期刊
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 42, 期 6, 页码 1841-1857出版社
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-021-01063-w
关键词
TNF-α Angiostrongylus cantonensis; Apoptosis; Necroptosis
资金
- Major Science and Technology Program of Hainan Province [ZDKJ202003]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82072303, 81572023]
- Key Research and Development Program of Hainan Province [ZDYF2020120]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation [2019A1515011541]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2019B030316025]
- National Parasitic Resources Center of China [NPRC-2019-194-30]
- Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education, Hainan Medical University [2020TTM007]
- 111 Project [B12003]
The study revealed that TNF-α plays a central role in inducing apoptosis and necroptosis in the context of Angiostrongylus cantonensis (AC) infection, with astrocytes undergoing apoptosis through the RIP1/FADD/Caspase-8 axis and neurons undergoing necroptosis through the RIP3/MLKL pathway. In addition, it was shown that TNF-α secretion by microglia upon AC stimulation caused necroptosis of neurons. This research provides new insight into targeting TNF-α signaling as a therapeutic strategy for central nervous system injuries caused by AC infection.
Angiostrongylus cantonensis (AC) can cause severe eosinophilic meningitis or encephalitis in non-permissive hosts accompanied by apoptosis and necroptosis of brain cells. However, the explicit underlying molecular basis of apoptosis and necroptosis upon AC infection has not yet been elucidated. To determine the specific pathways of apoptosis and necroptosis upon AC infection, gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and protein-protein interaction (PPI) analysis for gene expression microarray (accession number: GSE159486) of mouse brain infected by AC revealed that TNF-alpha likely played a central role in the apoptosis and necroptosis in the context of AC infection, which was further confirmed via an in vivo rescue assay after treating with TNF-alpha inhibitor. The signalling axes involved in apoptosis and necroptosis were investigated via immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting. Immunofluorescence was used to identify the specific cells that underwent apoptosis or necroptosis. The results showed that TNF-alpha induced apoptosis of astrocytes through the RIP1/FADD/Caspase-8 axis and induced necroptosis of neurons by the RIP3/MLKL signalling pathway. In addition, in vitro assay revealed that TNF-alpha secretion by microglia increased upon LSA stimulation and caused necroptosis of neurons. The present study provided the first evidence that TNF-alpha was secreted by microglia stimulated by AC infection, which caused cell death via parallel pathways of astrocyte apoptosis (mediated by the RIP1/FADD/caspase-8 axis) and neuron necroptosis (driven by the RIP3/MLKL complex). Our research comprehensively elucidated the mechanism of cell death after AC infection and provided new insight into targeting TNF-alpha signalling as a therapeutic strategy for CNS injury.
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