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1-Mesityl-3-(3-Sulfonatopropyl) Imidazolium Protects Against Oxidative Stress and Delays Proteotoxicity in C. elegans

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FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.908696

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Caenorhabditis elegans; imidazolium salts; neurodegenerative disease; proteotoxicity; oxidative stress

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  1. Universidad Nacional Del Sur [24/B291, 24/B261, 24/Q108]
  2. Agencia Nacional de Promocion de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia ANPCYT Argentina [PICT 2019-0480, PICT-2017-0566, PICT-2020-1734, PICT-2018-03164, PICT-2020-01826]
  3. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina [11220200101606CO]

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Due to the increase in life expectancy worldwide, age-related disorders such as neurodegenerative diseases have become more prevalent. Conventional treatments only alleviate symptoms, but fail to address the underlying neuronal proteotoxicity. Imidazole rings are being explored as potential scaffolds for developing new bioactive molecules. This study investigates the anti-proteotoxic effects of imidazolium salts using C. elegans, and shows that 1-Mesityl-3-(3-sulfonatopropyl) imidazolium improves oxidative stress resistance and ameliorates protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases.
Due to the increase in life expectancy worldwide, age-related disorders such as neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) have become more prevalent. Conventional treatments comprise drugs that only attenuate some of the symptoms, but fail to arrest or delay neuronal proteotoxicity that characterizes these diseases. Due to their diverse biological activities, imidazole rings are intensively explored as powerful scaffolds for the development of new bioactive molecules. By using C. elegans, our work aims to explore novel biological roles for these compounds. To this end, we have tested the in vivo anti-proteotoxic effects of imidazolium salts. Since NDs have been largely linked to impaired antioxidant defense mechanisms, we focused on 1-Mesityl-3-(3-sulfonatopropyl) imidazolium (MSI), one of the imidazolium salts that we identified as capable of improving iron-induced oxidative stress resistance in wild-type animals. By combining mutant and gene expression analysis we have determined that this protective effect depends on the activation of the Heat Shock Transcription Factor (HSF-1), whereas it is independent of other canonical cytoprotective molecules such as abnormal Dauer Formation-16 (DAF-16/FOXO) and Skinhead-1 (SKN-1/Nrf2). To delve deeper into the biological roles of MSI, we analyzed the impact of this compound on previously established C. elegans models of protein aggregation. We found that MSI ameliorates beta-amyloid-induced paralysis in worms expressing the pathological protein involved in Alzheimer's Disease. Moreover, this compound also delays age-related locomotion decline in other proteotoxic C. elegans models, suggesting a broad protective effect. Taken together, our results point to MSI as a promising anti-proteotoxic compound and provide proof of concept of the potential of imidazole derivatives in the development of novel therapies to retard age-related proteotoxic diseases.

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