Estíbaliz González de San Román1
Iván Manuel1Catherine Ledent2
Jerold Chun3
Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca4,5
Guillermo Estivill-Torrús4,6
Luis Javier Santín4,7
Rafael Rodríguez Puertas1,8*- 1Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
- 2Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Moléculaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- 3Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States
- 4Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga-IBIMA, Málaga, Spain, 5 Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Salud Mental, Málaga, Spain
- 5Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Salud Mental, Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
- 6Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Neurociencias, Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
- 7Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
- 8Neurodegenerative Diseases, Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain
Neurolipids are a class of bioactive lipids that are produced locally through specific biosynthetic pathways in response to extracellular stimuli. Neurolipids are important endogenous regulators of neural cell proliferation, differentiation, oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis. Endocannabinoids (eCBs) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) are examples of this type of molecule and are involved in neuroprotection. The present study analyzes a possible relationship of the main receptor subtypes for both neurolipid systems that are present in the central nervous system, the CB1 and LPA1 receptors, by using brain slices from CB1 KO mice and LPA1-null mice. Receptor-mediated G protein activation and glycerophospholipid regulation of potential precursors of their endogenous neurotransmitters were measured by two different in vitro imaging techniques, functional autoradiography and imaging mass spectrometry (IMS), respectively. Possible crosstalk between CB1 and LPA1 receptors was identified in specific areas of the brain, such as the amygdala, where LPA1 receptor activity is upregulated in CB1 KO mice. More evidence of an interaction between both systems was that the CB1-mediated activity was clearly increased in the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum of LPA1-null mice. The eCB system was specifically over-activated in regions where LPA1 has an important signaling role during embryonic development. The modifications on phospholipids (PLs) observed in these genetically modified mice by using the IMS technique indicated the regulation of some of the PL precursors of both LPA and eCBs in specific brain areas. For example, phosphatidylcholine (PC) (36:1) was detected as a potential LPA precursor, and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) (40:6) and PE (p18:0/22:6) as potential eCB precursors. The absence of the main cerebral receptors for LPA or eCB systems is able to induce modulation on the other at the levels of both signaling and synthesis of endogenous neurotransmitters, indicating adaptive responses between both systems during prenatal and/or postnatal development.
Introduction
During past decades, lipid molecules present in the CNS were considered components of cell membranes and organelles, intermediary metabolites, or constituents of the energy reservoirs. Currently, it is known that neurolipids are bioactive molecules that can act as neurotransmitters with neuromodulatory properties. Studies analyzing lipid molecules related to signaling systems are clarifying the complex integration of different lipid-metabolic pathways with other physiological functions mediated by lipids. The involvement of lipids in physiological and pathological processes can now also be analyzed by the development of new and potent analytical tools and instruments that enable rapid, high-throughput lipidomic analyses of rodent and human brain tissue sections at anatomical resolution, such as IMS (Gonzalez de San Roman et al., 2017; Martinez-Gardeazabal et al., 2017).
Lipid mediators, synthesized from glycerophospholipids, are a class of bioactive lipids that are produced locally through specific biosynthetic pathways in response to extracellular stimuli. These lipid molecules, which hereafter we will call neurolipids, mediate neurotransmission as important endogenous regulators of multiple cerebral processes related to neuroprotective actions, such as neural cell proliferation, differentiation, response to oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis. Neurolipids are transported to extracellular compartments (by non-well-defined mechanisms), usually bind to specific GPCRs to trigger intracellular signaling and responses in target cells, and then are sequestered rapidly through enzymatic or non-enzymatic processes (Murakami, 2011). Representative members of this class of neurolipids are eCBs and the LP, LPA.
The first CB receptor cDNA was cloned in 1990 as the first GPCR for lipid mediators (Matsuda et al., 1990). Two CB subtypes have been cloned: CB1, the most abundant CB receptor subtype in the CNS, and CB2, which is more restricted to glial cells. However, the CB2 receptor appears to be expressed by some neurons, particularly under certain pathological conditions (Van Sickle et al., 2005; Viscomi et al., 2009; Garcia-Gutierrez and Manzanares, 2011; Navarrete et al., 2012). Moreover, there is evidence for other possible G protein-coupled CBs in the brain (Jarai et al., 1999; Di Marzo et al., 2000; Breivogel et al., 2001). Concerning the other above-mentioned LPs, the first high-affinity cognate cell surface receptor for LPA that was identified as the most abundant in the CNS was LPA1, but two additional receptors have been identified (LPA2 and LPA3). More recently, another three LPA receptors were identified, which were somewhat divergent receptors (LPA4, LPA5, LPA6) (reviewed in Choi et al., 2010; Yung et al., 2014). These two families of GPCRs, the CB and the LPA GPCRs, are phylogenetically related. CBs share 18–20% identity of the amino acid sequence with LPA receptors, in particular with LPA1, LPA2, and LPA3 (Chun et al., 1999).
