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Jang EH, Park CS, Lee SK, Pie JE, Kang JH. Excessive nitric oxide attenuates leptin-mediated signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 activation. Life Sci 2006; 80:609-17. [PMID: 17097687 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2006.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2006] [Revised: 09/15/2006] [Accepted: 10/12/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The mechanisms of leptin resistance observed in most cases of human obesity are poorly understood. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on the leptin-induced activation of Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (JAK/STAT3) pathways and on the leptin receptor (LEPR) expression using SH-SY5Y cells. Here, we show that the NO donor spermine/NONOate inhibited leptin-induced activation of STAT3 in vitro. The inhibition of leptin-mediated STAT3 phosphorylation caused by excessive NO was partially prevented by a sulfhydryl reducing agent, ascorbic acid. Cellular experiments show that reduced expression of long form leptin receptor (LEPR-b) and STAT3 protein instability induced by NO may be mechanisms of the NO-mediated inhibition of leptin-STAT3 signaling. We also present data showing that the hypothalamic NO content of high-fat (HF)-diet-induced obese mice was higher than that of control mice; this is likely caused by decreased caveolin-1 expression and increased nNOS expression induced by HF diet over 19 weeks. Concurrently with the overproduction of NO, the decrease of hypothalamic LEPR-b in obese mice also supports these in vitro data. Combined results suggest that excess of NO can induce the attenuation of leptin-mediated STAT3 activation through reduced expression of LEPR-b mRNA and instability of STAT3 protein at least in part. Furthermore, our in vivo data indicate that long-term HF diet induces hypothalamic overproduction of NO, which may be related with leptin insensitivity. However, further study is required to warrant direct in vivo evidence of a causal relationship between endogenous excess of hypothalamic NO and central leptin resistance.
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- Eun-Hee Jang
- Department of Pharmacology and Medicinal Toxicology Research Center, Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Center for Advanced Medical Education, Inha University, College of Medicine by BK-21 Project, South Korea
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Lu J, Park CS, Lee SK, Shin DW, Kang JH. Leptin inhibits 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium-induced cell death in SH-SY5Y cells. Neurosci Lett 2006; 407:240-3. [PMID: 16973275 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.08.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2006] [Revised: 08/17/2006] [Accepted: 08/21/2006] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Leptin is best known as a key satiety factor and it is now appreciated that leptin has many additional biological functions. Our previous study suggested that leptin-resistant obesity might exacerbate 1-methyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity in vivo. Here, we ask whether leptin might protect neuronal cells against 1-methyl-4-pyridinium (MPP+)-induced cell death. We used differentiated SH-SY5Y cells and investigated plausible cytoprotective signalling mechanisms. When SH-SY5Y cells were maintained under serum-free conditions for 48 h, MPP+ (1 mM) reduced cell viability to 66.8% of the drug-free control, and leptin significantly inhibited cell death in a dose-dependent manner. Among inhibitors of known leptin signalling pathways, a PI-3K inhibitor inhibited the protective effect of leptin during MPP+ exposure, whereas inhibitors affecting the Janus kinase/signal transducers and activators of transcription (JAK/STAT) or mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways did not influence cell viability. We used immunoblotting to show that the PI-3K/Akt pathway was involved in the effect of leptin on cell viability. In conclusion, our results show that leptin exercises a cytoprotective effect against MPP+ -induced cell death and that this effect is dependent on activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K)/Akt pathway in SH-SY5Y cells. The data tend to support our previous results in vivo.
