Synergistic Neuroprotective Effect of Endogenously-Produced Hydroxytyrosol and Synaptic Vesicle Proteins on Pheochromocytoma Cell Line Against Salsolinol

• Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2020-04, Vol.25 (7), p.1715
• Main Authors: Manzoor, Robina, Rasool, Aamir, Ahmed, Maqbool, Kaleem, Ullah, Duru, Lucienne Nneoma, Ma, Hong, Deng, Yulin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - pathology; Alcohol; Alcohol dehydrogenase; Animals; Antioxidants; Catalase; Catalase - metabolism; Cell viability; Cytosol - drug effects; Cytosol - metabolism; Degeneration; Dehydrogenases; Disease; Dopamine; Dopamine - metabolism; Dopamine receptors; Drug Synergism; Flavonoids; Flavonoids - pharmacology; Functional foods & nutraceuticals; Glutathione peroxidase; Glutathione Peroxidase - metabolism; Glutathione reductase; Hydrogen peroxide; Hydrogen Peroxide - metabolism; hydroxytyrosol; Isoquinolines - toxicity; Malondialdehyde - metabolism; Metabolome; Neurodegeneration; Neuroprotection; Neuroprotective Agents - pharmacology; Neurotoxicity; Neurotoxins; Oxidative stress; Parkinson's disease; PC12 Cells; Peroxidase; Phenylethyl Alcohol - analogs & derivatives; Phenylethyl Alcohol - pharmacology; Pheochromocytoma - pathology; Pheochromocytoma cells; Polyphenols; Proteins; Rats; Reductases; Salsolinol; Septin; septin-5; Superoxide dismutase; Superoxide Dismutase - metabolism; Synapsin; synapsin-1; Synaptic Vesicles - drug effects; Synaptic Vesicles - metabolism; Toxins; Transcription, Genetic - drug effects
• ISSN: 1420-3049; 1420-3049
• DOI: 10.3390/molecules25071715

Oxidative stress triggers a lethal cascade, leading to Parkinson's disease by causing degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. In this study, eight antioxidants were screened for their neuroprotective effect on PC12 cells (pheochromocytoma cell line) under oxidative stress induced by salsolinol (OSibS). Hydroxytyrosol was found to be the strongest neuroprotective agent; it improved viability of PC12 cells by up to 81.69% under OSibS. Afterward, two synaptic vesicle proteins, synapsin-1 and septin-5, were screened for their neuroprotective role; the overexpression of synapsin-1 and the downregulation of septin-5 separately improved the viability of PC12 cells by up to 71.17% and 67.00%, respectively, compared to PC12 cells only treated with salsolinol (PoTwS) under OSibS. Subsequently, the PC12+syn +sep cell line was constructed and pretreated with 100 µM hydroxytyrosol, which improved its cell viability by up to 99.03% and led to 14.71- and 6.37-fold reductions in the levels of MDA and H O , respectively, and 6.8-, 12.97-, 10.57-, and 7.57-fold increases in the activity of catalase, glutathione reductase, superoxide dismutase, and glutathione peroxidase, respectively, compared to PoTwS under OSibS. Finally, alcohol dehydrogenase-6 from was expressed in PC12+syn +sep cells to convert 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde (an endogenous neurotoxin) into hydroxytyrosol. The PC12+syn +sep +ADH6 cell line also led to 22.38- and 12.33-fold decreases in the production of MDA and H O , respectively, and 7.15-, 13.93-, 12.08-, and 8.11-fold improvements in the activity of catalase, glutathione reductase, superoxide dismutase, and glutathione peroxidase, respectively, compared to PoTwS under OSibS. Herein, we report the endogenous production of a powerful antioxidant, hydroxytyrosol, from 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde, and evaluate its synergistic neuroprotective effect, along with synapsin-1 and septin-5, on PC12 cells under OSibS.