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  • 1
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: There is much evidence that the kinase cascade which leads to the phosphorylation of c-jun plays an important signaling role in the mediation of programmed cell death. We have previously shown that c-jun is phosphorylated in a model of induced apoptotic death in dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra in vivo. To determine the generality and functional significance of this response, we have examined c-jun phosphorylation and the effect on cell death of a novel mixed lineage kinase inhibitor, CEP11004, in the 6-hydroxydopamine model of induced apoptotic death in dopamine neurons. We found that expression of total c-jun and Ser73-phosphorylated c-jun is increased in this model and both colocalize with apoptotic morphology. CEP11004 suppresses apoptotic death to levels of 44 and 58% of control values at doses of 1.0 and 3.0 mg/kg, respectively. It also suppresses, to approximately equal levels, the number of profiles positive for the activated form of capase 9. CEP11004 markedly suppresses striatal dopaminergic fiber loss in these models, to only 22% of control levels. We conclude that c-jun phosphorylation is a general feature of apoptosis in living dopamine neurons and that the mixed lineage kinases play a functional role as up-stream mediators of cell death in these neurons.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: There is increasing evidence that neuron death in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, is due to the activation of programmed cell death. However, the upstream mediators of cell death remain largely unknown. One approach to the identification of upstream mediators is to perform gene expression analysis in disease models. Such analyses, performed in tissue culture models induced by neurotoxins, have identified up-regulation of CHOP/GADD153, a transcription factor implicated in apoptosis due to endoplasmic reticulum stress or oxidative injury. To evaluate the disease-related significance of these findings, we have examined the expression of CHOP/GADD153 in neurotoxin models of parkinsonism in living animals. Nuclear expression of CHOP protein is observed in developmental and adult models of dopamine neuron death induced by intrastriatal injection of 6-hydroxydopamine (6OHDA) and in models induced by 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). CHOP is a mediator of neuron death in the adult 60HDA model because a null mutation results in a reduction in apoptosis. In the chronic MPTP model, however, while CHOP is robustly expressed, the null mutation does not protect from the loss of neurons. We conclude that the role of CHOP depends on the nature of the toxic stimulus. For 6OHDA, an oxidative metabolite of dopamine, it is a mediator of apoptotic death.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 is predominantly expressed in postmitotic neurons and plays a role in neurite elongation during development. It has also been postulated to play a role in apoptosis in a variety of cells, including neurons, but little is known about the generality and functional significance of cdk5 expression in neuronal apoptosis in living brain. We have therefore examined its expression and that of its known activators, p35, p39 and p67, in models of induced apoptosis in neurons of the substantia nigra. We find that cdk5 is expressed in apoptotic profiles following intrastriatal injection of 6-hydroxydopamine and axotomy. It is expressed exclusively in profiles which are in late morphologic stages of apoptosis. In these late stages, derivation of the profiles from neurons, and localization of expression to the nucleus, can be demonstrated by co-labeling with a neuron-specific nuclear marker, NeuN. In another model of induced apoptotic death in nigra, produced by developmental striatal lesion, kinase activity increases in parallel with cell death. While mRNAs for all three cdk5 activators are expressed in nigra during development, only p35 protein is expressed in apoptotic profiles. We conclude that cdk5/p35 expression is a general feature of apoptotic neuron death in substantia nigra neurons in vivo.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 4
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Journal of neurochemistry 76 (2001), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Mutations in the α-synuclein gene have recently been identified in families with inherited Parkinson's disease and the protein product of this gene is a component of Lewy bodies, indicating that α-synuclein is involved in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis. A role for normal α-synuclein in synaptic function, apoptosis or plasticity responses has been suggested. We show here that in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells synuclein-1, the rat homolog of human α-synuclein, is highly and selectively up-regulated at the mRNA and protein levels after 7 days of nerve growth factor treatment. Synuclein-1 expression appears neither sufficient nor necessary for the neuritic sprouting that occurs within 1–2 days of nerve growth factor treatment. Rather, it likely represents a component of a late neuronal maturational response. Synuclein-1 redistributes diffusely within the cell soma and the neuritic processes in nerve growth factor-treated PC12 cells. Cultured neonatal rat sympathetic neurones express high levels of synuclein-1, with a diffuse intracellular distribution, similar to neuronal PC12 cells. These results suggest that levels of synuclein-1 may be regulated by neurotrophic factors in the nervous system and reinforce a role for α-synuclein in plasticity-maturational responses. In contrast, there is no correlation between synuclein expression and apoptotic death following trophic deprivation.