Diversas alterações genéticas estão associadas à patogênese do carcinoma epidermoide (CE), neoplasia maligna mais comum de cabeça e pescoço. Algumas dessas alterações comprometem proteínas pertencentes à via de sinalização do Akt, envolvida em diferentes fenômenos celulares. Este trabalho teve como objetivo estudar a expressão da proteína pAkt em linhagens celulares de carcinomas epidermoides de cabeça e pescoço, de forma a verificar possíveis alterações na transcrição dessa molécula em células de CE tratadas com Curcumina. Foram utilizadas duas linhagens celulares de CE de cabeça e pescoço (FaDu e SCC9) e uma linhagem de queratinócitos normais (HaCat) divididas em dois grupos: a. Grupo controle não tratado; b. Células tratadas com Curcumina. A proliferação celular foi monitorada através do teste de viabilidade celular e a análise da expressão de proteína foi realizada através da técnica do Western Blotting que revelou supressão do pAkt na linhagem celular SCC9 nos tempos de 24 e 48 horas. Desta forma, conclui-se que a Curcumina na via do Akt em carcinomas epidermoides de cabeça e pescoço tem importante ação supressora do gene pAkt. / Several genetic alterations are associated with the pathogenesis of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), the most common malignant neoplasm of the head and neck. Some of these changes compromise the proteins belonging to the Akt signaling pathway, involved in various cellular phenomena. The objective of this study to explores the expression of the pAkt protein in cell lines of the squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck to verify possible changes in the transcription of this molecule in EC cells treated with curcumin. The study used two cell lines of EC head and neck (FaDu and SCC9) and a normal line of keratinocytes (HaCat), split into two groups: A. the controlled group, untreated; B. Cells treated with curcumin. The cell proliferation it was observed by cell viability test and analysis of protein expression performed through Western blotting technique revealed suppression of pAkt in SCC9 cell line at 24 and 48 hours. Thus, it is concluded that the Curcumin on the path of Akt in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck has a significant suppressive effect of gene Akt.

Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), University, Diss., 2007.

La prévalence de l’obésité est en constante augmentation dans les pays occidentaux, en raison d’une sédentarisation accompagnée d’une alimentation malsaine. L’obésité est souvent associée à une dysfonction endothéliale et à un risque athérogène élevé. Plusieurs observations cliniques ont montré que la modification du mode de vie, incluant la pratique régulière d’une activité physique et l’adoption d’un mode alimentaire sain, représente une stratégie efficace pour combattre l’obésité et ses complications cardiovasculaires. Cependant, de nombreux mécanismes précisant les effets thérapeutiques directs de l’exercice physique sur le risque athérogène lié à l’obésité sont encore largement inconnus. Le but principal de ce travail a donc été d’identifier, en utilisant un modèle de rat rendu obèse par un régime enrichi en graisse, les mécanismes athéro-protecteurs de l’exercice physique seul et/ou associé à une modification du régime alimentaire (du régime riche en graisse au régime standard). Nos résultats montrent que l’exercice physique, indépendamment de la diète utilisée, corrige la dysfonction endothéliale installée au cours de l’obésité. Cet effet bénéfique a été associé à une diminution du stress oxydatif au niveau vasculaire. En effet, nos résultats indiquent que l’exercice diminue l’activité de la NADPH oxydase au niveau aortique. De plus, nous montrons pour la première fois que l’exercice physique seul, indépendamment de la diète utilisée, est capable de moduler la translocation de la sous-unité de la NADPH oxydase p47phox (principal acteur dans l’activation de ce complexe enzymatique) vers la membrane. Nos résultats indiquent également que l’exercice physique, avec ou sans modification du régime, améliore la voie Akt/eNOS phosphorylée, suggérant une augmentation de la production du NO. Ainsi, l’exercice physique, même sans l’associer à un changement du mode alimentaire, peut être considéré comme une stratégie non-pharmacologique efficace pour le traitement du risque athérogène généré par l’obésité / The prevalence of obesity is increasing at an alarming rate in the western countries. It has been attributed to sedentariness and abundance of unhealthy food. Obesity is often associated with endothelial dysfunction and a high atherogenic risk. Several clinical investigations have reported that life style modification included physical exercise and the adoption of healthydiet was an efficient strategy to combat cardiovascular complications linked to obesity. However, numerous mechanisms by which exercise exerts the direct therapeutic effect on atherogenic risk linked to obesity are still unknown. Using the experimental model of high fat diet-induced obesity rat, the general aim of this study, was to identify the possible molecularmechanisms through which exercise with or without