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Heber S, Borho J, Stadler N, Wondany F, König I, Michaelis J, Papatheodorou P, Barth H, Fellermann M. The Clostridium botulinum C2 Toxin Subunit C2IIa Delivers Enzymes with Positively Charged N-Termini into the Cytosol of Target Cells. Toxins (Basel) 2023; 15:390. [PMID: 37368691 DOI: 10.3390/toxins15060390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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The binary Clostridium (C.) botulinum C2 toxin consists of two non-linked proteins. The proteolytically activated binding/transport subunit C2IIa forms barrel-shaped homoheptamers, which bind to cell surface receptors, mediate endocytosis, and translocate the enzyme subunit C2I into the cytosol of target cells. Here, we investigate whether C2IIa can be harnessed as a transporter for proteins/enzymes fused to polycationic tags, as earlier demonstrated for the related anthrax toxin transport subunit PA63. To test C2IIa-mediated transport in cultured cells, reporter enzymes are generated by fusing different polycationic tags to the N- or C-terminus of other bacterial toxins' catalytic A subunits. C2IIa as well as PA63 deliver N-terminally polyhistidine-tagged proteins more efficiently compared to C-terminally tagged ones. However, in contrast to PA63, C2IIa does not efficiently deliver polylysine-tagged proteins into the cytosol of target cells. Moreover, untagged enzymes with a native cationic N-terminus are efficiently transported by both C2IIa and PA63. In conclusion, the C2IIa-transporter serves as a transport system for enzymes that harbor positively charged amino acids at their N-terminus. The charge distribution at the N-terminus of cargo proteins and their ability to unfold in the endosome and subsequently refold in the cytosol determine transport feasibility and efficiency.
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- Sebastian Heber
- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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Fellermann M, Wondany F, Carle S, Nemeth J, Sadhanasatish T, Frick M, Barth H, Michaelis J. Super-resolution microscopy unveils transmembrane domain-mediated internalization of cross-reacting material 197 into diphtheria toxin-resistant mouse J774A.1 cells and primary rat fibroblasts in vitro. Arch Toxicol 2020; 94:1753-1761. [PMID: 32266418 PMCID: PMC7261736 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-020-02731-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Diphtheria toxin (DT) efficiently inhibits protein synthesis in human cells, resulting in severe disease diphtheria. The sensitivity towards DT varies between mammalian species. Mice and rats are resistant to DT. However, the reason underlying this insensitivity is controversially discussed and not well understood. Therefore, we investigated the steps of DT uptake, i.e. receptor binding and internalization into mouse J774A.1 macrophages and primary rat fibroblasts. We exploited the non-toxic DT-mutant cross-reacting material 197 (CRM197) and three additional receptor binding-deficient mutants (250 nM each) to investigate binding to cell surface and internalization into murine cells via flow cytometry and stimulated emission depletion (STED) super-resolution optical microscopy. Dual-color STED imaging unveiled CRM197 interacting with the murine precursor of the heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF). Moreover, we identified CRM197’s transmembrane domain as an additional HB-EGF binding site, which is also involved in the receptor-mediated internalization into murine cells. However, we do not find evidence for translocation of the catalytically active subunit (DTA) into the cytosol when 250 nM DT were applied. In conclusion, we provide evidence that the resistance of murine cells to DT is caused by an insufficiency of DTA to escape from endosomes and reach the cytosol. Possibly, a higher affinity interaction of DT and the HB-EGF is required for translocation, which highlights the role of the receptor in the endosomes during the translocation step. We extend the current knowledge about cellular uptake of the medically relevant DT and CRM197.
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- Maximilian Fellermann
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of General Physiology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of General Physiology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
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- Institute of Biophysics, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
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Jacobson MK, Jacobson EL. Vitamin B3 in Health and Disease: Toward the Second Century of Discovery. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1813:3-8. [PMID: 30097857 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8588-3_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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This introductory chapter briefly reviews the history, chemistry, and biochemistry of NAD (the term NAD as it is used here refers to both oxidized and reduced forms of the molecule) consuming ADP-ribose transfer enzymes as components of the involvement of vitamin B3 in health and disease.
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- Myron K Jacobson
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA. .,Niadyne Pharma, Inc., Fort Worth, TX, USA.
