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Dean AE, Jungwirth E, Panzitt K, Wagner M, Anakk S. Hepatic farnesoid X receptor is necessary to facilitate ductular reaction and expression of heme biosynthetic genes. Hepatol Commun 2023; 7:e0213. [PMID: 37695073 PMCID: PMC10497251 DOI: 10.1097/hc9.0000000000000213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Bile, which contains bile acids, the natural ligands for farnesoid x receptor (FXR), moves from the liver to the intestine through bile ducts. Ductular reaction often occurs during biliary obstruction. A subset of patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria, an inherited genetic mutation in heme biosynthetic enzyme ferrochelatase, accumulate porphyrin-containing bile plugs, leading to cholestasis. Here, we examined the link between FXR, bile plug formation, and how heme biosynthesis relates to this connection. METHODS We treated female and male wild-type and global and tissue-specific Fxr knockout mice with a diet containing 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine, an inhibitor of ferrochelatase, and examined the expression of heme biosynthetic genes. We mined FXR mouse ChIP-Seq data, performed biochemical and histological analysis, and tested HepG2 and primary human hepatocytes after treatment with obeticholic acid, an FXR agonist. RESULTS We observed that hepatic but not intestinal Fxr loss resulted in reduced bile plugs and ductular reaction in the liver. Then, we examined if FXR plays a regulatory role in heme biosynthesis and found significantly lower porphyrin accumulation in 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1, 4-dihydrocollidine-fed Fxr knockout mice. Gene expression and FXR mouse ChIP-Seq atlas analysis revealed that FXR orchestrates the expression of multiple heme biosynthetic enzymes. Finally, human HepG2 cells and primary human hepatocytes treated with obeticholic acid, showed increased expression of several heme biosynthetic genes. CONCLUSIONS Overall, our data show that hepatic Fxr is necessary to maintain ductular reaction and accumulation of bile plugs. FXR can direct the expression of multiple heme biosynthetic genes. Thus, modulating FXR activity in EPP patients may help alleviate its associated liver disease.
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- Angela E. Dean
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Research Unit for Translational Nuclear Receptor Research, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Research Unit for Translational Nuclear Receptor Research, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Research Unit for Translational Nuclear Receptor Research, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
- Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Fukunaga S, Ogata K, Eguchi A, Matsunaga K, Sakurai K, Abe J, Cohen SM, Asano H. Evaluation of the mode of action and human relevance of liver tumors in male mice treated with epyrifenacil. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 2022; 136:105268. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2022.105268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Complex response to physiological and drug-induced hepatic heme demand in monoallelic ALAS1 mice. Mol Genet Metab Rep 2021; 29:100818. [PMID: 34900592 PMCID: PMC8639769 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2021.100818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Regulation of 5-aminolevulinate synthase 1 (ALAS1) for nonerythroid heme is critical for respiration, cell signaling mechanisms and steroid/drug metabolism. ALAS1 is induced in some genetic disorders but unlike other genes in the heme pathway, a gene variant of ALAS1 associated with inherited disease has not been reported. BALB/c mice carrying a null ALAS1 allele caused by a βGEO insert were developed and used to determine the consequences of heme demand of a semi gene copy number. Homozygous disruption of ALAS1 (−/−) was lethal for embryo development post day 6.5 but expression in heterozygotes (+/−) was sufficient for the number of offspring and survival. In both wild type (WT +/+) and +/− mice expression of ALAS1 RNA was greatest in liver and harderian gland and much lower in kidney, lung, heart, brain and spleen. The effects of one WT ALAS1 allele in +/− mice on mRNA levels in liver and harderian gland were less marked compared to brain and other organs that were examined. Many other genes were up-regulated by heterozygosity in liver and brain but to a minimal extent. Hepatic heme oxygenase 1 (HMOX1) mRNA expression was significantly lower in +/− mice but not in brain. No elevated translation of WT allele ALAS1 mRNA was detected in +/− liver as a compensatory mechanism for the disabled allele. Fasting induced ALAS1 mRNA in both WT and +/− mice but only in +/− was this manifest as increased ALAS1 protein. The hepatic protoporphyria-inducing drug 4-ethyl-DDC caused induction of hepatic ALAS1 mRNA and protein levels in both WT and +/− mice but markedly less in the mice with only one intact allele. The findings illustrate the complex response of ALAS1 expression for heme demand but limited evidence that upregulation of a wild type allele can compensate for a null allele.