diet modification (high fat to standard diet) exerts an antiatherogenic action. Our results show that exercise independently of diet used, corrected the endothelial dysfunction induced by obesity. This benefit effect was associated with the decreased vascular oxidative stress. In effect, our results show that exercise alone was able to decrease NADPH oxidase activity in aortic tissue. Furthermore, we show for the first time that exercise, independently diet used, was able to modulate the translocation of p47phox subunit to membrane (which plays a pivotal role in NADPH oxidase activation). Ours results show also, that exercise with or without diet modification improves the Akt/eNOS phosphorylation pathway, suggesting that exercise increases NO production. In summary, exercise training even without diet modification, may be a non-pharmacological strategy treatment for atherogenic risk linked to obesity

Orientador: Jose Barreto Campello Carvalheira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T10:00:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_JosenilsonCamposde_D.pdf: 1237045 bytes, checksum: 1e4b99f788f9635f40a69249e72e33ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A regulação adequada da via de sinalização PI 3-quinase-Akt é essencial para a prevenção da carcinogênese. Dados recentes caracterizaram uma alça de retroalimentação negativa na qual a mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), bloqueia a ativação adicional da via Akt/mTOR por meio da inibição da função do substrato 1 do receptor de insulina (IRS-1). Entretanto, a inibição potencial do IRS-1 durante o tratamento com rapamicina não foi estudado. No presente estudo, demonstramos que um oligonucleotídeo anti-sense direcionado ao IRS-1 e a rapamicina antagonizam sinergicamente a ativação da mTOR in vivo e induzem supressão tumoral, por meio de inibição da proliferação e indução de apoptose, em enxertos de células de câncer de próstata. Estes dados demonstram que a inclusão de agentes que bloqueiam o IRS-1 potencializam o efeito da inibição da mTOR no crescimento de enxertos de células de câncer de próstata. / Abstract: Proper activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase-Akt pathway is critical for the prevention of tumorigenesis. Recent data have characterized a negative feedback loop where in mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), blocks additional activation of the Akt/mTOR pathway through inhibition insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) function. However, the potential of IRS-1 inhibition during rapamycin treatment has not been examined. Herein, we show that IRS-1 antisense oligonucleotide and rapamycin synergistically antagonize the activation of mTOR in vivo and induced tumor suppression, through inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis, in prostate cancer cell xenografts. These data demonstrate that the addition of agents that blocks IRS-1 potentiate the effect of mTOR inhibition in the growth of prostate cancer cell xenografts. / Doutorado / Clinica Medica / Doutor em Clínica Médica

No rim, a maior parte da carga de glicose filtrada é reabsorvida na porção inicial do túbulo proximal, no qual são co-expressos os transportadores: SGLT2 e GLUT2. No diabetes mellitus ocorre aumento no fluxo transepitelial de glicose, o que decorre de aumento na expressão desses transportadores, e pode ser revertido pelo tratamento com insulina. Os fatores transcricionais HNF1A, HNF4A e FOXA2 são descritos como potenciais reguladores do gene Slc2a2. A proteína AKT medeia efeitos da insulina, e é capaz de ativar fatores transcricionais. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar em linhagem celular IRPTC, o efeito da alta concentração de glicose e da insulina sobre a expressão de Slc2a2/GLUT2 e Slc5a2/SGLT2, assim como a participação da AKT e dos fatores transcricionais. Observamos que a alta concentração de glicose aumentou a expressão do Slc2a2/GLUT2 e a atividade de ligação dos fatores transcricionais HNF4A e FOXA2 na região promotora do gene Slc2a2, por mecanismo mediado pela AKT. A insulina reverteu o efeito sobre o Slc2a2, porém não alterou o conteúdo de GLUT2. / Glucose filtrated load is reabsorbed in renal proximal tubule by the coordinate action of the glucose transporters SGLT2 and GLUT2. In diabetes, renal glucose reabsorption increases; that involves overexpression of the glucose transporters, and is reversed by insulin therapy. The transcription factors HNF1A, HNF4A and FOXA2 have been proposed as modulators of Slc2a2 gene expression. The AKT protein is an important mediator of insulin action, and has been able to activate transcription factors. The present study investigates in immortalized rat proximal tubule cells the effects of high glucose and insulin concentrations upon the Slc2a2/GLUT2 and Slc5a2/SGLT2 expression, as well as the participation of AKT, HNF1A, HNF4A and FOXA2. On the other hand, 25 mM glucose increased the expression of Slc2a2GLUT2, which was accompanied by increased HNF4A and FOXA2 binding in the Slc2a2 promoter, in an AKT-mediated way. Insulin reversed the Slc2a2 mRNA regulation, but did not alter GLUT2 content.