Both LPA and eCBs are synthesized mainly by the cleavage of phospholipids (PLs), probably at the cell membrane. The distribution pattern of CB1 and CB2 receptors in the developing and adult brain is highly correlated with the expression of the DAGLα/β enzymes, responsible for 2-AG synthesis, suggesting that PL precursors would also be closely localized (Bisogno et al., 2003; Yoshida et al., 2006; Oudin et al., 2011). However, little is known about the specific lipid species that constitute the eCB precursors and particularly, about their specific localization in the brain (Lu and Mackie, 2016). Therefore, one of the aims of the present study is to identify these potential precursors through MALDI-IMS assays. This technique has enriched lipidomic studies due to the new dimensions added by IMS, i.e., the anatomical mapping of the molecules in tissue sections, a key piece of information to understand the physiological roles played by lipids present in the tissue (Caprioli et al., 1997; Jackson et al., 2005; Skraskova et al., 2015; Mohammadi et al., 2016).
Supporting the relationship between the eCB and LPA systems, it is relevant that the endogenous ligands for these systems are closely related, e.g., 2-AG can be metabolized to 2-arachidonoyl-LPA through the action of a monoacylglycerol kinase (Kanoh et al., 1986; Shim et al., 1989). The opposite direction of this phosphorylation reaction, i.e., dephosphorylation, also seems to be possible (Hiroyama and Takenawa, 1998; Nakane et al., 2002). Thus, it appears that 2-arachidonoyl-LPA and 2-AG could be mutually interconverted within a cell, and the direction of the reaction may even differ among the subcellular compartments within the cells and could be modified depending on the availability of substrates, such as ATP (Zhao and Abood, 2013). However, 2-arachidonoyl LPA would not directly interact with the cannabinoid CB1 receptor, and 2-AG, in turn, would not display affinity for the LPA1 receptor (Nakane et al., 2002). Moreover, structural analyses of the crystal structure of antagonist-bound LPA1 receptor predict a functional crosstalk with CB1 receptors (Chrencik et al., 2015).
During the last decade, the roles of the eCB and LPA systems in the regulation of neuronal progenitor proliferation and differentiation have been described, involving both systems in neurogenesis at the subventricular zone (Birgbauer and Chun, 2006; Galve-Roperh et al., 2006). However, LPA, through binding to the LPA1 receptor, acts only during the prenatal development of the brain (Hecht et al., 1996). In the meantime, eCBs, through binding to CB1 and CB2 receptors, regulate the migration of subventricular zone-derived neuroblasts in the postnatal brain (Oudin et al., 2011). Nevertheless, the eCB system may also control embryonic neuronal development and maturation (Diaz-Alonso et al., 2012).
In addition, both systems display relevant roles in the limbic brain areas and pathways that control emotional processes, such as the amygdala connections, where both systems are involved in the extinction of fear-conditioned responses (Marsicano et al., 2002; Tan et al., 2010; Pedraza et al., 2014). Furthermore, both systems seem to be involved in the control of cognitive processes linked to the hippocampus, such as spatial memory. maLPA1-null mice showed, through the LPA1 receptor-signaling pathway, long-term spatial memory impairment, but not short-term memory impairment (Castilla-Ortega et al., 2010).
On the other hand, direct hippocampal CB1 activation by high doses of exogenous or endogenous cannabinoid compounds induce characteristic long-term memory impairment (Puighermanal et al., 2009). In the same way, the genetic deletion of CB1 receptor induces neuronal loss in CA1 and CA3 areas of the hippocampus, which triggers a decline in cognitive functions (Bilkei-Gorzo et al., 2005).
In summary, both neurolipid systems are implicated in cortical development in the prenatal brain, in the extinction of fear-conditioned behavior in the amygdala, and in the modulation of long-term memory in the hippocampus, suggesting a convergence in the control of similar physiological functions in the CNS. In the present study we analyze the adaptive changes that are probably produced during mouse prenatal and postnatal development in the eCB and LPA neurolipid systems using both maLPA1-null and CB1 KO mice, to analyze the interactions and crosstalk between the CB1 and LPA1 mediated-activities and to identify the anatomical localization of the possible precursors of the endogenous ligands for both signaling systems. Technically, the study combines functional [35S]GTPγS autoradiography with MALDI-IMS to analyze consecutive brain slices.
Materials and Methods
Chemicals
[35S]GTPγS (initial specific activity 1250 Ci/mmol) was purchased from Perkin Elmer (Boston, MA, United States). WIN55212-2 was purchased from Tocris (Bristol, United Kingdom). Oleoyl-L-α-lysophosphatidic acid sodium salt (LPA), 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT), DL-dithiothreitol (DTT), guanosine-5′-diphosphate (GDP), guanosine-5′-o-3-triphosphate and β-radiation sensitive Kodak Biomax MR films were acquired from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, United States). The [14C]-microscales used as standards in the autoradiographic experiments were purchased from Amersham Biosciences (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) and American Radiolabeled Chemicals (ARC, St. Louis, MO, United States). Finally, for the preparation of the different buffers, the treatment of slides, re-crystallization of the matrix and film development, several additional compounds supplied from different laboratories were used. All the compounds were of the highest commercially available quality for the necessity of the neurochemical studies.
