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Meidinna HN, Shefrin S, Sari AN, Zhang H, Dhanjal JK, Kaul SC, Sundar D, Wadhwa R. Identification of a new member of Mortaparib class of inhibitors that target mortalin and PARP1. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:918970. [PMID: 36172283 PMCID: PMC9510692 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.918970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mortalin, a heat shock family protein enriched in cancer cells, is known to inactivate tumor suppressor protein p53. Abrogation of mortalin-p53 interaction and reactivation of p53 has been shown to trigger growth arrest/apoptosis in cancer cells and hence, suggested to be useful in cancer therapy. In this premise, we earlier screened a chemical library to identify potential disruptors of mortalin-p53 interaction, and reported two novel synthetic small molecules (5-[1-(4-methoxyphenyl) (1,2,3,4-tetraazol-5-yl)]-4-phenylpyrimidine-2-ylamine) and (4-[(1E)-2-(2-phenylindol-3-yl)-1-azavinyl]-1,2,4-triazole) called Mortaparib and MortaparibPlus, respectively. These compounds were shown to possess anticancer activity that was mediated through targeting mortalin and PARP1 proteins, essential for cancer cell survival and proliferation. Here, we report characterization of the third compound, {4-[(4-amino-5-thiophen-2-yl-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)sulfanylmethyl]-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3-thiazol-2-amine}, isolated in the same screening. Extensive computational and molecular analyses suggested that the new compound has the capability to interact with mortalin, p53, and PARP1. We provide evidence that this new compound, although required in high concentration as compared to the earlier two compounds (Mortaparib and MortaparibPlus) and hence called MortaparibMild, also downregulates mortalin and PARP1 expression and functions in multiple ways impeding cancer cell proliferation and migration characteristics. MortaparibMild is a novel candidate anticancer compound that warrants further experimental and clinical attention.
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- Hazna Noor Meidinna
- AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India
- *Correspondence: Durai Sundar, ; Renu Wadhwa,
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- AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
- *Correspondence: Durai Sundar, ; Renu Wadhwa,
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Yoon AR, Wadhwa R, Kaul SC, Yun CO. Why is Mortalin a Potential Therapeutic Target for Cancer? Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:914540. [PMID: 35859897 PMCID: PMC9290191 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.914540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. Therefore, cancer therapy is a priority research field to explore the biology of the disease and identify novel targets for the development of better treatment strategies. Mortalin is a member of the heat shock 70 kDa protein family. It is enriched in several types of cancer and contributes to carcinogenesis in various ways, including inactivation of the tumor suppressor p53, deregulation of apoptosis, induction of epithelial–mesenchymal transition, and enhancement of cancer stemness. It has been studied extensively as a therapeutic target for cancer treatment, and several types of anti-mortalin molecules have been discovered that effectively suppress the tumor cell growth. In this review, we 1) provide a comprehensive sketch of the role of mortalin in tumor biology; 2) discuss various anti-mortalin molecules, including natural compounds, synthetic small molecules, peptides, antibodies, and nucleic acids, that have shown potential for cancer treatment in laboratory studies; and 3) provide future perspectives in cancer treatment.
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- A-Rum Yoon
- Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (HY-IBB), Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (HY-IBB), Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- GeneMedicine CO, Ltd, Seoul, South Korea
- *Correspondence: Chae-Ok Yun,
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Critical Role of Mortalin/GRP75 in Endothelial Cell Dysfunction Associated with Acute Lung Injury. Shock 2021; 54:245-255. [PMID: 31490354 DOI: 10.1097/shk.0000000000001445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mortalin/GRP75 (glucose regulated protein 75), a member of heat shock protein 70 family of chaperones, is involved in several cellular processes including proliferation and signaling, and plays a pivotal role in cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, we sought to determine the role of mortalin/GRP75 in mediating vascular inflammation and permeability linked to the pathogenesis of acute lung injury (ALI). In an aerosolized bacterial lipopolysaccharide inhalation mouse model of ALI, we found that administration of mortalin/GRP75 inhibitor mean kinetic temperature-077, both prophylactically and therapeutically, protected against polymorphonuclear leukocytes influx into alveolar airspaces, microvascular leakage, and expression of pro-inflammatory mediators such as interleukin-1β, E-selectin, and tumor necrosis factor TNFα. Consistent with this, thrombin-induced inflammation in cultured human endothelial cells (EC) was also protected upon before and after treatment with mean kinetic temperature-077. Similar to pharmacological inhibition of mortalin/GRP75, siRNA-mediated depletion of mortalin/GRP75 also blocked thrombin-induced expression of proinflammatory mediators such as intercellular adhesion molecule-1 and vascular adhesion molecule-1. Mechanistic analysis in EC revealed that inactivation of mortalin/GRP75 interfered with the binding of the liberated NF-κB to the DNA, thereby leading to inhibition of downstream expression of adhesion molecules, cytokines, and chemokines. Importantly, thrombin-induced Ca signaling and EC permeability were also prevented upon mortalin/GRP75 inactivation/depletion. Thus, this study provides evidence for a novel role of mortalin/GRP75 in mediating EC inflammation and permeability associated with ALI.
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Chandra V, Rai R, Benbrook DM. Utility and Mechanism of SHetA2 and Paclitaxel for Treatment of Endometrial Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13102322. [PMID: 34066052 PMCID: PMC8150795 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13102322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Simple Summary Incidence and death rates for endometrial cancer are steadily rising world-wide. Endometrial cancer patients at high risk for recurrence are treated with chemotherapy, which causes significant toxicity. Molecularly targeted drugs have been found to cause less toxicity than chemotherapy. We studied a low-toxicity drug, called SHetA2, which targets three heat shock A proteins that are highly mutated in endometrial cancers. Our results demonstrated that SHetA2 inhibits endometrial cancer cells and tumors, and enhances therapeutic effects of paclitaxel without increasing toxicity. This information supports development of clinical trials to test if combining SHetA2 with paclitaxel can increase the paclitaxel therapeutic effect without increasing toxicity, or allows a lowered paclitaxel dose to achieve the same level of therapeutic effect, but with reduced toxicity. Our new knowledge about how SHetA2 works can be translated into development of biomarkers to predict with patients would most likely benefit from SHetA2-based therapy. Abstract Endometrial cancer patients with advanced disease or high recurrence risk are treated with chemotherapy. Our objective was to evaluate the utility and mechanism of a novel drug, SHetA2, alone and in combination with paclitaxel, in endometrial cancer. SHetA2 targets the HSPA chaperone proteins, Grp78, hsc70, and mortalin, which have high mutation rates in endometrial cancer. SHetA2 effects on cancerous phenotypes, mitochondria, metabolism, protein expression, mortalin/client protein complexes, and cell death were evaluated in AN3CA, Hec13b, and Ishikawa endometrial cancer cell lines, and on growth of Ishikawa xenografts. In all three cell lines, SHetA2 inhibited anchorage-independent growth, migration, invasion, and ATP production, and induced G1 cell cycle arrest, mitochondrial damage, and caspase- and apoptosis inducing factor (AIF)-mediated apoptosis. These effects were associated with altered levels of proteins involved in cell cycle regulation, mitochondrial function, protein synthesis, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and metabolism; disruption of mortalin complexes with mitochondrial and metabolism proteins; and inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis. SHetA2 and paclitaxel exhibited synergistic combination indices in all cell lines and exerted greater xenograft tumor growth inhibition than either drug alone. SHetA2 is active against endometrial cancer cell lines in culture and in vivo and acts synergistically with paclitaxel.
