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Brahmachary P, Erdogan E, Myers E, June RK. Metabolomic Profiling and Characterization of a Novel 3D Culture System for Studying Chondrocyte Mechanotransduction. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.10.598340. [PMID: 38915493 PMCID: PMC11195103 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.10.598340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/26/2024]
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Articular chondrocytes synthesize and maintain the avascular and aneural articular cartilage. In vivo these cells are surrounded by a 3D pericellular matrix (PCM) containing predominantly collagen VI. The PCM protects chondrocytes and facilitates mechanotransduction, and PCM stiffness is critical in transmitting biomechanical signals to chondrocytes. Various culture systems with different hydrogels have been used to encapsulate chondrocytes for 3D culture, but many lack either the PCM or the in vivo stiffness of the cartilage matrix. Here, we demonstrate that primary chondrocytes cultured in alginate will form a pericellular matrix and display a phenotype similar to in vivo conditions. We found that primary human and bovine chondrocytes, when cultured in alginate beads with addition of sodium L-ascorbate for 7 days, had a pronounced PCM, retained their phenotype, and synthesized both collagens VI and II. This novel culture system enables alginate-encapsulated chondrocytes to develop a robust PCM thereby creating a model system to study mechanotransduction. We also observed distinct compression-induced changes in metabolomic profiles between the monolayer-agarose and alginate-released agarose-embedded chondrocytes indicating physiological changes in cell metabolism. Our data suggest that 3D preculture of chondrocytes in alginate before encapsulation in physiologically-stiff agarose leads to a pronounced development of pericellular matrix that is sustained in the presence of ascorbate. This novel model can be useful in studying the mechanism by which chondrocytes respond to cyclical compression and other types of loading simulating in vivo physiological conditions.
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- Priyanka Brahmachary
- Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
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- Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
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- Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
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- Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
- Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
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Narayanasamy R, Usharani D, Rajasekharan R. Elucidating the functional role of human ABHD16B lipase in regulating triacylglycerol mobilization and membrane lipid synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Chem Phys Lipids 2024; 258:105353. [PMID: 37944658 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2023.105353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Lipids are essential biological macromolecules that play a pivotal role in various physiological processes and cellular homeostasis. ABHD16B, a member of the α/β-hydrolase domain (ABHD) superfamily protein, has emerged as a potential key regulator in lipid metabolism. However, the precise role of human ABHD16B in lipid metabolism remains unclear. In this study, we reported the overexpression of ABHD16B in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to determine its physiological relevance in lipid metabolism. Through in vivo [14C]acetate labeling experiments, we observed that overexpression of ABHD16B causes a decrease in cellular triacylglycerol (TAG) levels and a concurrent increase in phospholipid synthesis in wild-type cells. Mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis further corroborated these findings, showing a significant decrease in TAGs with a carbon chain length of 48 and an increase in major phospholipid species, specifically 34:2, upon overexpression of ABHD16B. Confocal microscopy analysis revealed a reduction in the number of lipid droplets in strains overexpressing ABHD16B, consistent with the observed decrease in neutral lipids. Additionally, qRT-PCR analysis indicated a high phospholipid synthetic activity of ABHD16B and a potential decrease in TAG levels in wild-type yeast, possibly due to upregulation of endogenous TAG hydrolytic enzymes, as confirmed using 3tglsΔ mutant strain. Furthermore, GC-MS analysis revealed significant modifications in fatty acid composition upon ABHD16B overexpression. Collectively, our results underscore the influence of ABHD16B overexpression on TAG levels, phospholipid synthesis, lipid droplet dynamics, and fatty acid composition. These findings reveal a complex interplay between TAG hydrolysis and phospholipid synthesis, highlighting the critical involvement of ABHD16B in lipid homeostasis and providing further insights into its regulatory function in cellular lipid metabolism.
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- Raja Narayanasamy
- Department of Food Safety and Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, Karnataka 570020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Department of Food Safety and Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, Karnataka 570020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Neelakudi, Thiruvarur 610005, India.
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Jog R, Han GS, Carman GM. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Spo7 basic tail is required for Nem1-Spo7/Pah1 phosphatase cascade function in lipid synthesis. J Biol Chem 2024; 300:105587. [PMID: 38141768 PMCID: PMC10820825 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105587] [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: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/25/2023] Open
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Nem1-Spo7 protein phosphatase complex dephosphorylates and thereby activates Pah1 at the nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Pah1, a phosphatidate phosphatase catalyzing the dephosphorylation of phosphatidate to produce diacylglycerol, is one of the most highly regulated enzymes in lipid metabolism. The diacylglycerol produced in the lipid phosphatase reaction is utilized for the synthesis of triacylglycerol that is stored in lipid droplets. Disruptions of the Nem1-Spo7/Pah1 phosphatase cascade cause a plethora of physiological defects. Spo7, the regulatory subunit of the Nem1-Spo7 complex, is required for the Nem1 catalytic function and interacts with the acidic tail of Pah1. Spo7 contains three conserved homology regions (CR1-3) that are important for the interaction with Nem1, but its region for the interaction with Pah1 is unknown. Here, by deletion and site-specific mutational analyses of Spo7, we revealed that the C-terminal basic tail (residues 240-259) containing five arginine and two lysine residues is important for the Nem1-Spo7 complex-mediated dephosphorylation of Pah1 and its cellular function (triacylglycerol synthesis, lipid droplet formation, maintenance of nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane morphology, and cell growth at elevated temperatures). The glutaraldehyde cross-linking analysis of synthetic peptides indicated that the Spo7 basic tail interacts with the Pah1 acidic tail. This work advances our understanding of the Spo7 function and the Nem1-Spo7/Pah1 phosphatase cascade in yeast lipid synthesis.
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- Ruta Jog
- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
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Lewandowska M, Zienkiewicz A, Feussner K, König S, Kunst L, Feussner I. Wound-induced triacylglycerol biosynthesis is jasmonoy-l-isoleucin and abscisic acid independent. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2023; 25:509-517. [PMID: 36800436 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Triacylglycerol (TAG) plays a significant role during plant stress - it maintains lipid homeostasis. Upon wounding plants accumulate TAG, likely as a storage form of fatty acids (FAs) that originate from damaged membranes. This study asked if this process depends on the two phytohormones jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) and abscisic acid (ABA), which are involved in wound signalling. To analyse regulation of wound-induced TAG accumulation, we used mutants deficient in JA-Ile, with reduced ABA and the myb96 mutant, which is deficient in an ABA-dependent transcription factor. The expression of genes involved in TAG biosynthesis, and TAG content after wounding were analysed via LC-MS and GC-FID, plastidial lipid content in all mentioned mutant lines was also determined. The localization of newly synthesized TAG was investigated using lipid droplet staining. TAG accumulation upon wounding was confirmed as well as the fact that the newly synthesized TAG are mostly composed of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Nevertheless, all tested mutant lines were able to accumulate TAG similar to the WT. We observed differences in reduction of plastidial lipids - in WT plants this was higher than in mutant lines. Newly synthesized TAGs were stored in lipid droplets at and around the wounded area. Our results show that TAG accumulation upon wounding is not dependent on JA-Ile or ABA. The newly synthesized TAG species are composed of unsaturated fatty acids of membrane origin, and most likely serves as a transient energy store.
