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Production of colanic acid hydrolysate and its use in the production of fucosylated oligosaccharides by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Process Biochem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2022.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Towards Mapping of the Human Brain N-Glycome with Standardized Graphitic Carbon Chromatography. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12010085. [PMID: 35053234 PMCID: PMC8774104 DOI: 10.3390/biom12010085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Revised: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The brain N-glycome is known to be crucial for many biological functions, including its involvement in neuronal diseases. Although large structural studies of brain N-glycans were recently carried out, a comprehensive isomer-specific structural analysis has still not been achieved, as indicated by the recent discovery of novel structures with galactosylated bisecting GlcNAc. Here, we present a detailed, isomer-specific analysis of the human brain N-glycome based on standardized porous graphitic carbon (PGC)-LC-MS/MS. To achieve this goal, we biosynthesized glycans with substitutions typically occurring in the brain N-glycome and acquired their normalized retention times. Comparison of these values with the standardized retention times of neutral and desialylated N-glycan fractions of the human brain led to unambiguous isomer specific assignment of most major peaks. Profound differences in the glycan structures between naturally neutral and desialylated glycans were found. The neutral and sialylated N-glycans derive from diverging biosynthetic pathways and are biosynthetically finished end products, rather than just partially processed intermediates. The focus on structural glycomics defined the structure of human brain N-glycans, amongst these are HNK-1 containing glycans, a bisecting sialyl-lactose and structures with fucose and N-acetylgalactosamine on the same arm, the so-called LDNF epitope often associated with parasitic worms.
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Helm J, Grünwald-Gruber C, Thader A, Urteil J, Führer J, Stenitzer D, Maresch D, Neumann L, Pabst M, Altmann F. Bisecting Lewis X in Hybrid-Type N-Glycans of Human Brain Revealed by Deep Structural Glycomics. Anal Chem 2021; 93:15175-15182. [PMID: 34723506 PMCID: PMC8600501 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The importance of
protein glycosylation in the biomedical field
requires methods that not only quantitate structures by their monosaccharide
composition, but also resolve and identify the many isomers expressed
by mammalian cells. The art of unambiguous identification of isomeric
structures in complex mixtures, however, did not yet catch up with
the fast pace of advance of high-throughput glycomics. Here, we present
a strategy for deducing structures with the help of a deci-minute
accurate retention time library for porous graphitic carbon chromatography
with mass spectrometric detection. We implemented the concept for
the fundamental N-glycan type consisting of five
hexoses, four N-acetylhexosamines and one fucose
residue. Nearly all of the 40 biosynthetized isomers occupied unique
elution positions. This result demonstrates the unique isomer selectivity
of porous graphitic carbon. With the help of a rather tightly spaced
grid of isotope-labeled internal N-glycan, standard
retention times were transposed to a standard chromatogram. Application
of this approach to animal and human brain N-glycans
immediately identified the majority of structures as being of the
bisected type. Most notably, it exposed hybrid-type glycans with galactosylated
and even Lewis X containing bisected N-acetylglucosamine,
which have not yet been discovered in a natural source. Thus, the
time grid approach implemented herein facilitated discovery of the
still missing pieces of the N-glycome in our most
noble organ and suggests itself—in conjunction with collision
induced dissociation—as a starting point for the overdue development
of isomer-specific deep structural glycomics.
