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Volume 17, Number 5,
Issue of March 1, 1997
pp. 1548-1560
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Insulin-Like Growth Factor and Potassium Depolarization Maintain
Neuronal Survival by Distinct Pathways: Possible Involvement of PI
3-Kinase in IGF-1 Signaling
Received Sept. 27, 1996; revised Nov. 27, 1996; accepted Dec. 9, 1996.
Santosh R. D'Mello1,
Kristin Borodezt1, and
Stephen P. Soltoff2
1 Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University
of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 and 2 Division of
Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Institutes of
Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Cultured cerebellar granule neurons die by apoptosis when switched
from a medium containing an elevated level of potassium (K+) to one with lower K+ (5 mM).
Death resulting from the lowering of K+ can be prevented by
insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1). To understand how IGF-1 inhibits
apoptosis and maintains neuronal survival, we examined the role of
phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase). Activation of PI 3-kinase has
been shown previously to be required for NGF-mediated survival in the
PC12 pheochromocytoma cell line. We find that in primary neurons, IGF-1
treatment leads to a robust activation of PI 3-kinase, as judged by
lipid kinase assays and Western blot analysis. Activation of PI
3-kinase is likely to occur via tyrosine phosphorylation of the insulin
receptor substrate protein. Treatment with two chemically distinct
inhibitors of PI 3-kinase, wortmannin and LY294002, reduces PI 3-kinase
activation by IGF-1 and inhibits its survival-promoting activity,
suggesting that PI 3-kinase is necessary for IGF-1-mediated survival.
Death resulting from PI 3-kinase blockade is accompanied by DNA
fragmentation, a hallmark of apoptosis. Furthermore, neurons subjected
to PI 3-kinase blockade can be rescued by transcriptional and
translation inhibitors, suggesting that IGF-1-mediated activation of PI
3-kinase leads to a suppression of "killer gene" expression. In
sharp contrast to IGF-1, elevated K+ does not activate PI
3-kinase and can maintain neuronal survival in the presence of PI
3-kinase inhibitors. Therefore, survival of granule neurons can be
maintained by PI 3-kinase dependent (IGF-1-activated) and independent
(elevated K+-activated) pathways.
Key words:
cerebellar granule neurons;
phosphoinositide 3-kinase;
apoptosis;
insulin-like growth factor-1;
elevated potassium;
neuronal
survival
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