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Huerta-Ocampo JA, García-Muñoz MS, Velarde-Salcedo AJ, Hernández-Domínguez EE, González-Escobar JL, Barrera-Pacheco A, Grajales-Lagunes A, Barba de la Rosa AP. The proteome map of the escamolera ant (Liometopum apiculatum Mayr) larvae reveals immunogenic proteins and several hexamerin proteoforms. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY D-GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS 2018; 28:107-121. [PMID: 30149319 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2018.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2018] [Revised: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
Abstract
The larvae of escamolera ant (Liometopum apiculatum Mayr) have been considered a delicacy since Pre-Hispanic times. The increased demand for this stew has led to massive collection of ant nests. Yet biological aspects of L. apiculatum larvae remain unknown, and mapping the proteome of this species is important for understanding its biological characteristics. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis was used to characterize the larvae proteome profile. From 380 protein spots analyzed, 174 were identified by LC-MS/MS and homology search against the Hymenoptera subset of the NCBInr protein database using the Mascot search engine. Peptide de novo sequencing and homology-based alignment allowed the identification of 36 additional protein spots. Identified proteins were classified by cellular location, molecular function, and biological process according to the Gene Ontology annotation. Immunity- and defense-related proteins were identified including PPIases, FK506, PEBP, and chitinases. Several hexamerin proteoforms were identified and the cDNA of the most abundant protein detected in the 2-DE map was isolated and characterized. L. apiculatum hexamerin (LaHEX, GeneBank accession no. MH256667) contains an open reading frame of 2199 bp encoding a polypeptide of 733 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 82.41 kDa. LaHEX protein is more similar to HEX110 than HEX70 from Apis mellifera. Down-regulation of LaHEX was observed throughout ant development. This work represents the first proteome map as well as the first hexamerin characterized from L. apiculatum larvae.
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- José A Huerta-Ocampo
- IPICyT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C., Camino a la Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico; CONACYT-Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo A.C., Carretera a La Victoria Km 0.6, Edificio C, C.P 83304 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Av. Dr. Nava No.6, Zona Universitaria, C.P. 78200 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico
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- IPICyT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C., Camino a la Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico
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- IPICyT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C., Camino a la Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico
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- IPICyT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C., Camino a la Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico
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- IPICyT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C., Camino a la Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Av. Dr. Nava No.6, Zona Universitaria, C.P. 78200 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico.
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- IPICyT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C., Camino a la Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P, Mexico.
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Mutation of the conserved G66 residue in GS region decreased structural stability and activity of arginine kinase. Int J Biol Macromol 2018; 111:247-254. [PMID: 29325742 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Revised: 12/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Arginine kinase (AK) catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of arginine by ATP, yielding the phosphoarginine. Amino acid residues in the guanidine specificity (GS) region play important roles in the guanidine-recognition. However, little is known about roles of amino acid residue G66 in the GS region in proteins folding, activity and structural stability. In this study, a series of G66 mutations were constructed to investigate its roles in AK's structural stability and activity. Our studies revealed that mutations in this conserved site could cause pronounced loss of activity, conformational changes and structural stability. Spectroscopic experiments indicate that G66 mutations influences AK transition from the molten globule intermediate to the native state in folding process. These results provided herein may suggest that amino acid residue G66 may play a relatively important role in AK's activity and structural stability.
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Wu QY, Wei F, Zhu YY, Tong YX, Cao J, Zhou P, Li ZY, Zeng LY, Li F, Wang XY, Xu KL. Roles of amino acid residues H66 and D326 in the creatine kinase activity and structural stability. Int J Biol Macromol 2017; 107:512-520. [PMID: 28916380 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.09.020] [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: 07/18/2017] [Revised: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Creatine kinase (CK) is a key enzyme for cellular energy metabolism, catalyzing the reversible phosphoryl transfer from phosphocreatine to ADP in vertebrates. CK contains a pair of highly conserved amino acids (H66 and D326) which might play an important role in sustaining the compact structure of CK by linking its N- and C- terminal domains; however the mechanism is still unclear. In this study, spectroscopic, structural modeling and protein folding experiments suggested that D326A, H66P and H66P/D326A mutations led to disruption of the hydrogen bond between those two amino acid residues and form the partially unfolded state which made it easier to be inactivated and unfolded under environmental stresses, and more prone to form insoluble aggregates. The formation of insoluble aggregates would decrease levels of active CKs which may provide clues in CK deficiency disease. Moreover, these results indicated that the degree of synergism had closely relationship to the conformational changes of CK. Thus, our results provided clues for understanding the mechanism of amino acid residues outside the active site in regulating substrate synergism.