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- Johannes Helm
- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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Altered Blood Levels of Anti-Gal Antibodies in Alzheimer's Disease: A New Clue to Pathogenesis? Life (Basel) 2021; 11:life11060538. [PMID: 34207559 PMCID: PMC8228012 DOI: 10.3390/life11060538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2021] [Revised: 06/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder whose pathological mechanisms, despite recent advances, are not fully understood. However, the deposition of beta amyloid -peptide and neuroinflammation, which is probably aggravated by dysbiotic microbiota, seem to play a key role. Anti-Gal are the most abundant xenoreactive natural antibodies. They are supposed to stem from immunization against the gut microbiota and have been implicated in the pathogenesis of several diseases, including multiple sclerosis. These antibodies target the alpha-Gal epitope, expressed on the terminal sugar units of glycoprotein or glycolipid of all mammals except apes, Old World monkeys and humans. The alpha-Gal is constitutively expressed in several bacteria constituting the brain microbiota, and alpha-Gal-like epitopes have been detected in gray matter, amyloid plaque, neurofibrillary tangles and corpora amylacea of the human brain, suggesting a potential link between anti-Gal and Alzheimer’s disease etiopathogenesis. For the first time, our study searched for possible alterations of anti-Gal immunoglobulin levels in Alzheimer’s disease patients. IgG and IgM blood levels were significantly lower, and IgA significantly higher in patients than in healthy subjects. These results suggest that such immunoglobulins might be implicated in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis and open new scenarios in the research for new biomarkers and therapeutic strategies.
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Sytnyk V, Leshchyns'ka I, Schachner M. Neural glycomics: the sweet side of nervous system functions. Cell Mol Life Sci 2021; 78:93-116. [PMID: 32613283 PMCID: PMC11071817 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-020-03578-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 06/06/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The success of investigations on the structure and function of the genome (genomics) has been paralleled by an equally awesome progress in the analysis of protein structure and function (proteomics). We propose that the investigation of carbohydrate structures that go beyond a cell's metabolism is a rapidly developing frontier in our expanding knowledge on the structure and function of carbohydrates (glycomics). No other functional system appears to be suited as well as the nervous system to study the functions of glycans, which had been originally characterized outside the nervous system. In this review, we describe the multiple studies on the functions of LewisX, the human natural killer cell antigen-1 (HNK-1), as well as oligomannosidic and sialic (neuraminic) acids. We attempt to show the sophistication of these structures in ontogenetic development, synaptic function and plasticity, and recovery from trauma, with a view on neurodegeneration and possibilities to ameliorate deterioration. In view of clinical applications, we emphasize the need for glycomimetic small organic compounds which surpass the usefulness of natural glycans in that they are metabolically more stable, more parsimonious to synthesize or isolate, and more advantageous for therapy, since many of them pass the blood brain barrier and are drug-approved for treatments other than those in the nervous system, thus allowing a more ready access for application in neurological diseases. We describe the isolation of such mimetic compounds using not only Western NIH, but also traditional Chinese medical libraries. With this review, we hope to deepen the interests in this exciting field.
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- Vladimir Sytnyk
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Center for Neuroscience, Shantou University Medical College, 22 Xin Ling Road, Shantou, 515041, Guangdong, China
- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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Gaunitz S, Tjernberg LO, Schedin-Weiss S. The N-glycan profile in cortex and hippocampus is altered in Alzheimer disease. J Neurochem 2020; 159:292-304. [PMID: 32986846 PMCID: PMC8596851 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.15202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Protein glycosylation is crucial for the central nervous system and brain functions, including processes that are defective in Alzheimer disease (AD) such as neurogenesis, synaptic function, and memory formation. Still, the roles of glycans in the development of AD are relatively unexplored. Glycomics studies of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have previously shown altered glycosylation pattern in patients with different stages of cognitive impairment, including AD, compared to healthy controls. As a consequence, we hypothesized that the glycan profile is altered in the brain of patients with AD and analyzed the asparagine‐linked (N‐linked) glycan profile in hippocampus and cortex in AD and control brain. Glycans were enzymatically liberated from brain glycoproteins and analyzed by liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry (LC‐MS/MS). Eleven glycans showed significantly different levels in hippocampus compared to cortex in both control and AD brain. Two glycans in cortex and four in hippocampus showed different levels in AD compared to control brain. All glycans that differed between controls and AD brain had similar structures with one sialic acid, at least one fucose and a confirmed or potential bisecting N‐acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc). The glycans that were altered in AD brain differed from those that were altered in AD CSF. One glycan found to be present in significantly lower levels in both hippocampus and cortex in AD compared to control contained a structurally and functionally interesting epitope that we assign as a terminal galactose decorated with fucose and sialic acid. Altogether, these studies suggest that protein glycosylation is an important component in the development of AD and warrants further studies.
