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Interactions between taste receptors and the gastrointestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease. JOURNAL OF NUTRITION & INTERMEDIARY METABOLISM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jnim.2019.100106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Everett J, Gabrilska R, Rumbaugh KP, Vikström E. Assessing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Autoinducer Effects on Mammalian Epithelial Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1673:213-225. [PMID: 29130176 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7309-5_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The human mucosal environment in the gut is rich with interactions between microbiota and mammalian epithelia. Microbes such as the Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa may use quorum sensing to communicate with other microorganisms and mammalian cells to alter gene expression. Here, we present methodologies to evaluate the effects of P. aeruginosa N-(3-oxo-dodecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (3O-C12-HSL) on Caco-2 cell monolayers. First, we describe a method for assessing barrier function and permeability of epithelial cells when exposed to 3O-C12-HSL by measuring transepithelial electrical resistance (TER) and paracellular flow using fluorescently labeled dextran. Secondly, we detail methods to investigate the effect of 3O-C12-HSL on protein-protein interactions of epithelial junction proteins. Lastly, we will detail imaging techniques to visualize Caco-2 barrier disruption following exposure to 3O-C12-HSL through the use of confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and a super resolution technique, stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, to achieve nanoscale visualization of Caco-2 monolayers.
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- Jake Everett
- Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, MS8312, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX, 79430, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, MS8312, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX, 79430, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, MS8312, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX, 79430, USA.
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, SE-58185 , Linköping, Sweden
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Li J, Liu Y, Kim E, March JC, Bentley WE, Payne GF. Electrochemical reverse engineering: A systems-level tool to probe the redox-based molecular communication of biology. Free Radic Biol Med 2017; 105:110-131. [PMID: 28040473 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The intestine is the site of digestion and forms a critical interface between the host and the outside world. This interface is composed of host epithelium and a complex microbiota which is "connected" through an extensive web of chemical and biological interactions that determine the balance between health and disease for the host. This biology and the associated chemical dialogues occur within a context of a steep oxygen gradient that provides the driving force for a variety of reduction and oxidation (redox) reactions. While some redox couples (e.g., catecholics) can spontaneously exchange electrons, many others are kinetically "insulated" (e.g., biothiols) allowing the biology to set and control their redox states far from equilibrium. It is well known that within cells, such non-equilibrated redox couples are poised to transfer electrons to perform reactions essential to immune defense (e.g., transfer from NADH to O2 for reactive oxygen species, ROS, generation) and protection from such oxidative stresses (e.g., glutathione-based reduction of ROS). More recently, it has been recognized that some of these redox-active species (e.g., H2O2) cross membranes and diffuse into the extracellular environment including lumen to transmit redox information that is received by atomically-specific receptors (e.g., cysteine-based sulfur switches) that regulate biological functions. Thus, redox has emerged as an important modality in the chemical signaling that occurs in the intestine and there have been emerging efforts to develop the experimental tools needed to probe this modality. We suggest that electrochemistry provides a unique tool to experimentally probe redox interactions at a systems level. Importantly, electrochemistry offers the potential to enlist the extensive theories established in signal processing in an effort to "reverse engineer" the molecular communication occurring in this complex biological system. Here, we review our efforts to develop this electrochemical tool for in vitro redox-probing.
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- Jinyang Li
- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
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Shimizu H, Baba N, Nose T, Taguchi R, Tanaka S, Joe GH, Maseda H, Nomura N, Hagio M, Lee JY, Fukiya S, Yokota A, Ishizuka S, Miyazaki H. Activity of ERK regulates mucin 3 expression and is involved in undifferentiated Caco-2 cell death induced by 3-oxo-C12-homoserine lactone. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2015; 79:937-42. [PMID: 25774422 DOI: 10.1080/09168451.2015.1006570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The signal molecule, 3-oxo-C12-homoserine lactone (3-oxo-C12-HSL), is similar to a mammalian hormone in bacteria. Although most studies have examined the effects of high 3-oxo-C12-HSL concentrations (>200 μM) on mammalian cellular functions because ~600 μM 3-oxo-C12-HSL can be secreted in biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa grown in vitro, we previously showed that a low 3-oxo-C12-HSL concentration (30 μM) induces the apoptosis of undifferentiated Caco-2 cells through suppressing Akt activity. Here, we found that a low concentration of 3-oxo-C12-HSL-activated ERK1/2 in undifferentiated Caco-2 cells. Incubating cells with the ERK pathway inhibitor U0126 for 30 min alleviated the mucin 3 (MUC3) expression suppressed by 3-oxo-C12-HSL, and the upregulation of MUC3 expression induced by a 48-h incubation with U0126-reduced cell death. Thus, altered MUC3 expression caused by long-term attenuated ERK1/2 activity might correlate with the death of undifferentiated Caco-2 cells induced by 3-oxo-C12-HSL.
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- Hidehisa Shimizu
- a Research Faculty of Agriculture, Division of Applied Bioscience , Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Japan
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