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Duan Y, Jiang N, Chen J, Chen J. Expression, localization and metabolic function of "resurrected" human urate oxidase in human hepatocytes. Int J Biol Macromol 2021; 175:30-39. [PMID: 33513422 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.01.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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A high serum uric acid (SUA) concentration is associated with hyperuricemia (HUA) and gout. In order to obtain long-acting therapeutic effect, correction of purine metabolism at genetic level is advantageous. For this purpose, we expressed three "human-like" urate oxidases in human hepatocytes (HL-7702) by lentivirus-mediated transduction. Enzymatic assay revealed that the recombinant urate oxidases expressed in HL-7702 cells were functionally active. Electron microscopy study showed that the recombinant enzymes were localized to peroxisome and formed distinct crystalloid core structures as in other mammal cells. Although similar rate of uric acid degradation was observed for all recombinant urate oxidases, HL-7702-pLVX-UOX83 cells and HL-7702-pLVX-UOX214/217 cells retained more cell viability compared with HL-7702-pLVX-UOXPBC at high uric acid level. This study provides a new direction for the treatment of gout and hyperuricemia.
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- Yundi Duan
- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China.
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Crystal structure of Bacillus fastidious uricase reveals an unexpected folding of the C-terminus residues crucial for thermostability under physiological conditions. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:7973-86. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6520-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2014] [Revised: 02/22/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Yang W, Fu J, Wang T, Liu H, Wang Y, Zhou Q, Jiang G. Alterations of endogenous metabolites in urine of rats exposed to decabromodiphenyl ether using metabonomic approaches. J Environ Sci (China) 2014; 26:900-908. [PMID: 25079421 DOI: 10.1016/s1001-0742(13)60533-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2013] [Revised: 09/16/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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There is large usage of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) especially for decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209, Deca-BDE) in controlling the risks of fire. The toxicological effects of PBDEs are worth being concerned about. Female SD rats were daily gavaged with BDE-209 ether at the dose of 100 mg/kg for 20 days. Histological observation was performed for the screening of the target organs for BDE-209 exposure. The distribution and metabolism of PBDEs in the exposed main organs were evidenced by HRGC-HRMS. Alterations of the endogenous metabolite concentrations in urine were investigated using metabonomic approaches based on (1)H NMR spectrum. Histopathological changes including serious edema in kidney, hepatocellular spotty necrosis and perivasculitis in liver indicated that BDE-209 caused potential influences on endogenous metabolism in the exposed liver and the kidney. BDE-209 was found to be highly accumulated in lipid, ovary, kidney and liver after 20 days' exposure. Occurrence of other lower brominated PBDEs in the rats demonstrated that reductive debromination process happened in vivo. Hydroxylated and methoxylated-BDEs, as metabolism products, were also detected in the rat tissues. A total of 12 different endogenous metabolites showed obvious alterations in urine from the exposed rats, indicating the disturbance of the corresponding internal biochemical processes induced by BDE-209 exposure. These findings in vivo suggested the potential health risk might be of concern due to the toxicological effects of BDE-209 as a ubiquitous compound in the environment.
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- Weijin Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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Changing paradigms in diagnosis of inherited defects associated with urolithiasis. Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract 2009; 39:111-25. [PMID: 19038654 DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2008.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The way in which veterinary scientists think about and approach the study of genetic disease has not changed, but the tools available to veterinary scientists have and will continue to change, allowing us to study increasingly complex problems and to make more rapid advances in the context of simple problems. To put these advances in perspective, this article first gives a historical perspective on the approaches to studying genetic diseases, particularly in human beings, and then outlines the advances that have become possible with the availability of the dog genome sequence. The article then discusses two inherited defects that are associated with urolithiasis, in particular, those responsible for cystine and purine (uric acid and its salts) stone formation. Together, these two conditions illustrate the contemporary use of a broad range of genetic approaches.
