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Diril MK, Schmidt S, Krauss M, Gawlik V, Joost HG, Schürmann A, Haucke V, Augustin R. Lysosomal localization of GLUT8 in the testis--the EXXXLL motif of GLUT8 is sufficient for its intracellular sorting via AP1- and AP2-mediated interaction. FEBS J 2009; 276:3729-43. [PMID: 19523115 PMCID: PMC2730553 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07089.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2008] [Revised: 04/25/2009] [Accepted: 05/11/2009] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The class III sugar transport facilitator GLUT8 co-localizes with the lysosomal protein LAMP1 in heterologous expression systems. GLUT8 carries a [D/E]XXXL[L/I]-type dileucine sorting signal that has been postulated to retain the protein in an endosomal/lysosomal compartment via interactions with clathrin adaptor protein (AP) complexes. However, contradictory findings have been described regarding the subcellular localization of the endogenous GLUT8 and the adaptor proteins that interact with its dileucine motif. Here we demonstrate that endogenous GLUT8 is localized in a late endosomal/lysosomal compartment of spermatocytes and spermatids, and that the adaptor complexes AP1 and AP2, but not AP3 or AP4, interact with its N-terminal intracellular domain (NICD). In addition, fusion of the GLUT8 NICD to the tailless lumenal domain of the IL-2 receptor alpha chain (TAC) protein (interleukin-2 receptor a chain) targeted the protein to intracellular membranes, indicating that its N-terminal dileucine signal is sufficient for endosomal/lysosomal targeting of the transporter. The localization and targeting of GLUT8 show striking similarities to sorting mechanisms reported for lysosomal proteins. Therefore, we suggest a potential role for GLUT8 in the so far unexplored substrate transport across intracellular membranes.
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- Muhammed Kasim Diril
- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Freie Universität & Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Takustrasse 6, Berlin, Germany
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Chapter 10 FRET and FLIM applications in plants. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0075-7535(08)00010-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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Niittylae T, Chaudhuri B, Sauer U, Frommer WB. Comparison of quantitative metabolite imaging tools and carbon-13 techniques for fluxomics. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 553:355-72. [PMID: 19588116 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-563-7_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The recent development of analytic technologies allows fast analysis of metabolism in real time. Fluxomics aims to define the genes involved in regulation of flux through a metabolic or signaling pathway. Flux through a metabolic or signaling pathway is determined by the activity of its individual components; regulation can occur at many levels, including transcriptional, posttranslational, and allosteric levels. Currently two technologies are used to monitor fluxes. The first is pulse labeling of the organism with a tracer such as C13, followed by mass spectrometric analysis of the partitioning of label into different compounds. The second approach is based on the use of flux sensors, proteins that respond with a conformational change to ligand binding. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) detects the conformational change and serves as a proxy for ligand concentration. Both methods provide high time resolution. In contrast to mass spectrometry assays, FRET nanosensors monitor only a single compound, but the advantage of FRET nanosensors is that they yield data with cellular and subcellular resolution.
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- Totte Niittylae
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA
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Chaudhuri B, Hörmann F, Lalonde S, Brady SM, Orlando DA, Benfey P, Frommer WB. Protonophore- and pH-insensitive glucose and sucrose accumulation detected by FRET nanosensors in Arabidopsis root tips. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 56:948-62. [PMID: 18702670 PMCID: PMC2752219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03652.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Although soil contains only traces of soluble carbohydrates, plant roots take up glucose and sucrose efficiently when supplied in artificial media. Soluble carbohydrates and other small metabolites found in soil are in part products from exudation from plant roots. The molecular nature of the transporters for uptake and exudation is unknown. Here, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) glucose and sucrose sensors were used to characterize accumulation and elimination of glucose and sucrose in Arabidopsis roots tips. Using an improved image acquisition set-up, FRET responses to perfusion with carbohydrates were detectable in roots within less than 10 sec and over a wide concentration range. Accumulation was fully reversible within 10-180 sec after glucose or sucrose had been withdrawn; elimination may be caused by metabolism and/or efflux. The rate of elimination was unaffected by pre-incubation with high concentrations of glucose, suggesting that elimination is not due to accumulation in a short-term buffer such as the vacuole. Glucose and sucrose accumulation was insensitive to protonophores, was comparable in media differing in potassium levels, and was similar at pH 5.8, 6.8 and 7.8, suggesting that both influx and efflux may be mediated by proton-independent transport systems. High-resolution expression mapping in root tips showed that only a few proton-dependent transport of the STP (Sugar Transport Protein) and SUT/SUC (Sucrose Transporter/Carrier) families are expressed in the external cell layers of root tips. The root expression maps may help to pinpoint candidate genes for uptake and release of carbohydrates from roots.
