PUBLICATION

Endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated neuronal apoptosis by acrylamide exposure

Authors
Komoike, Y., Matsuoka, M.
ID
ZDB-PUB-160917-6
Date
2016
Source
Toxicology and applied pharmacology   310: 68-77 (Journal)
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Keywords
Acrylamide, Endoplasmic reticulum stress, Reactive oxygen species, SH-SY5Y cells, Zebrafish, eIF2α–ATF4 pathway
MeSH Terms
  • Acrylamide/toxicity*
  • Activating Transcription Factor 4/metabolism
  • Animals
  • Apoptosis/drug effects*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress/drug effects*
  • Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-2/metabolism
  • Humans
  • Neuroblastoma/metabolism
  • Neuroblastoma/pathology
  • Neurons/drug effects*
  • Neurons/pathology
  • RNA, Messenger/genetics
  • Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism
  • Transcription Factor CHOP/genetics
  • Zebrafish
PubMed
27634458 Full text @ Tox. App. Pharmacol.
CTD
27634458
Abstract
Acrylamide (AA) is a well-known neurotoxic compound in humans and experimental animals.However, intracellular stress signaling pathways responsible for the neurotoxicity of AA are still not clear.In this study, we explored the involvement of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response in AA-induced neuronal damage in vitro and in vivo.Exposure of SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells to AA increased the levels of phosphorylated form of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α) and its downstream effector, activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), indicating the induction of the unfolded protein response (UPR) by AA exposure.Furthermore, AA exposure increased the mRNA level of c/EBP homologous protein (CHOP), the ER stress-dependent apoptotic factor, and caused the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in SH-SY5Y cells.Treatments of SH-SY5Y cells with the chemical chaperone, 4-phenylbutyric acid and the ROS scavenger, N-acetyl-cysteine reduced the AA-induced expression of ATF4 protein and CHOP mRNA, and resulted in the suppression of apoptosis.In addition, AA-induced eIF2α phosphorylation was also suppressed by NAC treatment.In consistent with in vitro study, exposure of zebrafish larvae at 6-day post fertilization to AA induced the expression of chop mRNA and apoptotic cell death in the brain, and also caused the disruption of brain structure.These findings suggest that AA exposure induces apoptotic neuronal cell death through the ER stress and subsequent eIF2α-ATF4-CHOP signaling cascade.The accumulation of ROS by AA exposure appears to be responsible for this ER stress-mediated apoptotic pathway.
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