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Xie N, Zhang L, Gao W, Huang C, Huber PE, Zhou X, Li C, Shen G, Zou B. NAD + metabolism: pathophysiologic mechanisms and therapeutic potential. Signal Transduct Target Ther 2020; 5:227. [PMID: 33028824 PMCID: PMC7539288 DOI: 10.1038/s41392-020-00311-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 372] [Impact Index Per Article: 93.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) and its metabolites function as critical regulators to maintain physiologic processes, enabling the plastic cells to adapt to environmental changes including nutrient perturbation, genotoxic factors, circadian disorder, infection, inflammation and xenobiotics. These effects are mainly achieved by the driving effect of NAD+ on metabolic pathways as enzyme cofactors transferring hydrogen in oxidation-reduction reactions. Besides, multiple NAD+-dependent enzymes are involved in physiology either by post-synthesis chemical modification of DNA, RNA and proteins, or releasing second messenger cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) and NAADP+. Prolonged disequilibrium of NAD+ metabolism disturbs the physiological functions, resulting in diseases including metabolic diseases, cancer, aging and neurodegeneration disorder. In this review, we summarize recent advances in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of NAD+-regulated physiological responses to stresses, the contribution of NAD+ deficiency to various diseases via manipulating cellular communication networks and the potential new avenues for therapeutic intervention.
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- Na Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, and West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, and West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, and West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611137, China
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- CCU Molecular and Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center; Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- First Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167, Mannheim, Germany
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- West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, and West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, 610041, China.
- CCU Molecular and Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center; Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Department of Thoracic Oncology and Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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Wang HY, Ma JL, Yin BC, Ye BC. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide detection based on silver nanoclusters stabilized by a dumbbell-shaped probe. Analyst 2017; 142:1765-1771. [PMID: 28425549 DOI: 10.1039/c7an00293a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have developed a novel method for detecting nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) based on fluorescent silver nanoclusters (AgNCs) stabilized by a dumbbell-shaped DNA template containing two cytosine-loops joined in a dsDNA stem. The design involves two types of components: a dumbbell-shaped DNA template and three enzymes. In the presence of NAD+ as a cofactor, Escherichia coli DNA ligase (E.coli DNA ligase) catalyzes template ligation to generate a sealed (no terminal nucleotides) dumbbell-shaped structure, preventing digestion by exonuclease III (Exo III) and exonuclease I (Exo I). The loop regions of the intact template serve as sites for the deposition of highly fluorescent AgNCs. In the absence of NAD+, the ligation reaction does not occur, and the unsealed dumbbell-shaped template is digested into mononucleotides via cooperation of Exo III and Exo I. The destruction of the DNA template results in the agglomeration of AgNCs into silver nanoparticles with low fluorescence. The fluorescence enhancement depends on the ligation and digestion of the DNA template, allowing quantitative detection of NAD+ in the range of 0.5 nM-5000 nM with a detection limit of ∼0.25 nM.
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- Hong-Ya Wang
- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China. and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Xinjiang, 832000, China
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See HH, Schmidt-Marzinkowski J, Pormsila W, Morand R, Krähenbühl S, Hauser PC. Determination of creatine and phosphocreatine in muscle biopsy samples by capillary electrophoresis with contactless conductivity detection. Anal Chim Acta 2012; 727:78-82. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2012.03.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Revised: 03/29/2012] [Accepted: 03/30/2012] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Li Y, de Silva PG, Xi L, van Winkle A, Lin JJC, Ahmed S, Geng ML. Separation of flavins and nicotinamide cofactors in Chinese hamster ovary cells by capillary electrophoresis. Biomed Chromatogr 2009; 22:1374-84. [PMID: 18814195 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.1068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Simultaneous extraction, separation and quantitation of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and flavin mononucleotide (FMN) in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells were investigated. The separation of flavins and nicotinamide cofactors was performed by capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection at the excitation wavelength of 325 nm. The separation protocol was established by investigating the excitation wavelength, high voltage and effects of buffer nature, pH and concentration. All endogenous fluorophores riboflavin, FAD, FMN, NADH and NADPH show wide linear range of quantitation. The limits of detection for the five compounds ranged from 4.5 to 23 nM. Extraction conditions were optimized for high-efficiency recovery of all endogenous fluorophores from CHO cells. To account for the complex matrix of cell extracts, a standard addition method was used to quantify FAD, FMN, NADH and NADPH in CHO cells. The quantitative results should be useful to reveal the metabolic status of cells. The protocols for extraction, separation and quantitation are readily adaptable to normal and cancer cell lines for the analysis of endogenous fluorophores.
