Human immunodeficiency virus-1 Tat activates calpain proteases via the ryanodine receptor to enhance surface dopamine transporter levels and increase transporter-specific uptake and Vmax.
Human immunodeficiency virus-1 Tat activates calpain proteases via the ryanodine receptor to enhance surface dopamine transporter levels and increase transporter-specific uptake and Vmax.
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10.1523/jneurosci.1042-10.2010
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2010-10-20
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Gelbard HA
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Perry SW;Barbieri J;Tong N;Polesskaya O;Pudasaini S;Stout A;Lu R;Kiebala M;Maggirwar SB;Gelbard HA
HIV-associated neurologic disease (HAND) still causes significant morbidity, despite success reducing viral loads with combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). The dopamine (DA) system is particularly vulnerable in HAND. We hypothesize that early, “reversible” DAergic synaptic dysfunction occurs long before DAergic neuron loss. As such, aging HIV-infected individuals may be vulnerable to other age-related neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s Disease (PD), underscoring the need to understand shared molecular targets in HAND and PD. Previously we reported that the neurotoxic HIV-1 transactivating factor (Tat) acutely disrupts mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum calcium homeostasis via ryanodine receptor (RyR) activation. Here we further report that Tat disrupts DA transporter (DAT) activity and function, resulting in increased plasma membrane (PM) DAT and increased DAT Vmax, without changes in Km or total DAT protein. Tat also increases calpain protease activity at the PM, demonstrated by TIRF microscopy of a cleavable fluorescent calpain substrate. Tat-increased PM DAT and calpain activity are blocked by the RyR antagonists ryanodine and dantrolene, the calpain inhibitor calpastatin, and by a specific inhibitor of GSK-3β. We conclude that Tat activates RyRs via a calcium and calpain mediated mechanism that upregulates DAT trafficking to the PM, and is independent of DAT protein synthesis, reinforcing the feasibility of RyR and GSK-3β inhibition as clinical therapeutic approaches for HAND. Finally we provide key translational relevance for these findings by highlighting published human data of increased DAT levels in striata of HAND patients, and demonstrating similar findings in Tat-expressing transgenic mice.