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Adepu KK, Anishkin A, Adams SH, Chintapalli SV. A versatile delivery vehicle for cellular oxygen and fuels or metabolic sensor? A review and perspective on the functions of myoglobin. Physiol Rev 2024; 104:1611-1642. [PMID: 38696337 PMCID: PMC11495214 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00031.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/04/2024] Open
Abstract
A canonical view of the primary physiological function of myoglobin (Mb) is that it is an oxygen (O2) storage protein supporting mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, especially as the tissue O2 partial pressure (Po2) drops and Mb off-loads O2. Besides O2 storage/transport, recent findings support functions for Mb in lipid trafficking and sequestration, interacting with cellular glycolytic metabolites such as lactate (LAC) and pyruvate (PYR), and "ectopic" expression in some types of cancer cells and in brown adipose tissue (BAT). Data from Mb knockout (Mb-/-) mice and biochemical models suggest additional metabolic roles for Mb, especially regulation of nitric oxide (NO) pools, modulation of BAT bioenergetics, thermogenesis, and lipid storage phenotypes. From these and other findings in the literature over many decades, Mb's function is not confined to delivering O2 in support of oxidative phosphorylation but may serve as an O2 sensor that modulates intracellular Po2- and NO-responsive molecular signaling pathways. This paradigm reflects a fundamental change in how oxidative metabolism and cell regulation are viewed in Mb-expressing cells such as skeletal muscle, heart, brown adipocytes, and select cancer cells. Here, we review historic and emerging views related to the physiological roles for Mb and present working models illustrating the possible importance of interactions between Mb, gases, and small-molecule metabolites in regulation of cell signaling and bioenergetics.
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- Kiran Kumar Adepu
- Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States
- Center for Alimentary and Metabolic Science, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States
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- Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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Mathai C, Jourd'heuil F, Pham LGC, Gilliard K, Howard D, Balnis J, Jaitovich A, Chittur SV, Rilley M, Peredo-Wende R, Ammoura I, Shin SJ, Barroso M, Barra J, Shishkova E, Coon JJ, Lopez-Soler RI, Jourd'heuil D. Regulation of DNA damage and transcriptional output in the vasculature through a cytoglobin-HMGB2 axis. Redox Biol 2023; 65:102838. [PMID: 37573836 PMCID: PMC10428073 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Identifying novel regulators of vascular smooth muscle cell function is necessary to further understand cardiovascular diseases. We previously identified cytoglobin, a hemoglobin homolog, with myogenic and cytoprotective roles in the vasculature. The specific mechanism of action of cytoglobin is unclear but does not seem to be related to oxygen transport or storage like hemoglobin. Herein, transcriptomic profiling of injured carotid arteries in cytoglobin global knockout mice revealed that cytoglobin deletion accelerated the loss of contractile genes and increased DNA damage. Overall, we show that cytoglobin is actively translocated into the nucleus of vascular smooth muscle cells through a redox signal driven by NOX4. We demonstrate that nuclear cytoglobin heterodimerizes with the non-histone chromatin structural protein HMGB2. Our results are consistent with a previously unknown function by which a non-erythrocytic hemoglobin inhibits DNA damage and regulates gene programs in the vasculature by modulating the genome-wide binding of HMGB2.
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- Clinton Mathai
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Center for Functional Genomics, Cancer Research Center, University at Albany, New York, 12144, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Samuel Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, NY, 12208, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Samuel Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, NY, 12208, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, 12208, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, 12208, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- National Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems, Madison, WI, 53706, USA; Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53506, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, 12208, USA; Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53506, USA; Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, 53515, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53506, USA
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- Section of Renal Transplantation, Edward Hines VA Jr. Hospital, Hines, IL, 60141, USA; Department of Surgery, Division of Intra-Abdominal Transplantation, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, 60153, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA.
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Mathai C, Jourd'heuil F, Pham LGC, Gilliard K, Howard D, Balnis J, Jaitovich A, Chittur SV, Rilley M, Peredo-Wende R, Ammoura I, Shin SJ, Barroso M, Barra J, Shishkova E, Coon JJ, Lopez-Soler RI, Jourd'heuil D. Nuclear cytoglobin associates with HMGB2 and regulates DNA damage and genome-wide transcriptional output in the vasculature. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.10.540045. [PMID: 37214992 PMCID: PMC10197644 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.10.540045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
Identifying novel regulators of vascular smooth muscle cell function is necessary to further understand cardiovascular diseases. We previously identified cytoglobin, a hemoglobin homolog, with myogenic and cytoprotective roles in the vasculature. The specific mechanism of action of cytoglobin is unclear but does not seem to be related to oxygen transport or storage like hemoglobin. Herein, transcriptomic profiling of injured carotid arteries in cytoglobin global knockout mice revealed that cytoglobin deletion accelerated the loss of contractile genes and increased DNA damage. Overall, we show that cytoglobin is actively translocated into the nucleus of vascular smooth muscle cells through a redox signal driven by NOX4. We demonstrate that nuclear cytoglobin heterodimerizes with the non-histone chromatin structural protein HMGB2. Our results are consistent with a previously unknown function by which a non-erythrocytic hemoglobin inhibits DNA damage and regulates gene programs in the vasculature by modulating the genome-wide binding of HMGB2.
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Gardner PR. Ordered Motions in the Nitric-Oxide Dioxygenase Mechanism of Flavohemoglobin and Assorted Globins with Tightly Coupled Reductases. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2022; 1414:45-96. [PMID: 36520413 DOI: 10.1007/5584_2022_751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Nitric-oxide dioxygenases (NODs) activate and combine O2 with NO to form nitrate. A variety of oxygen-binding hemoglobins with associated partner reductases or electron donors function as enzymatic NODs. Kinetic and structural investigations of the archetypal two-domain microbial flavohemoglobin-NOD have illuminated an allosteric mechanism that employs selective tunnels for O2 and NO, gates for NO and nitrate, transient O2 association with ferric heme, and an O2 and NO-triggered, ferric heme spin crossover-driven, motion-controlled, and dipole-regulated electron-transfer switch. The proposed mechanism facilitates radical-radical coupling of ferric-superoxide with NO to form nitrate while preventing suicidal ferrous-NO formation. Diverse globins display the structural and functional motifs necessary for a similar allosteric NOD mechanism. In silico docking simulations reveal monomeric erythrocyte hemoglobin alpha-chain and beta-chain intrinsically matched and tightly coupled with NADH-cytochrome b5 oxidoreductase and NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase, respectively, forming membrane-bound flavohemoglobin-like mammalian NODs. The neuroprotective neuroglobin manifests a potential NOD role in a close-fitting ternary complex with membrane-bound NADH-cytochrome b5 oxidoreductase and cytochrome b5. Cytoglobin interfaces weakly with cytochrome b5 for O2 and NO-regulated electron-transfer and coupled NOD activity. The mechanistic model also provides insight into the evolution of O2 binding cooperativity in hemoglobin and a basis for the discovery of allosteric NOD inhibitors.
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Helfenrath K, Sauer M, Kamga M, Wisniewsky M, Burmester T, Fabrizius A. The More, the Merrier? Multiple Myoglobin Genes in Fish Species, Especially in Gray Bichir (Polypterus senegalus) and Reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus). Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:6237895. [PMID: 33871590 PMCID: PMC8480196 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The members of the globin superfamily are a classical model system to investigate gene evolution and their fates as well as the diversity of protein function. One of the best-known globins is myoglobin (Mb), which is mainly expressed in heart muscle and transports oxygen from the sarcolemma to the mitochondria. Most vertebrates harbor a single copy of the myoglobin gene, but some fish species have multiple myoglobin genes. Phylogenetic analyses indicate an independent emergence of multiple myoglobin genes, whereby the origin is mostly the last common ancestor of each order. By analyzing different transcriptome data sets, we found at least 15 multiple myoglobin genes in the polypterid gray bichir (Polypterus senegalus) and reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus). In reedfish, the myoglobin genes are expressed in a broad range of tissues but show very different expression values. In contrast, the Mb genes of the gray bichir show a rather scattered expression pattern; only a few Mb genes were found expressed in the analyzed tissues. Both, gray bichir and reedfish possess lungs which enable them to inhabit shallow and swampy waters throughout tropical Africa with frequently fluctuating and low oxygen concentrations. The myoglobin repertoire probably reflects the molecular adaptation to these conditions. The sequence divergence, the substitution rate, and the different expression pattern of multiple myoglobin genes in gray bichir and reedfish imply different functions, probably through sub- and neofunctionalization during evolution.
