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- Luting Lv, Jiayi Qian, Junzhi Sang, Jie Li, and Tingting Liu.
- Department of Neurology,The Second Affiliated Hospital of Qiqihar Medical University, Qiqihar, China.
- Neuroscience. 2025 Jan 26; 565: 919891-98.
BackgroundIschemic stroke represents an urgent need for more efficacious therapies owing to modest effectiveness of current treatment.MethodsDownload data from stroke patients and collect blood samples from clinical patients to analyze phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase catalytic subunit γ (PIK3CG) expression. To establish a brain damage model, oxygen glucose deprivation/reperfusion (OGD/R) was applied to SH-SY5Y cells. Impact of PIK3CG on AMPK/mTOR autophagy pathway was verified treating cells with AMPK activator metformin. Proliferation and apoptosis were identified by CCK8 and flow cytometry.ResultsDifferential expression analysis and clinical testing show that PIK3CG is highly expressed in patients. Prolonged ODG/R exposure increased PIK3CG levels, supressed cell proliferation, and induced apoptosis. KEGG pathway analysis implicated PIK3CG in autophagy pathway. Knockdown of PIK3CG supressed OGD/R-induced reductions in cell proliferation and OGD/R-induced increases in apoptosis and expressions of Beclin 1 and LC3 II. Following OGD/R, AMPK phosphorylation was upregulated while mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) phosphorylation was downregulated, indicating AMPK/mTOR autophagy activation. Knockdown of PIK3CG opposed metformin-induced rises in Beclin 1, LC3 II and apoptosis along with decreases in proliferation.ConclusionPIK3CG knockdown protects neuronal cells by inhibiting AMPK/mTOR autophagy pathway and further inhibiting autophagy.Copyright © 2024 International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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