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Suhail M. Biophysical chemistry behind sickle cell anemia and the mechanism of voxelotor action. Sci Rep 2024; 14:1861. [PMID: 38253605 PMCID: PMC10803371 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-52476-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Sickle cell anemia disease has been a great challenge to the world in the present situation. It occurs only due to the polymerization of sickle hemoglobin (HbS) having Pro-Val-Glu typed mutation, while the polymerization does not occur in normal hemoglobin (HbA) having Pro-Glu-Glu peptides. It is also well confirmed that the oxygenated HbS (OHbS) does not participate in the polymerization, while the deoxygenated HbS (dHbS) does, which causes the shape of red blood cells sickled. After polymerization, the blood has a low oxygen affinity. Keeping this fact into consideration, only those drugs are being synthesized that stabilize the OHbS structure so that the polymerization of HbS can be stopped. The literature data showed no systematic description of the changes occurring during the OHbS conversion to dHbS before polymerization. Hence, an innovative reasonable study between HbA and HbS, when they convert into their deoxygenated forms, was done computationally. In this evaluation, physiochemical parameters in HbA/HbS before and after deoxygenation were studied and compared deeply. The computationally collected data was used to understand the abnormal behaviour of dHbS arising due to the replacement of Glu6 with Val6. Consequently, during the presented computational study, the changes occurring in HbS were found opposite/abnormal as compared to HbA after the deoxygenation of both. The mechanism of Voxelotor (GBT-440) action to stop the HbS polymerization was also explained with the help of computationally collected data. Besides, a comparative study between GBT-440 and another suggested drug was also done to know their antisickling strength. Additionally, the effect of pH, CO, CO2, and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) on HbS structure was also studied computationally.
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- Mohd Suhail
- Department of Chemistry, Siddhartha (PG) College, Aakhlor Kheri, Deoband (Saharanpur), Uttar Pradesh, 247554, India.
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Gowda GAN, Pascua V, Killion CE, Paranji RK, Raftery D. Labile Metabolite Profiling in Human Blood Using Phosphorus NMR Spectroscopy. Anal Chem 2023; 95:15033-15041. [PMID: 37756488 PMCID: PMC10591760 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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Phosphorus metabolites occupy a unique place in cellular function as critical intermediates and products of cellular metabolism. Human blood is the most widely used biospecimen in the clinic and in the metabolomics field, and hence an ability to profile phosphorus metabolites in blood, quantitatively, would benefit a wide variety of investigations of cellular functions in health and diseases. Mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are the two premier analytical platforms used in the metabolomics field. However, detection and quantitation of phosphorus metabolites by MS can be challenging due to their lability, high polarity, structural isomerism, and interaction with chromatographic columns. The conventionally used 1H NMR, on the other hand, suffers from poor resolution of these compounds. As a remedy, 31P NMR promises an important alternative to both MS and 1H NMR. However, numerous challenges including the instability of phosphorus metabolites, their chemical shift sensitivity to solvent composition, pH, salt, and temperature, and the lack of identified metabolites have so far restricted the scope of 31P NMR. In the current study, we describe a method to analyze nearly 25 phosphorus metabolites in blood using a simple one-dimensional (1D) NMR spectrum. Establishment of the identity of unknown metabolites involved a combination of (a) comprehensively analyzing an array of 1D and two-dimensional (2D) 1H/31P homonuclear and heteronuclear NMR spectra of blood; (b) mapping the central carbon metabolic pathway; (c) developing and using 1H and 31P spectral and chemical shift databases; and finally (d) confirming the putative metabolite peaks with spiking using authentic compounds. The resulting simple 1D 31P NMR-based method offers an ability to visualize and quantify the levels of intermediates and products of multiple metabolic pathways, including central carbon metabolism, in one step. Overall, the findings represent a new dimension for blood metabolite analysis and are anticipated to greatly impact the blood metabolomics field.
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- G. A. Nagana Gowda
- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
- Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
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- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
- Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
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- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
- Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States
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- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
- Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
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Xie X, Huang C, Huang Y, Zou X, Zhou R, Ai H, Huang L, Ma J. Genetic architecture for skeletal muscle glycolytic potential in Chinese Erhualian pigs revealed by a genome-wide association study using 1.4M SNP array. Front Genet 2023; 14:1141411. [PMID: 37007966 PMCID: PMC10064215 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1141411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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Introduction: Muscle glycolytic potential (GP) is a key factor affecting multiple meat quality traits. It is calculated based on the contents of residual glycogen and glucose (RG), glucose-6-phosphate (G6P), and lactate (LAT) contents in muscle. However, the genetic mechanism of glycolytic metabolism in skeletal muscle of pigs remains poorly understood. With a history of more than 400 years and some unique characteristics, the Erhualian pig is called the “giant panda” (very precious) in the world’s pig species by Chinese animal husbandry.Methods: Here, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using 1.4M single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) chips for longissimus RG, G6P, LAT, and GP levels in 301 purebred Erhualian pigs.Results: We found that the average GP value of Erhualian was unusually low (68.09 μmol/g), but the variation was large (10.4–112.7 μmol/g). The SNP-based heritability estimates for the four traits ranged from 0.16–0.32. In total, our GWAS revealed 31 quantitative trait loci (QTLs), including eight for RG, nine for G6P, nine for LAT, five for GP. Of these loci, eight were genome-wide significant (p < 3.8 × 10−7), and six loci were common to two or three traits. Multiple promising candidate genes such as FTO, MINPP1, RIPOR2, SCL8A3, LIFR and SRGAP1 were identified. The genotype combinations of the five GP-associated SNPs also showed significant effect on other meat quality traits.Discussion: These results not only provide insights into the genetic architecture of GP related traits in Erhualian, but also are useful for pig breeding programs involving this breed.
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- Xinke Xie
- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
- Correspondence: Lusheng Huang, ; Junwu Ma,
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- National Key Laboratory for Swine Genetic Improvement and Production Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
- Correspondence: Lusheng Huang, ; Junwu Ma,
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Yu B, Liu J, Cai Z, Mu T, Gu Y, Xin G, Zhang J. miRNA-mRNA associations with inosine monophosphate specific deposition in the muscle of Jingyuan chicken. Br Poult Sci 2022; 63:821-832. [PMID: 35895079 DOI: 10.1080/00071668.2022.2106777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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1. Inosine monophosphate (IMP), is an essential component for meat flavour and microRNAs (miRNAs) play a vital role in its post-transcriptional regulation. However, the mechanism of how miRNA expression affects muscle-specific IMP deposition is unclear.2. The following study performed transcriptome sequencing and bioinformatics analysis of breast and leg muscle, which have significantly different IMP content in Jingyuan chicken. The differential miRNA-mRNAs were screened out and correlation analysis with IMP content was performed.3. A total of 39 differentially expressed miRNAs (DE miRNAs) and 666 differentially expressed mRNAs (DE mRNAs) were identified between breast muscles and leg muscles. Using miRNA-mRNA integrated analysis, 29 miRNA-target gene pairs were obtained, composed of 13 DE miRNAs and 28 DE mRNAs. Next, purine metabolism, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, pyruvate metabolism and the biosynthesis of amino acid pathways as necessary for muscle IMP-specific deposition were identified. The differentially expressed gene PKM2, which was significantly enriched in all four pathways, is involved in IMP anabolism in the form of energy metabolism and enzyme activity regulation. The correlation analysis suggested that the gga-miR-107-3p-KLHDC2 negative interaction may be a key regulator in IMP deposition.4. This study explores the functional mechanism of IMP-specific deposition in Jingyuan chicken muscles at the miRNA and mRNA levels and highlights multiple candidate miRNAs and mRNAs for molecular-assisted breeding.