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Key Words
- 4-ethyl-DDC, 4-ethyl-3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-dihydropyridine
- AIP, acute intermittent porphyria
- ALAS1, aminolevulinate synthase 1
- Aminolevulinic acid synthase 1
- Compensation, complex regulation
- FECH, ferrochetalase
- HMOX1, heme oxygenase 1
- Hepatic response
- PCR, polymerase chain reaction
- Semi null mice
- WT, wild type
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Liu Y, Trnka MJ, Guan S, Kwon D, Kim DH, Chen JJ, Greer PA, Burlingame AL, Correia MA. A Novel Mechanism for NF-κB-activation via IκB-aggregation: Implications for Hepatic Mallory-Denk-Body Induced Inflammation. Mol Cell Proteomics 2020; 19:1968-1986. [PMID: 32912968 PMCID: PMC7710137 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.ra120.002316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mallory-Denk-bodies (MDBs) are hepatic protein aggregates associated with inflammation both clinically and in MDB-inducing models. Similar protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases also triggers inflammation and NF-κB activation. However, the precise mechanism that links protein aggregation to NF-κB-activation and inflammatory response remains unclear. Herein we find that treating primary hepatocytes with MDB-inducing agents (N-methylprotoporphyrin (NMPP), protoporphyrin IX (PPIX), or Zinc-protoporphyrin IX (ZnPP)) elicited an IκBα-loss with consequent NF-κB activation. Four known mechanisms of IκBα-loss i.e. the canonical ubiquitin-dependent proteasomal degradation (UPD), autophagic-lysosomal degradation, calpain degradation and translational inhibition, were all probed and excluded. Immunofluorescence analyses of ZnPP-treated cells coupled with 8 M urea/CHAPS-extraction revealed that this IκBα-loss was due to its sequestration along with IκBβ into insoluble aggregates, thereby releasing NF-κB. Through affinity pulldown, proximity biotinylation by antibody recognition, and other proteomic analyses, we verified that NF-κB subunit p65, which stably interacts with IκBα under normal conditions, no longer binds to it upon ZnPP-treatment. Additionally, we identified 10 proteins that interact with IκBα under baseline conditions, aggregate upon ZnPP-treatment, and maintain the interaction with IκBα after ZnPP-treatment, either by cosequestering into insoluble aggregates or through a different mechanism. Of these 10 proteins, the nucleoporins Nup153 and Nup358/RanBP2 were identified through RNA-interference, as mediators of IκBα-nuclear import. The concurrent aggregation of IκBα, NUP153, and RanBP2 upon ZnPP-treatment, synergistically precluded the nuclear entry of IκBα and its consequent binding and termination of NF-κB activation. This novel mechanism may account for the protein aggregate-induced inflammation observed in liver diseases, thus identifying novel targets for therapeutic intervention. Because of inherent commonalities this MDB cell model is a bona fide protoporphyric model, making these findings equally relevant to the liver inflammation associated with clinical protoporphyria.
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- Yi Liu
- Departments of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Departments of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Departments of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; The Liver Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Brewer CT, Yang L, Edwards A, Lu Y, Low J, Wu J, Lee RE, Chen T. The Isoniazid Metabolites Hydrazine and Pyridoxal Isonicotinoyl Hydrazone Modulate Heme Biosynthesis. Toxicol Sci 2019; 168:209-224. [PMID: 30517741 PMCID: PMC6390808 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfy294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In a mouse model, rifampicin and isoniazid combination treatment results in cholestatic liver injury that is associated with an increase in protoporphyrin IX, the penultimate heme precursor. Both ferrochelatase (FECH/Fech) and aminolevulinic acid synthase 1 (ALAS1/Alas1) are crucial enzymes in regulating heme biosynthesis. Isoniazid has recently been reported to upregulate Alas1 but downregulate Fech protein levels in mice; however, the mechanism by which isoniazid mediates disruption of heme synthesis has been unclear. Two metabolites of isoniazid, pyridoxal isonicotinoyl hydrazone (PIH, the isoniazid-vitamin B6 conjugate) and hydrazine, have been detected in the urine of humans treated with isoniazid. Here we show that, in primary human hepatocytes and the human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line HepG2/C3A, (1) isoniazid treatment increases Alas1 protein levels but decreases Fech levels; (2) hydrazine treatment upregulates Alas1 protein and Alas1 mRNA levels; (3) PIH treatment decreases Fech protein levels, but not Fech mRNA levels; and (4) PIH is detected after isoniazid treatment, with levels increasing further when exogenous vitamin B6 analogs are coadministered. In addition, the PIH-mediated downregulation of human FECH is associated with iron chelation. Together, these data demonstrate that hydrazine upregulates ALAS1, whereas PIH downregulates FECH, suggesting that the metabolites of isoniazid mediate its disruption of heme biosynthesis by contributing to protoporphyrin IX accumulation.