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Zahaf NI, Schmidt G. Bacterial Toxins for Cancer Therapy. Toxins (Basel) 2017; 9:toxins9080236. [PMID: 28788054 PMCID: PMC5577570 DOI: 10.3390/toxins9080236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Several pathogenic bacteria secrete toxins to inhibit the immune system of the infected organism. Frequently, they catalyze a covalent modification of specific proteins. Thereby, they block production and/or secretion of antibodies or cytokines. Moreover, they disable migration of macrophages and disturb the barrier function of epithelia. In most cases, these toxins are extremely effective enzymes with high specificity towards their cellular substrates, which are often central signaling molecules. Moreover, they encompass the capacity to enter mammalian cells and to modify their substrates in the cytosol. A few molecules, at least of some toxins, are sufficient to change the cellular morphology and function of a cell or even kill a cell. Since many of those toxins are well studied concerning molecular mechanisms, cellular receptors, uptake routes, and structures, they are now widely used to analyze or to influence specific signaling pathways of mammalian cells. Here, we review the development of immunotoxins and targeted toxins for the treatment of a disease that is still hard to treat: cancer.
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- Nour-Imene Zahaf
- Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Albert-Str. 25, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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- Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Albert-Str. 25, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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Effects of Bacterial Toxins on Small GTP-binding Proteins. Toxicol In Vitro 1998; 12:527-31. [DOI: 10.1016/s0887-2333(98)00030-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Wilson BA, Blanke SR, Murphy JR, Pappenheimer AM, Collier RJ. In Reply: Does Diphtheria Toxin Have Nuclease Activity? Science 1990; 250:834-6. [PMID: 17759975 DOI: 10.1126/science.250.4982.834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Falk G, Freeman M, Marshall AT, Prenton E, Shiells RA, Slack I. Reversal and inhibition of cholera toxin-induced secretion in isolated rabbit ileum. J Physiol 1990; 421:399-409. [PMID: 2140861 PMCID: PMC1190091 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1990.sp017951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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1. Cholera toxin (1 microgram/ml) abolished net fluid absorption by everted sacs of rabbit ileum, leading to net fluid secretion. This action occurred via the toxin-catalysed ADP ribosylation of the stimulatory GTP-binding protein Gs which is linked to adenylate cyclase. Nicotinamide (10 mM), a reaction product of ADP ribosylation, reversed cholera toxin-induced secretion, restoring absorption. Lower concentrations of nicotinamide induced partial reversal. 2. Nicotinamide (1 mM) blocked the secretory action of cholera toxin applied to ileal sacs. This inhibitory action was more effective in the presence of methionine (1 mM). 3. Other inhibitors of ADP ribosylation, benzamide and adenine, blocked the secretory action of cholera toxin. Hypoxanthine, an analogue and metabolite of adenine, was similarly effective. 4. Nicotinamide was not, however, effective in blocking or reversing the secretory action of theophylline (10 mM) or of heat-stable E. coli enterotoxin STa. This indicates that nicotinamide has a highly specific action against ADP ribosylating toxins. 5. It is proposed that nicotinamide reverses the secretory action of cholera toxin by reversing ADP ribosylation, simply by the law of mass action. This counters the established idea that the effects of cholera and other ADP-ribosylating toxins are irreversible under physiological conditions.
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- G Falk
- Physiology Department, University College London
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Murray K, Noble M. In vitro studies on the comparative sensitivities of cells of the central nervous system to diphtheria toxin. J Neurol Sci 1985; 70:283-93. [PMID: 4056824 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(85)90170-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We have used tissue culture techniques and cell type-specific antibodies to compare the sensitivity of the various cell types of the white matter tracts of the rat central nervous system to in vitro exposure to diphtheria toxin (DTx). We have found that oligodendrocytes and Type 2 astrocytes (Raff et al. 1983a), which at least in the rat optic nerve, appear to be derived from a single bipotential progenitor cell (Raff et al. 1983b), are both more susceptible to DTx than are either Type 1 astrocytes or spinal neurones. The loss of oligodendrocytes and Type 2 astrocytes caused by exposure to DTx in vitro appeared to be irreversible. Even when cultures were maintained for a month following initial treatment with DTx, these glial populations were not reestablished, suggesting that precursors for these macroglial cell types were as sensitive to the effects of DTx as were the oligodendrocytes and Type 2 astrocytes themselves. Our results are discussed in the light of the failure of diphtheritic lesions to remyelinate in vivo.