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Khan MS, Ahmed A, Tabrez S, Islam BU, Rabbani N, Malik A, Ismael MA, Alsenaidy MA, Alsenaidy AM. Optimization of expression and purification of human mortalin (Hsp70): Folding/unfolding analysis. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2017; 187:98-103. [PMID: 28666159 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2017.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Revised: 06/02/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Human mortalin is a Hsp70 mitochondrial protein that plays an essential role in the biogenesis of mitochondria. The deregulation of mortalin expression and its functions could lead to several age-associated disorders and some types of cancers. In the present study, we optimized the expression and purification of recombinant human mortalin by the use of two-step chromatography. Low temperature (18°C) and 0.5mM (IPTG) was required for optimum mortalin expression. Chaperone activity of mortalin was assessed by the citrate synthase and insulin protection assay, which suggested their protective role in mitochondria. Folding and unfolding assessments of mortalin were carried out in the presence of guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) by intrinsic fluorescence measurement, ANS (8-analino 1-nephthlene sulfonic acid) binding and CD (circular dichroism) analysis. Under denaturing conditions, mortalin showed decrease in tryptophan fluorescence intensity along with a red shift of 11nm. Moreover, ANS binding studies illustrated decrease in hydrophobicity. CD measurement of mortalin showed a predominant helical structure. However, the secondary structure was lost at low concentration of GdnHCl (1M). We present a simple and robust method to produce soluble mortalin and warranted that chaperones are also susceptible to unfolding and futile to maintain protein homeostasis.
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- Mohd Shahnawaz Khan
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biochemistry, J. N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Ben-Hamo O, Rosner A, Rabinowitz C, Oren M, Rinkevich B. Coupling astogenic aging in the colonial tunicate Botryllus schlosseri with the stress protein mortalin. Dev Biol 2017; 433:33-46. [PMID: 29128264 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2017] [Revised: 10/30/2017] [Accepted: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Botryllus schlosseri, a colonial marine invertebrate, exhibits three generations of short-lived astogenic modules that continuously grow and die throughout the colony's entire lifespan, within week-long repeating budding cycles (blastogenesis), each consisting of four stages (A-D). At stage D, aging is followed by the complete absorption of adult modules (zooids) via a massive apoptotic process. Here we studied in Botryllus the protein mortalin (HSP70s member), a molecule largely known for its association with aging and proliferation. In-situ hybridization and qPCR assays reveal that mortalin follows the cyclic pattern of blastogenesis. Colonies at blastogenic stage D display the highest mortalin levels, and young modules exhibit elevated mortalin levels compared to old modules. Manipulations of mortalin with the specific allosteric inhibitor MKT-077 has led to a decrease in the modules' growth rate and the development of abnormal somatic/germinal morphologies (primarily in vasculature and in organs such as the endostyle, the stomach and gonads). We therefore propose that mortalin plays a significant role in the astogeny and aging of colonial modules in B. schlosseri, by direct involvement in the regulation of blastogenesis.
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- Oshrat Ben-Hamo
- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel; Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel.
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel; Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel.
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Xie G, Hong WX, Zhou L, Yang X, Huang H, Wu D, Huang X, Zhu W, Liu J. An investigation of methyl tert‑butyl ether‑induced cytotoxicity and protein profile in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Mol Med Rep 2017; 16:8595-8604. [PMID: 29039499 PMCID: PMC5779912 DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2017.7761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is widely used as an oxygenating agent in gasoline to reduce harmful emissions. However, previous studies have demonstrated that MTBE is a cytotoxic substance that has harmful effects in vivo and in vitro. Although remarkable progress has been made in elucidating the mechanisms underlying the MTBE-induced reproductive toxicological effect in different cell lines, the precise mechanisms remain far from understood. The present study aimed to evaluate whether mammalian ovary cells were sensitive to MTBE exposure in vitro by assessing cell viability, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage, malondialdehyde (MDA) content and antioxidant enzyme activities. In addition, the effect of MTBE exposure on differential protein expression profiles was examined by two-dimensional electrophoresis and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. MTBE exposure induced significant effects on cell viability, LDH leakage, plasma membrane damage and the activity of antioxidant enzymes. In the proteomic analysis, 24 proteins were demonstrated to be significantly affected by MTBE exposure. Functional analysis indicated that these proteins were involved in catalytic activity, binding, structural molecule activity, metabolic processes, cellular processes and localization, highlighting the fact that the cytotoxic mechanisms resulting from MTBE exposure are complex and diverse. The altered expression levels of two representative proteins, heat shock protein family A (Hsp70) members 8 and 9, were further confirmed by western blot analysis. The results revealed that MTBE exposure affects protein expression in Chinese hamster ovary cells and that oxidative stress and altered protein levels constitute the mechanisms underlying MTBE-induced cytotoxicity. These findings provided novel insights into the biochemical mechanisms involved in MTBE-induced cytotoxicity in the reproductive system.
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- Guangshan Xie
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Population and Family Planning, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518040, P.R. China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute of Population and Family Planning, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518040, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Shenzhen, Medical Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province, Medical Key Laboratory of Health Toxicology of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Shenzhen, Medical Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province, Medical Key Laboratory of Health Toxicology of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Shenzhen, Medical Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province, Medical Key Laboratory of Health Toxicology of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Shenzhen, Medical Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province, Medical Key Laboratory of Health Toxicology of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Shenzhen, Medical Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province, Medical Key Laboratory of Health Toxicology of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, P.R. China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute of Population and Family Planning, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518040, P.R. China
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Sane S, Abdullah A, Nelson ME, Wang H, Chauhan SC, Newton SS, Rezvani K. Structural studies of UBXN2A and mortalin interaction and the putative role of silenced UBXN2A in preventing response to chemotherapy. Cell Stress Chaperones 2016; 21:313-26. [PMID: 26634371 PMCID: PMC4786526 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-015-0661-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Overexpression of the oncoprotein mortalin in cancer cells and its protein partners enables mortalin to promote multiple oncogenic signaling pathways and effectively antagonize chemotherapy-induced cell death. A UBX-domain-containing protein, UBXN2A, acts as a potential mortalin inhibitor. This current study determines whether UBXN2A effectively binds to and occupies mortalin's binding pocket, resulting in a direct improvement in the tumor's sensitivity to chemotherapy. Molecular modeling of human mortalin's binding pocket and its binding to the SEP domain of UBXN2A followed by yeast two-hybrid and His-tag pull-down assays revealed that three amino acids (PRO442, ILE558, and LYS555) within the substrate-binding domain of mortalin are crucial for UBXN2A binding to mortalin. As revealed by chase experiments in the presence of cycloheximide, overexpression of UBXN2A seems to interfere with the mortalin-CHIP E3 ubiquitin ligase and consequently suppresses the C-terminus of the HSC70-interacting protein (CHIP)-mediated destabilization of p53, resulting in its stabilization in the cytoplasm and upregulation in the nucleus. Overexpression of UBXN2A causes a significant inhibition of cell proliferation and the migration of colon cancer cells. We silenced UBXN2A in the human osteosarcoma U2OS cell line, an enriched mortalin cancer cell, followed by a clinical dosage of the chemotherapeutic agent 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). The UBXN2A knockout U2OS cells revealed that UBXNA is essential for the cytotoxic effect achieved by 5-FU. UBXN2A overexpression markedly increased the apoptotic response of U2OS cells to the 5-FU. In addition, silencing of UBXN2A protein suppresses apoptosis enhanced by UBXN2A overexpression in U2OS. The knowledge gained from this study provides insights into the mechanistic role of UBXN2A as a potent mortalin inhibitor and as a potential chemotherapy sensitizer for clinical application.
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- Sanam Sane
- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Lee Medical Building, Vermillion, SD, 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Lee Medical Building, Vermillion, SD, 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Lee Medical Building, Vermillion, SD, 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Lee Medical Building, Vermillion, SD, 57069, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Lee Medical Building, Vermillion, SD, 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Lee Medical Building, Vermillion, SD, 57069, USA.
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Wadhwa R, Ryu J, Ahn HM, Saxena N, Chaudhary A, Yun CO, Kaul SC. Functional significance of point mutations in stress chaperone mortalin and their relevance to Parkinson disease. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:8447-56. [PMID: 25645922 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.627463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mortalin/mtHsp70/Grp75 (mot-2), a heat shock protein 70 family member, is an essential chaperone, enriched in cancers, and has been shown to possess pro-proliferative and anti-apoptosis functions. An allelic form of mouse mortalin (mot-1) that differs by two amino acids, M618V and G624R, in the C terminus substrate-binding domain has been reported. Furthermore, genome sequencing of mortalin from Parkinson disease patients identified two missense mutants, R126W and P509S. In the present study, we investigated the significance of these mutations in survival, proliferation, and oxidative stress tolerance in human cells. Using mot-1 and mot-2 recombinant proteins and specific antibodies, we performed screening to find their binding proteins and then identified ribosomal protein L-7 (RPL-7) and elongation factor-1 α (EF-1α), which differentially bind to mot-1 and mot-2, respectively. We demonstrate that mot-1, R126W, or P509S mutant (i) lacks mot-2 functions involved in carcinogenesis, such as p53 inactivation and hTERT/hnRNP-K (heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K) activation; (ii) causes increased level of endogenous oxidative stress; (iii) results in decreased tolerance of cells to exogenous oxidative stress; and (iv) shows differential binding and impact on the RPL-7 and EF-1α proteins. These factors may mediate the transformation of longevity/pro-proliferative function of mot-2 to the premature aging/anti-proliferative effect of mutants, and hence may have significance in cellular aging, Parkinson disease pathology, and prognosis.
