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NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 192, Issue -, Pages 285-294Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.05.060
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motor neurons; NSC34 cells; glutathionylated proteins; cytoskeleton; oxidative stress; dying-back neurodegeneration
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Neurons are highly susceptible to oxidative stress and oxidation of cytoskeletal proteins is considered one of the first steps of neurodegeneration. Protein glutathionylation is a key event in the redox regulation of protein function and constitutes a sensor of tissue oxidative stress in pathophysiological conditions. In this study, we analyzed for the first time tubulin glutathionylation and its relation to neurites degeneration. For this purpose, we exposed motoneuronal cells to the physiological oxidant glutathione disulfide (GSSG) and we analyzed the extent and morphology of axonal changes caused by protein glutathionylation in these cells. Then we studied the effect of glutathionylation on the distribution of stable and dynamic microtubules in the same cells. Our results indicate that oxidative stress conditions determined by an increased intracellular level of oxidized glutathione may cause an alteration of the cytoskeleton organization and function leading to axon degeneration. These findings might contribute to understand the sequence of pathogenic events involved in the axonal degeneration that characterizes many diseases of the nervous system associated with oxidative stress. (C) 2011 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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