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- M Lewandowska
- Department for Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department for Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department for Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Service Unit for Metabolomics and Lipidomics, Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department for Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department for Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Service Unit for Metabolomics and Lipidomics, Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Department for Plant Biochemistry, Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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Liu X, Li C, Chen Y, Xue Z, Miao J, Liu X. Untargeted lipidomics reveals lipid metabolism disorders induced by oxathiapiprolin in Phytophthora sojae. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2023; 79:1593-1603. [PMID: 36562252 DOI: 10.1002/ps.7334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Oxathiapiprolin, an oxysterol-binding protein inhibitor (OSBPI), shows unexceptionable inhibitory activity against plant pathogenic oomycetes. FRAC (Fungicide Resistance Action Committee) classifies it into the mode of action group F9 (lipid homeostasis and transfer/storage), but very little is known about the lipid metabolism of oomycete pathogens when subjected to oxathiapiprolin. RESULTS In this study, seven lipid categories and 1435 lipid molecules were identified in Phytophthora sojae, among which glycerolipids, glycerophospholipids, and sphingolipids account for 30.10%, 50.59%, and 7.28%, respectively. These lipids were categorized into 31 subclasses, which varied to different extents when treated with oxathiapiprolin. A total of 11 lipid subclasses showed significant changes. Among them, 10 lipid subclasses, lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE), phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylserine (PS), ceramide (Cer), triglyceride (TG), (o-acyl)-1-hydroxy fatty acid, diglycosylceramide, sphingoshine (So), and sitosterol ester, were significantly up-regulated, while digalactosyldiacylglycerol was the only lipid that was significantly down-regulated by a factor of almost three. These lipid molecules were further analyzed at the lipid species level. A total of 542 species were significantly altered when treated with oxathiapiprolin, including 212 glycerolipids [186 TG and 26 diglycerides (DG)], 167 glycerophospholipids (38 PC, 15 LPC, 19 LPE, seven PS, etc.), 156 sphingolipids (146 Cer, four So, etc.), and some other lipid molecules. Finally, from the orthogonal partial least-squares discrimination analysis model, variable importance for the projection score analysis showed that Cer, TG, and some glycerophospholipids contribute to the metabolic disorder when subjected to oxathiapiprolin. CONCLUSION Glycerolipids, glycerophospholipids, and sphingolipids in P. sojae undergo significant changes with oxathiapiprolin treatment. These results provided valuable information for further understanding the function of the target protein and the mode of action of OSBPIs in oomycetes. © 2022 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Xiaofei Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Using oils and fats to replace sugars as feedstocks for biomanufacturing: Challenges and opportunities for the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Biotechnol Adv 2023; 65:108128. [PMID: 36921878 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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More than 200 million tons of plant oils and animal fats are produced annually worldwide from oil, crops, and the rendered animal fat industry. Triacylglycerol, an abundant energy-dense compound, is the major form of lipid in oils and fats. While oils or fats are very important raw materials and functional ingredients for food or related products, a significant portion is currently diverted to or recovered as waste. To significantly increase the value of waste oils or fats and expand their applications with a minimal environmental footprint, microbial biomanufacturing is presented as an effective strategy for adding value. Though both bacteria and yeast can be engineered to use oils or fats as the biomanufacturing feedstocks, the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica is presented as one of the most attractive platforms. Y. lipolytica is oleaginous, generally regarded as safe, demonstrated as a promising industrial producer, and has unique capabilities for efficient catabolism and bioconversion of lipid substrates. This review summarizes the major challenges and opportunities for Y. lipolytica as a new biomanufacturing platform for the production of value-added products from oils and fats. This review also discusses relevant cellular and metabolic engineering strategies such as fatty acid transport, fatty acid catabolism and bioconversion, redox balances and energy yield, cell morphology and stress response, and bioreaction engineering. Finally, this review highlights specific product classes including long-chain diacids, wax esters, terpenes, and carotenoids with unique synthesis opportunities from oils and fats in Y. lipolytica.
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Nakatsukasa K, Fujisawa M, Yang X, Kawarasaki T, Okumura F, Kamura T. Triacylglycerol lipase Tgl4 is a stable protein and its dephosphorylation is regulated in a cell cycle-dependent manner in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2022; 626:85-91. [PMID: 35981421 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Triacylglycerols (TGs) serve as reservoirs for diacylglycerols and fatty acids, which play important roles in synthesizing energy and membrane lipids that are required for cell cycle progression. In the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Tgl4, the functional ortholog of murine adipose triacylglycerol lipase (ATGL), is activated by Cdk1/Cdc28-mediated phosphorylation and facilitates the G1/S transition. However, little is known about how Tgl4 is inactivated during the cell cycle. To monitor the phosphorylation status and the stability of endogenous Tgl4, we raised a specific antibody against Tgl4. We found that in contrast to the previous suggestion, Tgl4 was a stable protein throughout the cell cycle. We also showed that Tgl4 was dephosphorylated upon entry into G1 phase. These results suggest that Tgl4 is a stable protein and is inactivated during G1 phase by dephosphorylation.
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- Kunio Nakatsukasa
- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Yamanohata 1, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 467-8501, Japan.
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8602, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Yamanohata 1, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 467-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Yamanohata 1, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 467-8501, Japan
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- Department of Food and Health Sciences, International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women's University, Fukuoka, 813-8582, Japan
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8602, Japan.
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Chen G, Harwood JL, Lemieux MJ, Stone SJ, Weselake RJ. Acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase: Properties, physiological roles, metabolic engineering and intentional control. Prog Lipid Res 2022; 88:101181. [PMID: 35820474 DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2022.101181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT, EC 2.3.1.20) catalyzes the last reaction in the acyl-CoA-dependent biosynthesis of triacylglycerol (TAG). DGAT activity resides mainly in membrane-bound DGAT1 and DGAT2 in eukaryotes and bifunctional wax ester synthase-diacylglycerol acyltransferase (WSD) in bacteria, which are all membrane-bound proteins but exhibit no sequence homology to each other. Recent studies also identified other DGAT enzymes such as the soluble DGAT3 and diacylglycerol acetyltransferase (EaDAcT), as well as enzymes with DGAT activities including defective in cuticular ridges (DCR) and steryl and phytyl ester synthases (PESs). This review comprehensively discusses research advances on DGATs in prokaryotes and eukaryotes with a focus on their biochemical properties, physiological roles, and biotechnological and therapeutic applications. The review begins with a discussion of DGAT assay methods, followed by a systematic discussion of TAG biosynthesis and the properties and physiological role of DGATs. Thereafter, the review discusses the three-dimensional structure and insights into mechanism of action of human DGAT1, and the modeled DGAT1 from Brassica napus. The review then examines metabolic engineering strategies involving manipulation of DGAT, followed by a discussion of its therapeutic applications. DGAT in relation to improvement of livestock traits is also discussed along with DGATs in various other eukaryotic organisms.
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- Guanqun Chen
- Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 2P5, Canada.
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Membrane Protein Disease Research Group, Edmonton T6G 2H7, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada.
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- Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 2P5, Canada
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Impairment of carotenoid biosynthesis through CAR1 gene mutation results in CoQ 10, sterols, and phytoene accumulation in Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 106:317-327. [PMID: 34910239 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11673-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Red yeasts, mainly included in the genera Rhodotorula, Rhodosporidiobolus, and Sporobolomyces, are renowned biocatalysts for the production of a wide range of secondary metabolites of commercial interest, among which lipids, carotenoids, and other isoprenoids. The production of all these compounds is tightly interrelated as they share acetyl-CoA and the mevalonate pathway as common intermediates. Here, T-DNA insertional mutagenesis was applied to the wild type strain C2.5t1 of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa for the isolation of albino mutants with impaired carotenoids biosynthesis. The rationale behind this approach was that a blockage in carotenoid biosynthetic pathway could divert carbon flux toward the production of lipids and/or other molecules deriving from terpenoid precursors. One characterized albino mutant, namely, strain W4, carries a T-DNA insertion in the CAR1 gene coding for phytoene desaturase. When cultured in glycerol-containing medium, W4 strain showed significant decreases in cell density and fatty acids content in respect to the wild type strain. Conversely, it reached significantly higher productions of phytoene, CoQ10, and sterols. These were supported by an increased expression of CAR2 gene that codes for phytoene synthase/lycopene cyclase. Thus, in accordance with the starting hypothesis, the impairment of carotenoids biosynthesis can be explored to pursue the biotechnological exploitation of red yeasts for enhanced production of secondary metabolites with several commercial applications. KEY POINTS: • The production of lipids, carotenoids, and other isoprenoids is tightly interrelated. • CAR1 gene mutation results in the overproduction of phytoene, CoQ10, and sterols. • Albino mutants are promising tools for the production of secondary metabolites.
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Mooiman C, Bouwknegt J, Dekker WJC, Wiersma SJ, Ortiz-Merino RA, de Hulster E, Pronk JT. Critical parameters and procedures for anaerobic cultivation of yeasts in bioreactors and anaerobic chambers. FEMS Yeast Res 2021; 21:foab035. [PMID: 34100921 PMCID: PMC8216787 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foab035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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All known facultatively fermentative yeasts require molecular oxygen for growth. Only in a small number of yeast species, these requirements can be circumvented by supplementation of known anaerobic growth factors such as nicotinate, sterols and unsaturated fatty acids. Biosynthetic oxygen requirements of yeasts are typically small and, unless extensive precautions are taken to minimize inadvertent entry of trace amounts of oxygen, easily go unnoticed in small-scale laboratory cultivation systems. This paper discusses critical points in the design of anaerobic yeast cultivation experiments in anaerobic chambers and laboratory bioreactors. Serial transfer or continuous cultivation to dilute growth factors present in anaerobically pre-grown inocula, systematic inclusion of control strains and minimizing the impact of oxygen diffusion through tubing are identified as key elements in experimental design. Basic protocols are presented for anaerobic-chamber and bioreactor experiments.
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- Christiaan Mooiman
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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Zheng L, Zhang Z, Sheng P, Mobasheri A. The role of metabolism in chondrocyte dysfunction and the progression of osteoarthritis. Ageing Res Rev 2021; 66:101249. [PMID: 33383189 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2020.101249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 285] [Impact Index Per Article: 95.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease characterized by low-grade inflammation and high levels of clinical heterogeneity. Aberrant chondrocyte metabolism is a response to changes in the inflammatory microenvironment and may play a key role in cartilage degeneration and OA progression. Under conditions of environmental stress, chondrocytes tend to adapt their metabolism to microenvironmental changes by shifting from one metabolic pathway to another, for example from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis. Similar changes occur in other joint cells, including synoviocytes. Switching between these pathways is implicated in metabolic alterations that involve mitochondrial dysfunction, enhanced anaerobic glycolysis, and altered lipid and amino acid metabolism. The shift between oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis is mainly regulated by the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathways. Chondrocyte metabolic changes are likely to be a feature of different OA phenotypes. Determining the role of chondrocyte metabolism in OA has revealed key features of disease pathogenesis. Future research should place greater emphasis on immunometabolism and altered metabolic pathways as a means to understand the pathophysiology of age-related OA. This knowledge will advance the development of new drugs against therapeutic targets of metabolic significance.
