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Matte A, Sola L, Chiari M, Tomelleri C, Consonni R, Turrini F, Franceschi LD. Performance of a novel sieving matrix of poly(vinyl alcohol)/acrylamide copolymer in electrophoretic separations of high molecular weight proteins from red cell membrane. Electrophoresis 2013; 35:1081-8. [PMID: 24356974 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201300529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2013] [Revised: 11/28/2013] [Accepted: 12/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The analysis of high molecular weight (HMW) proteins from complex mixtures is still a challenge in proteomics. This work introduces a novel hydrogel obtained by the copolymerization of an allyl-PVA derivative with acrylamide and bisacrylamide and applies this matrix to the electrophoretic separation of HMW proteins. By inducing gelation of polyacrylamide in the presence of variable amounts of allyl-PVA, it is possible to control and vary the average gel porosity. This gel is easy to produce and handle and offers the advantage of being highly mechanically resistant and macroporous. The new matrix was tested in mono-dimensional separations of complex protein mixtures extracted from red cell membranes with different detergents. The improved performance of this macroporous matrix allowed to identify new proteins by MS and immunoblot analysis using specific antibodies. In particular, the resolution of proteins ranging in size between 97 and 279 kDa was greatly improved here compared to standard polyacrylamide gels, suggesting that this matrix can be a useful tool in routine analysis of HMW proteins in cell biology.
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Cui YX, Xia XY, Zhou Y, Gao L, Shang XJ, Ni T, Wang WP, Fan XB, Yin HL, Jiang SJ, Yao B, Hu YA, Wang G, Li XJ. Novel mutations of ABCB6 associated with autosomal dominant dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79808. [PMID: 24224009 PMCID: PMC3818219 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 09/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Objective Dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria (DUH) is a rare heterogeneous pigmentary genodermatosis, which was first described in 1933. The genetic cause has recently been discovered by the discovery of mutations in ABCB6. Here we investigated a Chinese family with typical features of autosomal dominant DUH and 3 unrelated patients with sporadic DUH. Methods Skin tissues were obtained from the proband, of this family and the 3 sporadic patients. Histopathological examination and immunohistochemical analysis of ABCB6 were performed. Peripheral blood DNA samples were obtained from 21 affected, 14 unaffected, 11 spouses in the family and the 3 sporadic patients. A genome-wide linkage scan for the family was carried out to localize the causative gene. Exome sequencing was performed from 3 affected and 1 unaffected in the family. Sanger sequencing of ABCB6 was further used to identify the causative gene for all samples obtained from available family members, the 3 sporadic patients and a panel of 455 ethnically-matched normal Chinese individuals. Results Histopathological analysis showed melanocytes in normal control’s skin tissue and the hyperpigmented area contained more melanized, mature melanosomes than those within the hypopigmented areas. Empty immature melanosomes were found in the hypopigmented melanocytes. Parametric multipoint linkage analysis produced a HLOD score of 4.68, with markers on chromosome 2q35-q37.2. A missense mutation (c.1663 C>A, p.Gln555Lys) in ABCB6 was identified in this family by exome and Sanger sequencing. The mutation perfectly cosegregated with the skin phenotype. An additional mutation (g.776 delC, c.459 delC) in ABCB6 was found in an unrelated sporadic patient. No mutation in ABCB6 was discovered in the other two sporadic patients. Neither of the two mutations was present in the 455 controls. Melanocytes showed positive immunoreactivity to ABCB6. Conclusion Our data add new variants to the repertoire of ABCB6 mutations with DUH.
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- Ying-Xia Cui
- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Department of Dermatology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Department of Dermatology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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- Department of Dermatology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Regulation of erythrocyte volume homeostasis is critical for survival of the erythrocyte. Inherited or acquired disorders that perturb this homeostasis jeopardize the erythrocyte, leading to its premature destruction. This report reviews recent insights into pathways that influence cellular water and solute homeostasis and cell volume. RECENT FINDINGS The molecular and genetic bases of primary disorders of erythrocyte hydration are beginning to be revealed. Recent studies have implicated roles for a new protein PIEZO1, a long sought after mammalian mechanosensory protein; GLUT1, the glucose transporter; SLC4A1, the anion transporter; RhAG, the Rh-associated glycoprotein; and ABCB6, an ATP-binding cassette family member. Secondary disorders associated with perturbed cellular volume and volume regulation include sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and hereditary spherocytosis, in which dehydration contributes to disease pathology and clinical complications. Advances in understanding the mechanisms regulating erythrocyte solute and water content, particularly associated with mechanotransduction pathways, have revealed novel mechanisms controlling erythrocyte hydration. Understanding these processes may provide innovative strategies to maintain normal erythrocyte volume in disorders associated with primary or secondary cellular dehydration. SUMMARY Understanding the mechanisms controlling erythrocyte volume regulation will serve as a paradigm for other cells and may reveal new therapeutic targets for disease prevention and treatment.
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Shmukler BE, Vandorpe DH, Rivera A, Auerbach M, Brugnara C, Alper SL. Dehydrated stomatocytic anemia due to the heterozygous mutation R2456H in the mechanosensitive cation channel PIEZO1: a case report. Blood Cells Mol Dis 2013; 52:53-4. [PMID: 23973043 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2013.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Revised: 07/22/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Boris E Shmukler
- Renal Division and Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Chavan H, Khan MMT, Tegos G, Krishnamurthy P. Efficient purification and reconstitution of ATP binding cassette transporter B6 (ABCB6) for functional and structural studies. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:22658-69. [PMID: 23792964 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.485284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The mitochondrial ATP binding cassette transporter ABCB6 has been associated with a broad range of physiological functions, including growth and development, therapy-related drug resistance, and the new blood group system Langereis. ABCB6 has been proposed to regulate heme synthesis by shuttling coproporphyrinogen III from the cytoplasm into the mitochondria. However, direct functional information of the transport complex is not known. To understand the role of ABCB6 in mitochondrial transport, we developed an in vitro system with pure and active protein. ABCB6 overexpressed in HEK293 cells was solubilized from mitochondrial membranes and purified to homogeneity. Purified ABCB6 showed a high binding affinity for MgATP (Kd = 0.18 μM) and an ATPase activity with a Km of 0.99 mM. Reconstitution of ABCB6 into liposomes allowed biochemical characterization of the ATPase including (i) substrate-stimulated ATPase activity, (ii) transport kinetics of its proposed endogenous substrate coproporphyrinogen III, and (iii) transport kinetics of substrates identified using a high throughput screening assay. Mutagenesis of the conserved lysine to alanine (K629A) in the Walker A motif abolished ATP hydrolysis and substrate transport. These results suggest a direct interaction between mitochondrial ABCB6 and its transport substrates that is critical for the activity of the transporter. Furthermore, the simple immunoaffinity purification of ABCB6 to near homogeneity and efficient reconstitution of ABCB6 into liposomes might provide the basis for future studies on the structure/function of ABCB6.
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- Hemantkumar Chavan
- Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA
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Reid ME, Hue-Roye K, Huang A, Velliquette RW, Tani Y, Westhoff CM, Lomas-Francis C, Zelinski T. Alleles of the LAN blood group system: molecular and serologic investigations. Transfusion 2013; 54:398-404. [PMID: 23763549 DOI: 10.1111/trf.12285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Revised: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/15/2013] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Anti-Lan has been implicated in hemolytic transfusion reactions and hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. The LAN blood group system is encoded by ABCB6, whose gene product, ABCB6, belongs to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) efflux transporter superfamily. The purpose of this study was to characterize additional alleles by analyzing DNA from 14 (13 unrelated) subjects whose red blood cells were serologically defined as Lan-, Lan+(w) /-, or Lan+(w) . STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Genomic DNA was extracted from blood samples recovered from liquid nitrogen storage. Intronic primers flanking each of the ABCB6 coding exons were used for polymerase chain reaction amplification. Amplicons were sequenced and analyzed by standard methods. RESULTS Among the study subjects, we identified five alleles (one with a nonsense change, three with frameshifts, one with a missense change) that encode the Lan- phenotype and four alleles (with missense changes) encoding either Lan+(w) or Lan+(w) /- phenotypes. CONCLUSIONS Of the nine alleles we identified, three were novel and six were previously documented in the dbSNP. Of these six, only one allele was previously associated with Lan negativity. To date, 19 ABCB6 alleles that encode Lan- or Lan+(w) /-, or Lan+(w) phenotypes have been described.
