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Wang N, Ji A, Masoudi A, Li S, Hu Y, Zhang Y, Yu Z, Wang H, Wang H, Liu J. Protein regulation mechanism of cold tolerance in Haemaphysalis longicornis. INSECT SCIENCE 2023; 30:725-740. [PMID: 36285346 DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Revised: 09/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Ticks are external parasitic arthropods that can transmit a variety of pathogens by sucking blood. Low-temperature tolerance is essential for ticks to survive during the cold winter. Exploring the protein regulation mechanism of low-temperature tolerance of Haemaphysalis longicornis could help to explain how ticks survive in winter. In this study, the quantitative proteomics of several tissues of H. longicornis exposed to low temperature were studied by data independent acquisition technology. Totals of 3 699, 3 422, and 1 958 proteins were identified in the salivary gland, midgut, and ovary, respectively. The proteins involved in energy metabolism, cell signal transduction, protein synthesis and repair, and cytoskeleton synthesis changed under low-temperature stress. The comprehensive analysis of the protein regulation of multiple tissues of female ticks exposed to low temperature showed that maintaining cell homeostasis, maintaining cell viability, and enhancing cell tolerance were the most important means for ticks to maintain vital signs under low temperature. The expression of proteins involved in and regulating the above cell activities was the key to the survival of ticks under low temperatures. Through the analysis of a large amount of data, we found that the expression levels of arylamine N-acetyltransferase, inositol polyphosphate multikinase, and dual-specificity phosphatase were up-regulated under low temperature. We speculated that they might have important significance in low-temperature tolerance. Then, we performed RNA interference on the mRNA of these 3 proteins, and the results showed that the ability of female ticks to tolerate low temperatures decreased significantly.
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- Ningmei Wang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Instrumental Analysis Center, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Hebei Xiaowutai Mountain National Nature Reserve Management Center, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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Ciliate Microtubule Diversities: Insights from the EFBTU3 Tubulin in the Antarctic Ciliate Euplotes focardii. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10122415. [PMID: 36557668 PMCID: PMC9784925 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10122415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Protozoans of the Phylum Ciliophora (ciliates) assemble many diverse microtubular structures in a single cell throughout the life cycle, a feature that made them useful models to study microtubule complexity and the role of tubulin isotypes. In the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii we identified five β-tubulin isotypes by genome sequencing, named EFBTU1, EFBTU2, EFBTU3, EFBTU4 and EFBTU5. By using polyclonal antibodies directed against EFBTU2/EFBTU1 and EFBTU3, we show that the former isotypes appear to be involved in the formation of all microtubular structures and are particularly abundant in cilia, whereas the latter specifically localizes at the bases of cilia. By RNA interference (RNAi) technology, we silenced the EFBTU3 gene and provided evidence that this isotype has a relevant role in cilia regeneration upon deciliation and in cell division. These results support the long-standing concept that tubulin isotypes possess functional specificity in building diverse microtubular structures.
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Yin F, Sun P, Wang J, Gao Q. Transcriptome analysis of dormant tomonts of the marine fish ectoparasitic ciliate Cryptocaryon irritans under low temperature. Parasit Vectors 2016; 9:280. [PMID: 27177617 PMCID: PMC4867990 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1550-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cryptocaryon irritans, a species of obligatory ciliate ectoparasite, can infect various species of marine teleost fish. Cryptocaryon irritans that fall to the seabed or aquarium bottom in winter can form "dormant tomonts" and wake up when the temperature rises the next year. Abundant studies and analyses on the dormant tomonts were carried out at the transcriptome level, in order to investigate the molecular mechanism of C. irritans tomonts entering the dormant state under low-temperature conditions. METHODS The paired-end sequencing strategy was used to better assemble the entire transcriptome de novo. All clean sequencing reads from each of the three libraries (Group A: untreated blank control; Group B: treated for 24 h at 12 °C; and Group C: developed for 24 h at 25 °C) were respectively mapped back to the transcriptome assembly using the bioinformatics software. RESULTS In this study, 25,695,034, 21,944,467, and 28,722,875 paired-end clean reads were obtained respectively from the three cDNA libraries of the C. irritans tomont by Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. A total of 25,925 unique transcript fragments (unigenes) were assembled, with an average length of 839 bp. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were scrutinized; in Group B/A pairwise comparison, 343 genes presented differential expression, including 265 up-regulated genes and 78 down-regulated genes in Group B; in Group C/A pairwise comparison, there were 567 DEGs, including 548 up-regulated genes and 19 down-regulated genes in Group C; and in Group B/C pairwise comparison, 185 genes showed differential expression, including 145 up-regulated genes and 40 down-regulated genes in Group B. CONCLUSIONS This is the first transcriptomic analytical study of the C. irritans tomonts under low temperature. It can be concluded that most of the genes required for its cell survival under low temperature, or for cell entry into a deeper dormancy state were discovered, and that they might be considered as candidate genes to develop the diagnostic and control measures for cryptocaryoniasis.