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- Linli Zheng
- Department of Joint Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080 China
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- Department of Joint Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080 China
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- Department of Joint Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080 China.
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- Department of Joint Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080 China; Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, PO Box 5000, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland; Department of Regenerative Medicine, State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, LT-08406, Vilnius, Lithuania; Departments of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Vieira NM, Dos Santos RCV, Germano VKDC, Ventorim RZ, de Almeida ELM, da Silveira FA, Ribeiro Júnior JI, da Silveira WB. Isolation of a new Papiliotrema laurentii strain that displays capacity to achieve high lipid content from xylose. 3 Biotech 2020; 10:382. [PMID: 32802724 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-020-02373-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In this work, we isolated and selected oleaginous yeasts from rock field soils from two National Parks in Brazil (Caparaó and Serra dos Órgãos) with the potential to accumulate oil from xylose, the main pentose sugar found in lignocellulosic biomass. From the 126 isolates, two were selected based on their lipid contents. They were taxonomically identified as Papiliotrema laurentii (UFV-1 and UFV-2). Of the two, P. laurentii UFV-1 was selected as the best lipid producer. Under unoptimized conditions, lipid production by P. laurentii UFV-1 was higher in glucose than in xylose. To improve its lipid production from xylose, we applied response surface methodology (RSM) with a face-centered central composite design (CCF). We evaluated the effects of agitation rate, initial cell biomass (OD600), carbon/nitrogen ratio (C/N ratio) and pH on lipid production. P. laurentii UFV-1 recorded the highest lipid content, 63.5% (w/w) of the cell dry mass, under the following conditions: C/N ratio = 100:1, pH value = 7.0, initial OD600 = 0.8 and agitation = 300 rpm. Under these optimized conditions, biomass, lipid titer and volumetric lipid productivity were 9.31 g/L, 5.90 g/L and 0.082 g/L.h, respectively. Additionally, we determined the fatty acid composition of P. laurentii UFV-1 as follows: C14:0 (0.5%), C16:0 (28.4-29.4%), C16:1 (0.2%), C18:0 (9.5-11%), C18:1 (58.6-60.5%), and C20:0 (0.7-0.8%). Based on this composition, the predicted properties of biodiesel showed that P. laurentii UFV-1 oil is suitable for use as feedstock in biodiesel production.
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- Nívea Moreira Vieira
- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG 36570-900 Brazil
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG 36570-900 Brazil
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG 36570-900 Brazil
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG 36570-900 Brazil
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG 36570-900 Brazil
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG 36570-900 Brazil
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG 36570-900 Brazil
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Mirheydari M, Dey P, Stukey GJ, Park Y, Han GS, Carman GM. The Spo7 sequence LLI is required for Nem1-Spo7/Pah1 phosphatase cascade function in yeast lipid metabolism. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:11473-11485. [PMID: 32527729 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014129] [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: 04/29/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Nem1-Spo7 complex in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a protein phosphatase that catalyzes the dephosphory-lation of Pah1 phosphatidate phosphatase, required for its translocation to the nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane. The Nem1-Spo7/Pah1 phosphatase cascade plays a major role in triacylglycerol synthesis and in the regulation of phospholipid synthesis. In this work, we examined Spo7, a regulatory subunit required for Nem1 catalytic function, to identify residues that govern formation of the Nem1-Spo7 complex. By deletion analysis of Spo7, we identified a hydrophobic Leu-Leu-Ile (LLI) sequence comprising residues 54-56 as being required for the protein to complement the temperature-sensitive phenotype of an spo7Δ mutant strain. Mutational analysis of the LLI sequence with alanine and arginine substitutions showed that its overall hydrophobicity is crucial for the formation of the Nem1-Spo7 complex as well as for the Nem1 catalytic function on its substrate, Pah1, in vivo Consistent with the role of the Nem1-Spo7 complex in activating the function of Pah1, we found that the mutational effects of the Spo7 LLI sequence were on the Nem1-Spo7/Pah1 axis that controls lipid synthesis and related cellular processes (e.g. triacylglycerol/phospholipid synthesis, lipid droplet formation, nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane morphology, vacuole fusion, and growth on glycerol medium). These findings advance the understanding of Nem1-Spo7 complex formation and its role in the phosphatase cascade that regulates the function of Pah1 phosphatidate phosphatase.
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- Mona Mirheydari
- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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Kwiatek JM, Carman GM. Yeast phosphatidic acid phosphatase Pah1 hops and scoots along the membrane phospholipid bilayer. J Lipid Res 2020; 61:1232-1243. [PMID: 32540926 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.ra120000937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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PA phosphatase, encoded by PAH1 in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, catalyzes the Mg2+-dependent dephosphorylation of PA, producing DAG at the nuclear/ER membrane. This enzyme plays a major role in triacylglycerol synthesis and in the regulation of phospholipid synthesis. As an interfacial enzyme, PA phosphatase interacts with the membrane surface, binds its substrate, and catalyzes its reaction. The Triton X-100/PA-mixed micellar system has been utilized to examine the activity and regulation of yeast PA phosphatase. This system, however, does not resemble the in vivo environment of the membrane phospholipid bilayer. We developed an assay system that mimics the nuclear/ER membrane to assess PA phosphatase activity. PA was incorporated into unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) composed of the major nuclear/ER membrane phospholipids, PC, PE, PI, and PS. We optimized this system to support enzyme-liposome interactions and to afford activity that is greater than that obtained with the aforementioned detergent system. Activity was regulated by phospholipid composition, whereas the enzyme's interaction with liposomes was insensitive to composition. Greater activity was attained with large (≥100 nm) versus small (50 nm) vesicles. The fatty-acyl moiety of PA had no effect on this activity. PA phosphatase activity was dependent on the bulk (hopping mode) and surface (scooting mode) concentrations of PA, suggesting a mechanism by which the enzyme operates along the nuclear/ER membrane in vivo.
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- Joanna M Kwiatek
- Department of Food Science and Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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- Department of Food Science and Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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Nagappan S, Devendran S, Tsai PC, Jayaraman H, Alagarsamy V, Pugazhendhi A, Ponnusamy VK. Metabolomics integrated with transcriptomics and proteomics: Evaluation of systems reaction to nitrogen deficiency stress in microalgae. Process Biochem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2019.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Ranganathan PR, Nawada N, Narayanan AK, Rao DKV. Triglyceride deficiency and diacylglycerol kinase1 activity lead to the upregulation of mevalonate pathway in yeast: A study for the development of potential yeast platform for improved production of triterpenoid. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2020; 1865:158661. [PMID: 32058036 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2020.158661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 02/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Besides energy storage and membrane biogenesis, lipids are known for their numerous biological functions. The two essential lipids, diacylglycerol (DG) and phosphatidic acid (PA), are shown to be associated with cell signalling processes. In this study, we examined whether triglyceride-deficient yeast mutants (tgΔ), dga1Δ and dga1Δlro1Δ, may play an important role in mevalonate (MEV) pathway regulation. Our metabolite analyses revealed that tgΔ cells showed high levels of squalene (SQ) and ergosterol (ERG), which are key indicators of MEV pathway activity. In addition, gene expression studies indicated that the MEV pathway genes in tgΔ cells were significantly upregulated. Interestingly, tgΔ cells exhibited high diacylglycerol kinase1 (DGK1) expression. Furthermore, DGK1 overexpression in WT and tgΔ phenotypes causes a substantial elevation in SQ and ERG levels, and we also found a significant increase in transcript levels of MEV pathway genes, confirming the new role of DGK1 in MEV pathway regulation. This suggests that high DG phosphorylation activity increases the PA pool that may induce the upregulation of MEV pathway in tgΔ cells. The induced MEV pathway is one of the key strategies in the field of synthetic biology for improved production of terpenoids in yeast. Thus, to examine whether increased endogenous MEV pathway flux can be redirected to triterpenoid, β-Amyrin synthase gene was heterologously expressed in DGK1 overexpressing tgΔ cells that led to significant production of β-Amyrin, a natural triterpenoid. In conclusion, our findings provide a novel strategy to increase MEV pathway precursors by modulating endogenous signal lipids for improved production of terpenoids.
