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Choi JG, Choi SR, Kang DW, Shin HJ, Lee M, Hwang J, Kim HW. Inhibition of angiotensin converting enzyme increases PKCβI isoform expression via activation of substance P and bradykinin receptors in cultured astrocytes of mice. J Vet Sci 2023; 24:e26. [PMID: 37012034 PMCID: PMC10071283 DOI: 10.4142/jvs.22275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Revised: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi) inhibits the catalysis of angiotensin I to angiotensin II and the degradation of substance P (SP) and bradykinin (BK). While the possible relationship between ACEi and SP in nociceptive mice was recently suggested, the effect of ACEi on signal transduction in astrocytes remains unclear. OBJECTIVES This study examined whether ACE inhibition with captopril or enalapril modulates the levels of SP and BK in primary cultured astrocytes and whether this change modulates PKC isoforms (PKCα, PKCβI, and PKCε) expression in cultured astrocytes. METHODS Immunocytochemistry and Western blot analysis were performed to examine the changes in the levels of SP and BK and the expression of the PKC isoforms in primary cultured astrocytes, respectively. RESULTS The treatment of captopril or enalapril increased the immunoreactivity of SP and BK significantly in glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive cultured astrocytes. These increases were suppressed by a pretreatment with an angiotensin-converting enzyme. In addition, treatment with captopril increased the expression of the PKCβI isoform in cultured astrocytes, while there were no changes in the expression of the PKCα and PKCε isoforms after the captopril treatment. The captopril-induced increased expression of the PKCβI isoform was inhibited by a pretreatment with the neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, L-733,060, the BK B1 receptor antagonist, R 715, or the BK B2 receptor antagonist, HOE 140. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that ACE inhibition with captopril or enalapril increases the levels of SP and BK in cultured astrocytes and that the activation of SP and BK receptors mediates the captopril-induced increase in the expression of the PKCβI isoform.
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- Jae-Gyun Choi
- Department of Physiology and Medical Science, College of Medicine and Brain Research Institute, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea
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- Department of Pharmacology, Catholic Kwandong University College of Medicine, Gangneung 25601, Korea
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- Department of Physiology and Medical Science, College of Medicine and Brain Research Institute, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea
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- Department of Physiology and Medical Science, College of Medicine and Brain Research Institute, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea
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- Department of Physiology and Medical Science, College of Medicine and Brain Research Institute, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea.
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- Department of Physiology and Medical Science, College of Medicine and Brain Research Institute, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea.
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Festoff BW, Dockendorff C. The Evolving Concept of Neuro-Thromboinflammation for Neurodegenerative Disorders and Neurotrauma: A Rationale for PAR1-Targeting Therapies. Biomolecules 2021; 11:1558. [PMID: 34827556 PMCID: PMC8615608 DOI: 10.3390/biom11111558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2021] [Revised: 10/10/2021] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Interest in the role of coagulation and fibrinolysis in the nervous system was active in several laboratories dating back before cloning of the functional thrombin receptor in 1991. As one of those, our attention was initially on thrombin and plasminogen activators in synapse formation and elimination in the neuromuscular system, with orientation towards diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and how clotting and fibrinolytic pathways fit into its pathogenesis. This perspective is on neuro-thromboinflammation, emphasizing this emerging concept from studies and reports over more than three decades. It underscores how it may lead to novel therapeutic approaches to treat the ravages of neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases, with a focus on PAR1, ALS, and parmodulins.
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- Barry W. Festoff
- PHLOGISTIX LLC, Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
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Proximate Mediators of Microvascular Dysfunction at the Blood-Brain Barrier: Neuroinflammatory Pathways to Neurodegeneration. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 2017:1549194. [PMID: 28890893 PMCID: PMC5584365 DOI: 10.1155/2017/1549194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Current projections are that by 2050 the numbers of people aged 65 and older with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the US may increase threefold while dementia is projected to double every 20 years reaching ~115 million by 2050. AD is clinically characterized by progressive dementia and neuropathologically by neuronal and synapse loss, accumulation of amyloid plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in specific brain regions. The preclinical or presymptomatic stage of AD-related brain changes may begin over 20 years before symptoms occur, making development of noninvasive biomarkers essential. Distinct from neuroimaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, plasma or serum biomarkers can be analyzed to assess (i) the presence/absence of AD, (ii) the risk of developing AD, (iii) the progression of AD, or (iv) AD response to treatment. No unifying theory fully explains the neurodegenerative brain lesions but neuroinflammation (a lethal stressor for healthy neurons) is universally present. Current consensus is that the earlier the diagnosis, the better the chance to develop treatments that influence disease progression. In this article we provide a detailed review and analysis of the role of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) as well as coagulation molecules in the onset and progression of these neurodegenerative disorders.
