High levels of synaptosomal Na(+)-Ca(2+) exchangers (NCX1, NCX2, NCX3) co-localized with amyloid-beta in human cerebral cortex affected by Alzheimer's disease |
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| Authors: | Sokolow Sophie Luu Sanh H Headley Alison J Hanson Alecia Y Kim Taeree Miller Carol A Vinters Harry V Gylys Karen H |
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| Affiliation: | a UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;b UCLA Center for the Advancement of Gerontological Nursing Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;c UCLA Brain Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;d Departments of Pathology, Neurology and Program in Neuroscience, The Keck USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA;e Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA |
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| Abstract: | Synaptosomal expression of NCX1, NCX2, and NCX3, the three variants of the Na(+)-Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX), was investigated in Alzheimer's disease parietal cortex. Flow cytometry and immunoblotting techniques were used to analyze synaptosomes prepared from cryopreserved brain of cognitively normal aged controls and late stage Alzheimer's disease patients. Major findings that emerged from this study are: (1) NCX1 was the most abundant NCX isoform in nerve terminals of cognitively normal patients; (2) NCX2 and NCX3 protein levels were modulated in parietal cortex of late stage Alzheimer's disease: NCX2 positive terminals were increased in the Alzheimer's disease cohort while counts of NCX3 positive terminals were reduced; (3) NCX1, NCX2 and NCX3 isoforms co-localized with amyloid-beta in synaptic terminals and all three variants are up-regulated in nerve terminals containing amyloid-beta. Taken together, these data indicate that NCX isoforms are selectively regulated in pathological terminals, suggesting different roles of each NCX isoform in Alzheimer's disease terminals. |
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| Keywords: | Na+– Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) Alzheimer's disease Calcium signaling Amyloid-beta Synapse |
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