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Zhou J, Liu H, Lin Y, Zhao J. Membrane Occupation and Recognition Nexus (MORN) motif controls protein localization and function. FEBS Lett 2022; 596:1839-1850. [PMID: 35568981 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Membrane Occupation and Recognition Nexus (MORN) motif was first defined in 2000, when it was identified in the junctophilin protein family. Dozens of studies have been published ever since, mainly focusing on the function of a given MORN motif-containing protein in parasites, plants or animal cells. Proteins with MORN motifs are not only expressed in most animal and plant cell types but also significantly differ in their intracellular localization, suggesting that the MORN motifs may fulfil multiple physiological functions. Recent studies have found that MORN motif-containing proteins junctophilin 1/2 and MORN3 play a role in cardiac hypertrophy, skeletal muscle fiber stability and cancer. Hence, MORN motif-containing proteins may be exploited to develop improved treatments for various pathological conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases. Here, we review current research on MORN motif-containing proteins in different organisms and provide both ideas and approaches for follow-up exploration of their functions and applications.
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- Jinrun Zhou
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, P. R. China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, P. R. China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, P. R. China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Cells and Developmental Biology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, P. R. China
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Takemori A, Butcher DS, Harman VM, Brownridge P, Shima K, Higo D, Ishizaki J, Hasegawa H, Suzuki J, Yamashita M, Loo JA, Loo RRO, Beynon RJ, Anderson LC, Takemori N. PEPPI-MS: Polyacrylamide-Gel-Based Prefractionation for Analysis of Intact Proteoforms and Protein Complexes by Mass Spectrometry. J Proteome Res 2020; 19:3779-3791. [PMID: 32538093 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Prefractionation of complex mixtures of proteins derived from biological samples is indispensable for proteome analysis via top-down mass spectrometry (MS). Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), which enables high-resolution protein separation based on molecular size, is a widely used technique in biochemical experiments and has the potential to be useful in sample fractionation for top-down MS analysis. However, the lack of a means to efficiently recover the separated proteins in-gel has always been a barrier to its use in sample prefractionation. In this study, we present a novel experimental workflow, called Passively Eluting Proteins from Polyacrylamide gels as Intact species for MS ("PEPPI-MS"), which allows top-down MS of PAGE-separated proteins. The optimization of Coomassie brilliant blue staining followed by the passive extraction step in the PEPPI-MS workflow enabled the efficient recovery of proteins, separated on commercial precast gels, from a wide range of molecular weight regions in under 10 min. Two-dimensional separation combining offline PEPPI-MS with online reversed-phase liquid chromatographic separation resulted in identification of over 1000 proteoforms recovered from the target region of the gel (≤50 kDa). Given the widespread availability and relatively low cost of traditional sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-PAGE equipment, the PEPPI-MS workflow will be a powerful prefractionation strategy for top-down proteomics.