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Lee DY, Kim E, Lee YS, Ryu H, Park JY, Hwang EM. The cytosolic splicing variant of NELL2 inhibits PKCβ1 in glial cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2014; 454:459-64. [PMID: 25450684 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.10.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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NELL2 is an abundant glycoprotein containing EGF-like domain in the neural tissues where it has multiple physiological functions by interacting with protein kinase C (PKC). There are two different splicing variant forms of NELL2 identified so far. One is secreted NELL2 (sNELL2) which is a neuron-specific variant and the other is cytosolic NELL2 (cNELL2) which is non-secreted splicing variant of NELL2. Although cNELL2 structure was well characterized, the expression pattern or the cellular function of cNELL2 is not fully determined. In this study, we found that cNELL2 specifically interacts with PKCβ isotypes and inhibits PKCβ1 through direct binding to the N-terminal pseudosubstrate domain of PKCβ1. Here, we also demonstrate that cNELL2 is predominantly expressed and has inhibitory effects on the PKC downstream signaling pathways in astrocytes thereby establishing cNELL2 as an endogenous inhibitor of PKCβ1 in glia.
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- Da Yong Lee
- Stem Cell Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Functional Connectomics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 136-791, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Functional Connectomics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 136-791, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Functional Connectomics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 136-791, Republic of Korea
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- School of Biosystem and Biomedical Science, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul 136-703, Republic of Korea.
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- Center for Functional Connectomics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 136-791, Republic of Korea; Neuroscience Program, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 305-350, Republic of Korea.
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Scarisbrick IA, Radulovic M, Burda JE, Larson N, Blaber SI, Giannini C, Blaber M, Vandell AG. Kallikrein 6 is a novel molecular trigger of reactive astrogliosis. Biol Chem 2012; 393:355-67. [PMID: 22505518 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2011-0241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2011] [Accepted: 01/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Kallikrein-related peptidase 6 (KLK6) is a trypsin-like serine protease upregulated at sites of central nervous system (CNS) injury, including de novo expression by reactive astrocytes, yet its physiological actions are largely undefined. Taken with recent evidence that KLK6 activates G-protein-coupled protease-activated receptors (PARs), we hypothesized that injury-induced elevations in KLK6 contribute to the development of astrogliosis and that this occurs in a PAR-dependent fashion. Using primary murine astrocytes and the Neu7 astrocyte cell line, we show that KLK6 causes astrocytes to transform from an epitheliod to a stellate morphology and to secrete interleukin 6 (IL-6). By contrast, KLK6 reduced expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). The stellation-promoting activities of KLK6 were shown to be dependent on activation of the thrombin receptor, PAR1, as a PAR1-specific inhibitor, SCH79797, blocked KLK6-induced morphological changes. The ability of KLK6 to promote astrocyte stellation was also shown to be linked to activation of protein kinase C (PKC). These studies indicate that KLK6 is positioned to serve as a molecular trigger of select physiological processes involved in the development of astrogliosis and that this is likely to occur at least in part by activation of the G-protein-coupled receptor, PAR1.
