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CELLULAR SIGNALLING
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 253-259Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2013.11.017
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Proinsulin; Alzheimer's disease; A beta(1-42); Hippocampal neurons; GSK-3 beta; pHluorin
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [TY 60295227, TN 90506833]
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The reduction of insulin levels in hippocampal areas is associated with Alzheimer's disease. The present study using rat brain explores the mechanisms of insulin synthesis and secretion, as well as amyloid-beta(1-42) (A beta(1-42))-induced reduction of proinsulin expression. After confirming the expression of insulin mRNA and proinsulin in rat brain, we visualized and analyzed the motion of insulin secretion in rat hippocampal neurons using pH-sensitive green fluorescent protein (pHluorin) fused to the insulin. In the rat hippocampal neurons expressing insulin-pHluorin, time-lapse confocal laser scanning microscopy revealed the appearance of fluorescent spots induced by depolarization after stimulation with 50 mM KCl. In these fluorescent spots, Ca2+-dependent activator protein for secretion 2 (CAPS2), which is the regulator of the dense-core vesicle involving neuronal peptides, was co-localized with insulin-pHluorin. However, A beta(1-42)-induced reduction of proinsulin in rat hippocampal neurons was inhibited by treatment with lithium and transfection with glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3 beta) siRNA. These results demonstrate that synthesized insulin is secreted from rat hippocampal and cortical neuron's dense-core vesicles, and that activation of GSK-3 beta in A beta(1-42)-induced Alzheimer's model hippocampal neurons decreases the insulin synthesis. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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