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- Ayako Takemori
- Division of Analytical Bio-Medicine, Advanced Research Support Center, Ehime University, Toon 791-0295, Ehime, Japan
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- Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Centre for Proteome Research, Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K
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- Centre for Proteome Research, Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K
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- Shimadzu Corporation, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8511, Japan
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific K.K., Yokohama 221-0022, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon 791-0295, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon 791-0295, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon 791-0295, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon 791-0295, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.,Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, and UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, and UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Centre for Proteome Research, Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K
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- Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Division of Analytical Bio-Medicine, Advanced Research Support Center, Ehime University, Toon 791-0295, Ehime, Japan
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Weininger U, Modig K, Ishida H, Vogel HJ, Akke M. Rotamer Jumps, Proton Exchange, and Amine Inversion Dynamics of Dimethylated Lysine Residues in Proteins Resolved by pH-Dependent 1H and 13C NMR Relaxation Dispersion. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:9742-9750. [PMID: 31580078 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b06408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Post-translational methylation of lysine side chains is of great importance for protein regulation, including epigenetic control. Here, we present specific 13CHD2 labeling of dimethylated lysines as a sensitive probe of the structure, interactions, and dynamics of these groups, and outline a theoretical and experimental framework for analyzing their conformational dynamics using 1H and 13C CPMG relaxation dispersion experiments. Dimethylated lysine side chains in calcium-loaded calmodulin show a marked pH dependence of their Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) dispersion profiles, indicating complex exchange behavior. Combined analysis of 1H and 13C CPMG relaxation dispersions requires consideration of 12-state correlated exchange of the two methyl groups due to circular three-state rotamer jumps around the Cε-Nζ axis combined with proton exchange and amine inversion. Taking into account a number of fundamental constraints, the exchange model can be reduced to include only three fitted parameters, namely, the geometric average of the rotamer-jump rate constants, the rate constant of deprotonation of Nζ, and the chemical shift difference between the trans and gauge positions of the 13C or 1H nuclei. The pH dependence indicates that protonation of the end group dramatically slows down rotamer exchange for some lysine residues, whereas deprotonation leads to rapid amine inversion coupled with rotamer scrambling. The observed variation among residues in their exchange behavior appears to depend on the structural environment of the side chain. Understanding this type of exchange process is critical to correctly interpreting NMR spectra of methylated lysine side chains. The exchange model presented here forms the basis for studying the structure and dynamics of epigenetically modified lysine side chains and perturbations caused by changes in pH or interactions with target proteins.
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- Ulrich Weininger
- Biophysical Chemistry, Center for Molecular Protein Science, Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- Biophysical Chemistry, Center for Molecular Protein Science, Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Biochemistry Research Group , University of Calgary , 2500 University Drive NW , Calgary , Alberta , T2N 1N4 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Biochemistry Research Group , University of Calgary , 2500 University Drive NW , Calgary , Alberta , T2N 1N4 Canada
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- Biophysical Chemistry, Center for Molecular Protein Science, Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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Matsumoto H, Haniu H, Kurien BT, Komori N. Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis by Glass Tube-Based IEF and SDS-PAGE. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1855:107-113. [PMID: 30426412 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8793-1_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The genome information combined with data derived from modern mass spectrometry enables us to determine the identity of a protein once it is isolated from a complex mixture. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis established more than four decades ago serves as a powerful protocol to isolate many proteins at once for such protein analysis. In the first two decades, the original procedure to use a glass tube-based IEF had been commonly used. Since an IEF in glass tubes is rather difficult to maneuver, a new method to use an IEF on a thin agarose slab backed by a plastic film (IPG Dry Strip) had been invented and is now widely used. In this chapter, we describe a protocol that uses a glass tube-based IEF because the capacity of protein loading and resolving power of this type of classic two-dimensional gel is still indispensable for many applications, not only for protein identification but also for protocols that are benefited by larger amounts of materials, i.e., analysis of posttranslational modification of proteins such as phosphorylation, methylation, glycosylation, and others.
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- Hiroyuki Matsumoto
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
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- Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Interdisciplinary Cluster for Cutting Edge Research, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Separation technology of proteins from a complex mixture by two-dimensional gel (2D gel) was invented more than 40 years ago. With a good laboratory practice, the 2D gels are likely to be dried and stored at ambient temperature as archived record. Up until the beginning of this century, it had been difficult to identify the protein spots isolated on 2D gels. However, the advent of mass spectrometry-based proteomics protocols combined with genome information enabled us to determine the identity of a protein separated on 2D gels archived decades ago. The protocol will assist researchers to decipher molecular mechanisms involved in the system by identifying and quantifying the protein of interest from archived 2D gels.
