Characterization of dopamine-depleting activity of Nocardia asteroides strain GUH-2 culture filtrate on PC12 cells

Add time:09/24/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

Experimental infection of BALB/c mice with the Gram-positive bacterium Nocardia asteroides (strain GUH-2) results in life-long movement abnormalities including head shaking and spinning when held by the tail. The head shaking is temporarily inhibited by treatment with dopamine's precursor levodopa, suggesting that abnormalities in dopaminergic neurotransmission may be involved in these movement abnormalities. Cell-free filtrates from N. asteroides cultures induce >70% dopamine depletion in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells, suggesting that Nocardia's effects on dopamine neurons may result in part from secreted factors. The nature of this dopamine-depleting activity was examined in the present study. Dopamine-depleting activity in N. asteroides culture filtrate was resistant to heat (100 °C×30 min), proteases, and chloroform extraction, and was present in a low molecular mass (<3 kDa) fraction. It was partially inhibited by decreasing (to 4.0) or increasing (to 10.0) the filtrate pH. GUH-2 filtrate increased cellular lactate dehydrogenase release by only 2%, and induced apoptotic morphology in only 11% of PC12 cells, suggesting that dopamine-depleting activity was not due to either cell injury or induction of apoptosis. These results suggest that a protease-resistant, low molecular mass substance secreted by N. asteroides may be responsible for its dopamine-depleting effects.

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