Introdução: A epilepsia do lobo temporal (ELT) é a forma mais frequente de epilepsia em adultos. Um modelo experimental de ELT consiste na indução de status epilepticus (SE) em animais por administração de Pilocarpina. Este modelo induz mudanças patofisiológicas e comportamentais em ratos muito semelhantes às observadas em seres humanos com ELT. Apesar da literatura apresentar dados relacionados às respostas celulares, pouco se conhece a respeito do envolvimento de cascatas de sinalização com insultos epileptogênicos no sistema nervoso. A enzima fosfatidilinositol-3-cinase (PI3K) está envolvida na ativação da cascata de sinalização intracelular da Akt. A Akt é uma proteína cinase especifíca de serina/treonina cuja forma ativa proporciona um controle no crescimento e proliferação celular, bem como induz um sinal de sobrevivência para a proteção de células contra a apoptose. Alguns estudos mostram que a ativação da PI3K é inibida por potentes drogas, tais como a LY294002 e a Wortmanina. A PI3K ativa a Akt e a cascata de sinais extra e intracelulares neuroprotetores pós-insultos. O estudo da ação de inibidores da PI3K em modelos de epilepsia pode fornecer dados sobre o envolvimento da Akt em sinais neuroprotetores. Objetivos: Avaliar o efeito do SE por injeção intra-hipocampal de Pilocarpina na ativação da Akt, bem como os efeitos do bloqueio desta cascata sobre as alterações patológicas observadas no hipocampo de ratos na fase aguda pós-SE. Metodologia: Ratos da cepa Wistar machos (250-300 g) foram divididos em grupos de tratamento, sendo tratados com injeções ipsilaterais na região posterior do hipocampo, com uma hora de intervalo entre drogas, das drogas: Salina e Pilocarpina (grupo Sal+Pilo), LY294002 e Pilocarpina (LY+Pilo) e Wortmanina e Pilocarpina (Wort+Pilo). No grupo considerado como controle foram injetadas as seguintes drogas: Salina e Salina (grupo Sal+Sal) ou Dimetilsulfóxido e Salina (grupo DMSO+Sal). O tempo de SE induzido por Pilocarpina foi fixado em 2 horas. Grupos de animais foram sacrificados nos instantes de 1 dia e 7 dias após o SE e seus encéfalos foram processados objetivando a imuno-histoquímica para NeuN, GFAP e Akt (pan). Resultados: A densidade neuronial na região do hilo do hipocampo foi menor no grupo Sal+Pilo, seguido dos grupos LY+Pilo e Wort+Pilo, avaliando-se os vários níveis de formação hipocampal e região posterior. Para a análise da astrogliose, na camada granular, o grupo LY+Pilo apresentou maior número de astrócitos positivos; na região do hilo hipocampal, os grupos LY+Pilo e Wort+Pilo apresentaram baixa expressão para a proteína Akt, comparados aos grupos Controles; assim como o grupo Wort+Pilo, em CA2, apresentou baixa expressão da proteína Akt somente na região posterior. Os animais Sal+Pilo sobrevida-7dias pós-SE revelaram maior expressão da Akt quando comparados com o grupo Sal+Pilo sobrevida-1dia pós-SE. Quanto à análise comportamental, o grupo Wort+Pilo apresentou maior latência para o início do SE que o grupo Sal+Pilo, não sendo observado diferença de severidade, uma vez atingido o SE. Conclusões: Na hipótese de trabalho, o uso de inibidores da fosforilação de Akt resultaria em maior morte neuronial, astrogliose e expressão inalterada da Akt. Ao contrário do esperado, os grupos que receberam injeções intra-hipocampais de inibidores de Akt, antes da indução de SE, exibiram menor perda neuronial, menor astrogliose e menor expressão da Akt para os vários níveis de formação hipocampal e no hipocampo posterior. Porém, o grupo Sal+Pilo sobrevida-7 dias pós-SE exibiu maior expressão para Akt quando comparado com o grupo Sal+Pilo de sobrevida-1 dia pós-SE. Além disso, o pré-tratamento com Wortmanina demonstrou um maior tempo de latência para o início do SE, o que nos sugere uma maior neuroproteção do que LY294002. / Introduction: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most frequent type of adult human epilepsy. An experimental model of TLE, the Pilocarpine induced epilepsy, followed by pathofisiologic and behavioural alterations in rats resembling human diagnosis with TLE. Although there are several data on cell response in literature, few information exist on the cascade of signals involved in epileptogenesis process of central nervous system. The phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) is involved in activation of Akt intracellular signaling cascade. The serine/threonine kinase Akt, that in active form promote a control of growth and cell