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Yang L, Li X, Wu Y, Zhang J, Li W, Wang Q. Iron regulatory protein is involved in the immune defense of the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2019; 89:632-640. [PMID: 30995542 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2019.04.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2018] [Revised: 04/04/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Iron homeostasis is vital to organismal health; it is maintained by the iron regulatory protein (IRP)-iron-responsive element (IRE) signaling pathway. In the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis, EsFer-1 and EsFer-2 reportedly have a putative IRE, but an IRP has not yet been identified. In this study, we successfully amplified the full-length cDNA of EsIRP using gene cloning and rapid amplification of cDNA ends techniques. The length of this cDNA was 4474 bp, and it included a 2682-bp open reading frame encoding 893 amino acids. Using quantitative real-time PCR, mRNA transcripts of EsIRP were detected in various tissues. The highest and lowest expression level was detected in the muscle and gills, respectively. In response to Staphylococcus aureus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus challenge, the transcription level of EsIRP was downregulated and that of EsFer-1 and EsFer-2 was upregulated in hemocytes. EsIRP knockdown resulted in increased expression of both EsFer-1 and EsFer-2. After EsFer-1 and EsFer-2 knockdown, the bacterial clearance ability of E. sinensis against S. aureus and V. parahaemolyticus was impaired. In conclusion, our results suggest that the IRP-IRE signaling pathway plays an important role in the innate immune system response in E. sinensis.
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- Lei Yang
- Laboratory of Invertebrate Immunological Defense and Reproductive Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Invertebrate Immunological Defense and Reproductive Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Invertebrate Immunological Defense and Reproductive Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Invertebrate Immunological Defense and Reproductive Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Invertebrate Immunological Defense and Reproductive Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Invertebrate Immunological Defense and Reproductive Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
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Bonnah RA, Muckenthaler MU, Carlson H, Minana B, Enns CA, Hentze MW, So M. Expression of epithelial cell iron-related genes upon infection by Neisseria meningitidis. Cell Microbiol 2004; 6:473-84. [PMID: 15056217 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00376.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Infection by the obligate human pathogens Neisseria meningitidis (MC) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) reduces the expression of host epithelial cell transferrin receptor 1 (TfR-1) (Bonnah et al., 2000, Cellular Microbiology 2: 207-218). In addition, the rate and pattern of TfR-1 cycling is altered, leading to diminished uptake of Tf-iron by infected host cells. As Tf-iron is important for maintaining iron homeostasis in the eukaryotic cell, these findings raised the possibility that Neisseria infection might affect further pathways of epithelial cell iron metabolism. We used a specialized cDNA microarray platform, the 'IronChip', to investigate the expression of genes involved in iron transport, storage and regulation. We show that mRNA expression of several host genes involved in iron homeostasis is altered. Surprisingly, the general mRNA expression profile of infected cells closely resembled that of uninfected cells grown in an iron-limited environment. An important exception to this profile is TfR-1, the mRNA level of which is strongly reduced. Low TfR-1 expression may be explained in part by decreased activity of the iron-regulatory proteins (IRPs) in MC-infected cells, which may result in the destabilization of TfR-1 mRNA. Intriguingly, low IRP activity contrasts with the decrease in H-ferritin protein levels in infected cells. This finding suggests that low IRP activity may be responsible in part for the decrease in TfR-1 mRNA levels. A discussion of these novel findings in relation to MC infection and virulence is provided.
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- Robert A Bonnah
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA
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Muckenthaler M, Richter A, Gunkel N, Riedel D, Polycarpou-Schwarz M, Hentze S, Falkenhahn M, Stremmel W, Ansorge W, Hentze MW. Relationships and distinctions in iron-regulatory networks responding to interrelated signals. Blood 2003; 101:3690-8. [PMID: 12393473 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-07-2140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Specialized cDNA-based microarrays (IronChips) were developed to investigate complex physiological gene-regulatory patterns in iron metabolism. Approximately 115 human cDNAs were strategically selected to represent genes involved either in iron metabolism or in interlinked pathways (eg, oxidative stress, nitric oxide [NO] metabolism, or copper metabolism), and were immobilized on glass slides. HeLa cells were treated with iron donors or iron chelators, or were subjected to oxidative stress (H(2)O(2)) or NO (sodium nitroprusside). In addition, we generated a stable transgenic HeLa cell line expressing the HFE gene under an inducible promoter. Gene-response patterns were recorded for all of these interrelated experimental stimuli, and analyzed for common and distinct responses that define signal-specific regulatory patterns. The resulting regulatory patterns reveal and define degrees of relationship between distinct signals. Remarkably, the gene responses elicited by the altered expression of the hemochromatosis protein HFE and by pharmacological iron chelation exhibit the highest degree of relatedness, both for iron-regulatory protein (IRP) and non-IRP target genes. This finding suggests that HFE expression directly affects the intracellular chelatable iron pool in the transgenic cell line. Furthermore, cells treated with the iron donors hemin or ferric ammonium citrate display response patterns that permit the identification of the iron-loaded state in both cases, and the discrimination between the sources of iron loading. These findings also demonstrate the broad utility of gene-expression profiling with the IronChip to study iron metabolism and related human diseases.
