitor MG132 also caused cerebellar neuronal death by decreasing Bcl-x(L) expression and activating caspase-9. Both ataxin-7-Q75 and MG132 caused the cytosolic accumulation of IkappaBalpha in cerebellar neurons. Mutant ataxin-7-Q75 or MG132 increased the cytosolic level of NF-kappaB p65 and decreased the nuclear NF-kappaB p65 level. Our study provides the evidence that polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-7-Q75 decreases nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB p65 and impairs NF-kappaB activity by inhibiting proteasome activity of cerebellar neurons.
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- Hung-Li Wang
- Department of Physiology, Chang Gung University School of Medicine, Taiwan, ROC.
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Pizzi M, Spano P. Distinct roles of diverse nuclear factor-kappaB complexes in neuropathological mechanisms. Eur J Pharmacol 2006; 545:22-8. [PMID: 16854410 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2006.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2005] [Revised: 03/22/2006] [Accepted: 06/13/2006] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The nuclear transcription factors kappaB (NF-kappaB) function as key regulators of physiological processes in the central nervous system. Aberrant regulation of NF-kappaB can underlie neurological disorders associated with neurodegeneration. A large number of studies have reported a dual role of NF-kappaB in regulating neuron survival in pathological conditions. A recent progress in understanding the mechanisms responsible for opposite effects elicited by NF-kappaB in brain dysfunctions arises from the identification of diverse NF-kappaB complexes specifically involved in the mechanism of neuronal cell death or cell survival. We here discuss the latest findings and consider the therapeutic potential of targeting distinct NF-kappaB complexes for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and memory dysfunctions.
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- Marina Pizzi
- Division of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, I 25123, Italy.
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Bridle KR, Li L, O'Neill R, Britton RS, Bacon BR. Coordinate activation of intracellular signaling pathways by insulin-like growth factor-1 and platelet-derived growth factor in rat hepatic stellate cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 147:234-41. [PMID: 16697771 DOI: 10.1016/j.lab.2005.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2005] [Revised: 12/05/2005] [Accepted: 12/29/2005] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Proliferation of activated hepatic stellate cells (HSC) is an important event in the development of hepatic fibrosis. Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) has been shown to be mitogenic for HSC, but the intracellular signaling pathways involved have not been fully characterized. Thus, the aims of the current study were to examine the roles of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K) and p70-S6 kinase (p70-S6-K) signaling pathways in IGF-1- and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-induced mitogenic signaling of HSC and to examine the potential crosstalk between these pathways. Both IGF-1 and PDGF increased ERK, PI3-K and p70-S6-K activity. When evaluating potential crosstalk between these signaling pathways, we observed that PI3-K is required for p70-S6-K activation by IGF-1 and PDGF, and is partially responsible for PDGF-induced ERK activation. PDGF and IGF-1 also increased the levels of cyclin D1 and phospho-glycogen synthase kinase-3beta. Coordinate activation of ERK, PI3-K and p70-S6-K is important for perpetuating the activated state of HSC during fibrogenesis.
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- Kim R Bridle
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University Liver Center, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110-0250, USA
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Morrison BE, Majdzadeh N, Zhang X, Lyles A, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN, D'Mello SR. Neuroprotection by histone deacetylase-related protein. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:3550-64. [PMID: 16611996 PMCID: PMC1447420 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.26.9.3550-3564.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The expression of histone deacetylase-related protein (HDRP) is reduced in neurons undergoing apoptosis. Forced reduction of HDRP expression in healthy neurons by treatment with antisense oligonucleotides also induces cell death. Likewise, neurons cultured from mice lacking HDRP are more vulnerable to cell death. Adenovirally mediated expression of HDRP prevents neuronal death, showing that HDRP is a neuroprotective protein. Neuroprotection by forced expression of HDRP is not accompanied by activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-Akt or Raf-MEK-ERK signaling pathway, and treatment with pharmacological inhibitors of these pathways fails to inhibit the neuroprotection by HDRP. Stimulation of c-Jun phosphorylation and expression, an essential feature of neuronal death, is prevented by HDRP. We found that HDRP associates with c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and inhibits its activity, thus explaining the inhibition of c-Jun phosphorylation by HDRP. HDRP also interacts with histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) and recruits it to the c-Jun gene promoter, resulting in an inhibition of histone H3 acetylation at the c-Jun promoter. Although HDRP lacks intrinsic deacetylase activity, treatment with pharmacological inhibitors of histone deacetylases induces apoptosis even in the presence of ectopically expressed HDRP, underscoring the importance of c-Jun promoter deacetylation by HDRP-HDAC1 in HDRP-mediated neuroprotection. Our results suggest that neuroprotection by HDRP is mediated by the inhibition of c-Jun through its interaction with JNK and HDAC1.
