MAPK/ERK Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases: History
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Francisco E. Olucha-Bordonau

The signaling pathway of the microtubule-associated protein kinase or extracellular regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK) is a common mechanism of extracellular information transduction from extracellular stimuli to the intracellular space. The transduction of information leads to changes in the ongoing metabolic pathways and the modification of gene expression patterns. In the central nervous system, ERK is expressed ubiquitously, both temporally and spatially. The MAP-ERK pathway is a key element of the neuroinflammatory pathway triggered by glial cells during the development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as well as prionic diseases. The process triggered by MAPK/ERK activation depends on the stage of development (mature or senescence), the type of cellular element in which the pathway is activated, and the anatomic neural structure. However, extensive gaps exist with regards to the targets of the phosphorylated ERK in many of these processes.

  • learning
  • memory
  • hippocampus
  • septum
  • synapse
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • Huntington’s disease
  • Prion diseases
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Parkinson's disease

1. Introduction

MAPK signaling pathways intervene and control cellular functions, resulting in a direct function of memory and emotional processes. Therefore, alterations or modulations of these pathways can lead to different processes implicated in various human diseases. Throughout this and the next section, we will analyze the state-of-the-art of MAPK signaling pathways in human disease, with a special focus on neurodegenerative disorders (Table 1).

The role of the MAPK/ERK pathway in neurodegenerative diseases is mainly related to glial cell function and the inflammatory response. The activation of resident immune cells of the brain, glial cells (microglia and astroglia), triggers the pro-inflammatory state with the production of nitric oxide (NO), cytokines, and chemokines and the implication of inflammatory-related pathways [1][2][3]. Most of the components of these pathways are cytosolic targets of ERK, suggesting an essential function of the MAPK pathway in the production or sustaining of such a pathological hallmark, and consequently, in the noxious events that lead to the specific neurodegeneration.

2. Parkinson´s Disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age-associated disease mostly identified by an extrapyramidal alteration of movement. From a pathological point of view, PD is characterized by the selective and progressive loss of dopaminergic-melanized neurons located in caudoventral regions of the substantia nigra, reactive gliosis, and intracytoplasmic inclusions of a-synuclein known as the Lewy bodies [4]. In this sense, α-Synuclein promotes inflammation via activating p38, ERK, and JNK pathways in human microglial cells, resulting in the production of IL-1β and TNF-α. The disappearance of neurons in the substantia nigra leads to dopamine deficiency in their target areas (in the striatum and other nuclei of the basal ganglia), producing serial functional lesions and the manifestation of symptoms and clinical signs. Many genes, including 23 genes or loci linked to rare monogenic familial forms of PD with Mendelian inheritance, such as SNCA, Parkin, DJ-1, PINK 1, LRRK2, and VPS35, and over 20 common variants with small effect sizes and 12 genetic risk factors, have been associated with PD in recent years [5][6].

Table 1. Participation of Erk in neurodegenerative diseases.

 

Parkinson´s disease

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LRRK2

p-ERK present in Lewy bodies

[7][8][9]

 

6-OHDA model

6-OHDA elicits sustained ERK phosphorylation related to LID

[10][11] 

MPTP model

ERK phosphorylation is implicated in neuroinflammation

[12][13] 

PD patients

ERK phosphorylated deposits close to Lewy bodies

 [14]
 

Alzheimer´s disease

 

AD patients

Ab dysregulates hippocampal ERK

[15][16][17]

SH-SY5Y cells

α7nACh induce tau phosphorylation and neurofibrillary tangle formation after binding to soluble Ab

 [18]

PC12 cells

HO1 protects against Aβ-induced oxidative stress

 [19] 

Transgenic mice

ERK-signaling induces Aβ-associated behavioral deficits

[20][21][22][23] 
 

ALS and HD

 

SOD1 transgenic mice

ERK is down regulated, which induces a dysregulation in axonal transport

[24] 

Mutant Htt model

ERK deficiency triggers striatal degeneration and increases glutamate susceptibility

[25] [26]
 

Prion diseases

 

Prion infected mice

ERK is neuroprotective following prion infection

 [27][28]

Aβ: beta amyloid; AD: Alzheimer´s disease; ALS: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; HD: Huntington’s Disease; Htt: huntingtin; LID: Levodopa‐induced dyskinesia; PD: Parkinson´s disease.

Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), also known as dardarin, is a 2527 amino acid (~280 kDa) protein that, in humans, is encoded by the PARK8 human gene and constituted by several functional domains, including leucine-rich repeats, an Ras-related GTPase domain, an MAP3K domain, and multiple potential protein interaction domains [7]. Several mutations in the Ras-related GTPase and MAP3K domains of LRRK2 have been associated with familial and idiopathic PD [8]. In this sense, the G2019S mutation is the most common pathogenic mutation associated with the familial form of PD, representing about 3% of cases overall (40% in some populations). The LRRK2 locus has also been associated with idiopathic PD (iPD), as an oxidative mechanism selectively increased wild-type LRRK2 kinase in both the substantia nigra from iPD patients and in two different rat models of the disease [29]. Although all MAPKs participate in neurodegeneration associated with LRRK2, ERK is the most plausible downstream mediator of mutant LRRK2 effects [7]. In this regard, it has been observed that the dysregulation of dopaminergic neurodegeneration-related genes in induced pluripotent stem cells derived from PD patients harboring a G2019S mutation could be minimized by ERK inhibitors [8]. Additionally, during the last decade, an increase in pERK in leucocytes from patients carrying the G2019S mutation [9], the presence of cytoplasmic granules of pERK in Lewy body aggregates in the substantia nigra of LRRK2 G2019S PD patients [7], and a G2019S-LRRK2-associated neurite retraction triggered by ERK-dependent mechanisms in a PD in vitro model have been described [30].

The impact of ERK in PD-associated neurodegeneration has also been analyzed using the most relevant animal models of parkinsonism, both neurotoxins 6- OHDA and 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), suggesting that ERK may contribute to the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration.

6-OHDA remains the most widely used tool to induce a selective nigrostriatal lesion in murine models and dopaminergic cell lines. In this regard, B65 6-OHDA-induced cell death depends on chronic ERK activation, and this dopaminergic death can be mostly attenuated using an MEK blocker [10]. Conversely, when the same cell line is treated which hydrogen peroxide, also inducing transient ERK activation, MEK blockers are ineffective for modifying cell death[10]. Moreover, a recent study revealed the inhibition of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesias (LID) following the counteraction of ERK in the dopamine-depleted striatum of 6-OHDA-treated mice [11].

MPTP is a compound that, having passed through the blood–brain barrier, is catabolized by astrocytes to its neurotoxic form MPP+ and causes permanent symptoms of parkinsonism selectively affecting dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. The addition of MPP+ to neuroblastoma cell lines increases a-synuclein, induces the activation of ERK, and triggers cell death that can be reverted using the MEK-P inhibitor U0126 [12]. As the action of this inhibitor excludes altering a-synuclein levels, it seems that both ERK activation and a-synuclein pathways are independent [31]. In this sense, ERK is almost exclusively activated in the microglia localized in striatum and substantia nigra pars compacta of MPTP-treated mice [32]. Moreover, the administration of Galectin-1, with an anti-neuroinflammatory effect, to MPTP-treated mice resulted in microglial p38 and ERK1/2 dephosphorylation, followed by IκB/NFκB signaling pathway inhibition ameliorating the neurodegenerative process [13].

Finally, the implication of the ERK pathway in PD is beyond animal models. The substantia nigra of PD patients presents phosphorylated-ERK associated with fibrillar bundles inside coarse discrete cytoplasmic granular accumulations surrounding Lewy bodies, suggesting a potential interaction between the mitochondrial function and the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway in dopaminergic neurodegeneration [14].

3. Alzheimer´s Disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease [33]. AD is a neurodegenerative disorder of an unknown etiology characterized by the progressive loss of memory and other cognitive functions that lead to dementia. The brains of AD patients have several distinctive neuropathological features: Intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), whose main component is the abnormally phosphorylated tau protein [34]; senile plaques (SP), primarily consisting of beta-amyloid (Aβ) [35]; and neurodegeneration [36], especially relevant in the basal telencephalon, the origin of cortical and hippocampal cholinergic innervation [37][38]. Besides, the disease progresses through a reduction of synaptic proteins [39], changes in the synaptic morphology and structure [35], and neuroinflammation [40]. AD usually occurs sporadically, but approximately 5–10% of patients manifest it in a familiar way.

MAPK pathways differentially activate during AD. All three MAP-kinases are implicated in mild and severe cases (Braak stages III–VI), both ERK and JNK/SAPK are implicated in Braak stages I and II and in non-demented cases without pathology hallmarks (Braak stage 0), and either ERK alone or JNK/SAPK alone can be activated [41]. This different participation suggests that both oxidative stress (JNK/SAPK and p38) and mitotic signaling alterations (ERK) are independently able to initiate, but both are necessary to disseminate, disease pathogenesis.

Amyloid b, the principal component of amyloid plaques, constitutes the main link with ERK pathway activation. In this sense, it has been established in both in vivo and in vitro studies that chronically elevated levels of Ab induce the dysregulation of hippocampal ERK MAPK [15][16]. Additionally, increased p-ERK was revealed in brain extracts of AD patients [17]. On the other hand, the oxidative stress induced by Ab activates p38 MAPK and triggers the hyperphosphorylation of tau, which is the other main neuropathological hallmark in AD [42].

Interacting with both AD-associated proteins, the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) binds to soluble amyloid-beta, resulting in tau phosphorylation and the formation of neurofibrillary tangles. Moreover, α7nAChR mediates the activation of p38 MAPK and ERK1/2 signaling pathways, suggesting an essential role of both a7nAChR and MAPK signaling pathways in the uptake and accumulation of b-amyloid [18].

