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Wu J, Liu Y, Li W, Li F, Liu R, Sun H, Qin J, Feng X, Huang D, Liu B. MlrA, a MerR family regulator in Vibrio cholerae, senses the anaerobic signal in the small intestine of the host to promote bacterial intestinal colonization. Gut Microbes 2022; 14:2143216. [PMID: 36369865 PMCID: PMC9662190 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2022.2143216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae), one of the most important bacterial pathogens in history, is a gram-negative motile bacterium that causes fatal pandemic disease in humans via oral ingestion of contaminated water or food. This process involves the coordinated actions of numerous regulatory factors. The MerR family regulators, which are widespread in prokaryotes, have been reported to be associated with pathogenicity. However, the role of the MerR family regulators in V. cholerae virulence remains unknown. Our study systematically investigated the influence of MerR family regulators on intestinal colonization of V. cholerae within the host. Among the five MerR family regulators, MlrA was found to significantly promote the colonization capacity of V. cholerae in infant mice. Furthermore, we revealed that MlrA increases bacterial intestinal colonization by directly enhancing the expression of tcpA, which encodes one of the most important virulence factors in V. cholerae, by binding to its promoter region. In addition, we revealed that during infection, mlrA is activated by anaerobic signals in the small intestine of the host through Fnr. In summary, our findings reveal a MlrA-mediated virulence regulation pathway that enables V. cholerae to sense environmental signals at the infection site to precisely activate virulence gene expression, thus providing useful insights into the pathogenic mechanisms of V. cholerae.
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- Jialin Wu
- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China,Nankai International Advanced Research Institute, Nankai University Shenzhen, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China,Nankai International Advanced Research Institute, Nankai University Shenzhen, China,Di Huang TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Nankai University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China,Nankai International Advanced Research Institute, Nankai University Shenzhen, China,CONTACT Bin Liu TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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Cegarra L, Colins A, Gerdtzen ZP, Nuñez MT, Salgado JC. Mathematical modeling of the relocation of the divalent metal transporter DMT1 in the intestinal iron absorption process. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0218123. [PMID: 31181103 PMCID: PMC6557526 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Iron is essential for the normal development of cellular processes. This metal has a high redox potential that can damage cells and its overload or deficiency is related to several diseases, therefore it is crucial for its absorption to be highly regulated. A fast-response regulatory mechanism has been reported known as mucosal block, which allows to regulate iron absorption after an initial iron challenge. In this mechanism, the internalization of the DMT1 transporters in enterocytes would be a key factor. Two phenomenological models are proposed for the iron absorption process: DMT1's binary switching mechanism model and DMT1's swinging-mechanism model, which represent the absorption mechanism for iron uptake in intestinal cells. The first model considers mutually excluding processes for endocytosis and exocytosis of DMT1. The second model considers a Ball's oscillator to represent the oscillatory behavior of DMT1's internalization. Both models are capable of capturing the kinetics of iron absorption and represent empirical observations, but the DMT1's swinging-mechanism model exhibits a better correlation with experimental data and is able to capture the regulatory phenomenon of mucosal block. The DMT1 swinging-mechanism model is the first phenomenological model reported to effectively represent the complexity of the iron absorption process, as it can predict the behavior of iron absorption fluxes after challenging cells with an initial dose of iron, and the reduction in iron uptake observed as a result of mucosal block after a second iron dose.
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- Layimar Cegarra
- Laboratory of Process Modeling and Distributed Computing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratory of Process Modeling and Distributed Computing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Iron and Biology of Aging Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratory of Process Modeling and Distributed Computing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Boesch-Saadatmandi C, Most E, Weigand E. Influence of dietary fat and zinc supplementation on the iron utilization in growing rats. ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM 2007; 51:395-401. [PMID: 17851233 DOI: 10.1159/000108107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2006] [Accepted: 04/28/2007] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS There is increasing evidence that the amount and type of dietary fat may modify the utilization of the trace element iron. The present study investigated the effect of high amounts of fat of different origin at marginal and high dietary zinc supply on the iron utilization. METHODS Growing male rats, assigned to 1 of 6 groups of 8 animals each were fed diets that contained either 7 or 100 microg zinc/g. These diets were enriched with 0 or 22% fat as beef tallow (BT) or as sunflower oil (SO) above the basal level of 3% soybean oil. Iron was added as ferrous sulfate at 60 microg/g of diet. RESULTS The apparent iron absorption was markedly lower in the case of the high-fat diets at either zinc level. The BT diets resulted in significantly higher iron concentrations in the liver compared to both the SO and control diets. Hemoglobin and hematocrit were not influenced by any of the treatments. CONCLUSION Although the high-fat diets reduced iron absorption, there was no evidence for lower iron status parameters in blood and tissues. In contrast, BT as a source of saturated fatty acids markedly elevated liver iron concentrations.
