Increase in secretion of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor from glial cell lines by inhibitors of vacuolar ATPase

• Published in: Neurochemistry International Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 493 - 498
• Main Authors: Nishiguchi, Mariko, Tokugawa, Kimiko, Yamamoto, Kyoko, Akama, Tomoko, Nozawa, Yuriko, Chaki, Shigeyuki, Ueki, Tomokazu, Kameo, Kazuya, Okuyama, Shigeru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2003; Elsevier BV; Elsevier
• Subjects: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology; Base Sequence; Biological and medical sciences; Calcimycin; Calcimycin - pharmacology; Concanavalin A; Concanavalin A - pharmacology; Culture Media, Conditioned; DNA Primers; Enzyme Inhibitors; Enzyme Inhibitors - pharmacology; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; Glial cell lines; Humans; Macrolides; Nerve Growth Factors; Nerve Growth Factors - genetics; Nerve Growth Factors - metabolism; Neuroglia; Neuroglia - cytology; Neuroglia - metabolism; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA, Messenger; RNA, Messenger - genetics; Tumor Cells, Cultured; Vacuolar ATPase; Vacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPases; Vacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPases - antagonists & inhibitors; Glial cell lines; Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor; Vacuolar ATPase
• DOI: 10.1016/S0197-0186(02)00139-0
• ISSN: 0197-0186

Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) was reported to be effective for treating subjects with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease. In search of finding a compound which promotes GDNF secretion, we found that concanamycin A (ConA), a vacuolar ATPase (V-type ATPase) inhibitor purified from Streptomyces diastatochromogens, enhanced GDNF secretion from glioma cells. The rat glioma cell line, C6, and the human glioma cell lines, U87MG and T98G, abundantly expressed GDNF mRNA, and secreted GDNF into culture media, and this event was potently enhanced by a Ca 2+ ionophore and by phorbol ester, as noted in other cells. ConA concentration dependently and potently increased GDNF release from C6, U87MG and T98G cells into culture media. In addition, ConA enhanced GDNF secretion from astrocyte primary cultures prepared from the human fetus with the same potency seen in glioma cell lines. Likewise, another V-type ATPase inhibitor, bafilomycinA1 facilitated GDNF release from C6, U87MG and T98G glioma cells, in a concentration-dependent manner. The potencies of these V-type ATPase inhibitors in enhancing GDNF secretion were consistent with those which inhibited V-type ATPase activity. These results suggest that blockade of V-type ATPase potently stimulates the secretion of GDNF from glial cells. The V-type ATPase inhibitors may be beneficial to use for the treatment of diseases in which increase in GDNF could be effective.