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TIGAR Attenuates High Glucose-Induced Neuronal Apoptosis via an Autophagy Pathway.


ABSTRACT: Hyperglycemia-induced neuronal apoptosis is one of the important reasons for diabetic neuropathy. Long-time exposure to high glucose accelerates many aberrant glucose metabolic pathways and eventually leads to neuronal injury. However, the underlying mechanisms of metabolic alterations remain unknown. TP53-inducible glycolysis and apoptosis regulator (TIGAR) is an endogenous inhibitor of glycolysis and increases the flux of pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) by regulating glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). TIGAR is highly expressed in neurons, but its role in hyperglycemia-induced neuronal injury is still unclear. In this study, we observed that TIGAR and G6PD are decreased in the hippocampus of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mice. Correspondingly, in cultured primary neurons and Neuro-2a cell line, stimulation with high glucose induced significant neuronal apoptosis and down-regulation of TIGAR expression. Overexpression of TIGAR reduced the number of TUNEL-positive neurons and prevented the activation of Caspase-3 in cultured neurons. Furthermore, enhancing the expression of TIGAR rescued high glucose-induced autophagy impairment and the decrease of G6PD. Nitric oxide synthase 1 (NOS1), a negative regulator of autophagy, is also inhibited by overexpression of TIGAR. Inhibition of autophagy abolished the protective effect of TIGAR in neuronal apoptosis in Neuro-2a. Importantly, overexpression of TIGAR in the hippocampus ameliorated STZ-induced cognitive impairment in mice. Therefore, our data demonstrated that TIGAR may have an anti-apoptosis effect via up-regulation of autophagy in diabetic neuropathy.

SUBMITTER: Zhou W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6700368 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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TIGAR Attenuates High Glucose-Induced Neuronal Apoptosis <i>via</i> an Autophagy Pathway.

Zhou Wenjuan W   Yao Yuan Y   Li Jinxing J   Wu Dong D   Zhao Man M   Yan Zongting Z   Pang Aimei A   Kong Liang L  

Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 20190813


Hyperglycemia-induced neuronal apoptosis is one of the important reasons for diabetic neuropathy. Long-time exposure to high glucose accelerates many aberrant glucose metabolic pathways and eventually leads to neuronal injury. However, the underlying mechanisms of metabolic alterations remain unknown. TP53-inducible glycolysis and apoptosis regulator (TIGAR) is an endogenous inhibitor of glycolysis and increases the flux of pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) by regulating glucose 6-phosphate dehydr  ...[more]

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