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BACKGROUND: Current bevacizumab-based regimens have failed to improve survival in patients with recurrent glioblastoma. To improve treatment efficacy, we evaluated bevacizumab + BKM120, an oral pan-class I PI3K inhibitor, in this patient population. METHODS: A brief phase I study established the optimal BKM120 dose to administer with standard-dose bevacizumab. BKM120 60 mg PO daily + bevacizumab 10 mg/kg IV every 2 weeks in 28-day cycles was then administered to patients with relapsed/refractory glioblastoma in the phase II portion. RESULTS: Eighty-eight patients enrolled (phase I, 12; phase II, 76). In phase I, BKM120 80 mg PO daily produced dose limiting toxicity in 3 of 6 patients; a BKM120 dose of 60 mg PO daily was established as the maximum tolerated dose. In phase II, the median progression-free survival (PFS) was 4.0 months (95% CI 3.4, 5.4), PFS at 6 months was 36.5%, and the overall response rate was 26%. Forty-two patients (57%) experienced one or more serious treatment related toxicities. The most common CNS toxicities included mood alteration (17%) and confusion (12%); however, these were often difficult to classify as treatment- versus tumor-related. CONCLUSIONS: The efficacy seen in this study is similar to the efficacy previously reported with single-agent bevacizumab. This regimen was poorly tolerated, despite the low daily dose of BKM120. Further development of this combination for the treatment of glioblastoma is not recommended.
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Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos/efeitos dos fármacos , Glioblastoma/tratamento farmacológico , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias/tratamento farmacológico , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases/química , Terapia de Salvação , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Aminopiridinas/administração & dosagem , Bevacizumab/administração & dosagem , Feminino , Seguimentos , Glioblastoma/patologia , Humanos , Masculino , Dose Máxima Tolerável , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Morfolinas/administração & dosagem , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Neoplasias/patologia , Prognóstico , Taxa de SobrevidaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Dorsal thoracic arachnoid web is a rare diagnosis and is not commonly seen in neurosurgical practice. Patients can present with symptoms and signs of thoracic myelopathy in the setting of an arachnoid cyst and a presyrinx state. OBSERVATIONS: A 57-year-old male with a 10-year history of worsening bilateral leg weakness and chronic back pain re-presented to the neurosurgery clinic after being seen by neurology and orthopedic spine surgery. Initial imaging was concerning for myelomalacia and syringomyelia, and repeat delayed computed tomography myelography findings were consistent with an evolving thoracic arachnoid web, now demonstrating spinal cord compression secondary to arachnoid cyst formation and consistent with the signs of thoracic myelopathy. Intraoperative ultrasound displayed the arachnoid web as the cause of the evolving arachnoid cyst, edematous spinal cord, and a presyrinx-like state. The patient underwent surgical decompression, which restored cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics, resulting in clinical improvement. LESSONS: Dorsal thoracic arachnoid web is a dynamic condition that can occur in the setting of an arachnoid cyst. There appears to be a relationship between dorsal thoracic arachnoid web formation and the presence of an arachnoid cyst resulting from a ball-valve mechanism leading to the creation of a pressure gradient effect that alters CSF fluid dynamics. https://thejns.org/doi/10.3171/CASE24313.
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BACKGROUND: Leptomeningeal dissemination (LD) in adults is an exceedingly rare complication of low-grade neuroepithelial CNS tumors (LGNs). We aimed to determine relative incidence, clinical presentation, and predictors of outcome. METHODS: We searched the quality control database of the Section of Neuro-Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, for patients with LGN (WHO grade I/II) seen between 2002 and 2017. For cases complicated by LD, we recorded demographics, clinical signs, histopathological diagnosis, and imaging findings. A comprehensive literature review was performed. RESULTS: Eleven consecutive patients with LD were identified, representing 2.3% of individuals with LGN seen at our institution between 2002 and 2017 (n = 475). Ependymoma was the predominant histological entity. Mean time interval from diagnosis of LGN to LD was 38.6 ± 10 months. Symptoms were mostly attributed to communicating hydrocephalus. Tumor deposits of LD were either nodular or linear with variable enhancement (nonenhancing lesions in 4 of 11 patients). Localized (surgery, radiosurgery, involved-field, or craniospinal radiation therapy) or systemic treatments (chemotherapy) were provided. All patients progressed radiographically. Median overall survival after LD was 102 months. Survival was prolonged when a combination of localized and systemic therapies was administered (188.5 vs 25.5 months; P = .03). Demographics and tumor spectrum reported in the literature were similar to our cohort. CONCLUSIONS: LD is a rare complication of LGNs. A high level of suspicion is required for timely diagnosis as early symptoms are nonspecific and commonly do not occur until years after initial tumor diagnosis. Repeated aggressive treatment appears to be beneficial in improving survival.
