An optically active isochroman-2H-chromene conjugate potently suppresses neuronal oxidative injuries associated with the PI3K/Akt and MAPK signaling pathways

Increasing evidence suggests that the use of potent neuroprotective agents featured with novel pharmacological mechanism would offer a promising strategy to delay or prevent the progression of neurodegeneration. Here, we provide the first demonstration that the chiral nonracemic isochroman-2H-chromene conjugate JE-133, a novel synthetic 1,3-disubstituted isochroman derivative, possesses superior neuroprotective effect against oxidative injuries. Pretreatment with JE-133 (1-10 μM) concentration-dependently prevented H2O2-induced cell death in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells and rat primary cortical neurons. Pretreatment with JE-133 significantly alleviated H2O2-induced apoptotic changes. These protective effects could not be simply attributed to the direct free radical scavenging as JE-133 had moderate activity in reducing DPPH free radical. Further study revealed that pretreatment with JE-133 (10 μM) significantly decreased the phosphorylation of MAPK pathway proteins, especially ERK and P38, in the neuronal cells. In addition, blocking PI3K/Akt pathway using LY294002 partially counteracted the cell viability-enhancing effect of JE-133. We conclude that JE-133 exerts neuroprotection associated with dual regulative mechanisms and consequently activating cell survival and inhibiting apoptotic changes, which may provide important clues for the development of effective neuroprotective drug lead/candidate.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Acta pharmacologica Sinica - 42(2021), 1 vom: 22. Jan., Seite 36-44

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tao, Ling-Xue [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Sha-Sha [VerfasserIn]
Szalóki, Dóra [VerfasserIn]
Kovács, Tibor [VerfasserIn]
Mándi, Attila [VerfasserIn]
Antus, Sándor [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Xun [VerfasserIn]
Kurtán, Tibor [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Hai-Yan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Apoptosis
BBX060AN9V
Benzopyrans
EC 2.7.11.1
Free Radical Scavengers
Hydrogen Peroxide
Journal Article
MAPK pathway
Neurodegeneration
Neuroprotective Agents
Oxidative stress
PI3K/Akt pathway
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells

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Date Completed 30.08.2021

Date Revised 26.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41401-020-0391-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309769396