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- Ye Li
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Geographical variation in thermal tolerance within Southern Ocean marine ectotherms. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2009; 153:154-61. [PMID: 19535033 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2008] [Revised: 01/26/2009] [Accepted: 02/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Latitudinal comparisons of the Southern Ocean limpet, Nacella concinna, and clam, Laternula elliptica, acclimated to 0.0 degrees C, were used to assess differences in thermal response to two regimes, 0.0, 5.1 to 10.0 degrees C and 2.5, 7.5 to 12.5 degrees C, raised at 5.0 degrees C per week. At each temperature, tissue energy status was measured through a combination of O(2) consumption, intracellular pH, cCO(2), citrate synthase (CS) activity, organic acids (succinate, acetate, propionate), adenylates (ATP, ADP, AMP, ITP, PLA (phospho-L-arginine)) and heart rate. L. elliptica from Signy (60 degrees S) and Rothera (67 degrees S), which experience a similar thermal regime (-2 to +1 degrees C) had the same lethal (7.5-10.0 degrees C), critical (5.1-7.5 degrees C) and pejus (<5.1 degrees C;=getting worse) limits with only small differences in biochemical response. N. concinna, which experiences a wider thermal regime (-2 to +15.8 degrees C), had higher lethal limits (10.0-12.5 degrees C). However, at their Northern geographic limit N. concinna, which live in a warmer environment (South Georgia, 54 degrees S), had a lower critical limit (5.1-10.0 degrees C; O(2), PLA and organic acids) than Rothera and Signy N. concinna (10.0-12.5 degrees C). This lower limit indicates that South Georgia N. concinna have different biochemical responses to temperatures close to their thermal limit, which may make them more vulnerable to future warming trends.
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Ma J, Peng X, Cheng KW, Chen F, Yang D, Chen B, Wang M. Use of capillary electrophoresis to evaluate protective effects of methylglyoxal scavengers on the activity of creatine kinase. J Sep Sci 2008; 31:2846-51. [PMID: 18655020 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.200800241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Methylglyoxal (MGO) is a highly reactive alpha-oxoaldehyde formed endogenously in numerous enzymatic and nonenzymatic reactions. The reactions between MGO and various amino residues in proteins not only result in inactivation of enzymes, but also lead to the formation of different detrimental advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs). Recently, it was reported that creatine kinase (CK, EC 2.7.3.2) activity could be reduced or even lost under incubation with MGO in vitro. In this study, an efficient CE analytical method was developed for the evaluation of CK activity. Based on this CE method, the inhibitory effect of MGO on CK activity was confirmed. Several MGO scavengers such as aminoguanidine (AG) and some thiols showed obvious protective effects on CK activity against MGO. Furthermore, tiopronin (TP), a hepatoprotective drug, was found for the first time to counteract MGO-induced inhibition of CK activity in CK reaction. Meanwhile, TP also retained adenosine diphosphate (ADP) generation level in plasma treated with MGO, which implies that this drug may have potential protective effect on other enzymes which are associated with adenine nucleotide metabolism. Besides, the established CE approach can be utilized as a model for screening effective MGO scavengers by monitoring CK-catalyzed conversion between adenosine triphosphate and ADP.