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Oxygen pressurized X-ray crystallography: probing the dioxygen binding site in cofactorless urate oxidase and implications for its catalytic mechanism. Biophys J 2008; 95:2415-22. [PMID: 18375516 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.122184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The localization of dioxygen sites in oxygen-binding proteins is a nontrivial experimental task and is often suggested through indirect methods such as using xenon or halide anions as oxygen probes. In this study, a straightforward method based on x-ray crystallography under high pressure of pure oxygen has been developed. An application is given on urate oxidase (UOX), a cofactorless enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to 5-hydroxyisourate in the presence of dioxygen. UOX crystals in complex with a competitive inhibitor of its natural substrate are submitted to an increasing pressure of 1.0, 2.5, or 4.0 MPa of gaseous oxygen. The results clearly show that dioxygen binds within the active site at a location where a water molecule is usually observed but does not bind in the already characterized specific hydrophobic pocket of xenon. Moreover, crystallizing UOX in the presence of a large excess of chloride (NaCl) shows that one chloride ion goes at the same location as the oxygen. The dioxygen hydrophilic environment (an asparagine, a histidine, and a threonine residues), its absence within the xenon binding site, and its location identical to a water molecule or a chloride ion suggest that the dioxygen site is mainly polar. The implication of the dioxygen location on the mechanism is discussed with respect to the experimentally suggested transient intermediates during the reaction cascade.
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Schliebs W, Würtz C, Kunau WH, Veenhuis M, Rottensteiner H. A eukaryote without catalase-containing microbodies: Neurospora crassa exhibits a unique cellular distribution of its four catalases. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2006; 5:1490-502. [PMID: 16963632 PMCID: PMC1563580 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00113-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Microbodies usually house catalase to decompose hydrogen peroxide generated within the organelle by the action of various oxidases. Here we have analyzed whether peroxisomes (i.e., catalase-containing microbodies) exist in Neurospora crassa. Three distinct catalase isoforms were identified by native catalase activity gels under various peroxisome-inducing conditions. Subcellular fractionation by density gradient centrifugation revealed that most of the spectrophotometrically measured activity was present in the light upper fractions, with an additional small peak coinciding with the peak fractions of HEX-1, the marker protein for Woronin bodies, a compartment related to the microbody family. However, neither in-gel assays nor monospecific antibodies generated against the three purified catalases detected the enzymes in any dense organellar fraction. Furthermore, staining of an N. crassa wild-type strain with 3,3'-diaminobenzidine and H(2)O(2) did not lead to catalase-dependent reaction products within microbodies. Nonetheless, N. crassa does possess a gene (cat-4) whose product is most similar to the peroxisomal type of monofunctional catalases. This novel protein indeed exhibited catalase activity, but was not localized to microbodies either. We conclude that N. crassa lacks catalase-containing peroxisomes, a characteristic that is probably restricted to a few filamentous fungi that produce little hydrogen peroxide within microbodies.
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- Wolfgang Schliebs
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abt. Systembiochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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Reddy JK. Peroxisome proliferators and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha: biotic and xenobiotic sensing. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2004; 164:2305-21. [PMID: 15161663 PMCID: PMC1615758 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)63787-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Janardan K Reddy
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
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Kurisu M, Morita M, Kashiwayama Y, Yokota S, Hayashi H, Sakai Y, Ohkuma S, Nishimura M, Imanaka T. Existence of catalase-less peroxisomes in Sf21 insect cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 306:169-76. [PMID: 12788084 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(03)00913-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Catalase activity, a peroxisomal marker enzyme, was not detectable in any of the subcellular fractions of Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf) 21 insect cells, although marker enzymes in other organelles were distributed in the fractions in a manner similar to that seen in mammalian cells. When a green fluorescent protein fused with peroxisome targeting signal 1 at the C-terminal (GFP-SKL) was expressed in Sf21 cells, punctate fluorescent dots were observed in the cytoplasm. The fraction where GFP-SKL was concentrated exhibited long-chain and very-long-chain fatty acid beta-oxidation activities in the presence of KCN and the density of this fraction was slightly higher than that of mitochondria. Immunoelectron microscopy studies with anti-SKL antibody demonstrated that Sf21 cells have immunoreactive peroxisome-like organelles which are structurally distinct from mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, and lysosomes. In contrast to peroxisomal matrix proteins, adrenoleukodystrophy protein, a peroxisomal membrane protein, was not located to peroxisomes. This suggests that the targeting signal for PMP in insect cells is distinct from that in mammalian cells. These results demonstrate that Sf21 insect cells have unique catalase-less peroxisomes capable of beta-oxidation of fatty acids.