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- Jingnan Lu
- Department of Pharmacology, Medicinal Toxicology Research Center, College of Medicine, Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Inha University, Shinheungdong, Jung-Gu, Incheon, South Korea
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Tups A, Helwig M, Stöhr S, Barrett P, Mercer JG, Klingenspor M. Photoperiodic regulation of insulin receptor mRNA and intracellular insulin signaling in the arcuate nucleus of the Siberian hamster,Phodopus sungorus. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 291:R643-50. [PMID: 16601260 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00807.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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During the last 5 years it has been well established that photoperiod-induced changes in body weight in the seasonal hamster, Phodopus sungorus, are accompanied by a marked seasonal cycle in leptin sensitivity. In the present study, we investigated the possible involvement of insulin signaling in seasonal body weight regulation. We analyzed the expression pattern and relative intensity of insulin receptor (IR), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase), and protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) mRNAs by in situ hybridization in the brains of juvenile female hamsters acclimated to either long- (LD) or short-day length (SD) for 8 wk, with or without superimposed food deprivation for 48 h. Furthermore, the hypothalamic concentration and distribution of phospho-AKT, a marker of PI3-kinase activity was determined by immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry. Eight weeks of acclimation to SD led to a substantial downregulation of IR, PTP1B gene expression, and phospho-AKT concentration in this brain region, whereas PI3-kinase mRNA was unchanged. Food deprivation induced a decrease in PTP1B and a trend toward lowered IR gene expression in LD but not in SD. Additionally, a striking increase in PTP1B gene expression in the thalamus was observed after food deprivation in both photoperiods. The direction of change in neuronal insulin signaling contrasts to the central catabolic nature of this pathway described in other species. SD-induced reduction in insulin signaling may be due to decline in body fat stores mediated by enhanced central leptin sensitivity. Increased anorexigenic tone of leptin may overwrite central insulin signaling to prevent catabolic overdrive.
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- Alexander Tups
- Division of Obesity and Metabolic Health, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen Centre for Energy Regulation and Obesity, Scotland.
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Pereira RO, Moreira ASB, de Carvalho L, Moura AS. Overfeeding during lactation modulates insulin and leptin signaling cascade in rats' hearts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 136:117-21. [PMID: 16806530 DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2006.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2005] [Revised: 05/09/2006] [Accepted: 05/12/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Insulin has been described as a potential mediator of intrinsic responses to the nutritional state in the heart due to its effects on cardiac metabolism, mainly on glucose transport. It has been demonstrated that leptin can act through some components of the insulin-signaling cascade. We investigated the association between overfeeding during lactation and alterations of insulin and leptin signaling in the heart. In summary, we analyzed a feasible cross-talk between insulin and leptin through the study of some key proteins of their cascades in the heart. In order to study the effect of overfeeding on these cascades, Wistar rats were overfed through litter size reduction to only three pups. At 10 and 21 days of life, key proteins such as insulin receptor, leptin receptor, PI3-kinase, JAK2, STAT3, and GLUT4 were measured by Western blotting. Furthermore, the pups' weight and the plasma levels of insulin, leptin and glucose were determined. Overfed animals were overweight, had high insulin and leptin plasma levels, and displayed an activation of insulin and leptin cascade, leading to an increased translocation of GLUT4. We suggest that overfeeding during lactation probably alters cardiac metabolism, through the activation of a modulated cross-talk between leptin and insulin cascades.
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- Renata Oliveira Pereira
- Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade do Estado; Marin-Neto et al., 1998do Rio de Janeiro, Av. 28 de Setembro, 87-Rio de Janeiro, 20550-030, Brazil
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Benomar Y, Naour N, Aubourg A, Bailleux V, Gertler A, Djiane J, Guerre-Millo M, Taouis M. Insulin and leptin induce Glut4 plasma membrane translocation and glucose uptake in a human neuronal cell line by a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase- dependent mechanism. Endocrinology 2006; 147:2550-6. [PMID: 16497805 DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-1464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The insulin-sensitive glucose transporter Glut4 is expressed in brain areas that regulate energy homeostasis and body adiposity. In contrast with peripheral tissues, however, the impact of insulin on Glut4 plasma membrane (PM) translocation in neurons is not known. In this study, we examined the role of two anorexic hormones (leptin and insulin) on Glut4 translocation in a human neuronal cell line that express endogenous insulin and leptin receptors. We show that insulin and leptin both induce Glut4 translocation to the PM of neuronal cells and activate glucose uptake. Wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, totally abolished insulin- and leptin-dependent Glut4 translocation and stimulation of glucose uptake. Thus, Glut4 translocation is a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent mechanism in neuronal cells. Next, we investigated the impact of chronic insulin and leptin treatments on Glut4 expression and translocation. Chronic exposure of neuronal cells to insulin or leptin down-regulates Glut4 proteins and mRNA levels and abolishes the acute stimulation of glucose uptake in response to acute insulin or leptin. In addition, chronic treatment with either insulin or leptin impaired Glut4 translocation. A cross-desensitization between insulin and leptin was apparent, where exposure to insulin affects leptin-dependent Glut4 translocation and vice versa. This cross-desensitization could be attributed to the increase in suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 expression, which was demonstrated in response to each hormone. These results provide evidence to suggest that Glut4 translocation to neuronal PM is regulated by both insulin and leptin signaling pathways. These pathways might contribute to an in vivo glucoregulatory reflex involving a neuronal network and to the anorectic effect of insulin and leptin.
