IMR Press / FBL / Volume 25 / Issue 7 / DOI: 10.2741/4856

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Article
Inhibition of p-mTOR represses PS1 transcription by reducing p-JNK
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1 Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience
2 Institute for Healthy Aging, UNT Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76107
Send correspondence to: Hriday K. Das, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, UNT Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76107, Tel:817-735-5448, Fax: 817-735-0408, E-mail: Hriday.Das@unthsc.edu
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2020, 25(7), 1297–1304; https://doi.org/10.2741/4856
Published: 1 March 2020
Abstract

Presenilin-1 (PS1) is the catalytic subunit of gamma-secretase. PS1 cleaves beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) to produce Abeta peptide and Notch 1 receptor to release Notch intracellular domain (NICD) in the cytoplasm. We have previously shown that rapamycin inhibits p-mTOR to repress PS1 transcription and Notch 1-signaling. But the exact mechanism by which rapamycin inhibits PS1 transcription is not known. We have also published that inhibition of basal activity of c-jun-NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) with JNK-specific inhibitor SP600125 represses PS1 transcription by reducing p-JNK and via p53 dependent mechanism. We now report that rapamycin inhibits the phosphorylation of both mTOR (p-mTOR) and JNK (p-JNK). It appears that rapamycin represses PS1 transcription by inhibiting the expression of p-JNK in SK-N-SH cells under non-stressed condition. Consequently, one of the mechanisms of inhibition of PS1 transcription by rapamycin is similar to the mechanism of repression of PS1 transcription by JNK-specific inhibitor SP600125. We also report that JNK-inhibitor SP6000125 decreases both p-JNK and p-mTOR protein levels. These results suggest that JNK and mTOR may potentially activate each other by mutual phosphorylation.

Keywords
Alzheimer's disease
mTOR signaling
p-JNK
PS1
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