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Introduction: Just-in-time teaching is an educational strategy that involves tailoring in-session learning activities based on student performance in presession assessments. We implemented this strategy in a third-year neurology clerkship. Methods: Linked to core neurology clerkship lectures, eight brief video-based lectures and knowledge assessments were developed. Students watched videos and completed multiple-choice questions, and results were provided to faculty, who were given the opportunity to adjust the in-person lecture accordingly. Feedback was obtained by surveys of students and faculty lecturers and from student focus groups and faculty. Student performance on the end-of-clerkship examination was analyzed. Results: Between October 2016 and April 2017, 135 students participated in the curriculum, and 56 students (41.5%) responded to the surveys. Most students agreed or strongly agreed that the new curriculum enhanced their learning and promoted their sense of responsibility in learning the content. Faculty agreed that this pedagogy helped prepare students for class. Most students watched the entire video-based lecture, although there was a trend toward decreased audience retention with longer lectures. There were no significant changes in performance on the end-of-clerkship examination after implementation of just-in-time teaching. In focus groups, students emphasized the importance of tying just-in-time teaching activities to the lecture and providing video-based lectures well in advance of the lectures. Discussion: Just-in-time teaching using video-based lectures is an acceptable and feasible method to augment learning during a neurology clinical clerkship. We believe this method could be used in other neurology clerkships with similar success.
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Capacitação em Serviço/normas , Neurologia/educação , Ensino/normas , Gravação em Vídeo/normas , Estágio Clínico/métodos , Currículo/normas , Currículo/tendências , Humanos , Capacitação em Serviço/métodos , Neurologia/métodos , Ensino/estatística & dados numéricos , Gravação em Vídeo/métodosRESUMO
Background: Although chemotherapy is used routinely in pediatric medulloblastoma (MB) patients, its benefit for adult MB is unclear. We evaluated the survival impact of adjuvant chemotherapy in adult MB. Methods: Using the National Cancer Data Base, we identified patients aged 18 years and older who were diagnosed with MB in 2004-2012 and underwent surgical resection and adjuvant craniospinal irradiation (CSI). Patients were divided into those who received adjuvant CSI and chemotherapy (CRT) or CSI alone (RT). Predictors of CRT compared with RT were evaluated with univariable and multivariable logistic regression. Survival analysis was limited to patients receiving CSI doses between 23 and 36 Gy. Overall survival (OS) was evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier estimator, log-rank test, multivariable Cox proportional hazards modeling, and propensity score matching. Results: Of the 751 patients included, 520 (69.2%) received CRT, and 231 (30.8%) received RT. With median follow-up of 5.0 years, estimated 5-year OS was superior in patients receiving CRT versus RT (86.1% vs 71.6%, P < .0001). On multivariable analysis, after controlling for risk factors, CRT was associated with superior OS compared with RT (HR: 0.53; 95%CI: 0.32-0.88, P = .01). On planned subgroup analyses, the 5 year OS of patients receiving CRT versus RT was improved for M0 patients (P < .0001), for patients receiving 36 Gy CSI (P = .0007), and for M0 patients receiving 36 Gy CSI (P = .0008). Conclusions: This national database analysis demonstrates that combined postoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy are associated with superior survival for adult MB compared with radiotherapy alone, even for M0 patients who receive high-dose CSI.
