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Juhl AD, Wüstner D. Pathways and Mechanisms of Cellular Cholesterol Efflux-Insight From Imaging. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:834408. [PMID: 35300409 PMCID: PMC8920967 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.834408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Cholesterol is an essential molecule in cellular membranes, but too much cholesterol can be toxic. Therefore, mammalian cells have developed complex mechanisms to remove excess cholesterol. In this review article, we discuss what is known about such efflux pathways including a discussion of reverse cholesterol transport and formation of high-density lipoprotein, the function of ABC transporters and other sterol efflux proteins, and we highlight their role in human diseases. Attention is paid to the biophysical principles governing efflux of sterols from cells. We also discuss recent evidence for cholesterol efflux by the release of exosomes, microvesicles, and migrasomes. The role of the endo-lysosomal network, lipophagy, and selected lysosomal transporters, such as Niemann Pick type C proteins in cholesterol export from cells is elucidated. Since oxysterols are important regulators of cellular cholesterol efflux, their formation, trafficking, and secretion are described briefly. In addition to discussing results obtained with traditional biochemical methods, focus is on studies that use established and novel bioimaging approaches to obtain insight into cholesterol efflux pathways, including fluorescence and electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, X-ray tomography as well as mass spectrometry imaging.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, PhyLife, Physical Life Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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McDowell SC, López-Marqués RL, Cohen T, Brown E, Rosenberg A, Palmgren MG, Harper JF. Loss of the Arabidopsis thaliana P4-ATPases ALA6 and ALA7 impairs pollen fitness and alters the pollen tube plasma membrane. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:197. [PMID: 25954280 PMCID: PMC4404812 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2015] [Accepted: 03/12/2015] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Members of the P4 subfamily of P-type ATPases are thought to create and maintain lipid asymmetry in biological membranes by flipping specific lipids between membrane leaflets. In Arabidopsis, 7 of the 12 Aminophospholipid ATPase (ALA) family members are expressed in pollen. Here we show that double knockout of ALA6 and ALA7 (ala6/7) results in siliques with a ~2-fold reduction in seed set with a high frequency of empty seed positions near the bottom. Seed set was reduced to near zero when plants were grown under a hot/cold temperature stress. Reciprocal crosses indicate that the ala6/7 reproductive deficiencies are due to a defect related to pollen transmission. In-vitro growth assays provide evidence that ala6/7 pollen tubes are short and slow, with ~2-fold reductions in both maximal growth rate and overall length relative to wild-type. Outcrosses show that when ala6/7 pollen are in competition with wild-type pollen, they have a near 0% success rate in fertilizing ovules near the bottom of the pistil, consistent with ala6/7 pollen having short and slow growth defects. The ala6/7 phenotypes were rescued by the expression of either an ALA6-YFP or GFP-ALA6 fusion protein, which showed localization to both the plasma membrane and highly-mobile endomembrane structures. A mass spectrometry analysis of mature pollen grains revealed significant differences between ala6/7 and wild-type, both in the relative abundance of lipid classes and in the average number of double bonds present in acyl side chains. A change in the properties of the ala6/7 plasma membrane was also indicated by a ~10-fold reduction of labeling by lipophilic FM-dyes relative to wild-type. Together, these results indicate that ALA6 and ALA7 provide redundant activities that function to directly or indirectly change the distribution and abundance of lipids in pollen, and support a model in which ALA6 and ALA7 are critical for pollen fitness under normal and temperature-stress conditions.
