The peri-infarct region, which surrounds the irreversible ischemic stroke area is named ischemic penumbra. This term emphasizes the borderline conditions for neurons placed within such a critical region. Area penumbra separates the ischemic core, where frank cell loss occurs, from the surrounding healthy brain tissue. Within such a brain region, nervous matter, and mostly neurons are impaired concerning metabolic conditions. The classic biochemical marker, which reliably marks area penumbra is the over-expression of the heat shock protein 70 (HSP70). However, other proteins related to cell clearing pathways are modified within area penumbra. Among these, autophagy proteins like LC3 increase in a way, which recapitulates Hsp70. In contrast, components, such as P20S, markedly decrease. Despite apparent discrepancies, the present study indicates remarkable overlapping between LC3 and P20S redistribution within area penumbra. In fact, the amount of both proteins is markedly reduced within vacuoles. Specifically, a massive loss of LC3 + P20S immuno-positive vacuoles (autophagoproteasomes) is reported here. This represents the most relevant sub-cellular alteration here described in cell clearing pathways within area penumbra. The functional significance of these findings remains to be determined and it will take a novel experimental stream to decipher the fine-tuning of such a phenomenon.

The Autophagy-Related Organelle Autophagoproteasome Is Suppressed within Ischemic Penumbra / Biagioni, Francesca; Mastroiacovo, Federica; Lenzi, Paola; Puglisi-Allegra, Stefano; Busceti, Carla L; Ryskalin, Larisa; Ferese, Rosangela; Bucci, Domenico; Frati, Alessandro; Nicoletti, Ferdinando; Fornai, Francesco. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. - ISSN 1422-0067. - 22:19(2021). [10.3390/ijms221910364]

The Autophagy-Related Organelle Autophagoproteasome Is Suppressed within Ischemic Penumbra

Biagioni, Francesca
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Puglisi-Allegra, Stefano;Busceti, Carla L;Ferese, Rosangela;Bucci, Domenico;Frati, Alessandro;Nicoletti, Ferdinando;
2021

Abstract

The peri-infarct region, which surrounds the irreversible ischemic stroke area is named ischemic penumbra. This term emphasizes the borderline conditions for neurons placed within such a critical region. Area penumbra separates the ischemic core, where frank cell loss occurs, from the surrounding healthy brain tissue. Within such a brain region, nervous matter, and mostly neurons are impaired concerning metabolic conditions. The classic biochemical marker, which reliably marks area penumbra is the over-expression of the heat shock protein 70 (HSP70). However, other proteins related to cell clearing pathways are modified within area penumbra. Among these, autophagy proteins like LC3 increase in a way, which recapitulates Hsp70. In contrast, components, such as P20S, markedly decrease. Despite apparent discrepancies, the present study indicates remarkable overlapping between LC3 and P20S redistribution within area penumbra. In fact, the amount of both proteins is markedly reduced within vacuoles. Specifically, a massive loss of LC3 + P20S immuno-positive vacuoles (autophagoproteasomes) is reported here. This represents the most relevant sub-cellular alteration here described in cell clearing pathways within area penumbra. The functional significance of these findings remains to be determined and it will take a novel experimental stream to decipher the fine-tuning of such a phenomenon.
2021
LC3; P20S; autophagy vacuoles; compartmentalization; heat shock protein 70 (HSP70); proteasome; stoichiometry; ultrastructural morphometry
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The Autophagy-Related Organelle Autophagoproteasome Is Suppressed within Ischemic Penumbra / Biagioni, Francesca; Mastroiacovo, Federica; Lenzi, Paola; Puglisi-Allegra, Stefano; Busceti, Carla L; Ryskalin, Larisa; Ferese, Rosangela; Bucci, Domenico; Frati, Alessandro; Nicoletti, Ferdinando; Fornai, Francesco. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. - ISSN 1422-0067. - 22:19(2021). [10.3390/ijms221910364]
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