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- Christopher Trent Brewer
- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
- Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
- Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163
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Heck CJS, Hamlin AN, Bumpus NN. Efavirenz and Efavirenz-like Compounds Activate Human, Murine, and Macaque Hepatic IRE1 α-XBP1. Mol Pharmacol 2018; 95:183-195. [PMID: 30442673 DOI: 10.1124/mol.118.113647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/02/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Efavirenz (EFV), a widely used antiretroviral drug, is associated with idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity and dyslipidemia. Here we demonstrate that EFV stimulates the activation in primary hepatocytes of key cell stress regulators: inositol-requiring 1α (IRE1α) and X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1). Following EFV exposure, XBP1 splicing (indicating activation) was increased 35.7-fold in primary human hepatocytes. In parallel, XBP1 splicing and IRE1α phosphorylation (p-IRE1α, active IRE1α) were elevated 36.4-fold and 4.9-fold, respectively, in primary mouse hepatocytes. Of note, with EFV treatment, 47.2% of mouse hepatocytes were apoptotic; which was decreased to 23.9% in the presence of STF 083010, an inhibitor of XBP1 splicing. Experiments performed using pregnane X receptor (PXR)-null mouse hepatocytes revealed that EFV-mediated XBP1 splicing and hepatocyte death were not dependent on PXR, which is a nuclear receptor transcription factor that plays a crucial role in the cellular response to xenobiotics. Interestingly, incubation with the primary metabolite of EFV, 8-hydroxyefavirenz (8-OHEFV), only resulted in 10.3- and 2.9-fold increased XBP1 splicing in human and mouse hepatocytes and no change in levels of p-IRE1α in mouse hepatocytes. To further probe the structure-activity relationship of IRE1α-XBP1 activation by EFV, 16 EFV analogs were employed. Of these, an analog in which the EFV alkyne is replaced with an alkene and an analog in which the oxazinone oxygen is replaced by a carbon stimulated XBP1 splicing in human, mouse, and macaque hepatocytes. These data demonstrate that EFV and compounds sharing the EFV scaffold can activate IRE1α-XBP1 across human, mouse, and macaque species.
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- Carley J S Heck
- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences (C.J.S.H., N.N.B.) and Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology (A.N.H., N.N.B.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences (C.J.S.H., N.N.B.) and Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology (A.N.H., N.N.B.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences (C.J.S.H., N.N.B.) and Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology (A.N.H., N.N.B.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Smith AG, Foster JR. The association between chemical-induced porphyria and hepatic cancer. Toxicol Res (Camb) 2018; 7:647-663. [PMID: 30090612 PMCID: PMC6060669 DOI: 10.1039/c8tx00019k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The haem biosynthetic pathway is of fundamental importance for cellular metabolism both for the erythroid and nonerythroid tissues. There are several genetic variants of the pathway in the human population that cause dysfunction of one or other of the enzymes resulting in porphyrias of varying severity. Serious chronic hepatic and systemic diseases may result. Some of these can be precipitated by exposure to drugs including hormones, barbiturates and antibiotics, as well as alcohol and particular chlorinated aromatic chemicals. In experimental animals some of the steps of this pathway can also be severely disrupted by a variety of environmental chemicals, potential drugs and pesticides, especially in the liver, leading to the accumulation of uroporphyrins derived from the intermediate uroporphyrinogens or protoporphyrin IX, the immediate precursor of haem. With some of these chemicals this also leads to cholestasis and liver cell injury and eventually hepatic tumours. The review evaluates the available evidence linking hepatic porphyria with carcinogenesis in naturally occurring human genetic conditions and in chemically-induced porphyrias in laboratory animals. The existing data showing gender, strain, and species differences in sensitivity to the chemical-induced porphyrias, liver injury and liver tumours are discussed and the role that transgenically altered mouse models have played in defining the varying mechanisms. Finally, the review proposes a novel, unifying hypothesis linking the hepatotoxicity induced by the accumulation of various porphyrins, with the increased risk of developing hepatic cancer as a long term consequence.
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- Andrew G Smith
- MRC Toxicology Unit , Hodgkin Building , University of Leicester , Lancaster Road , Leicester LE2 4UA , UK .
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- ToxPath Sciences Ltd , 1 Troutbeck Avenue , Congleton , Cheshire , CW12 4JA , UK
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Wang P, Sachar M, Guo GL, Shehu AI, Lu J, Zhong XB, Ma X. Liver metabolomics in a mouse model of erythropoietic protoporphyria. Biochem Pharmacol 2018; 154:474-481. [PMID: 29906468 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2018.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is a genetic disease that results from the defective mutation in the gene encoding ferrochelatase (FECH), the enzyme that converts protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) to heme. Liver injury and even liver failure can occur in EPP patients because of PPIX accumulation in the liver. The current study profiled the liver metabolome in an EPP mouse model caused by a Fech mutation (Fech-mut). As expected, we observed the accumulation of PPIX in the liver of Fech-mut mice. In addition, our metabolomic analysis revealed the accumulation of bile acids and ceramide (Cer) in the liver of Fech-mut mice. High levels of bile acids and Cer are toxic to the liver. Furthermore, we found that the major phosphatidylcholines (PC) in the liver and the ratio of total PC to PPIX in the bile were decreased in Fech-mut mice compared to wild type mice. A decrease of the ratio of PC to PPIX in the bile can potentiate the accumulation of PPIX in the liver because PC increases PPIX solubility and excretion. These metabolomic findings suggest that the accumulation of PPIX, together with the disruption of the homeostasis of bile acids, Cer, and PC, contributes to EPP-associated liver injury.