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- Poornima Ramani Ranganathan
- Biochemistry Laboratory, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Research Center, Allalasandra, GKVK (post), Bangalore 560065, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Sector 19, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201 002, India
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- Biochemistry Laboratory, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Research Center, Allalasandra, GKVK (post), Bangalore 560065, India
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- Biochemistry Laboratory, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Research Center, Allalasandra, GKVK (post), Bangalore 560065, India
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- Biochemistry Laboratory, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Research Center, Allalasandra, GKVK (post), Bangalore 560065, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Sector 19, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201 002, India.
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Kwiatek JM, Han GS, Carman GM. Phosphatidate-mediated regulation of lipid synthesis at the nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2020; 1865:158434. [PMID: 30910690 PMCID: PMC6755077 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2019.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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In yeast and higher eukaryotes, phospholipids and triacylglycerol are derived from phosphatidate at the nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane. In de novo biosynthetic pathways, phosphatidate is channeled into membrane phospholipids via its conversion to CDP-diacylglycerol. Its dephosphorylation to diacylglycerol is required for the synthesis of triacylglycerol as well as for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine via the Kennedy pathway. In addition to the role of phosphatidate as a precursor, it is a regulatory molecule in the transcriptional control of phospholipid synthesis genes via the Henry regulatory circuit. Pah1 phosphatidate phosphatase and Dgk1 diacylglycerol kinase are key players that function counteractively in the control of the phosphatidate level at the nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Loss of Pah1 phosphatidate phosphatase activity not only affects triacylglycerol synthesis but also disturbs the balance of the phosphatidate level, resulting in the alteration of lipid synthesis and related cellular defects. The pah1Δ phenotypes requiring Dgk1 diacylglycerol kinase exemplify the importance of the phosphatidate level in the misregulation of cellular processes. The catalytic function of Pah1 requires its translocation from the cytoplasm to the nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum membrane, which is regulated through its phosphorylation in the cytoplasm by multiple protein kinases as well as through its dephosphorylation by the membrane-associated Nem1-Spo7 protein phosphatase complex. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Endoplasmic reticulum platforms for lipid dynamics edited by Shamshad Cockcroft and Christopher Stefan.
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- Joanna M Kwiatek
- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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Geltinger F, Tevini J, Briza P, Geiser A, Bischof J, Richter K, Felder T, Rinnerthaler M. The transfer of specific mitochondrial lipids and proteins to lipid droplets contributes to proteostasis upon stress and aging in the eukaryotic model system Saccharomyces cerevisiae. GeroScience 2019; 42:19-38. [PMID: 31676965 PMCID: PMC7031196 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-019-00103-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Originally Lipid droplets (LDs) were considered as being droplets for lipid storage only. Increasing evidence, however, demonstrates that LDs fulfill a pleiotropy of additional functions. Among them is the modulation of protein as well as lipid homeostasis. Under unfavorable pro-oxidative conditions, proteins can form aggregates which may exceed the overall proteolytic capacity of the proteasome. After stress termination LDs can adjust and support the removal of these aggregates. Additionally, LDs interact with mitochondria, specifically take over certain proteins and thus prevent apoptosis. LDs, which are loaded with these harmful proteins, are subsequently eliminated via lipophagy. Recently it was demonstrated that this autophagic process is a modulator of longevity. LDs do not only eliminate potentially dangerous proteins, but they are also able to prevent lipotoxicity by storing specific lipids. In the present study we used the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae to compare the proteome as well as lipidome of mitochondria and LDs under different conditions: replicative aging, stress and apoptosis. In this context we found an accumulation of proteins at LDs, supporting the role of LDs in proteostasis. Additionally, the composition of main lipid classes such as phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylinositols, phosphatidylglycerols, triacylglycerols, ceramides, phosphatidic acids and ergosterol of LDs and mitochondria changed during stress conditions and aging.
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- Florian Geltinger
- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
- Obesity Research Unit, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
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Medkour Y, Mohammad K, Arlia-Ciommo A, Svistkova V, Dakik P, Mitrofanova D, Rodriguez MEL, Junio JAB, Taifour T, Escudero P, Goltsios FF, Soodbakhsh S, Maalaoui H, Simard É, Titorenko VI. Mechanisms by which PE21, an extract from the white willow Salix alba, delays chronological aging in budding yeast. Oncotarget 2019; 10:5780-5816. [PMID: 31645900 PMCID: PMC6791382 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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We have recently found that PE21, an extract from the white willow Salix alba, slows chronological aging and prolongs longevity of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae more efficiently than any of the previously known pharmacological interventions. Here, we investigated mechanisms through which PE21 delays yeast chronological aging and extends yeast longevity. We show that PE21 causes a remodeling of lipid metabolism in chronologically aging yeast, thereby instigating changes in the concentrations of several lipid classes. We demonstrate that such changes in the cellular lipidome initiate three mechanisms of aging delay and longevity extension. The first mechanism through which PE21 slows aging and prolongs longevity consists in its ability to decrease the intracellular concentration of free fatty acids. This postpones an age-related onset of liponecrotic cell death promoted by excessive concentrations of free fatty acids. The second mechanism of aging delay and longevity extension by PE21 consists in its ability to decrease the concentrations of triacylglycerols and to increase the concentrations of glycerophospholipids within the endoplasmic reticulum membrane. This activates the unfolded protein response system in the endoplasmic reticulum, which then decelerates an age-related decline in protein and lipid homeostasis and slows down an aging-associated deterioration of cell resistance to stress. The third mechanisms underlying aging delay and longevity extension by PE21 consists in its ability to change lipid concentrations in the mitochondrial membranes. This alters certain catabolic and anabolic processes in mitochondria, thus amending the pattern of aging-associated changes in several key aspects of mitochondrial functionality.
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- Younes Medkour
- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Idunn Technologies Inc., Rosemere, Quebec J7A 4A5, Canada
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Cell organelles and yeast longevity: an intertwined regulation. Curr Genet 2019; 66:15-41. [PMID: 31535186 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-019-01035-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 09/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Organelles are dynamic structures of a eukaryotic cell that compartmentalize various essential functions and regulate optimum functioning. On the other hand, ageing is an inevitable phenomenon that leads to irreversible cellular damage and affects optimum functioning of cells. Recent research shows compelling evidence that connects organelle dysfunction to ageing-related diseases/disorders. Studies in several model systems including yeast have led to seminal contributions to the field of ageing in uncovering novel pathways, proteins and their functions, identification of pro- and anti-ageing factors and so on. In this review, we present a comprehensive overview of findings that highlight the role of organelles in ageing and ageing-associated functions/pathways in yeast.
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Fan J, Yu L, Xu C. Dual Role for Autophagy in Lipid Metabolism in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2019; 31:1598-1613. [PMID: 31036588 PMCID: PMC6635848 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.19.00170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 04/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Autophagy is a major catabolic pathway whereby cytoplasmic constituents including lipid droplets (LDs), storage compartments for neutral lipids, are delivered to the lysosome or vacuole for degradation. The autophagic degradation of cytosolic LDs, a process termed lipophagy, has been extensively studied in yeast and mammals, but little is known about the role for autophagy in lipid metabolism in plants. Organisms maintain a basal level of autophagy under favorable conditions and upregulate the autophagic activity under stress including starvation. Here, we demonstrate that Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) basal autophagy contributes to triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis, whereas inducible autophagy contributes to LD degradation. We found that disruption of basal autophagy impedes organellar membrane lipid turnover and hence fatty acid mobilization from membrane lipids to TAG. We show that lipophagy is induced under starvation as indicated by colocalization of LDs with the autophagic marker and the presence of LDs in vacuoles. We additionally show that lipophagy occurs in a process morphologically resembling microlipophagy and requires the core components of the macroautophagic machinery. Together, this study provides mechanistic insight into lipophagy and reveals a dual role for autophagy in regulating lipid synthesis and turnover in plants.
