Nuclear accumulation of GAPDH, GluA2 and p53 in Post-mortem Substantia Nigral region of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Publication date: Available online 20 November 2019Source: Neuroscience LettersAuthor(s): Sathiya Sekar, Changiz TaghibiglouAbstractGlyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) has been well documented in glycolytic pathway. Independent of this, it has various other functions including stimulator of programmed cell death. Reports suggest that glutamate receptor AMPA type-2 subunit (GluA2) forms protein complex with GAPDH and internalized during excitotoxicity. Further, nuclear accumulation of GluA2 and GAPDH have been studied in neurological disorders like epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, and disruption of this complex rescued neurological symptoms such as astrogliosis, AMPA mediated excitotoxicity and p53 phosphorylation. On the other hand, study on ischemic rat model showed that nucleus translocated GAPDH binds with p53 leading to apoptosis. However, the molecular events underlying these processes remained to be established in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The present study focused on investigating the levels of GAPDH, GluA2 and p53 in the nuclear fraction (NF) and total homogenate (TH) of substantia nigral (SN) region obtained from post-mortem PD brains and their age-matched controls. The level of caspase 3, an apoptotic marker and mediator for p53 induced cell death was also measured. A significant increase in nuclear GAPDH, GluA2 and p53 were observed in PD SN region, compared to the controls. Similarly, increased caspase 3 level was observed in PD SN region. Data obta...
Source: Neuroscience Letters - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research