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- Pengcheng Wang
- Center for Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Center for Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Center for Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Center for Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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Elenbaas JS, Maitra D, Liu Y, Lentz SI, Nelson B, Hoenerhoff MJ, Shavit JA, Omary MB. A precursor-inducible zebrafish model of acute protoporphyria with hepatic protein aggregation and multiorganelle stress. FASEB J 2016; 30:1798-810. [PMID: 26839379 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201500111r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2015] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Protoporphyria is a metabolic disease that causes excess production of protoporphyrin IX (PP-IX), the final biosynthetic precursor to heme. Hepatic PP-IX accumulation may lead to end-stage liver disease. We tested the hypothesis that systemic administration of porphyrin precursors to zebrafish larvae results in protoporphyrin accumulation and a reproducible nongenetic porphyria model. Retro-orbital infusion of PP-IX or the iron chelator deferoxamine mesylate (DFO), with the first committed heme precursor α-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), generates high levels of PP-IX in zebrafish larvae. Exogenously infused or endogenously produced PP-IX accumulates preferentially in the liver of zebrafish larvae and peaks 1 to 3 d after infusion. Similar to patients with protoporphyria, PP-IX is excreted through the biliary system. Porphyrin accumulation in zebrafish liver causes multiorganelle protein aggregation as determined by mass spectrometry and immunoblotting. Endoplasmic reticulum stress and induction of autophagy were noted in zebrafish larvae and corroborated in 2 mouse models of protoporphyria. Furthermore, electron microscopy of zebrafish livers from larvae administered ALA + DFO showed hepatocyte autophagosomes, nuclear membrane ruffling, and porphyrin-containing vacuoles with endoplasmic reticulum distortion. In conclusion, systemic administration of the heme precursors PP-IX or ALA + DFO into zebrafish larvae provides a new model of acute protoporphyria with consequent hepatocyte protein aggregation and proteotoxic multiorganelle alterations and stress.-Elenbaas, J. S., Maitra, D., Liu, Y., Lentz, S. I., Nelson, B., Hoenerhoff, M. J., Shavit, J. A., Omary, M. B. A precursor-inducible zebrafish model of acute protoporphyria with hepatic protein aggregation and multiorganelle stress.
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
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- In-Vivo Animal Core, Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; and
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Department of Internal Medicine, and Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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White C, Yuan X, Schmidt PJ, Bresciani E, Samuel TK, Campagna D, Hall C, Bishop K, Calicchio ML, Lapierre A, Ward DM, Liu P, Fleming MD, Hamza I. HRG1 is essential for heme transport from the phagolysosome of macrophages during erythrophagocytosis. Cell Metab 2013; 17:261-70. [PMID: 23395172 PMCID: PMC3582031 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2013.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2012] [Revised: 12/10/2012] [Accepted: 01/11/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Adult humans have about 25 trillion red blood cells (RBCs), and each second we recycle about 5 million RBCs by erythrophagocytosis (EP) in macrophages of the reticuloendothelial system. Despite the central role for EP in mammalian iron metabolism, the molecules and pathways responsible for heme trafficking during EP remain unknown. Here, we show that the mammalian homolog of HRG1, a transmembrane heme permease in C. elegans, is essential for macrophage iron homeostasis and transports heme from the phagolysosome to the cytoplasm during EP. HRG1 is strongly expressed in macrophages of the reticuloendothelial system and specifically localizes to the phagolysosomal membranes during EP. Depletion of Hrg1 in mouse macrophages causes attenuation of heme transport from the phagolysosomal compartment. Importantly, missense polymorphisms in human HRG1 are defective in heme transport. Our results reveal HRG1 as the long-sought heme transporter for heme-iron recycling in macrophages and suggest that genetic variations in HRG1 could be modifiers of human iron metabolism.
