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Ethyl pyruvate-mediated Nrf2 activation and hemeoxygenase 1 induction in astrocytes confer protective effects via autocrine and paracrine mechanisms.

Ethyl pyruvate (EP), a simple ester of pyruvic acid, has been shown to act as an anti-inflammatory molecule under various pathological conditions, such as, during cerebral ischemia and sepsis in animal models. Here, the authors investigated the novel molecular mechanism underlying the anti-oxidative effect of EP in primary astrocyte cultures, particularly with respect to nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) activation and hemeoxygenase 1 (HO-1) induction. EP was found to induce Nrf2 translocation and the inductions of various genes downstream of Nrf2 and these resulted in the amelioration of the oxidative damage of H(2)O(2). Furthermore, EP dose-dependently suppressed H(2)O(2)-induced astrocyte cell death (12h preincubation with 5mM EP increased cell survival after 1h exposure to 100 μM H(2)O(2) from 32.6±0.7% to 63±1.8%). HO-1 was markedly induced (4.9-fold) in EP-treated primary astrocyte cultures and Nrf2 was found to translocate from the cytosol to the nucleus and bind to the antioxidant response element (ARE) located on HO-1 promoter after EP treatment. siRNA-mediated HO-1 or Nrf2 knockdown and zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP)-mediated inhibition of HO-1 activity showed that Nrf2 activation and HO-1 induction were responsible for the observed cytoprotective effect of EP, which was found to involve the ERK and Akt signaling pathways. Furthermore, EP-conditioned astrocyte culture media was found to have neuroprotective effects on primary neuronal cultures exposed to oxidative or excitotoxic stress, and this seemed to be mediated by glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and glutathione (GSH), which accumulated in EP-treated astrocyte culture media. Interestingly, we also found that in addition to HO-1, EP-induced Nrf2 activation increased the expressions of various anti-oxidant genes, including GST, NQO1, and GCLM. The study shows that EP-mediated Nrf2 activation and HO-1 induction in astrocytes act via autocrine and paracrine mechanisms to confer protective effects.

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