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- Bhavna Chaudhuri
- Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Chaudhuri B, Hörmann F, Lalonde S, Brady SM, Orlando DA, Benfey P, Frommer WB. Protonophore- and pH-insensitive glucose and sucrose accumulation detected by FRET nanosensors in Arabidopsis root tips. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008. [PMID: 18702670 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.2008.56.issue-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Although soil contains only traces of soluble carbohydrates, plant roots take up glucose and sucrose efficiently when supplied in artificial media. Soluble carbohydrates and other small metabolites found in soil are in part products from exudation from plant roots. The molecular nature of the transporters for uptake and exudation is unknown. Here, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) glucose and sucrose sensors were used to characterize accumulation and elimination of glucose and sucrose in Arabidopsis roots tips. Using an improved image acquisition set-up, FRET responses to perfusion with carbohydrates were detectable in roots within less than 10 sec and over a wide concentration range. Accumulation was fully reversible within 10-180 sec after glucose or sucrose had been withdrawn; elimination may be caused by metabolism and/or efflux. The rate of elimination was unaffected by pre-incubation with high concentrations of glucose, suggesting that elimination is not due to accumulation in a short-term buffer such as the vacuole. Glucose and sucrose accumulation was insensitive to protonophores, was comparable in media differing in potassium levels, and was similar at pH 5.8, 6.8 and 7.8, suggesting that both influx and efflux may be mediated by proton-independent transport systems. High-resolution expression mapping in root tips showed that only a few proton-dependent transport of the STP (Sugar Transport Protein) and SUT/SUC (Sucrose Transporter/Carrier) families are expressed in the external cell layers of root tips. The root expression maps may help to pinpoint candidate genes for uptake and release of carbohydrates from roots.
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- Bhavna Chaudhuri
- Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Roda A, Guardigli M, Michelini E, Mirasoli M. Nanobioanalytical luminescence: Förster-type energy transfer methods. Anal Bioanal Chem 2008; 393:109-23. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-008-2435-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2008] [Revised: 09/22/2008] [Accepted: 09/23/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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East AK, Mauchline TH, Poole PS. Biosensors for ligand detection. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 2008; 64:137-66. [PMID: 18485284 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2164(08)00405-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Alison K East
- Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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Kaper T, Lager I, Looger LL, Chermak D, Frommer WB. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer sensors for quantitative monitoring of pentose and disaccharide accumulation in bacteria. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2008; 1:11. [PMID: 18522753 PMCID: PMC2467413 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-1-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2007] [Accepted: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND Engineering microorganisms to improve metabolite flux requires detailed knowledge of the concentrations and flux rates of metabolites and metabolic intermediates in vivo. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer sensors represent a promising technology for measuring metabolite levels and corresponding rate changes in live cells. These sensors have been applied successfully in mammalian and plant cells but potentially could also be used to monitor steady-state levels of metabolites in microorganisms using fluorimetric assays. Sensors for hexose and pentose carbohydrates could help in the development of fermentative microorganisms, for example, for biofuels applications. Arabinose is one of the carbohydrates to be monitored during biofuels production from lignocellulose, while maltose is an important degradation product of starch that is relevant for starch-derived biofuels production. RESULTS An Escherichia coli expression vector compatible with phage lambda recombination technology was constructed to facilitate sensor construction and was used to generate a novel fluorescence resonance energy transfer sensor for arabinose. In parallel, a strategy for improving the sensor signal was applied to construct an improved maltose sensor. Both sensors were expressed in the cytosol of E. coli and sugar accumulation was monitored using a simple fluorimetric assay of E. coli cultures in microtiter plates. In the case of both nanosensors, the addition of the respective ligand led to concentration-dependent fluorescence resonance energy transfer responses allowing quantitative analysis of the intracellular sugar levels at given extracellular supply levels as well as accumulation rates. CONCLUSION The nanosensor destination vector combined with the optimization strategy for sensor responses should help to accelerate the development of metabolite sensors. The new carbohydrate fluorescence resonance energy transfer sensors can be used for in vivo monitoring of sugar levels in prokaryotes, demonstrating the potential of such sensors as reporter tools in the development of metabolically engineered microbial strains or for real-time monitoring of intracellular metabolite during fermentation.