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- Jinyu Ma
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR hina
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Eckerle LG, Lucassen M, Hirse T, Pörtner HO. Cold induced changes of adenosine levels in common eelpout (Zoarces viviparus): a role in modulating cytochrome c oxidase expression. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 211:1262-9. [PMID: 18375851 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.013474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Exposure of ectothermic organisms to variations in temperatures causes a transient mismatch between energy supply and demand, which needs to be compensated for during acclimation. Adenosine accumulation from ATP breakdown indicates such an imbalance and its reversal reflects a restoration of energy status. We monitored adenosine levels in blood serum and liver of common eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) during cold exposure in vivo. Furthermore, we tested its effect on the pattern of thermal acclimation in hepatocytes isolated from cold- (4 degrees C) versus warm- (11 degrees C) exposed fish. Adenosine levels increased during cold exposure in vivo and reached a transient maximum after 24 h in serum, but remained permanently elevated in liver. Whole animal cold acclimation induced a rise of liver citrate synthase activity by 44+/-15%, but left cytochrome c oxidase activity (COX) and RNA expression of the respective genes unchanged. Cold incubation of hepatocytes from warm-acclimated fish failed to cause an increase of mitochondrial enzyme activities despite increased COX4 mRNA levels. Conversely, warm acclimation of hepatocytes from cold-acclimated fish reduced both enzyme activities and COX2 and COX4 mRNA levels by 26-37%. Adenosine treatment of both warm- and cold-acclimated hepatocytes suppressed COX activities but activated COX mRNA expression. These effects were not receptor mediated. The present findings indicate that adenosine has the potential to regulate mitochondrial functioning in vivo, albeit the pathways resulting in the contrasting effects on expression and activity need to be identified.
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- L G Eckerle
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Marine Animal Physiology, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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Friedecký D, Tomková J, Maier V, Janost'áková A, Procházka M, Adam T. Capillary electrophoretic method for nucleotide analysis in cells: application on inherited metabolic disorders. Electrophoresis 2007; 28:373-80. [PMID: 17203505 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200600262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Purine and pyrimidine nucleotides influence many metabolic pathways and their analogs have been widely used in medicine. A capillary electrophoretic method was developed for measuring intracellular nucleotides. The final BGE consisted of 40 mM citric acid with addition of 0.8 mM CTAB titrated by gamma-aminobutyric acid to pH 4.4. The electrophoretic separations were carried out in an uncoated silica capillary (id/od - 75/375 microm; effective/total length - 90/97 cm). The method allows a complete separation of 21 nucleotides and deoxynucleotides within 15 min with separation efficiencies up to 400,000 theoretical plates per meter. Due to the use of an acidic separation medium, the method offers a high selectivity toward the studied analytes versus possible interferences from matrices. Sample preparation was optimized in order to shorten work-time and prevent analyte degradation. The method was applied for analyzing nucleotides in human erythrocytes and Chinese hamster ovary cells. Diagnostic potential for inherited metabolic disorders of nucleotide metabolism is presented.
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- David Friedecký
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Laboratory for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, University Hospital and Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Liu L, Li Y, Li H, Chen J. Significant increase of glycolytic flux in Torulopsis glabrata by inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation. FEMS Yeast Res 2007; 6:1117-29. [PMID: 16972982 DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00153.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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This study was aimed at increasing the glycolytic flux of the multivitamin-auxotrophic yeast Torulopsis glabrata by disturbing oxidative phosphorylation. We examined two different strategies to impede oxidative phosphorylation. The first strategy was disruption of the activity of the electron transfer chain (ETC), by either of two approaches. One was separately adding, at 10 mg L1, specific inhibitors of complex I (rotenone) or of the bc1 complex (antimycin A) to the culture broth of T. glabrata CCTCC M202019, which resulted in significantly decreased intracellular ATP levels (43% and 27.7%) and significantly increased rates of glucose consumption (qs) and pyruvate production (qp); another approach was breeding a respiratory-deficient mutant RD-16, in which cytochromes aa3 and b in the ETC were deleted after ethidium bromide mutagenesis, to reduce the ETC activity constitutively. The second strategy was inhibiting F0F1-ATP synthase with 0.05 mM oligomycin. Also, a neomycin-resistant mutant with 65% decreased F0F1-ATPase activity was studied. With the two strategies, the specific activity of phosphofructokinase (R2=0.9971), the average specific glucose consumption rate (R2=0.9967) and the average specific pyruvate production rate (R2=0.965) were closely correlated with the intracellular ATP level, all of them being increased at a lower intracellular ATP level.