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- Isobel A Scarisbrick
- Neurobiology of Disease Program, Mayo Medical and Graduate School, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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Aras R, Barron AM, Pike CJ. Caspase activation contributes to astrogliosis. Brain Res 2012; 1450:102-15. [PMID: 22436850 PMCID: PMC3319728 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.02.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2011] [Revised: 01/30/2012] [Accepted: 02/04/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Caspases, a family of cysteine proteases, are widely activated in neurons and glia in the injured brain, a response thought to induce apoptosis. However, caspase activation in astrocytes following injury is not strongly associated with apoptosis. The present study investigates the potential role of caspase activation in astrocytes with another characteristic response to neural injury, astrogliosis. Caspase activity and morphological and biochemical indices of astrogliosis and apoptosis were assessed in (i) cultured neonatal rat astrocytes treated with astrogliosis-inducing stimuli (dibutryl cAMP, β-amyloid peptide), and (ii) cultures of adult rat hippocampal astrocytes generated from control and kainate-lesioned rats. The effects of broad spectrum and specific pharmacological caspase inhibitors were assessed on indicators of astrogliosis, including stellate morphology and expression of glutamine synthetase and fibroblast growth factor-2. Reactive neonatal and adult astrocytes demonstrated an increase in total caspase activity with a corresponding increase in the expression of active caspase-3 in the absence of cell death. Broad spectrum caspase inhibition with zVAD significantly attenuated increases in glutamine synthetase and fibroblast growth factor-2 in the reactive astrocytes. In the reactive neonatal astrocyte cultures, specific inhibition of caspases-3 and -11 also attenuated glutamine synthetase and fibroblast growth factor-2 expression, but did not reverse the morphological reactive phenotype. Astrogliosis is observed in all forms of brain injury and despite extensive study, its molecular triggers remain largely unknown. While previous studies have demonstrated active caspases in astrocytes following acute brain injury, here we present evidence functionally implicating the caspases in astrogliosis.
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- Radha Aras
- Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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Chan TJ, Her LS, Liaw HJ, Chen MC, Tzeng SF. Retinoic acid mediates the expression of glutamate transporter-1 in rat astrocytes through genomic RXR action and non-genomic protein kinase C signaling pathway. J Neurochem 2012; 121:537-50. [PMID: 22380620 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2012.07715.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Astrocytic glutamate transporter-1 (GLT-1) is responsible for 90% of forebrain glutamate uptake in the adult CNS. Retinoic acid (RA) is a potent regulator of neural cell differentiation and neuronal maturation in the developing CNS through activation of RA receptors/retinoic X receptors (RXRs) or non-genomic mechanisms. Although rat GLT-1 contains several RXR binding regions, RA-triggered RXR mechanisms regulating GLT-1 expression remain unknown. RA applied at submicromolar concentrations for 24 h significantly reduced GLT-1 mRNA and membrane levels in astrocytes and dibutyryl cAMP (dbcAMP)-primed astrocytes. An RXR agonist reduced astrocytic GLT-1 mRNA expression, whereas an RXR antagonist blocked the effects of RA on the reduction of astrocytic GLT-1 mRNA expression. Electrophoresis motility shift assay indicated that RA-treatment increased astrocytic RXR-DNA binding activity. RA-induced reduction in GLT-1 mRNA expression was also observed in dbcAMP-primed astrocytes. Through lentivirus-mediated astrocytic over-expression of rat GLT-1, levels of GLT-1 in the processes of dbcAMP-treated astrocytes were attenuated by exposure to RA. The protein kinase C inhibitor, Bis I, restored GLT-1 distribution in the processes of RA-treated dbcAMP-primed astrocytes. These results suggest that RA reduces astrocytic GLT-1 levels through both RXR-mediated inhibition at the transcriptional level and triggering activation of protein kinase C which reduces cell surface GLT-1 levels.
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- Ti-Ju Chan
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Simón D, Martín-Bermejo MJ, Gallego-Hernández MT, Pastrana E, García-Escudero V, García-Gómez A, Lim F, Díaz-Nido J, Avila J, Moreno-Flores MT. Expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 by olfactory ensheathing glia promotes axonal regeneration. Glia 2011; 59:1458-71. [PMID: 21626571 DOI: 10.1002/glia.21189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2010] [Accepted: 04/27/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) cells are known to facilitate repair following axotomy of adult neurons, although the molecular mechanisms involved are not fully understood. We previously identified plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), proteinase-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1), and thrombomodulin (TM) as candidates to regulate rat OEG-dependent axonal regeneration. In this study, we have validated the involvement of these proteins in promoting axonal regeneration by immortalized human OEGs. We studied the effect of silencing these proteins in OEGs on their capacity to promote the regeneration of severed adult retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) axons. Our results support the role of glial PAI-1 as a downstream effector of PAR-1 in promoting axon regeneration. In contrast, we found that TM inhibits OEG induced-axonal regeneration. We also assessed the signaling pathways downstream of PAR-1 that might modulate PAI-1 expression, observing that specifically inhibiting Gα(i), Rho kinase, or PLC and PKC downregulated the expression of PAI-1 in OEGs, with a concomitant reduction in OEG-dependent axon regeneration in adult RGCs. Our findings support an important role for the thrombin system in regulating adult axonal regeneration by OEGs.