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- Mikinori Kurisu
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2630 Sugitani, 930-0194, Toyama, Japan
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Yokota S. Degradation of normal and proliferated peroxisomes in rat hepatocytes: regulation of peroxisomes quantity in cells. Microsc Res Tech 2003; 61:151-60. [PMID: 12740821 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.10324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Degradation and turnover of peroxisomes is reviewed. First, we describe the historical aspects of peroxisome degradation research and the two major concepts for breakdown of peroxisomes, i.e., autophagy and autolysis. Next, the comprehensive knowledge on autophagy of peroxisomes in mammalian and yeast cells is reviewed. It has been shown that proliferated peroxisomes are degraded by selective autophagy, and studies using yeast cells have been especially helpful in shedding light on the molecular mechanisms of this process. The degradation of extraperoxisomal urate oxidase crystalloid is noted. Overexpressed wild-type urate oxidase in cultured cells has been shown to be degraded through an unknown proteolytic pathway distinct from the lysosomal system including autophagy or the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Finally, peroxisome autolysis mediated by 15-lipoxygenase (15-LOX) is described. 15-LOX is integrated into the peroxisome membrane causing focal membrane disruptions. The content of the peroxisomes is then exposed to cytosol proteases and seems to be digested quickly. In conclusion, the number of peroxisomes appears to be regulated by two selective pathways, autophagy, including macro- and microautophagy, and 15-LOX-mediated autolysis.
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- Sadaki Yokota
- Biology Laboratory, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho-cho, Japan.
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Yokota S, Kamijo K, Oda T. Degradation of overexpressed wild-type and mutant uricase proteins in cultured cells. J Histochem Cytochem 1999; 47:1133-40. [PMID: 10449534 DOI: 10.1177/002215549904700905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Wild-type and mutated urate oxidase (UO) proteins were overexpressed in Cos-1 and HEK293 cells and were analyzed by Western blotting and several morphological methods. By immunoelectron microscopy, wild-type UO formed large aggregates in the cytoplasm and nucleoplasm and exhibited a crystalloid structure. Mutated UO (UOdC), from which 28 amino acids, including peroxisomal targeting signal at the C-terminus, were deleted, formed dispersed aggregates in the cytoplasm and nucleus. Chimeric UO (MUOdC), which was made by addition of the mitochondrial targeting signal of serine:pyruvate/glyoxylate aminotransferase to the N-terminus of UOdC, attached to ER to form a complicated MUOdC-ER complex. These three structures were immunostained for ubiquitin- and p32-subunits of proteasomes. Western blotting showed strong signal for UO and UOdC but very weak signal for MUOdC. The results suggest that overexpressed UO and UOdC accumulate in the cells because their synthesis rate is higher than the degradation rate, whereas MUOdC forming a complex with ER is degraded very rapidly. The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway may be involved in the degradation of these proteins.