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- Jilian Fan
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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Ganesan S, Sosa Ponce ML, Tavassoli M, Shabits BN, Mahadeo M, Prenner EJ, Terebiznik MR, Zaremberg V. Metabolic control of cytosolic-facing pools of diacylglycerol in budding yeast. Traffic 2019; 20:226-245. [PMID: 30569465 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2018] [Revised: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Diacylglycerol (DAG) is a key signaling lipid and intermediate in lipid metabolism. Our knowledge of DAG distribution and dynamics in cell membranes is limited. Using live-cell fluorescence microscopy we investigated the localization of yeast cytosolic-facing pools of DAG in response to conditions where lipid homeostasis and DAG levels were known to be altered. Two main pools were monitored over time using DAG sensors. One pool was associated with vacuolar membranes and the other localized to sites of polarized growth. Dynamic changes in DAG distribution were observed during resumption of growth from stationary phase, when DAG is used to support phospholipid synthesis for membrane proliferation. Vacuolar membranes experienced constant morphological changes displaying DAG enriched microdomains coexisting with liquid-disordered areas demarcated by Vph1. Formation of these domains was dependent on triacylglycerol (TAG) lipolysis. DAG domains and puncta were closely connected to lipid droplets. Lack of conversion of DAG to phosphatidate in growth conditions dependent on TAG mobilization, led to the accumulation of DAG in a vacuolar-associated compartment, impacting the polarized distribution of DAG at budding sites. DAG polarization was also regulated by phosphatidylserine synthesis/traffic and sphingolipid synthesis in the Golgi.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Cell and System Biology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Shukla S, Pillai AN, Rahaman A. A putative NEM1 homologue regulates lipid droplet biogenesis via PAH1 in Tetrahymena thermophila. J Biosci 2018; 43:693-706. [PMID: 30207315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Nuclear envelope morphology protein 1 (NEM1) along with a phosphatidate phosphatase (PAH1) regulates lipid homeostasis and membrane biogenesis in yeast and mammals. We investigated four putative NEM1 homologues (TtNEM1A, TtNEM1B, TtNEM1C and TtNEM1D) in the Tetrahymena thermophila genome. Disruption of TtNEM1B, TtNEM1C or TtNEM1D did not compromise normal cell growth. In contrast, we were unable to generate knockout strain of TtNEM1A under the same conditions, indicating that TtNEM1A is essential for Tetrahymena growth. Interestingly, loss of TtNEM1B but not TtNEM1C or TtNEM1D caused a reduction in lipid droplet number. Similar to yeast and mammals, TtNem1B of Tetrahymena exerts its function via Pah1, since we found that PAH1 overexpression rescued loss of Nem1 function. However, unlike NEM1 in other organisms, TtNEM1B does not regulate ER/nuclear morphology. Similarly, neither TtNEM1C nor TtNEM1D is required to maintain normal ER morphology. While Tetrahymena PAH1 was shown to functionally replace yeast PAH1 earlier, we observed that Tetrahymena NEM1 homologues did not functionally replace yeast NEM1. Overall, our results suggest the presence of a conserved cascade for regulation of lipid homeostasis and membrane biogenesis in Tetrahymena. Our results also suggest a Nem1-independent function of Pah1 in the regulation of ER morphology in Tetrahymena.
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- Sushmita Shukla
- National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, HBNI, P.O. Jatni, Khurda, Odisha 752 050, India
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A putative NEM1 homologue regulates lipid droplet biogenesis via PAH1 in Tetrahymena thermophila. J Biosci 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s12038-018-9794-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Garcia EJ, Vevea JD, Pon LA. Lipid droplet autophagy during energy mobilization, lipid homeostasis and protein quality control. Front Biosci (Landmark Ed) 2018; 23:1552-1563. [PMID: 29293450 DOI: 10.2741/4660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Lipid droplets (LDs) have well-established functions as sites for lipid storage and energy mobilization to meet the metabolic demands of cells. However, recent studies have expanded the roles of LDs to protein quality control. Lipophagy, or LD degradation by autophagy, plays a vital role not only in the mobilization of free fatty acids (FFAs) and lipid homeostasis at LDs, but also in the adaptation of cells to certain forms of stress including lipid imbalance. Recent studies have provided new mechanistic insights about the diverse types of lipophagy, in particular microlipophagy. This review summarizes key findings about the mechanisms and functions of lipophagy and highlights a novel function of LD microlipophagy as a mechanism to maintain endoplasmic reticulum (ER) proteostasis under conditions of lipid imbalance.
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- Enrique J Garcia
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032 USA
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- HHMI and Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53705 USA
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032 USA,
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M NK, V B S C T, B CS, J S B. Saccharomyces cerevisiae lipid droplet associated enzyme Ypr147cp shows both TAG lipase and ester hydrolase activities. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2018; 64:76-83. [PMID: 29491250 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2017.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ypr147cp was found localized to lipid droplets but the physiological role of Ypr147cp remains unknown. Sequence analysis of Ypr147cp revealed an α/β hydrolase domain along with the conserved GXSXG lipase motif. Recombinant Ypr147cp showed both triacylglycerol lipase and ester hydrolase activities. Knock out of YPR147C led to accumulation of TAG in ypr147cΔ when compared to wild type (WT). In addition, transmission electron microscopic analysis of ypr147cΔ cells revealed a greater number of lipid bodies, justifying the increase in TAG content, and the phenotype was rescued upon overexpression of YPR147C in ypr147cΔ. Moreover, the lipid profiling confirmed the accumulation of fatty acids derived from neutral and phospholipids in ypr147cΔ cells. Based on these results, Ypr147cp is identified as a lipid droplet associated triacylglycerol lipase along with an ester hydrolyzing capacity.
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Single Cell Oils (SCOs) of Oleaginous Filamentous Fungi as a Renewable Feedstock: A Biodiesel Biorefinery Approach. Fungal Biol 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90379-8_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Dolch LJ, Lupette J, Tourcier G, Bedhomme M, Collin S, Magneschi L, Conte M, Seddiki K, Richard C, Corre E, Fourage L, Laeuffer F, Richards R, Reith M, Rébeillé F, Jouhet J, McGinn P, Maréchal E. Nitric Oxide Mediates Nitrite-Sensing and Acclimation and Triggers a Remodeling of Lipids. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 175:1407-1423. [PMID: 28924015 PMCID: PMC5664477 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is an intermediate of the nitrogen cycle, an industrial pollutant, and a marker of climate change. NO also acts as a gaseous transmitter in a variety of biological processes. The impact of environmental NO needs to be addressed. In diatoms, a dominant phylum in phytoplankton, NO was reported to mediate programmed cell death in response to diatom-derived polyunsaturated aldehydes. Here, using the Phaeodactylum Pt1 strain, 2E,4E-decadienal supplied in the micromolar concentration range led to a nonspecific cell toxicity. We reexamined NO biosynthesis and response in Phaeodactylum NO inhibits cell growth and triggers triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation. Feeding experiments indicate that NO is not produced from Arg but via conversion of nitrite by the nitrate reductase. Genome-wide transcriptional analysis shows that NO up-regulates the expression of the plastid nitrite reductase and genes involved in the subsequent incorporation of ammonium into amino acids, via both Gln synthesis and Orn-urea pathway. The phosphoenolpyruvate dehydrogenase complex is also up-regulated, leading to the production of acetyl-CoA, which can feed TAG accumulation upon exposure to NO. Transcriptional reprogramming leading to higher TAG content is balanced with a decrease of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) in the plastid via posttranslational inhibition of MGDG synthase enzymatic activity by NO. Intracellular and transient NO emission acts therefore at the basis of a nitrite-sensing and acclimating system, whereas a long exposure to NO can additionally induce a redirection of carbon to neutral lipids and a stress response.
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- Lina-Juana Dolch
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
- Total Refining Chemicals, Tour Michelet, 24 Cours Michelet - La Défense 10, 92069 Paris La Défense Cedex, France
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- Total Refining Chemicals, Tour Michelet, 24 Cours Michelet - La Défense 10, 92069 Paris La Défense Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Analyses and Bioinformatics for Marine Science, 29680 Roscoff, France
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- Total Refining Chemicals, Tour Michelet, 24 Cours Michelet - La Défense 10, 92069 Paris La Défense Cedex, France
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- Total Refining Chemicals, Tour Michelet, 24 Cours Michelet - La Défense 10, 92069 Paris La Défense Cedex, France
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- National Research Council of Canada, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H3Z1, Canada
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- National Research Council of Canada, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H3Z1, Canada
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- National Research Council of Canada, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H3Z1, Canada
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Unité mixte de recherche 5168 CNRS - CEA - INRA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biosciences Biotechnologies de Grenoble, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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Yadav PK, Rajvanshi PK, Rajasekharan R. The role of yeast m 6A methyltransferase in peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation. Curr Genet 2017; 64:417-422. [PMID: 29043484 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-017-0769-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Revised: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 10/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The precise and controlled regulation of gene expression at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels is crucial for the eukaryotic cell survival and functions. In eukaryotes, more than 100 types of post-transcriptional RNA modifications have been identified. The N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification in mRNA is among the most common post-transcriptional RNA modifications known in eukaryotic organisms, and the m6A RNA modification can regulate gene expression. The role of yeast m6A methyltransferase (Ime4) in meiosis, sporulation, triacylglycerol metabolism, vacuolar morphology, and mitochondrial functions has been reported. Stress triggers triacylglycerol accumulation as lipid droplets. Lipid droplets are physically connected to the different organelles such as endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and peroxisomes. However, the physiological relevance of these physical interactions remains poorly understood. In yeast, peroxisome is the sole site of fatty acid β-oxidation. The metabolic status of the cell readily governs the number and physiological function of peroxisomes. Under low-glucose or stationary-phase conditions, peroxisome biogenesis and proliferation increase in the cells. Therefore, we hypothesized a possible role of Ime4 in the peroxisomal functions. There is no report on the role of Ime4 in peroxisomal biology. Here, we report that IME4 gene deletion causes peroxisomal dysfunction under stationary-phase conditions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae; besides, the ime4Δ cells showed a significant decrease in the expression of the key genes involved in peroxisomal β-oxidation compared to the wild-type cells. Therefore, identification and determination of the target genes of Ime4 that are directly involved in the peroxisomal biogenesis, morphology, and functions will pave the way to better understand the role of m6A methylation in peroxisomal biology.