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Abstract : Human α-synuclein was identified on the basis of proteolytic fragments derived from senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease, and it is the locus of mutations in some familial forms of Parkinson's disease. Its normal function and whether it may play a direct role in neural degeneration remain unknown. To explore cellular responses to neural degeneration in the dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra, we have developed a rodent model of apoptotic death induced by developmental injury to their target, the striatum. We find by mRNA differential display that synuclein is up-regulated in this model, and thus it provides an opportunity to examine directly whether synuclein plays a role in the death of these neurons or, alternatively, in compensatory responses. Up-regulation of mRNA is associated with an increase in the number of neuronal profiles immunostained for synuclein protein. At a cellular level, synuclein is almost exclusively expressed in normal neurons, rather than apoptotic profiles. Synuclein is up-regulated throughout normal postnatal development of substantia nigra neurons, but it is not further up-regulated during periods of natural cell death. We conclude that up-regulation of synuclein in the target injury model is unlikely to mediate apoptotic death and propose that it may be due to a compensatory response in neurons destined to survive.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Abstract: Programmed cell death has been proposed to play a role in the death of neurons in acute and chronic degenerative neurologic disease. There is now evidence that the caspases, a family of cysteine proteases, mediate programmed cell death in various cells. In neurons, caspase-3 (CPP32/Yama/apopain), in particular, has been proposed to play a role. We examined the expression of caspase-3 in three models of programmed cell death affecting neurons of the substantia nigra in the rat: natural developmental neuron death and induced developmental death following either striatal target injury with quinolinic acid or dopamine terminal lesion with intrastriatal injection of 6-hydroxydopamine. Using an antibody to the large (p17) subunit of activated caspase-3, we have found that activated enzyme is expressed in apoptotic profiles in all models. Increased p17 immunostaining correlated with increased enzyme activity. The sub-cellular distribution of activated caspase-3 differed among the models: In natural cell death and the target injury model, it was strictly nuclear, whereas in the toxin model, it was also cytoplasmic. We conclude that p17 immunostaining is a useful marker for programmed cell death in neurons of the substantia nigra.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-1777
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-1777
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Abstract We determined the sequence of Tu80, one of the molecular clones derived from microdissected fragments of Chromosome (Chr) 17. The sequence data demonstrated that Tu80 contains an open reading frame (ORF) of 204 bp. Two sequences within the ORF, one homologous to the LINE1 element and the other to the first intron of the C ε gene of mouse immunoglobulin, were observed. A separate sequence, homologous to Tu80, designated as NOV1, was isolated from a genomic library of mouse Chr 17. NOV1 was found to contain an inserted B2 repeat, making it structurally different from Tu80. The sequences of Tu80 and NOV1 were compared with those of LINE1 and the first intron of the C ε gene. The results suggest that the ancestor of the Tu80-like sequence might have arisen through recombination between a LINE1 element and the C ε gene. It is concluded that Tu80 and NOV1 might have resulted from duplication of an ancestral sequence followed by divergence. The comparative analysis also demonstrated a high degree of conservation of the LINE1-like sequence in Tu80 and NOV1. Based on the structure of human, rat, rabbit, and mouse LINE1 fragments, as well as those of NOV1 and Tu80, a phylogenetic tree was constructed. The available data tend to support the assumption that the ancestor for the Tu80-like sequence might have arisen not later than 27–33 million years ago.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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