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Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias Cerebelares/mortalidade , Quimiorradioterapia Adjuvante/mortalidade , Quimioterapia Adjuvante/mortalidade , Radiação Cranioespinal/mortalidade , Meduloblastoma/mortalidade , Radioterapia Adjuvante/mortalidade , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Neoplasias Cerebelares/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Cerebelares/patologia , Neoplasias Cerebelares/radioterapia , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Masculino , Meduloblastoma/tratamento farmacológico , Meduloblastoma/patologia , Meduloblastoma/radioterapia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Prognóstico , Taxa de Sobrevida , Adulto JovemRESUMO
There will be approximately 10,000 new cases of glioblastoma diagnosed in the United States this year alone. Although a relatively rare cancer, these aggressive tumors lead to a disproportionate amount of cancer morbidity and mortality. The current standard treatment for a glioblastoma consists of surgery for cytoreduction and/or biopsy followed by chemoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide. Without treatment, most patients will die of their disease within 3 months of diagnosis. Surgical intervention can extend survival to 9 to 10 months, and this can be lengthened to 12 months with the addition of adjuvant radiation. In a 2005 landmark clinical trial, Stupp et al demonstrated that temozolomide, an oral DNA-alkylating chemotherapeutic agent, when added to radiation, can improve survival to 14.6 months. Although the effect on survival is modest, this treatment course represents a significant improvement over chemotherapy agents widely used for the 3 previous decades. This review will focus on the development of temozolomide and its use along with radiation therapy as the current standard treatment for glioblastoma.
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Antineoplásicos Alquilantes/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias Encefálicas/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Encefálicas/radioterapia , Dacarbazina/análogos & derivados , Glioblastoma/tratamento farmacológico , Glioblastoma/radioterapia , Neoplasias Encefálicas/patologia , Neoplasias Encefálicas/cirurgia , Terapia Combinada , Dacarbazina/uso terapêutico , Glioblastoma/patologia , Glioblastoma/cirurgia , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , TemozolomidaRESUMO
The optimal treatment of anaplastic gliomas is controversial. Options for treatment include radiation, chemotherapy or a combination of modalities. This article describes how treatment algorithms for anaplastic gliomas have evolved and interprets the results of recent studies. The available evidence indicates that patients can be treated with either chemotherapy or radiation as initial therapy, with use of the other treatment modality at relapse. Whether subpopulations exist for whom one treatment modality is superior to the other at initial diagnosis must be studied prospectively.
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Neoplasias Encefálicas/terapia , Glioma/terapia , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias Encefálicas/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Encefálicas/radioterapia , Terapia Combinada , Glioma/tratamento farmacológico , Glioma/radioterapia , Humanos , Gradação de TumoresAssuntos
Doenças dos Nervos Cranianos/diagnóstico por imagem , Tumor do Glomo Jugular/diagnóstico por imagem , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Adulto , Doenças dos Nervos Cranianos/complicações , Feminino , Tumor do Glomo Jugular/complicações , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , SíndromeRESUMO
It has been previously shown that upon sustained stimulation (30-60 min) with phorbol esters, protein kinase C (PKC) alpha and betaII become sequestered in a juxtanuclear region, the pericentrion. The activation of PKC also results in sequestration of transferrin, suggesting a role for PKC in regulating endocytosis and sequestration of recycling components. In this work we characterize the pericentrion as a PKC-dependent subset of the recycling compartment. We demonstrate that upon sustained stimulation of PKC, both protein (CD59, caveolin) and possibly also lipid (Bodipy-GM1) cargo become sequestered in a PKC-dependent manner. This sequestration displayed a strict temperature requirement and was inhibited below 32 degrees C. Treatment of cells with phorbol myristate acetate for 60 min led to the formation of a distinct membrane structure. PKC sequestration and pericentrion formation were blocked by hypertonic sucrose as well as by potassium depletion (inhibitors of clathrin-dependent endocytosis) but not by nystatin or filipin, which inhibit clathrin-independent pathways. Interestingly, it was also observed that some molecules that internalize through clathrin-independent pathways (CD59, Bodipy-GM1, caveolin) also sequestered to the pericentrion upon sustained PKC activation, suggesting that PKC acted distal to the site of internalization of endocytic cargo. Together these results suggest that PKC regulates sequestration of recycling molecules into this compartment, the pericentrion.