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- Baojun Yu
- College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan China
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- College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan China
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- College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan China
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- College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan China
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- College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan China
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- School of Life Sciences, Ningxia University/Ningxia Feed Engineering Technology Research Center, Yinchuan China
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- College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan China
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Dänicke S, Heymann AK, Oster M, Wimmers K, Tesch T, Bannert E, Bühler S, Kersten S, Frahm J, Kluess J, Kahlert S, Rothkötter HJ, Billenkamp F. Does chronic dietary exposure to the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol affect the porcine hepatic transcriptome when an acute-phase response is initiated through first or second-pass LPS challenge of the liver? Innate Immun 2021; 27:388-408. [PMID: 34338001 PMCID: PMC8419296 DOI: 10.1177/17534259211030563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The sensitivity of pigs to deoxynivalenol (DON) might be increased by systemic inflammation (SI), which also has consequences for hepatic integrity. Liver lesions and a dys-regulated gene network might hamper hepatic handling and elimination of DON whereby the way of initiation of hepatic inflammation might play an additional role. First and second-pass exposure of the liver with LPS for triggering a SI was achieved by LPS infusion via pre- or post-hepatic venous route, respectively. Each infusion group was pre-conditioned either with a control diet (0.12 mg DON/kg diet) or with a DON-contaminated diet (4.59 mg DON/kg diet) for 4 wk. Liver transcriptome was evaluated at 195 min after starting infusions. DON exposure alone failed to modulate the mRNA expression significantly. However, pre- and post-hepatic LPS challenges prompted transcriptional responses in immune and metabolic levels. The mRNAs for B-cell lymphoma 2-like protein 11 as a key factor in apoptosis and IFN-γ released by T cells were clearly up-regulated in DON-fed group infused with LPS post-hepatically. On the other hand, mRNAs for nucleotide binding oligomerization domain containing 2, IFN-α and eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α kinase 3 as ribosomal stress sensors were exclusively up-regulated in control pigs with pre-hepatic LPS infusion. These diverse effects were traced back to differences in TLR4 signalling.
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- Sven Dänicke
- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Genome Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Germany
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- Institute of Genome Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Nutrition, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
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Tomc J, Debeljak N. Molecular Pathways Involved in the Development of Congenital Erythrocytosis. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:1150. [PMID: 34440324 PMCID: PMC8391844 DOI: 10.3390/genes12081150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Patients with idiopathic erythrocytosis are directed to targeted genetic testing including nine genes involved in oxygen sensing pathway in kidneys, erythropoietin signal transduction in pre-erythrocytes and hemoglobin-oxygen affinity regulation in mature erythrocytes. However, in more than 60% of cases the genetic cause remains undiagnosed, suggesting that other genes and mechanisms must be involved in the disease development. This review aims to explore additional molecular mechanisms in recognized erythrocytosis pathways and propose new pathways associated with this rare hematological disorder. For this purpose, a comprehensive review of the literature was performed and different in silico tools were used. We identified genes involved in several mechanisms and molecular pathways, including mRNA transcriptional regulation, post-translational modifications, membrane transport, regulation of signal transduction, glucose metabolism and iron homeostasis, which have the potential to influence the main erythrocytosis-associated pathways. We provide valuable theoretical information for deeper insight into possible mechanisms of disease development. This information can be also helpful to improve the current diagnostic solutions for patients with idiopathic erythrocytosis.
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- Medical Centre for Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;
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Wang L, Ren C, Li Y, Gao C, Li N, Li H, Wu D, He X, Xia C, Ji X. Remote ischemic conditioning enhances oxygen supply to ischemic brain tissue in a mouse model of stroke: Role of elevated 2,3-biphosphoglycerate in erythrocytes. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2021; 41:1277-1290. [PMID: 32933360 PMCID: PMC8142126 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x20952264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Oxygen supply for ischemic brain tissue during stroke is critical to neuroprotection. Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) treatment is effective for stroke. However, it is not known whether RIC can improve brain tissue oxygen supply. In current study, we employed a mouse model of stroke created by middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) to investigate the effect of RIC on oxygen supply to the ischemic brain tissue using a hypoxyprobe system. Erythrocyte oxygen-carrying capacity and tissue oxygen exchange were assessed by measuring oxygenated hemoglobin and oxygen dissociation curve. We found that RIC significantly mitigated hypoxic signals and decreased neural cell death, thereby preserving neurological functions. The tissue oxygen exchange was markedly enhanced, along with the elevated hemoglobin P50 and right-shifted oxygen dissociation curve. Intriguingly, RIC markedly elevated 2,3-biphosphoglycerate (2,3-BPG) levels in erythrocyte, and the erythrocyte 2,3-BPG levels were highly negatively correlated with the hypoxia in the ischemic brain tissue. Further, adoptive transfusion of 2,3-BPG-rich erythrocytes prepared from RIC-treated mice significantly enhanced the oxygen supply to the ischemic tissue in MCAO mouse model. Collectively, RIC protects against ischemic stroke through improving oxygen supply to the ischemic brain tissue where the enhanced tissue oxygen delivery and exchange by RIC-induced 2,3-BPG-rich erythrocytes may play a role.
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- Lin Wang
- Department of Hematology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Municipal Geriatric Medical Research Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Hematology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Deparment of Neurology, China-America Institute of Neuroscience, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Deparment of Neurology, China-America Institute of Neuroscience, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Hematology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypoxia Translational Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Municipal Geriatric Medical Research Center, Beijing, China.,Deparment of Neurology, China-America Institute of Neuroscience, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Center of Stroke, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorder, Beijing, China
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Chen W, Jiang J, Gong L, Shu Z, Xiang D, Zhang X, Bi K, Diao H. Hepatitis B virus P protein initiates glycolytic bypass in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma via a FOXO3/miRNA-30b-5p/MINPP1 axis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH : CR 2021; 40:1. [PMID: 33390177 PMCID: PMC7779247 DOI: 10.1186/s13046-020-01803-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a crucial risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, its underlying mechanism remains understudied. Methods Microarray analysis was conducted to compare the genes and miRNAs in liver tissue from HBV-positive and HBV-negative HCC patients. Biological functions of these biomarkers in HBV-related HCC were validated via in vitro and in vivo experiments. Furthermore, we investigated the effect of HBV on the proliferation and migration of tumor cells in HBV-positive HCC tissue. Bioinformatics analysis was then performed to validate the clinical value of the biomarkers in a large HCC cohort. Results We found that a gene, MINPP1 from the glycolytic bypass metabolic pathway, has an important biological function in the development of HBV-positive HCC. MINPP1 is down-regulated in HBV-positive HCC and could inhibit the proliferation and migration of the tumor cells. Meanwhile, miRNA-30b-5p was found to be a stimulator for the proliferation of tumor cell through glycolytic bypass in HBV-positive HCC. More importantly, miRNA-30b-5p could significantly downregulate MINPP1 expression. Metabolic experiments showed that the miRNA-30b-5p/MINPP1 axis is able to accelerate the conversion of glucose to lactate and 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate (2,3-BPG). In the HBV-negative HCC cells, miRNA-30b-5p/MINPP1 could not regulate the glycolytic bypass to promote the tumorigenesis. However, once HBV was introduced into these cells, miRNA-30b-5p/MINPP1 significantly enhanced the proliferation, migration of tumor cells, and promoted the glycolytic bypass. We further revealed that HBV infection promoted the expression of miRNA-30b-5p through the interaction of HBV protein P (HBp) with FOXO3. Bioinformatics analysis on a large cohort dataset showed that high expression of MINPP1 was associated with favorable survival of HBV-positive HCC patients, which could lead to a slower progress of this disease. Conclusion Our study found that the HBp/FOXO3/miRNA-30b-5p/MINPP1 axis contributes to the development of HBV-positive HCC cells through the glycolytic bypass. We also presented miRNA-30b-5p/MINPP1 as a novel biomarker for HBV-positive HCC early diagnosis and a potential pharmaceutical target for antitumor therapy. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13046-020-01803-8.