Animals and Tissue Preparation
maLPA1-null homozygous (n = 8) and wild-type 3-month-old males (n = 8) (on a mixed background C57Bl/6 × 129SW) were obtained from Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain, as a result of a collaboration with Dr. Estivill-Torrús’s research group. The maLPA1-null (from Málaga variant of LPA1-null) mouse colony arose spontaneously from the initially reported LPA1-null mouse line (Contos et al., 2000) while crossing heterozygous foundational parents within their original mixed background since phenotypic variations have been described in almost complete perinatal viability and show a reduced VZ, altered neuronal markers, and increased cortical cell death that results in a loss of cortical layer cellularity in adults (Estivill-Torrus et al., 2008; Matas-Rico et al., 2008).
CB1-knockout mice are a strain maintained at the University of the Basque Country and were provided by C. Ledent of the University of Brussels (Belgium). For this study, 9 week-old male CB1-knockout (n = 5) and wild-type mice (n = 5) were used. The generation of mice lacking CB1 CBs was described previously (Ledent et al., 1999). To homogenize the genetic background of the mice, the first generation of heterozygous mice was bred for 30 generations on a CD1 background, with selection for the mutant CB1 gene at each generation. Mice were housed in a temperature (22°C) and humidity-controlled (65%) room with a 12:12-h light/dark cycle (light between 08:00 and 20:00 h), with food and water ad libitum. All procedures were performed in accordance with European animal research laws (European Communities Council Directives 86/609/EEC, 98/81/CEE and 2003/65/CE; Commission Recommendation 2007/526/EC) and the Spanish National Guidelines for Animal Experimentation and the Use of Genetically Modified Organisms (Real Decreto 1205/2005 and 178/2004; Ley 32/2007 and 9/2003). All the experimental protocols were approved by the Local Ethics Committee for Animal Research at the University of the Basque Country (CEIAB/21/2010/Rodriguez Puertas).
Mouse brains were quickly removed under anesthesia. Then, tissues were frozen on dry ice and kept at −80°C. The brains were cut on a Microm HM550 cryostat (Thermo, Germany) to obtain 20 μm sections that were mounted onto gelatin-coated slides, and these were stored at −20°C until use.
[35S]GTPγS Binding Assay
The tissue sections were air-dried for 15 min then washed in HEPES-based buffer (50 mM HEPES, 100 mM NaCl, 3 mM MgCl2, and 0.2 mM EGTA, pH 7.4) for 30 min at 30°C in a water bath. The preincubation was repeated in new buffer. In a second step, the slides were incubated for 2 h at 30°C supplemented with 2 mM GDP, 1 mM DTT, adenosine deaminase (3 μ/l) and 0.04 nM [35S]GTPγS. The agonist-stimulated binding was measured under the same conditions in the presence of the specific GPCR agonists oleoyl-L-α-lysophosphatidic acid sodium salt; LPA (10–5 M) and WIN55212-2 (10–5 M). Non-specific binding was determined in the presence of 10 μM non-labeled GTPγS. Sections were washed twice in an ice-cold (4°C) HEPES buffer (50 mM, pH 7.4), dipped in distilled water, and air-dried. Sections were exposed to autoradiography film (Kodak Biomax MR) together with 14C standards for 48 h at 4°C in hermetically closed cassettes.
Quantitative Image Analysis of Autoradiograms
Films were scanned and quantified by transforming the optical densities into nCi/g of tissue equivalent (nCi/g t.e.) using ImageJ software (NIH-IMAGE, Bethesda, MA, United States) (developed at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and freely available on https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/). The [14C] radioactive standards that were co-exposed with the tissue slides were used to calibrate the optical densities with the level of radioactivity labeled to the sections. Experimental data were analyzed by using the computer programs GraphPad Prism (v. 5.0, GraphPad) and Microsoft Excel. Data are expressed as the mean values ± SEM. The basal binding was calculated as nCi/g tissue equivalent, using the values provided in the 14C microscales. The agonist stimulation of [35S]GTPγS binding is expressed by the percentage of stimulation over the basal (%) in the presence of the different agonists, calculated as: (([35S]GTPγS agonist-stimulated binding) × 100/([35S]GTPγS basal binding)) − 100. The regions of interest (ROI) were defined from the scanned film in the case of the GTPγS autoradiography and directly from the image obtained from MALDI-IMS, using counter stained consecutive sections and a mouse brain atlas, without knowing the genotype of the mice and without taking into account the intensities of the rest of the animals. Differences between regions for each mouse genotype (wild type vs. transgenic) were analyzed by the unpaired two-tailed Student’s t test.
Sample Preparation for MALDI-IMS
The original lipid composition and anatomical characteristics of the tissue must be well-preserved throughout the sample-preparation process (Schwartz et al., 2003). The fresh-frozen brains of the mice were cut on a Microm HM550 cryostat (Thermo, Germany) to obtain 20 μm sections and stored at −20°C until the moment of use.
Once the initial tissue preparation steps were completed, the matrix was deposited on the tissue surface prior to analysis by a sublimation process using the protocol described by Gonzalez de San Roman et al. (2017). For tissue sections mounted on glass slides, sublimation was performed using 300 mg of MBT, which was used as a chemical matrix, to control the deposition time and temperature (30 min, 140°C). Therefore, it was possible to control the thickness of the matrix layer and optimize the S/N ratio of the mass spectra, avoiding lipid migration on the tissue slice thanks to the lack of solvents using this sublimation procedure.
Mass Spectrometer
A MALDI LTQ-XL-Orbitrap (Thermo Fisher, San Jose, CA) equipped with a nitrogen laser (λ = 337 nm, rep. rate = 60 Hz, spot size = 80 × 120 μm) was used for mass analysis. Thermo’s ImageQuest and Xcaliber software were used for MALDI-IMS data acquisition. The images were acquired in both negative and positive ion modes. The positive ion range was 500–1000 Da, with 10 laser shots per pixel at a laser fluence of 15 μJ. The negative ion range was 400–1100 Da, with 10 laser shots per pixel at a laser fluence of 15 μJ. The target plate stepping distance was set to 150 μm for both the x- and y-axes by the MSI image acquisition software. The mass resolution was approximately 100,000 laser shots in both positive and negative ion modes. The data were normalized using the TIC values to avoid potential displacement in the masses along the tissue that may be induced by experimental factors, including irregularities of the surface.
Image and Spectral Analysis for MALDI-IMS
The MALDI-IMS technique was applied to localize and semi-quantitatively analyze the different lipid species present in WT and maLPA1-null mice in positive and negative ion detection modes. We employed optimized experimental conditions for lipid detection previously set up by our research group and others, including selection of the MBT chemical matrix and deposition mode by sublimation procedures (Astigarraga et al., 2008; Yang and Caprioli, 2011). First, IMS of sagittal mouse brain sections was performed using the positive ion detection mode, and approximately 300 mass peaks were detected in the mass range from 500 to 900 m/z. Then, the same slices of tissue were analyzed in negative ion detection mode using a mass range from 400 to 1100 m/z. A complete mass spectrum was obtained from each pixel along all the surface of each brain tissue slice, obtaining the slice images as a composition of the intensity color of each peak (molecule or m/z) at each pixel. Specifically, an ion of interest can be extracted from the spectra, and an image of that particular ion distribution in the tissue can be visualized. Once we had analyzed at least five sagittal brain slices samples from five different animals of WT and another five samples of maLPA1-null mice, we selected different ROIs, such as hippocampus, cortex, cerebellum, cc, and striatum. The spectrum normalization was calculated using the TIC for each mass to exclude a number of noise spectra. Next, we compared WT and maLPA1-null using Origin®8 software.
In summary, the MALDI images were generated using ImageQuest software (Thermo Scientific). Each of the m/z values was plotted for signal intensity per pixel (mass spectrum) across a given area (tissue section). The m/z range of interest was normalized using the ratio of the TIC for each mass spectrum. The intensity reached by each mass spectrum (intensity of each peak, m/z value or molecule) was further calculated as a ratio of the peak with the highest intensity, and the average spectrum was calculated with OriginPro 8 software (Northampton, MA, United States). The most intense peak was considered 100%. Then, the two-tailed unpaired t test was performed for the comparison of two groups. The results were considered significant if p ≤ 0.05.
Peak Assignment
Analysis of the lipid composition at CNS tissue samples from mice included in the present study was complex. A large number of different possible lipid species were detected, and some of them shared similar masses and were not detected and/or assigned to a specific lipid molecule by previous studies. Nevertheless, the assignment of lipid species was facilitated by the use of the Lipid MAPS database1 and different previous reports (Berry et al., 2011; Martinez-Gardeazabal et al., 2017), using a 5 ppm mass accuracy as the tolerance window for the assignment. The numbers (x:y) following the glycerolipid species denote the total length and the number of double bonds of the acyl chains, respectively, while the GlcCer species numbers correspond to the length and number of double bonds of the acyl chain added to those of the attached sphing-4-enine (d18:1) or sphinganine (d18:0) base.
Results
[35S]GTPγS Binding Assay of maLPA1-Null Mouse Brain Sections
The [35S]GTPγS binding stimulated by WIN55212-2 was measured in brain slices of maLPA1-null and WT mice to localize and quantify the activity of CB1 CBs. The aim was to observe, in adult mice was the possible modulation of cannabinoid signaling that was induced by the lack of the LPA receptor subtype, LPA1, during the animal’s previous development. The basal activity (in the absence of agonist) of the Gi/o-coupled GPCR in maLPA1-null mice was already shown in Gonzalez de San Roman et al. (2015). The Gi/o-coupled CB1 receptor activity induced by the CB1 agonist WIN55212-2 was increased at the prefrontal cortex layers I–III (WT 212 ± 19% vs. maLPA1-null 369 ± 49%, p ≤ 0.05) and in layer VI (WT 284 ± 14% vs. maLPA1-null 396 ± 22%, p ≤ 0.05). The increase in the CB1 activity was also significant in the cerebellum gray matter (cb GM) of maLPA1-null mice compared to WT (WT 23 ± 15% vs. maLPA1-null 107 ± 13%, p ≤ 0.05) and cb WM (WT 678 ± 149% vs. maLPA1-null 1377 ± 207%, p ≤ 0.05). The globus pallidus, a nucleus with a high density of CB1 receptors in mice, also showed an increase in the activity of these receptors in maLPA1-null mice (WT 1705 ± 151% vs. maLPA1-null 2037 ± 82%), but this change was not statistically significant (Table 1 and Figure 1). The [35S]GTPγS binding stimulated by oleoyl-L-α-lysophosphatidic acid sodium salt (LPA) showed no stimulations in any brain area of the maLPA1-null mice, demonstrating the specificity of the experimental binding procedure and the right phenotype of the animals (Gonzalez de San Roman et al., 2015).
Table 1. [35S]GTPγS binding induced by WIN55212-2 (10 μM) in different areas of WT and maLPA1-null mice, calculated as percentage over the basal value.
Figure 1. Representative autoradiograms of WT (A) and maLPA1-null mice (B) in sagittal sections that show [35S]GTPγS binding stimulated by WIN55212-2 (10– 5 M). Note the increase in the binding in maLPA1-null mice at different cortical layers (Layer I–III and Layer VI) and at the cerebellar gray matter (cb GM) and white matter (cb WM). Scale bar = 3 mm.
[35S]GTPγS Binding Assay in CB1 KO Mouse Brain Sections
We compared the [35S]GTPγS binding stimulated by LPA in CB1 KO and WT mice to observe the consequences of the developmental absence of the main eCB receptor on the signaling through cerebral GPCRs for the LPA1 receptors. There were statistically significant changes that were restricted to the amygdala and showed increased [35S]GTPγS binding induced by LPA (WT −20 ± 4.3% vs. CB1 KO 32 ± 6.3%, p ≤ 0.05). The LPA1 receptor activity of CB1 KO mice was comparable to WT mice in all the other brain areas that were analyzed (Table 2 and Figure 2). The [35S]GTPγS binding stimulated by WIN55212-2 showed no stimulation in any brain area of the CB1 KO mice, demonstrating the specificity of the experimental binding procedure and the right phenotype of the animals (data not shown).
Table 2. [35S]GTPγS binding induced by LPA (10 μM) in different areas of WT and CB1 KO mouse brains, calculated as stimulation percentage over basal.
Figure 2. Autoradiographic images of sagittal sections from WT (A) and CB1 KO mice (B) showing [35S]GTPγS binding stimulated by LPA (10– 5 M). Note the increase in the binding at the amygdala in CB1 KO mice. Scale bar = 3 mm.
MALDI-IMS in maLPA1-Null Mouse Brain Sections
Some lipid species showed changes in positive ion detection mode in maLPA1-null mice compared to WT mice. Three lipid species, GlcCer (d18:1/14:0) + K+ in cortex (WT 14.5 ± 0.8% vs. maLPA1-null 9.3 ± 1.5%, p < 0.05) and striatum (WT 22.0 ± 1.3% vs. maLPA1-null 15.2 ± 2.3%, p ≤ 0.05), PA (16:0/18:1) + K+ in hippocampus (WT 46.5 ± 2.0% vs. maLPA1-null 37.2 ± 3.4%, not significant) and cortex (WT 47.5 ± 2.0% vs. maLPA1-null 37.3 ± 3.5%, p ≤ 0.05), and PC(32:0)+ in hippocampus (WT 27.3 ± 3.6% vs. maLPA1-null 17.9 ± 0.5%, p ≤ 0.05), were present at lower levels in maLPA1-null mice. By contrast, the intensity of the peaks for PC(36:1) + K+ in hippocampus (WT 16.3 ± 0.8% vs. maLPA1-null 20.4 ± 0.5%, p < 0.05) and cortex (WT 15.8 ± 0.7% vs. maLPA1-null 19.6 ± 1.5%, p ≤ 0.05), PC(38:4) + K+ in hippocampus (WT 8.4 ± 0.4% vs. maLPA1-null 11.3 ± 1.0%, p ≤ 0.05) and cortex (WT 10.3 ± 0.7% vs. maLPA1-null 13.5 ± 1.1%, p ≤ 0.05) and PC(38:6) + K+ in hippocampus (WT 12.0 ± 0.6% vs. maLPA1-null 15.7 ± 0.9%, p ≤ 0.05) was higher in the KO mice (Table 3 and Figure 3. See “p” values in table of Supplementary Material).
Table 3. MALDI-IMS intensities (expressed as % of the most abundant peak) of molecular species of PC and PA that were found modified in positive ion detection mode in sagittal brain sections from WT (n = 5) compared to the maLPA1-null (n = 5).