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- Marion E Reid
- Laboratory of Immunochemistry, New York Blood Center, New York, New York; Laboratory of Immunohematology and Genomics, New York Blood Center, New York, New York; Japanese Red Cross Kinki Block Blood Center, Ibaraki, Japan; Rh Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba; Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba
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Multiple clinical forms of dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis arise from mutations in PIEZO1. Blood 2013; 121:3925-35, S1-12. [PMID: 23479567 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-02-482489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 228] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Autosomal dominant dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis (DHSt) usually presents as a compensated hemolytic anemia with macrocytosis and abnormally shaped red blood cells (RBCs). DHSt is part of a pleiotropic syndrome that may also exhibit pseudohyperkalemia and perinatal edema. We identified PIEZO1 as the disease gene for pleiotropic DHSt in a large kindred by exome sequencing analysis within the previously mapped 16q23-q24 interval. In 26 affected individuals among 7 multigenerational DHSt families with the pleiotropic syndrome, 11 heterozygous PIEZO1 missense mutations cosegregated with disease. PIEZO1 is expressed in the plasma membranes of RBCs and its messenger RNA, and protein levels increase during in vitro erythroid differentiation of CD34(+) cells. PIEZO1 is also expressed in liver and bone marrow during human and mouse development. We suggest for the first time a correlation between a PIEZO1 mutation and perinatal edema. DHSt patient red cells with the R2456H mutation exhibit increased ion-channel activity. Functional studies of PIEZO1 mutant R2488Q expressed in Xenopus oocytes demonstrated changes in ion-channel activity consistent with the altered cation content of DHSt patient red cells. Our findings provide direct evidence that R2456H and R2488Q mutations in PIEZO1 alter mechanosensitive channel regulation, leading to increased cation transport in erythroid cells.
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, University Hospital Lewisham, and Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London SE13 6LH; University of Greenwich, London ME4 4TB, UK
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Yuan X, Fleming MD, Hamza I. Heme transport and erythropoiesis. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2013; 17:204-11. [PMID: 23415705 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2013] [Revised: 01/15/2013] [Accepted: 01/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In humans, systemic heme homeostasis is achieved via coordinated regulation of heme synthesis, transport and degradation. Although the heme biosynthesis and degradation pathways have been well characterized, the pathways for heme trafficking and incorporation into hemoproteins remain poorly understood. In the past few years, researchers have exploited genetic, cellular and biochemical tools, to identify heme transporters and, in the process, reveal unexpected functions for this elusive group of proteins. However, given the complexity of heme trafficking pathways, current knowledge of heme transporters is fragmented and sometimes contradictory. This review seeks to focus on recent studies on heme transporters with specific emphasis on their functions during erythropoiesis.
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- Xiaojing Yuan
- Department of Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Albuisson J, Murthy SE, Bandell M, Coste B, Louis-Dit-Picard H, Mathur J, Fénéant-Thibault M, Tertian G, de Jaureguiberry JP, Syfuss PY, Cahalan S, Garçon L, Toutain F, Simon Rohrlich P, Delaunay J, Picard V, Jeunemaitre X, Patapoutian A. Dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis linked to gain-of-function mutations in mechanically activated PIEZO1 ion channels. Nat Commun 2013; 4:1884. [PMID: 23695678 PMCID: PMC3674779 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 249] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/18/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis is a genetic condition with defective red blood cell membrane properties that causes an imbalance in intracellular cation concentrations. Recently, two missense mutations in the mechanically activated PIEZO1 (FAM38A) ion channel were associated with dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis. However, it is not known how these mutations affect PIEZO1 function. Here, by combining linkage analysis and whole-exome sequencing in a large pedigree and Sanger sequencing in two additional kindreds and 11 unrelated dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis cases, we identify three novel missense mutations and one recurrent duplication in PIEZO1, demonstrating that it is the major gene for dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis. All the dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis-associated mutations locate at C-terminal half of PIEZO1. Remarkably, we find that all PIEZO1 mutations give rise to mechanically activated currents that inactivate more slowly than wild-type currents. This gain-of-function PIEZO1 phenotype provides insight that helps to explain the increased permeability of cations in red blood cells of dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis patients. Our findings also suggest a new role for mechanotransduction in red blood cell biology and pathophysiology.
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