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- Carine White
- Department of Animal and Avian Sciences and Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Lämsä V, Levonen AL, Sormunen R, Yamamoto M, Hakkola J. Heme and heme biosynthesis intermediates induce heme oxygenase-1 and cytochrome P450 2A5, enzymes with putative sequential roles in heme and bilirubin metabolism: different requirement for transcription factor nuclear factor erythroid- derived 2-like 2. Toxicol Sci 2012; 130:132-44. [PMID: 22859313 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cytochrome P450 2A5 (CYP2A5) oxidizes bilirubin to biliverdin and represents a putative candidate for maintaining bilirubin at safe but adequate antioxidant levels. Curiously, CYP2A5 is induced by both excessive heme and chemicals that inhibit heme synthesis. We hypothesized that heme homeostasis is a key modifier of Cyp2a5 expression via transcription factor nuclear factor erythroid-derived 2-like 2 (Nrf2) and characterized the coordination of CYP2A5 and heme oxygenase-1 (HMOX1) responses using wild-type and Nrf2(-/-) primary mouse hepatocytes. HMOX1 was rapidly elevated by exogenous hemin, thereby limiting the transactivation of Cyp2a5 until high heme (> 5µM) exposure. Nrf2 was mandatory for CYP2A5 but not for HMOX1 induction by heme. CYP2A5 was intensively and HMOX1 moderately elevated in heme synthesis blockades by succinylacetone and N-methyl protoporphyrin IX, and Nrf2 partially mediated the induction of CYP2A5. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that CYP2A5 is targeted Nrf2 dependently both to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria. However, excessive heme increased CYP2A5 predominantly in the ER. Phenobarbital, dibutyryl-cAMP, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator-1α (PGC-1α) overexpression stimulate heme biosynthesis and induce CYP2A5. Acute but not chronic CYP2A5 induction by phenobarbital required Nrf2, whereas CYP2A5 induction by dibutyryl-cAMP and PGC-1α was potentiated by Nrf2 knockout. Collectively, heme homeostasis is established as a crucial regulator of hepatic Cyp2a5 expression mediated via Nrf2 activation, whereas Nrf2 is redundant for Hmox1 induction by heme. Similar subcellular targeting and coordination of CYP2A5 and HMOX1 responses suggest favorable conditions for enhanced CYP2A5-mediated bilirubin maintenance in altered heme homeostasis that predisposes to oxidative stress.
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- Virpi Lämsä
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
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Singla A, Moons DS, Snider NT, Wagenmaker ER, Jayasundera VB, Omary MB. Oxidative stress, Nrf2 and keratin up-regulation associate with Mallory-Denk body formation in mouse erythropoietic protoporphyria. Hepatology 2012; 56:322-31. [PMID: 22334478 PMCID: PMC3389581 DOI: 10.1002/hep.25664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2011] [Accepted: 01/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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UNLABELLED Mallory-Denk bodies (MDBs) are hepatocyte inclusions commonly seen in steatohepatitis. They are induced in mice by feeding 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine (DDC) for 12 weeks, which also causes porphyrin accumulation. Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is caused by mutations in ferrochelatase (fch), and a fraction of EPP patients develop liver disease that is phenocopied in Fech(m1Pas) mutant (fch/fch) mice, which have an inactivating fch mutation. fch/fch mice develop spontaneous MDBs, but the molecular factors involved in their formation and whether they relate to DDC-induced MDBs are unknown. We tested the hypothesis that fch mutation creates a molecular milieu that mimics experimental drug-induced MDBs. In 13- and 20-week-old fch/fch mice, serum alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase, and bile acids were increased. The 13-week-old fch/fch mice did not develop histologically evident MDBs but manifested biochemical alterations required for MDB formation, including increased transglutaminase-2 and keratin overexpression, with a greater keratin 8 (K8)-to-keratin 18 (K18) ratio, which are critical for drug-induced MDB formation. In 20-week-old fch/fch mice, spontaneous MDBs were readily detected histologically and biochemically. Short-term (3-week) DDC feeding markedly induced MDB formation in 20-week-old fch/fch mice. Under basal conditions, old fch/fch mice had significant alterations in mitochondrial oxidative-stress markers, including increased protein oxidation, decreased proteasomal activity, reduced adenosine triphosphate content, and Nrf2 (redox sensitive transcription factor) up-regulation. Nrf2 knockdown in HepG2 cells down-regulated K8, but not K18. CONCLUSION Fch/fch mice develop age-associated spontaneous MDBs, with a marked propensity for rapid MDB formation upon exposure to DDC, and therefore provide a genetic model for MDB formation. Inclusion formation in the fch/fch mice involves oxidative stress which, together with Nrf2-mediated increase in K8, promotes MDB formation.
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- Amika Singla
- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5622
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5622
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5622
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5622
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5622
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5622,Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5622,To whom correspondence should be addressed: Bishr Omary, University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 7744 Medical Science Building II, 1137 Catherine St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, Phone: 734-764-4376, Fax: 734-936-8813,
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Doxorubicin in vivo rapidly alters expression and translation of myocardial electron transport chain genes, leads to ATP loss and caspase 3 activation. PLoS One 2010; 5:e12733. [PMID: 20856801 PMCID: PMC2939875 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2010] [Accepted: 07/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background Doxorubicin is one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs but its use is limited by cumulative cardiotoxicity that restricts lifetime dose. Redox damage is one of the most accepted mechanisms of toxicity, but not fully substantiated. Moreover doxorubicin is not an efficient redox cycling compound due to its low redox potential. Here we used genomic and chemical systems approaches in vivo to investigate the mechanisms of doxorubicin cardiotoxicity, and specifically test the hypothesis of redox cycling mediated cardiotoxicity. Methodology/Principal Findings Mice were treated with an acute dose of either doxorubicin (DOX) (15 mg/kg) or 2,3-dimethoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (DMNQ) (25 mg/kg). DMNQ is a more efficient redox cycling agent than DOX but unlike DOX has limited ability to inhibit gene transcription and DNA replication. This allowed specific testing of the redox hypothesis for cardiotoxicity. An acute dose was used to avoid pathophysiological effects in the genomic analysis. However similar data were obtained with a chronic model, but are not specifically presented. All data are deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). Pathway and biochemical analysis of cardiac global gene transcription and mRNA translation data derived at time points from 5 min after an acute exposure in vivo showed a pronounced effect on electron transport chain activity. This led to loss of ATP, increased AMPK expression, mitochondrial genome amplification and activation of caspase 3. No data gathered with either compound indicated general redox damage, though site specific redox damage in mitochondria cannot be entirely discounted. Conclusions/Significance These data indicate the major mechanism of doxorubicin cardiotoxicity is via damage or inhibition of the electron transport chain and not general redox stress. There is a rapid response at transcriptional and translational level of many of the genes coding for proteins of the electron transport chain complexes. Still though ATP loss occurs with activation caspase 3 and these events probably account for the heart damage.