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- Brad E Morrison
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, 2601 N. Floyd Road, Richardson, TX 75083, USA
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Massa PT, Aleyasin H, Park DS, Mao X, Barger SW. NFkappaB in neurons? The uncertainty principle in neurobiology. J Neurochem 2006; 97:607-18. [PMID: 16573643 PMCID: PMC2063440 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03810.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Nuclear factor kappaB (NFkappaB) is a dynamically modulated transcription factor with an extensive literature pertaining to widespread actions across species, cell types and developmental stages. Analysis of NFkappaB in a complex environment such as neural tissue suffers from a difficulty in simultaneously establishing both activity and location. Much of the available data indicate a profound recalcitrance of NFkappaB activation in neurons, as compared with most other cell types. Few studies to date have sought to distinguish between the various combinatorial dimers of NFkappaB family members. Recent research has illuminated the importance of these problems, as well as opportunities to move past them to the nuances manifest through variable activation pathways, subunit complexity and target sequence preferences.
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- Paul T Massa
- Department of Neurology, State University of New York-Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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Choi S, Kim JH, Roh EJ, Ko MJ, Jung JE, Kim HJ. Nuclear factor-kappaB activated by capacitative Ca2+ entry enhances muscarinic receptor-mediated soluble amyloid precursor protein (sAPPalpha) release in SH-SY5Y cells. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:12722-8. [PMID: 16490783 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m601018200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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G(q/11) protein-coupled muscarinic receptors are known to regulate the release of soluble amyloid precursor protein (sAPPalpha) produced by alpha-secretase processing; however, their signaling mechanisms remain to be elucidated. It has been reported that a muscarinic agonist activates nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB, a transcription factor that has been shown to play an important role in the Alzheimer disease brain, and that NF-kappaB activation is regulated by intracellular Ca2+ level. In the present study, we investigated whether NF-kappaB activation plays a role in muscarinic receptor-mediated sAPPalpha release enhancement and contributes to a changed capacitative Ca2+ entry (CCE), which was suggested to be involved in the muscarinic receptor-mediated stimulation of sAPPalpha release. Muscarinic receptor-mediated NF-kappaB activation was confirmed by observing the translocation of the active subunit (p65) of NF-kappaB to the nucleus by the muscarinic agonist, oxotremorine M (oxoM), in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells expressing muscarinic receptors that are predominantly of the M3 subtype. NF-kappaB activation and sAPPalpha release enhancement induced by oxoM were inhibited by NF-kappaB inhibitors, such as an NF-kappaB peptide inhibitor (SN50), an IkappaB alpha kinase inhibitor (BAY11-7085), a proteasome inhibitor (MG132), the inhibitor of proteasome activity and IkappaB phosphorylation, pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate, the novel NF-kappaB activation inhibitor (6-amino-4-(4-phenoxyphenylethylamino) quinazoline), and by an intracellular Ca2+ chelator (TMB-8). Furthermore, both oxoM-induced NF-kappaB activation and sAPPalpha release were antagonized by CCE inhibitors (gadolinium or SKF96365) but not by voltage-gated Ca2+-channel blockers. On the other hand, treatment of cells with NF-kappaB inhibitors (SN50, BAY11-7085, MG132, or pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate) did not inhibit muscarinic receptor-mediated CCE. These findings provide evidence for the involvement of NF-kappaB regulated by CCE in muscarinic receptor-mediated sAPPalpha release enhancement.
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- Shinkyu Choi
- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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Kovács AD, Weimer JM, Pearce DA. Selectively increased sensitivity of cerebellar granule cells to AMPA receptor-mediated excitotoxicity in a mouse model of Batten disease. Neurobiol Dis 2006; 22:575-85. [PMID: 16483786 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2005.12.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2005] [Revised: 12/15/2005] [Accepted: 12/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Batten disease, a lysosomal storage disorder, is caused by mutations in the CLN3 gene. The Cln3-knockout (Cln3-/-) mouse model of the disease exhibits many characteristic pathological features of the human disorder. Here, we show that Cln3-/- mice, similarly to Batten disease patients, have a deficit in cerebellar motor coordination. To explore the possible cellular cause of this functional impairment, we compared the vulnerability of wild type (WT) and Cln3-/- cerebellar granule cell cultures to different toxic insults. We have found that cultured Cln3-/- cerebellar granule cells are selectively more vulnerable to AMPA-type glutamate receptor-mediated toxicity than their WT counterparts. This selective sensitivity was also observed in organotypic cerebellar slice cultures. Our results suggest that lack of the CLN3 protein has a significant influence on the function of AMPA receptors in cerebellar granule neurons, and that AMPA receptor dysregulation may be a major contributor to the cerebellar dysfunction in Batten disease.