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- Stephen C. McDowell
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of NevadaReno, NV, USA
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- Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Danish National Research FoundationFrederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of NevadaReno, NV, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of NevadaReno, NV, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of NevadaReno, NV, USA
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- Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Danish National Research FoundationFrederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of NevadaReno, NV, USA
- *Correspondence: Jeffrey F. Harper, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia St - MS330, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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Nyegaard S, Novakovic VA, Rasmussen JT, Gilbert GE. Lactadherin inhibits secretory phospholipase A2 activity on pre-apoptotic leukemia cells. PLoS One 2013; 8:e77143. [PMID: 24194865 PMCID: PMC3806724 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is a critical component of insect and snake venoms and is secreted by mammalian leukocytes during inflammation. Elevated secretory PLA2 concentrations are associated with autoimmune diseases and septic shock. Many sPLA2’s do not bind to plasma membranes of quiescent cells but bind and digest phospholipids on the membranes of stimulated or apoptotic cells. The capacity of these phospholipases to digest membranes of stimulated or apoptotic cells correlates to the exposure of phosphatidylserine. In the present study, the ability of the phosphatidyl-L-serine-binding protein, lactadherin to inhibit phospholipase enzyme activity has been assessed. Inhibition of human secretory phospholipase A2-V on phospholipid vesicles exceeded 90%, whereas inhibition of Naja mossambica sPLA2 plateaued at 50–60%. Lactadherin inhibited 45% of activity of Naja mossambica sPLA2 and >70% of human secretory phospholipase A2-V on the membranes of human NB4 leukemia cells treated with calcium ionophore A23187. The data indicate that lactadherin may decrease inflammation by inhibiting sPLA2.
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- Steffen Nyegaard
- Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
- Departments of Medicine, Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine, Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Departments of Medicine, Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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While accumulating evidence indicates that P4-ATPases catalyze phospholipid transport across cellular bilayers, their kinship to cation-pumping ATPases has raised fundamental questions concerning the underlying flippase mechanism. Loss of P4-ATPase function perturbs vesicle formation in late secretory and endocytic compartments. An intriguing concept is that P4-ATPases help drive vesicle budding by generating imbalances in transbilayer lipid numbers. Moreover, activation of P4-ATPases by phosphoinositides and other effectors of coat recruitment provide a potential mechanism to confine flippase activity to sites of vesicle biogenesis. These developments have raised considerable interest in understanding the mechanism, regulation and biological implications of P4-ATPase-catalyzed phospholipid transport.
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- Rosa L López-Marqués
- Center for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease-PUMPKIN, Danish National Research Foundation, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Cai SY, Gautam S, Nguyen T, Soroka CJ, Rahner C, Boyer JL. ATP8B1 deficiency disrupts the bile canalicular membrane bilayer structure in hepatocytes, but FXR expression and activity are maintained. Gastroenterology 2009; 136:1060-9. [PMID: 19027009 PMCID: PMC3439851 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2008] [Revised: 09/29/2008] [Accepted: 10/09/2008] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 1 (PFIC1) results from mutations in ATP8B1, a putative aminophospholipid flippase. Conflicting hypotheses have been proposed for the pathogenesis of PFIC1. The aim of this study was to determine whether ATP8B1 deficiency produces cholestasis by altering the activity of the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) or by impairing the structure of the canalicular membrane. METHODS ATP8B1/Atp8b1 was knocked down in human and rat hepatocytes and Caco2 cells using adenoviral and oligonucleotide small interfering RNAs. RESULTS ATP8B1 messenger RNA and protein expression was greatly reduced in human and rat cells. In contrast, FXR expression and several FXR-dependent membrane transporters (bile salt export pump [BSEP], multidrug resistance-associated protein [MRP] 2) were unchanged at messenger RNA or protein levels in ATP8B1-deficient cells, whereas Mrp3 and Mrp4 were up-regulated in rat hepatocytes. FXR activity remained intact in these cells, as evidenced by 6alpha-ethyl chenodeoxycholic acid-mediated induction of small heterodimer partner, BSEP, and multidrug-resistant protein (MDR) 3/Mdr2. Fluorescent substrate excretion assays indicate that Bsep function was significantly reduced in Atp8b1-deficient rat hepatocytes, although Bsep remained localized to the canalicular membrane. Exposure to the hydrophobic bile acid CDCA resulted in focal areas of canalicular membrane disruption by electron microscopy and luminal accumulation of NBD-phosphatidylserine, consistent with the function of Atp8b1 as an aminophospholipid flippase. CONCLUSIONS ATP8B1 deficiency predisposes to cholestasis by favoring bile acid-induced injury in the canalicular membrane but does not directly affect FXR expression, which may occur in PFIC1 as a secondary phenomenon associated with cholestasis.