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Galy B, Ferring-Appel D, Sauer SW, Kaden S, Lyoumi S, Puy H, Kölker S, Gröne HJ, Hentze MW. Iron regulatory proteins secure mitochondrial iron sufficiency and function. Cell Metab 2010; 12:194-201. [PMID: 20674864 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2010.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2009] [Revised: 04/06/2010] [Accepted: 06/02/2010] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Mitochondria supply cells with ATP, heme, and iron sulfur clusters (ISC), and mitochondrial energy metabolism involves both heme- and ISC-dependent enzymes. Here, we show that mitochondrial iron supply and function require iron regulatory proteins (IRP), cytosolic RNA-binding proteins that control mRNA translation and stability. Mice lacking both IRP1 and IRP2 in their hepatocytes suffer from mitochondrial iron deficiency and dysfunction associated with alterations of the ISC and heme biosynthetic pathways, leading to liver failure and death. These results uncover a major role of the IRPs in cell biology: to ensure adequate iron supply to the mitochondrion for proper function of this critical organelle.
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- Bruno Galy
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Kannan M, Steinert JR, Forsythe ID, Smith AG, Chernova T. Mevastatin accelerates loss of synaptic proteins and neurite degeneration in aging cortical neurons in a heme-independent manner. Neurobiol Aging 2008; 31:1543-53. [PMID: 18951667 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2008.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2008] [Revised: 07/11/2008] [Accepted: 09/05/2008] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The therapeutic use of statins in reducing cholesterol requires careful assessment of potential neuroprotective and/or neurotoxic mechanisms. Chronic treatment with mevastatin (MV) exerts effects on cortical neuron morphology, protein expression and synaptic function in primary culture. MV impaired expression of synaptic proteins, reduced N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) currents and accelerated neurodegeneration associated with aging. The down-regulating effect of MV on neuronal protein expression was additive with aging-associated decline in culture. Induction of Heme oxygenase-1 (HMOX1) by MV was superimposed on age-related up-regulation. Comparison of MV-treated and heme-deficient neurons showed that inhibition of heme synthesis (by succinyl acetone) had similar damaging effect on neurite integrity and MNDAR expression and function but not on expression of the receptor for neuropeptide Y1 (NPY1R). Replacement of heme in heme-deficient cultures restored protein expression but had no effect in those cultures co-treated with MV. Despite the dramatic induction of HMOX1, intracellular heme remained sufficient in MV-treated cultures, consistent with a heme-independent mechanism of MV-induced neurotoxicity and this was confirmed by analysing neurons with lentiviral over-expression of HMOX1. We conclude that MV exerts a neurotoxic effect in cultured neurons in a heme-independent manner.
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Masubuchi Y, Horie T. Toxicological Significance of Mechanism-Based Inactivation of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes by Drugs. Crit Rev Toxicol 2008; 37:389-412. [PMID: 17612953 DOI: 10.1080/10408440701215233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes oxidize xenobiotics into chemically reactive metabolites or intermediates as well as into stable metabolites. If the reactivity of the product is very high, it binds to a catalytic site or sites of the enzyme itself and inactivates it. This phenomenon is referred to as mechanism-based inactivation. Many clinically important drugs are mechanism-based inactivators that include macrolide antibiotics, calcium channel blockers, and selective serotonin uptake inhibitors, but are not always structurally and pharmacologically related. The inactivation of P450s during drug therapy results in serious drug interactions, since irreversibility of the binding allows enzyme inhibition to be prolonged after elimination of the causal drug. The inhibition of the metabolism of drugs with narrow therapeutic indexes, such as terfenadine and astemizole, leads to toxicities. On the other hand, the fate of P450s after the inactivation and the toxicological consequences remains to be elucidated, while it has been suggested that P450s modified and degraded are involved in some forms of tissue toxicity. Porphyrinogenic drugs, such as griseofulvin, cause mechanism-based heme inactivation, leading to formation of ferrochelatase-inhibitory N-alkylated protoporphyrins and resulting in porphyria. Involvement of P450-derived free heme in halothane-induced hepatotoxicity and catalytic iron in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity has also been suggested. Autoantibodies against P450s have been found in hepatitis following administration of tienilic acid and dihydralazine. Tienilic acid is activated by and covalently bound to CYP2C9, and the neoantigens thus formed activate immune systems, resulting in the formation of an autoantibodydirected against CYP2C9, named anti-liver/kidney microsomal autoantibody type 2, whereas the pathological role of the autoantibodies in drug-induced hepatitis remains largely unknown.
