PMID- 23489891 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20131205 LR - 20130520 IS - 1460-9568 (Electronic) IS - 0953-816X (Linking) VI - 37 IP - 10 DP - 2013 May TI - Protein kinase C activation causes neurite retraction via cyclinD1 and p60-katanin increase in rat hippocampal neurons. PG - 1610-9 LID - 10.1111/ejn.12185 [doi] AB - Neurons are differentiated postmitotic cells residing in G0 phase of the cell cycle and are unable to proceed through G1 phase, in which cyclinD1 needs to be up-regulated for initiation. Yet, a growing body of evidence has shown that cell cycle re-activation via cyclinD1 up-regulation drives neurons into apoptosis. By contrast, there is also evidence demonstrating cell cycle proteins playing roles in neuronal differentiation. cyclinD1 has been shown to be differently regulated by protein kinase C alpha (PKC-alpha) in various mitotic cells. Based on these different effects, we investigated the role of PKC-alpha on cyclinD1 regulation in hippocampal neurons. Neurons were treated with PKC activator, PMA, and analysed for subcellular distributions of PKC-alpha and cyclinD1. Remarkably, PMA treatment increased nuclear PKC-alpha and cyclinD1, but not PKC-epsilon in hippocampal neurons. Increases in nuclear PKC-alpha and cyclinD1 were accompanied by microtubule re-organisation via increases in tau and retinoblastoma protein phosphorylation levels. Increased p60-katanin and p53 changed the neuronal morphology into neurons with shorter, but increased number of side branches. Since up-regulation of cell cycle is associated with apoptosis in neurons, we also analysed changes in Bax, Bcl-2 early and PARP (poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase), caspase3 late apoptotic markers. However, we did not observe any indication of apoptosis. These data suggest that in addition to their previously known roles in mitotic cells on cell cycle regulation, PKC-alpha and cyclinD1 seem to be important for differentiation, and nuclear PKC-alpha and cyclinD1 interfere with differentiation by promoting microtubule re-organisation through PKC signaling without triggering apoptosis. CI - (c) 2013 Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Korulu, Sirin AU - Korulu S AD - Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey. FAU - Yildiz-Unal, Aysegul AU - Yildiz-Unal A FAU - Yuksel, Meral AU - Yuksel M FAU - Karabay, Arzu AU - Karabay A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130315 PL - France TA - Eur J Neurosci JT - The European journal of neuroscience JID - 8918110 RN - 0 (Retinoblastoma Protein) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) RN - 0 (tau Proteins) RN - 136601-57-5 (Cyclin D1) RN - EC 2.7.11.13 (Protein Kinase C-alpha) RN - EC 3.6.1.- (Adenosine Triphosphatases) SB - IM MH - Adenosine Triphosphatases/*metabolism MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis MH - Cell Differentiation MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Cyclin D1/*metabolism MH - Hippocampus/cytology/growth & development/*metabolism MH - Microtubules/ultrastructure MH - Neurites/*metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Protein Kinase C-alpha/*metabolism MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Retinoblastoma Protein/metabolism MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism MH - tau Proteins/metabolism EDAT- 2013/03/16 06:00 MHDA- 2013/12/16 06:00 CRDT- 2013/03/16 06:00 PHST- 2012/08/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/02/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/02/13 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/03/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/03/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/12/16 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/ejn.12185 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Neurosci. 2013 May;37(10):1610-9. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12185. Epub 2013 Mar 15.