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- Liming Liu
- The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi, China
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Breyer A, Elstner M, Gillessen T, Weiser D, Elstner E. Glutamate-induced cell death in neuronal HT22 cells is attenuated by extracts from St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum L.). PHYTOMEDICINE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOTHERAPY AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY 2007; 14:250-5. [PMID: 17346956 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2007.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Glutamate-induced cell death of hippocampal HT22 cells is a model system for neuronal disorders due to depletion of glutathione levels and increase of intracellular reactive oxygen species. Standardized extracts of Hypericum perforatum (HPE) contain flavonoids known for antioxidative properties. In the above model, cytoprotective effects at a concentration of 0.05% HPE by attenuation of calcium fluxes and cellular energy statuses are reported.
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- Anja Breyer
- Institute of Phytopathology, Laboratory of Applied Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Goyal R, Oyama M, Singh S. Simultaneous Determination of Adenosine and Adenosine-5′-triphosphate at Nanogold Modified Indium Tin Oxide Electrode by Osteryoung Square-Wave Voltammetry. ELECTROANAL 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.200603766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Babu SCV, Song EJ, Babar SME, Yoo YS. Capillary electrophoresis of signaling molecules. Biomed Chromatogr 2007; 21:890-7. [PMID: 17583878 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The emerging field of quantitative systems biology uses high-throughput bioanalytical measurements to gain a deeper understanding of biological phenomena. With the advent of instrumentation platforms, capillary electrophoresis spans a very wide range of biological applications. This short article focuses on the exploitation of capillary electrophoresis for the systems-level analysis of cell signaling molecules.
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- Suresh C V Babu
- Bioanalysis and Biotransformation Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, PO Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul 130-650, Korea
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Casey TM, Arthur PG, Bogoyevitch MA. Necrotic death without mitochondrial dysfunction-delayed death of cardiac myocytes following oxidative stress. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2006; 1773:342-51. [PMID: 17207543 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2006] [Revised: 11/02/2006] [Accepted: 11/16/2006] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Oxidative stress has been implicated in cell death in range of disease states including ischemia/reperfusion injury of the heart and heart failure. Here we have investigated the mechanisms of cell death following chronic exposure of cardiac myocytes to oxidative stress initiated by hydrogen peroxide. This exposure induced a delayed form of cell death with ultrastructural changes typical of necrosis, and that was accompanied by the release of lactate dehydrogenase and increased lipid peroxidation. However, this delayed death was not accompanied by the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential or caspase-3 activation. Furthermore, we could demonstrate that this delayed necrosis was at least partially prevented by pre-treatment with the hypertrophic stimuli endothelin-1 or leukemic inhibitory factor. Our results suggest that this delayed form necrosis may also comprise an ordered series of events involving pathways amenable to therapeutic modulation.
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- Tammy M Casey
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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Liu L, Li Y, Zhu Y, Du G, Chen J. Redistribution of carbon flux in Torulopsis glabrata by altering vitamin and calcium level. Metab Eng 2006; 9:21-9. [PMID: 17008113 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2006.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2005] [Revised: 07/23/2006] [Accepted: 07/25/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Manipulation of cofactor (thiamine, biotin and Ca(2+)) levels as a potential tool to redistribute carbon flux was studied in Torulopsis glabrata. With sub-optimization of vitamin in fermentation medium, the carbon flux was blocked at the key node of pyruvate, and 69 g/L pyruvate was accumulated. Increasing the concentrations of thiamine and biotin could selectively open the valve of carbon flux from pyruvate to pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, the pyruvate carboxylase (PC) pathway and the channel into the TCA cycle, leading to the over-production of alpha-ketoglutarate. In addition, the activity of PC was enhanced with Ca(2+) present in fermentation medium. By combining high concentration's vitamins and CaCO(3) as the pH buffer, a batch culture was conducted in a 7-L fermentor, with the pyruvate concentration decreased to 21.8 g/L while alpha-ketoglutarate concentration increased to 43.7 g/L. Our study indicated that the metabolic flux could be redistributed to overproduce desired metabolites with manipulating the cofactor levels. Furthermore, the manipulation of vitamin level provided an alternative tool to realize metabolic engineering goals.