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- Fei Yin
- Key Laboratory of East China Sea and Oceanic Fishery Resources Exploitation, Ministry of Agriculture, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Room 316, Building 6, 300 Jungong Road, Shanghai, 200090, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of East China Sea and Oceanic Fishery Resources Exploitation, Ministry of Agriculture, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Room 316, Building 6, 300 Jungong Road, Shanghai, 200090, PR China
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- Fisheries College of Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, 316022, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of East China Sea and Oceanic Fishery Resources Exploitation, Ministry of Agriculture, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Room 316, Building 6, 300 Jungong Road, Shanghai, 200090, PR China
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Fulgentini L, Passini V, Colombetti G, Miceli C, La Terza A, Marangoni R. UV Radiation and Visible Light Induce hsp70 Gene Expression in the Antarctic Psychrophilic Ciliate Euplotes focardii. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2015; 70:372-379. [PMID: 25666535 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-015-0566-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 01/02/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The psychrophilic ciliate Euplotes focardii inhabits the shallow marine coastal sediments of Antarctica, where, over millions of years of evolution, it has reached a strict molecular adaptation to such a constant-temperature environment (about -2 °C). This long evolution at sub-zero temperatures has made E. focardii unable to respond to heat stress with the activation of its heat shock protein (hsp) 70 genes. These genes can, however, be expressed in response to other stresses, like the oxidative one, thus indicating that the molecular adaptation has exclusively altered the heat stress signaling pathways, while it has preserved hsp70 gene activation in response to other environmental stressors. Since radiative stress has proved to be affine to oxidative stress in several organisms, we investigated the capability of UV radiation to induce hsp70 transcription. E. focardii cell cultures were exposed to several different irradiation regimes, ranging from visible only to a mixture of visible, UV-A and UV-B. The irradiation values of each spectral band have been set to be comparable with those recorded in a typical Antarctic spring. Using Northern blot analysis, we measured the expression level of hsp70 immediately after irradiation (0-h-labeled samples), 1 h, and 2 h from the end of the irradiation. Surprisingly, our results showed that besides UV radiation, the visible light was also able to induce hsp70 expression in E. focardii. Moreover, spectrophotometric measurements have revealed no detectable endogenous pigments in E. focardii, making it difficult to propose a possible explanation for the visible light induction of its hsp70 genes. Further research is needed to conclusively clarify this point.
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Tubulin folding: the special case of a beta-tubulin isotype from the Antarctic psychrophilic ciliate Euplotes focardii. Polar Biol 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-013-1390-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Distinct functional roles of β-tubulin isotypes in microtubule arrays of Tetrahymena thermophila, a model single-celled organism. PLoS One 2012; 7:e39694. [PMID: 22745812 PMCID: PMC3382179 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2011] [Accepted: 05/29/2012] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The multi-tubulin hypothesis proposes that each tubulin isotype performs a unique role, or subset of roles, in the universe of microtubule function(s). To test this hypothesis, we are investigating the functions of the recently discovered, noncanonical β-like tubulins (BLTs) of the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila. Tetrahymena forms 17 distinct microtubular structures whose assembly had been thought to be based on single α- and β-isotypes. However, completion of the macronuclear genome sequence of Tetrahymena demonstrated that this ciliate possessed a β-tubulin multigene family: two synonymous genes (BTU1 and BTU2) encode the canonical β-tubulin, BTU2, and six genes (BLT1-6) yield five divergent β-tubulin isotypes. In this report, we examine the structural features and functions of two of the BLTs (BLT1 and BLT4) and compare them to those of BTU2. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS With respect to BTU2, BLT1 and BLT4 had multiple sequence substitutions in their GTP-binding sites, in their interaction surfaces, and in their microtubule-targeting motifs, which together suggest that they have specialized functions. To assess the roles of these tubulins in vivo, we transformed Tetrahymena with expression vectors that direct the synthesis of GFP-tagged versions of the isotypes. We show that GFP-BLT1 and GFP-BLT4 were not detectable in somatic cilia and basal bodies, whereas GFP-BTU2 strongly labeled these structures. During cell division, GFP-BLT1 and GFP-BLT4, but not GFP-BTU2, were incorporated into the microtubule arrays of the macronucleus and into the mitotic apparatus of the micronucleus. GFP-BLT1 also participated in formation of the microtubules of the meiotic apparatus of the micronucleus during conjugation. Partitioning of the isotypes between nuclear and ciliary microtubules was confirmed biochemically. CONCLUSION/SIGNIFICANCE We conclude that Tetrahymena uses a family of distinct β-tubulin isotypes to construct subsets of functionally different microtubules, a result that provides strong support for the multi-tubulin hypothesis.