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- Stefan Gaunitz
- Division of Neurogeriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Division of Neurogeriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Division of Neurogeriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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Yun EJ, Liu JJ, Lee JW, Kwak S, Yu S, Kim KH, Jin YS. Biosynthetic Routes for Producing Various Fucosyl-Oligosaccharides. ACS Synth Biol 2019; 8:415-424. [PMID: 30668900 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Fucosyl-oligosaccharides (FOSs) play physiologically important roles as prebiotics, neuronal growth factors, and inhibitors of enteropathogens. However, challenges in designed synthesis and mass production of FOSs hamper their industrial applications. Here, we report flexible biosynthetic routes to produce various FOSs, including unnatural ones, through in vitro enzymatic reactions of various sugar acceptors, such as glucose, cellobiose, and agarobiose, and GDP-l-fucose as the fucose donor by using α1,2-fucosyltransferase (FucT2). Also, the whole-cell conversion for fucosylation of various sugar acceptors by overexpressing the genes associated with GDP-l-fucose production and fucT2 gene in Escherichia coli was demonstrated by producing 17.74 g/L of 2'-fucosylgalactose (2'-FG). Prebiotic effects of 2'-FG were verified on the basis of selective fermentability of 2'-FG by probiotic bifidobacteria. These biosynthetic routes can be used to engineer industrial microorganisms for more economical, more flexible, and safer production of FOSs than chemical synthesis of FOSs.
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- Eun Ju Yun
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Lin AP, Ramadan S, Stern RA, Box HC, Nowinski CJ, Ross BD, Mountford CE. Changes in the neurochemistry of athletes with repetitive brain trauma: preliminary results using localized correlated spectroscopy. ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY 2015; 7:13. [PMID: 25780390 PMCID: PMC4361214 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-015-0094-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2013] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Introduction The goal was to identify which neurochemicals differ in professional athletes with repetitive brain trauma (RBT) when compared to healthy controls using a relatively new technology, in vivo Localized COrrelated SpectroscopY (L-COSY). Methods To achieve this, L-COSY was used to examine five former professional male athletes with 11 to 28 years of exposure to contact sports. Each athlete who had had multiple symptomatic concussions and repetitive sub concussive trauma during their career was assessed by an experienced neuropsychologist. All athletes had clinical symptoms including headaches, memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, and depression. Five healthy men, age and weight matched to the athlete cohort and with no history of brain trauma, were recruited as controls. Data were collected from the posterior cingulate gyrus using a 3 T clinical magnetic resonance scanner equipped with a 32 channel head coil. Results The variation of the method was calculated by repeated examination of a healthy control and phantom and found to be 10% and 5%, respectively, or less. The L-COSY measured large and statistically significant differences (P ≤0.05), between healthy controls and those athletes with RBT. Men with RBT showed higher levels of glutamine/glutamate (31%), choline (65%), fucosylated molecules (60%) and phenylalanine (46%). The results were evaluated and the sample size of five found to achieve a significance level P = 0.05 and a power of 90%. Differences in N-acetyl aspartate and myo-inositol between RBT and controls were small and were not statistically significance. Conclusions A study of a small cohort of professional athletes, with a history of RBT and symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy when compared with healthy controls using 2D L-COSY, showed elevations in brain glutamate/glutamine and choline as recorded previously for early traumatic brain injury. For the first time increases in phenylalanine and fucose are recorded in the brains of athletes with RBT. Larger studies utilizing the L-COSY method may offer an in-life method of diagnosis and personalized approach for monitoring the acute effects of mild traumatic brain injury and the chronic effects of RBT.
