Notch1 and Galectin-3 Modulate Cortical Reactive Astrocyte Response After Brain Injury

Autor(es)

Ribeiro, Tais Novaki ^[1] ; Delgado-Garcia, Lina Maria ^[1] ; Porcionatto, Marimelia A. ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Biochem, Lab Mol Neurobiol, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; v. 9, JUN 16 2021.
• Citações Web of Science: 0
• Assunto(s): Neurogenética

Resumo

After a brain lesion, highly specialized cortical astrocytes react, supporting the closure or replacement of the damaged tissue, but fail to regulate neural plasticity. Growing evidence indicates that repair response leads astrocytes to reprogram, acquiring a partially restricted regenerative phenotype in vivo and neural stem cells (NSC) hallmarks in vitro. However, the molecular factors involved in astrocyte reactivity, the reparative response, and their relation to adult neurogenesis are poorly understood and remain an area of intense investigation in regenerative medicine. In this context, we addressed the role of Notch1 signaling and the effect of Galectin-3 (Gal3) as underlying molecular candidates involved in cortical astrocyte response to injury. Notch signaling is part of a specific neurogenic microenvironment that maintains NSC and neural progenitors, and Gal3 has a preferential spatial distribution across the cortex and has a central role in the proliferative capacity of reactive astrocytes. We report that in vitro scratch-reactivated cortical astrocytes from C57Bl/6J neonatal mice present nuclear Notch1 intracellular domain (NICD1), indicating Notch1 activation. Colocalization analysis revealed a subpopulation of reactive astrocytes at the lesion border with colocalized NICD1/Jagged1 complexes compared with astrocytes located far from the border. Moreover, we found that Gal3 increased intracellularly, in contrast to its extracellular localization in non-reactive astrocytes, and NICD1/Gal3 pattern distribution shifted from diffuse to vesicular upon astrocyte reactivation. In vitro, Gal3(-/-) reactive astrocytes showed abolished Notch1 signaling at the lesion core. Notch1 receptor, its ligands (Jagged1 and Delta-like1), and Hes5 target gene were upregulated in C57Bl/6J reactive astrocytes, but not in Gal3(-/-) reactive astrocytes. Finally, we report that Gal3(-/-) mice submitted to a traumatic brain injury model in the somatosensory cortex presented a disrupted response characterized by the reduced number of GFAP reactive astrocytes, with smaller cell body perimeter and decreased NICD1 presence at the lesion core. These results suggest that Gal3 might be essential to the proper activation of Notch signaling, facilitating the cleavage of Notch1 and nuclear translocation of NICD1 into the nucleus of reactive cortical astrocytes. Additionally, we hypothesize that reactive astrocyte response could be dependent on Notch1/Jagged1-Hes5 signaling activation following brain injury. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 16/25737-4 - Sinalização por Notch e inibição lateral na desdiferenciação de astrócitos
• Beneficiário: Tais Novaki Ribeiro
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Iniciação Científica
• Processo FAPESP: 18/05846-9 - Interação de NICD com galectina-3 na indução do programa de neurogênese latente de astrócitos reativos
• Beneficiário: Tais Novaki Ribeiro
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Mestrado
• Processo FAPESP: 16/19084-8 - Crosstalk entre Wnt, SHH e Notch e o efeito da proteína Gal3 na regulação da proliferação de células-tronco neurais derivadas de astrócitos reativos
• Beneficiário: Lina Maria Delgado Garcia
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 18/12605-8 - Desenvolvimento de microplataformas brain-on-a-chip para modelagem do sistema nervoso central in vitro
• Beneficiário: Marimélia Aparecida Porcionatto
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático
• Processo FAPESP: 15/19231-8 - Crosstalk entre as vias Wnt, SHH e Notch na aquisição de fenótipo de célula-tronco por astrócitos reativos
• Beneficiário: Marimélia Aparecida Porcionatto
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular