PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Yunxiu Dai
AU  - Zelan Wei
AU  - Chantelle F. Sephton
AU  - Di Zhang
AU  - Deborah H. Anderson
AU  - Darrell D. Mousseau
TI  - Haloperidol induces the nuclear translocation of phosphatidylinositol 3′-kinase to disrupt Akt phosphorylation in PC12 cells
DP  - 2007 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
PG  - 323--330
VI  - 32
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jpn.ca/content/32/5/323.short
4100  - http://jpn.ca/content/32/5/323.full
SO  - JPN2007 Sep 01; 32
AB  - Objective: The antipsychotic drug haloperidol (HAL) has been linked to apoptosis and to inhibition of prosurvival Akt signalling in pheochromocytoma (PC12) and neuronal cell cultures. However, the mechanism involved is unclear.Methods: We used HAL to induce cytotoxicity in preneuronal PC12 cells. The expression and the subcellular localization of selected components of the PI3K–Akt survival cascade were monitored with standard biochemical approaches, such as subcellular fractionation, western blot analysis, gene transfer and fluorescence microscopy.Results: PC12 cell stimulation with the epidermal growth factor (used as a control) results in normal processing of phosphatidylinositol 3’-kinase (PI3K)–Akt signalling (e.g., localization of PI3K to the plasma membrane and phosphorylation of Akt (Ser473). Surprisingly, HAL induces PI3K-generated phosphoinositol [phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-triphosphate (PIP3), which conflicts with its ability to inhibit Akt. In fact, the production of PIP3s is nuclear, as assessed by the localized concentration of a fluorophore-tagged PIP3-targeting pleckstrin homology protein and a fluorophore-tagged substrate-trapping mutant of the phosphoinositide phosphatase, phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN). However, phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase 1 (PDK1, the activating kinase of Akt) does not colocalize to the nucleus with the PI3K complex. This effectively inactivates both cytoplasmic and nuclear pools of Akt.Conclusion: The differential compartmentalization of effectors of the PI3K–PDK1–Akt pathway is a unique means by which HAL disrupts Akt functioning in PC12 cells.