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The sideroblastic anemias are a heterogeneous group of acquired and inherited bone marrow disorders defined by the presence of pathologic iron deposits in erythroblast mitochondria. While the pathogenesis of almost all cases of acquired sideroblastic anemia is unknown, the molecular genetic basis for several of the inherited forms have now been described. Initially, mutations in ALAS2 in X-linked sideroblastic anemia (XLSA) focused attention on the heme biosynthetic pathway as a primary cause of sideroblastic anemia. However, the subsequent description of the genes involved in XLSA with ataxia, thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia, and Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome have implicated other pathways, including mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, thiamine metabolism, and iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis, as primary defects in sideroblastic anemias that may only secondarily impact heme metabolism.
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- Mark D Fleming
- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Berg K. Chapter 8 Basic principles of 5-aminolevulinic acid-based photodynamic therapy. COMPREHENSIVE SERIES IN PHOTOSCIENCES 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s1568-461x(01)80112-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Levy JE, Montross LK, Andrews NC. Genes that modify the hemochromatosis phenotype in mice. J Clin Invest 2000; 105:1209-16. [PMID: 10791995 PMCID: PMC315447 DOI: 10.1172/jci9635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a prevalent human disease caused by a mutation in HFE, which encodes an atypical HLA class I protein involved in regulation of intestinal iron absorption. To gain insight into the pathogenesis of hemochromatosis, we have bred Hfe knockout mice to strains carrying other mutations that impair normal iron metabolism. Compound mutant mice lacking both Hfe and its interacting protein, beta-2 microglobulin (B2m), deposit more tissue iron than mice lacking Hfe only, suggesting that another B2m-interacting protein may be involved in iron regulation. Hfe knockout mice carrying mutations in the iron transporter DMT1 fail to load iron, indicating that hemochromatosis involves iron flux through DMT1. Similarly, compound mutants deficient in both Hfe and hephaestin (Heph) show less iron loading than do Hfe knockout mice, indicating that iron absorption in hemochromatosis involves the function of Heph as well. Finally, compound mutants lacking Hfe and the transferrin receptor accumulate more tissue iron than do mice lacking Hfe alone, consistent with the idea that interaction between these two proteins contributes to the control of normal iron absorption. In addition to providing insight into the pathogenesis of HH, our results suggest that each of these genes might be a candidate modifier of the human hemochromatosis phenotype.
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- J E Levy
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Myelin basic protein (MBP) plays an essential adhesive role in the formation of compact myelin in the central nervous system (CNS), but not in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Morphologic data suggest that MBP controls the number of cytoplasmic channels or Schmidt-Lanterman incisures (SLI) present in PNS myelin. The levels of connexin-32 (Cx32) and myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), two components of the incisures, are inversely proportional to the levels of MBP in sciatic nerves of mice affected by the shiverer (shi) mutation, while protein zero (P0) and peripheral membrane protein 22 (PMP22), two structural components of compact myelin, remain constant. The levels of P0, PMP22, Cx32, and MAG mRNA do not vary in relationship to the levels of MBP. This indicates that MBP exerts its effect on Cx32 and MAG at a posttranscriptional level and suggests a new function for MBP in regulating gene expression in the PNS.
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- C Smith-Slatas
- Department of Neurology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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Huang TS, Melefors O, Lind MI, Söderhäll K. An atypical iron-responsive element (IRE) within crayfish ferritin mRNA and an iron regulatory protein 1 (IRP1)-like protein from crayfish hepatopancreas. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 29:1-9. [PMID: 10070739 DOI: 10.1016/s0965-1748(98)00097-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A putative crayfish iron-responsive element (IRE) is present in the 5'-untranslated region of the crayfish ferritin mRNA. The putative crayfish IRE is in a cap-proximal position and shares most of the structural features of the consensus IRE, but the RNA stem-loop structure contains a bulge of a guanine instead of a cytosine at the expected position, so far thought to be a hallmark of IREs. By using an electromobility shift assay this IRE was shown to specifically bind purified recombinant human iron regulatory protein 1 (IRP1) as well as a factor(s) present in a homogenate of crayfish hepatopancreas, likely to be a crayfish IRP1 homologue. With mutations in the crayfish IRE, the affinity of IRP to IRE was drastically decreased. A cDNA encoding an IRP1-like protein was cloned from the hepatopancreas of crayfish. This protein has sequence similarities to IRP, and contains all the active-site residues of aconitase, two putative RNA-binding regions and a putative contact site between RNA and IRP. These results show that a crayfish IRE, lacking the bulged C, can bind IRP1 in vitro and that an IRP1-like protein present in crayfish hepatopancreas may have both aconitase and RNA-binding activities.
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- T S Huang
- Department of Physiological Mycology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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Lind MI, Ekengren S, Melefors O, Söderhäll K. Drosophila ferritin mRNA: alternative RNA splicing regulates the presence of the iron-responsive element. FEBS Lett 1998; 436:476-82. [PMID: 9801172 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01186-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Several mRNAs encoding the same ferritin subunit of Drosophila melanogaster were identified. Alternative RNA splicing and utilisation of different polyadenylation sites were found to generate the transcripts. The alternative RNA splicing results in ferritin transcripts with four unique 5' untranslated regions. Only one of them contains an iron-responsive element. The iron-responsive element was found to bind in vitro specifically to human recombinant iron regulatory protein 1. Furthermore, the ferritin subunit mRNAs are differentially expressed during development. Our data provides the first molecular evidence that the presence of iron-responsive element in a ferritin mRNA is regulated by alternative RNA splicing.
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- M I Lind
- Department of Physiological Mycology, Uppsala University, Sweden
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