Attenuation of cortical neuronal apoptosis by gangliosides.

Abstract

Addition of the natural gangliosides monosialoganglioside (GM1), disialoganglioside, trisialoganglioside, or tetrasialoganglioside in the range of 10 to 100 microM, but not asialoganglioside lacking the sialic acid moiety, attenuated cortical neuronal apoptosis induced by serum deprivation, ionomycin, or cyclosporin A but not by protein kinase inhibitors (staurosporine, genistein, lavendustin A, or herbimycin A). Coaddition of 100 nM wortmannin, a selective inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, but not 1 microM Go6976, a selective protein kinase C inhibitor, blocked the neuroprotective effect of GM1. In contrast to its antiapoptotic effect, GM1 at up to 200 microM did not attenuate cortical neuronal necrosis induced by exposure to the excitotoxins N-methyl-D-aspartate or kainate. Furthermore, GM1 increased the necrosis induced by oxidative stress (addition of Fe(2+) or buthionine sulfoximine). These data suggest that neuroprotective effects of natural gangliosides may preferentially reflect reduction of neuronal apoptosis rather than necrosis, and be mediated through mechanisms involving activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.

• Authors: B R Ryu, D W Choi, D M Hartley, E Costa, I Jou, B J Gwag
• Journal: The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics (J Pharmacol Exp Ther) Vol. 290 Issue 2 Pg. 811-6 (Aug 1999) ISSN: 0022-3565 [Print] United States
• PMID: 10411596 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)

Chemical References

• Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
• Culture Media, Serum-Free
• Enzyme Inhibitors
• Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists
• Gangliosides
• Protein Kinase Inhibitors
• G(M1) Ganglioside
• Ionomycin
• N-Methylaspartate
• Cyclosporine
• Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases

Topics

• Animals
• Apoptosis (drug effects)
• Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (pharmacology)
• Cells, Cultured
• Cerebral Cortex (cytology, drug effects)
• Culture Media, Serum-Free
• Cyclosporine (toxicity)
• Enzyme Inhibitors (pharmacology)
• Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists (toxicity)
• G(M1) Ganglioside (metabolism)
• Gangliosides (pharmacology)
• Ionomycin (toxicity)
• Mice
• N-Methylaspartate (toxicity)
• Necrosis
• Neurons (drug effects)
• Oxidative Stress
• Phosphorylation
• Protein Kinase Inhibitors
• Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases (antagonists & inhibitors, metabolism)