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- Thijs Kaper
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Danisco US Inc., Genencor Division, Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Okumoto S, Takanaga H, Frommer WB. Quantitative imaging for discovery and assembly of the metabo-regulome. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2008. [PMID: 19138219 DOI: 10.1111/nph.2008.180.issue-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Little is known about regulatory networks that control metabolic flux in plant cells. Detailed understanding of regulation is crucial for synthetic biology. The difficulty of measuring metabolites with cellular and subcellular precision is a major roadblock. New tools have been developed for monitoring extracellular, cytosolic, organellar and vacuolar ion and metabolite concentrations with a time resolution of milliseconds to hours. Genetically encoded sensors allow quantitative measurement of steady-state concentrations of ions, signaling molecules and metabolites and their respective changes over time. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensors exploit conformational changes in polypeptides as a proxy for analyte concentrations. Subtle effects of analyte binding on the conformation of the recognition element are translated into a FRET change between two fused green fluorescent protein (GFP) variants, enabling simple monitoring of analyte concentrations using fluorimetry or fluorescence microscopy. Fluorimetry provides information averaged over cell populations, while microscopy detects differences between cells or populations of cells. The genetically encoded sensors can be targeted to subcellular compartments or the cell surface. Confocal microscopy ultimately permits observation of gradients or local differences within a compartment. The FRET assays can be adapted to high-throughput analysis to screen mutant populations in order to systematically identify signaling networks that control individual steps in metabolic flux.
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- Sakiko Okumoto
- Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama St., Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama St., Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Joint Bioenergy Institute, Feedstocks Division, Emerystation East, 5885 Hollis Street Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
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Okumoto S, Takanaga H, Frommer WB. Quantitative imaging for discovery and assembly of the metabo-regulome. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2008; 180:271-295. [PMID: 19138219 PMCID: PMC2663047 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02611.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Little is known about regulatory networks that control metabolic flux in plant cells. Detailed understanding of regulation is crucial for synthetic biology. The difficulty of measuring metabolites with cellular and subcellular precision is a major roadblock. New tools have been developed for monitoring extracellular, cytosolic, organellar and vacuolar ion and metabolite concentrations with a time resolution of milliseconds to hours. Genetically encoded sensors allow quantitative measurement of steady-state concentrations of ions, signaling molecules and metabolites and their respective changes over time. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensors exploit conformational changes in polypeptides as a proxy for analyte concentrations. Subtle effects of analyte binding on the conformation of the recognition element are translated into a FRET change between two fused green fluorescent protein (GFP) variants, enabling simple monitoring of analyte concentrations using fluorimetry or fluorescence microscopy. Fluorimetry provides information averaged over cell populations, while microscopy detects differences between cells or populations of cells. The genetically encoded sensors can be targeted to subcellular compartments or the cell surface. Confocal microscopy ultimately permits observation of gradients or local differences within a compartment. The FRET assays can be adapted to high-throughput analysis to screen mutant populations in order to systematically identify signaling networks that control individual steps in metabolic flux.