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- Yacir Benomar
- Neuroendocrinologie Moléculaire de la Prise Alimentaire, Neurobiologie de l'Olfaction et de la Prise Alimentaire, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Paris XI, Orsay, France
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Frühbeck G. Intracellular signalling pathways activated by leptin. Biochem J 2006; 393:7-20. [PMID: 16336196 PMCID: PMC1383660 DOI: 10.1042/bj20051578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 578] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2005] [Revised: 10/07/2005] [Accepted: 10/07/2005] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Leptin is a versatile 16 kDa peptide hormone, with a tertiary structure resembling that of members of the long-chain helical cytokine family. It is mainly produced by adipocytes in proportion to fat size stores, and was originally thought to act only as a satiety factor. However, the ubiquitous distribution of OB-R leptin receptors in almost all tissues underlies the pleiotropism of leptin. OB-Rs belong to the class I cytokine receptor family, which is known to act through JAKs (Janus kinases) and STATs (signal transducers and activators of transcription). The OB-R gene is alternatively spliced to produce at least five isoforms. The full-length isoform, OB-Rb, contains intracellular motifs required for activation of the JAK/STAT signal transduction pathway, and is considered to be the functional receptor. Considerable evidence for systemic effects of leptin on body mass control, reproduction, angiogenesis, immunity, wound healing, bone remodelling and cardiovascular function, as well as on specific metabolic pathways, indicates that leptin operates both directly and indirectly to orchestrate complex pathophysiological processes. Consistent with leptin's pleiotropic role, its participation in and crosstalk with some of the main signalling pathways, including those involving insulin receptor substrates, phosphoinositide 3-kinase, protein kinase B, protein kinase C, extracellular-signal-regulated kinase, mitogen-activated protein kinases, phosphodiesterase, phospholipase C and nitric oxide, has been observed. The impact of leptin on several equally relevant signalling pathways extends also to Rho family GTPases in relation to the actin cytoskeleton, production of reactive oxygen species, stimulation of prostaglandins, binding to diacylglycerol kinase and catecholamine secretion, among others.
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Key Words
- adipocyte
- cytokine
- janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription pathway (jak/stat pathway)
- leptin receptor
- obesity
- signalling cascade
- acc, acetyl-coa carboxylase
- ampk, 5′-amp-activated protein kinase
- cntf, ciliary neurotrophic factor
- ct-1, cardiotrophin-1
- erk, extracellular-signal-regulated kinase
- hif-1α, hypoxia-inducible factor 1α
- il, interleukin
- irs, insulin receptor substrate
- jak, janus kinase
- jnk, c-jun n-terminal kinase
- lif, leukaemia inhibitory factor
- mapk, mitogen-activated protein kinase
- nf-κb, nuclear factor κb
- npy, neuropeptide y
- osm, oncostatin-m
- pde, phosphodiesterase
- pi3k, phosphoinositide 3-kinase
- pka, protein kinase a
- pkc, protein kinase c
- ptp1b, protein tyrosine phosphatase 1b
- sh2, src-like homology 2
- shp-2, sh2 domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase
- socs, suppressor of cytokine signalling
- stat, signal transducer and activator of transcription
- tnfα, tumour necrosis factor α
- tyk2, tyrosine kinase 2
- vegf, vascular endothelial growth factor
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- Gema Frühbeck
- Department of Endocrinology, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra and Metabolic Research Laboratory, University of Navarra, 36 Avda. Pío XII, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
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Niv-Spector L, Gonen-Berger D, Gourdou I, Biener E, Gussakovsky E, Benomar Y, Ramanujan K, Taouis M, Herman B, Callebaut I, Djiane J, Gertler A. Identification of the hydrophobic strand in the A-B loop of leptin as major binding site III: implications for large-scale preparation of potent recombinant human and ovine leptin antagonists. Biochem J 2005; 391:221-30. [PMID: 15952938 PMCID: PMC1276919 DOI: 10.1042/bj20050457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2005] [Revised: 05/16/2005] [Accepted: 06/14/2005] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Interaction of leptin with its receptors resembles that of interleukin-6 and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, which interact with their receptors through binding sites I-III. Site III plays a pivotal role in receptors' dimerization or tetramerization and subsequent activation. Leptin's site III also mediates the formation of an active multimeric complex through its interaction with the IGD (immunoglobulin-like domain) of LEPRs (leptin receptors). Using a sensitive hydrophobic cluster analysis of leptin's and LEPR's sequences, we identified hydrophobic stretches in leptin's A-B loop (amino acids 39-42) and in the N-terminal end of LEPR's IGD (amino acids 325-328) that are predicted to participate in site III