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Interaction among mitochondria, mitogen-activated protein kinases,
and nuclear factor-kappaB in cellular models of Parkinson's disease.

Oxidative stress induced by acute complex I inhibition with 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion activated biphasically the stress-activated c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and the early transcription factor nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells.

Early JNK activation was dependent on mitochondrial adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT) activity, whereas late-phase JNK activation and the cleavage of signaling proteins Raf-1 and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase (MEK) kinase (MEKK)-1 appeared to be ANT-independent.

Early NF-kappaB activation depended on MEK, later activation required an intact electron transport chain (ETC), and Parkinson's disease (PD) cybrid (mitochondrial transgenic cytoplasmic hybrid) cells had increased basal NF-kappaB activation.

Mitochondria appear capable of signaling ETC impairment through MAPK modules and inducing protective NF-kappaB responses, which are increased by PD mitochondrial genes amplified in cybrid cells.

Irreversible commitment to apoptosis in this cell model may derive from loss of Raf-1 and cleavage/activation of MEKK-1, processes reported in other models to be caspase-mediated.

Therapeutic strategies that reduce mitochondrial activation of proapoptotic MAPK modules, i.e., JNK, and enhance survival pathways, i.e., NF-kappaB, may offer neuroprotection in this debilitating disease.


J Neurochem 2000 Apr;74(4):1384-92
Cassarino DS, Halvorsen EM, Swerdlow RH, Abramova NN,
Parker WD Jr, Sturgill TW, Bennett JP Jr
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908, Virginia USA.
PMID: 10737593, UI: 20199854

"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10737593&dopt=Abstract"

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