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- Wenbiao Chen
- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- Microbiome Research Centre, St George and Sutherland Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310000, China.,Key Lab of Combined Multi-Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Hangzhou, 310000, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis & Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China.
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Acquistapace IM, Zi Etek MA, Li AWH, Salmon M, Kühn I, Bedford MR, Brearley CA, Hemmings AM. Snapshots during the catalytic cycle of a histidine acid phytase reveal an induced-fit structural mechanism. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:17724-17737. [PMID: 33454010 PMCID: PMC7762957 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.015925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 10/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Highly engineered phytases, which sequentially hydrolyze the hexakisphosphate ester of inositol known as phytic acid, are routinely added to the feeds of monogastric animals to improve phosphate bioavailability. New phytases are sought as starting points to further optimize the rate and extent of dephosphorylation of phytate in the animal digestive tract. Multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatases (MINPPs) are clade 2 histidine phosphatases (HP2P) able to carry out the stepwise hydrolysis of phytate. MINPPs are not restricted by a strong positional specificity making them attractive targets for development as feed enzymes. Here, we describe the characterization of a MINPP from the Gram-positive bacterium Bifidobacterium longum (BlMINPP). BlMINPP has a typical HP2P-fold but, unusually, possesses a large α-domain polypeptide insertion relative to other MINPPs. This insertion, termed the U-loop, spans the active site and contributes to substrate specificity pockets underpopulated in other HP2Ps. Mutagenesis of U-loop residues reveals its contribution to enzyme kinetics and thermostability. Moreover, four crystal structures of the protein along the catalytic cycle capture, for the first time in an HP2P, a large ligand-driven α-domain motion essential to allow substrate access to the active site. This motion recruits residues both downstream of a molecular hinge and on the U-loop to participate in specificity subsites, and mutagenesis identified a mobile lysine residue as a key determinant of positional specificity of the enzyme. Taken together, these data provide important new insights to the factors determining stability, substrate recognition, and the structural mechanism of hydrolysis in this industrially important group of enzymes.
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
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Rojas-Pirela M, Andrade-Alviárez D, Rojas V, Kemmerling U, Cáceres AJ, Michels PA, Concepción JL, Quiñones W. Phosphoglycerate kinase: structural aspects and functions, with special emphasis on the enzyme from Kinetoplastea. Open Biol 2020; 10:200302. [PMID: 33234025 PMCID: PMC7729029 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.200302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) is a glycolytic enzyme that is well conserved among the three domains of life. PGK is usually a monomeric enzyme of about 45 kDa that catalyses one of the two ATP-producing reactions in the glycolytic pathway, through the conversion of 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate (1,3BPGA) to 3-phosphoglycerate (3PGA). It also participates in gluconeogenesis, catalysing the opposite reaction to produce 1,3BPGA and ADP. Like most other glycolytic enzymes, PGK has also been catalogued as a moonlighting protein, due to its involvement in different functions not associated with energy metabolism, which include pathogenesis, interaction with nucleic acids, tumorigenesis progression, cell death and viral replication. In this review, we have highlighted the overall aspects of this enzyme, such as its structure, reaction kinetics, activity regulation and possible moonlighting functions in different protistan organisms, especially both free-living and parasitic Kinetoplastea. Our analysis of the genomes of different kinetoplastids revealed the presence of open-reading frames (ORFs) for multiple PGK isoforms in several species. Some of these ORFs code for unusually large PGKs. The products appear to contain additional structural domains fused to the PGK domain. A striking aspect is that some of these PGK isoforms are predicted to be catalytically inactive enzymes or ‘dead’ enzymes. The roles of PGKs in kinetoplastid parasites are analysed, and the apparent significance of the PGK gene duplication that gave rise to the different isoforms and their expression in Trypanosoma cruzi is discussed.
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- Maura Rojas-Pirela
- Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso 2373223, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología de Parásitos, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela
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- Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso 2373223, Chile
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Medicina, Santiago de Chile 8380453, Santigo de Chile
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología de Parásitos, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela
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- Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK.,Centre for Translational and Chemical Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología de Parásitos, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología de Parásitos, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela
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Appelhof B, Wagner M, Hoefele J, Heinze A, Roser T, Koch-Hogrebe M, Roosendaal SD, Dehghani M, Mehrjardi MYV, Torti E, Houlden H, Maroofian R, Rajabi F, Sticht H, Baas F, Wieczorek D, Jamra RA. Pontocerebellar hypoplasia due to bi-allelic variants in MINPP1. Eur J Hum Genet 2020; 29:411-421. [PMID: 33168985 PMCID: PMC7940488 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-020-00749-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Pontocerebellar hypoplasia (PCH) describes a group of rare heterogeneous neurodegenerative diseases with prenatal onset. Here we describe eight children with PCH from four unrelated families harboring the homozygous MINPP1 (NM_004897.4) variants; c.75_94del, p.(Leu27Argfs*39), c.851 C > A, p.(Ala284Asp), c.1210 C > T, p.(Arg404*), and c.992 T > G, p.(Ile331Ser). The homozygous p.(Leu27Argfs*39) change is predicted to result in a complete absence of MINPP1. The p.(Arg404*) would likely lead to a nonsense mediated decay, or alternatively, a loss of several secondary structure elements impairing protein folding. The missense p.(Ala284Asp) affects a buried, hydrophobic residue within the globular domain. The introduction of aspartic acid is energetically highly unfavorable and therefore predicted to cause a significant reduction in protein stability. The missense p.(Ile331Ser) affects the tight hydrophobic interactions of the isoleucine by the disruption of the polar side chain of serine, destabilizing the structure of MINPP1. The overlap of the above-mentioned genotypes and phenotypes is highly improbable by chance. MINPP1 is the only enzyme that hydrolyses inositol phosphates in the endoplasmic reticulum lumen and several studies support its role in stress induced apoptosis. The pathomechanism explaining the disease mechanism remains unknown, however several others genes of the inositol phosphatase metabolism (e.g., INPP5K, FIG4, INPP5E, ITPR1) are correlated with phenotypes of neurodevelopmental disorders. Taken together, we present MINPP1 as a novel autosomal recessive pontocerebellar hypoplasia gene.
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- Bart Appelhof
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Neuherberg, Germany, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Developmental Medicine and Social Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Dr. von Haunersches Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Medical Genetics Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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- Department of Neuromuscular Disorders, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuromuscular Disorders, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachussetts, USA
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- Division of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biochemistry, Friedrich-Alexander -Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
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Shi L, Liu L, Lv X, Ma Z, Yang Y, Li Y, Zhao F, Sun D, Han B. Polymorphisms and genetic effects of PRLR, MOGAT1, MINPP1 and CHUK genes on milk fatty acid traits in Chinese Holstein. BMC Genet 2019; 20:69. [PMID: 31419940 PMCID: PMC6698030 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-019-0769-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Our initial genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified 20 promising candidate genes for milk fatty acid (FA) traits in a Chinese Holstein population, including PRLR, MOGAT1, MINPP1 and CHUK genes. In this study, we performed whether they had significant genetic effects on milk FA traits in Chinese Holstein. RESULTS We re-sequenced the entire exons and 3000 bp of the 5' and 3' flanking regions, and identified 11 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), containing four in PRLR, two in MOGAT1, two in MINPP1, and three in CHUK. The SNP-based association analyses showed that all the 11 SNPs were significantly associated with at least one milk FA trait (P = 0.0456 ~ < 0.0001), and none of them had association with C11:0, C13:0, C15:0 and C16:0 (P > 0.05). By the linkage disequilibrium (LD) analyses, we found two, one, one, and one haplotype blocks in PRLR, MOGAT1, MINPP1, and CHUK, respectively, and each haplotype block was significantly associated with at least one milk FA trait (P = 0.0456 ~ < 0.0001). Further, g.38949011G > A in PRLR, and g.111599360A > G and g.111601747 T > A in MOGAT1 were predicted to alter the transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). A missense mutation, g.39115344G > A, could change the PRLR protein structure. The g.20966385C > G of CHUK varied the binding sequences for microRNAs. Therefore, we deduced the five SNPs as the potential functional mutations. CONCLUSION In summary, we first detected the genetic effects of PRLR, MOGAT1, MINPP1 and CHUK genes on milk FA traits, and researched the potential functional mutations. These data provided the basis for further investigation on function validation of the four genes in Chinese Holstein.