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- Renu Wadhwa
- From the Cell Proliferation Research Group and Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India)-National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan and
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- From the Cell Proliferation Research Group and Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India)-National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan and the Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-Ro, Seongdong-Gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea
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- From the Cell Proliferation Research Group and Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India)-National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan and the Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-Ro, Seongdong-Gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea
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- From the Cell Proliferation Research Group and Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India)-National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan and
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- From the Cell Proliferation Research Group and Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India)-National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan and
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- the Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-Ro, Seongdong-Gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea
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- From the Cell Proliferation Research Group and Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India)-National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan and
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Dores-Silva PR, Barbosa LRS, Ramos CHI, Borges JC. Human mitochondrial Hsp70 (mortalin): shedding light on ATPase activity, interaction with adenosine nucleotides, solution structure and domain organization. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0117170. [PMID: 25615450 PMCID: PMC4304843 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The human mitochondrial Hsp70, also called mortalin, is of considerable importance for mitochondria biogenesis and the correct functioning of the cell machinery. In the mitochondrial matrix, mortalin acts in the importing and folding process of nucleus-encoded proteins. The in vivo deregulation of mortalin expression and/or function has been correlated with age-related diseases and certain cancers due to its interaction with the p53 protein. In spite of its critical biological roles, structural and functional studies on mortalin are limited by its insoluble recombinant production. This study provides the first report of the production of folded and soluble recombinant mortalin when co-expressed with the human Hsp70-escort protein 1, but it is still likely prone to self-association. The monomeric fraction of mortalin presented a slightly elongated shape and basal ATPase activity that is higher than that of its cytoplasmic counterpart Hsp70-1A, suggesting that it was obtained in the functional state. Through small angle X-ray scattering, we assessed the low-resolution structural model of monomeric mortalin that is characterized by an elongated shape. This model adequately accommodated high resolution structures of Hsp70 domains indicating its quality. We also observed that mortalin interacts with adenosine nucleotides with high affinity. Thermally induced unfolding experiments indicated that mortalin is formed by at least two domains and that the transition is sensitive to the presence of adenosine nucleotides and that this process is dependent on the presence of Mg2+ ions. Interestingly, the thermal-induced unfolding assays of mortalin suggested the presence of an aggregation/association event, which was not observed for human Hsp70-1A, and this finding may explain its natural tendency for in vivo aggregation. Our study may contribute to the structural understanding of mortalin as well as to contribute for its recombinant production for antitumor compound screenings.
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- Paulo R Dores-Silva
- Institute of Chemistry of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, P.O. Box 780, 13560-970, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas-UNICAMP, P.O. Box 6154, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, P.O. Box 780, 13560-970, Brazil
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Akiyama M, Zhou M, Sugimoto R, Hongu T, Furuya M, Funakoshi Y, Kato M, Hasegawa H, Kanaho Y. Tissue- and development-dependent expression of the small GTPase Arf6 in mice. Dev Dyn 2010; 239:3416-35. [DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Deocaris CC, Kaul SC, Wadhwa R. From proliferative to neurological role of an hsp70 stress chaperone, mortalin. Biogerontology 2008; 9:391-403. [PMID: 18770009 DOI: 10.1007/s10522-008-9174-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2008] [Accepted: 08/18/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Although the brain makes up approximately 2% of a person's body weight, it consumes more than 15% of total cardiac output and has a per capita caloric requirement of 10 times more than the rest of the body. Such continuous metabolic demand that supports the generation of action potentials in neuronal cells relies on the mitochondria, the main organelle for power generation. The phenomenon of mitochondrial biogenesis, although has long been a neglected theme in neurobiology, can be regarded as critical to brain physiology. The present review emphasizes the role of a key molecular player of mitochondrial biogenesis, the mortalin/mthsp70. Brain mortalin is discussed in relation to its aptitude to impact on mitochondrial function and homeostasis, to its interfacing energy metabolic functions with synaptic plasticity, and to its modulation of brain aging via the cellular senescence pathways. Recently, this chaperone has been implicated in Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's (PD) diseases, with proteomic studies consistently identifying oxidatively-damaged mortalin as potential biomarker. Hence, it is possible that mitochondrial dysfunction coincides with the collapse in the mitochondrial chaperone network that aim not only to import, sort and maintain integrity of protein components within the mitochondria, but also to act as buffer to the molecular heterogeneity of damaged and aging mitochondrial proteins within a ROS-rich microenvironment. Inversely, it may also seem that vulnerability to mitochondrial dysfunction could be precipitated by malevolent (anti-chaperone) gain-of-function of a 'sick mortalin'.
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- Custer C Deocaris
- Institute of Health and Sports Science, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8574, Japan
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Dai Q, Escobar GP, Hakala KW, Lambert JM, Weintraub ST, Lindsey ML. The Left Ventricle Proteome Differentiates Middle-Aged and Old Left Ventricles in Mice. J Proteome Res 2008; 7:756-65. [DOI: 10.1021/pr700685e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Qiuxia Dai
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Medical Student Research Stipend Program, and The Janey Briscoe Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Medical Student Research Stipend Program, and The Janey Briscoe Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Medical Student Research Stipend Program, and The Janey Briscoe Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Medical Student Research Stipend Program, and The Janey Briscoe Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Medical Student Research Stipend Program, and The Janey Briscoe Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Medical Student Research Stipend Program, and The Janey Briscoe Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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Zvereff V, Wang JC, Shun K, Lacoste J, Chevrette M. Colocalisation of CD9 and mortalin in CD9-induced mitotic catastrophe in human prostate cancer cells. Br J Cancer 2007; 97:941-8. [PMID: 17848953 PMCID: PMC2360413 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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CD9, a member of the tetraspanin family of proteins, is involved in a variety of cellular interactions with many other proteins and molecules. Although CD9 has been implicated in cell fusion, migration and cancer progression, the detailed function of this protein is not completely understood and likely depends on interactions with different protein partners, which are not yet all known. Using co-immunoprecipitation and mass-spectrometric protein sequencing, we have identified in prostate cancer cells, a novel CD9 partner, the 75-kDa protein HSPA9B, also known as mortalin. We further show that introduction and overexpression of wild-type CD9 into human PC-3 prostate cancer cells induces mitotic catastrophe. We also demonstrate, by immunocolocalisation studies, the interaction of CD9 and mortalin in PC-3 cells undergoing mitotic catastrophe. Our results not only identified mortalin as a new CD9 partner, but also clarify the mechanisms by which CD9 may control prostate cancer progression.
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- V Zvereff
- Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1650 Cedar Ave, Room R4-113, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4. E-mail:
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Kaul Z, Yaguchi T, Chiura HX, Kaul SC, Wadhwa R. Quantum dot-based mortalin staining as a visual assay for detection of induced senescence in cancer cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2007; 1100:368-72. [PMID: 17460200 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1395.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Quantum dots (QDs) are fluorescent nanocrystals that are emerging as fine alternatives to the conventional organic dyes. They have several advantages including greater photostability and a wider range of excitation-emission wavelengths. By using mortalin staining as a model, we initially demonstrated that the QDs are more stable and provide better resolution in protein imaging in fixed cells. With the help of an internalizing antibody, we generated internalizing QD (i-QD) and demonstrated its inertness to cell replication, structure, and viability. Based on the superior resolution, stability and inertness, we propose the use of QD staining of mortalin as a cell-based visual assay to screen for senescence-inducing drugs, proteins, and siRNAs.
