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BRAIN SCIENCES
Volume 9, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci9090238
Keywords
excitotoxicity; mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC); neuroprotection; neurotoxicity; Warburg effect
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- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
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The mitochondrial pyruvate carriers mediate pyruvate import into the mitochondria, which is key to the sustenance of the tricarboxylic cycle and oxidative phosphorylation. However, inhibition of mitochondria pyruvate carrier-mediated pyruvate transport was recently shown to be beneficial in experimental models of neurotoxicity pertaining to the context of Parkinson's disease, and is also protective against excitotoxic neuronal death. These findings attested to the metabolic adaptability of neurons resulting from MPC inhibition, a phenomenon that has also been shown in other tissue types. In this short review, I discuss the mechanism and potential feasibility of mitochondrial pyruvate carrier inhibition as a neuroprotective strategy in neuronal injury and neurodegenerative diseases.
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