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- S Yokota
- Biological Program, Yamanashi Medical University, Yamanashi, Japan
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Colloc'h N, el Hajji M, Bachet B, L'Hermite G, Schiltz M, Prangé T, Castro B, Mornon JP. Crystal structure of the protein drug urate oxidase-inhibitor complex at 2.05 A resolution. NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 1997; 4:947-52. [PMID: 9360612 DOI: 10.1038/nsb1197-947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The gene coding for urate oxidase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to allantoin, is inactivated in humans. Consequently, urate oxidase is used as a protein drug to overcome severe disorders induced by uric acid accumulation. The structure of the active homotetrameric enzyme reveals the existence of a small architectural domain that we call T-fold (for tunnelling-fold) domain. It assembles to form a perfect unusual dimeric alpha 8 beta 16 barrel. Urate oxidase may be the archetype of an expanding new family of tunnel-shaped proteins that now has three members; tetrahydropterin synthase, GTP cyclohydrolase I and urate oxidase. The structure of the active site of urate oxidase around the 8-azaxanthine inhibitor reveals an original mechanism of oxidation that does not require any ions or prosthetic groups.
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- N Colloc'h
- Systèmes Moléculaires et Biologie Structurale, CNRS URA09, Université Paris VI et Paris VII, France
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- A V Yeldandi
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Chu R, Lin Y, Usuda N, Rao MS, Reddy JK, Yeldandi AV. Mutational analysis of the putative copper-binding site of rat urate oxidase. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1996; 804:781-6. [PMID: 8993623 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb18701.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- R Chu
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- R Chu
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Varanasi U, Chu R, Huang Q, Castellon R, Yeldandi AV, Reddy JK. Identification of a peroxisome proliferator-responsive element upstream of the human peroxisomal fatty acyl coenzyme A oxidase gene. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:2147-55. [PMID: 8567672 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.4.2147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Peroxisome proliferators cause a rapid and coordinated transcriptional activation of genes encoding the enzymes of the peroxisomal beta-oxidation pathway in rats and mice. Cis-acting peroxisome proliferator responsive elements (PPREs) have been identified in the 5'-flanking region of H202-producing rat acyl-CoA oxidase (ACOX) gene and in other genes inducible by peroxisome proliferators. To gain more insight into the purported nonresponsiveness of human liver cells to peroxisome volume density and in the activity of the beta-oxidation enzyme system, we have previously cloned the human ACOX gene, the first and rate-limiting enzyme of the peroxisomal beta-oxidation system. We now present information on a regulatory element for the peroxidase proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)/retinoid X receptor (RXR) heterodimers. The PPRE, consists of AGGTCA C TGGTCA, which is a direct repeat of hexamer half-sites interspaced by a single nucleotide (DR1 motif). It is located at -1918 to -1906 base pairs upstream of the transcription initiation site of this human ACOX gene. This PPRE specifically binds to baculovirus-expressed recombinant rat PPAR alpha/RXR alpha heterodimers. In transient transfection experiments, the maximum induction of luciferase expression by ciprofibrate and/or 9-cis-retinoic acid is dependent upon cotransfection of expression plasmids for PPAR alpha and RXR alpha. The functionally of this human ACOX promoter was further demonstrated by linking it to a beta-galactosidase reporter gene or to a rat urate oxidase cDNA and establishing stably transfected African green monkey kidney (CV1) cell lines expressing reporter protein. The human ACOX promoter has been found to be responsive to peroxisome proliferators in CV1 cells stably expressing PPAR alpha, whereas only a basal level of promoter activity is detected in stably transfected cells lacking PPAR alpha. The presence of a PPRE in the promoter of this human peroxisomal ACOX gene and its responsiveness to peroxisome proliferators suggests that factors other than the PPRE in the 5'-flanking sequence of the human ACOX gene may account for differences, if any, in the pleiotropic responses of humans to peroxisome proliferators.