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- Zeenia Kaul
- Research Institute for Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 4, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 8562, Japan
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Chardonnet S, Decottignies P, Amar L, Le Caer JP, Davis S, Laroche S, Le Maréchal P. New mortalin and histidyl tRNA synthetase isoforms point out a pitfall in proteomic analysis of Egr1 genetically modified mice. Proteomics 2007; 7:289-98. [PMID: 17205600 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200600513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Egr1 (Zif268) is an immediate early gene encoding an inducible transcription factor involved in synaptic plasticity and several forms of memory in rodents. Using 2-DE and MS, we compared proteomes of hippocampal subregions and cortex in Egr1-deficient and wild-type littermates. Two significant differences were identified: a shift in the pI of the molecular chaperone mortalin (mtHsp70/PBP74/Grp75) and the apparent disappearance of histidyl tRNA synthetase (HisRS). We found that the pI shift for mortalin in Egr1-deficient mice was caused by a difference in protein sequence: D626G. Using cDNA sequencing, we demonstrated for both mortalin and HisRS that protein differences were not due to a lack of Egr1 but to DNA polymorphism between the C57Bl/6J and 129/Sv strains used to generate the Egr1-deficient mice. Our results show that mortalin and HisRS genes, which map closely to the Egr1 locus, have conserved the 129/Sv haplotype despite numerous back-crossing of the null mice progeny with C57Bl/6J animals. This demonstrates that allelic differences between mouse strains can introduce variations in differential proteomic analyses of genetically modified organisms. Finally, we report the identification of new isoforms of HisRS and mortalin (mot-3) encoded by the 129/Sv haplotype.
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- Solenne Chardonnet
- Institut de Biochimie et Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR 8619, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France.
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Alvares K, Dixit SN, Lux E, Barss J, Veis A. The proteome of the developing tooth of the sea urchin,Lytechinus variegatus: mortalin is a constituent of the developing cell syncytium. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2007; 308:357-70. [PMID: 17385701 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Echinoderm teeth are continuously growing calcite-mineralized tissues of complex structure. Two features are of special interest: (1) cell division takes place in a restricted aboral domain, the plumula, and the cells immediately merge into multinucleated syncytial layers; (2) the major part of the heavily mineralized tooth elongates and moves towards the adoral incisal tip continuously as the syncytial cells actively expand the syncytium and intermembrane mineral phase. As the first step to understanding the nature of the mineralization processes, we have isolated the proteins of the plumula and of the mature mineralized portions of the tooth, and begun their characterization. Peptide sequences were used to screen a plumula cDNA library by polymerase chain reaction. One primer set yielded a prominent amplified product which was cloned, and sequenced. Comparison with the nucleotide and protein data banks revealed the protein to be Mortalin, a member of the hsp-70 family, with >75% of its sequences identical to that of human mortalin. Immunocytochemical localization of mortalin within the plumula, using Anti-human Grp75, showed staining of the odontoblast cytosol and matrix at the point where syncytial formation was occurring. The cytosol of the syncytial layers was weakly stained. The nuclei within the syncytia were stained at their periphery. In the mature part of the tooth, the perinuclear staining of the nuclei was more prominent. We conclude that mortalin is involved in syncytium formation and maintenance. The urchin mortalin has a distinctive aspartic acid and serine-rich C-terminal domain that may link it to the mineralization process.
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- Keith Alvares
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Kaul SC, Deocaris CC, Wadhwa R. Three faces of mortalin: a housekeeper, guardian and killer. Exp Gerontol 2006; 42:263-74. [PMID: 17188442 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2006.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2006] [Revised: 10/05/2006] [Accepted: 10/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mortalin was first cloned as a mortality factor that existed in the cytoplasmic fractions of normal, but not in immortal, mouse fibroblasts. A decade of efforts have expanded its persona from a house keeper protein involved in mitochondrial import, energy generation and chaperoning of misfolded proteins, to a guardian of stress that has multiple binding partners and to a killer protein that contributes to carcinogenesis on one hand and to old age disorders on the other. Being proved to be an attractive target for cancer therapy, it also warrants attention from the perspectives of management of old age diseases and healthy aging.
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- Sunil C Kaul
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Central 4, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 8562, Japan
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Osorio C, Sullivan PM, He DN, Mace BE, Ervin JF, Strittmatter WJ, Alzate O. Mortalin is regulated by APOE in hippocampus of AD patients and by human APOE in TR mice. Neurobiol Aging 2006; 28:1853-62. [PMID: 17050040 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2006] [Revised: 06/22/2006] [Accepted: 08/24/2006] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Mortalin is a chaperone protein associated with cell survival, stress response, intracellular trafficking, control of cell proliferation, mitochondrial biogenesis, and cell fate determination. Human APOE targeted replacement (TR) mice have been used to elucidate the role of APOE4 in Alzheimer's disease (AD), since these animals express the APOE4 gene without the classical pathological signatures of AD. Using proteomics we found that mortalin isoforms are differentially expressed in the hippocampus of APOE4 TR mice compared with the APOE3 (control) TR mice. We also observed that these mortalin isoforms are differentially phosphorylated. Then we studied mortalin expression in patients with AD (genotypes APOE 3/3 and APOE 4/4) compared with patients without AD (genotype APOE 3/3). We observed that mortalin isoforms are also differentially expressed in the hippocampi of patients with AD, and that the expression of these mortalin isoforms is regulated by the APOE genotype. We propose that the differential regulation of mortalin in AD and by the APOE genotype is a cellular defense mechanism responding to increases in oxidative stress.
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- Cristina Osorio
- Neuroproteomics Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Deocaris CC, Kaul SC, Wadhwa R. On the brotherhood of the mitochondrial chaperones mortalin and heat shock protein 60. Cell Stress Chaperones 2006; 11:116-28. [PMID: 16817317 PMCID: PMC1484513 DOI: 10.1379/csc-144r.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The heat shock chaperones mortalin/mitochondrial heat shock protein 70 (mtHsp70) and Hsp60 are found in multiple subcellular sites and function in the folding and intracellular trafficking of many proteins. The chaperoning activity of these 2 proteins involves different structural and functional mechanisms. In spite of providing an excellent model for an evolutionarily conserved molecular "brotherhood", their individual functions, although overlapping, are nonredundant. As they travel to various locations, both chaperones acquire different binding partners and exert a more divergent involvement in tumorigenesis, cellular senescence, and immunology. An understanding of their functional biology may lead to novel designing and development of therapeutic strategies for cancer and aging.
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- Custer C Deocaris
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 4, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Science City 305-8562, Japan
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Deocaris CC, Yamasaki K, Kaul SC, Wadhwa R. Structural and functional differences between mouse mot-1 and mot-2 proteins that differ in two amino acids. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006; 1067:220-3. [PMID: 16803989 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1354.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Chaperone functions mediated by the heat-shock protein (HSP) family constitute a fundamental mechanism that governs the life span of organisms. Here we investigated the chaperone activities of the mitochondrial HSP70 protein, mortalin, which is a heat-uninducible stress protein involved in immortalization and tumorigenesis. There are two mortalin alleles, mot-1 and mot-2, in mouse, encoding two distinct proteins. Whereas an overexpression of mot-1-induced senescence in NIH 3T3 cells, overexpression of mot-2 promoted their malignant properties. Here, we provide evidence that mot-1 possesses very low chaperone activity as compared to mot-2. A "lazy lid" hypothesis is proposed for their differential aging phenotypes.
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- Custer C Deocaris
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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Johannesen J, Pie A, Karlsen AE, Larsen ZM, Jensen A, Vissing H, Kristiansen OP, Pociot F, Nerup J. Is mortalin a candidate gene for T1DM ? Autoimmunity 2005; 37:423-30. [PMID: 15621568 DOI: 10.1080/08916930410001710037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Mortalin has been found to be up-regulated by 2D-protein gel analysis in isolated rodent islets exposed to cytokines. In islets from two rat strains with different sensitivity to the toxic effects of cytokines we observed a significant difference in IL-1beta mediated mortalin expression. Constitutive over-expression of rat mortalin in NIH3T3 cells reduced cellular survival in accordance with mortalin being associated to cellular senescence. Hence we consider the gene encoding for mortalin at chromosome 5q31.1 a putative candidate gene in cytokine induced beta-cell destruction. We scanned the human mortalin gene for polymorphisms and identified three novel polymorphisms. Neither the SNPs individually nor as constructed haplotypes showed disease association tested by (E)TDT in a Danish type 1 diabetes (T1DM) population. Furthermore, we tested the D5S500 microsatelite located close to 5q31.1 without finding linkage to (T1DM). In conclusion, the functional data identifying a difference in mortalin expression in IL-1beta stimulated islets between two rat strains and over-expression of mortalin in NIH3T3 cells associated with decreased viability suggests a functional role for mortalin in cytokine mediated beta cell destruction; however, the identified polymorphisms did not reveal any association in the presence of linkage disequilibrium of mortalin to T1DM in the Danish population.
