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Differential TGF-β Signaling in Glial Subsets Underlies IL-6−Mediated Epileptogenesis in Mice This information is current as Nitzan Levy, Dan Z. Milikovsky, Gytis Baranauskas, of October 1, 2021. Ekaterina Vinogradov, Yaron David, Maya Ketzef, Shai Abutbul, Itai Weissberg, Lyn Kamintsky, Ilya Fleidervish, Alon Friedman and Alon Monsonego J Immunol 2015; 195:1713-1722; Prepublished online 1 July 2015; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1401446 Downloaded from http://www.jimmunol.org/content/195/4/1713 References This article cites 50 articles, 13 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/ http://www.jimmunol.org/content/195/4/1713.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision • No Triage! 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Milikovsky,†,1 Gytis Baranauskas,† Ekaterina Vinogradov,* Yaron David,† Maya Ketzef,† Shai Abutbul,* Itai Weissberg,† Lyn Kamintsky,† Ilya Fleidervish,† Alon Friedman,†,‡,2 and Alon Monsonego*,2 TGF-b1 is a master cytokine in immune regulation, orchestrating both pro- and anti-inflammatory reactions. Recent studies show that whereas TGF-b1 induces a quiescent microglia phenotype, it plays a pathogenic role in the neurovascular unit and triggers neuronal hyperexcitability and epileptogenesis. In this study, we show that, in primary glial cultures, TGF-b signaling induces rapid upregulation of the cytokine IL-6 in astrocytes, but not in microglia, via enhanced expression, phosphorylation, and nuclear translocation of SMAD2/3. Electrophysiological recordings show that administration of IL-6 increases cortical excitability, cul- minating in epileptiform discharges in vitro and spontaneous seizures in C57BL/6 mice. Intracellular recordings from layer V Downloaded from pyramidal cells in neocortical slices obtained from IL-6–treated mice show that during epileptogenesis, the cells respond to repetitive orthodromic activation with prolonged after-depolarization with no apparent changes in intrinsic membrane properties. Notably, TGF-b1–induced IL-6 upregulation occurs in brains of FVB/N but not in brains of C57BL/6 mice. Overall, our data suggest that TGF-b signaling in the brain can cause astrocyte activation whereby IL-6 upregulation results in dysregulation of astrocyte–neuronal interactions and neuronal hyperexcitability. Whereas IL-6 is epileptogenic in C57BL/6 mice, its upregulation by TGF-b1 is more profound in FVB/N mice characterized as a relatively more susceptible strain to seizure-induced cell death. http://www.jimmunol.org/ The Journal of Immunology, 2015, 195: 1713–1722. pilepsy is one of the most common neurologic disorders signaling cascade (through SMAD2/3 phosphorylation), and in- and is estimated to affect up to 1% of the population duces an astrocytic transcriptional response with proinflammatory E worldwide (1). Postinjury epilepsy often develops fol- characteristics (10, 14–16). Furthermore, losartan, previously lowing brain insults, including ischemic or traumatic injury, as identified as a blocker of peripheral TGF-b signaling, effectively well as following infectious and inflammatory diseases (2). Recent blocks albumin-induced brain TGF-b signaling and prevents ep- studies suggest that vascular injury, and specifically blood–brain ilepsy (16). barrier (BBB) dysfunction and the extravasation of serum albu- Although accumulating experimental data from animal models by guest on October 1, 2021 min, plays a key role in postinjury epilepsy (3–7) (for reviews, see strongly support a role for inflammatory responses in epilepto- Refs. 8, 9). genesis (17, 18), several important questions remain unanswered: Epileptic brains often show glial activation, which was suggested What triggers the epileptogenic inflammatory process? Which to play an important role in neuronal hyperexcitability (10), specific cell populations are involved? What inflammatory medi- synaptogenesis (11), and epileptogenesis (12, 13). Under BBB ators are critical to the epileptogenesis process? And what are the breakdown, serum albumin binds to TGF-bR2, activates TGF-b mechanisms by which inflammatory cytokines affect neuronal excitability? Because activation of TGF-b signaling in glial sub- sets has been implicated in both pro- and anti-inflammatory pro- *Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the cesses (14, 19–25), this study aims to uncover the molecular and Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel; †Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, cellular mechanisms promoting a proinflammatory TGF-b1 sig- Faculty of Health Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion Univer- ‡ naling in non-neuronal