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- Alexander P Lin
- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA 02115 USA ; Centre for MR in Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308 Australia
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 USA ; BU Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 USA ; Sports Legacy Institute, Waltham, MA 02451 USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA 02115 USA ; Clinical Spectroscopy, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA 91105 USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA 02115 USA ; Centre for MR in Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308 Australia
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Beesley P, Kraus M, Parolaro N. The neuroplastins: multifunctional neuronal adhesion molecules--involvement in behaviour and disease. ADVANCES IN NEUROBIOLOGY 2014; 8:61-89. [PMID: 25300133 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8090-7_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The neuroplastins np65 and np55 are neuronal and synapse-enriched immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily cell adhesion molecules that contain 3 and 2 Ig domains, respectively. Np65 is neuron specific whereas np55 is expressed in many tissues. They are multifunctional proteins whose physiological roles are defined by the partner proteins they bind to and the signalling pathways they activate. The neuroplastins are implicated in activity-dependent long-term synaptic plasticity. Thus neuroplastin-specific antibodies and a recombinant peptide inhibit long-term potentiation in hippocampal neurones. This is mediated by activation of the p38MAP kinase signalling pathway, resulting in the downregulation of the surface expression of GluR1 receptors. Np65, but not np55, exhibits trans-homophilic binding. Both np65 and np55 induce neurite outgrowth and both activate the FGF receptor and associated downstream signalling pathways. Np65 binds to and colocalises with GABA(A) receptor subtypes and may play a role in anchoring them to specific synaptic and extrasynaptic sites. Most recently the neuroplastins have been shown to chaperone and support the monocarboxylate transporter MCT2 in transporting lactate across the neuronal plasma membrane. Thus the neuroplastins are multifunctional adhesion molecules which support neurite outgrowth, modulate long-term activity-dependent synaptic plasticity, regulate surface expression of GluR1 receptors, modulate GABA(A) receptor localisation, and play a key role in delivery of monocarboxylate energy substrates both to the synapse and to extrasynaptic sites. The diverse functions and range of signalling pathways activated by the neuroplastins suggest that they are important in modulating behaviour and in relation to human disease.
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Owczarek S, Berezin V. Neuroplastin: Cell adhesion molecule and signaling receptor. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2012; 44:1-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2011.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2011] [Revised: 10/12/2011] [Accepted: 10/13/2011] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Bleckmann C, Geyer H, Reinhold V, Lieberoth A, Schachner M, Kleene R, Geyer R. Glycomic analysis of N-linked carbohydrate epitopes from CD24 of mouse brain. J Proteome Res 2009; 8:567-82. [PMID: 19053835 DOI: 10.1021/pr800729r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Murine CD24 is an abundantly glycosylated glycoprotein that plays important roles in the central nervous system and the immune system. It has been proposed that the functions of CD24 are primarily mediated by its N- and/or O-linked glycans. Applying a highly sensitive glycomics approach which included matrix-assisted laser-desorption ionization and electrospray ionization ion trap mass spectrometry, we have performed a detailed analysis of the N-linked glycans of CD24. Our data revealed a highly heterogeneous pattern of mainly complex type glycans expressing distinct carbohydrate epitopes, like 3-linked sialic acid, Le(X) or blood group H antigens, bisecting N-acetylglucosamine residues and N-acetyllactosamine repeats as well as high-mannose and hybrid type species.