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Wadhwa R, Yaguchi T, Hasan MK, Taira K, Kaul SC. Mortalin-MPD (mevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase) interactions and their role in control of cellular proliferation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 302:735-42. [PMID: 12646231 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(03)00226-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mortalin (mot-2/GRP75/PBP74/mthsp70) is a member of the hsp70 family of proteins and is differentially distributed in normal and immortal cells. It was shown to be involved in pathways to cell senescence and immortalization. To elucidate its functional aspects, a yeast interactive screen for mortalin (mot-2) binding proteins was performed. Mevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase (MPD) was identified as one of the mortalin binding partners. The interactions were confirmed in mammalian cells by two-hybrid assay and in vivo coimmunoprecipitation. MPD is known to furnish prenyl groups required for prenylation, protein modification that is essential for the activity of many proteins including p21(Ras) (Ras). We have examined the effect of MPD-mot-2 interactions on the level and activity of p21(Ras) and its downstream effectors, p44 and p42 MAP kinases (ERK1/ERK2), in Ras-Raf pathway. An overexpression of mot-2 resulted in reduced level of Ras and phosphorylated ERK2. These were rescued by co-expression of MPD from an exogenous promoter demonstrating a functional link between mot-2, MPD, and Ras. Ras and its oncogenic forms act as key players in controlling proliferation of normal and cancerous cells. Assigning mot-2 upstream of p21(Ras) offers an important mechanism for influence over cell proliferation.
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- Renu Wadhwa
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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Clusterin/Apolipoprotein J (ApoJ) is a heterodimeric highly conserved secreted glycoprotein being expressed in a wide variety of tissues and found in all human fluids. Despite being cloned since 1989, no genuine function has been attributed to ApoJ so far. The protein has been reportedly implicated in several diverse physiological processes such as sperm maturation, lipid transportation, complement inhibition, tissue remodeling, membrane recycling, cell-cell and cell-substratum interactions, stabilization of stressed proteins in a folding-competent state and promotion or inhibition of apoptosis. ApoJ gene is differentially regulated by cytokines, growth factors and stress-inducing agents, while another defining prominent and intriguing ApoJ feature is its upregulation in many severe physiological disturbances states and in several neurodegenerative conditions mostly related to advanced aging. Moreover, ApoJ accumulates during the viable growth arrested cellular state of senescence, that is thought to contribute to aging and to tumorigenesis suppression; paradoxically ApoJ is also upregulated in several cases of in vivo cancer progression and tumor formation. This review focuses on the reported data related to ApoJ cell-type and signal specific regulation, function and site of action in normal and cancer cells. We discuss the role of ApoJ during cellular senescence and tumorigenesis, especially under the light of the recently demonstrated various ApoJ intracellular protein forms and their interaction with molecules involved in signal transduction and DNA repair, raising the possibility that its overexpression during cellular senescence might cause a predisposition to cancer.
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- Ioannis P Trougakos
- Laboratory of Molecular & Cellular Aging, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas Constantinou Avenue, Athens 11635, Greece
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Mortalin, also known as mthsp70/PBP74/GRP75, resides in multiple subcellular sites including mitochondria, ER, plasma membrane, cytoplasmic vesicles and cytosol. It is differentially distributed in normal and cancerous cells; the latter, when reverted back to normal phenotype, also show change in mortalin staining pattern similar to normal cells. Depending on its different subcellular niche and binding partner therein, mortalin is expected to perform multiple functions relevant to cell survival, control of proliferation and stress response.
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- Sunil C Kaul
- Research Center for Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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Schwarzer C, Barnikol-Watanabe S, Thinnes FP, Hilschmann N. Voltage-dependent anion-selective channel (VDAC) interacts with the dynein light chain Tctex1 and the heat-shock protein PBP74. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2002; 34:1059-70. [PMID: 12009301 DOI: 10.1016/s1357-2725(02)00026-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The voltage-dependent anion-selective channel 1 (VDAC1), i.e. eukaryotic porin, functions as a channel in membranous structures as described for the outer mitochondrial membrane, the cell membrane, endosomes, caveolae, the sarcoplasmatic reticulum, synaptosomes, and post-synaptic density fraction. The identification of VDAC1 interacting proteins may be a promising approach for better understanding the biological context and function of the channel protein. In this study human VDAC1 was used as a bait protein in a two-hybrid screening, which is based on the Sos recruitment system (SRS). hVDAC1 interacts with the dynein light chain Tctex-1 and the heat-shock protein peptide-binding protein 74 (PBP74)/mitochondrial heat-shock protein 70 (mtHSP70)/glucose-regulated protein 75 (GRP75)/mortalin in vivo. Both interactions were confirmed by overlay-assays using recombinant partner proteins and purified hVDAC1. Indirect immunofluorescence on HeLa cells indicates a co-localisation of hVDAC1 with the dynein light chain and the PBP74. In addition, HeLa cells were transfected transiently with enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-hVDAC1 fusion proteins, which also clearly co-localise with both proteins. The functional relevance of the identified protein interactions was analysed in planar lipid bilayer (PLB) experiments. In these experiments both recombinant binding partners altered the electrophysiological properties of hVDAC1. While rTctex-1 increases the voltage-dependence of hVDAC1 slightly, the rPBP74 drastically minimises the voltage-dependence, indicating a modulation of channel properties in each case. Since the identified proteins are known to be involved in the transport or processing of proteins, the results of this study represent additional evidence of membrane-associated trafficking of the voltage-dependent anion-selective channel 1.
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- Christian Schwarzer
- Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Department of Immunochemistry, Hermann-Rein Street 3, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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Mortalin/mthsp70/PBP74/Grp75 (called mortalin hereafter), a member of the Hsp70 family of chaperones, was shown to have different subcellular localizations in normal and immortal cells. It has been assigned to multiple subcellular sites and implicated in multiple functions ranging from stress response, intracellular trafficking, antigen processing, control of cell proliferation, differentiation, and tumorigenesis. The present article compiles and reviews information on the multiple sites and functions of mortalin in different organisms. The relevance of its differential distributions and functions in normal and immortal cell phenotypes is discussed.
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- Renu Wadhwa
- Chugai Research Institute for Medical Sciences, 153-2 Nagai, Niihari, Ibaraki 300-4101, Japan
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Yokoyama K, Fukumoto K, Murakami T, Harada SI, Hosono R, Wadhwa R, Mitsui Y, Ohkuma S. Extended longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans by knocking in extra copies of hsp70F, a homolog of mot-2 (mortalin)/mthsp70/Grp75. FEBS Lett 2002; 516:53-7. [PMID: 11959102 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)02470-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of mortalin/mthsp70/Grp75 (called mot-2 hereafter) was isolated by screening of a nematode cDNA library with mouse mot-2 cDNA. The isolated clone matched to hsp70F of C. elegans. Analysis with two of the antibodies raised against hsp70F revealed that unlike mammalian mot-2, it is heat inducible. Transient induction of hsp70F by heat shock led to a slight (<13%) extension in the C. elegans life span. The transgenic worms that constitutively over-expressed hsp70F predominantly in muscle showed life span extension (approximately 43% for mean and approximately 45% for maximum life span) as compared to the wild-type and green fluorescent protein-transgenic worms. Life span extension of human cells was obtained by over-expression of mot-2 [Kaul et al. (2000) FEBS Lett. 474, 159-164]. Our results show, for the first time, that this member of the hsp70 family governs the longevity of worms and thus there are common pathways that determine mammalian and worm longevity.