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Wang H, Ma Z, Cui F, Wang X, Guo W, Lin Z, Yang P, Kang L. Parental phase status affects the cold hardiness of progeny eggs in locusts. Funct Ecol 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01927.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects & Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects & Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects & Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects & Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Malcos JL, Hancock WO. Engineering tubulin: microtubule functionalization approaches for nanoscale device applications. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 90:1-10. [PMID: 21327409 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3140-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2010] [Revised: 01/05/2011] [Accepted: 01/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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With the emergences of engineered devices at microscale and nanoscale dimensions, there is a growing need for controlled actuation and transport at these length scales. The kinesin-microtubule system provides a highly evolved biological transport system well suited for these tasks. Accordingly, there is an ongoing effort to create hybrid nanodevices that integrate biological components with engineered materials for applications such as biological separations, nanoscale assembly, and sensing. Adopting microtubules for these applications generally requires covalent attachment of biotin, fluorophores, or other biomolecules to tubulin enable surface or cargo attachment, or visualization. This review summarizes different strategies for functionalizing microtubules for application-focused as well as basic biological research. These functionalization strategies must maintain the integrity of microtubule proteins so that they do not depolymerize and can be transported by kinesin motors, while adding utility such as the ability to reversibly bind cargo. The relevant biochemical and electrical properties of microtubules are discussed, as well as strategies for microtubule stabilization and long-term storage. Next, attachment strategies, such as antibodies and DNA hybridization that have proven useful to date, are discussed in the context of ongoing hybrid nanodevice research. The review concludes with a discussion of less explored opportunities, such as harnessing the utility of tubulin posttranslational modifications and the use of recombinant tubulin that may enable future progress in nanodevice development.
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- Jennelle L Malcos
- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 208 Muller Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Kim M, Denlinger DL. Decrease in expression of beta-tubulin and microtubule abundance in flight muscles during diapause in adults of Culex pipiens. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 18:295-302. [PMID: 19523062 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2009.00870.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The cDNA encoding beta-tubulin in the mosquito Culex pipiens has high similarity with the beta-tubulins reported in other insects. In this study, we examine expression of this gene and microtubule abundance in relation to diapause and low temperature. While non-diapausing mosquitoes express beta-tubulin highly in their thoracic muscles, expression is quite low during adult diapause. The abundance of microtubules was also much lower in flight muscles of diapausing adults than in flight muscles from non-diapausing individuals, as confirmed by laser confocal microscopy of tubulins stained using indirect immunofluorescence. Low temperatures decreased microtubule abundance in midguts of non-diapausing mosquitoes, but microtubule abundance in diapausing mosquitoes was already low and remained unchanged by low temperature exposure. Overall, pixel intensity averages were higher in the flight muscles than in the midguts, and again low temperatures decreased microtubule abundance in the flight muscles of non-diapausing females, while levels remained consistently low in diapausing females. These results clearly indicate that a decrease in microtubule abundance is evoked both by the programming of diapause and, in non-diapausing females, by exposure to low temperatures. Quite possibly the reduced microtubule abundance in the flight muscles and reduced expression of beta-tubulin are functionally correlated to the reduction in flight activity that is associated with low temperature and diapause.
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- M Kim
- Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA.
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Pucciarelli S, La Terza A, Ballarini P, Barchetta S, Yu T, Marziale F, Passini V, Methé B, Detrich HW, Miceli C. Molecular cold-adaptation of protein function and gene regulation: The case for comparative genomic analyses in marine ciliated protozoa. Mar Genomics 2009; 2:57-66. [PMID: 21798173 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2009.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2008] [Revised: 03/16/2009] [Accepted: 03/25/2009] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Euplotes focardii is a marine ciliated protozoan discovered in the Ross Sea near Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. This organism is strictly psychrophilic, survives and reproduces optimally at 4-5 °C, and has a genome rich in A/T base pairs. Like other ciliated protozoans, Euplotes spp. are characterized by nuclear dimorphism: 1) the germline micronucleus contains the entire genome as large chromosomes; and 2) the somatic macronucleus (∼50 megabases, or 5% of the micronuclear genome) contains small linear DNA nanochromosomes [1-12 kilobases], each of which constitutes a single genetic unit. These characteristics make E. focardii an ideal model for genome-level analysis to understand the evolutionary mechanisms that determine the adaptation of organisms to cold environments. Here we describe two examples that are controlled by phylogenetically appropriate comparison with mesophilic and psychrotolerant Euplotes species: 1) the genes and encoded proteins of the E. focardii tubulin superfamily, including α-, β-, and γ-tubulins; and 2) the genes of the heat-shock protein (Hsp) 70 family. The tubulins provide particular insight into protein-level structural changes that are likely to facilitate microtubule nucleation and polymerization in an energy poor environment. By contrast, the hsp70 genes of E. focardii and of its psychrotolerant relative E. nobilii reveal adaptive alterations in the regulation of gene expression in the cold. The unique characteristics of the E. focardii genome and the results that we present here argue strongly for a concerted effort to characterize the relatively low complexity macronuclear genome of this psychrophilic organism.