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- Liming Liu
- The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, China
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Iqbal J, Burbiel JC, Müller CE. Development of off-line and on-line capillary electrophoresis methods for the screening and characterization of adenosine kinase inhibitors and substrates. Electrophoresis 2006; 27:2505-17. [PMID: 16786483 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200500944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Fast and convenient CE assays were developed for the screening of adenosine kinase (AK) inhibitors and substrates. In the first method, the enzymatic reaction was performed in a test tube and the samples were subsequently injected into the capillary by pressure and detected by their UV absorbance at 260 nm. An MEKC method using borate buffer (pH 9.5) containing 100 mM SDS (method A) was suitable for separating alternative substrates (nucleosides). For the CE determination of AMP formed as a product of the AK reaction, a phosphate buffer (pH 7.5 or 8.5) was used and a constant current (95 microA) was applied (method B). The methods employing a fused-silica capillary and normal polarity mode provided good resolution of substrates and products of the enzymatic reaction and a short analysis time of less than 10 min. To further optimize and miniaturize the AK assays, the enzymatic reaction was performed directly in the capillary, prior to separation and quantitation of the product employing electrophoretically mediated microanalysis (EMMA, method C). After hydrodynamic injection of a plug of reaction buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl, 0.2 mM MgCl2, pH 7.4), followed by a plug containing the enzyme, and subsequent injection of a plug of reaction buffer containing 1 mM ATP, 100 microM adenosine, and 20 microM UMP as an internal standard (I.S.), as well as various concentrations of an inhibitor, the reaction was initiated by the application of 5 kV separation voltage (negative polarity) for 0.20 min to let the plugs interpenetrate. The voltage was turned off for 5 min (zero-potential amplification) and again turned on at a constant current of -60 microA to elute the products within 7 min. The method employing a polyacrylamide-coated capillary of 20 cm effective length and reverse polarity mode provided good resolution of substrates and products. Dose-response curves and calculated K(i) values for standard antagonists obtained by CE were in excellent agreement with data obtained by the standard radioactive assay.
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- Jamshed Iqbal
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Poppelsdorf, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Munns SE, Lui JKC, Arthur PG. Mitochondrial hydrogen peroxide production alters oxygen consumption in an oxygen-concentration-dependent manner. Free Radic Biol Med 2005; 38:1594-603. [PMID: 15917188 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.02.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2004] [Revised: 02/02/2005] [Accepted: 02/22/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Metabolic responses of mammalian cells toward declining oxygen concentration are generally thought to occur when oxygen limits mitochondrial ATP production. However, at oxygen concentrations markedly above those limiting to mitochondria, several mammalian cell types display reduced rates of oxygen consumption without energy stress or compensatory increases in glycolytic ATP production. We used mammalian Jurkat T cells as a model system to identify mechanisms responsible for these changes in metabolic rate. Oxygen consumption was 31% greater at high oxygen (150-200 microM) compared to low oxygen (5-10 microM). Hydrogen peroxide was implicated in the response as catalase prevented the increase in oxygen consumption normally associated with high oxygen. Cell-derived hydrogen peroxide, predominately from the mitochondria, was elevated with high oxygen. Oxygen consumption related to intracellular calcium turnover was shown, through EDTA chelation and dantrolene antagonism of the ryanodine receptor, to account for 70% of the response. Oligomycin inhibition of oxygen consumption indicated that mitochondrial proton leak was also sensitive to changes in oxygen concentration. Our results point toward a mechanism in which changes in oxygen concentration influence the rate of hydrogen peroxide production by mitochondria, which, in turn, alters cellular ATP use associated with intracellular calcium turnover and energy wastage through mitochondrial proton leak.