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- Ken Yokoyama
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa, 920-0934, Ishikawa, Japan
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Petropoulou C, Trougakos IP, Kolettas E, Toussaint O, Gonos ES. Clusterin/apolipoprotein J is a novel biomarker of cellular senescence that does not affect the proliferative capacity of human diploid fibroblasts. FEBS Lett 2001; 509:287-97. [PMID: 11741605 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03150-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Normal human fibroblasts have a limited replicative potential in culture and eventually reach a state of irreversible growth arrest, termed senescence. In a previous study aiming to identify genes that are differentially regulated during cellular senescence we have cloned clusterin/apolipoprotein J (Apo J), a 80 kDa secreted glycoprotein. In the current report we pursue our studies and show that senescence of human diploid fibroblasts is accompanied by up-regulation of both Apo J mRNA and protein levels, but with no altered biogenesis, binding partner profile or intracellular distribution of the two Apo J forms detected. To analyze the causal relationship between senescence and Apo J protein accumulation, we stably overexpressed the Apo J gene in primary as well as in SV40 T antigen-immortalized human fibroblasts and we showed no alteration of the proliferative capacity of the transduced cells. Despite previous reports on tumor-derived cell lines, overexpression of Apo J in human fibroblasts did not provide protection against apoptosis or growth arrest induced by hydrogen peroxide. Overall, our results suggest that Apo J overexpression does not induce senescence but it is rather a secondary consequence of the senescence phenotype. To our knowledge this is the first report that provides a functional analysis of human Apo J during replicative senescence.
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- C Petropoulou
- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Aging, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou Ave., 116 35 Athens, Greece
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Cooper AJ, Wang J, Gartner CA, Bruschi SA. Co-purification of mitochondrial HSP70 and mature protein disulfide isomerase with a functional rat kidney high-M(r) cysteine S-conjugate beta-lyase. Biochem Pharmacol 2001; 62:1345-53. [PMID: 11709194 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(01)00802-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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S-(1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoroethyl)-L-cysteine (TFEC, the cysteine S-conjugate of tetrafluoroethylene) is an example of a nephrotoxic, halogenated cysteine S-conjugate. Toxicity results in part from the cysteine S-conjugate beta-lyase(s)-catalyzed conversion of TFEC to a thioacylating fragment with the associated production of pyruvate and ammonia. In the present study, we have demonstrated that rat kidney homogenates contain at least three enzyme fractions that are capable of catalyzing a cysteine S-conjugate beta-lyase reaction with TFEC. One of these fractions contains a high-M(r) lyase. At least two proteins co-purify with this high-M(r) complex. N-Terminal analysis (15 cycles) revealed that the smaller species was mature protein disulfide isomerase (M(r) approximately 54,200) from which the 24 amino acid endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide had been removed. Internal amino acid sequencing (15 cycles) revealed that the larger species was mitochondrial HSP70 (mtHSP70; M(r) approximately 75,000). The present findings offer an explanation for the previous observation that mtHSP70 in kidney mitochondria is heavily thioacylated when rats are injected with TFEC (Bruschi et al., J Biol Chem 1993;268:23157-61).
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- A J Cooper
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
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Kaul SC, Reddel RR, Mitsui Y, Wadhwa R. An N-terminal region of mot-2 binds to p53 in vitro. Neoplasia 2001; 3:110-4. [PMID: 11420746 PMCID: PMC1505414 DOI: 10.1038/sj.neo.7900139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2000] [Accepted: 12/07/2000] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The mouse mot-2 protein was earlier shown to bind to the tumor suppressor protein, p53. The mot-2 binding site of p53 was mapped to C-terminal amino acid residues 312-352, which includes the cytoplasmic sequestration domain. In the present study, we have found that both mot-1 and mot-2 bind to p53 in vitro. By using His-tagged deletion mutant proteins, the p53-binding domain of mot-2 was mapped to its N-terminal amino acid residues 253-282, which are identical in mot-1 and mot-2 proteins. Some peptides containing the p53-binding region of mot-2 were able to compete with the full-length protein for p53 binding. The data provided rationale for in vitro binding of mot-1 and mot-2 proteins to p53 and supported the conclusion that inability of mot-1 protein to bind p53 in vivo depends on secondary structure or its binding to other cellular factors. Most interestingly, the p53-binding region of mot-2 was common to its MKT-077, a cationic dye that exhibits antitumor activity, binding region. Therefore it is most likely that MKT-077-induced nuclear translocation and restoration of wild-type p53 function in transformed cells takes place by a competitional mechanism.
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- Sunil C Kaul
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, AIST, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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- Children's Medical Research Institute, 214 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia
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- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, AIST, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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- Chugai Research Institute for Molecular Medicine, 153-2 Nagai, Niihari-mura, Ibaraki 300-41, Japan
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Mizukoshi E, Suzuki M, Misono T, Loupatov A, Munekata E, Kaul SC, Wadhwa R, Imamura T. Cell-cycle dependent tyrosine phosphorylation on mortalin regulates its interaction with fibroblast growth factor-1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 280:1203-9. [PMID: 11162655 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.4225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We previously reported that endogenously expressed, intracellularly localized fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-1 interacts with mortalin. Here we report that FGF-1 added to the culture medium of quiescent BALB/c3T3 cells is taken up by the cells and interacts with mortalin in the cells in a regulated manner. Although both the internalized FGF-1 and mortalin were present at high levels throughout the FGF-1-initiated cell cycle, their interaction became apparent only in late G1 phase. Interestingly, mortalin was preferentially tyrosine phosphorylated at the same time, and when its normally weak phosphorylation in early G1 phase was augmented by treating the cells with vanadate, a strong interaction between mortalin and FGF-1 was established. Conversely, when phosphorylated mortalin was treated with tyrosine phosphatase, its interaction with FGF-1 was abrogated. These results indicate that FGF-1 taken up by cells preferentially interacts with mortalin in late G1 phase of the cell cycle, and that tyrosine phosphorylation of mortalin regulates this interaction.
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- E Mizukoshi
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8566, Japan
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Kaul SC, Takano S, Reddel RR, Mitsui Y, Wadhwa R. Transcriptional inactivation of p53 by deletions and single amino acid changes in mouse mot-1 protein. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 279:602-6. [PMID: 11118332 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mouse mortalin proteins, mot-1 and mot-2, differ by only two amino acid residues in their C-terminus. In previous studies we showed that they differ in their subcellular distributions and interactions with the tumor suppressor protein, p53. By using mot-1 deletion mutants and amino acid substitution constructs, we report here that inability of mot-1 to affect p53 activity in vivo is dependent on the presence of both of the unique mot-1 amino acids and all three of the predicted hsp70, EF hand, and leucine zipper motif regions. The two proteins and their single amino acid mutants showed different mobilities on SDS-polyacrylamide gel presenting an evidence for their different secondary structures. Taken together, the data suggest that each of the two differing amino acids between mot-1 and mot-2 is an important determinant of their secondary structures and in vivo activities.
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- S C Kaul
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, AIST, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8566, Japan
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Xie H, Hu Z, Chyna B, Horrigan SK, Westbrook CA. Human mortalin (HSPA9): a candidate for the myeloid leukemia tumor suppressor gene on 5q31. Leukemia 2000; 14:2128-34. [PMID: 11187902 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2401935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Human mortalin (HSPA9) was originally identified by its close homology to murine mortalins, which play important roles in cellular senescence. The two murine genes, mot-1 and mot-2, differ in only two amino acid residues, but have opposite functions in cellular immortalization. HSPA9 was recently localized to chromosome 5, band q31, a region that is frequently deleted in myeloid leukemias and myelodysplasia (MDS), making it a candidate tumor suppressor gene, which is consistent with the biological function of its murine homologue. To evaluate mortalin in this capacity, its expression in normal and leukemic cell lines was investigated, and its genomic structure was determined in order to facilitate mutation detection. RT-PCR and Northern blot analysis revealed a broad distribution in normal tissues and in leukemia cell lines, producing a single 2.8 kb transcript. Genomic characterization showed that the gene spans 18 kb, and consisted of 17 exons with boundaries that were almost identical to its murine counterpart. Using intron-based primers to flank each exon, sequence of the complete protein-coding regions was obtained for three AML cell lines, including two lines with chromosome 5 loss (KG-1 and HL-60) and one without (AML-193) compared to normal DNA. No mutations were identified although one conservative nucleotide sequence variant was observed in exon 16. We have shown that mortalin is highly conserved in genomic structure as well as sequence, and the designed primers will be suitable for future studies to detect mutations in clinical samples.