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- U Varanasi
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Usuda N, Hanai T, Nagata T. Immunogold studies on peroxisomes: review of the localization of specific proteins in vertebrate peroxisomes. Microsc Res Tech 1995; 31:79-92. [PMID: 7626801 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.1070310107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Peroxisomes, since their discovery as microbodies, have been studied mostly independently by electron microscopists and biochemists. The fine structure has been studied by electron microscopy, and the compositional enzymes and proteins by protein biochemistry. Electron microscopic histochemistry has been used to try to clarify the relationship between the fine structure and its constituents. The immunogold technique, a combination of electron microscopy and protein biochemistry, for the first time resolved this problem due to the high sensitivity and resolution power of the staining and the high reliability of the technique. The present paper reviews the way in which the immunogold techniques, especially the protein A-gold technique, revealed the localization of various enzymes or proteins in peroxisomes or peroxisomal subcompartments, and discusses why this technique should be employed in peroxisome research.
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- N Usuda
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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Chu R, Varanasi U, Chu S, Lin Y, Usuda N, Rao MS, Reddy JK. Overexpression and characterization of the human peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase in insect cells. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:4908-15. [PMID: 7876265 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.9.4908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Human liver peroxisomes contain two acyl-CoA oxidases, namely, palmitoyl-CoA oxidase and a branched chain acyl-CoA oxidase. The palmitoyl-CoA oxidase (ACOX) oxidizes the CoA esters of straight chain fatty acids and prostaglandins and donates electrons directly to molecular oxygen, thereby producing H2O2. The inducibility of this H2O2-generating ACOX in rat and mouse liver by peroxisome proliferators and the postulated role of the resulting oxidative stress in hepatocarcinogenesis generated interest in characterizing the structure and function of human ACOX. We have constructed a full-length cDNA encoding a 660-amino acid residue human ACOX and produced a catalytically active human ACOX protein at high levels in Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) insect cells using the baculovirus vector. Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that the full-length 72-kDa polypeptide (component A) was partially processed into its constituent 51-kDa (component B) and 21-kDa (component C) products, respectively. Recombinant protein (approximately 20 mg/l x 10(9) cells) was purified to homogeneity by a single-step procedure on a nickel-nitrilo-triacetic acid affinity column. Using the purified enzyme, Km and Vmax values for palmitoyl-CoA were found to be 10 microM and 1.4 units/mg of protein, respectively. The maximal activities for saturated fatty acids were observed with C12-18 substrates. The overexpressed human ACOX protein was identified in the cytoplasm of the insect cells by immunocytochemical staining. Individual expression of either the truncated ACOX 51-kDa (component B) or the 21-kDa (component C) revealed lack of enzyme activity, but co-infection of the insect cells with recombinant viruses expressing components B and C resulted in the formation of an enzymatically active heterodimeric B+C complex which could subsequently be inactivated by dissociating with detergent.
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- R Chu
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611
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Immunogold labelling indicates high catalase concentrations in amorphous and crystalline inclusions of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) peroxisomes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02389885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Tenberge KB, Eising R. Immunogold labelling indicates high catalase concentrations in amorphous and crystalline inclusions of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) peroxisomes. THE HISTOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 1995; 27:184-95. [PMID: 7797423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Immunogold labelling and electron microscopy were used to investigate whether catalase was present in peroxisomal inclusions, the composition of which has not yet been determined in plant cells. In the mesophyll cells of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) cotyledons, the catalase gold label was confined to peroxisomes. At day 2 of postgerminative growth in darkness, peroxisomes were free of inclusions, and the matrix was homogeneously labelled with gold particles. Thereafter, amorphous inclusions appeared, but by day 5 of growth, conspicuous crystalline inclusions (cores) were the predominant type. This developmental change, first observed in cotyledons grown in continuous light between day 2.5 and 5, also took place in cotyledons kept in permanent darkness. Both amorphous and crystalline inclusions showed a much higher immunogold label than did the peroxisomal matrix, indicating that catalase was a component of both types of peroxisomal inclusions. In contrast to catalase, the immunogold label of glycolate oxidase was almost completely absent from cores and was confined to the peroxisomal matrix. Together with reports on the absence of other enzymes from peroxisomal inclusions in sunflower and other species (Vaughn, 1989) our results suggest that catalase is a major constituent of amorphous and crystalline peroxisomal inclusions in plants.