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- Shane E Munns
- School of Biomedical & Chemical Sciences, M310, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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Casey TM, Arthur PG, Bogoyevitch MA. Proteomic Analysis Reveals Different Protein Changes during Endothelin-1- or Leukemic Inhibitory Factor-induced Hypertrophy of Cardiomyocytes in Vitro. Mol Cell Proteomics 2005; 4:651-61. [PMID: 15708983 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m400155-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Proteomic analyses are being increasingly used to identify protein changes accompanying changes in cellular function. An advantage of this approach is that it is largely unbiased by prior assumptions on the importance of each protein in the process under investigation. Here we have evaluated the protein changes that accompany the enlargement, or hypertrophy, of cardiomyocytes in culture. We have taken the additional step of comparing the changes that accompany a concentric hypertrophic phenotype stimulated by endothelin-1 exposure and an eccentric hypertrophic phenotype stimulated by leukemic inhibitory factor exposure. Following separation of the protein extracts by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and staining with colloidal Coomassie Brilliant Blue, we identified 15 protein spots representing 12 proteins that changed in response to endothelin-1. In comparison, 17 protein spots representing 17 proteins changed in response to leukemic inhibitory factor, and 35 protein spots representing 28 proteins did not change under these conditions. Importantly the well established marker of cardiac pathology, atrial natriuretic factor, was identified as a protein up-regulated by both endothelin-1 and leukemic inhibitory factor (2.4+/-0.8- and 2.2+/-0.3-fold, respectively). However, nine of the observed protein changes occurred for only endothelin-1, whereas 11 of the changes occurred only with leukemic inhibitory factor exposure. These two different stimuli are therefore able to elicit unique changes in the protein expression profile of cardiac myocytes. This is consistent with the differences in morphologies noted as well as the different signaling pathways utilized by these different stimuli.
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- Tammy M Casey
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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Stephanson CJ, Flanagan GP. Differential metabolic effects on mitochondria by silica hydride using capillary electrophoresis. J Med Food 2004; 7:79-83. [PMID: 15117557 DOI: 10.1089/109662004322984743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Working as an extension of a newly developed method for a capillary electrophoretic analysis of purine nucleotides, nucleosides, bases, and catabolism, an assay of the differential metabolic properties by a novel organosiliceous anionic hydride compound, silica hydride, was evaluated with Chinese hamster ovary mitochondria using a 50-microm poly(acryloylaminopropanol)-coated, fused-silica capillary. The results of this organellar differential analysis indicate a correlation of increased redox pair of NADH to NAD(+) ratios by two times and an increase in ATP levels in the assayed mitochondria by six times. Glucose levels in the organelles were half of the original values. This study validates the electrophoretic method utilizing live organelle fractions for differential metabolic analysis and additionally illustrates some of the emerging novel properties of silica hydride. As confirmation of the results obtained in this assay, additional methods of standard protocol were used to monitor the mitochondrial metabolic activity.
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Clark H, Carling D, Saggerson D. Covalent activation of heart AMP-activated protein kinase in response to physiological concentrations of long-chain fatty acids. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 271:2215-24. [PMID: 15153111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04151.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rat hearts were perfused for 1 h with 5 mm glucose with or without palmitate or oleate at concentrations characteristic of the fasting state. The inclusion of fatty acids resulted in increased activities of the alpha-1 or the alpha-2 isoforms of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), increased phosphorylation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase and a decrease in the tissue content of malonyl-CoA. Activation of AMPK was not accompanied by any changes in the tissue contents of ATP, ADP, AMP, phosphocreatine or creatine. Palmitate increased phosphorylation of Thr172 within AMPK alpha-subunits and the activation by palmitate of both AMPK isoforms was abolished by protein phosphatase 2C leading to the conclusion that exposure to fatty acid caused activation of an AMPK kinase or inhibition of an AMPK phosphatase. In vivo, 24 h of starvation also increased heart AMPK activity and Thr172 phosphorylation of AMPK alpha-subunits. Perfusion with insulin decreased both alpha-1 and alpha-2 AMPK activities and increased malonyl-CoA content. Palmitate prevented both of these effects. Perfusion with epinephrine decreased malonyl-CoA content without an effect on AMPK activity but prevented the activation of AMPK by palmitate. The concept is discussed that activation of AMPK by an unknown fatty acid-driven signalling process provides a mechanism for a 'feed-forward' activation of fatty acid oxidation.