proliferation, such as survival sign protecting cells from apoptosis. Some studies have shown that activation of PI3K is blocked by potents pharmacological inhibitors, for example the LY294002 and Wortmannin. PI3K activate Akt and both extra and intracellular cascade signals involved in neuroprotection after seizures. The study of inhibitors mechanism in model of epilepsy can provide information on the involvement of Akt in signals of neuroprotection. Objectives: To evaluate the effects of SE by the intrahippocampal injection of Pilocarpine in Akt activation, and the effects of the blockade of this cascade on pathologic alterations observed in hippocampus of rats in acute phase after SE as well. Methods: Male Wistar rats (weighing 250 to 300 g) were divided in groups treated ipsilaterally with injections in the posterior region of hippocampus with an elapsed time of one hour subsequently after each injection of following substances: Physiological Saline and Pilocarpine (group Sal+Pilo), LY294002 and Pilocarpine (LY+Pilo), and Wortmannin and Pilocarpine (Wort+Pilo). Control groups were treated with the following drugs Saline + Saline (group Sal+Sal) or Dimethylsulphoxide + Saline (DMSO+Sal). A fixed time of 2 hours was considered for evaluating the SE induced by Pilocarpine. Animals were sacrificed 1 day and 7 days after SE, and their brains were processed imunohistochemically for NeuN, GFAP and Akt (pan) detecting. Results: The neuronal density in the hippocampal hilus was lower in the Sal+Pilo group, followed by LY+Pilo and Wort+Pilo groups, this evaluate various levels of hippocampal formation and posterior region. For the analysis of reactive astrogliosis of the granular cell layer, the LY+Pilo group presented a great number of GFAP-positive astrocytes. In the hilar region, the LY+Pilo and Wort+Pilo groups presented a reduced Akt expression compared to the Control group, such as the group Wort+Pilo in CA2, presented a reduced Akt expression only in posterior region. The Sal+Pilo animals with a survival time of 7 days after SE revealed higher Akt expression when compared to the Sal+Pilo animals with a survival time of 1 day. In behavioural analysis, the Wort+Pilo group presented major time of latency to SE than Sal+Pilo group, without differences in the disease severity, once reached the SE. Conclusions: On the contrary to the original hypothesis of this work, the use of inhibitors of Akt phosphorylating resulted in an unaltered neuronal death, astrogliosis and Akt expression. The groups that received intrahippocampal injection of Akt inhibitors before inducing SE exhibited a reduced neuronal loss, astrogliosis and Akt expression to the various levels of hippocampal formation and posterior region. But, to the Sal+Pilo group with a survival time of 7 days after SE induction exhibited greater Akt expression than Sal+Pilo group with a survival time of 1 day after SE induction. However, the pretreatment with Wortmannin displayed major time of latency to SE induction, suggesting this substance as a better neuroprotector than LY294002, according to the methodology applied in this study.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most widely spread diseases of modern civilization. Mechanisms involved in the protection of myocardial tissue are for that very reason in the focus of cardiovascular research. The adaptation to chronic hypoxia has been studied for many years in the context of its positive effects on heart function and its increased tolerance to ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. This Master thesis describes the role of Akt kinase in the mechanisms leading to myocardial protection against I/R injury using the model of adaptation to chronic normobaric hypoxia (CNH). The hearts from male Wistar rats, that were kept in normoxic or hypoxic conditions (O2 0.1) for the period of 3 weeks, were retrogradely perfused by oxygenated Krebs-Henseleit solution and then subjected to 10 min of ischemia and 10 min of reperfusion. Samples prepared from left ventricles (LV) of experimental hearts were later used for protein analyses. The adaptation to CNH leads to increased phosphorylation of Akt kinase on Ser473, but it did not affect the phosphorylation on Thr308 nor the total protein level of Akt. A significant increase in Bcl-2/Bax ratio was also observed in hearts adapted to CNH. This Master thesis further elucidates, how Akt signaling pathway and its activation are affected by short...