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- Qing-Yun Wu
- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China.
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- Blood Diseases Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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Fraga D, Aryal M, Hall JE, Rae E, Snider M. Characterization of the arginine kinase isoforms in Caenorhabditis elegans. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2015; 187:85-101. [PMID: 25981702 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2015.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2014] [Revised: 04/23/2015] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Phosphagen kinases (PKs) are well-studied enzymes involved in energy homeostasis in a wide range of animal, protozoan, and even some bacterial species. Recent genome efforts have allowed comparative work on the PKs to extend beyond the biochemistry of individual proteins to the comparative cellular physiology and examining of the role of all PK family members in an organism. The sequencing of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome and availability of sophisticated genetic tools within that system affords the opportunity to conduct a detailed physiological analysis of the PKs from a well known invertebrate for comparison with the extensive work conducted on vertebrate systems. As a first step in this effort we have carried out a detailed molecular genetic and biochemical characterization of the PKs in C. elegans. Our results reveal that C. elegans has five PK genes encoding arginine kinases that range in catalytic efficiency (kcat/KM(Arg)) from (3.1±0.6)×10(4) to (9±4)×10(5) M(-1) s(-1). This range is generally within the range seen for arginine kinases from a variety of species. Our molecular genetic and phylogenetic analysis reveals that the gene family has undergone extensive intron loss and gain within the suborder Rhabditina. In addition, within C. elegans we find evidence of gene duplication and loss. The analysis described here for the C. elegans AKs represents one of the most complete biochemical and molecular genetic analysis of a PK family within a genetically tractable invertebrate system and opens up the possibility of conducting detailed physiological comparisons with vertebrate systems using the sophisticated tools available with this model invertebrate system.
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- Dean Fraga
- Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, United States; Department of Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, United States.
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- Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, United States
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- Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, United States
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- Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, United States
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- Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, United States; Department of Chemistry, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, United States
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Geng HL, Bian MR, Liu Y, Cao J, Chen C, Wang ZY, Li ZY, Zeng LY, Wang XY, Wu QY, Xu KL. The D14 and R138 ion pair is involved in dimeric arginine kinase activity, structural stability and folding. Int J Biol Macromol 2014; 66:302-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2014.02.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2013] [Revised: 02/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wu QY, Guo HY, Geng HL, Ru BM, Cao J, Chen C, Zeng LY, Wang XY, Li F, Xu KL. T273 plays an important role in the activity and structural stability of arginine kinase. Int J Biol Macromol 2013; 63:21-8. [PMID: 24157705 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2013] [Revised: 10/11/2013] [Accepted: 10/14/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Arginine kinase (AK) is a key enzyme for cellular energy metabolism, catalyzing the reversible phosphoryl transfer from phosphoarginine to ADP in invertebrates. The amino acid residue C271 is involved in keeping AK's activity and constraining the orientation of the substrate arginine. However, the roles of the C271 interaction amino acid residues in AK's substrate synergism, activity and structural stability are still unclear. The crystal structure of AK implied that the amino acid residue T273 interacted with the residue C271 and might play vital roles in keeping AK's activity, substrate synergism and structural stability. The mutations T273G and T273A led to significantly loss of activity, obviously decreased of substrate synergism and structural stability. Furthermore, spectroscopic experiments indicated that mutations T273G and T273A impaired the structure of AK and led them to a partially unfolded state. The inability to fold to the functional state made the mutations prone to aggregate under environmental stresses. Moreover, the mutations T273S and T273D almost had no effects on AK's activity and structural stability. This study herein indicated that the residue T273 played key roles in AK's activity, substrate synergism and structural stability.
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- Qing-Yun Wu
- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China; Laboratory of Transplantation and Immunology, Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China; Laboratory of Transplantation and Immunology, Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurobiology, Xuzhou Medical College, 221002 Xuzhou, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Hematology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, No. 99 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou 221002, People's Republic of China.
