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Nielsen VG. Ruthenium, Not Carbon Monoxide, Inhibits the Procoagulant Activity of Atheris, Echis, and Pseudonaja Venoms. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21082970. [PMID: 32340168 PMCID: PMC7216138 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21082970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Revised: 04/19/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The demonstration that carbon monoxide releasing molecules (CORMs) affect experimental systems by the release of carbon monoxide, and not via the interaction of the inactivated CORM, has been an accepted paradigm for decades. However, it has recently been documented that a radical intermediate formed during carbon monoxide release from ruthenium (Ru)-based CORM (CORM-2) interacts with histidine and can inactivate bee phospholipase A2 activity. Using a thrombelastographic based paradigm to assess procoagulant activity in human plasma, this study tested the hypothesis that a Ru-based radical and not carbon monoxide was responsible for CORM-2 mediated inhibition of Atheris,Echis, and Pseudonaja species snake venoms. Assessment of the inhibitory effects of ruthenium chloride (RuCl3) on snake venom activity was also determined. CORM-2 mediated inhibition of the three venoms was found to be independent of carbon monoxide release, as the presence of histidine-rich albumin abrogated CORM-2 inhibition. Exposure to RuCl3 had little effect on Atheris venom activity, but Echis and Pseudonaja venom had procoagulant activity significantly reduced. In conclusion, a Ru-based radical and ion inhibited procoagulant snake venoms, not carbon monoxide. These data continue to add to our mechanistic understanding of how Ru-based molecules can modulate hemotoxic venoms, and these results can serve as a rationale to focus on perhaps other, complementary compounds containing Ru as antivenom agents in vitro and, ultimately, in vivo.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vance G Nielsen
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
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Page MJ, Thomson GJA, Nunes JM, Engelbrecht AM, Nell TA, de Villiers WJS, de Beer MC, Engelbrecht L, Kell DB, Pretorius E. Serum amyloid A binds to fibrin(ogen), promoting fibrin amyloid formation. Sci Rep 2019; 9:3102. [PMID: 30816210 PMCID: PMC6395759 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39056-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Complex associations exist between inflammation and thrombosis, with the inflammatory state tending to promote coagulation. Fibrinogen, an acute phase protein, has been shown to interact with the amyloidogenic ß-amyloid protein of Alzheimer’s disease. However, little is known about the association between fibrinogen and serum amyloid A (SAA), a highly fibrillogenic protein that is one of the most dramatically changing acute phase reactants in the circulation. To study the role of SAA in coagulation and thrombosis, in vitro experiments were performed where purified human SAA, in concentrations resembling a modest acute phase response, was added to platelet-poor plasma (PPP) and whole blood (WB), as well as purified and fluorescently labelled fibrinogen. Results from thromboelastography (TEG) suggest that SAA causes atypical coagulation with a fibrin(ogen)-mediated increase in coagulation, but a decreased platelet/fibrin(ogen) interaction. In WB scanning electron microscopy analysis, SAA mediated red blood cell (RBC) agglutination, platelet activation and clumping, but not platelet spreading. Following clot formation in PPP, the presence of SAA increased amyloid formation of fibrin(ogen) as determined both with auto-fluorescence and with fluorogenic amyloid markers, under confocal microcopy. SAA also binds to fibrinogen, as determined with a fluorescent-labelled SAA antibody and correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM). The data presented here indicate that SAA can affect coagulation by inducing amyloid formation in fibrin(ogen), as well as by propelling platelets to a more prothrombotic state. The discovery of these multiple and complex effects of SAA on coagulation invite further mechanistic analyses.
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- Martin J Page
- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa.,Department of Internal Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Physiology, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center and Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Fluorescence Microscopy Unit, Central Analytical Facilities, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa. .,School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, MANCHESTER M1 7DN, Lancs, UK. .,The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, MANCHESTER M1 7DN, Lancs, UK. .,Department of Biochemistry, Institute of integrative Biology, Biosciences Building., University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool, L69 7ZB, UK.
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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De Novo Assessment and Review of Pan-American Pit Viper Anticoagulant and Procoagulant Venom Activities via Kinetomic Analyses. Toxins (Basel) 2019; 11:toxins11020094. [PMID: 30736322 PMCID: PMC6409967 DOI: 10.3390/toxins11020094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 02/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Snakebite with hemotoxic venom continues to be a major source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Our laboratory has characterized the coagulopathy that occurs in vitro in human plasma via specialized thrombelastographic methods to determine if venoms are predominantly anticoagulant or procoagulant in nature. Further, the exposure of venoms to carbon monoxide (CO) or O-phenylhydroxylamine (PHA) modulate putative heme groups attached to key enzymes has also provided mechanistic insight into the multiple different activities contained in one venom. The present investigation used these techniques to characterize fourteen different venoms obtained from snakes from North, Central, and South America. Further, we review and present previous thrombelastographic-based analyses of eighteen other species from the Americas. Venoms were found to be anticoagulant and procoagulant (thrombin-like activity, thrombin-generating activity). All prospectively assessed venom activities were determined to be heme-modulated except two, wherein both CO and its carrier molecule were found to inhibit activity, while PHA did not affect activity (Bothriechis schlegelii and Crotalus organus abyssus). When divided by continent, North and Central America contained venoms with mostly anticoagulant activities, several thrombin-like activities, with only two thrombin-generating activity containing venoms. In contrast, most venoms with thrombin-generating activity were located in South America, derived from Bothrops species. In conclusion, the kinetomic profiles of venoms obtained from thirty-two Pan-American Pit Viper species are presented. It is anticipated that this approach will be utilized to identify clinically relevant hemotoxic venom enzymatic activity and assess the efficacy of locally delivered CO or systemically administered antivenoms.
