Journal
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 7, Pages 4363-4374Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-015-9373-1
Keywords
Hyperglycemia; Selenium; Apoptosis; DNA damage; p53 phosphorylation
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81471212, 81271275, 81070947, 30770759, 81301018]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong [ZR2012HZ006, ZR2015HQ009, ZR2015PH003]
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Hyperglycemia as the major hallmark of diabetic neuropathy severely limited its therapeutic efficiency. Evidences have revealed that selenium (Se) as an essential trace element could effectively reduce the risk of neurological diseases. In the present study, 3,3'-diselenodipropionic acid (DSePA), a derivative of selenocystine, was employed to investigate its protective effect against high glucose-induced neurotoxicity in PC12 cells and evaluate the underlying mechanism. The results suggested that high glucose showed significant cytotoxicity through launching mitochondria-mediated apoptosis in PC12 cells, accompanied by poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) cleavage, caspase activation, and mitochondrial dysfunction. Moreover, high glucose also triggered DNA damage and dysregulation of MAPKs and AKT pathways through reactive oxygen species (ROS) overproduction. p53 RNA interference partially suppressed high glucose-induced cytotoxicity and apoptosis, indicating the role of p53 in high glucose-induced signal. However, DSePA pretreatment effectively attenuated high glucose-induced cytotoxicity, inhibited the mitochondrial dysfunction through regulation of Bcl-2 family, and ultimately reversed high glucose-induced apoptotic cell death in PC12 cells. Attenuation of caspase activation, PARP cleavage, DNA damage, and ROS accumulation all confirmed its protective effects. Moreover, DSePA markedly alleviated the dysregulation of AKT and MAPKs pathways induced by high glucose. Our findings revealed that the strategy of using DSePA to antagonize high glucose-induced neurotoxicity may be a highly effective strategy in combating high glucose-mediated neurological diseases.
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