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- Institute of Zoology, Biocenter Grindel, University
of Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Biocenter Grindel, University
of Hamburg, Germany
- Teaching Hospital Cologne, University
of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Biocenter Grindel, University
of Hamburg, Germany
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Lessons from the post-genomic era: Globin diversity beyond oxygen binding and transport. Redox Biol 2020; 37:101687. [PMID: 32863222 PMCID: PMC7475203 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2020.101687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Vertebrate hemoglobin (Hb) and myoglobin (Mb) were among the first proteins whose structures and sequences were determined over 50 years ago. In the subsequent pregenomic period, numerous related proteins came to light in plants, invertebrates and bacteria, that shared the myoglobin fold, a signature sequence motif characteristic of a 3-on-3 α-helical sandwich. Concomitantly, eukaryote and bacterial globins with a truncated 2-on-2 α-helical fold were discovered. Genomic information over the last 20 years has dramatically expanded the list of known globins, demonstrating their existence in a limited number of archaeal genomes, a majority of bacterial genomes and an overwhelming majority of eukaryote genomes. In vertebrates, 6 additional globin types were identified, namely neuroglobin (Ngb), cytoglobin (Cygb), globin E (GbE), globin X (GbX), globin Y (GbY) and androglobin (Adgb). Furthermore, functions beyond the familiar oxygen transport and storage have been discovered within the vertebrate globin family, including NO metabolism, peroxidase activity, scavenging of free radicals, and signaling functions. The extension of the knowledge on globin functions suggests that the original roles of bacterial globins must have been enzymatic, involved in defense against NO toxicity, and perhaps also as sensors of O2, regulating taxis away or towards high O2 concentrations. In this review, we aimed to discuss the evolution and remarkable functional diversity of vertebrate globins with particular focus on the variety of non-canonical expression sites of mammalian globins and their according impressive variability of atypical functions.
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Billhaq DH, Lee SH, Lee S. The potential function of endometrial-secreted factors for endometrium remodeling during the estrous cycle. Anim Sci J 2020; 91:e13333. [PMID: 31909524 DOI: 10.1111/asj.13333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Revised: 11/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Uterine has a pivotal role in implantation and conceptus development. To prepare a conducive uterine condition for possibly new gestation during the estrous cycle, uterine endometrium undergoes dramatic remodeling. In addition, angiogenesis is an indispensable biological process of endometrium remodeling. Furthermore, essential protein expressions related to important biological processes of endometrium remodeling, which are vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), myoglobin (MYG), collagen type IV (COL4), fucosyltransferase IV (FUT4), and cysteine-rich protein 2 (CRP2), were detected in the endometrial tissue reported in many previous studies and recently discovered in histotroph substrates during the estrous cycle. Those proteins, which are liable for provoking new vessel development, cell proliferation, cell adhesion, and cell migration, were expressed higher in the histotroph during the luteal phase than follicular phase. Histotroph proteins considerably contribute to endometrium remodeling during the estrous cycle. To that end, the following review will discuss and highlight the relevant information and evidence of the uterine fluid proteins as endometrial-secreted factors that adequately indicate the potential role of the uterine secretions to be involved in the endometrial remodeling process.
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- Dody Houston Billhaq
- College of Animal Life Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Institute of Animal Resources, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- College of Animal Life Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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Cellular microdomains for nitric oxide signaling in endothelium and red blood cells. Nitric Oxide 2020; 96:44-53. [PMID: 31911123 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2020.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
There is accumulating evidence that biological membranes are not just homogenous lipid structures, but are highly organized in microdomains, i.e. compartmentalized areas of protein and lipid complexes, which facilitate necessary interactions for various signaling pathways. Each microdomain exhibits unique composition, membrane location and dynamics, which ultimately shape their functional characteristics. In the vasculature, microdomains are crucial for organizing and compartmentalizing vasodilatory signals that contribute to blood pressure homeostasis. In this review we aim to describe how membrane microdomains in both the endothelium and red blood cells allow context-specific regulation of the vasodilatory signal nitric oxide (NO) and its corresponding metabolic products, and how this results in tightly controlled systemic physiological responses. We will describe (1) structural characteristics of microdomains including lipid rafts and caveolae; (2) endothelial cell caveolae and how they participate in mechanosensing and NO-dependent mechanotransduction; (3) the myoendothelial junction of resistance arterial endothelial cells and how protein-protein interactions within it have profound systemic effects on blood pressure regulation, and (4) putative/proposed NO microdomains in RBCs and how they participate in control of systemic NO bioavailability. The sum of these discussions will provide a current view of NO regulation by cellular microdomains.
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Braganza A, Quesnelle K, Bickta J, Reyes C, Wang Y, Jessup M, St Croix C, Arlotti J, Singh SV, Shiva S. Myoglobin induces mitochondrial fusion, thereby inhibiting breast cancer cell proliferation. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:7269-7282. [PMID: 30872402 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.006673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Revised: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Myoglobin is a monomeric heme protein expressed ubiquitously in skeletal and cardiac muscle and is traditionally considered to function as an oxygen reservoir for mitochondria during hypoxia. It is now well established that low concentrations of myoglobin are aberrantly expressed in a significant proportion of breast cancer tumors. Despite being expressed only at low levels in these tumors, myoglobin is associated with attenuated tumor growth and a better prognosis in breast cancer patients, but the mechanism of this myoglobin-mediated protection against further cancer growth remains unclear. Herein, we report a signaling pathway by which myoglobin regulates mitochondrial dynamics and thereby decreases cell proliferation. We demonstrate in vitro that expression of human myoglobin in MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-468, and MCF7 breast cancer cells induces mitochondrial hyperfusion by up-regulating mitofusins 1 and 2, the predominant catalysts of mitochondrial fusion. This hyperfusion causes cell cycle arrest and subsequent inhibition of cell proliferation. Mechanistically, increased mitofusin expression was due to myoglobin-dependent free-radical production, leading to the oxidation and degradation of the E3 ubiquitin ligase parkin. We recapitulated this pathway in a murine model in which myoglobin-expressing xenografts exhibited decreased tumor volume with increased mitofusin, markers of cell cycle arrest, and decreased parkin expression. Furthermore, in human triple-negative breast tumor tissues, mitofusin and myoglobin levels were positively correlated. Collectively, these results elucidate a new function for myoglobin as a modulator of mitochondrial dynamics and reveal a novel pathway by which myoglobin decreases breast cancer cell proliferation and tumor growth by up-regulating mitofusin levels.
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- the Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- the Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- From the Vascular Medicine Institute and
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- Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and.,University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232
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- Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and.,University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232
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- From the Vascular Medicine Institute and .,Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and.,Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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Hasan MM, Ushio H, Ochiai Y. Expression levels of myoglobin in muscle and non-muscle tissues of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, a hypoxia intolerant species. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2018; 225:48-57. [PMID: 30026102 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2018.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2018] [Revised: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 07/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Myoglobin (Mb) is one of the most intensively studied intracellular respiratory muscle proteins. Since the discovery of the fascinating fact that Mb is not confined only to oxidative muscle tissues but also is co-localized in different non-muscle tissues of cyprinids, hypoxia tolerant cyprinids have been established as the model teleost. Mb both at mRNA and protein levels have been reported in this study for the first time from a number of muscle and non-muscle tissues of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, a hypoxia intolerant species. Mb transcript levels were high in the heart and slow skeletal muscle, and were comparatively high in the gonad and gill among the non-muscle tissues. Western-blotting by using anti-rainbow trout Mb peptide rabbit antibody detected Mb protein in the muscles and several non-muscle tissues. By both RNA in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence, Mb was localized in the cardiomyocytes and oxidative muscle fibers. On the other hand, Mb both at mRNA and protein levels was restricted to the lamellar epithelial cells of the gill, epithelial layers of hepato-biliary duct, neurons and endothelial cells of brain, ooplasm of gonad, kidney tubules, endothelial cells, and epithelial layer of intestine. Neuroglobin isoform 1 and 2 mRNAs along with Mb mRNA were localized in the granular layer of cerebellum. Considering the previous data reported for cyprinids, the expression sites of Mb in the muscle and non-muscle tissues of teleost could be universal, where Mb concerted with the other globins might play meaningful physiological roles.
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- Muhammad Mehedi Hasan
- Laboratory of Marine Biochemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan; Department of Fisheries Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202, Bangladesh.