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- Sandra Pucciarelli
- Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Cellulare, Animale, University of Camerino, Camerino (MC), Italy
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Marziale F, Pucciarelli S, Ballarini P, Melki R, Uzun A, Ilyin VA, Detrich HW, Miceli C. Different roles of two gamma-tubulin isotypes in the cytoskeleton of the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii: remodelling of interaction surfaces may enhance microtubule nucleation at low temperature. FEBS J 2008; 275:5367-82. [PMID: 18959762 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06666.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Gamma-tubulin belongs to the tubulin superfamily and plays an essential role in the nucleation of cellular microtubules. In the present study, we report the characterization of gamma-tubulin from the psychrophilic Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii. In this organism, gamma-tubulin is encoded by two genes, gamma-T1 and gamma-T2, that produce distinct isotypes. Comparison of the gamma-T1 and gamma-T2 primary sequences to a Euplotesgamma-tubulin consensus, derived from mesophilic (i.e. temperate) congeneric species, revealed the presence of numerous unique amino acid substitutions, particularly in gamma-T2. Structural models of gamma-T1 and gamma-T2, obtained using the 3D structure of human gamma-tubulin as a template, suggest that these substitutions are responsible for conformational and/or polarity differences located: (a) in the regions involved in longitudinal 'plus end' contacts; (b) in the T3 loop that participates in binding GTP; and (c) in the M loop that forms lateral interactions. Relative to gamma-T1, the gamma-T2 gene is amplified by approximately 18-fold in the macronuclear genome and is very strongly transcribed. Using confocal immunofluorescence microscopy, we found that the gamma-tubulins of E. focardii associate throughout the cell cycle with basal bodies of the non-motile dorsal cilia and of all of the cirri of the ventral surface (i.e. adoral membranelles, paraoral membrane, and frontoventral transverse, caudal and marginal cirri). By contrast, only gamma-T2 interacts with the centrosomes of the spindle during micronuclear mitosis. We also established that the gamma-T1 isotype associates only with basal bodies. Our results suggest that gamma-T1 and gamma-T2 perform different functions in the organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton of this protist and are consistent with the hypothesis that gamma-T1 and gamma-T2 have evolved sequence-based structural alterations that facilitate template nucleation of microtubules by the gamma-tubulin ring complex at cold temperatures.
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- Francesca Marziale
- Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Cellulare e Animale, University of Camerino, Italy
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Ben-Nissan G, Cui W, Kim DJ, Yang Y, Yoo BC, Lee JY. Arabidopsis casein kinase 1-like 6 contains a microtubule-binding domain and affects the organization of cortical microtubules,. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 4:652-4. [PMID: 18945931 PMCID: PMC2593671 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.129346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2008] [Accepted: 10/17/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Members of the casein kinase 1 (CK1) family are evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic protein kinases that are involved in various cellular, physiological, and developmental processes in yeast and metazoans, but the biological roles of CK1 members in plants are not well understood. Here, we report that an Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) CK1 member named casein kinase 1-like 6 (CKL6) associates with cortical microtubules in vivo and phosphorylates tubulins in vitro. The unique C-terminal domain of CKL6 was shown to contain the signal that allows localization of CKL6 to the cortical microtubules. This domain on its own was sufficient to associate with microtubules in vivo and to bind tubulins in vitro. CKL6 was able to phosphorylate soluble tubulins as well as microtubule polymers, and its endogenous activity was found to associate with a tubulin-enriched subcellular fraction. Two major in vitro phosphorylation sites were mapped to serine-413 and serine-420 of tubulin beta. Ectopic expression of wild-type CKL6 or a kinase-inactive mutant form induced alterations in cortical microtubule organization and anisotropic cell expansion. Collectively, these results demonstrate that CKL6 is a protein kinase containing a novel tubulin-binding domain and plays a role in anisotropic cell growth and shape formation in Arabidopsis through the regulation of microtubule organization, possibly through the phosphorylation of tubulins.
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- Gili Ben-Nissan
- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711, USA
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Chintalapati S, Prakash JSS, Singh AK, Ohtani S, Suzuki I, Murata N, Shivaji S. Desaturase genes in a psychrotolerant Nostoc sp. are constitutively expressed at low temperature. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 362:81-87. [PMID: 17697671 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2007] [Accepted: 07/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Antarctic psychrotolerant, Nostoc sp. (SO-36), when grown at 25 degrees C and then shifted to 10 degrees C, showed an increase in the tri-unsaturated fatty acid [C(18:3(9,12,15))] at the expense of mono- [C(18:1(9))] and di-unsaturated [C(18:2(9,12))] fatty acids. These results indicate that the activities of the enzymes DesA and DesB are up-regulated, when cultures were grown at 10 degrees C or shifted to 10 degrees C from 25 degrees C. However, RT-PCR studies indicated a constitutive expression of desA, desB, desC, and desC2 genes when cultures grown at 25 degrees C were shifted to 10 degrees C. This constitutive expression of des genes is in contrast to that observed in mesophilic cyanobacteria, in which desA and desB are transcriptionally up-regulated in response to lowering of growth temperature.