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- Sakiko Okumoto
- Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama St., Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama St., Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Joint Bioenergy Institute, Feedstocks Division, Emerystation East, 5885 Hollis Street Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
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Takanaga H, Chaudhuri B, Frommer WB. GLUT1 and GLUT9 as major contributors to glucose influx in HepG2 cells identified by a high sensitivity intramolecular FRET glucose sensor. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2007; 1778:1091-9. [PMID: 18177733 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2007] [Revised: 10/16/2007] [Accepted: 11/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Genetically encoded FRET glucose nanosensors have proven to be useful for imaging glucose flux in HepG2 cells. However, the dynamic range of the original sensor was limited and thus it did not appear optimal for high throughput screening of siRNA populations for identifying proteins involved in regulation of sugar flux. Here we describe a hybrid approach that combines linker-shortening with fluorophore-insertion to decrease the degrees of freedom for fluorophore positioning leading to improved nanosensor dynamics. We were able to develop a novel highly sensitive FRET nanosensor that shows a 10-fold higher ratio change and dynamic range (0.05-11 mM) in vivo, permitting analyses in the physiologically relevant range. As a proof of concept that this sensor can be used to screen for proteins playing a role in sugar flux and its control, we used siRNA inhibition of GLUT family members and show that GLUT1 is the major glucose transporter in HepG2 cells and that GLUT9 contributes as well, however to a lower extent. GFP fusions suggest that GLUT1 and 9 are preferentially localized to the plasma membrane and thus can account for the transport activity. The improved sensitivity of the novel glucose nanosensor increases the reliability of in vivo glucose flux analyses, and provides a new means for the screening of siRNA collections as well as drugs using high-content screens.
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- Hitomi Takanaga
- Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA
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Schultz C. Molecular tools for cell and systems biology. HFSP JOURNAL 2007; 1:230-48. [PMID: 19404424 DOI: 10.2976/1.2812442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2007] [Accepted: 10/24/2007] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The sequencing of the genomes of key organisms and the subsequent identification of genes merely leads us to the next real challenge in modern biology-revealing the precise functions of these genes. Further, detailed knowledge of how the products of these genes behave in space and time is required, including their interactions with other molecules. In order to tackle these considerable tasks, a large and continuously expanding toolbox is required to probe the functions of proteins on a cellular level. Here, the currently available tools are described and future developments are projected. There is no doubt that only the close interplay between the life science disciplines in addition to advances in engineering will be able to meet the challenge.
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- Carsten Schultz
- Gene Expression Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Nanomedicine is a global business enterprise. Industry and governments clearly are beginning to envision nanomedicine's enormous potential. A clear definition of nanotechnology is an issue that requires urgent attention. This problem exists because nanotechnology represents a cluster of technologies, each of which may have different characteristics and applications. Although numerous novel nanomedicine-related applications are under development or nearing commercialization, the process of converting basic research in nanomedicine into commercially viable products will be long and difficult. Although realization of the full potential of nanomedicine may be years or decades away, recent advances in nanotechnology-related drug delivery, diagnosis, and drug development are beginning to change the landscape of medicine. Site-specific targeted drug delivery and personalized medicine are just a few concepts that are on the horizon.
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- K John Morrow
- Newport Biotechnology Consultants, 625 Washington Avenue, Newport, KY 41071, USA
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Escherichia coli is among the simplest and best-understood free-living organisms. It has served as a valuable model for numerous biological processes, including cellular metabolism. Just as E. coli stood at the front of the genomic revolution, it is playing a leading role in the development of cellular metabolomics: the study of the complete metabolic contents of cells, including their dynamic concentration changes and fluxes. This review briefly describes the essentials of cellular metabolomics and its fundamental differentiation from biomarker metabolomics and lipidomics. Key technologies for metabolite quantitation from E. coli are described, with a focus on those involving mass spectrometry. In particular emphasis is given to the cell handling and sample preparation steps required for collecting data of high biological reliability, such as fast metabolome quenching. Future challenges, both in terms of data collection and application of the data to obtain a comprehensive understanding of metabolic dynamics, are discussed.