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- Attila D Kovács
- Center for Aging and Developmental Biology, Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Cerebellar granule neurons undergo apoptosis when switched from culture medium containing depolarizing levels of potassium (high potassium or HK) to nondepolarizing medium (low potassium or LK). We showed that in healthy neurons maintained in HK medium, IkappaB-beta is phosphorylated at a novel site, Tyr-161. LK-induced neuronal apoptosis is accompanied by a decrease in the extent of IkappaB-beta phosphorylation at this residue. Tyr-161 shares similarity to the consensus sequence for phosphorylation by the nonreceptor tyrosine kinases Abl and Arg. Arg phosphorylates Tyr-161 differentially in vitro, and LK treatment does cause a down-regulation of Arg activity. Moreover, treatment of neurons with two structurally distinct and highly selective Abl inhibitors, PD173955 and Gleevec, blocks HK-induced phosphorylation of IkappaB-beta at Tyr-161 and induces neuronal apoptosis. Overexpression of wild-type IkappaB-beta blocks LK-induced apoptosis, but this effect is abolished when Arg is pharmacologically inhibited. On the other hand, forced overexpression of IkappaB-beta in which Tyr-161 is mutated inhibits survival in HK demonstrating the importance of this residue to neuronal survival. Phosphorylation of IkappaB-beta enhances its association with p65/RelA causing an increase in NF-kappaB DNA binding activity. Our results identified IkappaB-beta phosphorylation as a key event in neuronal survival and provided a mechanism by which this is mediated.
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- Li Liu
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas, Richardson, Texas 75083, USA
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Nadjar A, Tridon V, May MJ, Ghosh S, Dantzer R, Amédée T, Parnet P. NFkappaB activates in vivo the synthesis of inducible Cox-2 in the brain. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2005; 25:1047-59. [PMID: 15758944 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) induces cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) expression in many of its cellular targets resulting in production and release of prostaglandins. Although IL-1beta-induced Cox-2 expression most likely requires activation of nuclear transcription factor kappa B (NFkappaB) pathway, this has never been formally demonstrated in vivo. We tested this using a specific inhibitor of NFkappaB activation, the NEMO binding domain (NBD) peptide, that has been shown previously to be effective in various in vivo models of acute inflammation. Incubation of rat glioma cells with the NBD peptide blocked IL-1beta-induced NFkappaB nuclear translocation. Furthermore, after injection of a biotinylated version of the NBD peptide into the lateral ventricle of the brain, we found that it readily diffused to its potential cellular targets in vivo. To test the effects of the peptide on NFkappaB activation and Cox-2 expression in the brain, we injected it intracerebroventricularly (36 microg/rat) into rats before intraperitoneal injection of IL-1beta (60 microg/kg). Treatment with NBD peptide completely abolished IL-1beta-induced NFkappaB activation and Cox-2 synthesis in microvasculature. In contrast, the peptide had no effect on constitutive neuronal Cox-2. These findings strongly support the hypothesis that IL-1beta-induced NFkappaB activation plays a major role in transmission of immune signals from the periphery to the brain.
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- Agnès Nadjar
- Institut F. Magendie, Unité de Neurobiologie Intégrative, Bordeaux Cedex, France
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Pannaccione A, Secondo A, Scorziello A, Calì G, Taglialatela M, Annunziato L. Nuclear factor-κB activation by reactive oxygen species mediates voltage-gated K+ current enhancement by neurotoxic β-amyloid peptides in nerve growth factor-differentiated PC-12 cells and hippocampal neurones. J Neurochem 2005; 94:572-86. [PMID: 15969743 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2005.03075.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Increased activity of plasma membrane K+ channels, leading to decreased cytoplasmic K+ concentrations, occurs during neuronal cell death. In the present study, we showed that the neurotoxic beta-amyloid peptide Abeta(25-35) caused a dose-dependent (0.1-10 microm) and time-dependent (> 12 h) enhancement of both inactivating and non-inactivating components of voltage-dependent K+ (VGK) currents in nerve growth factor-differentiated rat phaeochromocytoma (PC-12) cells and primary rat hippocampal neurones. Similar effects were exerted by Abeta(1-42), but not by the non-neurotoxic Abeta(35-25) peptide. Abeta(25-35) and Abeta(1-42) caused an early (15-20 min) increase in intracellular Ca(2+) concentration. This led to an increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which peaked at 3 h and lasted for 24 h; ROS production seemed to trigger the VGK current increase as vitamin E (50 microm) blocked both the Abeta(25-35)- and Abeta(1-42)-induced ROS increase and VGK current enhancement. Inhibition of protein synthesis (cycloheximide, 1 microg/mL) and transcription (actinomycin D, 50 ng/mL) blocked Abeta(25-35)-induced VGK current enhancement, suggesting that this potentiation is mediated by transcriptional activation induced by ROS. Interestingly, the specific nuclear factor-kappaB inhibitor SN-50 (5 microm), but not its inactive analogue SN-50M (5 microm), fully counteracted Abeta(1-42)- or Abeta(25-35)-induced enhancement of VGK currents, providing evidence for a role of this family of transcription factors in regulating neuronal K+ channel function during exposure to Abeta.
