Abstract:
:Studies in vitro have shown that phosphorylated translation initiation factor 2 alpha (TIF 2 alpha) may have several functions, including regulation of protein synthesis, control of cell death and procurement of resistance to oxidative stress in nerve cells. These properties may have implications in certain human neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (CJD), in which oxidative stress appears to be involved in the process of neurodegeneration and neurone death. Single and double-labelling immunohistochemistry to phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha, phosphorylated SAPK/JNK, phosphorylated p38, tau, Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD 1) and cleaved caspase-3 (17 kDa), and in situ end-labelling of nuclear DNA fragmentation, was carried out in postmortem samples of 10 patients with AD (stages III and VI of Braak and Braak), seven patients with CJD (five cases with methionine/methionine and two cases with methionine/valine at the codon 129 of the PrP gene) and eight age-matched controls. No phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha immunoreactivity was found in control brains, but strong phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha expression was observed in subpopulations of neurones bearing neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) or pretangles in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and isocortex in AD. Phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha is restricted to neurones with abnormal tau deposition, but only approximately 80% of neurones with NFTs in the hippocampus and 60% in the isocortex colocalize phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha, thus indicating that not all neurones with NFTs over-express phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha. Moreover, phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha immunoreactivity was found in a percentage of neurones expressing phosphorylated SAPK/JNK and p38, which, in turn, are involved in tau phosphorylation in AD. However, dystrophic neurites of senile plaques that contain abnormal tau and express SOD 1 are negative to antiphosphorylated TIF 2 alpha antibodies. Smooth muscle cells in blood vessels affected by amyloid angiopathy, which are putative targets of beta A 4 amyloid-derived oxidative stress, are not associated with phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha immunoreactivity. Double-staining with the method of in situ end-labelling of nuclear DNA fragmentation demonstrated no relationship between phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha expression and increased nuclear DNA vulnerability in individual cells. Moreover, no single caspase-3-immunoreactive cell in AD expressed phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha. Oxidative stress response, manifested as positive SOD 1 expression in Bergmann glia and in a few reactive astrocytes, has been demonstrated in CJD. No phosphorylated SAPK/JNK or phosphorylated p38 kinase immunoreactivity was observed in these cases. Moreover, neurones and glial cells do not over-express phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha in CJD. The present results demonstrate selective expression of phosphorylated TIF 2 alpha in subpopulations of nerve cells with abnormal tau deposition, and suggest that factors linked with tau deposition regulate protein synthesis throughout TIF 2 alpha phosphorylation in certain neurones sensitive to oxidative stress in AD.
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Neuropathol Appl Neurobioljournal_title
Neuropathology and applied neurobiologyauthors
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