Acid and Neutral Sphingomyelinase Behavior in Radiation-Induced Liver Pyroptosis and in the Protective/Preventive Role of rMnSOD

Sphingomyelins (SMs) are a class of relevant bioactive molecules that act as key modulators of different cellular processes, such as growth arrest, exosome formation, and the inflammatory response influenced by many environmental conditions, leading to pyroptosis, a form of programmed cell death due...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of molecular sciences 2020-05, Vol.21 (9), p.3281
Hauptverfasser: Cataldi, Samuela, Borrelli, Antonella, Ceccarini, Maria Rachele, Nakashidze, Irina, Codini, Michela, Belov, Oleg, Ivanov, Alexander, Krasavin, Eugene, Ferri, Ivana, Conte, Carmela, Patria, Federica Filomena, Beccari, Tommaso, Mancini, Aldo, Curcio, Francesco, Ambesi-Impiombato, Francesco Saverio, Albi, Elisabetta
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Zusammenfassung:Sphingomyelins (SMs) are a class of relevant bioactive molecules that act as key modulators of different cellular processes, such as growth arrest, exosome formation, and the inflammatory response influenced by many environmental conditions, leading to pyroptosis, a form of programmed cell death due to Caspase-1 involvement. To study liver pyroptosis and hepatic SM metabolism via both lysosomal acid SMase (aSMase) and endoplasmic reticulum/nucleus neutral SMase (nSMase) during the exposure of mice to radiation and to ascertain if this process can be modulated by protective molecules, we used an experimental design (previously used by us) to evaluate the effects of both ionizing radiation and a specific protective molecule (rMnSOD) in the brain in collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia). As shown by the Caspase-1 immunostaining of the liver sections, the radiation resulted in the loss of the normal cell structure alongside a progressive and dose-dependent increase of the labelling, treatment, and pretreatment with rMnSOD, which had a significant protective effect on the livers. SM metabolic analyses, performed on aSMase and nSMase gene expression, as well as protein content and activity, proved that rMnSOD was able to significantly reduce radiation-induced damage by playing both a protective role via aSMase and a preventive role via nSMase.
ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms21093281