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- Joshua D Rabinowitz
- Princeton University, Department of Chemistry & Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
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Wiechert W, Schweissgut O, Takanaga H, Frommer WB. Fluxomics: mass spectrometry versus quantitative imaging. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2007; 10:323-30. [PMID: 17481942 PMCID: PMC2992557 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2007.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2007] [Accepted: 04/17/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The recent development of analytic high-throughput technologies enables us to take a bird's view of how metabolism is regulated in real time. We have known for a long time that metabolism is highly regulated at all levels, including transcriptional, posttranslational and allosteric controls. Flux through a metabolic or signaling pathway is determined by the activity of its individual components. Fluxomics aims to define the genes involved in regulation by following the flux. Two technologies are used to monitor fluxes. Pulse labeling of the organism or cell with a tracer, such as 13C, followed by mass spectrometric analysis of the partitioning of label into different compounds provides an efficient tool to study flux and to compare the effect of mutations on flux. The second approach is based on the use of flux sensors, proteins that respond with a conformational change to ligand binding. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) detects the conformational change and serves as a proxy for ligand concentration. In contrast to the mass spectrometry assays, FRET nanosensors monitor only a single compound. Both methods provide high time resolution. The major advantages of FRET nanosensors are that they yield data with cellular and subcellular resolution and the method is minimally invasive.
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- Wolfgang Wiechert
- University of Siegen, Paul-Bonatz Strasse 9-11, 57068 Siegen, Germany
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Csala M, Margittai É, Senesi S, Gamberucci A, Bánhegyi G, Mandl J, Benedetti A. Inhibition of hepatic glucose 6-phosphatase system by the green tea flavanol epigallocatechin gallate. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:1693-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2007] [Revised: 03/10/2007] [Accepted: 03/21/2007] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Csala M, Marcolongo P, Lizák B, Senesi S, Margittai E, Fulceri R, Magyar JE, Benedetti A, Bánhegyi G. Transport and transporters in the endoplasmic reticulum. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2007; 1768:1325-41. [PMID: 17466261 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2006] [Revised: 03/08/2007] [Accepted: 03/15/2007] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Enzyme activities localized in the luminal compartment of the endoplasmic reticulum are integrated into the cellular metabolism by transmembrane fluxes of their substrates, products and/or cofactors. Most compounds involved are bulky, polar or even charged; hence, they cannot be expected to diffuse through lipid bilayers. Accordingly, transport processes investigated so far have been found protein-mediated. The selective and often rate-limiting transport processes greatly influence the activity, kinetic features and substrate specificity of the corresponding luminal enzymes. Therefore, the phenomenological characterization of endoplasmic reticulum transport contributes largely to the understanding of the metabolic functions of this organelle. Attempts to identify the transporter proteins have only been successful in a few cases, but recent development in molecular biology promises a better progress in this field.
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- Miklós Csala
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Chaudhuri B, Niittylä T, Hörmann F, Frommer WB. Fluxomics with ratiometric metabolite dyes. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2007; 2:120-122. [PMID: 19704755 PMCID: PMC2633914 DOI: 10.4161/psb.2.2.3643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2006] [Accepted: 12/01/2006] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Today's major excitement in biology centers on signaling: How can a cell or organism measure the myriad of environmental cues, integrate it, and acclimate to the new conditions? Hormonal signals and second messengers are in the focus of most of these studies, e.g., regulation of glucose transporter GLUT4 cycling by insulin, or regulation of plant growth by auxin or brassinosteroids.1-3 In comparison, we generally assume that we know almost everything about basic metabolism since it has been studied for many decades; for example we know since the early 80s that allosteric regulation by fructose-2,6-bisphophate plays an important role in regulating glycolysis in plants and animals.4 This may be the reason why studies of metabolism appear to be a bit out of fashion. But if we look to other organisms such as E. coli or yeast, we rapidly realize that metabolism is controlled by complex interconnected signaling networks, and that we understand little of these signaling networks in humans and plants.5,6 As it turns out, the cell registers many metabolites, and flux through the pathways is regulated using complex signaling networks that involve calcium as well as hormones.