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- Suresh Chintalapati
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Shimane University, Nishikawatsu, Matsue 690, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan
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- National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India.
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Rinehart JP, Li A, Yocum GD, Robich RM, Hayward SAL, Denlinger DL. Up-regulation of heat shock proteins is essential for cold survival during insect diapause. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:11130-7. [PMID: 17522254 PMCID: PMC2040864 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0703538104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 334] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Diapause, the dormancy common to overwintering insects, evokes a unique pattern of gene expression. In the flesh fly, most, but not all, of the fly's heat shock proteins (Hsps) are up-regulated. The diapause up-regulated Hsps include two members of the Hsp70 family, one member of the Hsp60 family (TCP-1), at least four members of the small Hsp family, and a small Hsp pseudogene. Expression of an Hsp70 cognate, Hsc70, is uninfluenced by diapause, and Hsp90 is actually down-regulated during diapause, thus diapause differs from common stress responses that elicit synchronous up-regulation of all Hsps. Up-regulation of the Hsps begins at the onset of diapause, persists throughout the overwintering period, and ceases within hours after the fly receives the signal to reinitiate development. The up-regulation of Hsps appears to be common to diapause in species representing diverse insect orders including Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera as well as in diapauses that occur in different developmental stages (embryo, larva, pupa, adult). Suppressing expression of Hsp23 and Hsp70 in flies by using RNAi did not alter the decision to enter diapause or the duration of diapause, but it had a profound effect on the pupa's ability to survive low temperatures. We thus propose that up-regulation of Hsps during diapause is a major factor contributing to cold-hardiness of overwintering insects.
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- Joseph P. Rinehart
- *Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, 400 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
- Bioscience Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Station, 1605 Albrecht Boulevard, Fargo, ND 58105
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- *Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, 400 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
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- *Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, 400 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
- Bioscience Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Station, 1605 Albrecht Boulevard, Fargo, ND 58105
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- *Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, 400 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115; and
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- *Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, 400 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
- School of Biological Sciences, Liverpool University, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- *Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, 400 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Joachimiak E, Pucciarelli S, Barchetta S, Ballarini P, Kaczanowska J, Miceli C. Cell Cycle-dependent Expression of γ-Tubulin in the Amicronuclear Ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis. Protist 2007; 158:39-50. [PMID: 17023214 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2006.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2006] [Accepted: 08/01/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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In ciliates, different microtubular structures are nucleated from diverse Microtubule Organizing Centers (MTOCs). gamma-Tubulin is a tubulin superfamily member that plays an essential role in microtubule nucleation at the MTOCs. However, little is known about mechanisms regulating the activity of gamma-tubulin on different MTOCs and during the cell cycle. In Tetrahymena thermophila, the alpha- and beta-tubulin expression is regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and changes in the ratio of polymerized/unpolymerized tubulin dimers lead to an increase or decrease of alpha- and beta-tubulin transcription. This study deals with the characterization of gamma-tubulin in the amicronuclear ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis. Sequence analysis revealed some specific substitutions in nucleotide-binding loops characteristic of the Tetrahymena genus and putative conserved phosphorylation sites located on the external surface of the gamma-tubulin molecule. gamma-Tubulin expression during the cell cycle, in the presence of microtubular poisons and after deciliation, was also characterized. We found that gamma-tubulin mRNA levels are correlated with basal body proliferation and gamma-tubulin nuclear localization. We also found that gamma-tubulin expression changes during anti-microtubular drugs treatment, but does not changes during reciliation. These findings suggest a relationship between the level of unpolymerized tubulin dimers and gamma-tubulin transcription.
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- Ewa Joachimiak
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Animal Biology, University of Camerino, Camerino 62032, v. Camerini 2, Italy
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Kim M, Robich RM, Rinehart JP, Denlinger DL. Upregulation of two actin genes and redistribution of actin during diapause and cold stress in the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 52:1226-33. [PMID: 17078965 PMCID: PMC1839883 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2006.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2006] [Revised: 09/07/2006] [Accepted: 09/11/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Two actin genes cloned from Culex pipiens L. are upregulated during adult diapause. Though actins 1 and 2 were expressed throughout diapause, both genes were most highly expressed early in diapause. These changes in gene expression were accompanied by a conspicuous redistribution of polymerized actin that was most pronounced in the midguts of diapausing mosquitoes that were exposed to low temperature. In nondiapausing mosquitoes reared at 25 degrees C and in diapausing mosquitoes reared at 18 degrees C, polymerized actin was clustered at high concentrations at the intersections of the muscle fibers that form the midgut musculature. When adults 7-10 days post-eclosion were exposed to low temperature (-5 degrees C for 12 h), the polymerized actin was evenly distributed along the muscle fibers in both nondiapausing and diapausing mosquitoes. Exposure of older adults (1 month post-eclosion) to low temperature (-5 degrees C for 12 h) elicited an even greater distribution of polymerized actin, an effect that was especially pronounced in diapausing mosquitoes. These changes in gene expression and actin distribution suggest a role for actins in enhancing survival of diapausing adults during the low temperatures of winter by fortification of the cytoskeleton.
