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Huang W, Zhou R, Jiang C, Wang J, Zhou Y, Xu X, Wang T, Li A, Zhang Y. Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Pompe disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Cell Prolif 2024; 57:e13573. [PMID: 37916452 PMCID: PMC10984102 DOI: 10.1111/cpr.13573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2022] [Revised: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023] Open
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Pompe disease (PD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that presents with progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. However, the detailed mechanism remains clarified. Herein, PD patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells were differentiated into cardiomyocytes (PD-iCMs) that exhibited cardiomyopathic features of PD, including decreased acid alpha-glucosidase activity, lysosomal glycogen accumulation and hypertrophy. The defective mitochondria were involved in the cardiac pathology as shown by the significantly decreased number of mitochondria and impaired respiratory function and ATP production in PD-iCMs, which was partially due to elevated levels of intracellular reactive oxygen species produced from depolarized mitochondria. Further analysis showed that impaired fusion and autophagy of mitochondria and declined expression of mitochondrial complexes underlies the mechanism of dysfunctional mitochondria. This was alleviated by supplementation with recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase that improved the mitochondrial function and concomitantly mitigated the cardiac pathology. Therefore, this study suggests that defective mitochondria underlie the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy in patients with PD.
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- Wenjun Huang
- National Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and DiseasesShaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- National Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and DiseasesShaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- National Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and DiseasesShaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- National Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and DiseasesShaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- National Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and DiseasesShaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- Department of CardiologyXi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- Department of CardiologyXi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- National Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and DiseasesShaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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- National Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and DiseasesShaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
- Department of CardiologyXi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'anChina
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Cao Y, Xu S, Liu J, Zhao S, Yan J. Rational construction and evaluation of a dual-functional near-infrared fluorescent probe for the imaging of Amyloid-β and mitochondrial viscosity. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 306:123564. [PMID: 37871543 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Revised: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease is a fatal, incurable, chronic neurodegenerative disease. Diagnosis in its early and even preclinical stages will be beneficial for its prevention and treatment. In the accepted pathological theory, abnormal accumulation of Aβ protein and abnormal mitochondrial function, including changes in mitochondrial viscosity, is closely related to Alzheimer's disease. To date, rare fluorescent probes have been reported that can simultaneously image Aβ plaques and mitochondrial viscosity. Therefore, the development of a dual-functional fluorescent probe for real-time fluorescence imaging of Aβ plaques and mitochondrial viscosity is crucial to discover a novel approach and strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, and to understand the pathological process and crosstalk between different biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Herein, we rationally designed and synthesized a series of fluorescent probes QM-SF-1∼5 with dimethylamino-quinolinium as the skeleton and thiophene as the π bridge to connect the groups with different electron-push/pull capacities. Among them, QM-SF-2 exhibited excellent properties such as large Stokes shift (168 nm), near-infrared emission (689 nm), and high selectivity and sensitivity (limit of detection was 1.07 μM) to Aβ aggregate and mitochondrial viscosity changes, indicating its promising prospects as a dual-functional imaging tool in the pathological study of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Yingmei Cao
- MOE International Joint Research Laboratory on Synthetic Biology and Medicines, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Research on Emergency in TCM, Guangzhou, China
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- MOE International Joint Research Laboratory on Synthetic Biology and Medicines, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Orthopedics Department, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, No. 111 Dade Road, Guangzhou 510120, China.
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- MOE International Joint Research Laboratory on Synthetic Biology and Medicines, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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Samanta SK, Maiti K, Halder S, Guria UN, Mandal D, Jana K, Mahapatra AK. A 'double locked' ratiometric fluorescent probe for detection of cysteine in a viscous system and its application in cancer cells. Org Biomol Chem 2023; 21:575-584. [PMID: 36541660 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob01813f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Intracellular viscosity is a physicochemical property that regulates the consequences of several biological progressions. Cysteine (Cys) is an important signaling molecule that commands many cellular activities, such as antioxidant generation. Predicting that both may be interconnected with a diversity of pathological processes, their contemporaneous measurement would be valuable for studying the pathological ailment of cells. Herein, we have synthesized a 'double locked' probe, acrylic acid 6-[4-(2-benzothiazol-2-yl-2-cyano-vinyl)-phenyl]-naphthalen-2-yl ester (ABN) for the detection of Cys in a viscous medium and explored its application to living cells that were exposed to dexamethasone to regulate the intracellular viscosity level. ABN displayed a satisfactory ratiometric (blue to orange) fluorescence response in solution and in living cells when Cys and viscosity coexisted. A turn-on fluorescence signal was visualized when the probe was individually treated with Cys and glycerol (a standard viscosity source). Therefore, we propose that ABN is a fluorescent probe that permits the monitoring of variations in intracellular viscosity and Cys levels in a biological environment, and it can be utilized in innumerable cellular damage models.