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- Laboratory of Marine Biochemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Aramaki, Aoba, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
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Mattisson IY, Björkbacka H, Wigren M, Edsfeldt A, Melander O, Fredrikson GN, Bengtsson E, Gonçalves I, Orho-Melander M, Engström G, Almgren P, Nilsson J. Elevated Markers of Death Receptor-Activated Apoptosis are Associated with Increased Risk for Development of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. EBioMedicine 2017; 26:187-197. [PMID: 29208468 PMCID: PMC5836474 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Background An increased rate of cell death by apoptosis has been implicated in both diabetes and atherosclerosis. Apoptosis can be induced through activation of the death receptors TNF receptor 1 (TNFR-1), TRAIL receptor 2 (TRAILR-2) and Fas. Soluble forms of these receptors are found in plasma. The objective of this study was to determine if soluble death receptors are markers of receptor-activated apoptosis and predict risk for development of diabetes and cardiovascular events. Methods Fas ligand was used to induce apoptosis in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and INS-1 pancreatic β-cells and release of TNFR-1, TRAILR-2 and Fas measured by ELISA. Proximity Extension Assay was used to analyze plasma levels of TNFR-1, TRAILR-2 and Fas in baseline samples of 4742 subjects in the Malmö Diet and Cancer Study and related to development of diabetes and cardiovascular events during 19.2 years of follow-up. Results Activation of apoptosis by Fas ligand was associated with release of soluble Fas, TNFR-1 and TRAILR-2 in both cell types. Circulating levels of all three receptors were higher in subjects with diabetes and correlated with markers of impaired glucose metabolism in non-diabetic subjects. Among the latter, those in the highest tertile of soluble Fas, TNFR-1 and TRAILR-2 had increased risk for development of diabetes and cardiovascular events. These associations became weaker when adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors in Cox regression models, but remained significant for TRAILR-2 with incident diabetes, cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke, and for TNFR-1 with myocardial infarction. Conclusion The present study demonstrates an association between several cardiovascular risk factors and elevated levels of circulating markers of apoptotic cell death. It also shows that subjects with high levels of these biomarkers have increased risk of diabetes and CVD. This implies that soluble death receptors are markers of β-cell and vascular injury and potentially could be used as surrogate markers of therapeutic efficiency in risk factor interventions. •Receptor-activated apoptosis is associated with release of soluble death receptors that act as biomarkers of apoptosis •Several cardiovascular risk factors including markers of impaired glucose metabolism associate with elevated plasma levels of death receptors •Subjects with high plasma levels of death receptors have an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease Atherosclerosis has been proposed to develop in response to chronic arterial injury caused by cardiovascular risk factors. The present study provides clinical evidence for this hypothesis by demonstrating an association between several cardiovascular risk factors and elevated levels of circulating markers of apoptotic cell death and that subjects with high levels of these biomarkers have increased risk of cardiovascular mortality, MI and stroke. These observations point to the possibility that the plasma level of soluble death receptors can be used as surrogate markers of arterial injury and atherosclerotic disease activity in cardiovascular interventions. Finally, our findings imply that soluble death receptors also may serve as biomarkers of the damage caused by metabolic stress to β-cells and risk for development of type 2 diabetes.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Biomarkers/blood
- Cardiovascular Diseases/diagnosis
- Cardiovascular Diseases/etiology
- Diabetes Mellitus/diagnosis
- Diabetes Mellitus/etiology
- Fas Ligand Protein/pharmacology
- Female
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genotype
- Humans
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/cytology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Proportional Hazards Models
- Receptors, Death Domain/blood
- Receptors, Death Domain/genetics
- Receptors, Death Domain/metabolism
- Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand/blood
- Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand/genetics
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I/blood
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I/genetics
- Risk Factors
- fas Receptor/blood
- fas Receptor/genetics
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden; Department of Cardiology - Coronary diseases, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden; Department of Cardiology - Coronary diseases, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Sweden.
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Jourd'heuil FL, Xu H, Reilly T, McKellar K, El Alaoui C, Steppich J, Liu YF, Zhao W, Ginnan R, Conti D, Lopez-Soler R, Asif A, Keller RK, Schwarz JJ, Thanh Thuy LT, Kawada N, Long X, Singer HA, Jourd'heuil D. The Hemoglobin Homolog Cytoglobin in Smooth Muscle Inhibits Apoptosis and Regulates Vascular Remodeling. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2017; 37:1944-1955. [PMID: 28798140 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.117.309410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The role of hemoglobin and myoglobin in the cardiovascular system is well established, yet other globins in this context are poorly characterized. Here, we examined the expression and function of cytoglobin (CYGB) during vascular injury. APPROACH AND RESULTS We characterized CYGB content in intact vessels and primary vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells and used 2 different vascular injury models to examine the functional significance of CYGB in vivo. We found that CYGB was strongly expressed in medial arterial VSM and human veins. In vitro and in vivo studies indicated that CYGB was lost after VSM cell dedifferentiation. In the rat balloon angioplasty model, site-targeted delivery of adenovirus encoding shRNA specific for CYGB prevented its reexpression and decreased neointima formation. Similarly, 4 weeks after complete ligation of the left common carotid, Cygb knockout mice displayed little to no evidence of neointimal hyperplasia in contrast to their wild-type littermates. Mechanistic studies in the rat indicated that this was primarily associated with increased medial cell loss, terminal uridine nick-end labeling staining, and caspase-3 activation, all indicative of prolonged apoptosis. In vitro, CYGB could be reexpressed after VSM stimulation with cytokines and hypoxia and loss of CYGB sensitized human and rat aortic VSM cells to apoptosis. This was reversed after antioxidant treatment or NOS2 (nitric oxide synthase 2) inhibition. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that CYGB is expressed in vessels primarily in differentiated medial VSM cells where it regulates neointima formation and inhibits apoptosis after injury.
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- Frances L Jourd'heuil
- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.)
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (F.L.J., H.X., T.R., K.M., C.E.A., J.S., Y.F.L., W.Z., R.G., R.K.K., J.J.S., X.L., H.A.S., D.J.) and Surgery Transplantation (D.C., R.L.-S.), Albany Medical Center, NY; Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack-Meridian Health, Neptune, NJ (A.A.); and Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan (L.T.T.T., N.K.).
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Hendgen-Cotta UB, Esfeld S, Coman C, Ahrends R, Klein-Hitpass L, Flögel U, Rassaf T, Totzeck M. A novel physiological role for cardiac myoglobin in lipid metabolism. Sci Rep 2017; 7:43219. [PMID: 28230173 PMCID: PMC5322402 DOI: 10.1038/srep43219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 01/20/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Continuous contractile activity of the heart is essential and the required energy is mostly provided by fatty acid (FA) oxidation. Myocardial lipid accumulation can lead to pathological responses, however the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. The role of myoglobin in dioxygen binding in cardiomyocytes and oxidative skeletal muscle has widely been appreciated. Our recent work established myoglobin as a protector of cardiac function in hypoxia and disease states. We here unravel a novel role of cardiac myoglobin in governing FA metabolism to ensure the physiological energy production through β-oxidation, preventing myocardial lipid accumulation and preserving cardiac functions. In vivo1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy unveils a 3-fold higher deposition of lipids in mouse hearts lacking myoglobin, which was associated with depressed cardiac function compared to wild-type hearts as assessed by echocardiography. Mass spectrometry reveals a marked increase in tissue triglycerides with preferential incorporation of palmitic and oleic acids. Phospholipid levels as well as the metabolome, transcriptome and proteome related to FA metabolism tend to be unaffected by myoglobin ablation. Our results reveal a physiological role of myoglobin in FA metabolism with the lipid accumulation-suppressing effects of myoglobin preventing cardiac lipotoxicity.
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- Ulrike B Hendgen-Cotta
- University Hospital Essen, Medical Faculty, West German Heart and Vascular Center, Department of Cardiology and Department of Angiology, Hufelandstr. 55, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Medical Faculty, West German Heart and Vascular Center, Department of Cardiology and Department of Angiology, Hufelandstr. 55, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS e.V. Otto-Hahn-Str. 6b, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS e.V. Otto-Hahn-Str. 6b, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Institute of Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, Virchowstr. 173, 45122 Essen, Germany
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- University Hospital Düsseldorf, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Medical Faculty, West German Heart and Vascular Center, Department of Cardiology and Department of Angiology, Hufelandstr. 55, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Medical Faculty, West German Heart and Vascular Center, Department of Cardiology and Department of Angiology, Hufelandstr. 55, 45147 Essen, Germany
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Lee S, Lee SH, Yang BK, Park CK. The expression of VEGF, myoglobin and CRP2 proteins regulating endometrial remodeling in the porcine endometrial tissues during follicular and luteal phase. Anim Sci J 2017; 88:1291-1297. [DOI: 10.1111/asj.12774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Revised: 06/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Seunghyung Lee
- College of Animal Life Sciences; Kangwon National University; Chuncheon Republic of Korea
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- College of Animal Life Sciences; Kangwon National University; Chuncheon Republic of Korea
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- College of Animal Life Sciences; Kangwon National University; Chuncheon Republic of Korea
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- College of Animal Life Sciences; Kangwon National University; Chuncheon Republic of Korea
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Useful resuscitation endpoints must serve both to diagnose the need for and to ensure the ongoing adequacy of resuscitation. To this end, traditional measures of organ perfusion are now widely appreciated to be grossly inadequate. Useful endpoints or milestones range from the global, to the regional, to the cellular specific. Understanding the basic principles of perfusion-related dysoxia in trauma and hemorrhage and its potential rapid transition to involve inflammatory and immune responses on cellular oxygen utilization will aid the clinician in choosing and appropriately interpreting endpoint monitoring data. There also appears to be an optimal window of opportunity for monitoring to help mitigate the development of more complicated inflammatory states. This article reviews the underlying need for endpoint selection (both global and regional, biochemical and functional) and monitoring during resuscitation of the polytrauma patient. At this juncture it appears that early use of a blend of global markers such as lactate and base deficit coupled with an available sensitive regional monitor such as gastric tonometry may offer the best combination of current technology to guard against early perfusion-related dysoxia. Future techniques involving optical spectroscopy offer the exciting potential to assess oxygenation at the cellular level. This may aid in ultra-early detection and resolution of perfusion-related dysoxia in addition to recognizing its transition to more complex inflammatory-mediated circulatory and metabolic failure.