and to interact with each other in a beta-sheet-like configuration. To verify this hypothesis, we prepared and purified to homogeneity (as verified by SDS/PAGE, gel filtration and reverse-phase chromatography) several alanine muteins of amino acids 39-42 in human and ovine leptins. CD analyses revealed that those mutations hardly affect the secondary structure. All muteins acted as true antagonists, i.e. they bound LEPR with an affinity similar to the wild-type hormone, had no agonistic activity and specifically inhibited leptin action in several leptin-responsive in vitro bioassays. Alanine mutagenesis of LEPR's IGD (amino acids 325-328) drastically reduced its biological but not binding activity, indicating the importance of this region for interaction with leptin's site III. FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) microscopy experiments have documented that the transient FRET signalling occurring upon exposure to leptin results not from binding of the ligand, but from ligand-induced oligomerization of LEPRs mediated by leptin's site III.
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Key Words
- a–b loop of leptin
- antagonists
- fluorescence resonance energy transfer (fret)
- hydrophobic strand
- immunoglobulin-like domain (igd)
- site-directed mutagenesis
- apb, acceptor photobleaching
- cfp, cyan fluorescent protein
- ch, chicken
- cho, chinese-hamster ovary
- crh, cytokine receptor homology domain
- erk, extracellular-signal-regulated kinase
- g-csf, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
- h, human
- hca, hydrophobic cluster analysis
- hek-293t cells, human embryonic kidney 293t cells
- ibs, inclusion bodies
- il-6, interleukin-6
- igd, immunoglobulin-like domain
- lbd, leptin-binding domain
- lepr, leptin receptor
- m, mouse
- mapk, mitogen-activated protein kinase
- mtt, 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-2h-tetrazolium bromide
- spr, surface plasmon resonance, stat3, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3
- tfa, trifluoroacetic acid
- v, viral
- wt, wild-type
- yfp, yellow fluorescent protein
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- Leonora Niv-Spector
- *Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- *Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- †Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Neuroendocrinologie Moleculaire de la Prise Alimentaire, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, France
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- *Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- ‡Department of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
- §Institute of Horticulture, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
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- ∥Laboratoire d'Endocrinologie, University of Paris XI, Orsay 91405, France
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- ¶Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, U.S.A
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- ∥Laboratoire d'Endocrinologie, University of Paris XI, Orsay 91405, France
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- ¶Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, U.S.A
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- **Institut de Mineralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condenses, CNRS UMR7590, Universities Paris 6 & Paris 7, Paris Cedex 05, France
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- †Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Neuroendocrinologie Moleculaire de la Prise Alimentaire, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, France
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- *Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Mezey E, Rennie-Tankersley L, Potter JJ. Effect of leptin on liver alcohol dehydrogenase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 337:1324-9. [PMID: 16236269 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2005] [Accepted: 10/03/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The effect of leptin on liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) was determined in male rats. Administration of one or three daily doses of leptin (1microg/g of body weight intraperitoneally) increased ADH activity. Leptin enhanced ADH synthesis without an effect on ADH degradation. Leptin did not change ADH mRNA, indicating that the effect of leptin in enhancing ADH occurs at the post-transcriptional level. Leptin increased eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 2alpha, eIF2B activity, and the eIF4E-eIF4G complex, while it decreased the inhibitory complex of eIF4E with the eIF4E-binding protein-1 (4E-BP1). Leptin increased mammalian target of rapamycin (mTor) that phosphorylates 4E-BP1. In conclusion, leptin increases liver ADH activity and ADH protein due to an increase in synthesis which occurs at the post-transcriptional level. The effect of leptin in enhancing translational initiating factors may be of significance in the regulation not only of ADH but also of many other proteins.
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- Esteban Mezey
- Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205-2195, USA.
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