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CURRENT NEUROVASCULAR RESEARCH
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 249-261Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/156720206778792876
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human brain endothelial cells; hyperglycemia; insulin; GSH/GSSG redox; mitochondrial redox; GCLc; Nrf2
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK43785, R01 DK044510-12, R01 DK044510] Funding Source: Medline
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Increased oxidative stress and susceptibility of brain endothelium are contributing factors in the development of central nervous system complications in neurodegenerative disorders in diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The molecular mechanisms underpinning the vulnerability of brain endothelial cells to chronic oxidative challenge have not been elucidated. Here, we investigated the oxidative susceptibility of human brain endothelial cells (IHEC) to chronic hyperglycemic stress and insulin signaling and cytoprotection. Chronic hyperglycernia exacerbated IHEC apoptosis in accordance with exaggerated cytosolic and milochondrial glutathione and protein-thiol redox imbalance, and actin/Keap-1 S-glutathionylation. Insulin attenuated hyperglycemia-induced apoptosis via restored cytosolic and mitocliondrial redox. Insulin stimulated glutamate-L-cysteine ligase (GCL) activity by activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mTOR signaling, increased serine phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of nuclear NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), and upregulation of Nrf2-dependent GCL-catalytic (GCLc) subunit expression. Expression of the GCL-modulatory subunit (GCLm) was unchanged. Inhibitors of insulin receptor tyrosine kinase, PI3K, Akt and mTOR abrogated insulin-induced Nrf2-mediated GCLc expression, redox balance, and IHEC survival. Collectively, these results demonstrate that human brain endothelial cells exhibit vulnerability to hyperglycernic stress which is associated with marked cytosolic and mitochondrial redox shifts. Activation of insulin signaling through PI3K/Akt/mTOR/Nrf2/ GCLc pathway affords significant cell protection by maintaining cellular redox balance.
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