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- H Xie
- Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607-7170, USA
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Ran Q, Wadhwa R, Kawai R, Kaul SC, Sifers RN, Bick RJ, Smith JR, Pereira-Smith OM. Extramitochondrial localization of mortalin/mthsp70/PBP74/GRP75. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 275:174-9. [PMID: 10944461 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Subcellular fractionation and immunofluorescence microscopy were used to identify the specific sites of intracellular residence of mortalin, also called a mitochondrial homologue of the hsp70 family, in immortal human cell lines previously assigned to four distinct complementation groups (A-D) for indefinite cell division. In addition to the mitochondria it was seen in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) fractions of all the cell lines analyzed. Interestingly, three of the group A cells lines (EJ, GM639, and HT1080), in addition to the mitochondria and ER, exhibited cytosolically (extra-organelle) localized pool of mortalin. These findings demonstrate that mortalin is not present exclusively in mitochondria. Its residence in different organelles may be the basis of differential distribution observed previously in different human cell lines.
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- Q Ran
- Roy M. and Phyllis Gough Huffington Center on Aging, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
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Kaula SC, Reddelb RR, Sugiharac T, Mitsuia Y, Wadhwac R. Inactivation of p53 and life span extension of human diploid fibroblasts by mot-2. FEBS Lett 2000; 474:159-64. [PMID: 10838077 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01594-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Normal human lung fibroblasts were transfected with expression plasmids encoding mot-2, an hsp70 family member that is associated with the immortal phenotype. After the empty vector-transfected controls had become senescent and positive for senescence-associated beta-galactosidase (SA-beta-gal), the mot-2-expressing cells continued to proliferate for an additional 12-18 population doublings and showed a young cell morphology and much lower SA-beta-gal activity. The tumor suppressor p53 was found to be transcriptionally inactivated in life span-extended cells. We have thus shown for the first time that overexpression of mot-2 in normal human cells is able to permit their temporary escape from senescence.
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- S C Kaula
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- T Tsuji
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Shikata-cho 2-5-1, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan
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Wadhwa R, Takano S, Mitsui Y, Kaul SC. NIH 3T3 cells malignantly transformed by mot-2 show inactivation and cytoplasmic sequestration of the p53 protein. Cell Res 1999; 9:261-9. [PMID: 10628835 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cr.7290025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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In previous studies we have reported that a high level of expression of mot-2 protein results in malignant transformation of NIH 3T3 cells as analyzed by anchorage independent growth and nude mice assays [Kaul et al., Oncogene, 17, 907-11, 1998]. Mot-2 was found to interact with tumor suppressor protein p53. The transient overexpression of mot-2 was inhibitory to transcriptional activation function of p53 [Wadhwa et al., J. Biol. Chem., 273, 29586-91, 1998]. We demonstrate here that mot-2 transfected stable clone of NIH 3T3 that showed malignant properties indeed show inactivation of p53 function as assayed by exogenous p53 dependent reporter. The expression level of p53 in response to UV-irradiation was lower in NIH 3T3/mot-2 as compared to NIH 3T3 cells and also exhibited delay in reaching peak. Furthermore, upon serum starvation p53 was seen to translocate to the nucleus in NIH 3T3, but not in its mot-2 derivative. The data suggests that mot-2 mediated cytoplasmic sequestration and inactivation of p53 may operate, at least in part, for malignant phenotype of NIH 3T3/mot-2 cells. NIH 3T3/mot-2 cells show inactivation of p53 protein.
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- R Wadhwa
- Chugai Research Institute for Molecular Medicine, Niihari-Mura, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Simons JW. A theory on cellular aging and cell immortalization. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR AND SUBCELLULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 24:1-21. [PMID: 10547856 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-06227-2_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- J W Simons
- Department of Radiation Genetics and Chemical Mutagenesis, MGC, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Wadhwa R, Kaul SC, Mitsui Y. Cellular mortality and immortalization: a complex interplay of multiple gene functions. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR AND SUBCELLULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 24:191-204. [PMID: 10547864 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-06227-2_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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- R Wadhwa
- Chugai Research Institute for Molecular Medicine, Ibaraki, Japan
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Sacht G, Brigelius-Flohé R, Kiess M, Sztajer H, Flohé L. ATP-sensitive association of mortalin with the IL-1 receptor type I. Biofactors 1999; 9:49-60. [PMID: 10221157 DOI: 10.1002/biof.5520090107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a major proinflammatory cytokine mediating local and systemic responses of the immune system. Two types of IL-1 receptors are known, but only the IL-1 receptor type I initiates biological responses. Here we show that two proteins with nucleic acid binding potential and mortalin, a member of the HSP70-family, are associated with the IL-1 receptor type I irrespective of IL-1 binding. The association of mortalin with the IL-1 receptor type I is specifically reversed by ATP concentrations in the physiological range. Other nucleotides are not or much less effective. The in vitro dissociation of mortalin effects neither the receptor association nor the activity of IRAK, which initiates the IL-1-dependent phosphorylation cascade. The roles of the receptor-associated proteins are therefore discussed in the context of receptor internalisation.
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- G Sacht
- Technical University of Braunschweig, Department of Biochemistry, Germany
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Wadhwa R, Takano S, Robert M, Yoshida A, Nomura H, Reddel RR, Mitsui Y, Kaul SC. Inactivation of tumor suppressor p53 by mot-2, a hsp70 family member. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:29586-91. [PMID: 9792667 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.45.29586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mortalin genes, mot-1 and mot-2, are hsp70 family members that were originally cloned from normal and immortal murine cells, respectively. Their proteins differ by only two amino acid residues but exhibit different subcellular localizations, arise from two distinct genes, and have contrasting biological activities. We report here that the two proteins also differ in their interactions with the tumor suppressor protein p53. The pancytosolic mot-1 protein in normal cells did not show colocalization with p53; in contrast, nonpancytosolic mot-2 and p53 overlapped significantly in immortal cells. Transfection of mot-2 but not mot-1 resulted in the repression of p53-mediated transactivation in p53-responsive reporter assays. Inactivation of p53 by mot-2 was supported by the down-regulation of p53-responsive genes p21(WAF-1) and mdm-2 in mot-2-transfected cells only. Furthermore, NIH 3T3 cells transfected with expression plasmid encoding green fluorescent protein-tagged mot-2 but not mot-1 showed an abrogation of nuclear translocation of wild-type p53. These results demonstrate a novel mechanism of p53 inactivation by mot-2 protein.
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- R Wadhwa
- Chugai Research Institute for Molecular Medicine, 153-2 Nagai, Niihari, Ibaraki 300-41, Japan.
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Gonos ES, Derventzi A, Kveiborg M, Agiostratidou G, Kassem M, Clark BF, Jat PS, Rattan SI. Cloning and identification of genes that associate with mammalian replicative senescence. Exp Cell Res 1998; 240:66-74. [PMID: 9570922 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1998.3948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cellular senescence and limited proliferative capacity of normal diploid cells has a dominant phenotype over immortality of cancerous cells, suggesting its regulation by the expression of a set of genes. In order to isolate the genes that associate with senescence, we have employed a clonal system of conditional SV40 T antigen rat embryo fibroblast cell lines which undergo senescence upon T antigen inactivation. Construction of cDNA libraries from two conditional cell lines and application of differential screening and subtractive hybridization techniques have resulted in the cloning of eight senescence-induced genes (SGP-2/Apo J, alpha 1-procollagen, osteonectin, fibronectin, SM22, cytochrome C oxidase, GTP-alpha, and a novel gene) and a senescence-repressed gene (FRS-2). Three of these genes encode for extracellular matrix proteins, others are involved in the calcium-dependent signal transduction pathways, while the SGP-2/Apo J gene may have a cellular protective function. RNA analysis has shown that the senescence-associated genes are overexpressed in both normal rat embryonic fibroblasts and human osteoblasts cell cultures undergoing aging in vitro. In comparison, the expression of these genes in a rat fibroblast immortalized cell line (208F cells) was down-regulated after both its partial and its full transformation by ras oncogenes. Thus, cloning of senescence-associated genes opens up new ways to elucidate and/or to modulate aging and cancer.
