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Jiang C, Storey KB, Yang H, Sun L. Aestivation in Nature: Physiological Strategies and Evolutionary Adaptations in Hypometabolic States. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:14093. [PMID: 37762394 PMCID: PMC10531719 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241814093] [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: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Aestivation is considered to be one of the "purest" hypometabolic states in nature, as it involves aerobic dormancy that can be induced and sustained without complex factors. Animals that undergo aestivation to protect themselves from environmental stressors such as high temperatures, droughts, and food shortages. However, this shift in body metabolism presents new challenges for survival, including oxidative stress upon awakening from aestivation, accumulation of toxic metabolites, changes in energy sources, adjustments to immune status, muscle atrophy due to prolonged immobility, and degeneration of internal organs due to prolonged food deprivation. In this review, we summarize the physiological and metabolic strategies, key regulatory factors, and networks utilized by aestivating animals to address the aforementioned components of aestivation. Furthermore, we present a comprehensive overview of the advancements made in aestivation research across major species, including amphibians, fish, reptiles, annelids, mollusks, and echinoderms, categorized according to their respective evolutionary positions. This approach offers a distinct perspective for comparative analysis, facilitating an understanding of the shared traits and unique features of aestivation across different groups of organisms.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chunxi Jiang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; (C.J.); (H.Y.)
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science & Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada;
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; (C.J.); (H.Y.)
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science & Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; (C.J.); (H.Y.)
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science & Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Malik AI, Storey JM, Storey KB. Regulation of the unfolded protein response during dehydration stress in African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis. Cell Stress Chaperones 2023; 28:529-540. [PMID: 35484355 PMCID: PMC10468459 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-022-01275-z] [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: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a wide-ranging cellular response to accumulation of malfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and acts as a quality control mechanism to halt protein processing and repair/destroy malfolded proteins under stress conditions of many kinds. Among vertebrate species, amphibians experience the greatest challenges in maintaining water and osmotic balance, the high permeability of their skin making them very susceptible to dehydration and challenging their ability to maintain cellular homeostasis. The present study evaluates the involvement of the UPR in dealing with dehydration-mediated disruption of protein processing in the tissues of African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis. This primarily aquatic frog must deal with seasonal drought conditions in its native southern Africa environment. Key markers of cellular stress that impact protein processing were identified in six tissues of frogs that had lost 28% of total body water, as compared with fully hydrated controls. This included upregulation of glucose-regulated proteins (GRPs) that are resident chaperones in the ER, particularly 2-ninefold increases in GRP58, GRP75, and/or GRP94 in the lung and skin. Activating transcription factors (ATF3, ATF4, ATF6) that mediate UPR responses also responded to dehydration stress, particularly in skeletal muscle where both ATF3 and ATF4 rose strongly in the nucleus. Other protein markers of the UPR including GADD34, GADD153, EDEM, and XBP-1 also showed selective upregulation in frog tissues in response to dehydration and nuclear levels of the transcription factors XBP-1 and P-CREB rose indicating up-regulation of genes under their control.
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- Amal Idris Malik
- Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada.
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Naranjo M, Breedon SA, Storey KB. Cardiac microRNA expression profile in response to estivation. Biochimie 2023:S0300-9084(23)00001-9. [PMID: 36627041 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2023.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 01/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Couch's spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus couchii) spends most of the year underground in a hypometabolic state known as estivation. During this time, they overcome significant dehydration and lack of food through many mechanisms including employing metabolic rate depression (MRD), increasing urea concentration, switching to lipid oxidation as the primary energy source, and decreasing their breathing and heart rate. MicroRNA (miRNA) are known to regulate translation by targeting messenger RNA (mRNA) for degradation or temporary storage, with several studies having reported that miRNA is differentially expressed during MRD, including estivation. Thus, we hypothesized that miRNA would be involved in gene regulation during estivation in S. couchii heart. Next-generation sequencing and bioinformatic analyses were used to assess changes in miRNA expression in response to two-month estivation and to predict the downstream effects of this expression. KEGG and GO analyses indicated that ribosome and cardiac muscle contraction are among the pathways predicted to be upregulated, whereas cell signaling and fatty acid metabolism were predicted to be downregulated. Together these results suggest that miRNAs contribute to the regulation of gene expression related to cardiac muscle physiology and energy metabolism during estivation.
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- Mairelys Naranjo
- Institute of Biochemistry & Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6
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- Institute of Biochemistry & Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6
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- Institute of Biochemistry & Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6.
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Wu CW, Storey KB. mTOR Signaling in Metabolic Stress Adaptation. Biomolecules 2021; 11:biom11050681. [PMID: 34062764 PMCID: PMC8147357 DOI: 10.3390/biom11050681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a central regulator of cellular homeostasis that integrates environmental and nutrient signals to control cell growth and survival. Over the past two decades, extensive studies of mTOR have implicated the importance of this protein complex in regulating a broad range of metabolic functions, as well as its role in the progression of various human diseases. Recently, mTOR has emerged as a key signaling molecule in regulating animal entry into a hypometabolic state as a survival strategy in response to environmental stress. Here, we review current knowledge of the role that mTOR plays in contributing to natural hypometabolic states such as hibernation, estivation, hypoxia/anoxia tolerance, and dauer diapause. Studies across a diverse range of animal species reveal that mTOR exhibits unique regulatory patterns in an environmental stressor-dependent manner. We discuss how key signaling proteins within the mTOR signaling pathways are regulated in different animal models of stress, and describe how each of these regulations uniquely contribute to promoting animal survival in a hypometabolic state.