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- Christina Bleckmann
- Institute of Biochemistry, University of Giessen, Friedrichstrasse 24, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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Hidalgo A, Burgos V, Viola H, Medina J, Argibay P. Differential expression of glycans in the hippocampus of rats trained on an inhibitory learning paradigm. Neuropathology 2006; 26:501-7. [PMID: 17203585 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2006.00718.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The glycan chains of glycoconjugates play important roles in cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. In the CNS, previous studies on learning and memory suggest the importance of oligosaccharides attached to glycoconjugates in the modulation of synaptic connections. We studied the hippocampal glycan distribution of rats subject to an inhibitory avoidance task. The expression of glycans was examined by lectin-histochemistry using Vicia villosa lectin (VVL) for terminal alpha/beta N-acetylgalactosamine (alpha/beta GalNAc); Galanthus nivalus lectin (GNL) for terminal mannose alpha-1,3 (Man alpha-1,3); Peanut agglutinin (PNA) for galactose beta-1,3N-acetylgalactosamine (Gal beta-1,3 GalNAc); Erythrina cristagalli lectin (ECL) for galactose beta-1,4 N-acetylglucosamine (Gal beta-1,4 GlcNAc); Sambucus nigra lectin (SNA) for sialic acid alpha-2.6 galactose (SA alpha-2,6 Gal); Maackia amurensis lectin II (MAL II) for sialic acid alpha-2,3 (SA alpha-2,3); Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) for terminal N-acetylglucosamine with/ without sialic acid (GlcNAc wo SA); succynilated WGA (sWGA) for terminal N-acetylglucosamine without sialic acid (terminal GlcNAc without SA); Griffonia simplicifolia lectin II (GSL II) for terminal alpha/beta N-acetylglucosamine (alpha/beta GlcNAc terminal); and Lotus tetragonolobus lectin (LTL) alpha-fucose. Two groups of 10 animals were examined: non-trained (Control) and Trained rats. ECL, sWGA and GSL II were negative for both groups in all the hippocampal subfields studied. For both groups, VVL was negative in CA4 and granular cells of the Dentate Gyrus (DG) and LTL was negative in the CA4 subfield. Expression of alpha/beta GalNAc, alpha-fucose and GlcNAc in other hippocampal subflields was positive, with no differences between groups. However, expression of Man alpha-1,3 was significantly higher in the CA1, CA2, CA3, and CA4 subfields in the Trained group. On the other hand, expression of Gal beta-1,3 GalNAc was significantly low in CA4 and DG in the Trained group. In conclusion, the results here presented indicate that the exposure of rats to an associative behavioral paradigm related to declarative memory, involves some regulatory mechanism/s for the differential patterns of glycan expression.
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- Alejandra Hidalgo
- Institute of Basic Sciences and Experimental Medicine, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires
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Koles K, McDowell W, Mileusnic R, Rose SPR. Glycan analysis of the chicken synaptic plasma membrane glycoproteins--a major synaptic N-glycan carries the LewisX determinant. Int J Biol Sci 2005; 1:126-34. [PMID: 16244702 PMCID: PMC1252636 DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.1.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2005] [Accepted: 09/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The majority of synaptic plasma membrane components are glycosylated. It is now widely accepted that this post-translational modification is crucial during the establishment, maintenance and function of the nervous system. Despite its significance, structural information about the glycosylation of nervous system specific glycoproteins is very limited. In the present study the major glycan structures of the chicken synaptic plasma membrane (SPM) associated glycoprotein glycans were determined. N-glycans were released by hydrazinolysis, labelled with 2-aminobenzamide, treated with neuraminidase and subsequently fractionated by size exclusion chromatography. Individual fractions were characterized by the combination of high-pressure liquid chromatography, exoglycosidase treatment or reagent array analysis method (RAAM). In addition to oligomannose-type glycans, core-fucosylated complex glycans with biantennary bisecting glycans carrying the LewisX epitope were most abundant. The overall chicken glycan profile was strikingly similar to the rat brain glycan profile. The presence of the LewisX determinant in relatively large proportions suggests a tissue-specific function for these glycans.
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- Kate Koles
- Brain and Behaviour Research Group, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK.
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Miller EN, Rupp AL, Lindberg MK, Wiese TJ. Tissue distribution of l-fucokinase in rodents. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2005; 140:513-20. [PMID: 15694600 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2004.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2004] [Revised: 11/19/2004] [Accepted: 11/19/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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L-fucose (fucose) is a monosaccharide normally present in mammals and is unique in being the only levorotatory sugar that can be synthesized and utilized by mammals. The metabolism of fucose is incompletely understood, but fucose can be synthesized de novo or salvaged. The utilization of fucose in the salvage pathway begins with phosphorylation by fucokinase. As part of an investigation of fucose metabolism in normal and disease states, we began an investigation of this enzyme. In this report, we present the tissue distribution of the enzyme in rat and mouse. The highest amount of activity was present in brain of both species. Some activity was found in all tissues examined (liver, kidney, heart, lung, spleen, brain, muscle, thymus, white adipose, testes, eye, aorta, small intestine, and submaxillary gland). Very low levels were found in small intestine. Varying levels in the tissues seems most likely to be the result of varying amounts of fucokinase protein as no difference in the Km values of crude enzyme could be shown. Protein-bound fucose levels were determined using the L-cysteine-phenol-sulfuric acid (CPS) assay. There is not a good correlation between fucokinase activity and protein-bound fucose, suggesting some tissues are more active in synthesis of fucose than others.
