Deletion of microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 protects neuronal cells from cytotoxic effects of β-amyloid peptide fragment 31-35.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications(2012)

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Epidemiological studies have suggested that the long-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that inhibit cyclooxygenase (COX) activity moderates the onset or progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thus it has been suggested that prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)), a major end-product of COX, may play a pathogenic role in AD, but the involvement of PGE synthase (PGES), a terminal enzyme downstream from COX, has not been fully elucidated. To examine the involvement in AD pathology of microsomal PGES-1 (mPGES-1), a PGES enzyme, we here prepared primary cerebral neuronal cells from the cerebri of wild-type and mPGES-1-deficient mice and then treated them with β-amyloid (Aβ) fragment 31-35 (Aβ(31-35)), which represents the shortest sequence of native Aβ peptide required for neurotoxicity. Treatment of wild-type neuronal cells with Aβ(31-35) induced mPGES-1 gene expression and PGE(2) production, followed by significant apoptotic cell death, but apoptosis was not induced in mPGES-1-deficient cells. Furthermore, the combined treatment of Aβ(31-35) and PGE(2) induced apoptosis in mPGES-1-deficient neuronal cells. These results indicated that mPGES-1 is induced during Aβ-mediated neuronal cell death and is involved in Aβ-induced neurotoxicity associated with AD pathology.
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,Aβ31–35,AD,COX,cPGES,GFAP,MAP-2,mPGES,NSAID,PG,PGES
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