Figure 3. MALDI-IMS images representing different lipid species that showed statistically significant differences in the detection intensities between WT and maLPA1-null mice. The color images were obtained following the IMS conditions of 150 μm of spatial resolution, 10 shots per pixel at laser fluence of 15 μJ. The intensity of each lipid species is represented on the color scale, shown on the right side, as a ratio of the most abundant signal.
MALDI-IMS in CB1 KO Mouse Brain Sections
The results of the MALDI-IMS experiments using CNS slices from WT and CB1 KO mice were also performed in positive and negative ion detection modes. As has been described, we used an optimized protocol for the lipid detection. The analysis of IMS on sagittal mouse brain slices was performed in positive ion detection mode in a mass range from 500 to 1000 m/z and in negative ion detection mode from 400 to 1100 m/z. We selected the ROI and followed the steps described in the “Materials and Methods” section. The results indicated that some lipid species were modified in the brain of CB1 KO mice in both positive and negative ion detection modes. Some lipid species were present at a higher intensity than in WT mouse brain. These lipid species included PC(32:0)+ in hippocampus (WT 37.6 ± 3.6% vs. CB1 KO 65.3 ± 3.1%, p < 0.01) and cortex (WT 33.2 ± 3.7% vs. CB1 KO 54.7 ± 6.5%, p < 0.05) and PC(34:1)+ also in hippocampus (WT 48.6 ± 5.0% vs. CB1 KO 67.7 ± 3.5%, p < 0.05) and cortex (WT 51.2 ± 4.8% vs. CB1 KO 69.5 ± 4.5%, p < 0.05). Both PC molecules were increased in the frontal cortex, hippocampus and striatum but were not modified in the cerebellum of the CB1 KO mice. In contrast, the relative intensities of other lipid species were lower in CB1 KO mice than in WT mice in the hippocampus, frontal cortex and cerebellum but not modified in the striatum. These lipid species included PE(p18:0/22:6) in hippocampus (WT 3.4 ± 0.2% vs. CB1 KO 1.1 ± 0.6%, p < 0.05) and cortex (WT 3.7 ± 0.1% vs. CB1 KO 1.0 ± 0.6%, p < 0.05), PE(18:0/22:6)– in hippocampus (WT 8.5 ± 0.3% vs. CB1 KO 4.4 ± 1.9%, p < 0.01), and phosphatidylserine (PS) (18:0/22:6)– in cortex (WT 73.3 ± 9.5% vs. CB1 KO 46.9 ± 4.7%, p < 0.01) and striatum (WT 57.9 ± 4.8% vs. CB1 KO 40 ± 2.7%, p < 0.05) (Table 4 and Figure 4. See “p” values in table of Supplementary Material).
Table 4. MALDI-IMS intensities (expressed as % of the most abundant peak) of molecular species of PC, PE, and PS in positive and negative ion detection modes that were modified in sagittal brain sections from WT (n = 5) compared to CB1 KO mice (n = 5).
Figure 4. MALDI-IMS images representing the different lipid species that showed statistically significant differences in the detection intensities between WT and CB1 KO mice. The spectra were recorded with 150 μm spacing. Ten shots at each point were accumulated. Laser fluency was set at 15 μJ.
Discussion
The present study shows specific anatomical alterations of a few lipid species that are potential PL precursors of LPA or eCBs, analyzing simultaneously in the same animals the regulation of the signaling by their specific CB1 and LPA1 receptors in KO mice for each of these receptors, which are the respective predominant subtypes present in the CNS. The analyzed regions were selected attending to previously described brain areas showing high densities of LPA1 or CB1 receptors.
The analysis of the activity of CB1 receptors in maLPA1-null mice allowed us to detect a regulation mechanism in both in the frontal cortex and in the cerebellum. The absence of LPA1 in maLPA1-null mice results in a reduction of neural cells in layers II/III, V, and VI, increased apoptosis, alterations in the formation of the cerebral cortex and premature expression of neuronal markers (Estivill-Torrus et al., 2008). The eCB system is a critical component of frontal cortex physiology. The CB1 receptor is mainly expressed in layers II/III and V/VI (Lafourcade et al., 2007), same areas where there is a depletion of neurons in maLPA1-null mice. Therefore, the increased functional activity of CB1 receptors suggests a compensatory effect of the eCB system to balance the neuronal reduction. Furthermore, the cerebellum is another brain area where we detected an increase in CB1 receptor activity in maLPA1-null mice. Cannabinoids modulate the proliferation of cerebellar neuronal precursors via the CB1 receptor (Trazzi et al., 2010). Hence, the lack of the LPA1 receptor could lead to an adaptive regulation in CB1-mediated activity.