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Ross WC, Thorpe PE, Cumber AJ, Edwards DC, Hinson CA, Davies AJ. Increased toxicity of diphtheria toxin for human lymphoblastoid cells following covalent linkage to anti-(human lymphocyte) globulin or its F(ab')2 fragment. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1980; 104:381-90. [PMID: 6965909 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1980.tb04438.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Anti-(human lymphocyte) globulin was reacted with a mixed anhydride derivative of chlorambucil to give a product which was in turn reacted with diphtheria toxin. The resulting conjugate was partially purified and was found to possess an ability similar to that of the native antibody to bind to the human lymphoblastoid cell lines, CLA4 and Daudi. Daudi cells, as had been observed previously with CLA4 cells, lacked the high sensitivity to diphtheria toxin normally characteristic of cells of human origin. Thus treatment with free toxin at a concentration of 1 microgram/ml was without effect upon their ability to incorporate [3H]leucine. By contrast, Daudi cells were highly sensitive to toxin conjugated to anti-(human lymphocyte) globulin or to its F(ab')2 fragment. Exposure for 24 h to a solution of conjugate containing toxin at a concentration of 0.5 ng/ml caused a reduction of 50% in the leucine uptake by Daudi cells. The toxicity of the conjugate could be blocked by diphtheria antitoxin or by pretreatment of the cells with non-conjugated antibody. Toxin linked to normal horse IgG or to its F(ab')2 fragment was without cytotoxic effect upon Daudi cells. Furthermore both the conjugate with anti-(human lymphocyte) globulin and that with normal IgG were approximately 100-fold less able than non-conjugated toxin to inhibit protein synthesis by a human fibroblast cell line to which the antibody showed no appreciable binding. Thus the conjugates are relatively ineffective against cells which lack an antigen to which the antibody moiety can bind. In contrast with the greatly increased toxicity of diphtheria toxin for human lymphoblastoid cells following its linkage to anti-(human lymphocyte) globulin, a conjugate of toxin linked to anti-(mouse lymphocyte) globulin was ineffective against murine spleen cells in vitro.
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Skala H, Vibert M, Kahn A, Dreyfus JC. Phospho ADP ribosylation of human glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase: probable mechanism of the occurrence of hyperanodic forms. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1979; 89:988-96. [PMID: 39564 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(79)91875-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Iglewski BH, Rittenberg MB, Iglewski WJ. Preferential inhibition of growth and protein synthesis in Rous sarcoma virus transformed cells by diphtheria toxin. Virology 1975; 65:272-5. [PMID: 167518 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(75)90029-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Iglewski BH, Rittenberg MB. Selective toxicity of diphtheria toxin for malignant cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1974; 71:2707-10. [PMID: 4527970 PMCID: PMC388537 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.71.7.2707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Purified diphtheria toxin is shown to inhibit protein synthesis in Ehrlich-Lettré ascites carcinoma cells in vitro. Protein synthesis in Ehrlich-Lettré cells is at least 10,000 times more sensitive to toxin than protein synthesis in normal mouse spleen or thymus cells. This sensitivity correlates with the observation that Ehrlich-Lettré tumors regress in mice injected with diphtheria toxin but not diphtheria toxoid. Using the criterion of inhibition of protein synthesis in vitro, we show that other mouse malignancies (lymphoma and myeloma) are also more sensitive to diphtheria toxin than normal spleen or thymus. Metastatic human breast carcinoma cells from two individuals, cells from two melanoma nodules removed at different times from a third patient, and cells from melanoma nodules from three additional individuals are shown to be more sensitive to diphtheria toxin than some normal human cells. The toxin sensitivity of protein synthesis in some of the malignant cells tested was so much greater than that of normal cells, that we have proposed that diphtheria toxin should be studied further since it might prove a useful anti-cancer agent in patients whose tumors are first shown to be highly sensitive to toxin in vitro.