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- Diana Simón
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Davydova ON, Yakovlev AA. Protease-activated receptors and neuroplasticity: Protease-activated receptors as a possible target for cathepsin B. NEUROCHEM J+ 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s1819712410010010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Canellada A, Ramirez BG, Minami T, Redondo JM, Cano E. Calcium/calcineurin signaling in primary cortical astrocyte cultures: Rcan1-4 and cyclooxygenase-2 as NFAT target genes. Glia 2008; 56:709-22. [PMID: 18293408 DOI: 10.1002/glia.20647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The calcineurin/nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) signaling pathway mediates important cell responses to calcium, but its activity and function in astrocytes have remained unclear. We show that primary cortical astrocyte cultures express the regulatory and catalytic subunits of the phosphatase calcineurin as well as the calcium-regulated NFAT family members (NFATc1, c2, c3, and c4). NFATs are activated by calcium-mobilizing agents in astrocytes, and this activation is blocked by the calcineurin inhibitor cyclosporine A. Microarray screening identified cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2), which is implicated in brain injury, and Rcan 1-4, an endogenous calcineurin inhibitor, as genes up-regulated by calcineurin-dependent calcium signals in astrocytes. Mobilization of intracellular calcium with ionophore potently augments the promoter activity and mRNA and protein expression of Rcan 1-4 and Cox-2 induced by combined treatment with phorbol esters. Moreover, Rcan 1-4 expression is efficiently induced by calcium mobilization alone. For both the genes, the calcium signal component is dependent on calcineurin and is replicated by exogenous expression of a constitutively active NFAT, strongly suggesting that the calcium-induced gene activation is mediated by NFATs. Finally, we report that calcineurin-dependent expression of Cox-2 and Rcan 1-4 is induced by physiological calcium mobilizing agents, such as thrombin, agonists of purinergic and glutamate receptors, and L-type voltage-gated calcium channels. These findings provide insights into calcium-initiated gene transcription in astrocytes, and have implications for the regulation of calcium responses in astrocytes.
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- Andrea Canellada
- Department of Vascular Biology and Inflammation. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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Tritschler F, Murín R, Birk B, Berger J, Rapp M, Hamprecht B, Verleysdonk S. Thrombin causes the enrichment of rat brain primary cultures with ependymal cells via protease-activated receptor 1. Neurochem Res 2007; 32:1028-35. [PMID: 17401674 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-006-9267-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2006] [Accepted: 12/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ependymal cell culture models from rat have been developed over the last 20 years to facilitate biochemical studies on this least-studied glial cell type. The cell culture protocol calls for the presence of thrombin, which is essential for obtaining a high proportion of multiciliated ependymal cells. The serine protease appears to act via protease-activated receptor 1 to prevent the apoptosis of ependymal precursors and enhance their proliferation without affecting contaminating cells. Unciliated precursors differentiate into polyciliated ependymocytes by passing through a stage of monociliation. The message for protease-activated receptor (PAR) 1 is initially abundant in the cultures, but its level declines as the cells differentiate. Besides PAR 1, signalling through PAR 2 also promotes ciliation in rat brain primary cultures, albeit to a lesser degree than the thrombin receptor. Thrombin and other proteases may be involved in the regulation of ventricular wall development. This action would be mediated mainly by PAR1.
