期刊
ASN NEURO
卷 4, 期 1, 页码 23-32出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/AN20110030
关键词
aglycaemia; astrocyte; cystine; glutamate; neuronal death; non-cell autonomous
资金
- National Institutes of Health [NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) [NS051445]
- National Institutes of Health [NINDS] [NS041224]
- National Institutes of Health (NRSA [NINDS]) [NS066745]
- National Institutes of Health [NIA (National Institute of Aging)] [AG035036]
Despite longstanding evidence that hypoglycaemic neuronal injury is mediated by glutamate excitotoxicity, the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved remain incompletely defined. Here, we demonstrate that the excitotoxic neuronal death that follows GD (glucose deprivation) is initiated by glutamate extruded from astrocytes via system x(c)(-) - an amino acid transporter that imports L-cystine and exports L-glutamate. Specifically, we find that depriving mixed cortical cell cultures of glucose for up to 8 h injures neurons, but not astrocytes. Neuronal death is prevented by ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonism and is partially sensitive to tetanus toxin. Removal of amino acids during the deprivation period prevents - whereas addition of L-cystine restores - GD-induced neuronal death, implicating the cystine/glutamate antiporter, system x(c)(-). Indeed, drugs known to inhibit system x(c)(-) ameliorate GD-induced neuronal death. Further, a dramatic reduction in neuronal death is observed in chimaeric cultures consisting of neurons derived from WT (wild-type) mice plated on top of astrocytes derived from sut mice, which harbour a naturally occurring null mutation in the gene (Slc7a11) that encodes the substrate-specific light chain of system x(c)(-) (xCT). Finally, enhancement of astrocytic system x(c)(-) expression and function via IL-1 beta (interleukin-1 beta) exposure potentiates hypoglycaemic neuronal death, the process of which is prevented by removal of L-cystine and/or addition of system x(c)(-) inhibitors. Thus, under the conditions of GD, our studies demonstrate that astrocytes, via system x(c)(-), have a direct, non-cell autonomous effect on cortical neuron survival.
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