Furthermore, during the last decade, it has been suggested that mitochondrial dysfunction is an early pathological feature of AD related to oxidative stress and Ca2+ homeostasis that triggers Ab-induced synaptic dysfunction [43]. It has been proved that heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) plays a role in protecting neurons against Aβ-induced oxidative stress [19]. Recent studies have demonstrated that acteoside induces HO-1 expression through Nrf2 activation. This activation depends on ERK and PI3K/Akt pathways, but not on JNK and p38MAPK pathways [44].

However, the role of ERK in AD is not clear, since an increase of total ERK, specifically within synaptosomes, is associated with a deficient memory task performance in AD transgenic mice [20]. In this sense, the activation of ERK, downstream of NMDA NR2B receptor activity, plays an interesting role in regulating memory processes [21]. Moreover, alterations in NR2B phosphorylation and MAPK/ERK signaling induce beta amyloid-associated behavioral deficits in an AD murine model [22]. Recently, it has been demonstrated that changes in synaptosome MAPK/ERK signaling following ACE2-activator administration increased signaling through the NR2B receptor, inducing significant protection against cognitive decline and decreasing the amyloid accumulation [23].

4. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Huntington’s Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a term proposed by Charcot in 1874 [45], is a degenerative neurological disease that affects the pyramidal pathway along its first and second motor neurons and results in the progressive loss of bulbar and limb function. Therefore, the existence of lateral sclerosis involves the damage of projection axons of the first motor neuron and amyotrophic damage of the second motor neuron. The diagnosis of this pathology is primarily clinical [46], classically reflected in the criteria of El Escorial of 1998 [47]. Moreover, in 2008, electromyographic criteria were defined as a diagnostic tool for second motor neuron injury, despite the absence of semiological findings pathologically (Awaji criteria) [48]. Most ALS cases are sporadic; however, around 10% of cases may be familial due to mutations in genes, including those for Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), dynactin, TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43), and chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) [49]. Although the latest research suggests that p38 and JNK MAPK play a determinant role in ALS [50], ERK pathway alteration is also related, since SOD1(G93A) transgenic mice present a dysregulation in axonal transport associated with the down-regulation of ERK correlating with the up-regulation of JNK and caspase-8 [24].

Huntington's disease (HD) is one of nine autosomal dominant neurological diseases caused by an expansion mutation of CAG triplets encoding polyglutamine (polyQ) sequences in N-terminal domains. It affects 3–7 cases per 100,000 of the Western Europe population, and its symptoms include motor disorders (chorea and stiffness, among others), cognitive disorders (subcortical dementia), and psychological disorders (such as irritability and depression), which end with the death of patients. While the wild-type huntingtin (Htt) protein modulates intracellular vesicular trafficking and neuronal development, mutant Htt, with an elongated polyQ domain, generates toxic N-terminal fragments after undergoing proteolytic processing [51].

Mutant Htt presents kinase downstream ERK deficiency involved in transcriptional dysregulation and by triggering striatal degeneration, it also decreases the response to cortico-striatal BDNF signaling and downregulates ERK-dependent glutamate transporter expression, increasing cells susceptible to glutamatergic excitotoxicity [25][26].

5. Prion Diseases

A prion is the altered form of a 23-kDa constitutive protein (PrP in mammals) that has lost its normal function, but has acquired the property of transforming the standard form into a pathological form. This protein has a regular conformation called PrPc, encoded by a gene (PRNP) localized to human chromosome 20. In prion pathologies or prionopathies, an altered isoform originating as a result of the incomplete proteolysis of PrPc, called PrPsc, tends to form amyloid aggregates in the form of plaques in the brain. Prionopathies are disorders of the conformation of proteins, which manifest themselves as spongiform encephalopathy in animals, such as scrapie, and as neurodegenerative diseases in humans. The accumulation of PrPsc causes the involvement of the gray matter with neuronal death, gliosis, and spongiform changes. Activated microglia is a classic hallmark of neuroinflammation associated with prions, as these cells phagocytize and eliminate amyloid plaques [52][53]. As a part of the neuroinflammatory scenario, activated microglial cells regulate MAPK signaling pathways [54].

Scrapie-infected hamster's brains present an up-regulation of both pJNK and pERK [55]. ERK is neuroprotective following prion infection, since the inhibition of phospho-ERK triggered the death of scrapie-infected cells. Even more, membrane-resident PrP proteins trigger phospho-ERK activation [27]. After prion infection, there is an increased level of the phospho-ERK complex, but this is also related to a decrease in MEK complex activation, suggesting a divergent action of some phosphatases on ERK1/2 upon chronic prion infection [28].

FUNDING

This research was funded by Fundación Alicia Koplowitz, Spain, grant number 19I436; the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, grant number RTI2018-095698-B-I00); Generalitat Valenciana, grant number GV/2019/088(E.C.-G) and Universitat Jaume I, grant number UJI-B2019-54 (F.E.O.-B.) and UJI-A2017-17 (F.R.-B.)

This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/ijms21124471

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