Miller Thomas A, Icli Basak, Cote Gregory M, Lebrasseur Nathan K, Borkan Steve C, Pimentel David R, Peng Xuyang, Sawyer Douglas B
Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2009 Jan 30;379(1):32-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.11.150. Epub 2008 Dec 12.
The saturated fatty acid palmitate alters normal cell function via disruption of cell signaling, and this effect has been implicated in the end-organ damage associated with dyslipidemia. Neuregulin-1beta (NRG-1beta) is a growth and survival factor in cardiac myocytes. We tested the hypothesis that palmitate alters NRG-1beta signaling and biology in isolated neonatal rat cardiac myocytes. Palmitate treatment inhibited NRG-1beta activation of the PI3-kinase/Akt pathway in myocytes. We found that the pro-apoptotic activity of palmitate was increased by NRG-1beta treatment. The effects of palmitate on NRG-1beta signaling and survival were reversed by the mono-unsaturated fatty acid oleate. Under control conditions NRG-1beta decreases p53 expression in myocytes. In the presence of palmitate, NRG-1beta caused an increase in p53 expression, bax multimer formation, concurrent with degradation of mdm2, a negative regulator of p53. Thus in the presence of palmitate NRG-1beta activates pro-apoptotic, rather than pro-survival signaling in cardiac myocytes.
饱和脂肪酸棕榈酸盐通过破坏细胞信号传导改变正常细胞功能,这种效应与血脂异常相关的终末器官损伤有关。神经调节蛋白-1β(NRG-1β)是心肌细胞中的一种生长和存活因子。我们检验了以下假设:棕榈酸盐会改变新生大鼠离体心肌细胞中NRG-1β的信号传导和生物学特性。棕榈酸盐处理抑制了心肌细胞中NRG-1β对PI3激酶/Akt途径的激活。我们发现,NRG-1β处理会增加棕榈酸盐的促凋亡活性。单不饱和脂肪酸油酸可逆转棕榈酸盐对NRG-1β信号传导和存活的影响。在对照条件下,NRG-1β可降低心肌细胞中p53的表达。在棕榈酸盐存在的情况下,NRG-1β导致p53表达增加、bax多聚体形成,同时p53的负调节因子mdm2降解。因此,在棕榈酸盐存在的情况下,NRG-1β在心肌细胞中激活促凋亡信号,而非促存活信号。