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Medintz IL. Recent progress in developing FRET-based intracellular sensors for the detection of small molecule nutrients and ligands. Trends Biotechnol 2006; 24:539-42. [PMID: 17070948 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2006.10.008] [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: 09/19/2006] [Revised: 09/22/2006] [Accepted: 10/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Intracellular sensors for nutrients such as sugars, metabolic precursors and signaling ligands such as amino acids will help to elucidate the complex roles of these small molecules in biology. In this update, several recently developed sensors, originating from the Frommer laboratory, which combine bacterial periplasmic-binding protein-based specificity for ligand targeting with fluorescent protein-derived resonance energy transfer for signal transduction are reviewed. The insight gained from designing these sensors, along with the preliminary results gathered from their first application, serve to illustrate the impact that they can have on improving our fundamental understanding of biology.
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- Igor L Medintz
- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900 U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave, SW Washington, DC 20375, USA.
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Gu H, Lalonde S, Okumoto S, Looger LL, Scharff-Poulsen AM, Grossman AR, Kossmann J, Jakobsen I, Frommer WB. A novel analytical method for in vivo phosphate tracking. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:5885-93. [PMID: 17034793 PMCID: PMC2748124 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.09.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2006] [Revised: 09/14/2006] [Accepted: 09/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Genetically-encoded fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensors for phosphate (P(i)) (FLIPPi) were engineered by fusing a predicted Synechococcus phosphate-binding protein (PiBP) to eCFP and Venus. Purified fluorescent indicator protein for inorganic phosphate (FLIPPi), in which the fluorophores are attached to the same PiBP lobe, shows P(i)-dependent increases in FRET efficiency. FLIPPi affinity mutants cover P(i) changes over eight orders of magnitude. COS-7 cells co-expressing a low-affinity FLIPPi and a Na(+)/P(i) co-transporter exhibited FRET changes when perfused with 100 microM P(i), demonstrating concentrative P(i) uptake by PiT2. FLIPPi sensors are suitable for real-time monitoring of P(i) metabolism in living cells, providing a new tool for fluxomics, analysis of pathophysiology or changes of P(i) during cell migration.
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- Hong Gu
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Biosystems Department, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde 4000, Denmark
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- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Biosystems Department, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde 4000, Denmark
- Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
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- Biosystems Department, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde 4000, Denmark
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- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Corresponding author. Fax: +1 6503256857. (W.B. Frommer)
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Lager I, Looger LL, Hilpert M, Lalonde S, Frommer WB. Conversion of a Putative Agrobacterium Sugar-binding Protein into a FRET Sensor with High Selectivity for Sucrose. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:30875-83. [PMID: 16912038 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m605257200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Glucose is the main sugar transport form in animals, whereas plants use sucrose to supply non-photosynthetic organs with carbon skeletons and energy. Many aspects of sucrose transport, metabolism, and signaling are not well understood, including the route of sucrose efflux from leaf mesophyll cells and transport across vacuolar membranes. Tools that can detect sucrose with high spatial and temporal resolution in intact organs may help elucidate the players involved. Here, FRET sensors were generated by fusing putative sucrose-binding proteins to green fluorescent protein variants. Plant-associated bacteria such as Rhizobium and Agrobacterium can use sucrose as a nutrient source; sugar-binding proteins were, thus, used as scaffolds for developing sucrose nanosensors. Among a set of putative sucrose-binding protein genes cloned in between eCFP and eYFP and tested for sugar-dependent FRET changes, an Agrobacterium sugar-binding protein bound sucrose with 4 mum affinity. This FLIPsuc-4mu protein also recognized other sugars including maltose, trehalose, and turanose and, with lower efficiency, glucose and palatinose. Homology modeling enabled the prediction of binding pocket mutations to modulate the relative affinity of FLIPsuc-4mu for sucrose, maltose, and glucose. Mutant nanosensors showed up to 50- and 11-fold increases in specificity for sucrose over maltose and glucose, respectively, and the sucrose binding affinity was simultaneously decreased to allow detection in the physiological range. In addition, the signal-to-noise ratio of the sucrose nanosensor was improved by linker engineering. This novel reagent complements FLIPs for glucose, maltose, ribose, glutamate, and phosphate and will be used for analysis of sucrose-derived carbon flux in bacterial, fungal, plant, and animal cells.