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- Felix Tritschler
- Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Park GH, Ryu JR, Shin CY, Choi MS, Han BH, Kim WK, Kim HC, Ko KH. Evidence that protease-activated receptor-2 mediates trypsin-induced reversal of stellation in cultured rat astrocytes. Neurosci Res 2005; 54:15-23. [PMID: 16256233 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2005.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2005] [Revised: 09/05/2005] [Accepted: 09/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Serine proteases such as thrombin and trypsin play a key role in the development and repair processes in the central nervous system. Molecular actions of serine proteases include multiple cellular events like activation of protease-activated receptors (PARs). PARs belong to a family of G protein-coupled receptors that can be stimulated through their proteolytic cleavage by ligands. PAR-2 has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including astrogliosis. Although recent studies have shown that low concentration of trypsin activates PAR-2, its role in morphological changes in primary astrocytes has not been studied. In the present study, we investigated the effects of PAR-2 in astrocyte stellation in rat primary astrocyte culture. Both trypsin (0.1-1 U/ml) and a PAR-2-activating peptide SLIGRL-NH2 (1-50 microM) significantly reversed the stellation induced by serum deprivation in rat astrocytes. Treatment of astrocytes with trypsin or SLIGRL-NH2 resulted in a transient rise of the intracellular Ca2+ level and trypsin-induced morphological changes were blocked by BAPTA, a Ca2+ chelator. In addition, a protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor, bisindolylmaleimide significantly inhibited the trypsin-induced morphological changes, whereas activation of PKC by phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate acted as trypsin. Taken together, these results suggest that activation of PAR-2 by trypsin caused reversal of stellation in cultured astrocytes, in part, via the mobilization of intracellular Ca2+ and activation of PKC.
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- Gyu Hwan Park
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shillim-Dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul 151-742, South Korea
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Nicole O, Goldshmidt A, Hamill CE, Sorensen SD, Sastre A, Lyuboslavsky P, Hepler JR, McKeon RJ, Traynelis SF. Activation of protease-activated receptor-1 triggers astrogliosis after brain injury. J Neurosci 2005; 25:4319-29. [PMID: 15858058 PMCID: PMC6725104 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5200-04.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We have studied the involvement of the thrombin receptor [protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1)] in astrogliosis, because extravasation of PAR-1 activators, such as thrombin, into brain parenchyma can occur after blood-brain barrier breakdown in a number of CNS disorders. PAR1-/- animals show a reduced astrocytic response to cortical stab wound, suggesting that PAR-1 activation plays a key role in astrogliosis associated with glial scar formation after brain injury. This interpretation is supported by the finding that the selective activation of PAR-1 in vivo induces astrogliosis. The mechanisms by which PAR-1 stimulates glial proliferation appear to be related to the ability of PAR-1 receptor signaling to induce sustained extracellular receptor kinase (ERK) activation. In contrast to the transient activation of ERK by cytokines and growth factors, PAR-1 stimulation induces a sustained ERK activation through its coupling to multiple G-protein-linked signaling pathways, including Rho kinase. This sustained ERK activation appears to regulate astrocytic cyclin D1 levels and astrocyte proliferation in vitro and in vivo. We propose that this PAR-1-mediated mechanism underlying astrocyte proliferation will operate whenever there is sufficient injury-induced blood-brain barrier breakdown to allow extravasation of PAR-1 activators.
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- Olivier Nicole
- Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
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Steinhoff M, Buddenkotte J, Shpacovitch V, Rattenholl A, Moormann C, Vergnolle N, Luger TA, Hollenberg MD. Proteinase-activated receptors: transducers of proteinase-mediated signaling in inflammation and immune response. Endocr Rev 2005; 26:1-43. [PMID: 15689571 DOI: 10.1210/er.2003-0025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 364] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Serine proteinases such as thrombin, mast cell tryptase, trypsin, or cathepsin G, for example, are highly active mediators with diverse biological activities. So far, proteinases have been considered to act primarily as degradative enzymes in the extracellular space. However, their biological actions in tissues and cells suggest important roles as a part of the body's hormonal communication system during inflammation and immune response. These effects can be attributed to the activation of a new subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors, termed proteinase-activated receptors (PARs). Four members of the PAR family have been cloned so far. Thus, certain proteinases act as signaling molecules that specifically regulate cells by activating PARs. After stimulation, PARs couple to various G proteins and activate signal transduction pathways resulting in the rapid transcription of genes that are involved in inflammation. For example, PARs are widely expressed by cells involved in immune responses and inflammation, regulate endothelial-leukocyte interactions, and modulate the secretion of inflammatory mediators or neuropeptides. Together, the PAR family necessitates a paradigm shift in thinking about hormone action, to include proteinases as key modulators of biological function. Novel compounds that can modulate PAR function may be potent candidates for the treatment of inflammatory or immune diseases.
