Journal
GLIA
Volume 60, Issue 9, Pages 1406-1416Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/glia.22361
Keywords
vesicle traffic; exocytosis; FTY720; sphingosine; ANP; emd
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- Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) [P3 310 0381J3-4146]
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105178791] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U105178791] Funding Source: UKRI
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In the brain, astrocytes signal to the neighboring cells by the release of chemical messengers (gliotransmitters) via regulated exocytosis. Recent studies uncovered a potential role of signaling lipids in modulation of exocytosis. Hence, we investigated whether sphingosine and the structural analog fingolimod/FTY720, a recently introduced therapeutic for multiple sclerosis, affect (i) intracellular vesicle mobility and (ii) vesicle cargo discharge from cultured rat astrocytes. Distinct types of vesicles, peptidergic, glutamatergic, and endosomes/lysosomes, were fluorescently prelabeled by cell transfection with plasmids encoding atrial natriuretic peptide tagged with mutant green fluorescent protein and vesicular glutamate transporter tagged with enhanced green fluorescent protein or by LysoTracker staining, respectively. The confocal and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopies were used to monitor vesicle mobility in the cytoplasm and near the basal plasma membrane, respectively. Sphingosine and FTY720, but not the membrane impermeable lipid analogs, dose-dependently attenuated vesicle mobility in the subcellular regions studied, and significantly inhibited stimulated exocytotic peptide and glutamate release. We conclude that in astrocytes, cell permeable sphingosine-like lipids affect regulated exocytosis by attenuating vesicle mobility, thereby preventing effective vesicle access/interaction with the plasma membrane docking/release sites. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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