Modulation of signal transduction in rat synaptoneurosomes by platelet activating factor

Molecular and Chemical Neuropathology
K Domańska-Janik, B Zabłocka

Abstract

The potential involvement of platelet activating factor (PAF, 1-O-alkyl 2-O-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) in aggravation of ischemic brain injury has been recently postulated. Reported evidences in support of this thesis include increases of brain PAF concentration during ischemia and the neuroprotective effect exerted by PAF antagonists. In this article, we demonstrate that several PAF-mediated biochemical responses in synaptoneurosomes in vitro resemble these observed previously in ischemic brain and are widely acknowledged as the potentially causal factors in this pathology. In synaptoneurosomes prepared from rat hippocampus, 10 nM PAF caused an observable elevation of intracellular calcium as measured by fluorescence Fura-2A probe. A similar elevation of synaptoneurosomal [Ca2+]i was evoked by 1 mM glutamate treatment. As an effect of calcium entry after PAF application, a translocation of protein kinase C (PKC) toward plasma membranes was demonstrated by 3H-labeled phorbol-binding method. It was followed by an increase of 50 kDa proteolytic fragment of the enzyme (PKM) recognized on Western blots with anti-PKC antibody. Incubation of synaptoneurosomes in the presence of calcium chelators abolished these effects of PA...Continue Reading

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