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Ruth MR, Field CJ. The immune modifying effects of amino acids on gut-associated lymphoid tissue. J Anim Sci Biotechnol 2013; 4:27. [PMID: 23899038 PMCID: PMC3750756 DOI: 10.1186/2049-1891-4-27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The intestine and the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) are essential components of whole body immune defense, protecting the body from foreign antigens and pathogens, while allowing tolerance to commensal bacteria and dietary antigens. The requirement for protein to support the immune system is well established. Less is known regarding the immune modifying properties of individual amino acids, particularly on the GALT. Both oral and parenteral feeding studies have established convincing evidence that not only the total protein intake, but the availability of specific dietary amino acids (in particular glutamine, glutamate, and arginine, and perhaps methionine, cysteine and threonine) are essential to optimizing the immune functions of the intestine and the proximal resident immune cells. These amino acids each have unique properties that include, maintaining the integrity, growth and function of the intestine, as well as normalizing inflammatory cytokine secretion and improving T-lymphocyte numbers, specific T cell functions, and the secretion of IgA by lamina propria cells. Our understanding of this area has come from studies that have supplemented single amino acids to a mixed protein diet and measuring the effect on specific immune parameters. Future studies should be designed using amino acid mixtures that target a number of specific functions of GALT in order to optimize immune function in domestic animals and humans during critical periods of development and various disease states.
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- Megan R Ruth
- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, 4-126A Li Ka Shing Health Research Innovation Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada.
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Disrupting of E79 and K138 interaction is responsible for human muscle creatine kinase deficiency diseases. Int J Biol Macromol 2013; 54:216-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2012.12.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2012] [Revised: 12/16/2012] [Accepted: 12/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Li F, Wu QY, Wang XY. The amino acid residue L113 is involved in arginine kinase activity and structural stability. Int J Biol Macromol 2013; 52:198-205. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2012.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2012] [Revised: 09/13/2012] [Accepted: 09/14/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Wu QY, Li F, Wang XY, Xu KL. Evidence that the amino acid residue Ile121 is involved in arginine kinase activity and structural stability. Int J Biol Macromol 2012; 51:369-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2012.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2012] [Revised: 05/17/2012] [Accepted: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Shi X, Wang L, Zhou Z, Yang C, Gao Y, Wang L, Song L. The arginine kinase in Zhikong scallop Chlamys farreri is involved in immunomodulation. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2012; 37:270-278. [PMID: 22480717 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2012.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2012] [Revised: 03/14/2012] [Accepted: 03/15/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Arginine kinase (AK) catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of l-arginine to form phosphoarginine, and plays a critical role in energy metabolism in invertebrates. In the present study, a scallop AK gene was identified from Chlamys farreri with an open reading frame (ORF) of 1101bp encoding for a protein of 366 amino acids (designed as CfAK). An ATP-gua PtransN domain which was described as a guanidine substrate specificity domain (GS domain) and an ATP-gua Ptrans domian which was responsible for binding ATP, were both identified in CfAK. The mRNA transcripts of CfAK were detectable in haemocytes, hepatopancreas, adductor muscle, mantle, gill, kidney and gonad, with the highest expression level in the muscle and the lowest level in the hemocytes. The expression level of CfAK mRNA increased from fertilized eggs to eyebot, and reached the highest in the trochophore stage. The relative expression level of CfAK mRNA in muscle was up-regulated significantly after LPS (0.5mg/mL) stimulation, and reached the peak at 6h (5.2-fold, P<0.05). The activity of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in the supernatant of muscle homogenate increased significantly from 3.2U/mg at 0 h to 9.7 U/mg at 12h after LPS stimulation, while the concentration of nitric oxide (NO) in the supernatant of muscle homogenate began to increase at 3h (21.55 μmol/L), and reached the top concentration at 24h (42.27 μmol/L), then recovered to the normal level after 48 h. The recombinant protein of CfAK (rCfAK) expressed in Escherichia coli displayed Arginine kinase activity, and its apparent K(m) was 0.82 ± 0.11 and 1.24 ± 0.13 mM for L-arginine and ATP-Na, respectively. The results indicated that the CfAK was involved in energy production and utilization during the whole life process, and might refer to the immunomodulation process via altering the NO concentration and iNOS activity in scallop Chlamys farreri.