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- Cheng-Wei Wu
- Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, 52 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B4, Canada
- Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B3, Canada
- Correspondence:
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada;
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Insights from a vertebrate model organism on the molecular mechanisms of whole-body dehydration tolerance. Mol Cell Biochem 2021; 476:2381-2392. [PMID: 33595794 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-021-04072-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2021] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
Studies on the molecular mechanisms of dehydration tolerance have been largely limited to plants and invertebrates. Currently, research in whole body dehydration of complex animals is limited to cognitive and behavioral effects in humans, leaving the molecular mechanisms of vertebrate dehydration relatively unexplored. The present review summarizes studies to date on the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and examines whole-body dehydration on physiological, cellular and molecular levels. This aquatic frog is exposed to seasonal droughts in its native habitat and can endure a loss of over 30% of its total body water. When coping with dehydration, osmoregulatory processes prioritize water retention in skeletal tissues and vital organs over plasma volume. Although systemic blood circulation is maintained in the vital organs and even elevated in the brain during dehydration, it is done so at the expense of reduced circulation to the skeletal muscles. Increased hemoglobin affinity for oxygen helps to counteract impaired blood circulation and metabolic enzymes show altered kinetic and regulatory parameters that support the use of anaerobic glycolysis. Recent studies with X. laevis also show that pro-survival pathways such as antioxidant defenses and heat shock proteins are activated in an organ-specific manner during dehydration. These pathways are tightly coordinated at the post-transcriptional level by non-coding RNAs, and at the post-translational level by reversible protein phosphorylation. Paired with ongoing research on the X. laevis genome, the African clawed frog is poised to be an ideal animal model with which to investigate the molecular adaptations for dehydration tolerance much more deeply.
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Hadj-Moussa H, Wade SC, Childers CL, Storey KB. Mind the GAP: Purification and characterization of urea resistant GAPDH during extreme dehydration. Proteins 2020; 89:544-557. [PMID: 33368595 DOI: 10.1002/prot.26038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) withstands prolonged periods of extreme whole-body dehydration that lead to impaired blood flow, global hypoxia, and ischemic stress. During dehydration, these frogs shift from oxidative metabolism to a reliance on anaerobic glycolysis. In this study, we purified the central glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) to electrophoretic homogeneity and investigated structural, kinetic, subcellular localization, and post-translational modification properties between control and 30% dehydrated X. laevis liver. GAPDH from dehydrated liver displayed a 25.4% reduction in maximal velocity and a 55.7% increase in its affinity for GAP, as compared to enzyme from hydrated frogs. Under dehydration mimicking conditions (150 mM urea and 1% PEG), GAP affinity was reduced with a Km value 53.8% higher than controls. Frog dehydration also induced a significant increase in serine phosphorylation, methylation, acetylation, beta-N-acetylglucosamination, and cysteine nitrosylation, post-translational modifications (PTMs). These modifications were bioinformatically predicted and experimentally validated to govern protein stability, enzymatic activity, and nuclear translocation, which increased during dehydration. These dehydration-responsive protein modifications, however, did not appear to affect enzymatic thermostability as GAPDH melting temperatures remained unchanged when tested with differential scanning fluorimetry. PTMs could promote extreme urea resistance in dehydrated GAPDH since the enzyme from dehydrated animals had a urea I50 of 7.3 M, while the I50 from the hydrated enzyme was 5.3 M. The physiological consequences of these dehydration-induced molecular modifications of GAPDH likely suppress GADPH glycolytic functions during the reduced circulation and global hypoxia experienced in dehydrated X. laevis.
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- Hanane Hadj-Moussa
- Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.,National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Green SR, Al-Attar R, McKechnie AE, Naidoo S, Storey KB. Role of Akt signaling pathway regulation in the speckled mousebird (Colius striatus) during torpor displays tissue specific responses. Cell Signal 2020; 75:109763. [PMID: 32871209 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2020.109763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Abstract
Pronounced heterothermic responses are relatively rare among birds. Along with taxa such as hummingbirds and caprimulgids, the order Coliiformes (mousebirds) is known to possess the physiological capacity for torpor. During torpor, body temperature is greatly reduced and a bird becomes unresponsive to external stimuli until ambient temperatures return to more favorable conditions. Under such conditions, these birds are forced to rely only on their internal fuel storage for energy and show great reduction in metabolic rates by decreasing energy-expensive processes. This study investigated the role of the key insulin-Akt signaling kinase pathway involved in regulating energy metabolism and protein translation in the liver, kidney, heart, skeletal muscle, and brain of the speckled mousebird (Colius striatus). The degree of phosphorylation of well-conserved target residues with important regulatory function was examined in both the euthermic control and torpid birds. The results demonstrated marked differences in responses between the tissues with decreases in RPS6 S235/236 phosphorylation in the kidney (0.52 fold of euthermic) and muscle (0.29 fold of euthermic) as well as decreases in GS3K3β S9 in muscle (0.60 fold of euthermic) and GSK3α S21 (0.71 fold of euthermic) phosphorylation in kidney during torpor, suggesting a downregulation of this pathway. Interestingly, the liver demonstrated an increase in RPS6 S235/236 (2.89 fold increase) and P70S6K T412 (1.44 fold increase) phosphorylation in the torpor group suggesting that protein translation is maintained in this tissue. This study demonstrates that avian torpor is a complex phenomenon and alterations in this signaling pathway follow a tissue specific pattern.