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Takemori N, Takemori A, Wongkongkathep P, Nshanian M, Loo RRO, Lermyte F, Loo JA. Top-down/Bottom-up Mass Spectrometry Workflow Using Dissolvable Polyacrylamide Gels. Anal Chem 2017; 89:8244-8250. [PMID: 28723075 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Biologists' preeminent toolbox for separating, analyzing, and visualizing proteins is SDS-PAGE, yet recovering the proteins embedded in these polyacrylamide media as intact species is a long-standing challenge for mass spectrometry. In conventional workflows, protein mixtures from crude biological samples are electrophoretically separated at high-resolution within N,N'-methylene-bis-acrylamide cross-linked polyacrylamide gels to reduce sample complexity and facilitate sensitive characterization. However, low protein recoveries, especially for high molecular weight proteins, often hinder characterization by mass spectrometry. We describe a workflow for top-down/bottom-up mass spectrometric analyses of proteins in polyacrylamide slab gels using dissolvable, bis-acryloylcystamine-cross-linked polyacrylamide, enabling high-resolution protein separations while recovering intact proteins over a broad size range efficiently. The inferior electrophoretic resolution long associated with reducible gels has been overcome, as demonstrated by SDS-PAGE of crude tissue extracts. This workflow elutes intact proteins efficiently, supporting MS and MS/MS from proteins resolved on biologists' preferred separation platform.
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- Nobuaki Takemori
- Proteo-Science Center, Division of Proteomics Research, Ehime University , Shitsukawa, Toon, Ehime, 791-0295, Japan
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- Proteo-Science Center, Division of Proteomics Research, Ehime University , Shitsukawa, Toon, Ehime, 791-0295, Japan.,The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University , Matsuyama, Ehime, 790-8566, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, and UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, University of California-Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp , Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.,Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, and UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, University of California-Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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Haziza S, Magnani R, Lan D, Keinan O, Saada A, Hershkovitz E, Yanay N, Cohen Y, Nevo Y, Houtz RL, Sheffield VC, Golan H, Parvari R. Calmodulin Methyltransferase Is Required for Growth, Muscle Strength, Somatosensory Development and Brain Function. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1005388. [PMID: 26247364 PMCID: PMC4527749 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 06/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Calmodulin lysine methyl transferase (CaM KMT) is ubiquitously expressed and highly conserved from plants to vertebrates. CaM is frequently trimethylated at Lys-115, however, the role of CaM methylation in vertebrates has not been studied. CaM KMT was found to be homozygously deleted in the 2P21 deletion syndrome that includes 4 genes. These patients present with cystinuria, severe intellectual disabilities, hypotonia, mitochondrial disease and facial dysmorphism. Two siblings with deletion of three of the genes included in the 2P21 deletion syndrome presented with cystinuria, hypotonia, a mild/moderate mental retardation and a respiratory chain complex IV deficiency. To be able to attribute the functional significance of the methylation of CaM in the mouse and the contribution of CaM KMT to the clinical presentation of the 2p21deletion patients, we produced a mouse model lacking only CaM KMT with deletion borders as in the human 2p21deletion syndrome. No compensatory activity for CaM methylation was found. Impairment of complexes I and IV, and less significantly III, of the mitochondrial respiratory chain was more pronounced in the brain than in muscle. CaM KMT is essential for normal body growth and somatosensory development, as well as for the proper functioning of the adult mouse brain. Developmental delay was demonstrated for somatosensory function and for complex behavior, which involved both basal motor function and motivation. The mutant mice also had deficits in motor learning, complex coordination and learning of aversive stimuli. The mouse model contributes to the evaluation of the role of methylated CaM. CaM methylation appears to have a role in growth, muscle strength, somatosensory development and brain function. The current study has clinical implications for human patients. Patients presenting slow growth and muscle weakness that could result from a mitochondrial impairment and mental retardation should be considered for sequence analysis of the CaM KMT gene. Calmodulin (CaM) is a highly abundant, ubiquitous, small protein, which plays a major role in the transmission of calcium signals to target proteins in eukaryotes. Hundreds of CaM targets are known, and their respective cellular functions include signaling, metabolism, cytoskeletal regulation, and ion channel regulation, to name but a few. CaM is frequently modified after translation, including frequently trimethylation at a single amino acid, however, the role of this methylation is not known. Human patients with a homozygous deletion of the gene that methylates CaM, CaM-KMT, are known, but they also have a deletion of additional genes. Thus, to study the role of CaM–KMT, we produced a mouse model in which CaM-KMT is the only deleted gene, with the deletion constructed as in the human patients. The model proved to reveal the function of methylation of CaM, since CaM was found to be non-methylated and the methylation of CaM found to be important in growth, muscle strength, somatosensory development and brain function. The current study also has clinical implications for human patients. Patients presenting slow growth and muscle weakness that could result from a mitochondrial impairment and mental retardation should be considered for sequence analysis of the CaM KMT gene.
