Akt/Bad Signaling and Motor Neuron Survival After Spinal Cord Injury

Overview

Journal Neurobiol Dis

Specialty Neurology

Date 2005 May 18

PMID 15896972

Citations 26

Authors

Fengshan Yu

Taku Sugawara

Carolina M Maier

Lily B Hsieh

Pak H Chan

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Abstract

The serine-threonine kinase Akt is a cell survival signaling pathway that inactivates the proapoptotic BCL-2 family protein Bad and promotes cell survival in cerebral ischemia. Involvement of the Akt/Bad signaling pathway after spinal cord injury (SCI) is, however, uncertain. Our results showed that phospho-Akt (serine-473) and phospho-Bad (serine-136) were significantly upregulated at 1 day after SCI. In addition, phospho-Akt and phospho-Bad were colocalized in motor neurons that survived SCI and inhibition of PI3-K reduced expression of phospho-Akt and phospho-Bad. Dimerization of Bad with 14-3-3 in the cytosol was increased whereas Bad/Bcl-XL binding in the mitochondria was decreased after SCI. We further found that reduced oxidative stress by SOD1 overexpression in rats enhanced the expression of phospho-Akt, phospho-Bad, Bad/14-3-3 binding and reduced Bad/Bcl-XL binding after SCI, as compared to wild-type rats. We conclude that oxidative stress may play a role in modulating Akt/Bad signaling and subsequent motor neuron survival after SCI.

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