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Compartimento Celular , Endocitose , Proteína Quinase C-alfa/fisiologia , Antígenos CD59/metabolismo , Compartimento Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Linhagem Celular , Clatrina/metabolismo , Humanos , Membranas Intracelulares/efeitos dos fármacos , Proteína Quinase C/metabolismo , Proteína Quinase C/fisiologia , Proteína Quinase C-alfa/metabolismo , Temperatura , Acetato de Tetradecanoilforbol/farmacologia , Transfecção , Transferrina/metabolismoRESUMO
In a previous study, we showed that protein kinase C betaII (PKC betaII) translocated to a novel juxtanuclear compartment as observed in several cell types (Becker, K. P., and Hannun, Y. A. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 52747-52754). In this study, we noted the absence of this translocation in MCF-7 breast cancer cells, and we examined the mechanisms underlying this selectivity of response. We show that sustained stimulation of PKC betaII with 4beta-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) resulted in accumulation of ceramide in MCF-7 cells but not in those cells that showed juxtanuclear translocation of PKC betaII. Addition of exogenous ceramides or formation of endogenous ceramide by the action of bacterial sphingomyelinase prevented PMA-induced translocation of PKC betaII in HEK 293 cells. On the other hand, inhibition of ceramide accumulation with fumonisin B1 restored the ability of PMA to induce translocation of PKC betaII in MCF-7 cells. Taken together, the results showed that endogenous ceramide is both necessary and sufficient for preventing juxtanuclear translocation of PKC betaII in response to PMA. Investigation of the mechanisms of ceramide generation in response to PMA revealed that PMA activated the salvage pathway of ceramide formation and not the de novo pathway. This conclusion was based on the following: 1) the ability of fumonisin B1 but not myriocin to inhibit ceramide formation, 2) the ability of PMA to induce increases in palmitate-labeled ceramide only under chase labeling but not acute pulse labeling, 3) the induction of the levels of sphingosine but not dihydrosphingosine in response to PMA, and 4) induction of sphingomyelin hydrolysis in response to PMA. Together, these results define a novel pathway of regulated formation of ceramide, the salvage pathway, and they define a role for this pathway in regulating juxtanuclear translocation of PKC betaII.
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Ceramidas/metabolismo , Inibidores Enzimáticos/farmacologia , Proteína Quinase C/antagonistas & inibidores , Fenômenos Bioquímicos , Bioquímica , Linhagem Celular , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Colina/metabolismo , Cromatografia Líquida , Endossomos/metabolismo , Fumonisinas/farmacologia , Humanos , Metabolismo dos Lipídeos , Espectrometria de Massas , Microscopia Confocal , Modelos Biológicos , Ácido Palmítico/metabolismo , Plasmídeos/metabolismo , Proteína Quinase C/metabolismo , Proteína Quinase C beta , Transporte Proteico , RNA Interferente Pequeno/metabolismo , Acetato de Tetradecanoilforbol/farmacologia , Fatores de Tempo , TransfecçãoRESUMO
Elucidation of isoenzyme-specific functions of individual protein kinase C (PKC) isoenzymes has emerged as an important goal in the study of this family of kinases, but this task has been complicated by modest substrate specificity and high homology among the individual members of each PKC subfamily. The classical PKCbetaI and PKCbetaII isoenzymes provide a unique opportunity because they are the alternatively spliced products of the beta gene and are 100% identical except for the last 50 of 52 amino acids. In this study, it is shown that green fluorescent protein-tagged PKCbetaII and not PKCbetaI translocates to a recently described juxtanuclear site of localization for PKCalpha and PKCbetaII isoenzymes that arises with sustained stimulation of PKC. Mechanistically, translocation of PKCbetaII to the juxtanuclear region required kinase activity. PKCbetaII, but not PKCbetaI, was found to activate phospholipase D within this time frame. Inhibitors of phospholipase D (1-butanol and a dominant negative construct) prevented the translocation of PKCbetaII to the juxtanuclear region but not to the plasma membrane, thus demonstrating a role for phospholipase D in the juxtanuclear translocation of PKCbetaII. Taken together, these results define specific biochemical and cellular actions of PKCbetaII when compared with PKCbetaI.