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- Sitvanit Haziza
- Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Genetic and Metabolic Diseases, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism Unit, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Pediatric Neuromuscular Laboratory and Pediatric Neurology Unit Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Pesticides and Mycotoxins Division, Aminolab, Weizmann Science Park, Ness Ziona, Israel
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- Pediatric Neuromuscular Laboratory and Pediatric Neurology Unit Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Institute of Neurology, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics and Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
- National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Ding XQ, Matveev A, Singh A, Komori N, Matsumoto H. Exploration of cone cyclic nucleotide-gated channel-interacting proteins using affinity purification and mass spectrometry. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2014; 801:57-65. [PMID: 24664681 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3209-8_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Photopic (cone) vision essential for color sensation, central vision, and visual acuity is mediated by the activation of photoreceptor cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels. Naturally occurring mutations in the cone channel subunits CNGA3 and CNGB3 are associated with achromatopsia and cone dystrophies. This work investigated the functional modulation of cone CNG channel by exploring the channel-interacting proteins. Retinal protein extracts prepared from cone-dominant Nrl (- / -) mice were used in CNGA3 antibody affinity purification, followed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) separation and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry analysis. The peptide mass fingerprinting of the tryptic digests and database search identified a number of proteins including spectrin alpha-2, ATPase (Na(+)/K(+) transporting) alpha-3, alpha and beta subunits of ATP synthase (H(+) transporting, mitochondrial F1 complex), and alpha-2 subunit of the guanine nucleotide-binding protein. In addition, the affinity-binding assays demonstrated an interaction between cone CNG channel and calmodulin but not cone Na(+)/Ca(2+)-K(+) exchanger in the mouse retina. Results of this study provide insight into our understanding of cone CNG channel-interacting proteins and the functional modulations.
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- Xi-Qin Ding
- Departments of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 940 Stanton L. Young Blvd., BMSB 553, 73104, Oklahoma City, OK, USA,
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Lanouette S, Mongeon V, Figeys D, Couture JF. The functional diversity of protein lysine methylation. Mol Syst Biol 2014; 10:724. [PMID: 24714364 PMCID: PMC4023394 DOI: 10.1002/msb.134974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Large‐scale characterization of post‐translational modifications (PTMs), such as phosphorylation, acetylation and ubiquitination, has highlighted their importance in the regulation of a myriad of signaling events. While high‐throughput technologies have tremendously helped cataloguing the proteins modified by these PTMs, the identification of lysine‐methylated proteins, a PTM involving the transfer of one, two or three methyl groups to the ε‐amine of a lysine side chain, has lagged behind. While the initial findings were focused on the methylation of histone proteins, several studies have recently identified novel non‐histone lysine‐methylated proteins. This review provides a compilation of all lysine methylation sites reported to date. We also present key examples showing the impact of lysine methylation and discuss the circuitries wired by this important PTM.