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- Sandip Kumar Samanta
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India.
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P 1/12, CIT Scheme VIIM, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India.
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala 147004, Punjab, India
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P 1/12, CIT Scheme VIIM, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India.
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Pollmanns MR, Beer J, Rosignol I, Rodriguez-Muela N, Falkenburger BH, Dinter E. Activated Endolysosomal Cation Channel TRPML1 Facilitates Maturation of α-Synuclein-Containing Autophagosomes. Front Cell Neurosci 2022; 16:861202. [PMID: 35875350 PMCID: PMC9296810 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2022.861202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background: Protein aggregates are degraded via the autophagy-lysosome pathway and alterations in the lysosomal system leading to the accumulation of pathogenic proteins, including aggregates of α-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The importance of the endolysosomal transient receptor potential cation channel, mucolipin subfamily 1 (TRPML1) for the lysosomal function is highlighted by the fact that TRPML1 mutations cause the lysosomal storage disease mucolipidosis type IV. In this study, we investigated the mechanism by which activation of TRPML1 affects the degradation of α-synuclein. Methods: As a model of α-synuclein pathology, we expressed the pathogenic A53Tα-synuclein mutant in HEK293T cells. These cells were treated with the synthetic TRPML1 agonist ML-SA1. The amount of α-synuclein protein was determined by immunoblots. The abundance of aggregates and autolysosomal vesicles was determined by fluorescence microscopy and immunocytochemistry. Findings were confirmed by life-cell imaging and by application of ML-SA1 and the TRPML1 antagonist ML-SI3 to human dopaminergic neurons and human stem cell-derived neurons. Results: ML-SA1 reduced the percentage of HEK293T cells with α-synuclein aggregates and the amount of α-synuclein protein. The effect of ML-SA1 was blocked by pharmacological and genetic inhibition of autophagy. Consistent with TRPML function, it required the membrane lipid PI(3,5)P2, and cytosolic calcium. ML-SA1 shifted the composition of autophagosomes towards a higher fraction of mature autolysosomes, also in presence of α-synuclein. In neurons, inhibition of TRPML1 by its antagonist ML-SI3 blocked autophagosomal clearance, whereas the agonist ML-SA1 shifted the composition of a-synuclein particles towards a higher fraction of acidified particles. ML-SA1 was able to override the effect of Bafilomycin A1, which blocks the fusion of the autophagosome and lysosome and its acidification. Conclusion: These findings suggest, that activating TRPML1 with ML-SA1 facilitates clearance of α-synuclein aggregates primarily by affecting the late steps of the autophagy, i.e., by promoting autophagosome maturation. In agreement with recent work by others, our findings indicate that TRPML1 might constitute a plausible therapeutic target for PD, that warrants further validation in rodent models of α-synuclein pathology.
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Dresden, Germany
- Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Dresden, Germany
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- Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Dresden, Germany
- Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Dresden, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, RWTH University Aachen, Aachen, Germany
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Dresden, Germany
- JARA-Institute Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Forschungsszentrum Jülich GmbH and RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- *Correspondence: Björn H. Falkenburger
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- Department of Neurology, RWTH University Aachen, Aachen, Germany
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Dresden, Germany
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Pandey G, Julian RR. LC-MS Reveals Isomeric Inhibition of Proteolysis by Lysosomal Cathepsins. ANALYSIS & SENSING 2022; 2:e202200017. [PMID: 37621768 PMCID: PMC10449060 DOI: 10.1002/anse.202200017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Defects in autophagy are implicated in many age-related diseases that cause neurodegeneration including both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Within autophagy, the lysosome plays a crucial role by enabling the breakdown and recycling of a wide range of biomolecular species. Herein, the effects of isomerization of aspartic acid (Asp) on substrate recognition and degradation are investigated for a collection of lysosomal cathepsins using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. By examining a series of synthetic peptides with sequences derived from long-lived proteins known to undergo Asp isomerization, we demonstrate that isomerized forms of Asp significantly perturb cathepsin activity by impeding digestion and shifting preferential sites of proteolysis. Although the sensitivity to isomerization varies for each cathepsin, none of the cathepsins were capable of digesting sites within several residues of the C-terminal side of the isomerized Asp. Under physiological conditions, the peptide fragments left behind after such incomplete digestion would not be suitable substrates for transporter recognition and could precipitate autophagic malfunction in the form of lysosomal storage.
