Angelova, PR;
Vinogradova, D;
Neganova, ME;
Serkova, TP;
Sokolov, VV;
Bachurin, SO;
Shevtsova, EF;
(2018)
Pharmacological Sequestration of Mitochondrial Calcium Uptake Protects Neurons Against Glutamate Excitotoxicity.
Molecular Neurobiology
, 56
(3)
pp. 2244-2255.
10.1007/s12035-018-1204-8.
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Abstract
Neuronal excitotoxicity which is induced by exposure to excessive extracellular glutamate is shown to be involved in neuronal cell death in acute brain injury and a number of neurological diseases. High concentration of glutamate induces calcium deregulation which results in mitochondrial calcium overload and mitochondrial depolarization that triggers the mechanism of cell death. Inhibition of mitochondrial calcium uptake could be potentially neuroprotective but complete inhibition of mitochondrial calcium uniporter could result in the loss of some physiological processes linked to Ca2+ in mitochondria. Here, we found that a novel compound, TG-2112x, can inhibit only the lower concentrations mitochondrial calcium uptake (induced by 100 nM-5 μM) but not the uptake induced by higher concentrations of calcium (10 μM and higher). This effect was not associated with changes in mitochondrial membrane potential and cellular respiration. However, a pre-treatment of neurons with TG-2112x protected the neurons against calcium overload upon application of toxic concentrations of glutamate. Thus, sequestration of mitochondrial calcium uptake protected the neurons against glutamate-induced mitochondrial depolarization and cell death. In our hands, TG-2112x was also protective against ionomycin-induced cell death. Hence, low rate mitochondrial calcium uptake plays an underestimated role in mitochondrial function, and its inhibition could protect neurons against calcium overload and cell death in glutamate excitotoxicity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Pharmacological Sequestration of Mitochondrial Calcium Uptake Protects Neurons Against Glutamate Excitotoxicity |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12035-018-1204-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-018-1204-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Mitochondria, Calcium, Glutamate, Excitotoxicity, Neuron, Glutamate |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053287 |
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