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Nyasae L, Bustos R, Braiterman L, Eipper B, Hubbard A. Dynamics of endogenous ATP7A (Menkes protein) in intestinal epithelial cells: copper-dependent redistribution between two intracellular sites. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2007; 292:G1181-94. [PMID: 17158254 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00472.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We report for the first time on the copper-dependent behavior of endogenous ATP7A in two types of polarized intestinal epithelia, rat enterocytes in vivo and filter-grown Caco-2 cells, an accepted in vitro model of human small intestine. We used high-resolution, confocal immunofluorescence combined with quantitative cell surface biotinylation and found that the vast majority of endogenous ATP7A was localized intracellularly under all copper conditions. In copper-depleted cells, virtually all of the ATP7A localized to a post-TGN compartment, with <3% of the total protein detectable at the basolateral cell surface. When copper levels were elevated, ATP7A dispersed to the cell periphery in punctae whose pattern did not overlap with the steady-state distributions of post-Golgi, endosomal, or basolateral membrane markers; only approximately 8-10% of the recovered ATP7A was detected at the basolateral cell surface. These results raise several questions regarding prevailing models of ATP7A dynamics and the mechanism of copper efflux.
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- L Nyasae
- Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
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Nadella SR, Grosell M, Wood CM. Physical characterization of high-affinity gastrointestinal Cu transport in vitro in freshwater rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. J Comp Physiol B 2006; 176:793-806. [PMID: 16835745 DOI: 10.1007/s00360-006-0101-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2006] [Revised: 05/18/2006] [Accepted: 06/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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This study investigated the transport of copper (Cu) in the gut of trout. Examination of the spatial distribution of Cu along the digestive tract and a physical characterization of the uptake process was carried out using an in vitro gut sac technique and (64)Cu as a tracer. Unidirectional Cu uptake was highest in the anterior intestine followed in decreasing order by the posterior intestine, mid intestine and the stomach. Cu uptake was resistant to hypoxia and appeared to be fueled equally well by Cu(II) or Cu (I) at Cu concentrations typically found in the fluid phase of the chyme in vivo in the trout intestine. Transport demonstrated saturation kinetics (e.g. K (m) = 31.6 microM, J (max) = 17 pmol cm(-2) h(-1), in mid intestine) at low Cu levels representative of those measured in the chyme in vivo, with a diffusive component at higher Cu concentrations. Q (10) analysis indicated Cu uptake is via diffusion across the apical membrane and biologically mediated across the basolateral membranes of enterocytes. The presence of L-histidine but not D-histidine stimulated both Cu and Na uptake suggesting a common pathway for the transport of Cu/Na with L-histidine.
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- Sunita R Nadella
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S4K1.
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Ballatori N, Madejczyk MS. Transport of nonessential metals across mammalian cell membranes. TOPICS IN CURRENT GENETICS 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/4735_102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Bressler JP, Olivi L, Cheong JH, Kim Y, Bannona D. Divalent Metal Transporter 1 in Lead and Cadmium Transport. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004; 1012:142-52. [PMID: 15105261 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1306.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The effect of exposure to cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) on human health has been recognized for many years and recent information suggests that minimal exposure levels are themselves too high. Common scenarios for Pb exposure include occupational, residential, and/or behavioral (hand-to-mouth activity) settings. The main source of Cd exposure for nonsmokers is dietary, through plants or animals that accumulate the metal. Specific cellular importers for Pb and Cd are unlikely as these metals are nonessential and toxic. Accordingly, in the intestine, the operational mechanism is assumed to be inadvertent uptake through pathways intended for essential nutrients such as iron. Results from experimental and epidemiological studies indicated that diets low in iron (Fe) result in increased absorption of Pb and Cd, suggesting common molecular mechanisms of Cd and Pb transport. Indeed, recent mechanistic studies found that the intestinal transporter for nonheme iron, divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1), mediates the transport of Pb and Cd. DMT1 is regulated, in part, by dietary iron, and chemical species of Cd and Pb that are transported by DMT1 would be made available through digestion and are also found in plasma. Accordingly, the involvement of DMT1 in metal uptake offers a mechanistic explanation for why an iron-deficient diet is a risk factor for Pb and Cd poisoning. It also suggests that diets rich in iron-containing food could be protective against heavy metal poisoning.
