Journal of Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2013,
Volume and Issue:
33(48), P. 18880 - 18892
Published: Nov. 27, 2013
Prolonged
calpain
activation
is
widely
recognized
as
a
key
component
of
neurodegeneration
in
variety
pathological
conditions.
Numerous
reports
have
also
indicated
that
synaptic
NMDA
receptors
(NMDARs)
provides
neuroprotection
against
insults.
Here,
we
report
the
paradoxical
finding
such
involves
activation.
NMDAR
cultured
rat
cortical
neurons
was
neuroprotective
starvation
and
oxidative
stress-induced
damage.
It
resulted
degradation
two
splice
variants
PH
domain
Leucine-rich
repeat
Protein
Phosphatase
1
(PHLPP1),
PHLPP1α
PHLPP1β,
which
inhibit
Akt
ERK1/2
pathways.
Synaptic
NMDAR-induced
PHLPP1
were
blocked
by
inhibition.
Lentiviral
knockdown
mimicked
effects
occluded
inhibition
on
neuroprotection.
In
contrast
to
activation,
extrasynaptic
had
no
effect
pathways,
but
calpain-mediated
striatal-enriched
protein
tyrosine
phosphatase
(STEP)
neuronal
death.
Using
μ-calpain-
m-calpain-selective
inhibitors
μ-calpain
m-calpain
siRNAs,
found
μ-calpain-dependent
cleavage
involved
NMDAR-mediated
neuroprotection,
while
m-calpain-mediated
STEP
associated
with
neurotoxicity.
Furthermore,
reduced
knockout
exacerbated
NMDA-induced
neurotoxicity
acute
mouse
hippocampal
slices.
Thus,
NMDAR-coupled
neuroprotective,
neurodegenerative.
These
results
help
reconcile
number
contradictory
literature
critical
implications
for
understanding
potential
treatment
neurodegenerative
diseases.
Journal of Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2010,
Volume and Issue:
30(36), P. 11917 - 11925
Published: Sept. 8, 2010
GluR2
is
a
subunit
of
the
AMPA
receptor,
and
adenosine
for
Q/R
site
its
pre-mRNA
converted
to
inosine
(A-to-I
conversion)
by
enzyme
called
deaminase
acting
on
RNA
2
(ADAR2).
Failure
A-to-I
conversion
at
this
affects
multiple
receptor
properties,
including
Ca
2+
permeability
receptor-coupled
ion
channel,
thereby
inducing
fatal
epilepsy
in
mice
(Brusa
et
al.,
1995;
Feldmeyer
1999).
In
addition,
inefficient
editing
disease-specific
molecular
dysfunction
found
motor
neurons
sporadic
amyotrophic
lateral
sclerosis
(ALS)
patients
(Kawahara
2004).
Here,
we
generated
genetically
modified
(designated
as
AR2)
which
ADAR2
gene
was
conditionally
targeted
using
Cre/loxP
system.
These
AR2
showed
decline
function
commensurate
with
slow
death
ADAR2-deficient
spinal
cord
cranial
nerve
nuclei.
Notably,
nuclei
oculomotor
nerves,
often
escape
degeneration
ALS,
were
not
decreased
number
despite
significant
decrease
editing.
All
cellular
phenotypic
changes
prevented
when
carried
endogenous
alleles
engineered
express
edited
without
activity
(Higuchi
2000).
Thus,
loss
causes
receptor-mediated
neurons.
Toxicological Sciences,
Journal Year:
2011,
Volume and Issue:
122(2), P. 512 - 525
Published: May 9, 2011
Exposure
to
the
pyrethroid
pesticide
deltamethrin
has
been
demonstrated
cause
apoptosis
both
in
vitro
and
vivo.
However,
molecular
pathways
leading
deltamethrin-induced
have
not
established.
To
identify
these
pathways,
SK-N-AS
neuroblastoma
cells
were
exposed
(100nM–5μM)
for
24–48
h.
Deltamethrin
produced
a
time-
dose-dependent
increase
(21–300%)
DNA
fragmentation,
an
indicator
of
apoptosis.
Data
demonstrate
that
initiation
fragmentation
resulted
from
interaction
with
Na+
channels
consequent
calcium
influx,
as
tetrodotoxin
intracellular
Ca2+
chelator
BAPTA-AM
completely
prevented
was
accompanied
by
increased
caspase-9
-3
activities
abolished
specific
inhibitors.
did
cytosolic
cytochrome
c
levels,
indicating
mitochondrial
pathway
likely
involved.
Additional
studies
exposure
activated
caspase-12
activity
pharmacological
inhibition
siRNA
knockdown
calpain
thus
role
endoplasmic
reticulum
(ER)
stress
pathway.
This
confirmed
observation
eIF2α
fragmentation.
Together,
data
causes
through
its
channels,
overload
activation
ER
Because
subsequent
unfolded
protein
response
observed
number
neurodegenerative
diseases,
provide
mechanistic
information
which
high-level
pyrethroids
may
contribute
neurodegeneration.
Journal of Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2013,
Volume and Issue:
33(48), P. 18880 - 18892
Published: Nov. 27, 2013
Prolonged
calpain
activation
is
widely
recognized
as
a
key
component
of
neurodegeneration
in
variety
pathological
conditions.
Numerous
reports
have
also
indicated
that
synaptic
NMDA
receptors
(NMDARs)
provides
neuroprotection
against
insults.
Here,
we
report
the
paradoxical
finding
such
involves
activation.
NMDAR
cultured
rat
cortical
neurons
was
neuroprotective
starvation
and
oxidative
stress-induced
damage.
It
resulted
degradation
two
splice
variants
PH
domain
Leucine-rich
repeat
Protein
Phosphatase
1
(PHLPP1),
PHLPP1α
PHLPP1β,
which
inhibit
Akt
ERK1/2
pathways.
Synaptic
NMDAR-induced
PHLPP1
were
blocked
by
inhibition.
Lentiviral
knockdown
mimicked
effects
occluded
inhibition
on
neuroprotection.
In
contrast
to
activation,
extrasynaptic
had
no
effect
pathways,
but
calpain-mediated
striatal-enriched
protein
tyrosine
phosphatase
(STEP)
neuronal
death.
Using
μ-calpain-
m-calpain-selective
inhibitors
μ-calpain
m-calpain
siRNAs,
found
μ-calpain-dependent
cleavage
involved
NMDAR-mediated
neuroprotection,
while
m-calpain-mediated
STEP
associated
with
neurotoxicity.
Furthermore,
reduced
knockout
exacerbated
NMDA-induced
neurotoxicity
acute
mouse
hippocampal
slices.
Thus,
NMDAR-coupled
neuroprotective,
neurodegenerative.
These
results
help
reconcile
number
contradictory
literature
critical
implications
for
understanding
potential
treatment
neurodegenerative
diseases.