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- Sylvain Lanouette
- Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Bartholdi D, Asadollahi R, Oneda B, Schmitt-Mechelke T, Tonella P, Baumer A, Rauch A. Further delineation of genotype-phenotype correlation in homozygous 2p21 deletion syndromes: first description of patients without cystinuria. Am J Med Genet A 2013; 161A:1853-9. [PMID: 23794250 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/28/2013] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Homozygous contiguous gene deletion syndromes are rare. On 2p21, however, several overlapping homozygous gene deletion syndromes have been described, all presenting with cystinuria but otherwise distinct phenotypes. Hypotonia-cystinuria syndrome (HCS, OMIM606407) is characterized by infantile hypotonia, poor feeding, and growth hormone deficiency. Affected individuals carry homozygous deletions including the cystinuria gene SLC3A1 and the adjacent PREPL gene. Larger homozygous deletions in this region encompassing the PPM1B, SLC3A1, PREPL, and C2orf34 (CAMKMT) genes result in a more severe phenotype, the 2p21 deletion syndrome. A phenotype intermediate to HCS and the 2p21 deletion syndrome is termed atypical HCS and is caused by deletion of SLC3A1, PREPL, and C2orf34 (CAMKMT). Using high resolution SNP array molecular karyotyping we identified two siblings with a homozygous deletion of 83 kb partially encompassing the genes PREPL and C2orf34 (CAMKMT), but not the SLC3A1 gene. The affected siblings display a recognizable phenotype which is similar to atypical HCS with regard to growth failure and neuro-muscular features, but is characterized by lack of cystinuria. The patients also exhibit features which have not been reported to date such as cleft palate and genital abnormalities. In conclusion, we report the first patients with a homozygous 2p21 deletion syndrome without cystinuria and further delineate the complex genotype-phenotype correlations of homozygous microdeletion syndromes of this region.
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- Deborah Bartholdi
- Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Zurich, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland.
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Sivagurunathan S, Heaslip A, Liu J, Hu K. Identification of functional modules of AKMT, a novel lysine methyltransferase regulating the motility of Toxoplasma gondii. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2013; 189:43-53. [PMID: 23685344 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2013.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2013] [Revised: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii is a leading cause of congenital neurological defects. To cause disease, it must reiterate its lytic cycle through host cell invasion, replication, and parasite egress. This requires the parasite to sense changes in its environment and switch between the non-motile (for replication) and motile (for invasion and egress) states appropriately. Recently, we discovered a previously unknown mechanism of motility regulation in T. gondii, mediated by a lysine methyltransferase, AKMT (for Apical complex lysine (K) methyltransferase). When AKMT is absent, activation of motility is inhibited, which compromises parasite invasion and egress, and thus severely impairs the lytic cycle. Although the methyltransferase activity of AKMT has been established, the phylogenetic relationship of AKMT with other better studied lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) was not known. Also unknown was the functional relationships between different domains of AKMT. In this work we carried out phylogenetic analyses, which show that AKMT orthologs form a new subfamily of KMTs. We systematically generated truncation mutants of AKMT, and discovered that the predicted enzymatic domain alone is a very poor enzyme and cannot complement the function of AKMT in vivo. Interestingly, the N- and C-terminal domains of the AKMT have drastically different impacts on its enzyme activity, localization as well as in vivo function. Our results thus reveal that AKMT is an unusual, parasite-specific enzyme and identified regions and interactions within this novel lysine methyltransferase that can be used as drug targets.
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Human calmodulin methyltransferase: expression, activity on calmodulin, and Hsp90 dependence. PLoS One 2012; 7:e52425. [PMID: 23285036 PMCID: PMC3527508 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2012] [Accepted: 11/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Deletion of the first exon of calmodulin-lysine N-methyltransferase (CaM KMT, previously C2orf34) has been reported in two multigene deletion syndromes, but additional studies on the gene have not been reported. Here we show that in the cells from 2p21 deletion patients the loss of CaM KMT expression results in accumulation of hypomethylated calmodulin compared to normal controls, suggesting that CaM KMT is essential for calmodulin methylation and there are no compensatory mechanisms for CaM methylation in humans. We have further studied the expression of this gene at the transcript and protein levels. We have identified 2 additional transcripts in cells of the 2p21 deletion syndrome patients that start from alternative exons positioned outside the deletion region. One of them starts in the 2nd known exon, the other in a novel exon. The transcript starting from the novel exon was also identified in a variety of tissues from normal individuals. These new transcripts are not expected to produce proteins. Immunofluorescent localization of tagged CaM KMT in HeLa cells indicates that it is present in both the cytoplasm and nucleus of cells whereas the short isoform is localized to the Golgi apparatus. Using Western blot analysis we show that the CaM KMT protein is broadly expressed in mouse tissues. Finally we demonstrate that the CaM KMT interacts with the middle portion of the Hsp90 molecular chaperon and is probably a client protein since it is degraded upon treatment of cells with the Hsp90 inhibitor geldanamycin. These findings suggest that the CaM KMT is the major, possibly the single, methyltransferase of calmodulin in human cells with a wide tissue distribution and is a novel Hsp90 client protein. Thus our data provides basic information for a gene potentially contributing to the patient phenotype of two contiguous gene deletion syndromes.
