Journal
BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY
Volume 59, Issue 4, Pages 197-203Publisher
EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2005.03.002
Keywords
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS); Nerve Growth Factor (NGF); CREB transcription factor; Manganese Superoxide Dismutase (MnSOD)
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a central role in neuronal pathophysiology and in neurodegenerative disorders. However, recent evidence indicates that these molecules also operate as signaling intermediates in a variety of physiological settings, including cell protection from apoptosis. Data presented here strongly support such a dual role for oxidants in neuronal cell homeostasis. In rat pheocromocytoma cells, cell rescue by the nerve growth factor (NGF) is accompanied by a transient burst of ROS generated in the cytosol by a GTPase-dependent mechanism. Within the NGF signaling cascade, ROS lie. upstream and are necessary for activation/phosphorylation of AKT/PKB and of the antiapoptotic transcription factor cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB). Conversely, an increase in mitochondrial oxygen species heralds apoptosis of serum-deprived cells, and these events can be prevented by cell exposure to NGF or by treatment with the mitochondrially targeted antioxidant MitoQ. Importantly, NGF-mediated decrease of mitochondrial ROS is dependent on the transcriptional up-regulation of, the manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) by active CREB. These observations therefore outline a circuitry whereby cytosolic redox signaling promotes neuronal cell survival by increasing the mitochondrial antioxidant defenses. © 2005 Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.
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