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- E S Gonos
- National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, Athens, Greece.
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Sadekova S, Lehnert S, Chow TY. Induction of PBP74/mortalin/Grp75, a member of the hsp70 family, by low doses of ionizing radiation: a possible role in induced radioresistance. Int J Radiat Biol 1997; 72:653-60. [PMID: 9416787 DOI: 10.1080/095530097142807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The identification of genes whose expression is altered following exposure to a low dose of ionizing radiation (IR) is an important step in understanding the phenomenon of the adaptive response. Using the differential mRNA display method we have identified a gene whose expression is up-regulated following exposure to 0.25 Gy IR. Partial DNA sequence and restriction endonuclease analysis of this gene showed that it is identical to the gene encoding for the human peptide-binding protein 74 (PBP74/mortalin/Grp75), a member of the heat shock 70 protein family. Time-course measurement of the PBP74/mortalin/Grp75 mRNA showed that its level was elevated after a lag of at least 15 min. The maximum induction appears to be at 30 min following gamma-irradiation and there is then a steady decline to control levels within 5 h in the HT29 cell line. On the other hand, the level of the PBP74/mortalin/Grp75 mRNA in the human breast adenocarcinoma cell line MCF-7 is consistently elevated after gamma-irradiation for up to 6 h post-irradiation. Furthermore, a cell line that does not demonstrate the induced radioresistance phenomenon (SW48) shows no induction of the PBP74/mortalin/Grp75 mRNA in contrast with HT29 or MCF-7. Treatment of the HT29 cells with antisense oligonucleotide directed towards the initiation codon of PBP74 sensitized cells to ionizing radiation.
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- S Sadekova
- Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Takano S, Wadhwa R, Yoshii Y, Nose T, Kaul SC, Mitsui Y. Elevated levels of mortalin expression in human brain tumors. Exp Cell Res 1997; 237:38-45. [PMID: 9417864 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We have performed immunohistochemical studies of mortalin in normal and tumor human brain sections. In normal brain sections, the expression was seen mainly as being confined to neurons. Normal astrocytes showed undetectable expression of this unique member of the heat shock 70 protein family. Three grades of astrocyte tumors (low-grade astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, and glioblastoma), however, showed an increasing number of mortalin-positive cells. Other types of brain tumors, such as meningiomas, neurinomas, pituitary adenomas, and metastases, also showed elevated levels of mortalin expression compared to those in the normal brain. Mortalin has earlier been reported to have differential intracellular distribution in normal and transformed cells in vitro. Therefore, we substantiated the present study with immunofluorescence localization of the protein in normal and glioblastoma cells. The observations indicated that the tumors might be expressing a nonpancytosolic mortalin. An increase in number of mortalin-positive cells with malignant progression of brain tumors and its correlation with Ki-67 (a cell proliferation marker)-positive cells further suggested an involvement of nonpancytosolic mortalin(s) in malignant transformation of cells in vivo.
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- S Takano
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan
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Merrick BA, Walker VR, He C, Patterson RM, Selkirk JK. Induction of novel Grp75 isoforms by 2-deoxyglucose in human and murine fibroblasts. Cancer Lett 1997; 119:185-90. [PMID: 9570370 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(97)00270-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Grp75 is a stress-inducible mitochondrial chaperone which has a high homology to senescence-related protein, p66mot mortalin. In human cells the mortalin gene assigns to the locus of a putative tumor suppressor gene for myeloid malignancies. In order to study expression and localization of Grp75 and p66mot in human and murine fibroblast lines, polyclonal antibodies were raised to conserved portions of each sequence. HT1080 and C3H10T1/2 cells were treated with various Grp-inducing agents. A single 75 kDa band was detected by Western blot of cytoplasmic proteins which was not greatly altered after thermal stress or treatment with L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid or nonactin. However, glucose deprivation by 2-deoxyglucose treatment induced five novel isoforms at 74-75 kDa mass. Mortalin at 66 kDa could not be detected under these treatment conditions.
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- B A Merrick
- Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle, NC 27709, USA.
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Kaul SC, Matsui M, Takano S, Sugihara T, Mitsui Y, Wadhwa R. Expression analysis of mortalin, a unique member of the Hsp70 family of proteins, in rat tissues. Exp Cell Res 1997; 232:56-63. [PMID: 9141621 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have investigated the expression of mortalin in rat tissues by Northern analysis, RNA in situ hybridization, and immunohistochemical studies. By Northern assay, the highest level of expression was detected in brain, heart, and skeletal muscle followed by lung, liver, and kidney, and the least level of expression was detected in testis and spleen. RNA in situ and immunohistochemical studies showed that mortalin expression is significantly higher in upper nondividing layers than in the lower basal layers of skin, in neurons and nerve fibers than in surrounding glial cells in brain, in cardiomyocytes than in nonmyocytes in heart, and in interstitial secretory tissue than in germinating follicles in ovary. Such tissue- and cell-specific expression patterns of mortalin coordinates with its earlier reported antiproliferative function in normal cells. However, a deregulation of the expression is observed in rat brain tumor along with the detection of nonpancytosolic mortalin in rat glioma cell line C6. The study suggests that mortalin is involved in pathways that regulate division capacities of cells in vivo.
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- S C Kaul
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Massa SM, Longo FM, Zuo J, Wang S, Chen J, Sharp FR. Cloning of rat grp75, an hsp70-family member, and its expression in normal and ischemic brain. J Neurosci Res 1995; 40:807-19. [PMID: 7629893 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490400612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Following metabolic stress a variety of gene products are induced in cells in the brain, some of which may protect the tissue from subsequent stresses. The heat shock proteins (hsps), in particular hsp70, have been widely studied in this context, but evidence for the involvement of known hsps in protection of the CNS is inconclusive. We have therefore undertaken the search for other stress-induced proteins which may mitigate ischemic injury. Beginning with degenerate RT-PCR, we have isolated a rat-brain cDNA encoding a protein highly similar to human grp75, a mitochondrial member of the hsp70-family of stress proteins. It is also highly similar to two non-mitochondrial proteins; mortalin, a senescence-related gene product, and pbp74, a protein implicated in B-cell peptide processing. Sequence structure and phylogenetic analyses predict mitochondrial localization and induction by a calcium ionophore and glucose deprivation in PC12 cells support its identification as rat grp75. In situ analysis of normal brain reveals an unusual distribution, with very high expression in neurons of the basal forebrain, reticular and subthalamic nuclei, globus pallidus, amygdala and elsewhere. grp75-mRNA is upregulated following focal brain ischemia in a distinctive fashion. When the degree of injury is small, induction occurs in the area of injury, similar to the pattern observed for hsp70. However, when the injury is extensive, hsr is upregulated in neurons outside the ischemic area. The induction of grp75 may represent a sensitive marker of metabolically compromised tissue.
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- S M Massa
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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Pawelec G. Molecular and cell biological studies of ageing and their application to considerations of T lymphocyte immunosenescence. Mech Ageing Dev 1995; 79:1-32. [PMID: 7791403 DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(94)01549-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- G Pawelec
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tübingen Medical School, Germany
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Kaul SC, Wadhwa R, Matsuda Y, Hensler PJ, Pereira-Smith OM, Komatsu Y, Mitsui Y. Mouse and human chromosomal assignments of mortalin, a novel member of the murine hsp70 family of proteins. FEBS Lett 1995; 361:269-72. [PMID: 7698336 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)00177-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Mortalin has been shown to exhibit differential distributions in cells with mortal and immortal phenotypes. In the present study, we report mot-2 cDNA cloning from RS-4 cells--an immortal clone from CD1-ICR mouse embryonic fibroblasts--and the chromosomal assignments of mortalin related genes to mouse chromosomes 18 and X by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Similar analysis assigned the gene to chromosome 5q31.1 in human.
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- S C Kaul
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, AIST, Ibaraki, Japan
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