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Utilization of a calmodulin lysine methyltransferase co-expression system for the generation of a combinatorial library of post-translationally modified proteins. Protein Expr Purif 2012; 86:83-8. [PMID: 23036357 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2012.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2012] [Revised: 09/20/2012] [Accepted: 09/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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By successfully incorporating sequence diversity into proteins, combinatorial libraries have been a staple technology used in protein engineering, directed evolution, and synthetic biology for generating proteins with novel specificities and activities. However, these approaches mostly overlook the incorporations of post-translational modifications, which nature extensively uses for modulating protein activities in vivo. As an initial step of incorporating post-translational modifications into combinatorial libraries, we present a bacterial co-expression system, utilizing a recently characterized calmodulin methyltransferase (CaM KMT), to trimethylate a combinatorial library of the calmodulin central linker region. We show that this system is robust, with the successful over-expression and post-translational modification performed in Escherichia coli. Furthermore we show that trimethylation differentially affected the conformational dynamics of the protein upon the binding of calcium, and the thermal stability of the apoprotein. Collectively, these data support that when applied to an appropriately designed protein library scaffold, CaM KMT is able to produce a post-translationally modified library of protein sequences, thus providing a powerful tool for future protein library designs and constructions.
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Matsumoto H. Proteomics of Drosophila compound eyes: early studies, now, and the future--light-induced protein phosphorylation as an example. J Neurogenet 2012; 26:118-22. [PMID: 22794103 DOI: 10.3109/01677063.2012.691923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In the past three decades, efforts to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying photoreceptor transduction of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster experienced drastic waves of technological development that involve multiple areas of scientific disciplines; the multidisciplinary approach includes a classical genetic manipulation in which random mutations are created and phenotypes are screened, a modern genetics maneuver in which a specific gene relevant to a hypothesis is molecularly cloned and manipulated, and, more recently, direct studies of proteins by proteomics technologies in combination with modern molecular biology and electrophysiology. This paper will review efforts that originated three decades ago in Professor William L. Pak's laboratory at Purdue University to study proteins involved in the Drosophila photoreceptor transduction process and show the power of such multidisciplinary approach that involves collaboration between molecular genetics, electrophysiology, and proteomics.
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- Hiroyuki Matsumoto
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
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Because of the availability of genome information combined with proteomics techniques, it is possible to determine the identity of a protein which had been isolated many years ago on a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and stored in a dry state as a data archive. The protocol described in this chapter will assist researchers who want to know the identity of a protein separated decades ago when no techniques were available to determine the identity of the protein.
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Egorova KS, Olenkina OM, Olenina LV. Lysine methylation of nonhistone proteins is a way to regulate their stability and function. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2010; 75:535-48. [PMID: 20632931 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297910050019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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This review is devoted to the dramatically expanding investigations of lysine methylation on nonhistone proteins and its functional importance. Posttranslational covalent modifications of proteins provide living organisms with ability to rapidly change protein activity and function in response to various stimuli. Enzymatic protein methylation at different lysine residues was evaluated in histones as a part of the "histone code". Histone methyltransferases methylate not only histones, but also many nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins. Recent data show that the regulatory role of lysine methylation on proteins is not restricted to the "histone code". This modification modulates activation, stabilization, and degradation of nonhistone proteins, thus influencing numerous cell processes. In this review we particularly focused on methylation of transcription factors and other nuclear nonhistone proteins. The methylated lysine residues serve as markers attracting nuclear "reader" proteins that possess different chromatin-modifying activities.