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- Kevin R. Ward
- Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering and Shock Center (VCURES), Richmond, VA., Departments of Emergency Medicine and Physiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA., Department of Surgery and Section of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering and Shock Center (VCURES), Richmond, VA., Departments of Emergency Medicine and Physiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA., Department of Surgery and Section of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering and Shock Center (VCURES), Richmond, VA., Departments of Emergency Medicine and Physiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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Koch J, Lüdemann J, Spies R, Last M, Amemiya CT, Burmester T. Unusual Diversity of Myoglobin Genes in the Lungfish. Mol Biol Evol 2016; 33:3033-3041. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Nonobstructive Acute Renal Failure with a Large Solitary Fibroid. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol 2016; 2016:4039890. [PMID: 27375910 PMCID: PMC4914727 DOI: 10.1155/2016/4039890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A 38-year-old African American woman presenting with acute abdominal pain and nonobstructive renal failure was found to have an enlarged fibroid uterus. A differential for sepsis was considered. Lab evaluation revealed an elevated creatinine and myoglobin level at 3.9 mg/dL and 2140 ng/mL, respectively. Ongoing hemodynamic instability mandated surgery for acute abdomen. A 25 cm fibroid uterus was extirpated through a total abdominal hysterectomy. Immediate improvement of acute nephropathy mirrored the postoperative decline in serum myoglobin levels. Myoglobinemia from a massive degenerating fibroid is associated with nonobstructive acute renal failure.
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Bicker A, Brahmer AM, Meller S, Kristiansen G, Gorr TA, Hankeln T. The Distinct Gene Regulatory Network of Myoglobin in Prostate and Breast Cancer. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0142662. [PMID: 26559958 PMCID: PMC4641586 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Myoglobin (MB) is not only strongly expressed in myocytes, but also at much lower levels in different cancer entities. 40% of breast tumors are MB-positive, with the globin being co-expressed with markers of tumor hypoxia in a proportion of cases. In breast cancer, MB expression is associated with a positive hormone receptor status and patient prognosis. In prostate cancer, another hormone-dependent cancer type, 53% of tumors were recently shown to express MB. Especially in more aggressive prostate cancer specimen MB expression also correlates with increased patient survival rates. Both findings might be due to tumor-suppressing properties of MB in cancer cells. In contrast to muscle, MB transcription in breast and prostate cancer mainly depends on a novel, alternative promoter site. We show here that its associated transcripts can be upregulated by hypoxia and downregulated by estrogens and androgens in MCF7 breast and LNCaP prostate cancer cells, respectively. Bioinformatic data mining of epigenetic histone marks and experimental verification reveal a hitherto uncharacterized transcriptional network that drives the regulation of the MB gene in cancer cells. We identified candidate hormone-receptor binding elements that may interact with the cancer-associated MB promoter to decrease its activity in breast and prostate cancer cells. Additionally, a regulatory element, 250 kb downstream of the promoter, acts as a hypoxia-inducible site within the transcriptional machinery. Understanding the distinct regulation of MB in tumors will improve unraveling the respiratory protein’s function in the cancer context and may provide new starting points for developing therapeutic strategies.
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- Anne Bicker
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Regenerative Medicine Program, University and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Rix PJ, Vick A, Attkins NJ, Barker GE, Bott AW, Alcorn H, Gladwin MT, Shiva S, Bradley S, Hussaini A, Hoye WL, Parsley EL, Masamune H. Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety, and tolerability of nebulized sodium nitrite (AIR001) following repeat-dose inhalation in healthy subjects. Clin Pharmacokinet 2015; 54:261-72. [PMID: 25421879 PMCID: PMC4335132 DOI: 10.1007/s40262-014-0201-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Introduction The efficacy of nebulized sodium nitrite (AIR001) has been demonstrated in animal models of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but it was not known if inhaled nitrite would be well tolerated in human subjects at exposure levels associated with efficacy in these models. Methods Inhaled nebulized sodium nitrite was assessed in three independent studies in a total of 82 healthy male and female subjects. Study objectives included determination of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) under normal and mildly hypoxic conditions, and following co-administration with steady-state sildenafil, assessment of nitrite pharmacokinetics, and evaluation of the fraction exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) and concentrations of iron-nitrosyl hemoglobin (Hb(Fe)-NO) and S-nitrosothiols (R-SNO) as biomarkers of local and systemic NO exposure, respectively. Results Nebulized sodium nitrite was well tolerated following 6 days of every 8 h administration up to 90 mg, producing significant increases in circulating Hb(Fe)-NO, R-SNO, and FENO. Pulmonary absorption of nitrite was rapid and complete, and plasma exposure dose was proportional through the MTD dosage level of 90 mg, without accumulation following repeated inhalation. At higher dosage levels, DLTs were orthostasis (observed at 120 mg) and hypotension with tachycardia (at 176 mg), but venous methemoglobin did not exceed 3.0 % at any time in any subject. Neither the tolerability nor pharmacokinetics of nitrite was impacted by conditions of mild hypoxia, or co-administration with sildenafil, supporting the safe use of inhaled nitrite in the clinical setting of PAH. Conclusion On the basis of these results, nebulized sodium nitrite (AIR001) has been advanced into randomized trials in PAH patients. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s40262-014-0201-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Peter J Rix
- Seragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 12780 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA, 92130, USA,
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Opazo JC, Lee AP, Hoffmann FG, Toloza-Villalobos J, Burmester T, Venkatesh B, Storz JF. Ancient Duplications and Expression Divergence in the Globin Gene Superfamily of Vertebrates: Insights from the Elephant Shark Genome and Transcriptome. Mol Biol Evol 2015; 32:1684-94. [PMID: 25743544 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Comparative analyses of vertebrate genomes continue to uncover a surprising diversity of genes in the globin gene superfamily, some of which have very restricted phyletic distributions despite their antiquity. Genomic analysis of the globin gene repertoire of cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) should be especially informative about the duplicative origins and ancestral functions of vertebrate globins, as divergence between Chondrichthyes and bony vertebrates represents the most basal split within the jawed vertebrates. Here, we report a comparative genomic analysis of the vertebrate globin gene family that includes the complete globin gene repertoire of the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii). Using genomic sequence data from representatives of all major vertebrate classes, integrated analyses of conserved synteny and phylogenetic relationships revealed that the last common ancestor of vertebrates possessed a repertoire of at least seven globin genes: single copies of androglobin and neuroglobin, four paralogous copies of globin X, and the single-copy progenitor of the entire set of vertebrate-specific globins. Combined with expression data, the genomic inventory of elephant shark globins yielded four especially surprising findings: 1) there is no trace of the neuroglobin gene (a highly conserved gene that is present in all other jawed vertebrates that have been examined to date), 2) myoglobin is highly expressed in heart, but not in skeletal muscle (reflecting a possible ancestral condition in vertebrates with single-circuit circulatory systems), 3) elephant shark possesses two highly divergent globin X paralogs, one of which is preferentially expressed in gonads, and 4) elephant shark possesses two structurally distinct α-globin paralogs, one of which is preferentially expressed in the brain. Expression profiles of elephant shark globin genes reveal distinct specializations of function relative to orthologs in bony vertebrates and suggest hypotheses about ancestral functions of vertebrate globins.
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- Juan C Opazo
- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Comparative and Medical Genomics Laboratory, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research Biopolis, Singapore
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing, and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University
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- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Comparative and Medical Genomics Laboratory, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research Biopolis, Singapore Departments of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Levitt DG, Levitt MD. Carbon monoxide: a critical quantitative analysis and review of the extent and limitations of its second messenger function. Clin Pharmacol 2015; 7:37-56. [PMID: 25750547 PMCID: PMC4348054 DOI: 10.2147/cpaa.s79626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Endogenously produced carbon monoxide (CO) is commonly believed to be a ubiquitous second messenger involved in a wide range of physiological and pathological responses. The major evidence supporting this concept is that CO is produced endogenously via heme oxygenase-catalyzed breakdown of heme and that experimental exposure to CO alters tissue function. However, it remains to be conclusively demonstrated that there are specific receptors for CO and that endogenous CO production is sufficient to alter tissue function. Unlike other signaling molecules, CO is not significantly metabolized, and it is removed from cells solely via rapid diffusion into blood, which serves as a near infinite sink. This non-metabolizable nature of CO renders the physiology of this gas uniquely susceptible to quantitative modeling. This review analyzes each of the steps involved in CO signaling: 1) the background CO partial pressure (PCO) and the blood and tissue CO binding; 2) the affinity of the putative CO receptors; 3) the rate of endogenous tissue CO production; and 4) the tissue PCO that results from the balance between this endogenous CO production and diffusion to the blood sink. Because existing data demonstrate that virtually all endogenous CO production results from the routine "housekeeping" turnover of heme, only a small fraction can play a signaling role. The novel aspect of the present report is to demonstrate via physiological modeling that this small fraction of CO production is seemingly insufficient to raise intracellular PCO to the levels required for the conventional, specific messenger receptor activation. It is concluded that the many physiological alterations observed with exogenous CO administration are probably produced by the non-specific CO inhibition of cytochrome C oxidase activity, with release of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and that this ROS signaling pathway is a potential effector mechanism for endogenously produced CO.
