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A High-content Assay for Monitoring AMPA Receptor Trafficking
Published on: January 28, 2019
Involvement of AMP-activated-protein-kinase (AMPK) in neuronal amyloidogenesis
Je-Seong Won1, Yeong-Bin Im, Jinsu Kim
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, SC 29425, USA.
Abstract:
AMP-activated-protein-kinase (AMPK) is a key sensor and regulator of cellular and whole-body energy metabolism and plays a key role in regulation of lipid metabolism. Since lipid metabolism has been implicated in neuronal amyloid-beta (Abeta) homeostasis and onset of Alzheimer's disease, we investigated the involvement of AMPK in neuronal lipid metabolism and Abeta production. We observed in cultured rat cortical neurons that Abeta production was significantly reduced when the neurons were stimulated with AMPK activator, 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-d-ribofuranoside (AICAR), but increased when AMPKalpha2 was knocked out, thus indicating the role of AMPK in amyloidogenesis. Although the detailed mechanisms by which AMPK regulates Abeta generation is not well understood, AMPK-mediated alterations in cholesterol and sphingomyelin homeostasis and in turn the altered distribution of Abeta precursor-protein (APP) in cholesterol and sphingomyelin rich membrane lipid rafts participate in Abeta generation. Taken together, this is the first report on the role of AMPK in regulation of neuronal amyloidogenesis.
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