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Entner N, Grollman AP. Inhibition of protein synthesis: a mechanism of amebicide action of emetine and other structurally related compounds. THE JOURNAL OF PROTOZOOLOGY 1973; 20:160-3. [PMID: 4347870 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1973.tb06025.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Honjo T, Hayaishi O. Enzymatic ADP-ribosylation of proteins and regulation of cellular activity. CURRENT TOPICS IN CELLULAR REGULATION 1973; 7:87-127. [PMID: 4360798 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-152807-2.50011-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Bermek E. Formation of a complex involving ADP-ribosylated human translocation factor, guanosine nucleotide and ribosomes. FEBS Lett 1972; 23:95-9. [PMID: 4343622 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(72)80293-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Honjo T, Nishizuka Y, Kato I, Hayaishi O. Adenosine Diphosphate Ribosylation of Aminoacyl Transferase II and Inhibition of Protein Synthesis by Diphtheria Toxin. J Biol Chem 1971. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)62078-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Montanaro L, Sperti S, Mattioli A. Interaction of ADP-ribosylated aminoacyl-transferase II with GTP and with ribosomes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1971; 238:493-7. [PMID: 4327727 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(71)90628-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Tsugawa A, Ohsumi Y, Kato I. Inhibitory effect of diphtheria toxin on amino acid incorporation in Escherichia coli cell-free system. J Bacteriol 1970; 104:152-7. [PMID: 4319720 PMCID: PMC248195 DOI: 10.1128/jb.104.1.152-157.1970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The mechanism of action of diphtheria toxin in an Escherichia coli cell-free protein-synthesizing system was examined. When the washed ribosomes were incubated with toxin before addition of messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA), peptide syntheses of (14)C-phenylalanine directed by polyuridylic acid or phage R17 RNA were strongly inhibited by a small amount of toxin. Whereas, if the soluble fraction (105,000 x g supernatant fraction) was preincubated with toxin, no effect of toxin occurred either on the induced protein synthesis or on the activity of guanosine triphosphatase even in the presence of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. The binding of (3)H-formylmethionyl-transfer RNA to E. coli ribosomes directed by either R17 RNA or trinucleotide AUG was also decreased by toxin. These findings suggest that diphtheria toxin may prevent the binding of messenger RNA by successfully competing with the AUG for ribosomal binding sites. Sucrose-density gradient studies support this concept by showing the decrease in binding of (3)H-labeled R17 RNA to E. coli ribosomes exposed to toxin.
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The Diphtheria Toxin-dependent Adenosine Diphosphate Ribosylation of Rat Liver Aminoacyl Transferase II. J Biol Chem 1970. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)63376-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Everse J, Gardner DA, Kaplan NO, Galasinski W, Moldave K. The Formation of a Ternary Complex between Diphtheria Toxin, Aminoacyltransferase II, and Diphosphopyridine Nucleotide. J Biol Chem 1970. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)63350-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Raeburn S, Goor RS, Collins JF, Maxwell ES. Alteration in the ionic properties of aminoacyltransferase II from rat liver by NAD+ and diphtheria toxin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1970; 199:294-7. [PMID: 4312967 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(70)90722-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Duncan JL, Groman NB. Activity of diphtheria toxin. II. Early events in the intoxication of HeLa cells. J Bacteriol 1969; 98:963-9. [PMID: 5788723 PMCID: PMC315282 DOI: 10.1128/jb.98.3.963-969.1969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The initial steps in the interaction of diphtheria toxin with HeLa cells were studied. It was demonstrated that lethal doses of toxin are rapidly adsorbed to the cell. The kinetics of uptake, as measured by lethality, indicated that a single toxin molecule is able to cause cell death. Studies on the effect of pH on intoxication showed that adsorption of toxin occurred over a wide pH range but was partially inhibited at high pH values. Experiments to determine the influence of the ionic environment on intoxication indicated that adsorption of toxin did not take place in the absence of salts and was partially inhibited in the presence of a polyanion. The evidence indicates that the initial binding of toxin to the cell is electrostatic in nature, involving positively charged surface groups. Attempts to demonstrate specific receptors for the attachment of toxin to cells were unsuccessful, suggesting that toxin adsorption may be a nonspecific process. The effect of energy inhibitors on intoxication was examined. Sodium fluoride, an inhibitor of glycolysis, almost completely prevented intoxication in HeLa cells, whereas inhibitors of respiration and oxidative phosphorylation had no effect. Sodium fluoride did not prevent adsorption of toxin but appeared to inhibit a later step in the intoxication process, perhaps the transport of toxin to subsurface or intracellular levels.
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Gill DM, Pappenheimer AM, Brown R, Kurnick JT. Studies on the mode of action of diphtheria toxin. VII. Toxin-stimulated hydrolysis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in mammalian cell extracts. J Exp Med 1969; 129:1-21. [PMID: 4304436 PMCID: PMC2138597 DOI: 10.1084/jem.129.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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When diphtheria toxin and NAD are added to soluble fractions containing aminoacyl transfer enzymes isolated from rabbit reticulocytes or from HeLa cells, free nicotinamide is released and, simultaneously, an inactive ADP ribose derivative of transferase II is formed. The reaction is reversible, and in the presence of excess nicotinamide, toxin catalyzes the restoration of aminoacyl transfer activity in intoxicated preparations. In living cultures of HeLa cells, the internal NAD concentration is sufficiently high to account for the rapid conversion, catalyzed by a few toxin molecules located in the cell membrane, of the entire cell content of free transferase II to its inactive ADP ribose derivative. Completely inactive ammonium sulfate fractions containing soluble proteins isolated from cells that have been exposed for several hours to excess toxin, can be reactivated to full aminoacyl transfer activity by addition of nicotinamide together with diphtheria toxin. Transferase II appears to be a highly specific substrate for the toxin-stimulated splitting of NAD and thus far no other protein acceptor for the ADP ribose moiety has been found.