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- David G Levitt
- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Butcher JT, Johnson T, Beers J, Columbus L, Isakson BE. Hemoglobin α in the blood vessel wall. Free Radic Biol Med 2014; 73:136-42. [PMID: 24832680 PMCID: PMC4135531 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2014] [Revised: 04/18/2014] [Accepted: 04/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Hemoglobin has been studied and well characterized in red blood cells for over 100 years. However, new work has indicated that the hemoglobin α subunit (Hbα) is also found within the blood vessel wall, where it appears to localize at the myoendothelial junction (MEJ) and plays a role in regulating nitric oxide (NO) signaling between endothelium and smooth muscle. This discovery has created a new paradigm for the control of endothelial nitric oxide synthase activity, nitric oxide diffusion, and, ultimately, vascular tone and blood pressure. This review discusses the current knowledge of hemoglobin׳s properties as a gas exchange molecule in the bloodstream and extrapolates the properties of Hbα biology to the MEJ signaling domain. Specifically, we propose that Hbα is present at the MEJ to regulate NO release and diffusion in a restricted physical space, which would have powerful implications for the regulation of blood flow in peripheral resistance arteries.
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- Joshua T Butcher
- Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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Burmester T, Hankeln T. Function and evolution of vertebrate globins. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2014; 211:501-14. [PMID: 24811692 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2014] [Revised: 04/17/2014] [Accepted: 04/30/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Globins are haem-proteins that bind O2 and thus play an important role in the animal's respiration and oxidative energy production. However, globins may also have other functions such as the decomposition or production of NO, the detoxification of reactive oxygen species or intracellular signalling. In addition to the well-investigated haemoglobins and myoglobins, genome sequence analyses have led to the identification of six further globin types in vertebrates: androglobin, cytoglobin, globin E, globin X, globin Y and neuroglobin. Here, we review the present state of knowledge on the functions, the taxonomic distribution and evolution of vertebrate globins, drawing conclusions about the functional changes underlying present-day globin diversity.
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- T. Burmester
- Institute of Zoology and Zoological Museum; University of Hamburg; Hamburg Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics; Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz; Mainz Germany
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- Luisa B. Maia
- REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento
de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento
de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Rayner BS, Wu BJ, Raftery M, Stocker R, Witting PK. Regulation of vascular tone byS-nitroso-myoglobin. Redox Rep 2013; 9:382-6. [PMID: 15720837 DOI: 10.1179/135100004225006920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Myoglobin (Mb) is a haem protein present in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle where it facilitates the transfer of O(2) from the extracellular matrix to the cell cytosol in a cycle termed 'facilitated O(2)-diffusion'. In addition, we showed recently that recombinant human Mb binds endothelium-derived relaxant factor - nitric oxide ((.-)NO) - via formation of both nitrosyl-haem iron and S-nitroso-myoglobin (S-NO-Mb). S-NO-Mb represents a novel form of endothelium-derived relaxant factor (EDRF) that may be important in maintaining optimal (.-)NO concentrations in the human vasculature. In this study we aim to show that: (i) S-nitrosation of oxygenated ferrous myoglobin (oxyMb) can compete with the rapid oxidation of (.-)NO by oxyMb; and (ii) S-NO-Mb retains characteristics of physiological EDRF.
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- Benjamin S Rayner
- Vascular Biology Group, ANZAC Research Institute, Hospital Road, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, Australia
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Bicker A, Dietrich D, Gleixner E, Kristiansen G, Gorr TA, Hankeln T. Extensive transcriptional complexity during hypoxia-regulated expression of the myoglobin gene in cancer. Hum Mol Genet 2013; 23:479-90. [DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Rahaman MM, Straub AC. The emerging roles of somatic globins in cardiovascular redox biology and beyond. Redox Biol 2013; 1:405-10. [PMID: 24191233 PMCID: PMC3814953 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2013.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [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: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The vertebrate globins are a group of hemoproteins with the intrinsic capacity to regulate gaseous ligands and redox signaling required for cardiovascular biology. This graphical review will provide a comprehensive synopsis of somatic cardiovascular globins focusing on expression, function and redox signaling - an emerging area in both physiology and disease.
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- Mizanur M. Rahaman
- Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15216, USA
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- Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15216, USA
- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15216, USA
- Correspondence to: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Vascular Medicine Institute, E1254 Biomedical Science Tower, 200 Lothrop St., Pittsburgh, PA 15216, USA. Tel.: +1 412 648 7097; fax: +1 412 648 5980.
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Shiota M, Yasuda Y, Shimaoka M, Tsuritani M, Koike E, Oiki M, Matsubara J, Taketani S, Murakami H, Yamasaki H, Okumoto K, Hoshiai H. Erythropoietin is involved in hemoprotein syntheses in developing human decidua. Congenit Anom (Kyoto) 2013; 53:18-26. [PMID: 23480354 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2012.00382.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2012] [Accepted: 08/04/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Before establishment of feto-placental circulation, decidua can synthesize hemoproteins to maintain oxygen homeostasis in situ. Using the human decidua of induced abortions ranging from 5 to 8 weeks of gestation, we determined the expression levels of erythropoietin, erythropoietin receptor, cytoglobin, myoglobin, embryonic-, fetal- and adult hemoglobin mRNA by quantitative RT-PCR analysis and identified their proteins by Western blot and immunohistochemical analyses. Erythropoietin signaling was demonstrated in phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase/protein kinase B pathway by Western blot, and the transcriptional factors for erythroid and non-erythroid heme synthesis were examined by RT-PCR analysis. In decidua, erythropoietin and its receptor mRNAs, erythropoietin receptor protein and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase, were expressed with a peak at 6 weeks of gestation. Moreover, the decidua during 5 to 8 weeks of gestation expressed embryonic, fetal and adult hemoglobins additionally cytoglobin and myoglobin at transcriptional and protein levels. The heme portion of these hemoproteins is considered to be synthesized by non-erythroid δ-aminolevulinate synthase. These hemoproteins were discernible especially in decidual cells concomitant with cytotrophoblast cells and macrophage in these developing decidua. Considering the different capacity for oxygen binding and dissociation among hemoglobins with the oxygen storage capacity for cytoglobin and myoglobin, these hemoproteins appear to play a role in oxygen demand in decidua in situ before development of feto-placental circulation under the control of erythropoietin signaling.
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- Mitsuru Shiota
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Sofla A, Cirkovic B, Hsieh A, Miklas JW, Filipovic N, Radisic M. Enrichment of live unlabelled cardiomyocytes from heterogeneous cell populations using manipulation of cell settling velocity by magnetic field. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2013; 7:14110. [PMID: 24404002 PMCID: PMC3585821 DOI: 10.1063/1.4791649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2012] [Accepted: 01/25/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The majority of available cardiomyocyte markers are intercellular proteins, limiting our ability to enrich live cardiomyocytes from heterogeneous cell preparations in the absence of genetic labeling. Here, we describe enrichment of live cardiomyocytes from the hearts of adult mice in a label-free microfluidic approach. The separation device consisted of a vertical column (15 mm long, 700 μm diameter), placed between permanent magnets resulting in a field strength of 1.23 T. To concentrate the field at the column wall, the column was wrapped with 69 μm diameter nickel wire. Before passing the cells through the column, the cardiomyocytes in the cell suspension had been rendered paramagnetic by treatment of the adult mouse heart cell preparation with sodium nitrite (2.5 mM) for 20 min on ice. The cell suspension was loaded into the vertical column from the top and upon settling, the non-myocytes were removed by the upward flow from the column. The cardiomyocytes were then collected from the column by applying a higher flow rate (144 μl/min). We found that by applying a separation flow rate of 4.2 μl/min in the first step, we can enrich live adult cardiomyocytes to 93% ± 2% in a label-free manner. The cardiomyocytes maintained viability immediately after separation and upon 24 h in culture.
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- Aarash Sofla
- Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5, Canada
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- Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9, Canada
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- Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9, Canada ; Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5, Canada
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Gardner PR. Hemoglobin: a nitric-oxide dioxygenase. SCIENTIFICA 2012; 2012:683729. [PMID: 24278729 PMCID: PMC3820574 DOI: 10.6064/2012/683729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2012] [Accepted: 10/04/2012] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Members of the hemoglobin superfamily efficiently catalyze nitric-oxide dioxygenation, and when paired with native electron donors, function as NO dioxygenases (NODs). Indeed, the NOD function has emerged as a more common and ancient function than the well-known role in O2 transport-storage. Novel hemoglobins possessing a NOD function continue to be discovered in diverse life forms. Unique hemoglobin structures evolved, in part, for catalysis with different electron donors. The mechanism of NOD catalysis by representative single domain hemoglobins and multidomain flavohemoglobin occurs through a multistep mechanism involving O2 migration to the heme pocket, O2 binding-reduction, NO migration, radical-radical coupling, O-atom rearrangement, nitrate release, and heme iron re-reduction. Unraveling the physiological functions of multiple NODs with varying expression in organisms and the complexity of NO as both a poison and signaling molecule remain grand challenges for the NO field. NOD knockout organisms and cells expressing recombinant NODs are helping to advance our understanding of NO actions in microbial infection, plant senescence, cancer, mitochondrial function, iron metabolism, and tissue O2 homeostasis. NOD inhibitors are being pursued for therapeutic applications as antibiotics and antitumor agents. Transgenic NOD-expressing plants, fish, algae, and microbes are being developed for agriculture, aquaculture, and industry.