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- Lijun Shi
- Department of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193 China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, 100192 China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, 100192 China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, 100192 China
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- Beijing General Station of Animal Husbandry, Beijing, 100101 China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, 100192 China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, 100192 China
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- Department of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193 China
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- Department of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193 China
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Tellone E, Barreca D, Russo A, Galtieri A, Ficarra S. New role for an old molecule: The 2,3-diphosphoglycerate case. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2019; 1863:1602-1607. [PMID: 31279646 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2019.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Revised: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Aerobic organisms have to overcame the dangerous species derived from the unquestionable favorable effects due to the utilization of oxygen in the cellular respiration. 2,3-Diphosphoglycerate (DPG) could be one of the molecules able to perform different role inside the cells and (from the data obtained from our experimental work) may help cellular components, in particular hemoglobin, to scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS). METHODS Therefore, we have investigated the kinetic and antioxidant properties of this molecule against the main biological reactive species and the protective role of this molecules on hemoglobin treated with strong oxidant. RESULTS DPG, at the physiological concentration is able to scavenge hydroxyl radical, peroxyl radical, cation radicals and to chelate iron in the reduced state. Moreover it is able to avoid oxidation of iron inside the hemoglobin following treatment with nitrite and tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BOOH). On the other side, it is not able to protect membrane components from oxidative burning. This different behavior towards radical species is probably linked to the polarity of the molecule and also the high levels of charged groups present on the surface of DPG, that avoid the possibility to act in an environment almost completely hydrophobic, as inside the membrane, where reactive species produce the main damages during the reactions of peroxidation. CONCLUSIONS This is the first paper dealing with the potential role of DPG not only as a modulator of oxygen affinity in hemoglobin, but also as a scavenger of radicals.
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- Ester Tellone
- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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Ghashghaeinia M, Köberle M, Mrowietz U, Bernhardt I. Proliferating tumor cells mimick glucose metabolism of mature human erythrocytes. Cell Cycle 2019; 18:1316-1334. [PMID: 31154896 PMCID: PMC6592250 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2019.1618125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Mature human erythrocytes are dependent on anerobic glycolysis, i.e. catabolism (oxidation) of one glucose molecule to produce two ATP and two lactate molecules. Proliferating tumor cells mimick mature human erythrocytes to glycolytically generate two ATP molecules. They deliberately avoid or switch off their respiration, i.e. tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) machinery and consequently dispense with the production of additional 36 ATP molecules from one glucose molecule. This phenomenon is named aerobic glycolysis or Warburg effect. The present review deals with the fate of a glucose molecule after entering a mature human erythrocyte or a proliferating tumor cell and describes why it is useful for a proliferating tumor cell to imitate a mature erythrocyte. Blood consisting of plasma and cellular components (99% of the cells are erythrocytes) may be regarded as a mobile organ, constantly exercising a direct interaction with other organs. Therefore, the use of drugs, which influences the biological activity of erythrocytes, has an immediate effect on the entire organism. Abbreviations: TCA: tricarboxylic acid cycle; OXPHOS: oxidative phosphorylation; GSH: reduced state of glutathione; NFκB: Nuclear factor of kappa B; PKB (Akt): protein kinase B; NOS: nitric oxide synthase; IgG: immune globulin G; H2S: hydrogen sulfide; slanDCs: Human 6-sulfo LacNAc-expressing dendritic cells; IL-8: interleukin-8; LPS: lipopolysaccharide; ROS: reactive oxygen species; PPP: pentose phosphate pathway; NADPH: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate hydrogen; R5P: ribose-5-phophate; NAD: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; FAD: flavin adenine dinucleotide; O2●−: superoxide anion; G6P: glucose 6-phosphate; HbO2: Oxyhemoglobin; GAPDH: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase; GAP: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate; 1,3-BPG: 1,3-bis-phosphoglycerate; 2,3-BPG: 2,3-bisphosphoglycerte; PGAM1: phosphoglycerate mutase 1; 3-PG: 3-phosphoglycerate; 2-PG: 2-phosphoglycerate; MIPP1: Multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase; mTORC1: mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1; Ru5P: ribulose 5-phosphate; ox-PPP: oxidative branch of pentose phosphate pathway; PGK: phosphoglycerate kinase; IFN-γ: interferon-γ; LDH: lactate dehydrogenase; STAT3: signal transducer and activator of transcription 3; Rheb: Ras homolog enriched in Brain; H2O2: hydrogen peroxide; ROOH: lipid peroxide; SOD: superoxide dismutase; MRC: mitochondrial respiratory chain; MbFe2+-O2: methmyoglobin; RNR: ribonucleotide reductase; PRPP: phosphoribosylpyrophosphate; PPi: pyrophosphate; GSSG: oxidized state of glutathione; non-ox-PPP: non-oxidative branch of pentose phosphate pathway; RPI: ribose-5-phosphate isomerase; RPE: ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase; X5P: xylulose 5-phosphate; TK: transketolase; TA: transaldolase; F6P: fructose-6-phosphate; AR2: aldose reductase 2; SD: sorbitol dehydrogenase; HK: hexokinase; MG: mehtylglyoxal; DHAP: dihydroxyacetone phosphate; TILs: tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes; MCTs: monocarboxylate transporters; pHi: intracellular pH; Hif-1α: hypoxia-induced factor 1; NHE1: sodium/H+ (Na+/H+) antiporter 1; V-ATPase: vacuolar-type proton ATPase; CAIX: carbonic anhydrase; CO2: carbon dioxide; HCO3−: bicarbonate; NBC: sodium/bicarbonate (Na+/HCO3−) symporter; pHe: extracellular pH; GLUT-1: glucose transporter 1; PGK-1: phosphoglycerate kinase 1
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- Mehrdad Ghashghaeinia
- a Department of Dermatology , University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel , Kiel , Germany
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- b Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie, Fakultät für Medizin , Technische Universität München , Munich , Germany
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- a Department of Dermatology , University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel , Kiel , Germany
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- c Laboratory of Biophysics, Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences III , Saarland University , Saarbruecken , Germany
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Ng CY, Wang L, Chowdhury A, Maranas CD. Pareto Optimality Explanation of the Glycolytic Alternatives in Nature. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2633. [PMID: 30796263 PMCID: PMC6384925 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38836-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The Entner-Doudoroff (ED) and Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) glycolytic pathways are largely conserved across glycolytic species in nature. Is this a coincidence, convergent evolution or there exists a driving force towards either of the two pathway designs? We addressed this question by first employing a variant of the optStoic algorithm to exhaustively identify over 11,916 possible routes between glucose and pyruvate at different pre-determined stoichiometric yields of ATP. Subsequently, we analyzed the thermodynamic feasibility of all the pathways at physiological metabolite concentrations and quantified the protein cost of the feasible solutions. Pareto optimality analysis between energy efficiency and protein cost reveals that the naturally evolved ED and EMP pathways are indeed among the most protein cost-efficient pathways in their respective ATP yield categories and remain thermodynamically feasible across a wide range of ATP/ADP ratios and pathway intermediate metabolite concentration ranges. In contrast, pathways with higher ATP yield (>2) while feasible, are bound within stringent and often extreme operability ranges of cofactor and intermediate metabolite concentrations. The preponderance of EMP and ED is thus consistent with not only optimally balancing energy yield vs. enzyme cost but also with ensuring operability for wide metabolite concentration ranges and ATP/ADP ratios.