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Fosfolipase D/fisiologia , Proteína Quinase C/química , 1-Butanol/farmacologia , Actinas/química , Linhagem Celular , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Endossomos/metabolismo , Inibidores Enzimáticos/farmacologia , Técnica Indireta de Fluorescência para Anticorpo , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Células HeLa , Humanos , Proteínas Luminescentes/metabolismo , Microscopia Confocal , Ésteres de Forbol/metabolismo , Fosfolipase D/química , Fosfolipase D/metabolismo , Plasmídeos/metabolismo , Isoformas de Proteínas , Proteína Quinase C beta , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , Transporte Proteico , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
In addition to the classical role of protein kinase C (PKC) as a mediator of transmembrane signals initiated at the plasma membrane, there is also significant evidence to suggest that a more sustained PKC activity is necessary for a variety of long term cellular responses. To date, the subcellular localization of PKC during sustained activation has not been extensively studied. We report here that long term activation of PKC (1 h) leads to the selective translocation of classical PKC isoenzymes, alpha and betaII, to a juxtanuclear compartment. Juxtanuclear translocation of PKC required an intact C1 and C2 domain, and occurred in a microtubule-dependent manner. This juxtanuclear compartment was localized close to the Golgi complex but displayed no overlap with Golgi markers, and was resistant to dispersal with Golgi disrupting agents, brefeldin A and nocodazole. Further characterization revealed that PKCalpha and betaII translocated to a compartment that colocalized with the small GTPase, rab11, which is a marker for the subset of recycling endosomes concentrated around the microtubule-organizing center/centrosome. Analysis of the functional consequence of cPKC translocation on membrane recycling demonstrated a cPKC-dependent sequestration of transferrin, a marker of membrane recycling, in the cPKC compartment. These results identify a novel site for cPKC translocation and define a novel function for the sustained activation of PKCalpha and betaII in regulation of recycling components.
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Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Endossomos/metabolismo , Proteína Quinase C/metabolismo , Transporte Ativo do Núcleo Celular , Animais , Brefeldina A/farmacologia , Células COS , Linhagem Celular , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Ativação Enzimática , Técnica Indireta de Fluorescência para Anticorpo , Complexo de Golgi/metabolismo , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Células HeLa , Humanos , Proteínas Luminescentes/metabolismo , Microscopia Confocal , Microtúbulos/metabolismo , Modelos Biológicos , Nocodazol/farmacologia , Isoformas de Proteínas , Proteína Quinase C/química , Proteína Quinase C/fisiologia , Proteína Quinase C beta , Proteína Quinase C-alfa , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , Transporte Proteico , Transfecção , Transferrina/metabolismo , Proteínas rab de Ligação ao GTP/metabolismoRESUMO
Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a highly bioactive lipid that exerts numerous biological effects both intracellularly as a second messenger and extracellularly by binding to its G-protein-coupled receptors of the endothelial differentiation gene family (S1P receptors-(1-5)). Intracellularly, at least two enzymes, sphingosine kinase and S1P phosphatase, regulate the activity of S1P by governing the phosphorylation status of S1P. To study the regulation of S1P levels, we cloned the human isoform of S1P phosphatase 1 (hSPPase1). The hSPPase1 has 78% homology to the mouse SPPase at the amino acid level with 6-8 possible transmembrane domains. Confocal microscopy revealed green fluorescent protein-tagged hSPPase1, expressed in either MCF7 or HEK293 cells, co-localized to endoplasmic reticulum with calreticulin. According to Northern blot analysis, hSPPase1 is expressed in most tissues, with the strongest levels found in the highly vascular tissues of placenta and kidney. Transient overexpression of hSPPase1 exhibited a 2-fold increase in phosphatase activity against S1P and dihydro-S1P, indicating that the expressed protein was functional. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) knockdown of endogenous hSPPase1 drastically reduced hSPPase1 mRNA levels, as confirmed by reverse transcription PCR, and resulted in an overall 25% reduction of in vitro phosphatase activity in the membrane fractions. Sphingolipid mass measurements in hSPPase1 siRNA knockdown cells revealed a 2-fold increase of S1P levels and concomitant decrease in sphingosine. In vivo labeling of hSPPase1 siRNA-treated cells showed accumulation of S1P within cells, as well as significantly increased secretion of S1P into the media, indicating that hSPPase1 regulates secreted S1P. In addition, siRNA-induced knockdown of hSPPase1 endowed resistance to tumor necrosis factor-alpha and the chemotherapeutic agent daunorubicin. Collectively, these data suggest that regulation of hSPPase1 with the resultant changes in cellular and secreted S1P could have important implications to cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and apoptosis.