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- Shi-Ying Cai
- Department of Internal Medicine and Yale Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Yale Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Yale Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Yale Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Yale Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Stöckl M, Plazzo AP, Korte T, Herrmann A. Detection of lipid domains in model and cell membranes by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of fluorescent lipid analogues. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:30828-37. [PMID: 18708353 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m801418200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The presence of lipid domains in cellular membranes and their characteristic features are still an issue of dividing discussion. Several recent studies implicate lipid domains in plasma membranes of mammalian cells as short lived and in the submicron range. Measuring the fluorescence lifetime of appropriate lipid analogues is a proper approach to detect domains with such properties. Here, the sensitivity of the fluorescence lifetime of1-palmitoyl-2-[6-[(7-nitro-2-1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]-hexanoyl]-sn-glycero-3-phospholipid (C6-NBD-phospholipid) analogues has been employed to characterize lipid domains in giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) and the plasma membrane of mammalian cells by fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). Fluorescence decay of C6-NBD-phosphatidylcholine is characterized by a short and long lifetime. For GUVs forming microscopically visible lipid domains the longer lifetime in the liquid disordered (ld) and the liquid ordered (lo) phase was clearly distinct, being approximately 7 ns and 11 ns, respectively. Lifetimes were not sensitive to variation of cholesterol concentration of domain-forming GUVs indicating that the lipid composition and physical properties of those lipid domains are well defined entities. Even the existence of submicroscopic domains can be detected by FLIM as demonstrated for GUVs of palmitoyloleoyl phosphatidylcholine/N-palmitoyl-d-sphingomyelin/cholesterol mixtures. A broad distribution of the long lifetime was found for C6-NBD-phosphatidylcholine inserted in the plasma membrane of HepG2 and HeLa cells centered around 11 ns. FLIM studies on lipid domains forming giant vesicles derived from the plasma membrane of HeLa cells may suggest that a variety of submicroscopic lipid domains exists in the plasma membrane of intact cells.
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- Martin Stöckl
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, Institut für Biologie/Biophysik, Invalidenstrasse 42, Berlin D-10115, Germany
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Petersen NH, Faergeman NJ, Faegeman NJ, Yu L, Wüstner D. Kinetic imaging of NPC1L1 and sterol trafficking between plasma membrane and recycling endosomes in hepatoma cells. J Lipid Res 2008; 49:2023-37. [PMID: 18523240 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m800145-jlr200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1) is a recently identified protein that mediates intestinal cholesterol absorption and regulates biliary cholesterol excretion. The itineraries and kinetics of NPC1L1 trafficking remain uncertain. In this study, we have visualized movement of NPC1L1-enhanced green fluorescent protein (NPC1L1-EGFP) and cholesterol analogs in hepatoma cells. At steady state, about 42% of NPC1L1 resided in the transferrin (Tf)-positive, sterol-enriched endocytic recycling compartment (ERC), whereas time-lapse microscopy demonstrated NPC1L1 traffic between the plasma membrane and the ERC. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching revealed rapid recovery (half-time approximately 2.5 min) of about 35% of NPC1L1 in the ERC, probably replenished from peripheral sorting endosomes. Acute cholesterol depletion blocked internalization of NPC1L1-EGFP and Tf and stimulated recycling of NPC1L1-EGFP from the ERC to the plasma membrane. NPC1L1-EGFP facilitated transport of fluorescent sterols from the plasma membrane to the ERC. Insulin induced translocation of vesicles containing NPC1L1 and fluorescent sterol from the ERC to the cell membrane. Upon polarization of hepatoma cells, NPC1L1 resided almost exclusively in the canalicular membrane, where the protein is highly mobile. Our study demonstrates dynamic trafficking of NPC1L1 between the cell surface and intracellular compartments and suggests that this transport is involved in NPC1L1-mediated cellular sterol uptake.