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- Chiam Yu Ng
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
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Cunha-Oliveira T, Ferreira LL, Coelho AR, Deus CM, Oliveira PJ. Doxorubicin triggers bioenergetic failure and p53 activation in mouse stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2018; 348:1-13. [PMID: 29653124 DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2018.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2018] [Revised: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 04/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Doxorubicin (DOX) is a widely used anticancer drug that could be even more effective if its clinical dosage was not limited because of delayed cardiotoxicity. Beating stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes are a preferred in vitro model to further uncover the mechanisms of DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. Our objective was to use cultured induced-pluripotent stem cell(iPSC)-derived mouse cardiomyocytes (Cor.At) to investigate the effects of DOX on cell and mitochondrial metabolism, as well as on stress responses. Non-proliferating and beating Cor.At cells were treated with 0.5 or 1 μM DOX for 24 h, and morphological, functional and biochemical changes associated with mitochondrial bioenergetics, DNA-damage response and apoptosis were measured. Both DOX concentrations decreased ATP levels and SOD2 protein levels and induced p53-dependent caspase activation. However, differential effects were observed for the two DOX concentrations. The highest concentration induced a high degree of apoptosis, with increased nuclear apoptotic morphology, PARP-1 cleavage and decrease of some OXPHOS protein subunits. At the lowest concentration, DOX increased the expression of p53 target transcripts associated with mitochondria-dependent apoptosis and decreased transcripts related with DNA-damage response and glycolysis. Interestingly, cells treated with 0.5 μM DOX presented an increase in PDK4 transcript levels, accompanied by an increase in phospho-PDH and decreased PDH activity. This was accompanied by an apparent decrease in basal and maximal oxygen consumption rates (OCR) and in basal extracellular acidification rate (ECAR). Cells pre-treated with the PDK inhibitor dichloroacetate (DCA), with the aim of restoring PDH activity, partially recovered OCR and ECAR. The results suggest that the higher DOX concentration mainly induces p53-dependent apoptosis, whereas for the lower DOX concentration the cardiotoxic effects involve bioenergetic failure, unveiling PDH as a possible therapeutic target to decrease DOX cardiotoxicity.
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- Teresa Cunha-Oliveira
- CNC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, UC-Biotech Building, Biocant Park, Cantanhede, Portugal.
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- CNC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, UC-Biotech Building, Biocant Park, Cantanhede, Portugal
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- CNC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, UC-Biotech Building, Biocant Park, Cantanhede, Portugal; Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (I.I.I.), University of Coimbra, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, UC-Biotech Building, Biocant Park, Cantanhede, Portugal; Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (I.I.I.), University of Coimbra, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, UC-Biotech Building, Biocant Park, Cantanhede, Portugal; Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (I.I.I.), University of Coimbra, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
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Kosenko EA, Tikhonova LA, Montoliu C, Barreto GE, Aliev G, Kaminsky YG. Metabolic Abnormalities of Erythrocytes as a Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease. Front Neurosci 2018; 11:728. [PMID: 29354027 PMCID: PMC5760569 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressive, neurodegenerative disorder of uncertain etiology. According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, accumulation of non-soluble amyloid β peptides (Aβ) in the Central Nervous System (CNS) is the primary cause initiating a pathogenic cascade leading to the complex multilayered pathology and clinical manifestation of the disease. It is, therefore, not surprising that the search for mechanisms underlying cognitive changes observed in AD has focused exclusively on the brain and Aβ-inducing synaptic and dendritic loss, oxidative stress, and neuronal death. However, since Aβ depositions were found in normal non-demented elderly people and in many other pathological conditions, the amyloid cascade hypothesis was modified to claim that intraneuronal accumulation of soluble Aβ oligomers, rather than monomer or insoluble amyloid fibrils, is the first step of a fatal cascade in AD. Since a characteristic reduction of cerebral perfusion and energy metabolism occurs in patients with AD it is suggested that capillary distortions commonly found in AD brain elicit hemodynamic changes that alter the delivery and transport of essential nutrients, particularly glucose and oxygen to neuronal and glial cells. Another important factor in tissue oxygenation is the ability of erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBC) to transport and deliver oxygen to tissues, which are first of all dependent on the RBC antioxidant and energy metabolism, which finally regulates the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin. In the present review, we consider the possibility that metabolic and antioxidant defense alterations in the circulating erythrocyte population can influence oxygen delivery to the brain, and that these changes might be a primary mechanism triggering the glucose metabolism disturbance resulting in neurobiological changes observed in the AD brain, possibly related to impaired cognitive function. We also discuss the possibility of using erythrocyte biochemical aberrations as potential tools that will help identify a risk factor for AD.
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- Elena A Kosenko
- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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- Fundación Investigación Hospital Clínico, INCLIVA Instituto Investigación Sanitaria, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.,Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- GALLY International Biomedical Research Institute Inc., San Antonio, TX, United States
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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Sarkar HS, Das S, Uddin MR, Mandal S, Sahoo P. Selective Recognition and Quantification of 2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate in Human Blood Samples by a Rhodamine Derivative. ASIAN J ORG CHEM 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201600516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry; Visva-Bharati university; Santiniketan 731235 India
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- Department of Microbiology; University of Calcutta; Kolkata 700073 India
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- Department of Microbiology; University of Calcutta; Kolkata 700073 India
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- Department of Chemistry; Visva-Bharati university; Santiniketan 731235 India
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Kilaparty SP, Agarwal R, Singh P, Kannan K, Ali N. Endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis accompanies enhanced expression of multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase 1 (Minpp1): a possible role for Minpp1 in cellular stress response. Cell Stress Chaperones 2016; 21:593-608. [PMID: 27038811 PMCID: PMC4907990 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-016-0684-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2015] [Revised: 03/16/2016] [Accepted: 03/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Inositol polyphosphates represent a group of differentially phosphorylated inositol metabolites, many of which are implicated to regulate diverse cellular processes such as calcium mobilization, vesicular trafficking, differentiation, apoptosis, etc. The metabolic network of these compounds is complex and tightly regulated by various kinases and phosphatases present predominantly in the cytosol. Multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase 1 (Minpp1) is the only known endoplasmic reticulum (ER) luminal enzyme that hydrolyzes various inositol polyphosphates in vitro as well as in vivo conditions. However, access of the Minpp1 to cytosolic substrates has not yet been demonstrated clearly and hence its physiological function. In this study, we examined a potential role for Minpp1 in ER stress-induced apoptosis. We generated a custom antibody and characterized its specificity to study the expression of Minpp1 protein in multiple mammalian cells under experimentally induced cellular stress conditions. Our results demonstrate a significant increase in the expression of Minpp1 in response to a variety of cellular stress conditions. The protein expression was corroborated with the expression of its mRNA and enzymatic activity. Further, in an attempt to link the role of Minpp1 to apoptotic stress, we studied the effect of Minpp1 expression on apoptosis following silencing of the Minpp1 gene by its specific siRNA. Our results suggest an attenuation of apoptotic parameters following knockdown of Minpp1. Thus, in addition to its known role in inositol polyphosphate metabolism, we have identified a novel role for Minpp1 as a stress-responsive protein. In summary, our results provide, for the first time, a probable link between ER stress-induced apoptosis and Minpp1 expression.