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Lisofosfolipídeos , Proteínas de Membrana , Monoéster Fosfórico Hidrolases/química , Esfingosina/análogos & derivados , Esfingosina/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Northern Blotting , Divisão Celular , Linhagem Celular , Sobrevivência Celular , Clonagem Molecular , Corantes/farmacologia , DNA Complementar/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplasmático/metabolismo , Regulação Enzimológica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Camundongos , Microscopia Confocal , Microscopia de Fluorescência , Modelos Biológicos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Isoformas de Proteínas , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , RNA Interferente Pequeno/metabolismo , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Transdução de Sinais , Esfingolipídeos/química , Esfingolipídeos/metabolismo , Esfingosina/química , Sais de Tetrazólio/farmacologia , Tiazóis/farmacologia , Fatores de Tempo , Distribuição Tecidual , Células Tumorais CultivadasRESUMO
Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a highly bioactive sphingolipid involved in diverse biological processes leading to changes in cell growth, differentiation, motility, and survival. S1P generation is regulated via sphingosine kinase (SK), and many of its effects are mediated through extracelluar action on G-protein-coupled receptors. In this study, we have investigated the mechanisms regulating SK, where this occurs in the cell, and whether this leads to release of S1P extracellularly. The protein kinase C (PKC) activator, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), induced early activation of SK in HEK 293 cells, and this activation was more specific to the membrane-associated SK. Therefore, we next investigated whether PMA induced translocation of SK to the plasma membrane. PMA induced translocation of both endogenous and green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged human SK1 (hSK1) to the plasma membrane. PMA also induced phosphorylation of GFP-hSK1. The PMA-induced translocation was abrogated by preincubation with known PKC inhibitors (bisindoylmaleimide and calphostin-c) as well as by the indirect inhibitor of PKC, C(6)-ceramide, supporting a role for PKC in mediating translocation of SK to the plasma membrane. SK activity was not necessary for translocation, because a dominant negative G82D mutation also translocated in response to PMA. Importantly, PKC regulation of SK was accompanied by a 4-fold increase in S1P in the media. These results demonstrate a novel mechanism by which PKC regulates SK and increases secretion of S1P, allowing for autocrine/paracrine signaling.
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Lisofosfolipídeos , Fosfotransferases (Aceptor do Grupo Álcool)/metabolismo , Proteína Quinase C/metabolismo , Esfingosina/análogos & derivados , Esfingosina/metabolismo , Acetato de Tetradecanoilforbol/farmacologia , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Sequência de Bases , Linhagem Celular , Membrana Celular/enzimologia , Clonagem Molecular , Primers do DNA , Ativação Enzimática , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Humanos , Proteínas Luminescentes/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Fosfotransferases (Aceptor do Grupo Álcool)/genética , Transporte Proteico , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismoRESUMO
Ceramidases deacylate ceramides, important intermediates in the metabolic pathway of sphingolipids. In this study, we report the cloning and characterization of a novel mouse alkaline ceramidase (maCER1) with a highly restricted substrate specificity. maCER1 consists of 287 amino acids, and it has a 28 and 32% identity to the Saccharomyces alkaline ceramidases (YPC1p and YDC1p) and the human alkaline phytoceramidase, respectively. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis demonstrated that maCER1 was predominantly expressed in skin. maCER1 was localized to the endoplasmic reticulum as revealed by immunocytochemistry. In vitro biochemical characterization determined that maCER1 hydrolyzed D-erythro-ceramide exclusively but not D-erythro-dihydroceramide or D-ribo-phytoceramide. Similar to other alkaline ceramidases, maCER1 had an alkaline pH optimum of 8.0, and it was activated by Ca2+ but inhibited by Zn2+,Cu2+, and Mn2+. maCER1 was also inhibited by sphingosine, one of its products. Metabolic labeling studies showed that overexpression of maCER1 caused a decrease in the incorporation of radiolabeled dihydrosphingosine into ceramide and complex sphingolipids but led to a concomitant increase in sphingosine-1-P (S1P) in HeLa cells. Mass measurement showed that overexpression of maCER1 selectively lowered the cellular levels of D-erythro-C24:1-ceramide, but not other ceramide species and caused an increase in the levels of S1P. Taken together, these data suggest that maCER1 is a novel alkaline ceramidase with a stringent substrate specificity and that maCER1 is selectively expressed in skin and may have a role in regulating the levels of bioactive lipids ceramide and S1P, as well as complex sphingolipids.