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- Ida Lager
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Deuschle K, Chaudhuri B, Okumoto S, Lager I, Lalonde S, Frommer WB. Rapid metabolism of glucose detected with FRET glucose nanosensors in epidermal cells and intact roots of Arabidopsis RNA-silencing mutants. THE PLANT CELL 2006; 18:2314-25. [PMID: 16935985 PMCID: PMC1560921 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.044073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2006] [Revised: 07/06/2006] [Accepted: 07/25/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Genetically encoded glucose nanosensors have been used to measure steady state glucose levels in mammalian cytosol, nuclei, and endoplasmic reticulum. Unfortunately, the same nanosensors in Arabidopsis thaliana transformants manifested transgene silencing and undetectable fluorescence resonance energy transfer changes. Expressing nanosensors in sgs3 and rdr6 transgene silencing mutants eliminated silencing and resulted in high fluorescence levels. To measure glucose changes over a wide range (nanomolar to millimolar), nanosensors with higher signal-to-noise ratios were expressed in these mutants. Perfusion of leaf epidermis with glucose led to concentration-dependent ratio changes for nanosensors with in vitro K(d) values of 600 microM (FLIPglu-600 microDelta13) and 3.2 mM (FLIPglu-3.2 mDelta13), but one with 170 nM K(d) (FLIPglu-170 nDelta13) showed no response. In intact roots, FLIPglu-3.2 mDelta13 gave no response, whereas FLIPglu-600 microDelta13, FLIPglu-2 microDelta13, and FLIPglu-170 nDelta13 all responded to glucose. These results demonstrate that cytosolic steady state glucose levels depend on external supply in both leaves and roots, but under the conditions tested they are lower in root versus epidermal and guard cells. Without photosynthesis and external supply, cytosolic glucose can decrease to <90 nM in root cells. Thus, observed gradients are steeper than expected, and steady state levels do not appear subject to tight homeostatic control. Nanosensor-expressing plants can be used to assess glucose flux differences between cells, invertase-mediated sucrose hydrolysis in vivo, delivery of assimilates to roots, and glucose flux in mutants affected in sugar transport, metabolism, and signaling.
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- Karen Deuschle
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Csala M, Bánhegyi G, Benedetti A. Endoplasmic reticulum: a metabolic compartment. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:2160-5. [PMID: 16580671 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2006] [Revised: 03/07/2006] [Accepted: 03/15/2006] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Several biochemical reactions and processes of cell biology are compartmentalized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The view that the ER membrane is basically a scaffold for ER proteins, which is permeable to small molecules, is inconsistent with recent findings. The luminal micro-environment is characteristically different from the cytosol; its protein and glutathione thiols are remarkably more oxidized, and it contains a separate pyridine nucleotide pool. The substrate specificity and activity of certain luminal enzymes are dependent on selective transport of possible substrates and co-factors from the cytosol. Abundant biochemical, pharmacological, clinical and genetic data indicate that the barrier function of the lipid bilayer and specific transport activities in the membrane make the ER a separate metabolic compartment.
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- Miklós Csala
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Semmelweis University and Endoplasmic Reticulum Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1444 Budapest, Hungary
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