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Sheline CT, Choi DW: Neuronal death in cultured murine cortical cells is induced by inhibition of GAPDH and triosephosphate isomerase. Neurobiol Dis. 1998 Jul;5(1):47-54.
Polyglutamine-containing proteins expressed in the CAG repeat diseases Huntington's disease and dentatorubralpallidoluyisian atrophy have recently been suggested to inhibit the key glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). To examine the consequences of GAPDH inhibition upon neuronal survival, we exposed murine neocortical cell cultures to the inhibitor of GAPDH and triosephosphate isomerase, alpha-monochlorohydrin. Cultures exposed to 6-15 mM alpha-monochlorohydrin for 48 h exhibited an increase in dihydroxyacetone phosphate and a decrease in neuronal ATP that was followed by progressive neuronal death; some glial death occurred at high drug concentrations. The neuronal death was characterized by cell body shrinkage and chromatin condensation and was sensitive to cycloheximide and to the caspase inhibitors Z-Val-Ala-Asp fluoromethylketone and tert-butoxycarbonyl-Asp fluoromethylketone. Neurons in striatal cell cultures were more vulnerable to death induced by exposure to alpha-monochlorohydrin, except that NADPH-diaphorase (+) neurons were selectively spared. Repeated addition of the glycolytic endpoint metabolite pyruvate to the bathing medium attenuated both the drop in neuronal ATP and the neuronal cell death. |
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