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Pucciarelli S, Parker SK, Detrich HW, Melki R. Characterization of the cytoplasmic chaperonin containing TCP-1 from the Antarctic fish Notothenia coriiceps. Extremophiles 2006; 10:537-49. [PMID: 16770691 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0528-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2006] [Accepted: 04/11/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The cytoplasmic chaperonin containing TCP-1 (CCT) plays a critically important role in the folding and biogenesis of many cytoskeletal proteins, including tubulin and actin. For marine ectotherms, the chronically cold Southern Ocean (-2 to +2 degrees C) poses energetic challenges to protein folding, both at the level of substrate proteins and with respect to the chaperonin/chaperone folding system. Here we report the partial functional and structural characterization of CCT from an Antarctic notothenioid fish, Notothenia coriiceps. We find that the mechanism of folding by the Antarctic fish CCT differed from that of mammalian CCT: (1) the former complex was able to bind denatured beta-tubulin but (2) when reconstituted with rabbit Cofactor A, failed to release the protein to yield the tubulin/cofactor intermediate. Moreover, the amino acid sequences of the N. coriiceps CCT beta and theta chains contained residue substitutions in the equatorial, apical, and intermediate domains that would be expected to increase the flexibility of the subunits, thus facilitating function of the chaperonin in an energy poor environment. Our work contributes to the growing realization that protein function in cold-adapted organisms reflects a delicate balance between the necessity of structural flexibility for catalytic activity and the concomitant hazard of cold-induced denaturation.
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- Sandra Pucciarelli
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Molecolare, Cellulare, ed Animale, Università di Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy.
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Pucciarelli S, Miceli C, Melki R. Heterologous expression and folding analysis of a beta-tubulin isotype from the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2002; 269:6271-7. [PMID: 12473123 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03346.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Mammalian tubulins and actins attain their native conformation following interactions with CCT (the cytosolic chaperonin containing t-complex polypeptide 1). To study the beta-tubulin folding in lower eukaryotes, an isotype of beta-tubulin (beta-T1) from the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii, was expressed in Escherichia coli. Folding analysis was performed by incubation of the 35S-labeled, denatured beta-T1 in the presence, or absence, of purified rabbit CCT and cofactor A, a polypeptide that stabilizes folded monomeric beta-tubulin. We show for the first time in protozoa that beta-tubulin folding is assisted by CCT and requires cofactor A. In addition, we observed that E. focardiibeta-T1 competes with human beta5 tubulin isotype for binding to CCT. The affinity of CCT to E. focardiibeta-T1 and beta5 tubulin are compared. Finally, the mitochondrial chaperonin mt-cpn60 binds to beta-T1 but is unable to release it in a native or quasi-native state.
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- Sandra Pucciarelli
- Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Cellulare e Animale, Università di Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
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Ciliates provide a powerful system to analyze the evolution of duplicated alpha-tubulin genes in the context of single-celled organisms. Genealogical analyses of ciliate alpha-tubulin sequences reveal five apparently recent gene duplications. Comparisons of paralogs in different ciliates implicate differing patterns of substitutions (e.g., ratios of replacement/synonymous nucleotides and radical/conservative amino acids) following duplication. Most substitutions between paralogs in Euplotes crassus, Halteria grandinella and Paramecium tetraurelia are synonymous. In contrast, alpha-tubulin paralogs within Stylonychia lemnae and Chilodonella uncinata are evolving at significantly different rates and have higher ratios of both replacement substitutions to synonymous substitutions and radical amino acid changes to conservative amino acid changes. Moreover, the amino acid substitutions in C. uncinata and S. lemnae paralogs are limited to short stretches that correspond to functionally important regions of the alpha-tubulin protein. The topology of ciliate alpha-tubulin genealogies are inconsistent with taxonomy based on morphology and other molecular markers, which may be due to taxonomic sampling, gene conversion, unequal rates of evolution, or asymmetric patterns of gene duplication and loss.