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- Xiaowei Shi
- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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Wang HR, Zhu WJ, Wang XY. Mechanism of inhibition of arginine kinase by flavonoids consistent with thermodynamics of docking simulation. Int J Biol Macromol 2011; 49:985-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2011.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2011] [Revised: 08/18/2011] [Accepted: 08/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Impact of intra-subunit interactions on the dimeric arginine kinase activity and structural stability. Int J Biol Macromol 2011; 49:822-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2011.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2011] [Revised: 07/23/2011] [Accepted: 07/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Wu QY, Li F, Wang XY, Chen ZJ. Impact of inter-subunit interactions on the dimeric arginine kinase activity and structural stability. Arch Biochem Biophys 2011; 512:61-8. [PMID: 21549684 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2011.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2011] [Revised: 04/20/2011] [Accepted: 04/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Arginine kinase (AK) is a key enzyme for cellular energy metabolism, catalyzing the reversible phosphoryl transfer from phosphoarginine to ADP in invertebrates. In this study, the inter-subunit hydrogen bonds between the Q53 and D200 and between D57 and D200 were disrupted to explore their roles in the activity and structural stability of Stichopus japonicus (S. japonicus) AK. Mutating Q53 and/or D57 to alanine (A) can cause pronounced loss of activity and substrate synergism, and cause distinct conformational changes. Spectroscopic experiments indicated that mutations destroying the inter-subunit hydrogen bonds impaired the structure of dimer AK, and resulted in a partially unfolded state. The inability to fold to the functional compact state made the mutants prone to be inactivated and aggregate under environmental stresses. Restoring hydrogen bonds in Q53E and D57E mutants could rescue the loss of activity and substrate synergism, and conformational changes. All those results suggested that the inter-subunit interactions played a key role in keeping the activity, substrate synergism and structural stability of dimer AK. The result herein may provide a clue in understanding the folding and self-assembly processes of oligomeric proteins.
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- Qing-Yun Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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Zhang W, Wan H, Jiang H, Zhao Y, Zhang X, Hu S, Wang Q. A transcriptome analysis of mitten crab testes (Eriocheir sinensis). Genet Mol Biol 2011; 34:136-41. [PMID: 21637557 PMCID: PMC3085360 DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572010005000099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2010] [Accepted: 06/15/2010] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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The identification of expressed genes involved in sexual precocity of the mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) is critical for a better understanding of its reproductive development. To this end, we constructed a cDNA library from the rapid developmental stage of testis of E. sinensis and sequenced 3,388 randomly picked clones. After processing, 2,990 high-quality expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were clustered into 2,415 unigenes including 307 contigs and 2,108 singlets, which were then compared to the NCBI non-redundant (nr) protein and nucleotide (nt) database for annotation with Blastx and Blastn, respectively. After further analysis, 922 unigenes were obtained with concrete annotations and 30 unigenes were found to have functions possibly related to the process of reproduction in male crabs – six transcripts relevant to spermatogenesis (especially Cyclin K and RecA homolog DMC1), two transcripts involved in nuclear protein transformation, two heat-shock protein genes, eleven transcription factor genes (a series of zinc-finger proteins), and nine cytoskeleton protein-related genes. Our results, besides providing valuable information related to crustacean reproduction, can also serve as a base for future studies of reproductive and developmental biology.
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- Wei Zhang
- School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Val65 plays an important role in the substrate synergism, structural stability and activity of arginine kinase. Int J Biol Macromol 2009; 45:393-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2009.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2009] [Revised: 06/29/2009] [Accepted: 06/30/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Wu XQ, Zhu WJ, Lü ZR, Xia Y, Yang JM, Zou F, Wang XY. The effect of rutin on arginine kinase: Inhibition kinetics and thermodynamics merging with docking simulation. Int J Biol Macromol 2009; 44:149-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2008.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2008] [Revised: 11/15/2008] [Accepted: 11/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wu QY, Li F, Wang XY. Evidence that the amino acid residue P272 of arginine kinase is involved in its activity, structure and stability. Int J Biol Macromol 2008; 43:367-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2008.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2008] [Revised: 07/14/2008] [Accepted: 07/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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