The neuronal SAPK/JNK pathway is altered in a murine model of hyperhomocysteinemia
| Autor: | Joelle Aupetit, Jacqueline London, Karine Robert, Evelyne Paly, Dominique Santiard-Baron, Nathalie Janel, P. Kamoun, Jean-François Chassé |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
congenital
hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities medicine.medical_specialty Hyperhomocysteinemia Differential display Homocysteine nutritional and metabolic diseases Biology Hippocampal formation medicine.disease Biochemistry Cystathionine beta synthase Cell biology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience chemistry.chemical_compound Endocrinology chemistry Internal medicine Gene expression medicine JNK cascade biology.protein Gene |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Neurochemistry. 89:33-43 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3042 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.02297.x |
| Popis: | Deficiency in cystathionine beta synthase (CBS) leads to high plasma homocysteine concentrations and causes hyperhomocysteinemia, a common risk factor for vascular disease, stroke and possibly neurodegenerative diseases. Various neuronal diseases have been associated with hyperhomocysteinemia, but the molecular mechanisms of homocysteine toxicity are unknown. We investigated the pathways involved in the pathological process, by analyzing differential gene expression in neuronal tissues. We used a combination of differential display and cDNA arrays to identify genes differentially expressed during hyperhomocysteinemia in brain of CBS-deficient mice. In this murine model of hyperhomocysteinemia, both plasma and brain homocysteine concentrations were high. Several genes were found to be differentially expressed in the brains of CBS-deficient mice, and the identities of some of these genes suggested that the SAPK/JNK pathway was altered in the brains of CBS-deficient mice. We therefore investigated the activation of proteins involved in the SAPK/JNK cascade. JNK and c-Jun were activated in the hippocampal neurones of CBS-deficient mice, suggesting that the SAPK/JNK pathway may play an important role in the development of neuronal defects associated with hyperhomocysteinemia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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