Le but du projet est l’étude des régulateurs de la voie de signalisation intracellulaire de la voie Pi(3)K-Akt au travers de l’analyse du suppresseur de tumeur PTEN (Phosphatase and tenson homolog) et de la sérine/thréonine kinase mTOR (Mamalian Target of Rapamycin). Cette étude à plusieurs objectifs :1. Modulation de la voie Akt par HCV sur des foies humains, foies de souris FL-N/35 au niveau basal dans un premier temps et lors d’un boost de la voie in vitro sur des cultures primaires d’hépatocytes murins.2. Etude de l’expression ainsi que des modifications post-traductionnelles des modulateurs de la voie PI(3)K dans un modèle murin exprimant (FL-N/35) ou non l’ORF complète du virus de l’hépatite C (VHC).3. Confirmer nos précédentes données avec l’invalidation de PTEN dans un modèle de souris KO pour PTEN.4. Etendre ses données au niveau moléculaire dans l’optique d’une étude mécanistique grâce à l’analyse in vivo, ex vivo et in vitro d’un modèle murin KO pour PTEN.5. Compléter cette étude par l’analyse des déterminants viraux impliqués dans la dérégulation de la signalisation intracellulaire grâce à l’étude de souris NS5A.6. Examiner l’impact de la dérégulation de la voie PI(3)K-Akt dans le développement des Carcinomes hépatocellulaires (CHCs) induit par le VHC. / The goal of myt thesis is to study regulators of intracellular signaling pathway of Pi route (3) K-Akt through the analysis of tumor suppressor PTEN (Phosphatase and tenson homolog) and serine / threonine kinase mTOR (Target of Rapamycin Mamalian). This study has several objectives:1. Modulation of the Akt pathway by HCV in human liver, mouse livers FL-N / 35 to the basal level in a first time and at a track boost in vitro on primary cultures of mouse hepatocytes.2. Study of the expression and post-translational modifications of modulators of PI path (3) K in a murine model expressing (FL-N / 35) or not the complete ORF of hepatitis C ( HCV).3. Confirming our previous data with the invalidation of PTEN in a knockout mouse model for PTEN.4. Extending its data at the molecular level with a view to a mechanistic study through analysis in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro of a knockout mouse model for PTEN.5. Complete this study by analyzing the viral determinants involved in the dysregulation of intracellular signaling through the NS5A mouse study.6. Examine the impact of deregulation of IP route (3) K-Akt in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (CHCs) induced by HCV.

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Activation of Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase (ERK MAPK) signalling controls the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. An established modulator of the ERK MAPK pathway is the IRS-1 (Insulin Receptor Substrate 1) family adaptor protein Gab1 (Grb2-associated binder 1). Gab1 is ubiquitously expressed and is activated by a wide range of cell surface receptors, mediating growth factor, cell-cell and cell-substratum interactions. The N-terminal region of Gab1 contains a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain required for membrane binding and a nuclear localisation sequence (NLS) that facilitates nuclear translocation. Undifferentiated mouse ES cells preferentially express high levels of a novel form of Gab1 (Gab1β) lacking the N-terminal region. Based on its novel structure and abundance, Gab1β may act in a dominant negative manner by binding and mislocalising downstream effectors. Alternatively, it may have a deregulated function unrestrained by the PH or NLS domains. Data presented here shows that Gab1β is tyrosine phosphorylated in response to the self-renewal factor Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) and/or Foetal Bovine Serum (FBS) stimulation. This then leads to the formation of complexes with Shp2 and the p85 subunit of PI3K. Experiments comparing the responses of wild-type and Gab1β knock-out ES cells indicate that Gab1β enhances ERK and potentially AKT phosphorylation in response to LIF. In contrast, Gab1β has a negative effect on ERK and AKT phosphorylation in response to IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor 1). These results suggest that the contribution of Gab1β to signalling activity is receptor specific and may imply that the response of ES cells to ERK activation is context specific. By reintroducing fluorescently tagged Gab1 proteins into Gab1β knockout ES cells, I investigated the localisation of Gab1β in ES cells. Gab1β localised at the cell membrane as well as in a perinuclear body. I next investigated the potential role of Gab1β in the differentiation of ES cells into neural precursors. A monolayer differentiation protocol was used to differentiate Gab1β wild-type and knock-out cells into neural precursors. Furthermore, the effect of insulin on the emergence of neural precursors from Gab1β-targeted cells was also explored.