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- Martin Steinhoff
- Department of Dermatology and Boltzmann Institute for Immunobiology of the Skin, University of Münster, von-Esmarch-Strasse 58, 48149 Münster, Germany.
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Suo Z, Wu M, Citron BA, Palazzo RE, Festoff BW. Rapid tau aggregation and delayed hippocampal neuronal death induced by persistent thrombin signaling. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:37681-9. [PMID: 12821672 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m301406200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Tau hyperphosphorylation, leading to self-aggregation, is widely held to underlie the neurofibrillary degeneration found in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. However, it is unclear exactly what environmental factors may trigger this pathogenetic tau hyperphosphorylation. From several perspectives, the coagulation serine protease, thrombin, has been implicated in AD and activates several different protein kinase pathways but has not previously been shown how it may contribute to AD pathogenesis. Here we report that nanomolar thrombin induced rapid tau hyperphosphorylation and aggregation in murine hippocampal neurons via protease-activated receptors, which was followed by delayed synaptophysin reduction and apoptotic neuronal death. Mechanistic study revealed that a persistent thrombin signaling via protease-activated receptor 4 and prolonged downstream p44/42 mitogenactivated protein kinase activation are at least in part responsible. These results pathogenetically linked thrombin to subpopulations of AD and other tauopathies associated with cerebrovascular damage. Such knowledge may be instrumental in transforming therapeutic paradigms.
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- Zhiming Suo
- Neurobiology Research Laboratory, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri 64128, USA
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Festoff BW. Proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) in the nervous system: Roles in neuroplasticity and neurotrauma. Drug Dev Res 2003. [DOI: 10.1002/ddr.10321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Faraut B, Barbier J, Ravel-Chapuis A, Doyennette MA, Jandrot-Perrus M, Verdière-Sahuqué M, Schaeffer L, Koenig J, Hantaï D. Thrombin downregulates muscle acetylcholine receptors via an IP3 signaling pathway by activating its G-protein-coupled protease-activated receptor-1. J Cell Physiol 2003; 196:105-12. [PMID: 12767046 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.10280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Regulation of thrombin activity may be required during skeletal muscle differentiation since the thrombin tissue inhibitor protease nexin-1 appears at the myotube stage before being localized at the neuromuscular synapse. Here, we have used a model of rat fetal myotube primary cultures to study the effect of thrombin on acetylcholine receptor (AChR) expression, which is enhanced at the myotube stage. Our results show that thrombin decreases both the number of surface AChRs (AChRn) and AChR alpha-subunit gene expression. Using the agonist peptide SFLLRN, we establish that the AChRn decrease is mediated by the G protein-coupled thrombin receptor "protease-activated receptor-1" (PAR-1). Moreover, the specific thrombin inhibitor hirudin increases AChRn by inhibiting the thrombin intrinsically present in the cultures. We further demonstrate that the activation of PAR-1 by thrombin induces intracellular calcium movements that are blocked by 2-APB, an inhibitor of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3)-induced calcium release. These calcium signals are more intense in nuclei than in the cytoplasm and are consistent with the intracellular distribution of IP3 receptor that we find in the cytoplasm in a cross-striated pattern and at a high level in the nuclear envelope zone. Finally, we show that the blockade of these IP3-induced calcium signals by 2-APB prevents the AChRn decrease induced by thrombin. Our results thus demonstrate that thrombin downregulates AChR expression by activating PAR-1 and that this effect is mediated via an IP3 signaling pathway.