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- Pradeep Kumar Yadav
- Lipidomic Centre, Department of Lipid Science, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mysore, Karnataka, 570020, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore, India
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- Lipidomic Centre, Department of Lipid Science, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mysore, Karnataka, 570020, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore, India
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- Lipidomic Centre, Department of Lipid Science, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mysore, Karnataka, 570020, India. .,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore, India.
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Rajvanshi PK, Arya M, Rajasekharan R. The stress-regulatory transcription factors Msn2 and Msn4 regulate fatty acid oxidation in budding yeast. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:18628-18643. [PMID: 28924051 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.801704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Revised: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The transcription factors Msn2 and Msn4 (multicopy suppressor of SNF1 mutation proteins 2 and 4) bind the stress-response element in gene promoters in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae However, the roles of Msn2/4 in primary metabolic pathways such as fatty acid β-oxidation are unclear. Here, in silico analysis revealed that the promoters of most genes involved in the biogenesis, function, and regulation of the peroxisome contain Msn2/4-binding sites. We also found that transcript levels of MSN2/MSN4 are increased in glucose-depletion conditions and that during growth in nonpreferred carbon sources, Msn2 is constantly localized to the nucleus in wild-type cells. Of note, the double mutant msn2Δmsn4Δ exhibited a severe growth defect when grown with oleic acid as the sole carbon source and had reduced transcript levels of major β-oxidation genes. ChIP indicated that Msn2 has increased occupancy on the promoters of β-oxidation genes in glucose-depleted conditions, and in vivo reporter gene analysis indicated reduced expression of these genes in msn2Δmsn4Δ cells. Moreover, mobility shift assays revealed that Msn4 binds β-oxidation gene promoters. Immunofluorescence microscopy with anti-peroxisome membrane protein antibodies disclosed that the msn2Δmsn4Δ strain had fewer peroxisomes than the wild type, and lipid analysis indicated that the msn2Δmsn4Δ strain had increased triacylglycerol and steryl ester levels. Collectively, our data suggest that Msn2/Msn4 transcription factors activate expression of the genes involved in fatty acid oxidation. Because glucose sensing, signaling, and fatty acid β-oxidation pathways are evolutionarily conserved throughout eukaryotes, the msn2Δmsn4Δ strain could therefore be a good model system for further study of these critical processes.
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- Praveen Kumar Rajvanshi
- From the Department of Lipid Science of the Lipidomic Centre and.,the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru 570020, Karnataka, India
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- From the Department of Lipid Science of the Lipidomic Centre and.,the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru 570020, Karnataka, India
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- From the Department of Lipid Science of the Lipidomic Centre and .,the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru 570020, Karnataka, India
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Combinatorial Engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica as a Promising Cell Biorefinery Platform for the de novo Production of Multi-Purpose Long Chain Dicarboxylic Acids. FERMENTATION-BASEL 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/fermentation3030040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Carman GM, Han GS. Phosphatidate phosphatase regulates membrane phospholipid synthesis via phosphatidylserine synthase. Adv Biol Regul 2017; 67:49-58. [PMID: 28827025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbior.2017.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 08/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae serves as a model eukaryote to elucidate the regulation of lipid metabolism. In exponentially growing yeast, a diverse set of membrane lipids are synthesized from the precursor phosphatidate via the liponucleotide intermediate CDP-diacylglycerol. As cells exhaust nutrients and progress into the stationary phase, phosphatidate is channeled via diacylglycerol to the synthesis of triacylglycerol. The CHO1-encoded phosphatidylserine synthase, which catalyzes the committed step in membrane phospholipid synthesis via CDP-diacylglycerol, and the PAH1-encoded phosphatidate phosphatase, which catalyzes the committed step in triacylglycerol synthesis are regulated throughout cell growth by genetic and biochemical mechanisms to control the balanced synthesis of membrane phospholipids and triacylglycerol. The loss of phosphatidate phosphatase activity (e.g., pah1Δ mutation) increases the level of phosphatidate and its conversion to membrane phospholipids by inducing Cho1 expression and phosphatidylserine synthase activity. The regulation of the CHO1 expression is mediated through the inositol-sensitive upstream activation sequence (UASINO), a cis-acting element for the phosphatidate-controlled Henry (Ino2-Ino4/Opi1) regulatory circuit. Consequently, phosphatidate phosphatase activity regulates phospholipid synthesis through the transcriptional regulation of the phosphatidylserine synthase enzyme.
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- George M Carman
- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States.
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- Department of Food Science and the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States
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Increasing demand for plant oil for food, feed, and fuel production has led to food-fuel competition, higher plant lipid cost, and more need for agricultural land. On the other hand, the growing global production of biodiesel has increased the production of glycerol as a by-product. Efficient utilization of this by-product can reduce biodiesel production costs. We engineered Yarrowia lipolytica (Y. lipolytica) at various metabolic levels of lipid biosynthesis, degradation, and regulation for enhanced lipid and citric acid production. We used a one-step double gene knock-in and site-specific gene knock-out strategy. The resulting final strain combines the overexpression of homologous DGA1 and DGA2 in a POX-deleted background, and deletion of the SNF1 lipid regulator. This increased lipid and citric acid production in the strain under nitrogen-limiting conditions (C/N molar ratio of 60). The engineered strain constitutively accumulated lipid at a titer of more than 4.8 g/L with a lipid content of 53% of dry cell weight (DCW). The secreted citric acid reached a yield of 0.75 g/g (up to ~45 g/L) from pure glycerol in 3 days of batch fermentation using a 1-L bioreactor. This yeast cell factory was capable of simultaneous lipid accumulation and citric acid secretion. It can be used in fed-batch or continuous bioprocessing for citric acid recovery from the supernatant, along with lipid extraction from the harvested biomass.
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Takahashi S, Sato N, Kikuchi J, Kakinuma H, Okawa J, Masuyama Y, Iwasa S, Irokawa H, Hwang GW, Naganuma A, Kohara M, Kuge S. Immature Core protein of hepatitis C virus induces an unfolded protein response through inhibition of ERAD-L in a yeast model system. Genes Cells 2017; 22:160-173. [PMID: 28097745 DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The structural protein Core of hepatitis C virus (HCV), a cytosolic protein, induces endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and unfolded protein response (UPR) in hepatocytes, and is responsible for the pathogenesis of persistent HCV infection. Using yeast as a model system, we evaluated mechanisms underlying Core-induced interference of ER homeostasis and UPR, and found that UPR is induced by the immature Core (aa 1-191, Core191) but not by the mature Core (aa 1-177, Core177). Interestingly, Core191 inhibits both ERAD-L, a degradation system responsible for misfolded/unfolded proteins in the ER lumen, and ERAD-M, a degradation system responsible for proteins carrying a misfolded/unfolded region in the ER membrane. In contrast, Core177 inhibits ERAD-M but not ERAD-L. In addition, requirement of an unfolded protein sensor in the ER lumen suggested that inhibition of ERAD-L is probably responsible for Core191-dependent UPR activation. These results implicate inadequate maturation of Core as a trigger for induction of ER stress and UPR.
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- Shota Takahashi
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 981-8558, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 981-8558, Japan.,Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 981-8558, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 981-8558, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8506, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 981-8558, Japan.,Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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Cristobal-Sarramian A, Radulovic M, Kohlwein S. Methods to Measure Lipophagy in Yeast. Methods Enzymol 2017; 588:395-412. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.09.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Lipidomics-Reshaping the Analysis and Perception of Type 2 Diabetes. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:ijms17111841. [PMID: 27827927 PMCID: PMC5133841 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17111841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2016] [Revised: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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As a consequence of a sedentary lifestyle as well as changed nutritional behavior, today's societies are challenged by the rapid propagation of metabolic disorders. A common feature of diseases, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D), is the dysregulation of lipid metabolism. Our understanding of the mechanisms underlying these diseases is hampered by the complexity of lipid metabolic pathways on a cellular level. Furthermore, overall lipid homeostasis in higher eukaryotic organisms needs to be maintained by a highly regulated interplay between tissues, such as adipose tissue, liver and muscle. Unraveling pathological mechanisms underlying metabolic disorders therefore requires a diversified approach, integrating basic cellular research with clinical research, ultimately relying on the analytical power of mass spectrometry-based techniques. Here, we discuss recent progress in the development of lipidomics approaches to resolve the pathological mechanisms of metabolic diseases and to identify suitable biomarkers for clinical application. Due to its growing impact worldwide, we focus on T2D to highlight the key role of lipidomics in our current understanding of this disease, discuss remaining questions and suggest future strategies to address them.
