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Nuclear Ca++-influx, Ca++/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV activity and CREB protein phosphorylation during post-hypoxic reoxygenation in neuronal nuclei of newborn piglets: The role of nitric oxide
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Nuclear Ca++-influx, Ca++/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV activity and CREB protein phosphorylation during post-hypoxic reoxygenation in neuronal nuclei of newborn piglets: The role of nitric oxide

Om Prakash Mishra, Alan B. Zubrow, Qazi M. Ashraf and Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos
Neurochemical research, v 31(12), pp 1463-1471
01 Dec 2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-006-9204-x
PMID: 17091402
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Neurosciences Neurosciences & Neurology Science & Technology
The present study tests the hypothesis that post-hypoxic reoxygenation results in an nitric oxide (NO)-mediated increase in nuclear Ca++-influx, increased calmodulin kinase (CaM kinase) IV activity, and increased Ser(133) phosphorylation of cyclic AMP response element binding (CREB) protein in neuronal nuclei of the cerebral cortex of newborn piglets. Piglets were divided into normoxic (Nx), hypoxic (Hx, FiO(2) = 0.07 for 1 h), hypoxic with 6 h reoxygenation (Hx + reox), and Hx + reox injected with 7-nitroindazole sodium salt (7-NINA), a nNOS inhibitor, immediately after hypoxia (Hx + 7-NINA). Cerebral tissue hypoxia was documented by ATP and phosphocreatine (PCr) levels. Nuclear Ca++-influx was determined using 45 Ca++ and CaM kinase IV activity determined by P-33-incorporation into syntide-2. Ser(133) phosphorylation of CREB protein was determined by Western blot analysis using a specific anti-phosphorylated Ser(133)-CREB protein antibody. ATP and PCr values in Hx, Hx + reox, and Hx + 7-NINA were significantly different from Nx (P < 0.05 versus Nx). Ca++-influx (pmoles/mg protein/min) was 3.79 +/- 0.91 in Nx; 11.81 +/- 2.54 in Hx (P < 0.05 versus Nx), 16.55 +/- 3.55 in Hx + reox (P < 0.05 versus Nx), and 12.40 +/- 2.93 in Hx + 7-NINA (P = NS versus Hx). CaM kinase IV activity (pmoles/mg protein/min) was 1,220 +/- 76 in Nx, 2,403 +/- 254 in Hx (P < 0.05 versus Nx), 1,971 +/- 147 in Hx + reox (P < 0.05 versus Hx), and 1,939 +/- 125 Hx + 7-NINA (P < 0.05 versus Hx). Ser 133 phosphorylated CREB protein expression (OD x mm(2)) was 87 +/- 2 in Nx, 203 +/- 24 in Hx (P < 0.05 versus Nx), 186 +/- 23 in Hx + reox ( P < 0.05 Nx, P = NS versus Hx), and 128 +/- 10 in Hx + 7-NINA (P < 0.05 versus Hx and Hx + reox). The results show that post-Hx administration of 7-NINA prevents the increased nuclear Ca++-influx and CREB protein phosphorylation at Ser(133) during reox. We conclude that post-Hx increase in nuclear Ca++-influx leading to increased phosphorylation of CREB protein is mediated by NO derived from nNOS. However, hypoxia-induced increase in CaM Kinase IV activity decreased during the post-Hx reox. We propose that hypoxia-induced increase in CaM Kinase IV activity leads to increased phosphorylation of CREB protein and transcription of proapoptotic genes during post-Hx reox resulting in Hx neuronal death.

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