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Selective toxicity by HDAC3 in neurons: regulation by Akt and GSK3beta.

Authors: Bardai, FH  D'Mello, SR 
Citation: Bardai FH and D'Mello SR, J Neurosci. 2011 Feb 2;31(5):1746-51. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5704-10.2011.
RGD ID: 9590182
Pubmed: PMID:21289184   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC3711464   (View Article at PubMed Central)
DOI: DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5704-10.2011   (Journal Full-text)

Although it is well established that pharmacological inhibitors of classical histone deacetylases (HDACs) are protective in various in vivo models of neurodegenerative disease, the identity of the neurotoxic HDAC(s) that these inhibitors target to exert their protective effects has not been resolved. We find that HDAC3 is a protein with strong neurotoxic activity. Forced expression of HDAC3 induces death of otherwise healthy rat cerebellar granule neurons, whereas shRNA-mediated suppression of its expression protects against low-potassium-induced neuronal death. Forced expression of HDAC3 also promotes the death of rat cortical neurons and hippocampally derived HT22 cells, but has no effect on the viability of primary kidney fibroblasts or the HEK293 and HeLa cell lines. This suggests that the toxic effect of HDAC3 is cell selective and that neurons are sensitive to it. Neurotoxicity by HDAC3 is inhibited by treatment with IGF-1 as well as by the expression of a constitutively active form of Akt, an essential mediator of IGF-1 signaling. Protection against HDAC3-induced neurotoxicity is also achieved by the inhibition of GSK3beta, a kinase inhibited by Akt that is widely implicated in the promotion of neurodegeneration in experimental models and in human pathologies. HDAC3 is directly phosphorylated by GSK3beta, suggesting that the neuronal death-promoting action of GSK3beta could be mediated through HDAC3 phosphorylation. In addition to demonstrating that HDAC3 has neurotoxic effects, our study identifies it as a downstream target of GSK3beta.

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Biological Process
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
positive regulation of neuron apoptotic process  IMP 9590182 RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Hdac3  (histone deacetylase 3)


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