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- Stuart R Green
- Institute of Biochemistry & Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute of Biochemistry & Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Ontario, Canada
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- South African Research Chair in Conservation Physiology, National Zoological Garden, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa; DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa
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- South African Research Chair in Conservation Physiology, National Zoological Garden, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa; DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa
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- Institute of Biochemistry & Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Ontario, Canada.
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Hawkins LJ, Storey KB. MicroRNA expression in the heart of Xenopus laevis facilitates metabolic adaptation to dehydration. Genomics 2020; 112:3525-3536. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2019] [Revised: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Wu CW, Tessier SN, Storey KB. Dehydration stress alters the mitogen-activated-protein kinase signaling and chaperone stress response in Xenopus laevis. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2020; 246-247:110461. [PMID: 32497588 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2020.110461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
Abstract
In arid conditions, the African Clawed frog Xenopus laevis enters a state of estivation dormancy as an adaptive survival strategy. Under estivation, X. laevis experience severe dehydration stress as 25-35% of total body water is lost. Dehydration in X. laevis can lead to periods of hypoxia due to elevated blood viscosity that impedes tissue perfusion. To understand how X. laevis survives under such stress, we studied the regulation pattern of key mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) and their downstream transcription factors, along with several heat shock proteins in the oxygen sensitive brain and heart tissue of X. laevis under dehydration stress. Our study revealed that the activation phosphorylation residues of MAPK including JNK and MSK and their downstream transcription factors c-Jun and ATF2 are significantly decreased in the heart under dehydration. Given that JNK, c-Jun, and ATF2 are known positive regulators of apoptosis, this regulatory pattern suggest that a state of pro-survival signals may be established in the dehydrated heart. In support of this, protein levels of HSP60, a pro-apoptotic mitochondrial chaperone, was also downregulated in the heart in response to dehydration stress. In the brain tissue, most proteins remain unchanged with the exception of the apoptosis regulating p53 transcription factor, which showed a significant decrease in its activating phosphorylation residue under dehydration. Overall, our study revealed that in the Xenopus brain and heart, a specific suppression pattern of MAPK, transcription factors, and HSP takes place to potentially establish a state of pro-survival under dehydration stress.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cheng-Wei Wu
- Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, 52 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5B4, Canada; Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B3, Canada
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- BioMEMS Resource Center & Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 114 16th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada.
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Garrido-Armas M, Corona JC, Escobar ML, Torres L, Ordóñez-Romero F, Hernández-Hernández A, Arenas-Huertero F. Paraptosis in human glioblastoma cell line induced by curcumin. Toxicol In Vitro 2018; 51:63-73. [PMID: 29723631 DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2018.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Revised: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Curcumin is a polyphenol compound extracted from Curcuma longa plant, is a molecule with pleiotropic effects that suppresses transformation, proliferation and metastasis of malignant tumors. Curcumin can cause different kinds of cell death depending of its concentration on the exposed cell type. Here we show that exposure of the glioblastoma cell line A172 to curcumin at 50 μM, the IC50, causes morphological change characteristic of paraptosis cell-death. Vesicles derived from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and low membrane potential of the mitochondria were constantly found in the exposed cells. Furthermore, changes in expression of the ER Stress Response (ERSR) genes IRE1 and ATF6, and the microRNAs (miRNAs) miR-27a, miR-222, miR-449 was observed after exposure to curcumin. AKT-Insulin and p53-BCL2 networks were predicted being modulated by the affected miRNAs. Furthermore, AKT protein levels reduction was confirmed. Our data, strongly suggest that curcumin exerts its cell-death properties by affecting the integrity of the reticulum, leading to paraptosis in the glioblastoma cells. These data unveils the versatility of curcumin to control cancer progression.
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- Laboratorio de Neurociencias, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, Av. Dr. Márquez 162. Colonia Doctores, C.P. 06720 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Celular, Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Av. Universidad 3000, Circuito Exterior S/N Delegación Coyoacán, C.P. 04510. Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratorio de Citogenética, Departamento de Investigación en Genética Humana, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Av. Insurgentes Sur 3700, Letra C, Col. Insurgentes Cuicuilco, Delegación Coyoacán, C.P. 04530 Ciudad de México, México
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