On the other hand, when the activity of LPA1 receptors was analyzed in CB1 KO mice, the LPA1 receptor activity was increased only in the amygdala compared with WT mice. The CB1 receptor plays an important role in processes mediated by the amygdala, such as emotional responses (Azad et al., 2004; Laviolette and Grace, 2006; Roche et al., 2007; Tan et al., 2010). The eCB system in the amygdala has also been implicated in pain modulation (Manning et al., 2003), fear conditioning (Marsicano et al., 2002), anxiety (Imperatore et al., 2015) and fear-conditioned learning (Llorente-Ovejero et al., 2017). The LPA1 receptor plays a crucial role in the extinction of fear conditioning (Pedraza et al., 2014) and has been associated with the mixed depressive-anxiety phenotype (Moreno-Fernandez et al., 2017). Our results suggest that the lack of the CB1 receptor leads to an increased LPA1 receptor activity in the amygdala, as a compensatory effect exerted by LPA signaling in this limbic area. Considering the present results, it is difficult to hypothesize why no other brain regions have been regulated in CB1 KO mice, this regional exclusivity to the amygdala emphasizes the already reported role of LPA1 receptors in fear extinction, that might be indicating a close physiological control in anxiety behavior and fear-conditioned learning together with CB1 receptors. However, other functions modulated by the eCB system, such as pain or movement control, are possibly not being compensated by LPA1 signaling.
The lack of LPA1 receptor expression during mouse development led to an increase in the activity of the CB1 receptor in the cortical area and cerebellum, and the lack of the CB1 receptor led to an increase in LPA1 receptor activity in the amygdala. Therefore, the absence of neurotransmissions mediated by CB1 or LPA1 receptors in each strain of knockout mice converged to a common compensatory mechanism between both systems in some specific brain areas (cortex, cerebellum and amygdala). The reported compensation would affect receptors coupled to other types of G proteins, however, as previously mentioned, we were only able to analyze those coupled to the Gi/o subtype. It is improbable that CB1 receptors play a role since previous results reported a similar distribution regarding the CB1 receptor autoradiographic densities compared to functional autoradiography stimulated by specific agonists such as the WIN55212-2 (Llorente-Ovejero et al., 2018). However, it has not been yet possible to get the distribution of LPA1 receptors.
Moreover, the co-regulation of eCBs and LPA must be yielded during the pre- and postnatal development of both strains of mice.
The mechanisms underlying the observed modulation of CB1 receptors in LPA1-null mice may involve an increase in the expression of CB1 receptors mediated by another subtype of LPA receptors coupled to Gi/o proteins (see Supplementary Material).
The metabolic precursors of the endogenous agonists for both neurolipid systems, eCB and LPA, are PLs present at the cellular membranes. The metabolism of PLs such as PC, PS and PE is thought to be responsible for the synthesis of LPA and the eCBs AEA and 2-AG. Therefore, we also hypothesized that the identification of specific PL modifications in the brain of CB1- and LPA1-KO mice would help us to understand the molecular neuroscience of the interactions between both systems. Thus, the PL precursor localization was an important step to clarify the synthesis of these lipid mediators. The application of the MALDI-IMS technique to maLPA1-null and CB1 KO mice allowed us to determine the anatomical localization of each lipid species in brain tissue slices. Unlike classical neurotransmitters, eCBs and LPA are not stored in specific compartments of the cells, such as vesicles, but instead are produced mainly “on demand” by stimulus-dependent cleavage of membrane PL precursors (Schmid et al., 1990; Di Marzo et al., 1994; Sugiura et al., 1995; Aoki, 2004). However, little is known about which are the specific lipid species for the synthesis of the endogenous agonists LPA, AEA, and 2-AG, or about their anatomical localization within the brain.
The results obtained with the MALDI-IMS assay in maLPA1-null and WT mice showed differences in the intensity of some lipid species, mainly in the positive ion detection mode. The affected species were PA(16:0/18:1) + K+ and four different PCs, including PC(32:0), PC(36:1) + K+, PC(38:6) + K+, and PC(38:4) + K+, whose more probable acyl chains were assigned based on previous studies and were identified as 16:0, 18:0, 18:1, 20:4, and 22:6 (Sugiura et al., 2009; Berry et al., 2011; Martinez-Gardeazabal et al., 2017). Although much has been learned about the physiological roles of LPA through the analyses of LPA receptors, the mechanism by which LPA is produced remains unclear. At least two pathways have been postulated. In the first pathway, LPA would be produced from PL by the autotaxin enzyme. In the second pathway, PA would be generated from PL or diacylglycerol and then deacylated by different phospholipases, such as PLA1 or PLA2 (Aoki, 2004; Aoki et al., 2008). The predominant fatty acyl moieties identified for LPA in rat brain are 18:1 (46.9%), 18:0 (22.5%), and 16:0 (18.8%), although a relatively small, but significant, amount of a 20:4-containing species has also been detected (7.2%) (Das and Hajra, 1989; Sugiura et al., 1999). PC species with arachidonic acid as its acyl chain PC(38:4), which was significantly increased in maLPA1-null mice in the cerebellum, could be a precursor of LPA (20:4). This species could be converted to 2-AG through LPA-phosphatase and trigger the increase in CB1 receptor activity (Nakane et al., 2002). Moreover, PC(36:1) is significantly increased in most of the analyzed areas and tended to increase in the maLPA1-null mice in brain areas where LPA1 receptors are specifically distributed, suggesting that PC(36:1) is a potential precursor for LPA synthesis (Gonzalez de San Roman et al., 2015; Mihara et al., 2019).
