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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons associated with dysregulation of iron homeostasis in the brain. Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent cell death process that serves as a significant regulatory mechanism in PD. However, its underlying mechanisms are not yet fully understood. By performing RNA sequencing analysis, we found that the main iron storage protein ferritin heavy chain 1 (FTH1) is differentially expressed in the rat 6-hydroyxdopamine (6-OHDA) model of PD compared with control rats. Our present work demonstrates that FTH1 is involved in iron accumulation and the ferroptosis pathway in this model. Knockdown of FTH1 in PC-12 cells significantly inhibited cell viability and caused mitochondrial dysfunction. Moreover, FTH1 was found to be involved in ferritinophagy, a selective form of autophagy involving the degradation of ferritin by ferroptosis. Overexpression of FTH1 in PC-12 cells impaired ferritinophagy and downregulated microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 and nuclear receptor coactivator 4 expression, ultimately suppressing cell death induced by ferroptosis. Consistent with these findings, the ferritinophagy inhibitors chloroquine and bafilomycin A1 inhibited ferritin degradation and ferroptosis in 6-OHDA-treated PC-12 cells. This entire process was mediated by the cyclic regulation of FTH1 and ferritinophagy. Taken together, these results suggest that FTH1 links ferritinophagy and ferroptosis in the 6-OHDA model of PD, and provide a new perspective and potential for a pharmacological target in this disease.The molecular mechanism of Alzheimer-like cognitive impairment induced by manganese (Mn) exposure has not yet been fully clarified, and there are currently no effective interventions to treat neurodegenerative lesions related to manganism. Protein phosphatase 2 A (PP2A) is a major tau phosphatase and was recently identified as a potential therapeutic target molecule for neurodegenerative diseases; its activity is directed by the methylation status of the catalytic C subunit. Methionine is an essential amino acid, and its downstream metabolite S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) participates in transmethylation pathways as a methyl donor. In this study, the neurotoxic mechanism of Mn and the protective effect of methionine were evaluated in Mn-exposed cell and rat models. We show that Mn-induced neurotoxicity is characterized by PP2Ac demethylation accompanied by abnormally decreased LCMT-1 and increased PME-1, which are associated with tau hyperphosphorylation and spatial learning and memory deficits, and that the poor availability of SAM in the hippocampus is likely to determine the loss of PP2Ac methylation. Importantly, maintenance of local SAM levels through continuous supplementation with exogenous methionine, or through specific inhibition of PP2Ac demethylation by ABL127 administration in vitro, can effectively prevent tau hyperphosphorylation to reduce cellular oxidative stress, apoptosis, damage to cell viability, and rat memory deficits in cell or animal Mn exposure models. In conclusion, our data suggest that SAM and PP2Ac methylation may be novel targets for the treatment of Mn poisoning and neurotoxic mechanism-related tauopathies.Despite the widespread need to assess cell-based viral infectivity during vaccine development and production, as well as viral clearance monitoring and adventitious agent testing for viral safety, traditional methods, including the end-point dilution assay (TCID50) and viral plaque assay, are slow, labor-intensive, and can vary depending upon the skill and experience of the user. LumaCyte's Radiance® instrument uses Laser Force CytologyTM (LFC), a combination of advanced optics and microfluidics, to rapidly analyze the viral infectivity of cell populations in a quantitative fashion. LFC applies optical and fluidic forces to single cells in order to measure their intrinsic biophysical and biochemical properties without the use of stains, antibodies or fluorescent labels. These properties, including refractive index, change with a wide variety of biological phenomena, including viral infection, cell differentiation, activation, size, and cytoskeletal stiffness. Here, we present the experimental design and methods to use LFC data to facilitate rapid and robust infectivity measurements for a variety of applications including initial titer measurement (TCID50 replacement), in-process infectivity (e.g., bioreactor monitoring), and viral neutralization (PRNT replacement).Antibodies against Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) following vaccination are crucial for host protection against invasive pneumococcal infections. Epertinib The antibodies induced by pneumococcal vaccines act as opsonins to mediate bacterial uptake and killing by host phagocytic cells, especially polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) also called neutrophils. Therefore, it is important to measure not only the levels of antibodies induced by a pneumococcal vaccine candidate but their actual functional capacity in mediating bacterial opsonization and killing by PMNs. Here, we describe a protocol to demonstrate effective deposition of vaccine-induced antibodies on the surface of S. pneumoniae by flow cytometry and subsequent opsonophagocytic killing (OPH) by murine bone-marrow derived PMNs.Herein, a method to measure in vivo CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity in a murine model is presented. The activation of a strong CD8+ T cell response is paramount when designing vaccines to tackle intracellular infections and for cancer therapy. CD8+ T cells can directly kill infected and transformed cells and are directly associated with beneficial protection in many disease models. CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity can be measured using multiple methods including measuring IFNγ production by ELISPOT or measuring intracellular cytokines or cytotoxic granules by flow cytometry. However, to determine the ability of CD8+ T cells to kill their target in the context of its cognate receptor and in their native environment, the in vivo cytotoxic T cell assay (in vivo CTL) is ideal. The in vivo CTL assay provides a snapshot of the whole ability of the host to kill "Target" cells by measuring the loss of injected target cells relative to "Non-target" cells. The assay involves isolating splenocytes from donor mice, forming "Target" and "Non-target" cellular samples and injecting them intravenously into naïve and experimental mice at a chosen time-point in the experiment.
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