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- Anna Pannaccione
- Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Pollock G, Pennypacker KR, Mémet S, Israël A, Saporta S. Activation of NF-κB in the mouse spinal cord following sciatic nerve transection. Exp Brain Res 2005; 165:470-7. [PMID: 15912368 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2318-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2004] [Accepted: 02/16/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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NF-kappaB is a ubiquitous nuclear transcription factor that regulates a number of physiological processes. NF-kappaB activity has been implicated in enhancing neuronal survival following CNS injury. The present study was conducted to test the hypothesis that NF-kappaB activity is up-regulated in neurons of the spinal cord in response to peripheral nerve transection. In this series of experiments, we used NF-kappaB reporter mice in which activation of NF-kappaB drives the expression of the lac-z gene. The response to injury of cells in the spinal cord was assessed by evaluating the number and distribution of beta-galalactosidase (beta-gal)-positive cells following sciatic nerve transection. The animals were randomly assigned to four groups, which were allowed to survive for one, three, five and ten days. Four mice that did not undergo sciatic nerve transection were assigned to each group to serve as controls. The total number of beta-gal-positive cells in the right and left dorsal and ventral horns were compared. The numbers of beta-gal-positive cells between the right and left sides were significantly different three and five days post axotomy (p<0.05). Double immunofluorescent labeling was utilized to characterize which cells showed NF-kappaB activity, and it revealed that all beta-gal-positive cells were colocalized with MAP-2-positive neurons. The results of this study demonstrated that complete sciatic nerve transection leads to an up-regulation of NF-kappaB transactivation in spinal neurons ipsilateral to the side of transection. The increase in activity in the ipsilateral dorsal horn is consistent with this transcription factor acting as neuronal survival signal during this time frame in response to the peripheral nerve insult.
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- G Pollock
- Department of Anatomy, Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa 33612, USA
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Chin PC, Majdzadeh N, D'Mello SR. Inhibition of GSK3beta is a common event in neuroprotection by different survival factors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 137:193-201. [PMID: 15950778 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2005.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2004] [Revised: 03/03/2005] [Accepted: 03/11/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Depolarizing concentrations of potassium (HK, 25 mM), cyclic AMP elevating agents and analogs (cAMP), insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), or lithium can maintain the survival of cultured rat cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs). We investigated the possibility that the signal transduction pathways utilized by these four survival factors converge in regulating a common molecular target. We targeted the regulation of the kinase GSK3beta as the critical event in the survival directed by the four survival factors. We found that treatment of CGNs with HK, the cAMP-elevating agent forskolin, IGF-1, and lithium resulted in phosphorylation of GSK3beta at serine-9 and thus its inactivation. Furthermore, pharmacological inhibition of core components in the survival signaling cascades initiated by HK, forskolin, IGF-1, and lithium causes apoptosis and activation of GSK3beta accompanies this death. Finally, we examined the pharmacological inhibitors of GSK3beta, GSK3 inhibitor I, TDZD-8, and SB-415286, for their ability to prevent low potassium (LK)-induced apoptosis. Although previous reports demonstrate inhibition of GSK3beta in in vitro kinase assays with GSK3 inhibitor I and TDZD-8, we were unable to detect inhibition of GSK3beta in neuronal cultures treated with these compounds and thus no protection from LK-induced apoptosis. SB-415286 on the other hand, was able to rescue CGNs from cell death. Taken together, we conclude that regulation of GSK3beta is a critical convergence event in the promotion of CGN survival by different factors.
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- Paul C Chin
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, 2601 N. Floyd Road, Richardson, TX 75083, USA
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