populations and their potential role in the sity of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel: and Department of Medical Neurosci- ence, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, induction of epilepsy. Canada 1N.L. and D.Z.M. contributed equally to this work. Materials and Methods 2A.F. and A.M. contributed equally to this work as cosenior authors. Mice Received for publication June 5, 2014. Accepted for publication June 2, 2015. C57BL/6 mice were purchased from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, This work was supported by Israel Science Foundation Grants 713/11 (to A.F.) and ME). FVB/N mice were purchased from Harlan Laboratories (Rehovot, 531/11 (to A.M.), German Israeli Foundation Grant 124/2008 (to A.F.), National Israel). Mice were bred and maintained in a local specific pathogen-free Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant 1rO1N5066005 (to A.F.), animal facility. All surgical and experimental procedures were approved by European Union’s Seventh Framework Program FP7/2007–2013 Grant 602102 (EPI- the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Ben-Gurion Uni- TARGET, to A.F.), and by a local institutional grant (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health) (to A.M. and A.F.). versity of the Negev, Israel. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Prof. Alon Monsonego, Ben-Gurion Cell culture University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. E-mail address: [email protected] Primary glial cultures were prepared from the cerebral cortex of 1-d-old Abbreviations used in this article: ACSF, artificial cerebrospinal fluid; BBB, blood– C57BL/6 mice as previously described (19). Briefly, cortices were ex- brain barrier; GFAP, glial fibrillary acidic protein; ICC, immunocytochemistry; ICV, cised, cleaned from meningeal tissues, and digested with 2.5% trypsin intracerebroventricular; qPCR, quantitative PCR. (solution C, Biological Industries, Beit Haemek, Israel) supplemented with 0.5 mg/ml DNase I (Worthington Biochemical, Lakewood, NJ) for 5 min at Copyright Ó 2015 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/15/$25.00 37˚C. DNase I (5 mg/ml) was then added prior to passing the digested www.jimmunol.org/cgi/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.1401446 1714 TGF-b SIGNALING–INDUCED EPILEPTOGENESIS tissue through a thin pipette several times. The cells were then suspended Little Chalfont, U.K.] or anti-mouse [Jackson ImmunoResearch Labora- in DMEM (Life Technologies, Paisley, U.K.) supplemented with 10% FBS tories, West Grove, PA]) for 1.5 h at room temperature. Detection of im- (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Logan, UT), 4 mM L-glutamine, 100 U/ml munoreactive bands was carried out with ImageQuant LAS 4000 (GE penicillin, 1 mg/ml streptomycin, 2.5 U/ml nystatin, 10 mM HEPES, Healthcare Life Sciences) using ECL. 1 mM sodium pyruvate, 10 mM nonessential amino acids, and 50 mM 2-ME (all purchased from Biological Industries) and seeded onto poly-D-lysine Immunocytochemistry (Sigma-Aldrich, Jerusalem, Israel)–coated flasks and kept at 37˚C, 5% CO2 Primary glial cells or purified astrocytes were cultured on eight-well Lab- and 95% humidity. Growth medium was replenished after 24 h and every Tek culture slides (1.5 3 105 cells/well) treated with 10 ng/ml TGF-b1 for 2–3 d thereafter. The culture reaches confluence after 12–14 d and is then 1 h, fixed in 4% buffered paraformaldehyde for 15 min, washed in PBS, subjected to quantitative PCR (qPCR), ELISA, and Western blot analyses as and permeabilized in methanol for 10 min at 220˚C. After PBS washing, whole glia or purified cell subsets as described below. cells were blocked for 2 h at room temperature with Dyna Ab diluent (GBI Cell separation and flow cytometry Labs, Bothell, WA) and were then incubated for 24 h at 4˚C with primary anti-CD68 diluted 1:250 (BioLegend) or anti–glial fibrillary acidic protein Cell separation procedure was conducted according to the standard man- (GFAP) diluted 1:500 (Invitrogen) together with anti-SMAD2/3 and anti– ufacturer’s protocol. In brief, glial cells were harvested between days 14 p-SMAD3 diluted 1:200 (Cell Signaling Technologies). Anti-CNPase was and 20 of the culture using a 0.25% trypsin solution (solution A, Biological diluted 1:150 (Abcam). Cells were then washed with PBS and incubated Industries), washed, and incubated with PE-conjugated anti-CD11b mag- with Alexa Fluor 488, 546, or 633 Abs (Invitrogen) diluted 1:500. TO- netic beads (Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada). Cells were PRO-3 (Invitrogen) diluted 1:1500 was used for counterstaining. All then placed onto a magnet for separation.