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- Surya P Kilaparty
- Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S University Avenue, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S University Avenue, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cheshire, CT, 06410, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S University Avenue, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S University Avenue, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA.
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Court SJ, Waclaw B, Allen RJ. Lower glycolysis carries a higher flux than any biochemically possible alternative. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8427. [PMID: 26416228 PMCID: PMC4598745 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2014] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The universality of many pathways of core metabolism suggests a strong role for evolutionary selection, but it remains unclear whether existing pathways have been selected from a large or small set of biochemical possibilities. To address this question, we construct in silico all possible biochemically feasible alternatives to the trunk pathway of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, one of the most highly conserved pathways in metabolism. We show that, even though a large number of alternative pathways exist, the alternatives carry lower flux than the real pathway under typical physiological conditions. We also find that if physiological conditions were different, different pathways could outperform those found in nature. Together, our results demonstrate how thermodynamic and biophysical constraints restrict the biochemical alternatives that are open to evolution, and suggest that the existing trunk pathway of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis may represent a maximal flux solution. The biochemical pathways of central carbon metabolism are highly conserved across all domains of life. Here, Court et al. use a computational approach to test all possible pathways of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis and find that the existing trunk pathways may represent a maximal flux solution selected for during evolution.
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- Steven J Court
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
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Schiebler M, Brown K, Hegyi K, Newton SM, Renna M, Hepburn L, Klapholz C, Coulter S, Obregón-Henao A, Henao Tamayo M, Basaraba R, Kampmann B, Henry KM, Burgon J, Renshaw SA, Fleming A, Kay RR, Anderson KE, Hawkins PT, Ordway DJ, Rubinsztein DC, Floto RA. Functional drug screening reveals anticonvulsants as enhancers of mTOR-independent autophagic killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis through inositol depletion. EMBO Mol Med 2015; 7:127-39. [PMID: 25535254 PMCID: PMC4328644 DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201404137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) remains a major challenge to global health made worse by the spread of multidrug resistance. We therefore examined whether stimulating intracellular killing of mycobacteria through pharmacological enhancement of macroautophagy might provide a novel therapeutic strategy. Despite the resistance of MTB to killing by basal autophagy, cell-based screening of FDA-approved drugs revealed two anticonvulsants, carbamazepine and valproic acid, that were able to stimulate autophagic killing of intracellular M. tuberculosis within primary human macrophages at concentrations achievable in humans. Using a zebrafish model, we show that carbamazepine can stimulate autophagy in vivo and enhance clearance of M. marinum, while in mice infected with a highly virulent multidrug-resistant MTB strain, carbamazepine treatment reduced bacterial burden, improved lung pathology and stimulated adaptive immunity. We show that carbamazepine induces antimicrobial autophagy through a novel, evolutionarily conserved, mTOR-independent pathway controlled by cellular depletion of myo-inositol. While strain-specific differences in susceptibility to in vivo carbamazepine treatment may exist, autophagy enhancement by repurposed drugs provides an easily implementable potential therapy for the treatment of multidrug-resistant mycobacterial infection.
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- Mark Schiebler
- Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Allergy, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Allergy, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield Western Bank, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield Western Bank, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield Western Bank, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- The Inositide Laboratory, Babraham Institute Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- The Inositide Laboratory, Babraham Institute Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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Kilaparty SP, Singh A, Baltosser WH, Ali N. Computational analysis reveals a successive adaptation of multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase 1 in higher organisms through evolution. Evol Bioinform Online 2014; 10:239-50. [PMID: 25574123 PMCID: PMC4275298 DOI: 10.4137/ebo.s18948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2014] [Revised: 09/29/2014] [Accepted: 10/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase 1 (Minpp1) in higher organisms dephosphorylates InsP6, the most abundant inositol phosphate. It also dephosphorylates less phosphorylated InsP5 and InsP4 and more phosphorylated InsP7 or InsP8. Minpp1 is classified as a member of the histidine acid phosphatase super family of proteins with functional resemblance to phytases found in lower organisms. This study took a bioinformatics approach to explore the extent of evolutionary diversification in Minpp1 structure and function in order to understand its physiological relevance in higher organisms. The human Minpp1 amino acid (AA) sequence was BLAST searched against available national protein databases. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that Minpp1 was widely distributed from lower to higher organisms. Further, we have identified that there exist four isoforms of Minpp1. Multiple computational tools were used to identify key functional motifs and their conservation among various species. Analyses showed that certain motifs predominant in higher organisms were absent in lower organisms. Variation in AA sequences within motifs was also analyzed. We found that there is diversification of key motifs and thus their functions present in Minpp1 from lower organisms to higher organisms. Another interesting result of this analysis was the presence of a glucose-1-phosphate interaction site in Minpp1; the functional significance of which has yet to be determined experimentally. The overall findings of our study point to an evolutionary adaptability of Minpp1 functions from lower to higher life forms.
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- Surya P Kilaparty
- Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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- UAMS/UALR Joint Bioinformatics Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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Yu P, Lu Y, Jordan BJ, Liu Y, Yang JY, Hutcheson JM, Ethridge CL, Mumaw JL, Kinder HA, Beckstead RB, Stice SL, West FD. Nonviral minicircle generation of induced pluripotent stem cells compatible with production of chimeric chickens. Cell Reprogram 2014; 16:366-78. [PMID: 25084370 DOI: 10.1089/cell.2014.0028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Chickens are vitally important in numerous countries as a primary food source and a major component of economic development. Efforts have been made to produce transgenic birds through pluripotent stem cell [primordial germ cells and embryonic stem cells (ESCs)] approaches to create animals with improved traits, such as meat and egg production or even disease resistance. However, these cell types have significant limitations because they are hard to culture long term while maintaining developmental plasticity. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are a novel class of stem cells that have proven to be robust, leading to the successful development of transgenic mice, rats, quail, and pigs and may potentially overcome the limitations of previous pluripotent stem cell systems in chickens. In this study we generated chicken (c) iPSCs from fibroblast cells for the first time using a nonviral minicircle reprogramming approach. ciPSCs demonstrated stem cell morphology and expressed key stem cell markers, including alkaline phosphatase, POU5F1, SOX2, NANOG, and SSEA-1. These cells were capable of rapid growth and expressed high levels of telomerase. Late-passage ciPSCs transplanted into stage X embryos were successfully incorporated into tissues of all three germ layers, and the gonads demonstrated significant cellular plasticity. These cells provide an exciting new tool to create transgenic chickens with broad implications for agricultural and transgenic animal fields at large.
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- Ping Yu
- 1 Regenerative Bioscience Center, University of Georgia , Athens, GA, 30602
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Li C, Sun D, Zhang S, Wang S, Wu X, Zhang Q, Liu L, Li Y, Qiao L. Genome wide association study identifies 20 novel promising genes associated with milk fatty acid traits in Chinese Holstein. PLoS One 2014; 9:e96186. [PMID: 24858810 PMCID: PMC4032272 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Accepted: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Detecting genes associated with milk fat composition could provide valuable insights into the complex genetic networks of genes underling variation in fatty acids synthesis and point towards opportunities for changing milk fat composition via selective breeding. In this study, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for 22 milk fatty acids in 784 Chinese Holstein cows with the PLINK software. Genotypes were obtained with the Illumina BovineSNP50 Bead chip and a total of 40,604 informative, high-quality single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were used. Totally, 83 genome-wide significant SNPs and 314 suggestive significant SNPs associated with 18 milk fatty acid traits were detected. Chromosome regions that affect milk fatty acid traits were mainly observed on BTA1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26 and 27. Of these, 146 SNPs were associated with more than one milk fatty acid trait; most of studied fatty acid traits were significant associated with multiple SNPs, especially C18:0 (105 SNPs), C18 index (93 SNPs), and C14 index (84 SNPs); Several SNPs are close to or within the DGAT1, SCD1 and FASN genes which are well-known to affect milk composition traits of dairy cattle. Combined with the previously reported QTL regions and the biological functions of the genes, 20 novel promising candidates for C10:0, C12:0, C14:0, C14:1, C14 index, C18:0, C18:1n9c, C18 index, SFA, UFA and SFA/UFA were found, which composed of HTR1B, CPM, PRKG1, MINPP1, LIPJ, LIPK, EHHADH, MOGAT1, ECHS1, STAT1, SORBS1, NFKB2, AGPAT3, CHUK, OSBPL8, PRLR, IGF1R, ACSL3, GHR and OXCT1. Our findings provide a groundwork for unraveling the key genes and causal mutations affecting milk fatty acid traits in dairy cattle.