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- Rachel L Israel
- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063, USA
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Nogales E. Structural insight into microtubule function. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 2001; 30:397-420. [PMID: 11441808 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.30.1.397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Microtubules are polymers that are essential for, among other functions, cell transport and cell division in all eukaryotes. The regulation of the microtubule system includes transcription of different tubulin isotypes, folding of alpha/beta-tubulin heterodimers, post-translation modification of tubulin, and nucleotide-based microtubule dynamics, as well as interaction with numerous microtubule-associated proteins that are themselves regulated. The result is the precise temporal and spatial pattern of microtubules that is observed throughout the cell cycle. The recent high-resolution analysis of the structure of tubulin and the microtubule has brought new insight to the study of microtubule function and regulation, as well as the mode of action of antimitotic drugs that disrupt normal microtubule behavior. The combination of structural, genetic, biochemical, and biophysical data should soon give us a fuller understanding of the exquisite details in the regulation of the microtubule cytoskeleton.
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- E Nogales
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California 94720, USA.
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La Terza A, Papa G, Miceli C, Luporini P. Divergence between two Antarctic species of the ciliate Euplotes, E. focardii and E. nobilii, in the expression of heat-shock protein 70 genes. Mol Ecol 2001; 10:1061-7. [PMID: 11348511 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2001.01242.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Most organisms oppose many environmental stresses by rapidly enhancing synthesis of the highly conserved Hsp70 family of heat-shock proteins. Two ciliates which are endemic in Antarctic coastal seawater, Euplotes focardii and E. nobilii, and behave as psychrophile and psychrotroph micro-organisms, respectively, revealed a divergence in the capacity to respond to thermal stress with an activation of the transcription of their hsp70 genes. In both species, these genes were shown to be represented by thousands of copies in the cell's somatic functional nucleus (macronucleus). However, while a strong transcriptional activity of hsp70 genes was induced in E. nobilii cells transferred from 4 to 20 degrees C, a much smaller increase was revealed in heat-shocked cells of E. focardii. These findings suggest a closer adaptation to the stably cold Antarctic waters in the genetic response of E. focardii to thermal stress.
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- A La Terza
- Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare Cellulare Animale, Università di Camerino, 62032 Camerino, MC, Italy.
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Dyer JM, Chapital DC, Cary JW, Pepperman AB. Chilling-Sensitive, Post-Transcriptional Regulation of a Plant Fatty Acid Desaturase Expressed in Yeast. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 282:1019-25. [PMID: 11352654 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.4667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Plants respond to chilling exposure by increasing the relative proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids in their lipids. However, unlike the response in many other organisms, plant fatty acid desaturase genes are typically not upregulated during this process. We expressed the Brassica napus FAD3 gene, which encodes an enzyme for synthesis of linolenic acid, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and observed a temperature-dependent increase in linolenic acid production at cooler growth temperatures. Untransformed yeast cells, however, responded to cooler temperatures primarily by shortening fatty acid chains, even when polyunsaturated fatty acids were supplied in the growth media. Measurement of the steady-state levels of Fad3 protein in transformed yeast revealed an 8.5-fold increase in steady-state amount of desaturase enzyme when cells were cultivated at cooler temperatures. The increase was not due to changes in transcriptional activity, since Northern hybridization revealed no appreciable changes in abundance of FAD3 transcripts at cooler temperatures. Taken together, the results suggest that the increase in linolenic acid content in cells containing Fad3 was not due to enhanced physiological demand for polyunsaturated fatty acids by yeast, but rather a cold-inducible, post-transcriptional increase in steady-state amount of plant desaturase enzyme. Implications for plant adaptation to chilling are discussed.
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- J M Dyer
- USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center, 1100 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisianna 70124, USA.
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Microtubules are polymers that are essential for, among other functions, cell transport and cell division in all eukaryotes. The regulation of the microtubule system includes transcription of different tubulin isotypes, folding of /¿-tubulin heterodimers, post-translation modification of tubulin, and nucleotide-based microtubule dynamics, as well as interaction with numerous microtubule-associated proteins that are themselves regulated. The result is the precise temporal and spatial pattern of microtubules that is observed throughout the cell cycle. The recent high-resolution analysis of the structure of tubulin and the microtubule has brought new insight to the study of microtubule function and regulation, as well as the mode of action of antimitotic drugs that disrupt normal microtubule behavior. The combination of structural, genetic, biochemical, and biophysical data should soon give us a fuller understanding of the exquisite details in the regulation of the microtubule cytoskeleton.