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MESH Headings
- Acetylcholine/pharmacology
- Animals
- Boron Compounds/pharmacology
- Calcium/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Down-Regulation/drug effects
- Fluorescence
- Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate/metabolism
- Muscle, Skeletal/cytology
- Muscle, Skeletal/drug effects
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Oligopeptides/pharmacology
- Peptide Fragments/pharmacology
- Protein Subunits
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Rats
- Receptor, PAR-1
- Receptors, Cholinergic/chemistry
- Receptors, Cholinergic/genetics
- Receptors, Cholinergic/metabolism
- Receptors, Thrombin/agonists
- Receptors, Thrombin/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Thrombin/pharmacology
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Affiliation(s)
- Brice Faraut
- INSERM U 523, Institut de Myologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Boven LA, Vergnolle N, Henry SD, Silva C, Imai Y, Holden J, Warren K, Hollenberg MD, Power C. Up-regulation of proteinase-activated receptor 1 expression in astrocytes during HIV encephalitis. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:2638-46. [PMID: 12594292 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.5.2638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Proteinase-activated receptor 1 (PAR-1) is a G protein-coupled receptor that is activated by thrombin and is implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammation. Although PAR-1 is expressed on immunocompetent cells within the brain such as astrocytes, little is known about its role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory brain diseases. Herein, we investigated PAR-1 regulation of brain inflammation by stimulating human astrocytic cells with thrombin or the selective PAR-1-activating peptide. Activated cells expressed significantly increased levels of IL-1 beta, inducible NO synthase, and PAR-1 mRNA. Moreover, supernatants of these same cells were neurotoxic, which was inhibited by an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist. Striatal implantation of the PAR-1-activating peptide significantly induced brain inflammation and neurobehavioral deficits in mice compared with mice implanted with the control peptide or saline. Since HIV-related neurological disease is predicated on brain inflammation and neuronal injury, the expression of PAR-1 in HIV encephalitis (HIVE) was investigated. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that PAR-1 and (pro)-thrombin protein expression was low in control brains, but intense immunoreactivity was observed on astrocytes in HIVE brains. Similarly, PAR-1 and thrombin mRNA levels were significantly increased in HIVE brains compared with control and multiple sclerosis brains. These data indicated that activation and up-regulation of PAR-1 probably contribute to brain inflammation and neuronal damage during HIV-1 infection, thus providing new therapeutic targets for the treatment of HIV-related neurodegeneration.
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- Leonie A Boven
- Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Meli R, Raso GM, Cicala C, Esposito E, Fiorino F, Cirino G. Thrombin and PAR-1 activating peptide increase iNOS expression in cytokine-stimulated C6 glioma cells. J Neurochem 2001; 79:556-63. [PMID: 11701759 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2001.00617.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Thrombin (THR) plays a key role in the brain under physiological and pathological conditions. Several of the biological activities of thrombin have been shown to be mainly driven through activation of protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1)-type thrombin receptor. Here we have studied the effect of THR and PAR-1-activating peptide (PAR1-AP), SFLLRN, on cytokine-induced expression of inducible nitric oxide (iNOS), a prominent marker of astroglial activation using the rat C6 glioma cells. In this cell line, THR (1-10 U/mL) and PAR1-AP (1-100 microM) induced a significant concentration-dependent increase both of IFN-gamma- (250 U/mL) or TNF-alpha- (500 U/mL) induced NO release. The observed increase of NO production was related to an enhancement of iNOS expression as measured in cell lysates prepared from different treatments by using SDS-PAGE followed by western blot analysis. The effect of THR, but not that of PAR1-AP, was significantly inhibited by hirulog(TM) (60 microg/mL), a specific and stochiometric THR inhibitor or by cathepsin-G (40 mU/mL), an inhibitor of PAR-1. In conclusion our data suggest a role for THR through activation of PAR-1 in the induction of astroglial iNOS, and further support the hypothesis that THR may function as an important pathophysiological modulator of the inflammatory response.
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- R Meli
- Department of Experimental Pharmacology, University of Naples, 'Federico II', Naples, Italy.