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- Cong Li
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory of Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory of Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory of Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory of Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory of Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory of Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing, China
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Identification of TP53-induced glycolysis and apoptosis regulator (TIGAR) as the phosphoglycolate-independent 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate phosphatase. Biochem J 2014; 458:439-48. [PMID: 24423178 DOI: 10.1042/bj20130841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The p53-induced protein TIGAR [TP53 (tumour protein 53)-induced glycolysis and apoptosis regulator] is considered to be a F26BPase (fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase) with an important role in cancer cell metabolism. The reported catalytic efficiency of TIGAR as an F26BPase is several orders of magnitude lower than that of the F26BPase component of liver or muscle PFK2 (phosphofructokinase 2), suggesting that F26BP (fructose 2,6-bisphosphate) might not be the physiological substrate of TIGAR. We therefore set out to re-evaluate the biochemical function of TIGAR. Phosphatase activity of recombinant human TIGAR protein was tested on a series of physiological phosphate esters. The best substrate was 23BPG (2,3-bisphosphoglycerate), followed by 2PG (2-phosphoglycerate), 2-phosphoglycolate and PEP (phosphoenolpyruvate). In contrast the catalytic efficiency for F26BP was approximately 400-fold lower than that for 23BPG. Using genetic and shRNA-based cell culture models, we show that loss of TIGAR consistently leads to an up to 5-fold increase in the levels of 23BPG. Increases in F26BP levels were also observed, albeit in a more limited and cell-type dependent manner. The results of the present study challenge the concept that TIGAR acts primarily on F26BP. This has significant implications for our understanding of the metabolic changes downstream of p53 as well as for cancer cell metabolism in general. It also suggests that 23BPG might play an unrecognized function in metabolic control.
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Szczesny P, Poznanski J, Paczek L, Zielenkiewicz P. Hypophosphatemia and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)--is ATP the link? Ups J Med Sci 2014; 119:55-6. [PMID: 24151935 PMCID: PMC3916719 DOI: 10.3109/03009734.2013.849317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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- Pawel Szczesny
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- Institute of Experimental Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Immunology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- Institute of Experimental Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Xu XF, Xin Y, Zhang Y, Huang YM, Li WB, Li N, Lin Z, Zhou YJ, Zhang ZG. Expression of lymphocyte coding genes in peripheral blood and lymphocyte infiltration in cardiac tissues influenced by cyclosporin A in heterotopic heart transplantation model in rats. Transpl Immunol 2013; 29:82-7. [PMID: 23851154 DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2013.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2013] [Revised: 06/24/2013] [Accepted: 06/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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UNLABELLED To systematically compare the expression of coding genes with pathological changes of transplanted cardiac tissue and peripheral blood lymphocytes in an allo-heterotopic rat cardiac transplant model. Using SD rats as donors and Wistar rats as recipients, animals were divided into two groups, control and cyclosporine A intervention plus heart transplant groups. After transplant at 1, 3, 7, 10 and 12d, we assessed the ability of lymphocytes to infiltrate into cardiac tissues and levels of leukocyte coding genes in peripheral blood. Histopathological changes were monitored in cardiac tissue to determine the level of transplant rejection. RESULTS (1) 24h after transplant peripheral blood lymphocytes' transcription and expression were temporarily reduced. (2) CD4(+) and CD8(+) lymphocytes infiltrate into cardiac tissue and Grade 1R pathological changes were observed 3d-7d after heart transplant. (3)Cyclosporine A was not able to completely block heart transplant rejection.(4) Although cyclosporine A was not able to effectively suppress CD4(+) T cell gene expression, it did suppress CD8(+) T cell gene transcription. (5) Cyclosporine A did not effectively reduce the rapid infiltration of CD4(+) or CD8(+) infiltration in 3d, but significantly reduced the degree of CD4(+) T cell infiltration in cardiac tissues between 3 and 7d. (6) Differential display (DD-PCR): Graft control group: there were differences in 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate, ribosomal protein S25, 12S ribosomal, gig18, MHC-III and ATPase H(+), which occurred 24h before CD4/CD8 surface protein expression. Cyclosporine A group: there were differences in thrombospondin-1, TCR, 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate, sodium channel beta-1, gig18 and TCR. In the cyclosporine A group 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate positive expression was observed 24h after the control group, which indicates that cyclosporine A slowed down the 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate transcription rate in peripheral lymphocytes and delayed its expression time. Cyclosporine A also suppressed gig18 transcription in peripheral lymphocytes. After 24h, sodium channel beta-1 was positively expressed in the cyclosporine A group. The relationship between molecular surface receptor expression and coding genes in cardiac tissue and peripheral blood after transplant indicates that early detection of acute rejection and anti-rejection drugs' curative effect can be assessed.
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- Xiu-fang Xu
- Department of Molecular Biology, Capital Medical University Affiliated with Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung & Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing 100029, PR China
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Park I, Lee J, Cho J. Degradation of Phytate Pentamagnesium Salt by Bacillus sp. T4 Phytase as a Potential Eco-friendly Feed Additive. ASIAN-AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCES 2012; 25:1466-72. [PMID: 25049504 PMCID: PMC4093014 DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2012.12276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2012] [Revised: 07/16/2012] [Accepted: 07/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A bacterial isolate derived from soil samples near a cattle farm was found to display extracellular phytase activity. Based on 16S rRNA sequence analysis, the strain was named Bacillus sp. T4. The optimum temperature for the phytase activity toward magnesium phytate (Mg-InsP6) was 40°C without 5 mM Ca2+ and 50°C with 5 mM Ca2+. T4 phytase had a characteristic bi-hump two pH optima of 6.0 to 6.5 and 7.4 for Mg-InsP6. The enzyme showed higher specificity for Mg-InsP6 than sodium phytate (Na-InsP6). Its activity was fairly inhibited by EDTA, Cu2+, Mn2+, Co2+, Ba2+ and Zn2+. T4 phytase may have great potential for use as an eco-friendly feed additive to enhance the nutritive quality of phytate and reduce phosphorus pollution.
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Harwood AJ. Prolyl oligopeptidase, inositol phosphate signalling and lithium sensitivity. CNS & NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS-DRUG TARGETS 2012; 10:333-9. [PMID: 21222625 PMCID: PMC3267164 DOI: 10.2174/187152711794653779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2010] [Accepted: 09/25/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Inhibition of prolyl oligopeptidase (PO) elevates inositol phosphate (IP) signalling and reduces cell sensitivity to lithium (Li+). This review discusses recent evidence that shows PO acts via the multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase (MIPP) to regulate gene expression. As a consequence, PO inhibition causes both a transient, rapid increase in I(1,4,5)P3 and a long-term elevation of IP signalling. This pathway is evolutionary conserved, being present in both the social amoeba Dictyostelium and human cell systems, and has potential implications for mental health.
