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Volume 16, Number 21,
Issue of November 1, 1996
pp. 6753-6765
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
Evidence for p53-Mediated Modulation of Neuronal Viability
Received June 24, 1996; revised Aug. 12, 1996; accepted Aug. 20, 1996.
Hong Xiang1,
Daryl W. Hochman1,
Hideyuki Saya2,
Toshiyoshi Fujiwara3,
Philip A. Schwartzkroin1, and
Richard S. Morrison1
1 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of
Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195-6470, 2 Department of Oncology, Kumamoto University School of
Medicine, Kumamoto 860, Japan, and 3 First Department of
Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama
700, Japan
A role for p53-related modulation of neuronal viability has been
suggested by the finding that p53 expression is increased in damaged
neurons in models of ischemia and epilepsy. These findings were
recently extended with the demonstration that mice deficient in p53
(``knock-out'' mice) exhibit almost complete protection from
seizure-induced brain injury, whereas wild-type mice display
significant neuronal cell loss in the hippocampus and other brain
regions. Because the p53 knock-out mice used in the latter study
expressed a global p53 deficiency in all cell types, it was not
possible to conclude that protection was conferred by the exclusive
absence of p53 in neurons. Therefore, in the present study, we
determined whether p53 expression in isolated neurons is directly
coupled to a loss of viability associated with excitotoxic challenge.
Primary cultures of hippocampal or cortical neurons were derived from
animals containing p53 (+/+, +/ ) or those deficient in p53 ( / ).
p53-Deficient neurons appeared identical to wild-type neurons with
respect to morphology, neurofilament expression, and resting levels of
intracellular calcium. Neurons containing at least one copy of p53 were
severely damaged by exposure to kainic acid or glutamate. Cell damage
was assessed by direct cell counting and by nuclear morphology after
propidium iodide staining of DNA. In contrast, neurons deficient in p53
( / ) exhibited little or no damage in response to excitotoxin
treatment. Despite their divergent outcomes, p53 (+/+) and p53 ( / )
neurons demonstrated similar sustained elevations in intracellular
calcium levels triggered by glutamate exposure. Restoring p53
expression to p53-deficient neurons, using adenovirus-mediated
transduction, was sufficient to promote neuronal cell death even in the
absence of excitotoxin. These results demonstrate a direct relationship
between p53 expression and loss of viability in CNS neurons.
Key words:
p53;
neurons;
brain injury;
epilepsy;
apoptosis;
hippocampus;
excitotoxin;
adenovirus;
Ca2+
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