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- E Nogales
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
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Modig C, Olsson PE, Barasoain I, de Ines C, Andreu JM, Roach MC, Ludueña RF, Wallin M. Identification of betaIII- and betaIV-tubulin isotypes in cold-adapted microtubules from Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua): antibody mapping and cDNA sequencing. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 2000; 42:315-30. [PMID: 10223637 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0169(1999)42:4<315::aid-cm5>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Isolated microtubule proteins from the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) assemble at temperatures between 8 and 30 degrees C. The cold-adaptation is an intrinsic property of the tubulin molecules, but the reason for it is unknown. To increase our knowledge of tubulin diversity and its role in cold-adaptation we have further characterized cod tubulins using alpha- and beta-tubulin site-directed antibodies and antibodies towards posttranslationally modified tubulin. In addition, one cod brain beta-tubulin isotype has been sequenced. In mammals there are five beta-tubulins (betaI, betaII, betaIII, betaIVa and betaIVb) expressed in brain. A cod betaIII-tubulin was identified by its electrophoretic mobility after reduction and carboxymethylation. The betaIII-like tubulin accounted for more than 30% of total brain beta-tubulins, the highest yield yet observed in any animal. This tubulin corresponds most probably with an additional band, designated beta(x), which was found between alpha- and beta-tubulins on SDS-polyacrylamide gels. It was found to be phosphorylated and neurospecific, and constituted about 30% of total cod beta-tubulin isoforms. The sequenced cod tubulin was identified as a betaIV-tubulin, and a betaIV-isotype was stained by a C-terminal specific antibody. The amount of staining indicates that this isotype, as in mammals, only accounts for a minor part of the total brain beta-tubulin. Based on the estimated amounts of betaIII- and betaIV-tubulins in cod brain, our results indicate that cod has at least one additional beta-tubulin isotype and that beta-tubulin diversity evolved early during fish evolution. The sequenced cod betaIV-tubulin had four unique amino acid substitutions when compared to beta-tubulin sequences from other animals, while one substitution was in common with Antarctic rockcod beta-tubulin. Residues 221, Thr to Ser, and 283, Ala to Ser, correspond in the bovine tubulin dimer structure to loops that most probably interact with other tubulin molecules within the microtubule, and might contribute to cold-adaptation of microtubules.
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- C Modig
- Department of Zoology/Zoophysiology, Göteborg University, Sweden.
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Modig C, Wallin M, Olsson PE. Expression of cold-adapted beta-tubulins confer cold-tolerance to human cellular microtubules. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 269:787-91. [PMID: 10720493 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Isolated microtubule proteins from the cold-adapted fish, Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), assemble at temperatures between 8 and 30 degrees C, while avian and mammalian microtubules normally do not assemble at temperatures below 20 degrees C. Tubulin, the main component in microtubules, is expressed as many isotypes. Microtubules with different isotype composition have been shown to have different dynamic properties in vitro. Our hypothesis was that cold-tolerance of microtubules is caused by tubulin isotypes that differ in the primary sequence compared to mammalian tubulins. Here we show that transfection of human HepG2 cells with cod beta-tubulin induced cold-adaptation of the endogenous microtubules. Incorporation of one single tubulin isotype can induce cold-tolerance to cold-intolerant microtubules. Three cod beta-tubulin isotypes were tested and two of these (beta1 and beta2) transferred cold-tolerance to HepG2 microtubules, thus not all cod beta-tubulins were able to confer cold-stability.
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- C Modig
- Department of Zoology/Zoophysiology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, SE 405 30, Sweden.
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Regnard C, Desbruyères E, Denoulet P, Eddé B. Tubulin polyglutamylase: isozymic variants and regulation during the cell cycle in HeLa cells. J Cell Sci 1999; 112 ( Pt 23):4281-9. [PMID: 10564646 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112.23.4281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Polyglutamylation is a posttranslational modification of tubulin that is very common in neurons and ciliated or flagellated cells. It was proposed to regulate the binding of microtubule associated proteins (MAPs) and molecular motors as a function of the length of the polyglutamyl side-chain. Though much less common, this modification of tubulin also occurs in proliferating cells like HeLa cells where it is associated with centrioles and with the mitotic spindle. Recently, we partially purified tubulin polyglutamylase from mouse brain and described its enzymatic properties. In this work, we focused on tubulin polyglutamylase activity from HeLa cells. Our results support the existence of a tubulin polyglutamylase family composed of several isozymic variants specific for alpha- or beta-tubulin subunits. In the latter case, the specificity probably also concerns the different beta-tubulin isotypes. Interestingly, we found that tubulin polyglutamylase activity is regulated in a cell cycle dependent manner and peaks in G(2)-phase while the level of glutamylated tubulin peaks in mitosis. Consistent results were obtained by treating the cells with hydroxyurea, nocodazole or taxotere. In particular, in mitotic cells, tubulin polyglutamylase activity was always low while glutamylation level was high. Finally, tubulin polyglutamylase activity and the level of glutamylated tubulin appeared to be inversely related. This paradox suggests a complex regulation of both tubulin polyglutamylase and the reverse deglutamylase activity.
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- C Regnard
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Cellulaire, CNRS UPR 9065 and Université Paris VI, Collège de France, 75005 Paris.
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Lu Q, Moore GD, Walss C, Ludueña RF. Structural and functional properties of tubulin isotypes. ADVANCES IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s1064-6000(98)80012-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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