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  • Title: High glucose initiates calpain-induced necrosis before apoptosis in LLC-PK1 cells.
    Author: Harwood SM, Allen DA, Raftery MJ, Yaqoob MM.
    Journal: Kidney Int; 2007 Apr; 71(7):655-63. PubMed ID: 17290296.
    Abstract:
    Cells exposed to high ambient glucose concentrations are subject to increases in intracellular calcium ([Ca(2+)](i)). We therefore considered it likely that the calcium-dependent cysteine protease calpain would play a role in the development of high glucose-induced cell injury. After 3 and 24 h, high glucose concentrations (25 mM D-glucose) produced almost identical increases in the degree of necrotic cell death in kidney proximal tubular epithelial cells (LLC-PK(1)) compared to cells treated with control glucose (5 mM D-glucose). Necrotic cell death could be restricted by inhibiting the activity of calpain. High glucose-treated LLC-PK(1) cells were found to have significantly elevated [Ca(2+)](i) concentrations within 1 h, and elevated calpain activity within 2 h compared to control treated cells. The DNA nick sensor poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) has previously been shown to be an important driver of high glucose-induced cell death, but here we found that although PARP activity was increased after 24 h, it was unaltered after 3 h. Furthermore, PARP inhibition with PJ-34 did not restrict early high glucose-induced necrosis. Using a gene knockdown strategy with small interference RNA, we found that silencing calpain was effective in reducing the degree of early high glucose-induced necrosis. We conclude that high glucose concentrations evoke an early, calpain-mediated necrosis in cultured proximal tubular cells that is PARP-independent, and precedes the previously recognized activation of apoptosis.
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