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Raeburn S, Goor RS, Schneider JA, Maxwell ES. Interaction of aminoacyl transferase II and guanosine triphosphate: inhibition by diphtheria toxin and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1968; 61:1428-34. [PMID: 4303479 PMCID: PMC225273 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.61.4.1428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Schneider JA, Raeburn S, Maxwell ES. Translocase activity in the aminoacyl transferase II fraction from rat liver. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1968; 33:177-81. [PMID: 5696502 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(68)90275-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Johnson W, Kuchler RJ, Solotorovsky M. Site in cell-free protein synthesis sensitive to diphtheria toxin. J Bacteriol 1968; 96:1089-98. [PMID: 4301046 PMCID: PMC252421 DOI: 10.1128/jb.96.4.1089-1098.1968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The effects of diphtheria toxin on cell-free protein synthesis in a bacterial system, and preparations obtained from animals that were sensitive and resistant to toxin were examined. In the presence of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), toxin inhibited the incorporation of amino acids by endogenous and synthetic polynucleotides in both rat liver and guinea pig liver cell-free systems that were exposed to 6 Lf units per ml of toxin. A cell-free system derived from Streptococcus faecalis was resistant to high concentrations of toxin. Dialyzed toxin-antitoxin floccules that are formed in the presence of NAD and the 105,000 x g supernatant fluid from rat liver contain NAD. Such floccules are also active in protein synthesis in the absence of added transferase I or II. An operational model presents the view that the intoxication complex is formed at the ribosomal level and occurs in two steps. First, the toxin molecule binds to transferase II and alters its stereospecific relationship to transferase I, but it does not result in an inactive complex. Second, the stereospecific alteration in transferase I, but it does not result in an inactive complex. Second, the stereospecific alteration in transferase II caused by the binding of diphtheria toxin allows NAD to bridge between transferase I and II, which then results in an inactivated complex. The sensitivity of the cell-free system derived from the normally resistant rat implies that in some cells the cell membrane serves as a permeability barrier to the toxin molecule. The resistance of bacterial cell-free protein synthesizing systems to diphtheria toxin may reflect basic differences between transferase enzymes from bacterial and mammalian sources.
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Moehring TJ, Moehring JM. Response of cultured mammalian cells to diphtheria toxin. 3. Inhibition of protein synthesis studied at the subcellular level. J Bacteriol 1968; 96:61-9. [PMID: 5663574 PMCID: PMC252253 DOI: 10.1128/jb.96.1.61-69.1968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Diphtheria toxin inhibited protein synthesis in intact KB cells. The action of the toxin upon the cell did not result in disaggregation of polyribosomes, or in impairment of their ability to function in protein synthesis. A reduction in single ribosomes and a concomitant increase in polyribosomes did result from the action of toxin. Nascent peptides were not cleaved from polyribosomes by the action of toxin, but treatment of fully intoxicated cells with puromycin resulted in cleavage of these peptides, and caused accelerated polyribosome breakdown. Our data indicated that the toxin must enter the cell to exert its effect. The component or components sensitive to toxin were localized in the 100,000 x g supernatant fraction of cytoplasmic extracts. When extracts from intoxicated cells were treated with nicotinamide, a significant proportion of their capacity to synthesize protein was restored. The specificity of this reaction suggested that nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is involved in the action of toxin in the intact cell, and that one component inactivated by toxin is soluble transferase II.
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Pappenheimer AM, Brown R. Studies on the mode of action of diphtheria toxin. VI. Site of the action of toxin in living cells. J Exp Med 1968; 127:1073-86. [PMID: 4297479 PMCID: PMC2138498 DOI: 10.1084/jem.127.6.1073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Using the technique of radioautography, it has been shown that a probable maximum of only 25-50 molecules iodine-125-labeled toxin per cell is bound by human HeLa cells treated with approximately 10(7) molecules of toxin per cell, or just under one saturating dose. Radioautographs of sections from labeled cells locate most if not all of the toxin molecules fixed to the outer cell membrane. Under identical conditions far less label is taken up by mouse L cells. It is probable that the resistance of this species to diphtheria toxin can be accounted for in terms of the failure of mouse cells to bind the toxin protein. The irreversible inhibition of protein synthesis in a living cell culture by a few molecules of toxin located at the cell surface is discussed in relation to the known interaction between toxin, NAD, and transferase II in mammalian cell extracts.
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