Abstract
Glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) has been identified as one of the important pathogenic mechanisms in motor neuronal death. GSK-3β inhibitor has been investigated as a modulator of apoptosis and has been shown to confer significant protective effects on cell death in neurodegenerative diseases. However, GSK-3β is known to have paradoxical effects on apoptosis subtypes, i.e., pro-apoptotic in mitochondrial-associated intrinsic apoptosis, but anti-apoptotic in death receptor-related extrinsic apoptosis. In this study, we evaluated the effect of a new GSK-3β inhibitor (JGK-263) on motor neuron cell survival and apoptosis, by using low to high doses of JGK-263 after 48. h of serum withdrawal, and monitoring changes in extrinsic apoptosis pathway components, including Fas, FasL, cleaved caspase-8, p38α, and the Fas-Daxx interaction. Cell survival peaked after treatment of serum-deprived cells with 50. μM JGK-263. The present study showed that treatment with JGK-263 reduced serum-deprivation-induced motor neuronal apoptosis by inactivating not only the intrinsic, but also the extrinsic apoptosis pathway. These results suggest that JGK-263 has a neuroprotective effect through effective modulation of the extrinsic apoptosis pathway in motor neuron degeneration.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 309-314 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
| Volume | 439 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 20 Sep 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology ( 2010-0011008 ). Additional support came in part from National Research Foundation fund ( 2010-0024351 ).
Keywords
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Extrinsic apoptosis
- Glycogen synthase kinase-3
- JGK-263
- Motor neuron