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Zinc and iron dynamics in human islet amyloid polypeptide-induced diabetes mouse model. Sci Rep 2023; 13:3484. [PMID: 36922503 PMCID: PMC10017767 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30498-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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Metal homeostasis is tightly regulated in cells and organisms, and its disturbance is frequently observed in some diseases such as neurodegenerative diseases and metabolic disorders. Previous studies suggest that zinc and iron are necessary for the normal functions of pancreatic β cells. However, the distribution of elements in normal conditions and the pathophysiological significance of dysregulated elements in the islet in diabetic conditions have remained unclear. In this study, to investigate the dynamics of elements in the pancreatic islets of a diabetic mouse model expressing human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP): hIAPP transgenic (hIAPP-Tg) mice, we performed imaging analysis of elements using synchrotron scanning X-ray fluorescence microscopy and quantitative analysis of elements using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. We found that in the islets, zinc significantly decreased in the early stage of diabetes, while iron gradually decreased concurrently with the increase in blood glucose levels of hIAPP-Tg mice. Notably, when zinc and/or iron were decreased in the islets of hIAPP-Tg mice, dysregulation of glucose-stimulated mitochondrial respiration was observed. Our findings may contribute to clarifying the roles of zinc and iron in islet functions under pathophysiological diabetic conditions.
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Szyrwiel Ł, Shimura M, Setner B, Szewczuk Z, Malec K, Malinka W, Brasun J, Pap JS. SOD-Like Activity of Copper(II) Containing Metallopeptides Branched By 2,3-Diaminopropionic Acid: What the N-Termini Elevate, the C-Terminus Ruins. Int J Pept Res Ther 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10989-018-9717-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Jiménez-Lamana J, Szpunar J, Łobinski R. New Frontiers of Metallomics: Elemental and Species-Specific Analysis and Imaging of Single Cells. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2018; 1055:245-270. [PMID: 29884968 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90143-5_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Single cells represent the basic building units of life, and thus their study is one the most important areas of research. However, classical analysis of biological cells eludes the investigation of cell-to-cell differences to obtain information about the intracellular distribution since it only provides information by averaging over a huge number of cells. For this reason, chemical analysis of single cells is an expanding area of research nowadays. In this context, metallomics research is going down to the single-cell level, where high-resolution high-sensitive analytical techniques are required. In this chapter, we present the latest developments and applications in the fields of single-cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SC-ICP-MS), mass cytometry, laser ablation (LA)-ICP-MS, nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS), and synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy (SXRF) for single-cell analysis. Moreover, the capabilities and limitations of the current analytical techniques to unravel single-cell metabolomics as well as future perspectives in this field will be discussed.
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- Javier Jiménez-Lamana
- Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physico-Chemistry for Environment and Materials (IPREM), UMR 5254, CNRS-UPPA, Pau, France.
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- Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physico-Chemistry for Environment and Materials (IPREM), UMR 5254, CNRS-UPPA, Pau, France
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- Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physico-Chemistry for Environment and Materials (IPREM), UMR 5254, CNRS-UPPA, Pau, France
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Szyrwiel Ł, Lukács D, Srankó DF, Kerner Z, Kotynia A, Brasuń J, Setner B, Szewczuk Z, Malec K, Pap JS. Armed by Asp? C-terminal carboxylate in a Dap-branched peptide and consequences in the binding of CuII and electrocatalytic water oxidation. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra03814c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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C-Terminal carboxylate in branched peptide allows insight into water oxidation electrocatalysis by Cu-complexes, revealing differences to homologues with varied modules.
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- Łukasz Szyrwiel
- Dept. of Chemistry of Drugs
- Wrocław Medical Univ
- 50-552 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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- Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry
- Wrocław Medical University
- 50-552 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry
- Wrocław Medical University
- 50-552 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry
- Univ. of Wrocław
- 50-383 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Dept. of Chemistry of Drugs
- Wrocław Medical Univ
- 50-552 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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Shimura M, Szyrwiel L, Matsuyama S, Yamauchi K. Visualization of Intracellular Elements Using Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy. Metallomics 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-56463-8_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Sun Y, Ye Q, Wu M, Wu Y, Zhang C, Yan W. High yields and soluble expression of superoxide dismutases in Escherichia coli due to the HIV-1 Tat peptide via increases in mRNA transcription. Exp Mol Med 2016; 48:e264. [PMID: 27741225 PMCID: PMC5099423 DOI: 10.1038/emm.2016.91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2016] [Revised: 04/18/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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This study aimed to validate the high yield and soluble expression of proteins carrying the transactivator of transcription (Tat) peptide tag, and further explored the potential mechanism by which the Tat tag increases expression. Escherichia coli superoxide dismutase (SOD) proteins, including SodA, SodB and SodC, were selected for analysis. As expected, the yields and the solubility of Tat-tagged proteins were higher than those of Tat-free proteins, and similar results were observed for the total SOD enzyme activity. Bacterial cells that overexpressed Tat-tagged proteins exhibited increased anti-paraquat activity compared with those expressing Tat-free proteins that manifested as SodA>SodC>SodB. When compared with an MG1655 wild-type strain, the growth of a ΔSodA mutant strain was found to be inhibited after paraquat treatment; the growth of ΔSodB and ΔSodC mutant strains was also slightly inhibited. The mRNA transcript level of genes encoding Tat-tagged proteins was higher than that of genes encoding Tat-free proteins. Furthermore, the α-helix and turn of Tat-tagged proteins were higher than those of Tat-free proteins, but the β-sheet and random coil content was lower. These results indicated that the incorporation of the Tat core peptide as a significant basic membrane transduction peptide in fusion proteins could increase mRNA transcripts and promote the high yield and soluble expression of heterologous proteins in E. coli.