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- Paul R. Gardner
- Miami Valley Biotech, 1001 E. 2nd Street, Suite 2445, Dayton, OH 45402, USA
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Kamga C, Krishnamurthy S, Shiva S. Myoglobin and mitochondria: a relationship bound by oxygen and nitric oxide. Nitric Oxide 2012; 26:251-8. [PMID: 22465476 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2012.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2012] [Accepted: 03/22/2012] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Since their initial discovery over a century ago, our knowledge of the functions of myoglobin and the mitochondrion has gradually evolved. The mitochondrion, once thought to be solely responsible for energy production, is now known to be an integral redox and apoptotic signal transducer within the cell. Likewise, myoglobin, traditionally thought of only as an oxygen store, has emerged as a physiological catalyst that can modulate reactive oxygen species levels, facilitate oxygen diffusion and scavenge or generate nitric oxide (NO) depending on oxygen tensions within the cell. By virtue of its unique ability to regulate O(2) and NO levels within the cell, myoglobin can modulate mitochondrial function in energy-demanding tissues such as the beating heart and exercising muscle. In this review, we present the conventional functions of myoglobin and mitochondria, and describe how these roles have been reassessed and advanced, particularly in the context of NO and nitrite signaling. We present the mechanisms by which mitochondria and myoglobin regulate one another within the cell through their interactions with NO and oxygen and discuss the implications of these interactions in terms of health and disease.
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- Christelle Kamga
- Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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Kristiansen G, Hu J, Wichmann D, Stiehl DP, Rose M, Gerhardt J, Bohnert A, ten Haaf A, Moch H, Raleigh J, Varia MA, Subarsky P, Scandurra FM, Gnaiger E, Gleixner E, Bicker A, Gassmann M, Hankeln T, Dahl E, Gorr TA. Endogenous myoglobin in breast cancer is hypoxia-inducible by alternative transcription and functions to impair mitochondrial activity: a role in tumor suppression? J Biol Chem 2011; 286:43417-28. [PMID: 21930697 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.227553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Recently, immunohistochemical analysis of myoglobin (MB) in human breast cancer specimens has revealed a surprisingly widespread expression of MB in this nonmuscle context. The positive correlation with hypoxia-inducible factor 2α (HIF-2α) and carbonic anhydrase IX suggested that oxygen regulates myoglobin expression in breast carcinomas. Here, we report that MB mRNA and protein levels are robustly induced by prolonged hypoxia in breast cancer cell lines, in part via HIF-1/2-dependent transactivation. The hypoxia-induced MB mRNA originated from a novel alternative transcription start site 6 kb upstream of the ATG codon. MB regulation in normal and tumor tissue may thus be fundamentally different. Functionally, the knockdown of MB in MDA-MB468 breast cancer cells resulted in an unexpected increase of O(2) uptake and elevated activities of mitochondrial enzymes during hypoxia. Silencing of MB transcription attenuated proliferation rates and motility capacities of hypoxic cancer cells and, surprisingly, also fully oxygenated breast cancer cells. Endogenous MB in cancer cells is apparently involved in controlling oxidative cell energy metabolism, contrary to earlier findings on mouse heart, where the targeted disruption of the Mb gene did not effect myocardial energetics and O(2) consumption. This control function of MB seemingly impacts mitochondria and influences cell proliferation and motility, but it does so in ways not directly related to the facilitated diffusion or storage of O(2). Hypothetically, the mitochondrion-impairing role of MB in hypoxic cancer cells is part of a novel tumor-suppressive function.
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- Glen Kristiansen
- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
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Gorr TA, Wichmann D, Pilarsky C, Theurillat JP, Fabrizius A, Laufs T, Bauer T, Koslowski M, Horn S, Burmester T, Hankeln T, Kristiansen G. Old proteins - new locations: myoglobin, haemoglobin, neuroglobin and cytoglobin in solid tumours and cancer cells. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2011; 202:563-81. [PMID: 20958924 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02205.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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AIM The unexpected identification of myoglobin (MB) in breast cancer prompted us to evaluate the clinico-pathological value of MB, haemoglobin (HB) and cytoglobin (CYGB) in human breast carcinoma cases. We further screened for the presence of neuroglobin (NGB) and CYGB in tumours of diverse origin, and assessed the O(2) -response of HB, MB and CYGB mRNAs in cancer cell lines, to better elicit the links between this ectopic globin expression and tumour hypoxia. METHODS Breast tumours were analysed by immunohistochemistry for HB, MB and CYGB and correlated with clinico-pathological parameters. Screening for CYGB and NGB mRNA expression in tumour entities was performed by hybridization, quantitative PCR (qPCR) and bioinformatics. Hypoxic or anoxic responses of HB, MB and CYGB mRNAs was analysed by qPCR in human Hep3B, MCF7, HeLa and RCC4 cancer cell lines. RESULTS 78.8% of breast cancer cases were positive for MB, 77.9% were positive for HB and 55.4% expressed CYGB. The closest correlation with markers of hypoxia was observed for CYGB. Compared to the weakly positive status of MB in healthy breast tissues, invasive tumours either lost or up-regulated MB. Breast carcinomas showed the tendency to silence CYGB. HB was not seen in normal tissues and up-regulated in tumours. Beyond breast malignancies, expression levels of NGB and CYGB mRNAs were extremely low in brain tumours (glioblastoma, astrocytoma). NGB was not observed in non-brain tumours. CYGB mRNA, readily detectable in breast cancer and other tumours, is down-regulated in lung adenocarcinomas. Alpha1 globin (α1 globin) and Mb were co-expressed in MCF7 and HeLa cells; CYGB transcription was anoxia-inducible in Hep3B and RCC4 cells. CONCLUSIONS This is the first time that HB and CYGB are reported in breast cancer. Neither NGB nor CYGB are systematically up-regulated in tumours. The down-regulated CYGB expression in breast and lung tumours is in line with a tumour-suppressor role. Each of the screened cancer cells expresses at least one globin (i.e. main globin species: CYGB in Hep3B; α1 globin + MB in MCF7 and HeLa). Thus, globins exist in a wide variety of solid tumours. However, the generally weak expression of the endogenous proteins in the cancer argues against a significant contribution to tumour oxygenation. Future studies should consider that cancer-expressed globins might function in ways not directly linked to the binding and transport of oxygen.
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- T A Gorr
- Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Hendgen-Cotta UB, Flögel U, Kelm M, Rassaf T. Unmasking the Janus face of myoglobin in health and disease. J Exp Biol 2010; 213:2734-40. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.041178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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For more than 100 years, myoglobin has been among the most extensively studied proteins. Since the first comprehensive review on myoglobin function as a dioxygen store by Millikan in 1939 and the discovery of its structure 50 years ago, multiple studies have extended our understanding of its occurrence, properties and functions. Beyond the two major roles, the storage and the facilitation of dioxygen diffusion, recent physiological studies have revealed that myoglobin acts as a potent scavenger of nitric oxide (NO•) representing a control system that preserves mitochondrial respiration. In addition, myoglobin may also protect the heart against reactive oxygen species (ROS), and, under hypoxic conditions, deoxygenated myoglobin is able to reduce nitrite to NO• leading to a downregulation of the cardiac energy status and to a decreased heart injury after reoxygenation. Thus, by controlling the NO• bioavailability via scavenging or formation, myoglobin serves as part of a sensitive dioxygen sensory system. In this review, the physiological relevance of these recent findings are delineated for pathological states where NO• and ROS bioavailability are known to be critical determinants for the outcome of the disease, e.g. ischemia/reperfusion injury. Detrimental and beneficial effects of the presence of myoglobin are discussed for various states of tissue oxygen tension within the heart and skeletal muscle. Furthermore, the impact of myoglobin on parasite infection, rhabdomyolysis, hindlimb and liver ischemia, angiogenesis and tumor growth are considered.
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- U. B. Hendgen-Cotta
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Angiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Angiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Angiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Yi L, Morgan JT, Ragsdale SW. Identification of a thiol/disulfide redox switch in the human BK channel that controls its affinity for heme and CO. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:20117-27. [PMID: 20427280 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.116483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Heme is a required prosthetic group in many electron transfer proteins and redox enzymes. The human BK channel, which is a large-conductance Ca(2+) and voltage-activated K(+) channel, is involved in the hypoxic response in the carotid body. The BK channel has been shown to bind and undergo inhibition by heme and activation by CO. Furthermore, evidence suggests that human heme oxygenase-2 (HO2) acts as an oxygen sensor and CO donor that can form a protein complex with the BK channel. Here we describe a thiol/disulfide redox switch in the human BK channel and biochemical experiments of heme, CO, and HO2 binding to a 134-residue region within the cytoplasmic domain of the channel. This region, called the heme binding domain (HBD) forms a linker segment between two Ca(2+)-sensing domains (called RCK1 and RCK2) of the BK channel. The HBD includes a CXXCH motif in which histidine serves as the axial heme ligand and the two cysteine residues can form a reversible thiol/disulfide redox switch that regulates affinity of the HBD for heme. The reduced dithiol state binds heme (K(d) = 210 nm) 14-fold more tightly than the oxidized disulfide state. Furthermore, the HBD is shown to tightly bind CO (K(d) = 50 nm) with the Cys residues in the CXXCH motif regulating affinity of the HBD for CO. This HBD is also shown to interact with heme oxygenase-2. We propose that the thiol/disulfide switch in the HBD is a mechanism by which activity of the BK channel can respond quickly and reversibly to changes in the redox state of the cell, especially as it switches between hypoxic and normoxic conditions.
