Inhibition of group-I metabotropic glutamate receptors protects against prion toxicity.
| Title: | Inhibition of group-I metabotropic glutamate receptors protects against prion toxicity. |
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| Authors: | Despoina Goniotaki, Asvin K K Lakkaraju, Amulya N Shrivastava, Pamela Bakirci, Silvia Sorce, Assunta Senatore, Rajlakshmi Marpakwar, Simone Hornemann, Fabrizio Gasparini, Antoine Triller, Adriano Aguzzi |
| Source: | PLoS Pathogens, Vol 13, Iss 11, p e1006733 (2017) |
| Publisher Information: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017. |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
| Collection: | LCC:Immunologic diseases. Allergy LCC:Biology (General) |
| Subject Terms: | Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607, Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| More Details: | Prion infections cause inexorable, progressive neurological dysfunction and neurodegeneration. Expression of the cellular prion protein PrPC is required for toxicity, suggesting the existence of deleterious PrPC-dependent signaling cascades. Because group-I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR1 and mGluR5) can form complexes with the cellular prion protein (PrPC), we investigated the impact of mGluR1 and mGluR5 inhibition on prion toxicity ex vivo and in vivo. We found that pharmacological inhibition of mGluR1 and mGluR5 antagonized dose-dependently the neurotoxicity triggered by prion infection and by prion-mimetic anti-PrPC antibodies in organotypic brain slices. Prion-mimetic antibodies increased mGluR5 clustering around dendritic spines, mimicking the toxicity of Aβ oligomers. Oral treatment with the mGluR5 inhibitor, MPEP, delayed the onset of motor deficits and moderately prolonged survival of prion-infected mice. Although group-I mGluR inhibition was not curative, these results suggest that it may alleviate the neurological dysfunctions induced by prion diseases. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1553-7366 1553-7374 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7366; https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7374 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006733 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/ebc3346a8fee4eca9efa320009cc3375 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.bc3346a8fee4eca9efa320009cc3375 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 15537366 15537374 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006733 |
| Published in: | PLoS Pathogens |
| Language: | English |