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Receptor-dependent compartmentalization of PPIP5K1, a kinase with a cryptic polyphosphoinositide binding domain. Biochem J 2011; 434:415-26. [PMID: 21222653 DOI: 10.1042/bj20101437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The inositol pyrophosphates are multifunctional signalling molecules. One of the families of enzymes that synthesize the inositol pyrophosphates are the Vip1/PPIP5Ks (PP-InsP5 kinases). The kinase domains in Vip1/PPIP5Ks have been mapped to their N-terminus. Each of these proteins also possess a phosphatase-like domain of unknown significance. In the present study, we show that this phosphatase-like domain is not catalytically active. Instead, by using SPR (surface plasmon resonance) to study protein binding to immobilized lipid vesicles, we show that this domain is specialized for binding PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 (PPIP5K1 K(d)=96 nM; PPIP5K2 K(d)=705 nM). Both PtdIns(3,4)P2 and PtdIns(4,5)P2 are significantly weaker ligands, and no significant binding of PtdIns(3,5)P2 was detected. We confirm the functional importance of this domain in inositol lipid binding by site-directed mutagenesis. We present evidence that the PtdIns(3,4,5)P3-binding domain is an unusual hybrid, in which a partial PH (pleckstrin homology) consensus sequence is spliced into the phosphatase-like domain. Agonist-dependent activation of the PtdIns 3-kinase pathway in NIH 3T3 cells drives translocation of PPIP5K1 from the cytosol to the plasma membrane. We have therefore demonstrated receptor-regulated compartmentalization of inositol pyrophosphate synthesis in mammalian cells.
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Livingston AK, Kanazawa A, Cruz JA, Kramer DM. Regulation of cyclic electron flow in C₃ plants: differential effects of limiting photosynthesis at ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2010; 33:1779-88. [PMID: 20545877 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02183.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (CEF1) is thought to augment chloroplast ATP production to meet metabolic needs. Very little is known about the induction and regulation of CEF1. We investigated the effects on CEF1 of antisense suppression of the Calvin-Benson enzymes glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gapR), and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) small subunit (SSU), in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Wisconsin 38). The gapR, but not ssuR, mutants showed substantial increases in CEF1, demonstrating that specific intermediates, rather than slowing of assimilation, induce CEF1. Both types of mutant showed increases in steady-state transthylakoid proton motive force (pmf) and subsequent activation of the photoprotective q(E) response. With gapR, the increased pmf was caused both by up-regulation of CEF1 and down-regulation of the ATP synthase. In ssuR, the increased pmf was attributed entirely to a decrease in ATP synthase activity, as previously seen in wild-type plants when CO₂ levels were decreased. Comparison of major stromal metabolites in gapR, ssuR and hcef1, a mutant with decreased fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase activity, showed that neither the ATP/ADP ratio, nor major Calvin-Benson cycle intermediates can directly account for the activation of CEF1, suggesting that chloroplast redox status or reactive oxygen species regulate CEF1.
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- Aaron K Livingston
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-6340, USA
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Heiden MGV, Locasale JW, Swanson KD, Sharfi H, Heffron GJ, Amador-Noguez D, Christofk HR, Wagner G, Rabinowitz JD, Asara JM, Cantley LC. Evidence for an alternative glycolytic pathway in rapidly proliferating cells. Science 2010; 329:1492-9. [PMID: 20847263 PMCID: PMC3030121 DOI: 10.1126/science.1188015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 502] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Proliferating cells, including cancer cells, require altered metabolism to efficiently incorporate nutrients such as glucose into biomass. The M2 isoform of pyruvate kinase (PKM2) promotes the metabolism of glucose by aerobic glycolysis and contributes to anabolic metabolism. Paradoxically, decreased pyruvate kinase enzyme activity accompanies the expression of PKM2 in rapidly dividing cancer cells and tissues. We demonstrate that phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), the substrate for pyruvate kinase in cells, can act as a phosphate donor in mammalian cells because PEP participates in the phosphorylation of the glycolytic enzyme phosphoglycerate mutase (PGAM1) in PKM2-expressing cells. We used mass spectrometry to show that the phosphate from PEP is transferred to the catalytic histidine (His11) on human PGAM1. This reaction occurred at physiological concentrations of PEP and produced pyruvate in the absence of PKM2 activity. The presence of histidine-phosphorylated PGAM1 correlated with the expression of PKM2 in cancer cell lines and tumor tissues. Thus, decreased pyruvate kinase activity in PKM2-expressing cells allows PEP-dependent histidine phosphorylation of PGAM1 and may provide an alternate glycolytic pathway that decouples adenosine triphosphate production from PEP-mediated phosphotransfer, allowing for the high rate of glycolysis to support the anabolic metabolism observed in many proliferating cells.
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- Matthew G. Vander Heiden
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Signal Transduction and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Signal Transduction and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Signal Transduction and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Signal Transduction and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Signal Transduction and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Signal Transduction and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Signal Transduction and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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King J, Keim M, Teo R, Weening KE, Kapur M, McQuillan K, Ryves J, Rogers B, Dalton E, Williams RSB, Harwood AJ. Genetic control of lithium sensitivity and regulation of inositol biosynthetic genes. PLoS One 2010; 5:e11151. [PMID: 20567601 PMCID: PMC2887444 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2010] [Accepted: 03/30/2010] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Lithium (Li(+)) is a common treatment for bipolar mood disorder, a major psychiatric illness with a lifetime prevalence of more than 1%. Risk of bipolar disorder is heavily influenced by genetic predisposition, but is a complex genetic trait and, to date, genetic studies have provided little insight into its molecular origins. An alternative approach is to investigate the genetics of Li(+) sensitivity. Using the social amoeba Dictyostelium, we previously identified prolyl oligopeptidase (PO) as a modulator of Li(+) sensitivity. In a link to the clinic, PO enzyme activity is altered in bipolar disorder patients. Further studies demonstrated that PO is a negative regulator of inositol(1,4,5)trisphosphate (IP(3)) synthesis, a Li(+) sensitive intracellular signal. However, it was unclear how PO could influence either Li(+) sensitivity or risk of bipolar disorder. Here we show that in both Dictyostelium and cultured human cells PO acts via Multiple Inositol Polyphosphate Phosphatase (Mipp1) to control gene expression. This reveals a novel, gene regulatory network that modulates inositol metabolism and Li(+) sensitivity. Among its targets is the inositol monophosphatase gene IMPA2, which has also been associated with risk of bipolar disorder in some family studies, and our observations offer a cellular signalling pathway in which PO activity and IMPA2 gene expression converge.
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- Jason King
- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Lion N, Crettaz D, Rubin O, Tissot JD. Stored red blood cells: a changing universe waiting for its map(s). J Proteomics 2009; 73:374-85. [PMID: 19931659 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2009.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2009] [Revised: 11/03/2009] [Accepted: 11/04/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
The availability of stored red blood cells (RBCs) for transfusion remains an important aspect of the treatment of polytrauma, acute anemia or major bleedings. RBCs are prepared by blood banks from whole blood donations and stored in the cold in additive solutions for typically six weeks. These far from physiological storage conditions result in the so-called red cell storage lesion that is of importance both to blood bankers and to clinical practitioners. Here we review the current state of knowledge about the red cell storage lesion from a proteomic perspective. In particular, we describe the current models accounting for RBC aging and response to lethal stresses, review the published proteomic studies carried out to uncover the molecular basis of the RBC storage lesion, and conclude by suggesting a few possible proteomic studies that would provide further knowledge of the molecular alterations carried by RBCs stored in the cold for six weeks.
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- Niels Lion
- Service Régional Vaudois de Transfusion Sanguine, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Cho JS. General Enzymatic Properties of Human Histidine Acid Phosphatase-Phytase. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2009. [DOI: 10.5187/jast.2009.51.2.177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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