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- Hilary Clark
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Lazzarino G, Amorini AM, Fazzina G, Vagnozzi R, Signoretti S, Donzelli S, Di Stasio E, Giardina B, Tavazzi B. Single-sample preparation for simultaneous cellular redox and energy state determination. Anal Biochem 2004; 322:51-9. [PMID: 14705780 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2003.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A simple and reliable method for the preparation of biological samples for the evaluation of biochemical parameters representative of the redox and energy states, such as glutathione (GSH), oxidized glutathione (GSSG), oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+), reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), coenzyme A (CoASH), oxidized CoASH, ascorbate, malondialdehyde, oxypurines, nucleosides, and energy metabolites, is presented. Fast deproteinization under nonoxidizing conditions is obtained by tissue homogenization in ice-cold, nitrogen-saturated CH3CN + 10 mM KH2PO4 (3:1; v:v), pH 7.40. After sample centrifugation to pellet precipitated proteins, organic solvent removal is performed on clear supernatants by three washings with large volumes of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-grade chloroform. The remaining aqueous phase, free of solvent and any lipid-soluble substances that may interfere with the further metabolite analysis, is used for the simultaneous ion-pairing HPLC determination of 39 compounds by means of a Kromasil C-18, 250 x 4.6-mm, 5-microm-particle-size column with tetrabutylammonium hydroxide as the pairing reagent. Results obtained by using the present method to prepare different rat tissue extracts demonstrate that it is possible to perform a single tissue preparation only for monitoring, in the same sample, compounds representative of the redox state (through the direct determination of GSH, GSSG, NAD+, NADH, NADP+, NADPH, CoASH, and oxidized CoASH) and of the cell energy state (by the analysis of oxypurines, nucleosides, and energy metabolites). Applicability of this sample processing procedure to quantify variations of the aforementioned compounds under pathological conditions was effected in rats subjected to moderate closed-head trauma.
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- Giuseppe Lazzarino
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.
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Munns SE, Meloni BP, Knuckey NW, Arthur PG. Primary cortical neuronal cultures reduce cellular energy utilization during anoxic energy deprivation. J Neurochem 2003; 87:764-72. [PMID: 14535958 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.02049.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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It has been widely hypothesized that neurons reduce cellular energy use in response to periods of energy deprivation. To test this hypothesis, we measured rates of energy use under normoxia and anoxia in immature (6 days in vitro) and mature (13 days in vitro) neuronal cultures. During anoxic incubation immature and mature cultures reduced cellular energy use by 80% and 45%, respectively. Reduced cellular energy use dramatically affected ATP depletion in neuronal cultures under anoxia. Intracellular ATP stores were expected to deplete within 3 min of anoxia. However, ATP was maintained at decreased but stabilized concentrations for at least 3 h. The capacity of neuronal cultures to reduce cellular energy use during anoxia correlated with their sensitivity towards simulated ischemia. Immature cultures, with the largest capacity to reduce cellular energy use, survived simulated ischemia 2.5 times longer than mature cultures. The addition of glutamate receptor antagonists to mature cultures further decreased cellular energy use during anoxia and significantly extended their survival time under simulated ischemia. This study verifies that primary cortical neuronal cultures reduce cellular energy use during energy deprivation. Additionally, we show that maturation of glutamate receptor activity increases non-depressible energy demand in neuronal cultures.
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- Shane E Munns
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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Storch D, Pörtner HO. The protein synthesis machinery operates at the same expense in eurythermal and cold stenothermal pectinids. Physiol Biochem Zool 2003; 76:28-40. [PMID: 12695984 DOI: 10.1086/367945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2002] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Translationally active cell-free systems from gills of the Antarctic scallop Adamussium colbecki and the European scallop Aequipecten opercularis were developed, characterised, and optimised for an analysis of translational capacity. The aim was to determine the energetic cost of protein synthesis in the in vitro cell-free system by directly measuring the required energy equivalents in the lysates. Protein synthesis rate in assays conducted with lysates of A. colbecki (1.029+/-0.061 micromol Phe min(-1) at 15 degrees C; Phe=phenylalanine) were higher compared with lysates of A. opercularis (0.087+/-0.013 micromol Phe min(-1) at 15 degrees C and 0.156+/-0.023 micromol Phe min(-1) at 25 degrees C). This can in part be attributed to the naturally occurring higher RNA content in lysates of A. colbecki (0.883+/-0.037 mg RNA mL(-1) lysate) compared with A. opercularis (0.468+/-0.013 mg RNA mL(-1) lysate). There was no significant difference in the energetic costs of protein synthesis in cell-free systems of gill lysates of the cold stenothermal A. colbecki with 4.3+/-0.7 energy equivalents per peptide bond formed and the eurythermal A. opercularis with 5.6+/-0.6 energy equivalents, indicating that there are no differences in the efficiency of the translation machinery. The energetic costs specified for protein synthesis correspond with the generally accepted theoretical value of four energy equivalents per peptide bond formed, especially in gill lysates of A. colbecki, whereas the value for gill lysates of A. opercularis was slightly higher.