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- Joseph P Bressler
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Glover CN, Bury NR, Hogstrand C. Zinc uptake across the apical membrane of freshwater rainbow trout intestine is mediated by high affinity, low affinity, and histidine-facilitated pathways. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2003; 1614:211-9. [PMID: 12896814 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(03)00178-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Zinc is both a vital nutrient and an important toxicant to aquatic biota. In order to understand the interplay between nutrition and toxicity, it will be important to determine the mechanisms and the factors that regulate zinc uptake. The mechanism of apical intestinal Zn(II) uptake in freshwater rainbow trout and its potential modification by the complexing amino acid histidine was investigated using brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMVs). Following characterisation of the BBMV preparation, zinc uptake in the absence of histidine was both time- and concentration-dependent and consisted of two components. A saturable phase of uptake was described by an affinity constant of 57+/-17 microM and a transport capacity of 1867+/-296 nmol mg membrane protein(-1) min(-1). At higher zinc levels (>500 microM) a linear, diffusive component of uptake was evident. Zinc transport was also temperature-dependent, with Q10 values suggesting zinc uptake was a carrier-mediated process. Zinc uptake by vesicles in the presence of histidine was correlated to a mono-histidine species (Zn(His)+) at all Zn(II) concentrations examined.
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- Chris N Glover
- School of Health and Life Sciences, King's College, London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN, UK.
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Zerounian NR, Redekosky C, Malpe R, Linder MC. Regulation of copper absorption by copper availability in the Caco-2 cell intestinal model. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2003; 284:G739-47. [PMID: 12540371 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00415.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Relatively little is known about the individual steps in intestinal copper absorption and whether or how they may be regulated. Polarized Caco-2 cell monolayers with tight junctions offer an already tested model in which to study intestinal metal transport. This model was used to examine potential effects of cellular copper availability on copper absorption. Uptake and transport were determined on application of (64)Cu(II) to the brush border. In the range of 0.2-2 micro M, uptake was dose dependent and was approximately 20% of dose/90 min. Overall transport of (64)Cu across the basolateral surface was approximately 0.3%. When cellular copper levels were depleted 40% by 18-h pretreatment with the specific copper chelator triethylenetetraamine, uptake and overall transport were markedly increased, going to 80 and 65% of dose, respectively. Cellular retention of (64)Cu fell fourfold, from 6 to 1.5%. Depletion of copper with the chelator was rapid and preceded initial changes in uptake and overall transport by 4 h. A lesser depletion of cellular copper (13%) failed to enhance copper uptake but doubled the rate of overall transport, as measured with (64)Cu and by atomic absorption. As previously reported, preexposure of the cells to excess copper (10 micro M, 18 h) also enhanced copper uptake ( approximately 3-fold). In contrast, ascorbate (10-1,000 micro M) failed to significantly alter uptake and transport of 1 micro M (64)Cu. Our findings are consistent with the concepts that, in the low physiological range, copper availability alters the absorption capacity of the intestine to support whole body homeostasis and that basolateral transport is more sensitively regulated than uptake.
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- Nora R Zerounian
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute for Molecular Biology and Nutrition, California State University, Fullerton, California 92834-6866, USA
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Transition metals are essential for health, forming integral components of proteins involved in all aspects of biological function. However, in excess these metals are potentially toxic, and to maintain metal homeostasis organisms must tightly coordinate metal acquisition and excretion. The diet is the main source for essential metals, but in aquatic organisms an alternative uptake route is available from the water. This review will assess physiological, pharmacological and recent molecular evidence to outline possible uptake pathways in the gills and intestine of teleost fish involved in the acquisition of three of the most abundant transition metals necessary for life; iron, copper, and zinc.
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- Nicolas R Bury
- King's College London, School of Health and Life Sciences, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NN, UK.
