Abstract:
:Amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) plays a major role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Abeta is toxic to neurons, possibly through causing initial synaptic dysfunction and neuronal membrane dystrophy, promoted by increased cellular Ca(2+). Calpain (Ca(2+)-dependent protease) and caspase have been implicated in AD. Previously, we used calpain and caspase pharmacological inhibitors to study effects of Abeta25-35 (sAbeta) on neuronal-like differentiated PC12 cells. We reported that sAbeta-treated cells exhibited calpain activation and protein degradation (due to both calpain and caspase-8). We have now found that overexpression of the calpain specific inhibitor calpastatin in differentiated PC12 cells significantly inhibited the sAbeta-induced calpain activation and decreased the protease activity. Calpastatin overexpression inhibited the sAbeta-promoted degradation of fodrin, protein kinase Cepsilon, beta-catenin (membrane structural proteins and proteins involved in signal transduction pathways), and prevented the sAbeta-induced alteration of neurite structure (manifested by varicosities). Overexpression of calpastatin also inhibited Ca(2+)-promoted calpain activation and protein degradation; this is consistent with the notion that the Abeta-induced increase in calpain activity results from a rise in cellular Ca(2+), provided the calpastatin level is not so high as to strongly inhibit calpain. Carrying out transfection without selection allowed the comparison in the same culture of calpastatin-overexpressing with non-overexpressing cells. In cultures transfected with green fluorescent protein (GFP)-calpastatin plasmid, calpastatin overexpression (indicated by GFP-labeling) led to inhibition in sAbeta-induced membrane propidium iodide (PI) permeability, whereas non-transfected, GFP-unlabeled cells exhibited PI permeability. Overall, the results demonstrate that the effects of Abeta-toxicity studied here were attenuated to a large extent by calpastatin overexpression, indicating that the protease calpain is involved in Abeta-toxicity (obviating a primary, direct role for caspases). Increased expression of calpastatin and/or decrease in calpain may serve as one of the means for ameliorating some of the early symptoms of AD.
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Vaisid T,Barnoy S,Kosower NSdoi
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