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Gajdoš P, Nicaud JM, Čertík M. Glycerol conversion into a single cell oil by engineered Yarrowia lipolytica. Eng Life Sci 2016; 17:325-332. [PMID: 32624778 DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201600065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2016] [Revised: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 07/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Oleaginous yeasts are considered as natural single cell oil producers. Engineering the lipid biosynthetic pathway has the potential to increase lipid accumulation by these yeasts. In Yarrowia lipolytica, three diacylglycerol acyltransferases encoded by LRO1, DGA1, and DGA2 genes are involved in lipid formation. Strain JMY3580 was constructed by overexpressing DGA2 gene in Q4 strain (dga1Δ dga2Δ lro1Δ are1Δ). Reconstruction of triacylglycerol synthesis pathway led to significant improvement in lipid accumulation. Strain JMY3580 accumulated over 40% of lipids in biomass, while lipid accumulation in wild-type strain was not able to exceed 20% when grown on a glycerol-based medium with carbon to nitrogen ratio of 90. Higher lipid accumulation (over 50%) was achieved in fed-batch grown cells when glycerol was added during cultivation. The best biomass yield was 18.5 g/L after 144 h with total fatty acid yield 9.9 g/L. Fatty acid composition was altered when Dga2p was the only diacylglycerol acyltransferase present in yeast cells, especially lower percentage of linoleic acid was present in lipids of JMY3580. Microbial oil prepared by conversion of glycerol by genetically engineered Y. lipolytica could be applied for various value-added products based on single cell oils.
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- Peter Gajdoš
- Department of Biochemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology Slovak University of Technology Bratislava Slovakia
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech Université Paris-Saclay Jouy-en-Josas France
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- Department of Biochemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology Slovak University of Technology Bratislava Slovakia
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Current advances in molecular, biochemical, and computational modeling analysis of microalgal triacylglycerol biosynthesis. Biotechnol Adv 2016; 34:1046-1063. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2016.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Revised: 06/08/2016] [Accepted: 06/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Lipidomics is a rapidly growing technology for identification and quantification of a variety of cellular lipid molecules. Following the successful development and application of functional genomic technologies in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we witness a recent expansion of lipidomics applications in this model organism. The applications include detailed characterization of the yeast lipidome as well as screening for perturbed lipid phenotypes across hundreds of yeast gene deletion mutants. In this chapter, we describe sample handling, mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics methods developed for yeast lipidomics studies.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3T 1J4.
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Iwasa S, Sato N, Wang CW, Cheng YH, Irokawa H, Hwang GW, Naganuma A, Kuge S. The Phospholipid:Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase Lro1 Is Responsible for Hepatitis C Virus Core-Induced Lipid Droplet Formation in a Yeast Model System. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0159324. [PMID: 27459103 PMCID: PMC4961368 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2015] [Accepted: 06/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus frequently induces steatosis, which is a significant risk factor for liver pathogenesis. Steatosis is characterized by the accumulation of lipid droplets in hepatocytes. The structural protein core of the virus induces lipid droplet formation and localizes on the surface of the lipid droplets. However, the precise molecular mechanisms for the core-induced formation of lipid droplets remain elusive. Recently, we showed that the expression of the core protein in yeast as a model system could induce lipid droplet formation. In this study, we probed the cellular factors responsible for the formation of core-induced lipid-droplets in yeast cells. We demonstrated that one of the enzymes responsible for triglyceride synthesis, a phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (Lro1), is required for the core-induced lipid droplet formation. While core proteins inhibit Lro1 degradation and alter Lro1 localization, the characteristic localization of Lro1 adjacent to the lipid droplets appeared to be responsible for the core-induced lipid droplet formation. RNA virus genomes have evolved using high mutation rates to maintain their ability to replicate. Our observations suggest a functional relationship between the core protein with hepatocytes and yeast cells. The possible interactions between core proteins and the endoplasmic reticulum membrane affect the mobilization of specific proteins.
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- Shingo Iwasa
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, 981–8558, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, 981–8558, Japan
- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980–8578, Japan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, 981–8558, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980–8578, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980–8578, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, 981–8558, Japan
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Yang PL, Hsu TH, Wang CW, Chen RH. Lipid droplets maintain lipid homeostasis during anaphase for efficient cell separation in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2016; 27:2368-80. [PMID: 27307588 PMCID: PMC4966979 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e16-02-0106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Accepted: 06/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The neutral lipids steryl ester and triacylglycerol (TAG) are stored in the membrane-bound organelle lipid droplet (LD) in essentially all eukaryotic cells. It is unclear what physiological conditions require the mobilization or storage of these lipids. Here, we study the budding yeast mutant are1Δ are2Δ dga1Δ lro1Δ, which cannot synthesize the neutral lipids and therefore lacks LDs. This quadruple mutant is delayed at cell separation upon release from mitotic arrest. The cells have abnormal septa, unstable septin assembly during cytokinesis, and prolonged exocytosis at the division site at the end of cytokinesis. Lipidomic analysis shows a marked increase of diacylglycerol (DAG) and phosphatidic acid, the precursors for TAG, in the mutant during mitotic exit. The cytokinesis and separation defects are rescued by adding phospholipid precursors or inhibiting fatty acid synthesis, which both reduce DAG levels. Our results suggest that converting excess lipids to neutral lipids for storage during mitotic exit is important for proper execution of cytokinesis and efficient cell separation.
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- Po-Lin Yang
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Li X, Handee W, Kuo MH. The slim, the fat, and the obese: guess who lives the longest? Curr Genet 2016; 63:43-49. [DOI: 10.1007/s00294-016-0617-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2016] [Revised: 05/16/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Meyers A, Del Rio ZP, Beaver RA, Morris RM, Weiskittel TM, Alshibli AK, Mannik J, Morrell-Falvey J, Dalhaimer P. Lipid Droplets Form from Distinct Regions of the Cell in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Traffic 2016; 17:657-69. [PMID: 26990381 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2015] [Revised: 03/11/2016] [Accepted: 03/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Eukaryotic cells store cholesterol/sterol esters (SEs) and triacylglycerols (TAGs) in lipid droplets, which form from the contiguous endoplasmic reticulum (ER) network. However, it is not known if droplets preferentially form from certain regions of the ER over others. Here, we used fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells where the nuclear and cortical/peripheral ER domains are distinguishable by light microscopy to show that SE-enriched lipid droplets form away from the nucleus at the cell tips, whereas TAG-enriched lipid droplets form around the nucleus. Sterols localize to the regions of the cells where droplets enriched in SEs are observed. TAG droplet formation around the nucleus appears to be a strong function of diacylglycerol (DAG) homeostasis with Cpt1p, which coverts DAG into phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine localized exclusively to the nuclear ER. Also, Dgk1p, which converts DAG into phosphatidic acid localized strongly to the nuclear ER over the cortical/peripheral ER. We also show that TAG more readily translocates from the ER to lipid droplets than do SEs. The results augment the standard lipid droplet formation model, which has SEs and TAGs flowing into the same nascent lipid droplet regardless of its biogenesis point in the cell.
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- Alex Meyers
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.,Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Xu C, Shanklin J. Triacylglycerol Metabolism, Function, and Accumulation in Plant Vegetative Tissues. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 67:179-206. [PMID: 26845499 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-043015-111641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Oils in the form of triacylglycerols are the most abundant energy-dense storage compounds in eukaryotes, and their metabolism plays a key role in cellular energy balance, lipid homeostasis, growth, and maintenance. Plants accumulate oils primarily in seeds and fruits. Plant oils are used for food and feed and, increasingly, as feedstocks for biodiesel and industrial chemicals. Although plant vegetative tissues do not accumulate significant levels of triacylglycerols, they possess a high capacity for their synthesis, storage, and metabolism. The development of plants that accumulate oil in vegetative tissues presents an opportunity for expanded production of triacylglycerols as a renewable and sustainable bioenergy source. Here, we review recent progress in the understanding of triacylglycerol synthesis, turnover, storage, and function in leaves and discuss emerging genetic engineering strategies targeted at enhancing triacylglycerol accumulation in biomass crops. Such plants could potentially be modified to produce oleochemical feedstocks or nutraceuticals.
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- Changcheng Xu
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973; ,
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973; ,
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Malitsky S, Ziv C, Rosenwasser S, Zheng S, Schatz D, Porat Z, Ben-Dor S, Aharoni A, Vardi A. Viral infection of the marine alga Emiliania huxleyi triggers lipidome remodeling and induces the production of highly saturated triacylglycerol. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 210:88-96. [PMID: 26856244 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2015] [Accepted: 12/15/2015] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Viruses that infect marine photosynthetic microorganisms are major ecological and evolutionary drivers of microbial food webs, estimated to turn over more than a quarter of the total photosynthetically fixed carbon. Viral infection of the bloom-forming microalga Emiliania huxleyi induces the rapid remodeling of host primary metabolism, targeted towards fatty acid metabolism. We applied a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based lipidomics approach combined with imaging flow cytometry and gene expression profiling to explore the impact of viral-induced metabolic reprogramming on lipid composition. Lytic viral infection led to remodeling of the cellular lipidome, by predominantly inducing the biosynthesis of highly saturated triacylglycerols (TAGs), coupled with a significant accumulation of neutral lipids within lipid droplets. Furthermore, TAGs were found to be a major component (77%) of the lipidome of isolated virions. Interestingly, viral-induced TAGs were significantly more saturated than TAGs produced under nitrogen starvation. This study highlights TAGs as major products of the viral-induced metabolic reprogramming during the host-virus interaction and indicates a selective mode of membrane recruitment during viral assembly, possibly by budding of the virus from specialized subcellular compartments. These findings provide novel insights into the role of viruses infecting microalgae in regulating metabolism and energy transfer in the marine environment and suggest their possible biotechnological application in biofuel production.
