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Cell Death Discov. 2015 Nov 30;1:15058. doi: 10.1038/cddiscovery.2015.58. eCollection 2015.

Necrotic enlargement of cone photoreceptor cells and the release of high-mobility group box-1 in retinitis pigmentosa.

Cell death discovery

Y Murakami, Y Ikeda, S Nakatake, T Tachibana, K Fujiwara, N Yoshida, S Notomi, S Nakao, T Hisatomi, J W Miller, D G Vavvas, K H Sonoda, T Ishibashi

Affiliations

  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan.
  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Department of Ophthalmology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Retina Service, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 27551484 PMCID: PMC4979449 DOI: 10.1038/cddiscovery.2015.58

Abstract

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) refers to a group of inherited retinal degenerations resulting form rod and cone photoreceptor cell death. The rod cell death due to deleterious genetic mutations has been shown to occur mainly through apoptosis, whereas the mechanisms and features of the secondary cone cell death have not been fully elucidated. Our previous study showed that the cone cell death in rd10 mice, an animal model of RP, involves necrotic features and is partly mediated by the receptor interacting protein kinase. However, the relevancy of necrotic cone cell death in human RP patients remains unknown. In the present study, we showed that dying cone cells in rd10 mice exhibited cellular enlargement, along with necrotic changes such as cellular swelling and mitochondrial rupture. In human eyes, live imaging of cone cells by adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy revealed significantly increased percentages of enlarged cone cells in the RP patients compared with the control subjects. The vitreous of the RP patients contained significantly higher levels of high-mobility group box-1, which is released extracellularly associated with necrotic cell death. These findings suggest that necrotic enlargement of cone cells is involved in the process of cone degeneration, and that necrosis may be a novel target to prevent or delay the loss of cone-mediated central vision in RP.

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