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- Nicole Hartwig Petersen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, Denmark
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Devaux PF, López-Montero I, Bryde S. Proteins involved in lipid translocation in eukaryotic cells. Chem Phys Lipids 2006; 141:119-32. [PMID: 16600198 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2006.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2005] [Accepted: 02/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Since the first discovery of ATP-dependent translocation of lipids in the human erythrocyte membrane in 1984, there has been much evidence of the existence of various ATPases translocating lipids in eukaryotic cell membranes. They include P-type ATPases involved in inwards lipid transport from the exoplasmic leaflet to the cytosolic leaflet and ABC proteins involved in outwards transport. There are also ATP-independent proteins that catalyze the passage of lipids in both directions. Five P-type ATPase involved in lipid transport have been genetically characterized in yeast cells, suggesting a pool of several proteins with partially redundant activities responsible for the regulation of lipid asymmetry. However, expression and purification of individual yeast proteins is still insufficient to allow reconstitution experiments in liposomes. In this review, we want to give an overview over current investigation efforts about the identification and purification of proteins that may be involved in lipid translocation.
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- Philippe F Devaux
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, UMR CNRS 7099, Paris, France.
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Gowda GAN, Somashekar BS, Ijare OB, Sharma A, Kapoor VK, Khetrapal CL. One-step analysis of major bile components in human bile using 1H NMR spectroscopy. Lipids 2006; 41:577-89. [PMID: 16981436 DOI: 10.1007/s11745-006-5007-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Human gallbladder bile dissolved in dimethylsulfoxide provides sharp and resolved signals for major bile components in 1H NMR spectra. Characteristic well-resolved marker signals that invariably appear in 1H NMR spectra of bile were identified for cholesterol (H18 methyl signal at 0.643 ppm), lipids (glycerol CH signal at 5.064 ppm), total bile acids (H18 signals in the range 0.520-0.626 ppm), total glycine conjugated bile acids (NH signal at 6.958 ppm), total taurine conjugated bile acids (NH signal at 7.646 ppm), and urea (NH2 signal near 5.48 ppm), which enabled their rapid and accurate analysis. Excellent linearity and precision of quantitative analysis was observed for all the identified bile components (R2 > 0.99 for all). The method was demonstrated on gallbladder bile from 19 patients with gallbladder diseases. Urea in bile was identified by NMR for the first time and its quantitative analysis, along with several other bile components, is presented. The majority of the bile components could be analyzed in a single step. Accurate and rapid quantification of several bile components noninvasively by using the method presented herein may have far-reaching implications in the study of bile acid metabolism and pathophysiology of various hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal diseases.
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- G A Nagana Gowda
- Centre of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow-226 014, India.
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Nash P, Olovsson M, Eriksson UJ. Placental dysfunction in Suramin-treated rats: impact of maternal diabetes and effects of antioxidative treatment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 12:174-84. [PMID: 15784502 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2004.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate a rat model of placental dysfunction/preeclampsia in pregnancies complicated by maternal diabetes. A second objective was to evaluate the effects of vitamin E treatment in this model. METHODS Normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats of two different strains (U and H) were given intraperitoneal (IP) injections of the angiogenesis inhibitor Suramin (Sigma Chemical Co, St Louis, MO) or saline in early pregnancy, and fed standard or vitamin E-enriched food. The outcome of pregnancy was evaluated on gestational day 20. RESULTS In both rat strains Suramin caused fetal growth retardation, decreased placental blood flow, and increased placental concentration of the isoprostane 8-iso-PGF(2alpha). In the U rats Suramin also caused increased fetal resorption rate, increased maternal blood pressure, decreased renal blood flow, and diminished maternal growth. Diabetes caused severe maternal and fetal growth retardation, increased resorption rate, and increased placental 8-iso-PGF(2alpha) concentration independent of Suramin administration. The maternal and fetal effects of Suramin and diabetes were more pronounced in the U strain than in the H strain. Vitamin E treatment improved the status of Suramin-injected diabetic rats: in U rats the blood pressure increase was normalized; and in both U and H rats the decreased placental blood flow was marginally enhanced, and the increase in placental 8-iso-PGF(2alpha) was partly normalized by vitamin E. CONCLUSION Suramin injections to pregnant rats cause a state of placental insufficiency, which in U rats resembles human preeclampsia. The induction of this condition is at least partly mediated by oxidative stress, and antagonized by antioxidative treatment. Maternal diabetes involves increased oxidative stress, and causes both maternal and fetal morbidity, which are only marginally affected by additional Suramin treatment.