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- Sergey Malitsky
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Biological Services Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Biological Services Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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Velázquez AP, Tatsuta T, Ghillebert R, Drescher I, Graef M. Lipid droplet-mediated ER homeostasis regulates autophagy and cell survival during starvation. J Cell Biol 2016; 212:621-31. [PMID: 26953354 PMCID: PMC4792078 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201508102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2015] [Accepted: 02/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Biochemical, cytological, and lipidomic approaches show that lipid droplets are dispensable as membrane sources for autophagy, but are required for ER homeostasis by buffering fatty acid synthesis and ER stress and maintaining phospholipid composition to allow autophagy regulation and autophagosome biogenesis. Lipid droplets (LDs) are conserved organelles for intracellular neutral lipid storage. Recent studies suggest that LDs function as direct lipid sources for autophagy, a central catabolic process in homeostasis and stress response. Here, we demonstrate that LDs are dispensable as a membrane source for autophagy, but fulfill critical functions for endoplasmic reticulum (ER) homeostasis linked to autophagy regulation. In the absence of LDs, yeast cells display alterations in their phospholipid composition and fail to buffer de novo fatty acid (FA) synthesis causing chronic stress and morphologic changes in the ER. These defects compromise regulation of autophagy, including formation of multiple aberrant Atg8 puncta and drastically impaired autophagosome biogenesis, leading to severe defects in nutrient stress survival. Importantly, metabolically corrected phospholipid composition and improved FA resistance of LD-deficient cells cure autophagy and cell survival. Together, our findings provide novel insight into the complex interrelation between LD-mediated lipid homeostasis and the regulation of autophagy potentially relevant for neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases.
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- Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, 50931 Cologne, Germany Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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Choudhary V, Ojha N, Golden A, Prinz WA. A conserved family of proteins facilitates nascent lipid droplet budding from the ER. J Cell Biol 2016; 211:261-71. [PMID: 26504167 PMCID: PMC4621845 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201505067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Visualization of nascent lipid droplets reveals that they form lens-like structures inside the ER membrane bilayer and that FIT proteins are necessary for lipid droplet protrusion toward the cytoplasm. Lipid droplets (LDs) are found in all cells and play critical roles in lipid metabolism. De novo LD biogenesis occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) but is not well understood. We imaged early stages of LD biogenesis using electron microscopy and found that nascent LDs form lens-like structures that are in the ER membrane, raising the question of how these nascent LDs bud from the ER as they grow. We found that a conserved family of proteins, fat storage-inducing transmembrane (FIT) proteins, is required for proper budding of LDs from the ER. Elimination or reduction of FIT proteins in yeast and higher eukaryotes causes LDs to remain in the ER membrane. Deletion of the single FIT protein in Caenorhabditis elegans is lethal, suggesting that LD budding is an essential process in this organism. Our findings indicated that FIT proteins are necessary to promote budding of nascent LDs from the ER.
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- Vineet Choudhary
- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Vorapreeda T, Thammarongtham C, Cheevadhanarak S, Laoteng K. Genome mining of fungal lipid-degrading enzymes for industrial applications. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2016; 161:1613-1626. [PMID: 26271808 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Lipases are interesting enzymes, which contribute important roles in maintaining lipid homeostasis and cellular metabolisms. Using available genome data, seven lipase families of oleaginous and non-oleaginous yeast and fungi were categorized based on the similarity of their amino acid sequences and conserved structural domains. Of them, triacylglycerol lipase (patatin-domain-containing protein) and steryl ester hydrolase (abhydro_lipase-domain-containing protein) families were ubiquitous enzymes found in all species studied. The two essential lipases rendered signature characteristics of integral membrane proteins that might be targeted to lipid monolayer particles. At least one of the extracellular lipase families existed in each species of yeast and fungi. We found that the diversity of lipase families and the number of genes in individual families of oleaginous strains were greater than those identified in non-oleaginous species, which might play a role in nutrient acquisition from surrounding hydrophobic substrates and attribute to their obese phenotype. The gene/enzyme catalogue and relevant informative data of the lipases provided by this study are not only valuable toolboxes for investigation of the biological role of these lipases, but also convey potential in various industrial applications.
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- Tayvich Vorapreeda
- Biochemical Engineering and Pilot Plant Research and Development Laboratory, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkhuntien, Bangkok 10150, Thailand
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- Biochemical Engineering and Pilot Plant Research and Development Laboratory, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkhuntien, Bangkok 10150, Thailand
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- School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkhuntien, Bangkok 10150, Thailand.,Pilot Plant Development and Training Institute, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkhuntien, Bangkok 10150, Thailand
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- Bioprocess Technology Laboratory, Bioresources Technology Unit, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand Science Park, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
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Xu C, Andre C, Fan J, Shanklin J. Cellular Organization of Triacylglycerol Biosynthesis in Microalgae. Subcell Biochem 2016; 86:207-221. [PMID: 27023237 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25979-6_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Eukaryotic cells are characterized by compartmentalization and specialization of metabolism within membrane-bound organelles. Nevertheless, many fundamental processes extend across multiple subcellular compartments. Here, we describe and assess the pathways and cellular organization of triacylglycerol biosynthesis in microalgae. In particular, we emphases the dynamic interplay among the endoplasmic reticulum, lipid droplets and chloroplasts in acyl remodeling and triacylglycerol accumulation under nitrogen starvation in the model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
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- Changcheng Xu
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA.
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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Meï CE, Cussac M, Haslam RP, Beaudoin F, Wong YS, Maréchal E, Rébeillé F. C1 Metabolism Inhibition and Nitrogen Deprivation Trigger Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana Cell Cultures and Highlight a Role of NPC in Phosphatidylcholine-to-Triacylglycerol Pathway. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:2014. [PMID: 28101097 PMCID: PMC5209388 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.02014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation often occurs in growth limiting conditions such as nutrient deprivations. We analyzed and compared the lipid contents of Arabidopsis cells grown under two conditions that inhibited growth as a way to study interactions between membrane and storage lipids. In order to inhibit C1 metabolism, the first condition utilized methotrexate (MTX), a drug that inhibits methyl transfer reactions and potentially reduces Pi-choline synthesis, the polar head of phosphatidylcholine (PC). MTX-treated cells displayed a 10- to 15-fold increase in TAG compared to that found in control cells. This corresponded to a net increase of lipids as the total amount of membrane glycerolipids was minimally affected. Under this condition, PC homeostasis appeared tightly regulated and not strictly dependent on the rate of Pi-choline synthesis. The second condition we investigated involved nitrogen deprivation. Here, we observed a 40-fold increase of TAG. In these cells, the overall lipid content remained unchanged, but membrane lipids decreased by a factor of two suggesting a reduction of the membrane network and a rerouting of membrane lipids to storage lipids. Under all conditions, fatty acid (FA) analyses showed that the FA composition of TAG was comparable to that in PC, but different from that in acyl-CoA, suggesting that TAG accumulation involved PC-derived DAG moieties. In agreement, analyses by qPCR of genes coding for TAG synthesis showed a strong increase of non-specific phospholipase C (NPC) expressions, and experiments using labeled (fluorescent) PC indicated higher rates of PC-to-TAG conversion under both situations. These results highlight a role for NPC in plant cell oil production.
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- Coline E. Meï
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, UMR 5168 CNRS – CEA – INRA – Université Grenoble Alpes, Bioscience and Biotechnologies Institute of GrenobleCEA-Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, UMR 5168 CNRS – CEA – INRA – Université Grenoble Alpes, Bioscience and Biotechnologies Institute of GrenobleCEA-Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection, Rothamsted ResearchHarpenden, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection, Rothamsted ResearchHarpenden, UK
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- Département de Pharmacochimie Moléculaire, UMR 5063 CNRS – Université Grenoble AlpesGrenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, UMR 5168 CNRS – CEA – INRA – Université Grenoble Alpes, Bioscience and Biotechnologies Institute of GrenobleCEA-Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, UMR 5168 CNRS – CEA – INRA – Université Grenoble Alpes, Bioscience and Biotechnologies Institute of GrenobleCEA-Grenoble, Grenoble, France
- *Correspondence: Fabrice Rébeillé,
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