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- Yasuhiro Masubuchi
- Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba Institute of Science, Chosi, Japan
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Satoh Y, Iwadate R, Watanabe Y, Kawai H, Kudo N, Kawashima Y, Mitsumoto A. Manifestation of psychiatric behaviors in a mouse model of griseofulvin-induced hepatic porphyria. J Toxicol Sci 2008; 33:599-608. [DOI: 10.2131/jts.33.599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai International University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai International University
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai International University
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University
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Anstey AV, Hift RJ. Liver disease in erythropoietic protoporphyria: insights and implications for management. Postgrad Med J 2007; 83:739-48. [PMID: 18057171 PMCID: PMC2750922 DOI: 10.1136/gut.2006.097576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2022]
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- A V Anstey
- Royal Gwent Hospital, Cardiff Road, Newport, Gwent NP20 2UB, UK.
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Chernova T, Steinert JR, Guerin CJ, Nicotera P, Forsythe ID, Smith AG. Neurite degeneration induced by heme deficiency mediated via inhibition of NMDA receptor-dependent extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 activation. J Neurosci 2007; 27:8475-85. [PMID: 17687025 PMCID: PMC6672932 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0792-07.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The early stages of many neurodegenerative diseases and age-related degeneration are characterized by neurite damage and compromised synaptic function that precede neuronal cell death. We investigated the signaling mechanisms underlying neurite degeneration using cortical neuron cultures. Inhibition of heme synthesis caused neurite damage, without neuronal death, and was mediated by reduced NMDA receptor (NMDAR) expression and phosphorylation. The signaling toward the degenerative phenotype involved suppression of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) pathway, and electrophysiological recording showed that the neurodegeneration is accompanied by reduced NMDAR current and Ca2+ influx, as well as reduced voltage-gated sodium currents, consistent with compromised neurite integrity. Rescue from the degenerative phenotype by heme replacement was dependent on restoration of NR2B subunit phosphorylation and expression of NMDAR currents with higher Ca2+ permeability, consistent with triggering prosurvival ERK1/2 signaling to maintain and extend neurites. This study demonstrated a new mechanism of neurodegeneration in which impaired heme synthesis led to NMDAR signaling dysfunction, suppression of the prosurvival ERK1/2 pathway, and progressive fragmentation of neuronal projections.
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- Tatyana Chernova
- Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, United Kingdom.
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Grant GR, Robinson SW, Edwards RE, Clothier B, Davies R, Judah DJ, Broman KW, Smith AG. Multiple polymorphic loci determine basal hepatic and splenic iron status in mice. Hepatology 2006; 44:174-85. [PMID: 16799992 DOI: 10.1002/hep.21233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Polymorphisms of genes linked to iron metabolism may account for individual variability in hemochromatosis and iron status connected with liver and cardiovascular diseases, cancers, toxicity, and infection. Mouse strains exhibit marked differences in levels of non-heme iron, with C57BL/6J and SWR showing low and high levels, respectively. The genetic basis for this variability was examined using quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis together with expression profiling and chromosomal positions of known iron-related genes. Non-heme iron levels in liver and spleen of C57BL/6J x SWR F2 mice were poorly correlated, indicating independent regulation. Highly significant (P < .01) polymorphic loci were found on chromosomes 2 and 16 for liver and on chromosomes 8 and 9 for spleen. With sex as a covariate, additional significant or suggestive (P < 0.1) QTL were detected on chromosomes 7, 8, 11, and 19 for liver and on chromosome 2 for spleen. A gene array showed no clear association between most loci and differential iron-related gene expression. The gene for transferrin and a transferrin-like gene map close to the QTL on chromosome 9. Transferrin saturation was significantly lower in C57BL/6J mice than in SWR mice, but there was no significant difference in the serum level of transferrin, hepatic expression, or functional change in cDNA sequence. beta2-Microglobulin, which, unlike other loci, was associated with C57BL/6J alleles, is a candidate for the chromosome 2 QTL for higher iron. In conclusion, the findings show the location of polymorphic genes that determine basal iron status in wild-type mice. Human equivalents may be pertinent in predisposition to hepatic and other disorders.
