Journal
EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 387, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2019.111772
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Sodium butyrate; alpha-Synuclein; Autophagy; Apoptosis; Parkinson's disease; Inflammation
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81771384, 81801276]
- Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation [KYCX19_1893]
- Jiangsu Double Innovation Plan [2014-27]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M630512]
- Jiangnan University Public Health Program [JUPH201801]
- National First-class Discipline Program of Food Science and Technology [JUFSTR20180101]
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Aggregation of alpha-Synuclein is central to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, these alpha-Synuclein inclusions are not only present in brain, but also in gut. Enteroendocrine cells (EECs), which are directly exposed to the gut lumen, can express alpha-Synuclein and directly connect to alpha-Synuclein-containing nerves. Dysbiosis of gut microbiota and microbial metabolite short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) has been implicated as a driver for PD. Butyrate is an SCFA produced by the gut microbiota. Our aim was to demonstrate how alpha-Synuclein expression in EECs responds to butyrate stimulation. Interestingly, we found that sodium butyrate (NaB) increases alpha-Synuclein mRNA expression, enhances Atg5-mediated autophagy (increased LC3B-II and decreased SQSTM1 (also known as p62) expression) in murine neuroendocrine STC-1 cells. Further, alpha-Synuclein mRNA was decreased by the inhibition of autophagy by using inhibitor bafilomycin A1 or by silencing Atg5 with siRNA. Moreover, the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway was significantly inhibited and cell apoptosis was activated by NaB. Conditioned media from NaB-stimulated STC-1 cells induced inflammation in SH-SY5Y cells. Collectively, NaB causes alpha-Synudein degradation by an Atg5-dependent and PI3K/Akt/mTOR-related autophagy pathway.
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