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Cremonesi P, Acebron A, Raja KB, Simpson RJ. Iron absorption: biochemical and molecular insights into the importance of iron species for intestinal uptake. PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY 2002; 91:97-102. [PMID: 12427107 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0773.2002.910301.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Recent advances in cloning of proteins involved in intestinal iron absorption can inform design and understanding of therapeutic iron preparations. Redox chemistry of iron is particularly important in iron metabolism, both as a potential source of toxic intermediates and as an essential requirement for efficient iron transport. The initial step in iron absorption (uptake from lumen to mucosa) is particularly important and several pathways involving Fe(III) reduction or transport and Fe(II) transport have been identified. Novel genes associated with iron uptake include Dcytb, a putative iron-regulated reductase and DMT1, a Fe(II) carrier in the brush border membrane. Other mechanisms may also operate, however. We review the recent findings and apply this to understanding the absorption of Fe(III) pharmaceuticals.
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- Piero Cremonesi
- Italfarmaco Research Center, v. Dei Lavoratori 64 Cinisello B. Milano, Italy
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Zerounian NR, Linder MC. Effects of copper and ceruloplasmin on iron transport in the Caco 2 cell intestinal model. J Nutr Biochem 2002; 13:138-148. [PMID: 11893478 DOI: 10.1016/s0955-2863(01)00205-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Previous studies have implicated copper proteins, including ceruloplasmin, in intestinal iron transport. Polarized Caco2 cells with tight junctions were used to examine the possibilities that (a) ceruloplasmin promotes iron absorption by enhancing release at the basolateral cell surface and (b) copper deficiency reduces intestinal iron transport. Iron uptake and overall transport were followed for 90 min with 1 &mgr;M 59Fe(II) applied to the apical surface of Caco2 cell monolayers. Apotransferrin (38 &mgr;M) was in the basolateral chamber. Induction of iron deficiency with desferrioxamine (100 &mgr;M; 18 h) markedly increased uptake and overall transport of iron. Uptake increased from about 20% to about 65% of dose, and overall 59Fe transport from <1% to 60% of dose. On the basis of actual iron released into the basal chamber (measured with bathophenanthroline), transport increased 8-fold. Desferrioxamine pretreatment reduced cellular Fe by 55%. The addition of freshly isolated, enzymatically active human ceruloplasmin to the basolateral chamber during absorption had no effect on uptake or transport of iron by the cells. Unexpectedly, pretreatment with three different chelators of copper (18 h), which reduced cellular levels about 40%, more than doubled iron uptake and raised overall transport to 20%. This was so, whether or not cells were also made iron deficient with desferrioxamine. Acute addition of 1 &mgr;M Cu(II) to the apical chamber had no significant effect upon iron uptake, retention, or transport in iron deficient or normal cells, in the presence of absence of ascorbate. We conclude that intestinal absorption of Fe(II) is unlikely to depend upon plasma ceruloplasmin, and that cuproproteins involved in this form of iron transport must be binding copper tightly.
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- Nora R. Zerounian
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute for Molecular Biology, California State University, 92834-6866, Fullerton, CA, USA
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Knöpfel M, Solioz M. Characterization of a cytochrome b(558) ferric/cupric reductase from rabbit duodenal brush border membranes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 291:220-5. [PMID: 11846393 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2002.6423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Iron and probably also copper are absorbed by the intestine in their reduced form. A b-type cytochrome, Dcytb, has recently been cloned from mouse and has been proposed to be the corresponding reductase. However, the nature of the cytochrome and the reduction reaction remain unknown. Here we describe the isolation and functional characterization of a novel b-type cytochrome from rabbit enterocytes. The 33 kDa heme protein was solubilized from brush border membranes with Triton X-100 and purified by successive ion exchange chromatography and hydrophobic interaction chromatography. Spectroscopic analysis of the heme revealed a b(558) cytochrome. The purified hemoprotein exhibited ascorbate-stimulated reduction of iron(III) and copper(II). The rate constants, k(1), for these reactions were 1.38 +/- 0.12 and 0.64 +/- 0.16 min(-1), respectively. Cytochrome b(558) may be the rabbit Dcytb homologue. A novel mechanism of how cytochrome b(558) could shuttle electrons from cytoplasmic ascorbate to luminal dehydroascorbate is proposed.
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- Martin Knöpfel
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Berne, Murtenstrasse 35, Berne, Switzerland.
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