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- Li Yi
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA
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Szuchman-Sapir AJ, Pattison DI, Davies MJ, Witting PK. Site-specific hypochlorous acid-induced oxidation of recombinant human myoglobin affects specific amino acid residues and the rate of cytochrome b5-mediated heme reduction. Free Radic Biol Med 2010; 48:35-46. [PMID: 19800968 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2009] [Revised: 08/12/2009] [Accepted: 09/23/2009] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Myeloperoxidase catalyzes the reaction of chloride ions with H(2)O(2) to yield hypochlorous acid (HOCl), which can damage proteins. Human myoglobin (HMb) differs from other Mbs by the presence of a cysteine residue at position 110 (Cys110). This study has (i) compared wild-type and a Cys110Ala variant of HMb to assess the influence of Cys110 on HOCl-induced amino acid modification and (ii) determined whether HOCl oxidation of HMb affects the rate of ferric heme reduction by cytochrome b(5). For wild-type HMb (HOCl:Mb ratio of 5:1 mol:mol), Cys110 was preferentially oxidized to a homodimeric or cysteic acid product-sulfenic/sulfinic acids were not detected. At a HOCl:Mb ratio 10:1 mol:mol, methionine (Met) oxidation was detected, and this was enhanced in the Cys110Ala variant. Tryptophan (Trp) oxidation was detected only in the Cys110Ala variant at the highest HOCl dose tested, with oxidation susceptibility following the order Cys>Met>Trp. Tyrosine chlorination was evident only in reactions between HOCl and the Cys110Ala variant and at a longer incubation time (24 h), consistent with the formation via chlorine-transfer reactions from preformed chloramines. HOCl-mediated oxidation of wild-type HMb resulted in a dose-dependent decrease in the observed rate constant for ferric heme reduction (approx two-fold at HOCl:Mb of 10:1 mol:mol). These data indicate that Cys110 influences the oxidation of HMb by HOCl and that oxidation of Cys, Met, and Trp residues is associated with a decrease in the one-electron reduction of ferric HMb by other proteins; such heme-Fe(3+) reduction is critical to the maintenance of function as an oxygen storage protein in tissues.
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- Andrea J Szuchman-Sapir
- Vascular Biology Group, ANZAC Research Institute, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW 2139, Australia
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A highlight of myoglobin diversity: the nitrite reductase activity during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion. Nitric Oxide 2009; 22:75-82. [PMID: 19836457 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2009.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2009] [Revised: 10/09/2009] [Accepted: 10/12/2009] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Myoglobin, famous as an important intracellular oxygen binding hemeprotein, displays a variety of functions. The first pioneering review on myoglobin was published as early as 1939, in which Millikan concluded that "muscle hemoglobin" acts primarily as a short-term dioxygen store, tiding the muscle over from one contraction to the next. Since that time, myoglobin has become one of the most widely studied proteins in a variety of research fields ranging from chemistry to medicine. Recently it was discovered that in the heart myoglobin changes its function in dependence of oxygen tension, acting as an oxygen sensor. Under normoxic conditions myoglobin plays the role of a nitric oxide (NO(*)) scavenger, protecting the heart from the deleterious effects of excessive NO(*). During hypoxia however, myoglobin changes its role from an NO(*) scavenger to an NO(*) producer. Deoxygenated myoglobin reduces nitrite to bioactive NO(*). The produced NO(*) downregulates the cardiac energy status and reduces myocardial oxygen consumption, thus protecting the heart. Myoglobin also exhibits a nitrite reductase function under further pathophysiological conditions. During myocardial reperfusion after ischemia, myoglobin - via nitrite - regulates respiration and cellular viability. This leads to a dramatic reduction of myocardial infarct size and to an improvement of myocardial function. The reaction between myoglobin and nitrite thus seems to play an imminent role in the regulation of cardiac function in physiology and pathophysiology.
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Nitric oxide stimulates myoglobin gene and protein expression in vascular smooth muscle. Biochem J 2009; 423:169-77. [PMID: 19650765 DOI: 10.1042/bj20090716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Mb (myoglobin) is a haemoprotein present in cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle and is primarily responsible for the storage and 'facilitated transfer' of molecular oxygen from the cell membrane to mitochondria. Also, Mb plays a role in regulating *NO (nitric oxide) homoeostasis through (i) binding *NO (Mb-NO complex); (ii) oxidation of *NO to nitrate; and (iii) formation of vasoactive S-nitroso-Mb [Rayner, B.S., Wu, B.-J., Raftery, M., Stocker, R. and Witting, P.K. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280, 9985-9993]. Pathological *NO concentrations affect mitochondrial function and decrease cell viability through inducing apoptosis. Treatment of cultured rat VSMCs (vascular smooth muscle cells) with cumulative doses (0.1, 1 or 10 microM) of *NO from the donors diethylamineNONOate or spermineNONOate (N-[2-aminoethyl]-N-[2-hydroxy-3-nitrosohydrazine]-1,2-ethelenediamine) yielded a time-dependent increase in Mb gene expression. Concomitant transcriptional activation increased the concentration of Mb within cultured rat or primary human VSMCs as judged by Western blot analysis and indirect immunofluorescence microscopy. Cell viability did not decrease in these cells at the *NO doses tested. Importantly, sub-culturing isolated rat aortic segments for 7 days in the presence of L-arginine at 37 degrees C stimulated *NO production with a parallel increase in Mb in the underlying VSMCs. Overall, exposure of VSMCs (either in cell culture or intact vessels) to pathological *NO promotes an up-regulation of the Mb gene and protein, suggesting a feedback relationship between *NO and Mb that regulates the concentration of the potent cell signalling molecule in the vessel wall, similar to the role haemoglobin plays in the vessel lumen.
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Feng XT, Yu JG, Lei M, Fang WH, Liu S. Toward Understanding Metal-Binding Specificity of Porphyrin: A Conceptual Density Functional Theory Study. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:13381-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp905885y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Xin-Tian Feng
- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China, Institute of Materia Medica and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029 PR China, and Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China, Institute of Materia Medica and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029 PR China, and Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China, Institute of Materia Medica and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029 PR China, and Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China, Institute of Materia Medica and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029 PR China, and Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China, Institute of Materia Medica and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029 PR China, and Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420
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Adamik KN, Burgener IA, Kovacevic A, Schulze SP, Kohn B. Myoglobin as a prognostic indicator for outcome in dogs with gastric dilatation-volvulus. J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio) 2009; 19:247-53. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-4431.2009.00421.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Richardson RB. Age-dependent changes in oxygen tension, radiation dose and sensitivity within normal and diseased coronary arteries-Part B: modeling oxygen diffusion into vessel walls. Int J Radiat Biol 2009; 84:849-57. [PMID: 18979320 DOI: 10.1080/09553000802389645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim is to assess the change with age and disease of the oxygen concentration within the coronary artery walls. MATERIALS AND METHODS In an accompanying paper, Part A, the age-dependent morphology and composition for the wall layers of normal and diseased coronary arteries were developed from published data. In this paper, Part B, the oxygen concentration in the coronary artery walls was evaluated taking account the diffusion of oxygen from blood and the solubility of oxygen in tissues. Part C evaluates the oxygen effect and its biological implications for different radiations. RESULTS Diseased arteries exhibited a relatively moderate increase in the solubility of oxygen (<or=59%) in arteries with 88% luminal narrowing, as the high solubility in fat was partially offset by the lower solubility in calcium deposits. The oxygen partial pressure across the arterial wall was modeled and the avascular regions of arteries with >or=38% stenosis had anoxic areas. CONCLUSION Based on simulation results from the one-dimensional diffusion model, extensive hypoxic areas were determined for atherosclerotic arteries in this analysis of oxygen levels in coronary arteries modelling for the first time the effects of age and disease and associated changes in oxygen solubility due to the presence of lipids and calcium.
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- Richard B Richardson
- Radiation Biology and Health Physics Branch, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), Ontario, Canada.
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Szuchman-Sapir AJ, Pattison DI, Ellis NA, Hawkins CL, Davies MJ, Witting PK. Hypochlorous acid oxidizes methionine and tryptophan residues in myoglobin. Free Radic Biol Med 2008; 45:789-98. [PMID: 18625300 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2008] [Revised: 05/14/2008] [Accepted: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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After acute myocardial infarction (AMI), infiltrating proinflammatory cells generate two-electron oxidants such as hypochlorous acid (HOCl). Myoglobin (Mb) is present at approximately 0.3 mM in cardiomyocytes and, therefore, represents a significant target for oxidation. Exposure of horse Mb (50 microM) to reagent HOCl (0-500 microM) or activated human neutrophils (4-40x10(6) cells/ml) yielded oxidized Mb (Mb(ox)) as judged by amino acid analysis and peptide mass mapping. HOCl/Mb ratios of 1-5 mol/mol gave Mb(ox) with up to four additional oxygen atoms. Hydrolysis of Mb(ox) followed by amino acid analysis indicated that methionine (Met) and tryptophan (Trp) residues were modified by HOCl. Peptide mass mapping revealed that Met55 was oxidized at a lower HOCl/Mb ratio than Met131 and this preceded Trp7/14 modification (susceptibility Met55>Met131>Trp7>Trp14). Incubation of Mb with activated neutrophils and physiological chloride anion yielded Mb(ox) with a composition similar to that determined with HOCl/Mb ratios <2 mol/mol, with oxidation of Met, but not Trp, detected. These data indicate that Mb undergoes site-specific oxidation depending on the HOCl/protein ratio. As Mb is released from necrotic cardiomyocytes into the vasculature after AMI, HOCl-modified Mb may be a useful surrogate marker to gauge the extent of myocardial inflammation.