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- K B Tenberge
- Institut für Botanik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Federal Republic of Germany
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de Kok YJ, Geurds MP, Sistermans EA, Usmany M, Vlak JM, Wieringa B. Production of native creatine kinase B in insect cells using a baculovirus expression vector. Mol Cell Biochem 1995; 143:59-65. [PMID: 7776959 DOI: 10.1007/bf00925927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A full-length human creatine kinase B (B-CK) cDNA was used to produce a recombinant baculovirus (AcDZ1-BCK). Sf9 cells infected with this recombinant expressed a homodimeric protein composed of 43 kDa subunits which, under optimal conditions, formed up to 30% of the total soluble cellular protein. Upon analysis by PAGE, zymogram assay and gel filtration chromatography the recombinant protein behaved like authentic dimeric human BB-CK protein. Studies with a newly produced monoclonal antibody (CK-BYK/21E10) directed against an epitope in the N-terminus of the protein confirmed the identity of the product. The recombinant BB-CK protein was purified to over 99% homogeneity from the total protein extract of AcDZ1-CKB infected cells in one single step involving anion exchange column chromatography on MonoQ in FPLC. Dialysed protein had a specific activity of 239 U/mg protein.
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- Y J de Kok
- Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Medical Faculty University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Jain S, Dolwick KM, Schmidt JV, Bradfield CA. Potent transactivation domains of the Ah receptor and the Ah receptor nuclear translocator map to their carboxyl termini. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)31725-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Chan WK, Chu R, Jain S, Reddy JK, Bradfield CA. Baculovirus expression of the Ah receptor and Ah receptor nuclear translocater. Evidence for additional dioxin responsive element-binding species and factors required for signaling. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47217-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Hayashi S, Jain S, Chu R, Alvares K, Xu B, Erfurth F, Usuda N, Rao M, Reddy S, Noguchi T. Amphibian allantoinase. Molecular cloning, tissue distribution, and functional expression. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)32711-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Usuda N, Hayashi S, Fujiwara S, Noguchi T, Nagata T, Rao MS, Alvares K, Reddy JK, Yeldandi AV. Uric acid degrading enzymes, urate oxidase and allantoinase, are associated with different subcellular organelles in frog liver and kidney. J Cell Sci 1994; 107 ( Pt 4):1073-81. [PMID: 8056832 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.107.4.1073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
On the basis of differential and density gradient centrifugation studies, the site of the uric acid degrading enzymes, urate oxidase and allantoinase, in amphibia was previously assigned to the hepatic peroxisomes. Using specific antibodies against frog urate oxidase and allantoinase, we have undertaken an immunocytochemical study of the localization of these two proteins in frog liver and kidney, and demonstrate that whereas urate oxidase is present in peroxisomes, allantoinase is localized in mitochondria. Urate oxidase and allantoinase were detected by immunoblot analysis in both frog liver and kidney. The subcellular localization of these two enzymes was ascertained by Protein A-gold immunocytochemical staining of Lowicryl K4M-embedded tissue. Peroxisomes in frog liver parenchymal cells and kidney proximal tubular epithelium contained a semi-dense subcrystalloid core, which was found to be the exclusive site of urate oxidase localization. Allantoinase was detected within mitochondria, but not in peroxisomes of hepatocytes or proximal tubular epithelium. No allantoinase was detected in the mitochondria of nonhepatic parenchymal cells in liver and of the cells lining the distal convoluted tubules of the kidney. These results demonstrate that, unlike rat kidney peroxisomes which lack urate oxidase, peroxisomes of frog kidney contain this enzyme. Contrary to previous assumptions, these studies also clearly establish that urate oxidase and allantoinase, the first two enzymes involved in uric acid degradation, are localized in different subcellular organelles in frog liver and kidney.
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- N Usuda
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611
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