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- Erin N Miller
- Department of Chemistry, Fort Hays State University, 600 Park St., Hays, KS 67601, USA
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Carbohydrate-carrying molecules in the nervous system have important roles during development, regeneration and synaptic plasticity. Carbohydrates mediate interactions between recognition molecules, thereby contributing to the formation of a complex molecular meshwork at the cell surface and in the extracellular matrix. The tremendous structural diversity of glycan chains allows for immense combinatorial possibilities that might underlie the fine-tuning of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions.
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- Ralf Kleene
- Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie, Universität Hamburg, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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Evstigneeva RP, Yamskov IA, Praizel OY, Piskarev VE. A conjugate of the perch (Perca fluviatilis) egg fucolectin with colloid gold: a new histochemical reagent. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2003; 389:106-9. [PMID: 12856416 DOI: 10.1023/a:1023688223354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- R P Evstigneeva
- Lomonosov State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology, pr. Vernadskogo 86, Moscow, 117571 Russia
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Machaidze GG, Mikeladze D. Different effects of lectins on the ligand binding of the NMDA receptors and sigma sites in rat brain hippocampus synaptic membranes. Neurochem Res 2001; 26:457-62. [PMID: 11513469 DOI: 10.1023/a:1010961808570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The effects of the lectins concanavalin A, WGA, ricin, abrin, and the mistletoe lectins from Viscum album MLI, MLII, and MLIII on the binding of ligands of the NMDA and sigma receptors in rat hippocampus synaptic plasma membranes were investigated. Binding of [3H]MK-801, [3H]glutamate, [3H]5,7-DCKA, and [3H]glycine to the membranes was decreased by 40-60% after addition of galactose-specific lectins (mistletoe lectins MLI, MLII, ricin, abrin) at concentrations of 0.01 mg/ml, but was not affected by the glucose- and mannose-specific lectin Con A, an acetylglucosamine-specific lectin WGA, or an acetylgalactosamine-specific lectin MLIII. The binding of [3H]SKF 10047 was decreased only in the presence of MLIII and did not change after addition of the other lectins. It is suggested that lectin-sensitive ligand binding sites of sigma- and NMDA receptors are located separately, and that the carbohydrate side chains of the sigma receptor do not participate in the modulation of the NMDA-receptor.
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- G G Machaidze
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.
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Matthies H, Kretlow J, Matthies H, Smalla KH, Staak S, Krug M. Glycosylation of proteins during a critical time window is necessary for the maintenance of long-term potentiation in the hippocampal CA1 region. Neuroscience 2001; 91:175-83. [PMID: 10336068 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(98)00628-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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This paper focuses on the role of glycoproteins in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. The effect of the different inhibitors of protein glycosylation, Tunicamycin, Brefeldin A and Swainsonine, on long-term potentiation was studied in the CA1 region of rat hippocampal slices. Bath application of the inhibitors 60 min before and during tetanization did not interfere with the induction of long-term potentiation of the field excitatory postsynaptic potential. However, the potentiation in inhibitor-treated slices decreased to baseline levels during 90-180 min. Significant differences in the potentiation in non-treated slices were detectable 80 min (Tunicamycin), 60 min (Brefeldin A) and 75 min (Swainsonine) after tetanization, thus indicating the prevention of long-term potentiation maintenance. The application of Swainsonine 120 and 240 min after tetanization did not influence the potentiated field excitatory postsynaptic potential. These data demonstrate the need for undisturbed glycoprotein processing in a time window around long-term potentiation induction to maintain later phases of long-term potentiation and essential functional implications of protein glycosylation in mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity.
