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Abstract #14042 Published in IGR 8-3
Pressure-induced regulation of IL-6 in retinal glial cells: Involvement of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway and NF{κ}B
Sappington RM; Calkins DJInvestigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2006; 47: 3860-3869
PURPOSE: To investigate how hydrostatic pressure influences regulation of interleukin (IL)-6 by retinal glia and whether this regulation is associated with the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway (UPP) and activation of the transcription factor nuclear factor (NF)κB. METHODS: Astrocytes and microglia isolated from rat retina were maintained in vitro, and the IL-6 concentration in the media at ambient and elevated pressure were compared, with and without the proteasome inhibitor MG132 (10 muM). Immunocytochemistry was used to correlate translocation of NFκB with pressure. RESULTS: Exposure to elevated pressure for 24 hours maximally altered the concentration of media IL-6 of glia cultures, where IL-6 concentrations decreased in astrocyte cultures and increased in microglia cultures. These pressure-induced changes in IL-6 were largely insensitive to MG132 in astrocytes, but were largely MG132-sensitive in microglia. Like IL-6 regulation, pressure-induced activation of NFκB also differed between the two glial cell types, where nuclear localization of NFκB was transient in astrocytes, but sustained in microglia. Elevated pressure also increased MG132-sensitive expression of IL-6 mRNA by microglia. CONCLUSIONS: Though pressure-induced regulation of IL-6 by astrocytes is preceded by NFκB translocation, it is not altered by MG132 and therefore is not likely to be regulated by NFκB or the UPP. In contrast, pressure-induced regulation of IL-6 protein and mRNA by microglia is preceded by NFκB translocation and is sensitive to MG132. Together with precedence in the literature, these data suggest that pressure-induced activation of the UPP leads to transcription of IL-6 driven by NFκB.
Dr. R.M. Sappington, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Classification:
2.13 Retina and retinal nerve fibre layer (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
3.9 Pathophysiology (Part of: 3 Laboratory methods)