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- Andrea J Szuchman-Sapir
- Vascular Biology Group, ANZAC Research Institute, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW 2139, Australia
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Chen K, Pittman RN, Popel AS. Nitric oxide in the vasculature: where does it come from and where does it go? A quantitative perspective. Antioxid Redox Signal 2008; 10:1185-98. [PMID: 18331202 PMCID: PMC2932548 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2007.1959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) affects two key aspects of O2 supply and demand: It regulates vascular tone and blood flow by activating soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) in the vascular smooth muscle, and it controls mitochondrial O2 consumption by inhibiting cytochrome c oxidase. However, significant gaps exist in our quantitative understanding of the regulation of NO production in the vascular region. Large apparent discrepancies exist among the published reports that have analyzed the various pathways in terms of the perivascular NO concentration, the efficacy of NO in causing vasodilation (EC50), its efficacy in tissue respiration (IC50), and the paracrine and endocrine NO release. In this study, we review the NO literature, analyzing NO levels on various scales, identifying and analyzing the discrepancies in the reported data, and proposing hypotheses that can potentially reconcile these discrepancies. Resolving these issues is highly relevant to improving our understanding of vascular biology and to developing pharmaceutical agents that target NO pathways, such as vasodilating drugs.
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- Kejing Chen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Roesner A, Mitz SA, Hankeln T, Burmester T. Globins and hypoxia adaptation in the goldfish, Carassius auratus. FEBS J 2008; 275:3633-43. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06508.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Alzawahra WF, Talukder MAH, Liu X, Samouilov A, Zweier JL. Heme proteins mediate the conversion of nitrite to nitric oxide in the vascular wall. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2008; 295:H499-508. [PMID: 18539756 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00374.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to be the endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), and its impairment contributes to a variety of cardiovascular disorders. Recently, it has been recognized that nitrite can be an important source of NO; however, questions remain regarding the activity and mechanisms of nitrite bioactivation in vessels and its physiological importance. Therefore, we investigated the effects of nitrite on in vivo hemodynamics in rats and in vitro vasorelaxation in isolated rat aorta under aerobic conditions. Studies were performed to determine the mechanisms by which nitrite is converted to NO. In anesthetized rats, nitrite dose dependently decreased both systolic and diastolic blood pressure with a threshold dose of 10 microM. Similarly, nitrite (10 microM-2 mM) caused vasorelaxation of aortic rings, and NO was shown to be the intermediate factor responsible for this activity. With the use of electrochemical as well as electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy techniques NO generation was measured from isolated aortic vessels following nitrite treatment. Reduction of nitrite to NO was blocked by heating the vessel, suggesting that an enzymatic process is involved. Organ chamber experiments demonstrated that aortic relaxation induced by nitrite could be blocked by both hemoglobin and soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) inhibitor 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxaline-1-one (ODQ). In addition, both electrochemical and EPR spin-trapping measurements showed that ODQ inhibits nitrite-mediated NO production. These findings thus suggest that nitrite can be a precursor of EDRF and that sGC or other heme proteins inhibited by ODQ catalyze the reduction of nitrite to NO.
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- Wael F Alzawahra
- Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State Univ., 473 West 12Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Forsman M, Pääkkönen V, Tjäderhane L, Vuoristo J, Kallioinen L, Salo T, Kallioinen M, Ryhänen J. The expression of myoglobin and ROR2 protein in Dupuytren's disease. J Surg Res 2007; 146:271-5. [PMID: 17996904 DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2007] [Revised: 05/29/2007] [Accepted: 06/21/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Dupuytren's disease (DD) is a hand disease inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with variable penetrance, especially among populations of northern European ancestry. The etiology and pathophysiology of DD are not clear. The purpose of this study was to examine the gene expression profiles of palmar fascia of DD and healthy patients using microarray analysis to highlight the genes that might contribute to the pathogenesis of DD. MATERIALS AND METHODS Dupuytren contracture samples were taken from excised mature cords of DD patients during aponeurectomies. Control samples were collected from healthy hand trauma patients. Microarray analysis was performed with the Affymetrix HGU133A genome array (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA). Expression changes of selected proteins were confirmed at the protein level with Western and dot blotting or by immunohistochemistry. RESULTS At least an 8-fold change in gene expression was found with 127 genes, including a 90-fold down-regulation of myoglobin and a 14-fold up-regulation of tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 2 (= ROR2) from absent to present during the disease. The changes in myoglobin and ROR2 expression were confirmed at the protein level. CONCLUSIONS In this study, we showed for the first time the connection of ROR2 in Dupuytren's disease. ROR2 and myoglobin may play an important role in the pathophysiology of this disease.
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- Minna Forsman
- Department of Surgery, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland.
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- Austen F Riggs
- Section of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0252, USA.
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Fraser J, Vieira de Mello L, Ward D, Rees HH, Williams DR, Fang Y, Brass A, Gracey AY, Cossins AR. Hypoxia-inducible myoglobin expression in nonmuscle tissues. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:2977-81. [PMID: 16469844 PMCID: PMC1413783 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0508270103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Myoglobin (Myg) is an oxygen-binding hemoprotein that is widely thought to be expressed exclusively in oxidative skeletal and cardiac myocytes, where it plays a key role in coping with chronic hypoxia. We now show in a hypoxia-tolerant fish model, that Myg is also expressed in a range of other tissues, including liver, gill, and brain. Moreover, expression of Myg transcript was substantially enhanced during chronic hypoxia, the fold-change induction being far greater in liver than muscle. By using 2D gel electrophoresis, we have confirmed that liver expresses a protein corresponding to the Myg-1 transcript and that it is significantly up-regulated during hypoxia. We have also discovered a second, unique Myg isoform, distinct from neuroglobin, which is expressed exclusively in the neural tissue but whose transcript expression was unaffected by environmental hypoxia. Both observations of nonmuscle expression and a brain-specific isoform are unprecedented, indicating that Myg may play a much wider role than previously understood and that Myg might function in the protection of tissues from deep hypoxia and ischemia as well as in reoxygenation and reperfusion injury.
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- Jane Fraser
- *School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- *School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom; and
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- *School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- *School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- *School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, Brazil 70770-900
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, Brazil 70770-900
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- *School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- *School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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Rayner BS, Wu BJ, Raftery M, Stocker R, Witting PK. Human S-Nitroso Oxymyoglobin Is a Store of Vasoactive Nitric Oxide. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:9985-93. [PMID: 15644316 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m410564200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (.NO) regulates vascular function, and myoglobin (Mb) is a heme protein present in skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle, where it facilitates O(2) transfer. Human ferric Mb binds .NO to yield nitrosylheme and S-nitroso (S-NO) Mb (Witting, P. K., Douglas, D. J., and Mauk, A. G. (2001) J. Biol. Chem. 276, 3991-3998). Here we show that human ferrous oxy-myoglobin (oxyMb) oxidizes .NO, with a second order rate constant k = 2.8 +/- 0.1 x 10(7) M(-1).s(-1) as determined by stopped-flow spectroscopy. Mixtures containing oxyMb and S-nitrosoglutathione or S-nitrosocysteine added at 1.5-2 moles of S-nitrosothiol/mol oxyMb yielded S-NO oxyMb through trans-nitrosation equilibria as confirmed with mass spectrometry. Rate constants for the equilibrium reactions were k(forward) = 110 +/- 3 and k(reverse) = 16 +/- 3 M(-1).s(-1) for S-nitrosoglutathione and k(forward) = 293 +/- 5 and k(reverse) = 20 +/- 2 M(-1).s(-1) for S-nitrosocysteine. Incubation of S-NO oxyMb with Cu(2+) ions stimulated .NO release as measured with a .NO electrode. Similarly, Cu(2+) released .NO from Mb immunoprecipitated from cultured human vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) that were pre-treated with diethylaminenonoate. No .NO release was observed from VSMCs treated with vehicle alone or immunoprecipitates obtained from porcine aortic endothelial cells with and without diethylaminenonoate treatment. Importantly, pre-constricted aortic rings relaxed in the presence of S-NO oxyMb in a cyclic GMP-dependent process. These data indicate that human oxyMb rapidly oxidizes .NO and that biologically relevant S-nitrosothiols can trans-(S)nitrosate human oxyMb. Furthermore, S-NO oxyMb can be isolated from cultured human VSMCs exposed to an exogenous .NO donor at physiologic concentration. The potential biologic implications of S-NO oxyMb acting as a source of .NO are discussed.
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- Benjamin S Rayner
- Centre for Vascular Research and Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Unit, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, New South Wales, Australia
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