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Hernández M, Nieto ML, Sánchez Crespo M. Cytosolic phospholipase A2 and the distinct transcriptional programs of astrocytoma cells. Trends Neurosci 2000; 23:259-64. [PMID: 10838595 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-2236(00)01563-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Astrocytes constitute the most abundant cell type in the nervous system. Under physiological conditions, they respond to the stimuli to which neurons are also responsive. The use of astrocytoma cell lines with well-defined morphological and functional markers has been helpful for addressing the mechanisms of signal transduction that operate in the nervous system. On the basis of the effects produced by agonists of different types of receptor (muscarinic ACh receptors, thrombin receptors, phospholipases A2 receptors and tumor necrosis factor alpha receptors), several different transcriptional programs that involve the MAP kinase-cytosolic phospholipase A2 system and the transcription factor NF-kappaB have been described.
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- M Hernández
- Instituto de Biolog a y Genética Molecular, CSIC-Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain
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Thrombomodulin as a new marker of lesion-induced astrogliosis: involvement of thrombin through the G-protein-coupled protease-activated receptor-1. J Neurosci 2000. [PMID: 10729334 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-07-02543.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Because injury of the CNS causes an astrogliosis, characterized by cell swelling and proliferation, similar to the effects of the serine protease thrombin on astrocytes, we hypothesized that a high level of thrombin at the site of injury might initially induce an astrocyte reaction and later increase the expression of its specific inhibitor, thrombomodulin. Thrombomodulin could then stabilize the astroglial scar through its adhesive properties. Here, we studied the in vivo injury response of astrocytes in the anterior medullary velum of adult rat by immunostaining and in situ hybridization of thrombomodulin. Thrombomodulin was poorly expressed on astrocytes in normal tissue, increased up to 2 d after injury, and was still highly expressed at 6 d. To check that thrombin had a direct effect on thrombomodulin expression by astrocytes, we used brain cortical astrocyte primary cultures treated with either thrombin or the agonist peptide thrombin receptor-activating peptide-6, known to activate directly the thrombin G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1). Modification of thrombomodulin expression was studied by Western blotting and quantitative reverse transcription-PCR. There was a dose-dependent increase in thrombomodulin after 48 hr of treatment, with gene expression peaking at 24 hr but falling to control levels by 48 hr. Together, these results show the following: (1) injury increases astrocyte thrombomodulin expression; (2) thrombin might mediate thrombomodulin expression via the specific receptor PAR-1; and (3) serine proteases, their inhibitors, and the new family of GPCR, PARs, are active on astrogliosis.
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Altrogge LM, Monard D. An assay for high-sensitivity detection of thrombin activity and determination of proteases activating or inactivating protease-activated receptors. Anal Biochem 2000; 277:33-45. [PMID: 10610687 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1999.4356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This paper describes the development of galactosidase protease-activated receptor (GPAR) as a recombinant protein obtained by fusion of beta-galactosidase, the extracellular domains of protease-activated receptors (PARs), and a biotin acceptor domain. Used as an immobilized substrate, this protein allows the detection of thrombin in the sub-picomolar range. A comparative analysis for proteolytic cleavage of murine PAR1, PAR2, and PAR3 and human PAR4 was performed, involving mutated and nonmutated GPAR fusion proteins. Thrombin cleaved GPAR1 (2.6 mol(beta-galactosidase)/(mol(thrombin) * min)), GPAR3 (410 mmol(beta-galactosidase)/(mol(thrombin) * min)), and GPAR4 (4.3 mmol(beta-galactosidase)/(mol(thrombin) * min)) specifically at the proteolytic activation site. A second possible cleavage site for thrombin is present in murine PAR1 and PAR3. Trypsin and plasmin cleaved all receptor fusion proteins with little specificity for the activation site, except for a marked preference of trypsin for cleavage at the activation site of GPAR2. Chymotrypsin cleaves GPAR1 at a rate (58 mmol(beta-galactosidase)/(mol(thrombin) * min)) that suggests the possibility of chymotryptic inactivation of PAR1. Elastase may inactivate PAR1 and PAR3, but probably not PAR2 and PAR4. Neither activated protein C nor the plasminogen activators cleave any GPAR fusion protein at considerable rates.
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- L M Altrogge
- Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Postfach 2543, Basel, CH-4002, Switzerland
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