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- Daniela Storch
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Columbusstrasse, D-27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
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Smith-Palmer T. Separation methods applicable to urinary creatine and creatinine. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2002; 781:93-106. [PMID: 12450655 DOI: 10.1016/s1570-0232(02)00617-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Urinary creatinine has been analyzed for many years as an indicator of glomerular filtration rate. More recently, interest in studying the uptake of creatine as a result of creatine supplementation, a practice increasingly common among bodybuilders and athletes, has lead to a need to measure urinary creatine concentrations. Creatine levels are of the same order of magnitude as creatinine levels when subjects have recently ingested creatine, while somewhat elevated urinary creatine concentrations in non-supplementing subjects can be an indication of a degenerative disease of the muscle. Urinary creatine and creatinine can be analyzed by HPLC using a variety of columns. Detection methods include absorption, fluorescence after post-column derivatization, and mass spectrometry, and some methods have been automated. Capillary zone electrophoresis and micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography have also been used to analyze urinary creatine and creatinine. Creatine and creatinine have also been analyzed in serum and tissue using HPLC and CE, and many of these separations could also be applicable to urinary analysis.
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- Truis Smith-Palmer
- Department of Chemistry, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada B2G 2W5.
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McLeod LE, Proud CG. ATP depletion increases phosphorylation of elongation factor eEF2 in adult cardiomyocytes independently of inhibition of mTOR signalling. FEBS Lett 2002; 531:448-52. [PMID: 12435591 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03582-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Translation elongation consumes a high proportion of cellular energy and can be regulated by phosphorylation of elongation factor eEF2 which inhibits its activity. We have studied the effects of ATP depletion on the phosphorylation of eEF2 in adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes. Energy depletion rapidly leads to inhibition of protein synthesis and increased phosphorylation of eEF2. Stimulation of the AMP-activated protein kinase also causes increases eEF2 phosphorylation. Only at later times is an effect on mTOR signalling observed. These data suggest that energy depletion leads to inhibition of protein synthesis through phosphorylation of eEF2 independently of inhibition of mTOR signalling.
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- Laura E McLeod
- Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, DD1 5EH, Dundee, UK
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Arthur PG, Giles JJ, Wakeford CM. Protein synthesis during oxygen conformance and severe hypoxia in the mouse muscle cell line C2C12. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2000; 1475:83-9. [PMID: 10806342 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(00)00046-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Oxygen conformance can be described as the ability to reduce energy demand, and hence oxygen consumption, in response to a decline in oxygen availability without a decrease in the concentration of ATP. It has been proposed that oxygen conformance may enhance cellular survival at low oxygen concentrations. We demonstrate that non-contracting C2C12 cells, a mouse skeletal muscle cell line, are capable of oxygen conformance. Typically, we found oxygen consumption to decline by 30-40% as the concentration of oxygen was reduced from 100 microM to 10 microM. Unexpectedly, the rate of protein synthesis, a major energy consumer in the cell, did not decrease significantly during oxygen conformance. Unlike oxygen conformance, severe hypoxia (<0.5 microM) caused a 36% decline in the concentration of PCr, and under these conditions of energy stress, the rate of protein synthesis declined by 43%. We conclude that there are two distinct metabolic responses to declines in oxygen concentration in non-contracting C2C12 cells.
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- P G Arthur
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A., Australia.
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