Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Neurosci Lett. 2012 Oct 11;527(2):126-31. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.08.051. Epub 2012 Sep 5.
Proteasome impairment and accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins are implicated in neurodegeneration associated with different forms of spinal cord injury. We show herein that elevating cAMP in rat spinal cord neurons increases 26S proteasome activity in a protein kinase A-dependent manner. Treating spinal cord neurons with dibutyryl-cAMP (db-cAMP) also raised the levels of various components of the UPP including proteasome subunits Rpt6 and β5, polyubiquitin shuttling factor p62/sequestosome1, E3 ligase CHIP, AAA-ATPase p97 and the ubiquitin gene ubB. Finally, db-cAMP reduced the accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins, proteasome inhibition, and neurotoxicity triggered by the endogenous product of inflammation prostaglandin J2. We propose that optimizing the effects of cAMP/PKA-signaling on the UPP could offer an effective therapeutic approach to prevent UPP-related proteotoxicity in spinal cord neurons.
蛋白酶体功能障碍和泛素化蛋白的积累与不同形式的脊髓损伤相关的神经退行性变有关。我们在此表明,在大鼠脊髓神经元中升高 cAMP 可通过蛋白激酶 A 依赖性方式增加 26S 蛋白酶体的活性。用二丁酰环腺苷酸 (db-cAMP) 处理脊髓神经元也提高了 UPP 的各种成分的水平,包括蛋白酶体亚基 Rpt6 和 β5、泛素穿梭因子 p62/自噬体 1、E3 连接酶 CHIP、AAA-ATP 酶 p97 和泛素基因 ubB。最后,db-cAMP 减少了由炎症内源性产物前列腺素 J2 触发的泛素化蛋白、蛋白酶体抑制和神经毒性的积累。我们提出,优化 cAMP/PKA 信号对 UPP 的影响可能为预防脊髓神经元中 UPP 相关蛋白毒性提供一种有效的治疗方法。