Parkinson’s disease cybrids exhibit mitochondrial respiration deficiency & altered expression of mitochondrial integrity proteins

  • Nilufar Ali
  • , Ambili Appukuttan
  • , Debashis Dutta
  • , Raghavendra Singh
  • , Joy Chakraborty
  • , Emily Banerjee
  • , P. Ganguly
  • , Kochupurackal Mohanakumar

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Abstract

Mito­chondrial trans­genic cells or cybrids pre­pared from Indian population could ex­press mito­chondrial defects from Parkinson’s dis­ease (PD) patients. The pre­sent study examined respiratory po­tential of control and PD cybrids, and com­pared with ρ0 and the parent cell line, SH-SY5Y. We also evalu­ated altered pro­tein ex­pression in these cell lines. The cybrids were created by fusing platelets from PD patients or controls with SH-SY5Y derived ρ0 cells. Mito­chondrial pro­teome was studied using 2D gel electro­phoresis fol­lowed by MALDI-TOF-TOF analysis. Status of certain pro­teins was confirmed using PCR, immuno­blot and immuno­cyto­chemistry. Respiration was monitored using an oxygraph. MTT assay and trypan blue staining pro­vided cell viability status. State 3 respiration was found to be sig­nifi­cantly re­duced in PD cybrids in com­parison to both SH-SY5Y and control cybrids. Analysis of mito­chondrial pro­teome revealed a sig­nifi­cant alteration in pro­hibitin in PD cybrids, which was confirmed by immuno­blot assay. Detailed immuno­cyto­chemical analysis evolved differential locali­za­tion of this pro­tein in these cell lines. Dynamin related pro­tein 1 (DRP1) was found to be over-ex­pressed in PD cybrids as com­pared to other cell lines. Significantly re­duced survivability was ob­served for PD cybrids, as com­pared to control cybrids and SH-SY5Y cells. PD cybrids established from Indian population clearly revealed mito­chondrial dysfunc­tion, and changes in its pro­tein levels. It has become evident from the pre­sent study that pro­hibitin is localized pre­dominantly in the nucleus of these cells and it may be unrelated to mito­chondrial respiration. These results warrant in­ves­tigation of pro­hibitin in relation to cell death and survivability, fol­lowing diffe­rentiation in­to neu­rons, since this pro­tein is known to be as­so­ci­ated with cell pro­liferation.
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - Jun 2013
Event24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry and the American Society for Neurochemistry Cancun, Mexico, 20–24th, April 2013 - Cancun, Mexico
Duration: 20 Apr 201324 Apr 2013

Conference

Conference24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry and the American Society for Neurochemistry Cancun, Mexico, 20–24th, April 2013
Abbreviated titleISN-ASN
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancun
Period20/04/1324/04/13

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