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- Yangdong Sun
- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Pharmacy, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Cognitive and Mental Health Research Center, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Protein Research, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Cognitive and Mental Health Research Center, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Cognitive and Mental Health Research Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biological Engineering, College of Pharmacy, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Farkas E, Srankó D, Kerner Z, Setner B, Szewczuk Z, Malinka W, Horvath R, Szyrwiel Ł, Pap JS. Self-assembled, nanostructured coatings for water oxidation by alternating deposition of Cu-branched peptide electrocatalysts and polyelectrolytes. Chem Sci 2016; 7:5249-5259. [PMID: 30155174 PMCID: PMC6020527 DOI: 10.1039/c6sc00595k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2016] [Accepted: 04/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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This work demonstrates the heterogenization of homogeneous water oxidation electrocatalysts in surface coatings produced by combining the substances with a suitable polyelectrolyte.
This work demonstrates the heterogenization of homogeneous water oxidation electrocatalysts in surface coatings produced by combining the substances with a suitable polyelectrolyte. The electrocatalysts i.e. Cu(ii)-branched peptide complexes involving a 2,3-l-diaminopropionic acid junction unit are heterogenized by building composite layers on indium-tin-oxide (ITO) electrode surface. Alternating deposition of the peptide complexes and poly(l-lysine) or poly(allylamine hydrochloride) were carried out in the presence of phosphate in a pH range of 7.5–10.5. Discussion of the results is divided to (1) characteristics of composite layer buildup and (2) electrocatalytic water oxidation and accompanying changes of these layers. For (1), optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy (OWLS) has been applied to reveal the layer-by-layer formation of a Cu-ligand/polyelectrolyte/phosphate coating. The fabricated structures had a nanoporous topography (atomic force microscopy). As for (2), electrochemistry employing coated ITO substrates indicated improved water oxidation electrocatalysis vs. neat ITO and dependence of this improvement on the presence or absence of a histidine ligand in the deposited Cu(ii)-complexes equally, as observed in homogeneous systems. Electrochemical OWLS revealed changes in the coatings in operando, upon alternating positive–zero–positive etc. polarization: after some initial loss of the coating mass steady-state electrolysis was sustained by a compact and stable layer. According to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy Cu remains in an N-donor ligand environment after electrolysis.
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- Enikő Farkas
- Nanobiosensorics Group , MTA Centre for Energy Research - MFA , H-1121 Budapest , Hungary . .,Doctoral School of Molecular- and Nanotechnologies , Faculty of Information Technology , University of Pannonia , Egyetem u. 10 , H-8200 Veszprém , Hungary
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Department , MTA Centre for Energy Research , Konkoly Thege str. 29-33 , H-1121 Budapest , Hungary .
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Department , MTA Centre for Energy Research , Konkoly Thege str. 29-33 , H-1121 Budapest , Hungary .
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- Faculty of Chemistry , Univ. of Wrocław , ul. F. Joliot-Curie 14 , 50-383 Wrocław , Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry , Univ. of Wrocław , ul. F. Joliot-Curie 14 , 50-383 Wrocław , Poland
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- Dept of Chemistry of Drugs , Wrocław Medical Univ. , ul. Borowska 211 , 50-552 Wrocław , Poland .
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- Nanobiosensorics Group , MTA Centre for Energy Research - MFA , H-1121 Budapest , Hungary .
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- Dept of Chemistry of Drugs , Wrocław Medical Univ. , ul. Borowska 211 , 50-552 Wrocław , Poland . .,CNRS/UPPA , LCABIE , UMR5254 , Helioparc, 2, av. Pr. Angot, Pau , F-64053 , France
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Department , MTA Centre for Energy Research , Konkoly Thege str. 29-33 , H-1121 Budapest , Hungary .
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Szyrwiel Ł, Pap JS, Szczukowski Ł, Kerner Z, Brasuń J, Setner B, Szewczuk Z, Malinka W. Branched peptide with three histidines for the promotion of CuII binding in a wide pH range – complementary potentiometric, spectroscopic and electrochemical studies. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra08602g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Triple-arm, His-rich branched peptide stabilizes 1 : 1 CuII complex forms by switching between N- and C-terminal His coordination upon changes in pH.
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- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Department
- H-1525 Budapest
- Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry of Drugs
- Wrocław Medical University
- 50-552 Wrocław
- Poland
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- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Department
- H-1525 Budapest
- Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry
- Wroclaw Medical University
- 50-552 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry
- University of Wrocław
- 50-383 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Department of Chemistry of Drugs
- Wrocław Medical University
- 50-552 Wrocław
- Poland
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