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- Gemma R Grant
- MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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Gant TW. Inflammatory genomics. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2005; 113:A794-5. [PMID: 16330328 PMCID: PMC1314931 DOI: 10.1289/ehp.113-a794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Chernova T, Nicotera P, Smith AG. Heme Deficiency Is Associated with Senescence and Causes Suppression ofN-Methyl-d-aspartate Receptor Subunits Expression in Primary Cortical Neurons. Mol Pharmacol 2005; 69:697-705. [PMID: 16306232 DOI: 10.1124/mol.105.016675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Heme is a crucial component of many pharmacological and toxicological processes, and studies have suggested that heme deficiency may play a role in cellular ageing. A model of ageing neurons was established using prolonged cultures of BALB/c mouse primary cortical neurons. Aged neurons displayed a senescent phenotype and a marked up-regulation of cathepsin-L expression. Down-regulation of the candidate neuron-specific genes for N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunits (NMDAzeta1 and -epsilon2) and neurofilament light peptide (NF-L) were found to be characteristic of the aging process as reported in vivo (Brain Res 907:71-83, 2001; Brain Res Mol Brain Res 99:40-45, 2002). In contrast, the genes for the controlling enzymes of heme synthesis and degradation (5-aminolevulinate synthase 1 and heme oxygenase 1, respectively) were up-regulated, implying depletion of a regulatory heme pool. Inhibition of heme synthesis (by 70-80%) at different enzymic steps by succinyl acetone and N-methylprotoporphyrin IX resulted in the earlier lowered expression of NMDAzeta1 and -epsilon2 and NF-L. Exogenous hemin added to heme-depleted cells rescued the expression of these neuron-specific genes. Culture of cortical neurons from BALB/c Fech(m1Pas) mutant mice demonstrating depressed heme synthesis showed premature senescence and reduced expression of NMDAzeta1 and -epsilon2 receptor subunits and NF-L compared with wild-type cells. Our findings suggest that reduced availability of heme in neurons associated with senescence may have significant effects on synaptic function.
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- Tatyana Chernova
- MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, Hodgkin Building, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK.
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Foreman JE, Blizard DA, Gerhard G, Mack HA, Lang DH, Van Nimwegen KL, Vogler GP, Stout JT, Shihabi ZK, Griffith JW, Lakoski JM, McClearn GE, Vandenbergh DJ. Serum alkaline phosphatase activity is regulated by a chromosomal region containing the alkaline phosphatase 2 gene (Akp2) in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice. Physiol Genomics 2005; 23:295-303. [PMID: 16159911 DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00062.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses were conducted to identify chromosomal regions that contribute to variability in serum alkaline phosphatase (AP) enzyme activity in mice derived from the C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2) inbred strains. Serum AP was measured in 400 B6D2 F2 mice at 5 mo and 400 B6D2 F2 mice at 15 mo of age that were genotyped at 96 microsatellite markers, and in 19 BXD recombinant inbred (RI) strains at 5 mo of age. A QTL on the distal end of chromosome 4 was present in all sex- and age-specific analyses with a peak logarithm of odds (LOD) score of 20.36 at 58.51 cM. The Akp2 gene, which encodes the major serum AP isozyme, falls within this QTL region at 70.2 cM where the LOD score reached 13.2 (LOD significance level set at 4.3). Serum AP activity was directly related to the number of D2 alleles of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the 5'-flanking region of the Akp2 gene, although no strain-related differences in hepatic expression of Akp2 RNA were found. A variety of sequence polymorphisms in this chromosomal region could be responsible for the differences in serum AP activity; the Akp2 gene, however, with several known amino acid substitutions between protein sequences of the B6 and D2 strains, is a leading candidate.
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- Jennifer E Foreman
- Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-2317, USA
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Greaves P, Clothier B, Davies R, Higginson FM, Edwards RE, Dalton TP, Nebert DW, Smith AG. Uroporphyria and hepatic carcinogenesis induced by polychlorinated biphenyls–iron interaction: Absence in the Cyp1a2(−/−) knockout mouse. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 331:147-52. [PMID: 15845371 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.03.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2005] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Aryl hydrocarbon receptor ligands, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), cause inhibition of the heme biosynthesis enzyme, uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase; this leads to uroporphyria and hepatic tumors, which are markedly enhanced by iron overload in C57BL/10 and C57BL/6 strains of mice. Cyp1a2(-/-) knockout mice were used to compare the effects of CYP1A2 expression on uroporphyria and liver carcinogenesis. PCBs in the diet (100ppm) of Cyp1a2(+/+) wild-type mice caused hepatic uroporphyria, which was strongly increased by iron-dextran (800mg Fe/kg). In contrast, uroporphyria was not detected in Cyp1a2(-/-) knockout mice, although expression of CYP1A1 and CYP2B10 was greatly induced. After 57 weeks on this diet, hepatic preneoplastic foci and tumors were seen in the Cyp1a2(+/+) mice; numbers and severity were enhanced by iron. No foci or tumors were detected in Cyp1a2(-/-) mice, although evidence for other forms of liver injury was observed. Our findings suggest a link not only between CYP1A2, iron metabolism, and the induction of uroporphyria by PCBs, but also with subsequent hepatocarcinogenesis.
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- Peter Greaves
- MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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