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- K S Egorova
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 123182, Russia
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Magnani R, Dirk LMA, Trievel RC, Houtz RL. Calmodulin methyltransferase is an evolutionarily conserved enzyme that trimethylates Lys-115 in calmodulin. Nat Commun 2010; 1:43. [PMID: 20975703 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2010] [Accepted: 06/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Calmodulin (CaM) is a key mediator of calcium-dependent signalling and is subject to regulatory post-translational modifications, including trimethylation of Lys-115. In this paper, we identify a class I, non-SET domain protein methyltransferase, calmodulin-lysine N-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.60). A polypeptide chosen from a fraction enriched in calmodulin methyltransferase activity was trypsinized and analysed by tandem mass spectrometry. The amino-acid sequence obtained identified conserved, homologous proteins of unknown function across a wide range of species, thus implicating a broad role for lysine methylation in calcium-dependent signalling. Encoded by c2orf34, the human homologue is a component of two related multigene deletion syndromes in humans. Human, rat, frog, insect and plant homologues were cloned and Escherichia coli-recombinant proteins catalysed the formation of a trimethyllysyl residue at position 115 in CaM, as verified by product analyses and mass spectrometry.
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- Roberta Magnani
- Department of Horticulture, Plant Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40546, USA
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Retinophilin is a light-regulated phosphoprotein required to suppress photoreceptor dark noise in Drosophila. J Neurosci 2010; 30:1238-49. [PMID: 20107052 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4464-09.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Photoreceptor cells achieve high sensitivity, reliably detecting single photons, while limiting the spontaneous activation events responsible for dark noise. We used proteomic, genetic, and electrophysiological approaches to characterize Retinophilin (RTP) (CG10233) in Drosophila photoreceptors and establish its involvement in dark-noise suppression. RTP possesses membrane occupation and recognition nexus (MORN) motifs, a structure shared with mammalian junctophilins and other membrane-associated proteins found within excitable cells. We show the MORN repeats, and both the N- and C-terminal domains, are required for RTP localization in the microvillar light-gathering organelle, the rhabdomere. RTP exists in multiple phosphorylated isoforms under dark conditions and is dephosphorylated by light exposure. An RTP deletion mutant exhibits a high rate of spontaneous membrane depolarization events in dark conditions but retains the normal kinetics of the light response. Photoreceptors lacking neither inactivation nor afterpotential C (NINAC) myosin III, a motor protein/kinase, also display a similar dark-noise phenotype as the RTP deletion. We show that NINAC mutants are depleted for RTP. These results suggest the increase in dark noise in NINAC mutants is attributable to lack of RTP and, furthermore, defines a novel role for NINAC in the rhabdomere. We propose that RTP is a light-regulated phosphoprotein that organizes rhabdomeric components to suppress random activation of the phototransduction cascade and thus increases the signaling fidelity of dark-adapted photoreceptors.
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Takemori N, Yamamoto MT. Proteome mapping of the Drosophila melanogaster male reproductive system. Proteomics 2009; 9:2484-93. [PMID: 19343724 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is an excellent model organism for studying insect reproductive biology. Although the gene expression profiles of both male and female reproductive organs have been studied in detail, their proteomic profiles and functional characteristics largely remained to be clarified. In this study, we conducted proteome mapping of the male internal reproductive organs using 2-DE. We identified a total of 440 protein components from gels of the male reproductive organs (testis, seminal vesicle, accessory gland, ejaculatory duct, and ejaculatory bulb). A number of proteins associated with odorant/pheromone-binding, lipid metabolism, proteolysis, and antioxidation were expressed tissue specifically in the male reproductive system. Based on our proteomic data set, we constructed reference proteome maps of the reproductive organs, which will provide valuable information toward a comprehensive understanding of Drosophila reproduction.
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- Nobuaki Takemori
- Drosophila Genetic Resource Center, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Saga Ippongi-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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