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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 1861, Issue 1, Pages 236-244Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2018.07.009
Keywords
Amyloid beta peptide; RBC; Nitric oxide synthase; PKC; Caspase 3; Atomic force microscopy; Membrane roughness
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- University of Cassino and LM
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Circulating red blood cells (RBCs) undergo aging, a fundamental physiological phenomenon that regulates their turnover. We show that treatment with beta amyloid peptide 1-42 (A beta) accelerates the occurrence of morphological and biochemical aging markers in human RBCs and influences the cell metabolism leading to intracellular ATP depletion. The morphological pattern has been monitored using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) imaging and measuring the RBCs' plasma membrane roughness employed as a morphological parameter capable to provide information on the structure and integrity of the membrane-skeleton. Results evidence that A beta boosts the development of crenatures and proto-spicules simultaneously to acceleration in the weakening of the cell-cytoskeleton contacts and to the induction of peculiar nanoscale features on the cell membrane. Incubation in the presence of glucose can remove all but the latter A beta-induced effects. Biochemical data demonstrate that contemporaneously to morphological and structural alterations, A beta and glucose depletion trigger a complex signaling pathway involving caspase 3, protein kinase C (PKC) and nitric oxide derived metabolites. As a whole, the collected data revealed that, the damaging path induced by A beta in RBC provide a sequence of morphological and functional intermediates following one another along RBC life span, including: (i) an acceleration in the development of shape alteration typically observed along the RBC's aging; (ii) the development of characteristic membrane features on the plasma membrane and (iii) triggering a complex signaling pathway involving caspase 3, PKC and nitric oxide derived metabolites.
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