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Effects of Heme Modulation on Ovophis and Trimeresurus Venom Activity in Human Plasma. Toxins (Basel) 2018; 10:toxins10080322. [PMID: 30096756 PMCID: PMC6116019 DOI: 10.3390/toxins10080322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Revised: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Geographic isolation and other factors result in evolution-driven diversity of the enzymatic composition of venom of pit vipers in the same genus. The present investigation sought to characterize venoms obtained from such genetically diverse Ovophis and Trimeresurus pit vipers utilizing thrombelastographic coagulation kinetic analyses. The coagulation kinetics of human plasma were assessed after exposure to venom obtained from two Ovophis and three Trimeresurus species. The potency of each venom was defined (µg/mL required to equivalently change coagulation); additionally, venoms were exposed to carbon monoxide (CO) or a metheme-inducing agent to modulate any enzyme-associated heme. All venoms had fibrinogenolytic activity, with four being CO-inhibitable. While Ovophis venoms had similar potency, one demonstrated the presence of a thrombin-like activity, whereas the other demonstrated a thrombin-generating activity. There was a 10-fold difference in potency and 10-fold different vulnerability to CO inhibition between the Trimeresurus species. Metheme formation enhanced fibrinogenolytic-like activity in both Ovophis species venoms, whereas the three Trimeresurus species venoms had fibrinogenolytic-like activity enhanced, inhibited, or not changed. This novel “venom kinetomic” approach has potential to identify clinically relevant enzymatic activity and assess efficacy of antivenoms between genetically and geographically diverse species.
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Suntravat M, Langlais PR, Sánchez EE, Nielsen VG. CatroxMP-II: a heme-modulated fibrinogenolytic metalloproteinase isolated from Crotalus atrox venom. Biometals 2018; 31:585-593. [PMID: 29761254 DOI: 10.1007/s10534-018-0107-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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It has been recently demonstrated that the hemotoxic venom activity of several species of snakes can be inhibited by carbon monoxide (CO) or a metheme forming agent. These and other data suggest that the biometal, heme, may be attached to venom enzymes and may be modulated by CO. A novel fibrinogenolytic metalloproteinase, named CatroxMP-II, was isolated and purified from the venom of a Crotalus atrox viper, and subjected to proteolysis and mass spectroscopy. An ion similar to the predicted singly charged m/z of heme at 617.18 was identified. Lastly, CORM-2 (tricarbonyldichlororuthenium (II) dimer, a CO releasing molecule) inhibited the fibrinogenolytic effects of CatroxMP-II on coagulation kinetics in human plasma. In conclusion, we present the first example of a snake venom metalloproteinase that is heme-bound and CO-inhibited.
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- Montamas Suntravat
- Department of Chemistry, National Natural Toxins Research Center, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, USA
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- The Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, National Natural Toxins Research Center, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, USA
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- The Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, P.O. Box 245114, 1501 North Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ, 85724-5114, USA.
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The effect of physiological levels of South African puff adder (Bitis arietans) snake venom on blood cells: an in vitro model. Sci Rep 2016; 6:35988. [PMID: 27775063 PMCID: PMC5075924 DOI: 10.1038/srep35988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A significant burden of illness is caused globally by snakebites particularly by the puff adder, Bitis arietans. Presently there is no reliable and rapid method to confirm envenomation on blood chemistry; although coagulation parameters like prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, international normalized ratio and also serum electrolytes are tested. Here, we found that direct in vitro exposure of physiological relevant whole venom levels to human healthy blood (N = 32), caused significant physiological changes to platelet activity using a hematology analyzer, and measuring occlusion time, as well as lyses time, with the global thrombosis test (GTT). Disintegrated platelets were confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). We also confirmed the pathologic effects on erythrocytes (RBCs) (visible as eryptotic RBCs), by looking at both light microscopy and SEM. Thromboelastography showed that no clot formation in whole blood could be induced after addition of whole venom. We propose further clinical studies to investigate the use of light microscopy smears and hematology analyzer results immediately after envenomation, as a possible first-stage of clinical confirmation of envenomation.
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