Journal: Neural Regeneration Research
Article Title: Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator protects neurons after intracerebral hemorrhage through activating the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway
doi: 10.4103/NRR.NRR-D-23-01953
Figure Lengend Snippet: rtPA attenuates neuron apoptosis and autophagy after experimental ICH in vitro . (A–C) The DEGs between control group and hemin group associated with autophagy animals (KEGG: mmu04140), positive regulation of neuron apoptotic process (GO: 0043525), and positive regulation of response to endoplasmic reticulum stress (GO: 1905898) were screened, and the transcriptional levels of DEGs in each group are presented as heatmaps. (D, E) Analysis of apoptosis-associated proteins. (F) Transmission electron microscopy images of neurons after hemin and rtPA treatment. Red asterisk indicates the autophagosome, black arrows indicate the endoplasmic reticulum, and N means nucleus. Scale bars: 1 µm. (G–J) Analysis of autophagy-associated proteins. Data are shown as mean ± SEM ( n = 3–4). * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001, vs . control group; # P < 0.05, ## P < 0.01, ### P < 0.001, vs. hemin group (one-way analysis of variance followed by Tukey’s post hoc test). bax: Apoptosis regulator bax; bcl2: apoptosis regulator bcl2; beclin1: coiled-coil myosin-like bcl2-interacting protein; DEGs: differential expression genes; GO: Gene Ontology; KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes; LC3: microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light chain 3B; p62: sequestosome-1/ubiquitin-binding protein p62; rtPA: recombinant tissue plasminogen activator.
Article Snippet: The following primary antibodies were used for analysis: bcl2 (rabbit, 1:1000, Proteintech, Cat# 12789-1-AP, RRID: AB_2227948), bax (rabbit, 1:1000, Proteintech, Cat# 50599-2-Ig, RRID: AB_2061561), coiled-coil myosin-like bcl2-interacting protein (beclin1; rabbit, 1:1000, Proteintech, Cat# 11306-1-AP, RRID: AB_2259061), sequestosome-1/ubiquitin-binding protein p62 (SQSTM1/p62; rabbit, 1:1000, Abclonal, Cat# A11250, RRID: AB_2758477), microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light chain 3B (LC3; rabbit, 1:1000, Abcam, Cat# ab48394, RRID: AB_881433), endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP (Grp78/BIP; mouse, 1:1000, Proteintech, Cat# 66574-1-Ig, RRID: AB_2881934), cyclic AMP-dependent transcription factor ATF-6 alpha (ATF6; rabbit, 1:1000, Proteintech, Cat# 24169-1-AP, RRID: AB_2876891), PRKR-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK; rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 3192S, RRID: AB_2095847), phospho-PERK (rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 3179S, RRID: AB_2095853), eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 subunit alpha (eIF2α; rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 9722S, RRID: AB_2230924), phospho-eIF2α (rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, 9721S, RRID: AB_330951), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase regulatory subunit alpha (PI3 kinase p85; rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 4257S, RRID: AB_659889), RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein kinase (AKT; rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 4691S, RRID: AB_915783), phospho-AKT (rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 4060S, RRID: AB_2315049), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR; rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 2983S, RRID: AB_2105622), phospho-mTOR (rabbit, 1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Cat# 2971S, RRID: AB_330970), and β-actin (mouse, 1:1000, Proteintech, Cat# 66009-1-Ig, RRID: AB_2687938).
Techniques: In Vitro, Control, Transmission Assay, Electron Microscopy, Quantitative Proteomics, Ubiquitin Proteomics, Binding Assay, Recombinant