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- Peppi Nash
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Paulusma CC, Oude Elferink RPJ. The type 4 subfamily of P-type ATPases, putative aminophospholipid translocases with a role in human disease. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2005; 1741:11-24. [PMID: 15919184 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2005.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2005] [Revised: 04/21/2005] [Accepted: 04/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The maintenance of phospholipid asymmetry in membrane bilayers is a paradigm in cell biology. However, the mechanisms and proteins involved in phospholipid translocation are still poorly understood. Members of the type 4 subfamily of P-type ATPases have been implicated in the translocation of phospholipids from the outer to the inner leaflet of membrane bilayers. In humans, several inherited disorders have been identified which are associated with loci harboring type 4 P-type ATPase genes. Up to now, one inherited disorder, Byler disease or progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 1 (PFIC1), has been directly linked to mutations in a type 4 P-type ATPase gene. How the absence of an aminophospholipid translocase activity relates to this severe disease is, however, still unclear. Studies in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have recently identified important roles for type 4 P-type ATPases in intracellular membrane- and protein-trafficking events. These processes require an (amino)phospholipid translocase activity to initiate budding or fusion of membrane vesicles from or with other membranes. The studies in yeast have greatly contributed to our cell biological insight in membrane dynamics and intracellular-trafficking events; if this knowledge can be translated to mammalian cells and organs, it will help to elucidate the molecular mechanisms which underlie severe inherited human diseases such as Byler disease.
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- C C Paulusma
- Department of Experimental Hepatology, Academic Medical Center/AMC Liver Center, Meibergdreef 69-71, 1105 BK Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Nash P, Wentzel P, Lindeberg S, Naessén T, Jansson L, Olovsson M, Eriksson UJ. Placental dysfunction in Suramin-treated rats – a new model for pre-eclampsia. Placenta 2005; 26:410-8. [PMID: 15850646 DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2004.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Impaired placentation and oxidative stress are proposed to play major roles in the pathogenesis of placental dysfunction and pre-eclampsia. This study was carried out to evaluate if inhibited angiogenesis by Suramin injections in early pregnancy may cause a condition resembling pre-eclampsia in rats. Rats of two different Sprague-Dawley strains, U and H, were given intraperitoneal injections of Suramin or saline in early pregnancy. The outcome of pregnancy was evaluated on gestational day 20. Suramin injections caused increased blood pressure and decreased renal blood flow in the U rats. In both rat strains Suramin decreased the placental blood flow and caused fetal growth retardation. In both strains the placental concentration of the isoprostane 8-epi-PGF2alpha was increased, indicating oxidative stress. The serum concentration of Endothelin-1 was increased in the U rats. The U strain had a lower basal placental blood flow, and the effects of Suramin were more pronounced in this strain. We conclude, that Suramin injections to pregnant rats cause a state of placental insufficiency, which partly resembles human pre-eclampsia. The induction of this condition is at least partly mediated by oxidative stress, and is subject to varied genetic susceptibility.
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- P Nash
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Pomorski T, Holthuis JCM, Herrmann A, van Meer G. Tracking down lipid flippases and their biological functions. J Cell Sci 2004; 117:805-13. [PMID: 14963021 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The various organellar membranes of eukaryotic cells display striking differences in the composition, leaflet distribution and transbilayer movement of their lipids. In membranes such as the endoplasmic reticulum, phospholipids can move readily across the bilayer, aided by membrane proteins that facilitate a passive equilibration of lipids between both membrane halves. In the plasma membrane, and probably also in the late Golgi and endosomal compartments, flip-flop of phospholipids is constrained and subject to a dynamic, ATP-dependent regulation that involves members of distinct protein families. Recent studies in yeast, parasites such as Leishmania, and mammalian cells have identified several candidates for lipid flippases, and whereas some of these serve a fundamental role in the release of lipids from cells, others appear to have unexpected and important functions in vesicular traffic: their activities are required to support vesicle formation in the secretory and endocytic pathways.
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- Thomas Pomorski
- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
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