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- H Matthies
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University Otto von Guericke, Magdeburg, Germany
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Matthies H, Schroeder H, Smalla KH, Krug M. Enhancement of glutamate release by L-fucose changes effects of glutamate receptor antagonists on long-term potentiation in the rat hippocampus. Learn Mem 2000; 7:227-34. [PMID: 10940323 PMCID: PMC311334 DOI: 10.1101/lm.7.4.227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In previous studies L-fucose has been shown to facilitate long-term memory formation and to enhance and prolong long-term potentiation (LTP). To search for possible presynaptic or postsynaptic mechanisms that are affected by L-fucose, we examined the effect of L-fucose on (1) inhibition of LTP induction via glutamate receptors by antagonists, (2) paired-pulse facilitation, and (3) presynaptic transmitter release. Coapplication of 0.2 mM L-fucose with the competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, D-2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (AP5), or coapplication of 0.2 mM L-fucose in the presence of an inhibitor for class I/II metabotropic glutamate receptors, (S)-alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG), reversed LTP blockade in the CA1-region of hippocampal slices. In contrast, L-fucose had no effect on the LTP blockade by the noncompetitive NMDA ion-channel blocker (5R,10S)-(+)-5-Methyl-10, 11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5, 10-imine hydrogen maleate (MK-801). Paired-pulse facilitation, which is a primarily presynaptic phenomenon of short-term plasticity, was decreased in the presence of 0.2 mM L-fucose. Furthermore, L-fucose enhanced the K(+)-stimulated release of [(3)H]-D-aspartate from preloaded hippocampal slices in a concentration-dependent manner. These observations demonstrate an influence of L-fucose on transmitter release that in turn can increase transmitter availability at postsynaptic glutamate receptors. This effect of L-fucose may contribute to the LTP facilitation seen in vitro and in vivo as well as to improvement in memory formation.
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- H Matthies
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University Otto von Guericke, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany.
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Smalla KH, Matthies H, Langnäse K, Shabir S, Böckers TM, Wyneken U, Staak S, Krug M, Beesley PW, Gundelfinger ED. The synaptic glycoprotein neuroplastin is involved in long-term potentiation at hippocampal CA1 synapses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:4327-32. [PMID: 10759566 PMCID: PMC18241 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.080389297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Neuroplastin-65 and -55 (previously known as gp65 and gp55) are glycoproteins of the Ig superfamily that are enriched in rat forebrain synaptic membrane preparations. Whereas the two-Ig domain isoform neuroplastin-55 is expressed in many tissues, the three-Ig domain isoform neuroplastin-65 is brain-specific and enriched in postsynaptic density (PSD) protein preparations. Here, we have assessed the function of neuroplastin in long-term synaptic plasticity. Immunocytochemical studies with neuroplastin-65-specific antibodies differentially stain distinct synaptic neuropil regions of the rat hippocampus with most prominent immunoreactivity in the CA1 region and the proximal molecular layer of the dentate gyrus. Kainate-induced seizures cause a significant enhancement of neuroplastin-65 association with PSDs. Similarly, long-term potentiation (LTP) of CA1 synapses in hippocampal slices enhanced the association of neuroplastin-65 with a detergent-insoluble PSD-enriched protein fraction. Several antibodies against the neuroplastins, including one specific for neuroplastin-65, inhibited the maintenance of LTP. A similar effect was observed when recombinant fusion protein containing the three extracellular Ig domains of neuroplastin-65 was applied to hippocampal slices before LTP induction. Microsphere binding experiments using neuroplastin-F(c) chimeric proteins show that constructs containing Ig1-3 or Ig1 domains, but not Ig2-3 domains mediate homophilic adhesion. These data suggest that neuroplastin plays an essential role in implementing long-term changes in synaptic activity, possibly by means of a homophilic adhesion mechanism.
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- K H Smalla
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestrasse 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany
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