Abstract
Neurological diseases, including acute attacks (e.g., ischemic stroke) and chronic neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease), have always been one of the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. These debilitating diseases represent an enormous disease burden, not only in terms of health suffering but also in economic costs. Although the clinical presentations differ for these diseases, a growing body of evidence suggests that oxidative stress and inflammatory responses in brain tissue significantly contribute to their pathology. However, therapies attempting to prevent oxidative damage or inhibiting inflammation have shown little success. Identification and targeting endogenous “upstream” mediators that normalize such processes will lead to improve therapeutic strategy of these diseases. Thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP) is an endogenous inhibitor of the thioredoxin (TRX) system, a major cellular thiol-reducing and antioxidant system. TXNIP regulating redox/glucose-induced stress and inflammation, now is known to get upregulated in stroke and other brain diseases, and represents a promising therapeutic target. In particular, there is growing evidence that glucose strongly induces TXNIP in multiple cell types, suggesting possible physiological roles of TXNIP in glucose metabolism. Recently, a significant body of literature has supported an essential role of TXNIP in the activation of the NOD-like receptor protein (NLRP3)-inflammasome, a well-established multi-molecular protein complex and a pivotal mediator of sterile inflammation. Accordingly, TXNIP has been postulated to reside centrally in detecting cellular damage and mediating inflammatory responses to tissue injury. The majority of recent studies have shown that pharmacological inhibition or genetic deletion of TXNIP is neuroprotective and able to reduce detrimental aspects of pathology following cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Conspicuously, the mainstream of the emerging evidences is highlighting TXNIP link to damaging signals in endothelial cells. Thereby, here, we keep the trend to present the accumulative data on CNS diseases dealing with vascular integrity. This review aims to summarize evidence supporting the significant contribution of regulatory mechanisms of TXNIP with the development of brain diseases, explore pharmacological strategies of targeting TXNIP, and outline obstacles to be considered for efficient clinical translation.
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Abbreviations
- AD:
-
Alzheimer’s disease
- AIM2:
-
Absence in melanoma
- AMPK:
-
AMP-activated protein kinase
- ASC:
-
Apoptosis-associated speck-like
- ASK-1:
-
Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase
- BBB:
-
Blood-brain barrier
- Cyt-c:
-
Cytochrome C
- ChREBP:
-
Carbohydrate response element-binding protein
- DAMP:
-
Damage-associated molecular patterns
- DSS:
-
Disturbed shear stress
- ECs:
-
Endothelial cells
- ER:
-
Endoplasmic reticulum
- eMCAO:
-
Embolic MCAO
- FOXO:
-
Forkhead box transcription factor, class O
- GFAP:
-
Glial fibrillary acidic protein
- GLUT:
-
Glucose transporter
- HFD:
-
High-fat diet
- HGD:
-
High-glucose diet
- HUVECs:
-
Human umbilical vein endothelial cells
- HRE:
-
Human retinal endothelial cells
- ICH:
-
Intracerebral hemorrhage
- IL-1β:
-
Interleukin-1-beta
- IRE1α:
-
Serine/threonine-protein kinase/endoribonuclease
- JNK:
-
c-Jun-N-terminal kinase
- KO:
-
Knockout
- KLF-2:
-
Kruppel-like factor 2
- LPS:
-
Lipopolysaccharide
- LRR:
-
Leucine-rich repeat domain
- MAP:
-
Mitogen-activated protein
- MCAO:
-
Middle cerebral artery occlusion
- MI:
-
Myocardial infarction
- MAPK:
-
Mitogen-activated protein kinase
- miRNA:
-
Microribonucleic acid
- MMP-9:
-
Matrix metalloproteinase 9
- MyD-88:
-
Myeloid differentiation primary response 88
- NADPH:
-
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-oxidase
- NAD:
-
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
- NADH:
-
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
- NBD:
-
Nucleotide-binding domain
- NF-κB:
-
Nuclear factor kappa-B
- NLR:
-
Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor
- NLRP:
-
NOD-like receptor proteins
- NMDA:
-
N-Methyl-D-aspartate
- NOD:
-
Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain
- NOX:
-
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase
- OGD:
-
Oxygen glucose deprivation
- PAMP:
-
Pathogen-associated molecular patterns
- PERK:
-
Protein kinase R-like ER kinase
- PRR:
-
Pattern recognition receptor
- PTP:
-
Phospho-tyrosine phosphatases
- pVHL:
-
von Hippel–Lindau protein
- RAGE:
-
Advanced glycation end-products
- stz:
-
Streptozotocin
- SAH:
-
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- SUR1:
-
Sulfonylurea receptor 1
- TLR:
-
Toll-like receptor
- tMCAO:
-
Transient MCAO
- TNF-α:
-
Tumor necrotizing factor-α
- TRX:
-
Thioredoxin
- TXNIP:
-
Thioredoxin-interacting protein
- UPR:
-
Unfolded protein response
- VDUP1:
-
Vitamin D3 upregulated protein 1
- VCAM:
-
Vascular cell adhesion protein
- VEGF:
-
Vascular endothelial growth factor
- WT:
-
Wild type
- ZDF:
-
Zucker diabetic fatty
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Authors would like to thank Ms. Colby Polonsky, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, for her assistance with Fig. 1.
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Nasoohi, S., Ismael, S. & Ishrat, T. Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein (TXNIP) in Cerebrovascular and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Regulation and Implication. Mol Neurobiol 55, 7900–7920 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-018-0917-z
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