Regarding the MALDI-IMS results in CB1 KO and corresponding WT mice, the ratio of some lipid species was changed compared to WT mice, in both positive and negative ion detection modes. The affected species were PCs, PEs and PSs. PC(32:0) and PC(34:1) were increased approximately 50% in CB1 KO mice in some areas, such as the hippocampus and frontal cortex. We assumed that changes in PC(32:0) and PC(34:1) indicated that the lack of the CB1 receptor led to an increase in the abundance of lipids with palmitic acid. Both PCs can contain palmitic acid at fatty acyl moieties, and the CB1 receptor is palmitoylated for efficient coupling to a specific subset of G proteins located on membrane lipid rafts with a high concentration of saturated fatty acids (Oddi et al., 2012).
The synthesis of AEA and 2-AG could be produced by the cleavage or hydrolysis of membrane PL precursors. For the synthesis of 2-AG, at least three pathways have been proposed (Higgs and Glomset, 1994; Nakane et al., 2002; Kano et al., 2009). The synthesis of AEA seems to involve the enzymatic hydrolysis of the corresponding N-acyl-phosphatidylethanolamines (NAPE) (reviewed in Schmid et al., 1990, 1996; Hansen et al., 1998). In view of our results, we infer that the observed decrease in PE species in CB1 KO compared with WT mice could be related to precursors of AEA, due to the requirement of PE molecules for AEA synthesis. This decrease may be a modulation of PEs due to the lack of the target, the CB1 receptor. In addition, the decrease in PS species could be derived from the PE diminution because PE is one of the sources for PS synthesis (Vance and Tasseva, 2013). However, no changes in AEA or 2-AG levels have been reported between CB1 KO and WT mice (Maccarrone et al., 2001). The undergoing neuro-adaptive metabolic changes could lead to an increase in the activity of the enzymes responsible for the production of AEA from PE in KO mice, but obtaining the same levels of AEA than in WT.
Globally, the absence of LPA1 or CB1 receptors is able to induce modulation on the other system at the levels of both signaling and synthesis of endogenous neurotransmitters, suggesting adaptive responses between both systems during prenatal and/or postnatal development. Future goals would be to further clarify the relationship between the cannabinoid and lysophosphatidic systems as neurolipid systems with potential neuroprotective actions to identify new therapeutic treatments that could be developed for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Ethics Statement
All procedures were performed in accordance with the European animal research laws (European Communities Council Directives 86/609/EEC, 98/81/CEE, and 2003/65/CE; Commission Recommendation 2007/526/EC) and the Spanish National Guidelines for Animal Experimentation and the Use of Genetically Modified Organisms (Real Decreto 1205/2005 and 178/2004; Ley 32/2007 and 9/2003). All the experimental protocols were approved by the Local Ethics Committee for Animal Research at the University of the Basque Country (CEIAB/21/2010/Rodriguez Puertas).
Author Contributions
EG, IM, and RP contributed to the conception, design, and experiments of the study, performed the statistical analysis, and wrote the manuscript. CL provided and characterized the CB1 KO mice. JC, FR, GE-T, and LS provided and characterized the LPA1 null mice. GE-T contributed to the discussion of the manuscript. All authors contributed to the manuscript revision, read, and approved the submitted version.
Funding
This work was supported by the Departments of Industry and Education from the Basque Government KK-2017/14 Elkartek and IT975-16 Consolidated Research Group Grants. Technical and human support provided by the General Research Services SGIker [University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), Basque Government, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and European Social Fund (ESF)] is gratefully acknowledged.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Supplementary Material
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2019.00223/full#supplementary-material
Abbreviations
2-AG, 2-araquidonoil glycerol; AEA, anandamide; cb WM, cerebellum white matter; CB, cannabinoid receptor; cc, corpus callosum; Cx layer VI, frontal cortex layer VI; eCB, endocannabinoid; GlcCer, glucosylceramide; GPCR, G protein-coupled receptor; ic, internal capsule; LP, lysophospholipid; LPA, lysophosphatidic acid; MALDI-IMS, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging mass spectrometry; PA, phosphatidic acid; PC, phosphatidylcholine; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; ROI, region of interest; TIC, total ion current; VZ, ventricular zone.
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Keywords: neurolipids, lysophosphatidic acid, cannabinoids, GPCR, autoradiography, imaging mass spectrometry, brain
Citation: González de San Román E, Manuel I, Ledent C, Chun J, Rodríguez de Fonseca F, Estivill-Torrús G, Santín LJ and Puertas RR (2019) CB1 and LPA1 Receptors Relationship in the Mouse Central Nervous System. Front. Mol. Neurosci. 12:223. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00223
Received: 11 December 2018; Accepted: 03 September 2019;
Published: 19 September 2019.
Edited by:
Robert J. Harvey, University of the Sunshine Coast, AustraliaReviewed by:
Nobuyuki Fukushima, Kindai University, JapanIrmgard Tegeder, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
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*Correspondence: Rafael Rodríguez Puertas, rafael.rodriguez@ehu.es