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- Gaurav Pandey
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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Hossain MA, Hasegawa-Ogawa M, Manome Y, Igarashi M, Wu C, Suzuki K, Igarashi J, Iwamoto T, Okano HJ, Eto Y. Generation and characterization of motor neuron progenitors and motor neurons using metachromatic leukodystrophy-induced pluripotent stem cells. Mol Genet Metab Rep 2022; 31:100852. [PMID: 35782608 PMCID: PMC9248224 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2022.100852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 10/29/2022] Open
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Lambeth T, Julian RR. Proteolysis of Amyloid β by Lysosomal Enzymes as a Function of Fibril Morphology. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:31520-31527. [PMID: 34869978 PMCID: PMC8637590 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) into extracellular plaques is a well-known hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Similarly, autophagic vacuoles, autophagosomes, and other residual bodies within dystrophic neurites, though more difficult to detect, are characteristic features of AD. To explore the potential intersection between these observations, we conducted experiments to assess whether Aβ fibril formation disrupts proteolysis by lysosomal enzymes. Fibrils constituted by either Aβ 1-40 or Aβ 1-42 were grown under both neutral and acidic pH. The extent of proteolysis by individual cathepsins (L, D, B, and H) was monitored by both thioflavin T fluorescence and liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry. The results show that all Aβ fibril morphologies are resistant to cathepsin digestion, with significant amounts of the undigested material remaining for samples grown in either neutral or acidic pH. Further analysis revealed that the neutral-grown fibrils are proteolytically resistant throughout the sequence, while the acid-grown fibrils prevented digestion primarily in the C-terminal portion of the sequence. Fibrils grown from Aβ 1-42 are generally more resistant to degradation compared to Aβ 1-40. Overall, the results indicate that Aβ fibrils formed in the neutral pH environments found in intracellular or extracellular spaces may pose the greatest difficulty for complete digestion by the lysosome, particularly when the fibrils are comprised of Aβ 1-42.
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Ablation of Acid Ceramidase Impairs Autophagy and Mitochondria Activity in Melanoma Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22063247. [PMID: 33806766 PMCID: PMC8004726 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22063247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Revised: 03/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Cutaneous melanoma is often resistant to therapy due to its high plasticity, as well as its ability to metabolise chemotherapeutic drugs. Sphingolipid signalling plays a pivotal role in its progression and metastasis. One of the ways melanoma alters sphingolipid rheostat is via over-expression of lysosomal acid ceramidase (AC), which catalyses the hydrolysis of pro-apoptotic long-chain ceramides into sphingosine and fatty acid. In this report, we examine the role of acid ceramidase in maintaining cellular homeostasis through the regulation of autophagy and mitochondrial activity in melanoma cell lines. We show that under baseline conditions, wild-type melanoma cells had 3-fold higher levels of the autophagy marker, microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light chain 3B (LC3 II), compared to AC-null cells. This difference was further magnified after cell starvation. Moreover, we noticed autophagy impairment in A375 AC-null cells, possibly due to local accumulation of non-metabolized ceramides. Nonetheless, we observed that AC-null cells exhibited a significant increase in mitochondrial membrane potential compared to control cells. Consistent with this observation, we found that, after total starvation, ~30% of AC-null cells undergo apoptosis compared to ~6% of wild-type cells. As expected, AC transfection restored viability in A375 AC-null cells. Together, these findings suggest that AC-null melanoma cells change and adapt their metabolism to survive in the absence of AC, although in a way that does not allow them to cope with the stress of nutrient deprivation.
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Kuk MU, Lee YH, Kim JW, Hwang SY, Park JT, Park SC. Potential Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Disease through Modulation of the Mitochondrial-Lysosomal Axis. Cells 2021; 10:cells10020420. [PMID: 33671306 PMCID: PMC7921977 DOI: 10.3390/cells10020420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 02/13/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Lysosomal storage disease (LSD) is an inherited metabolic disorder caused by enzyme deficiency in lysosomes. Some treatments for LSD can slow progression, but there are no effective treatments to restore the pathological phenotype to normal levels. Lysosomes and mitochondria interact with each other, and this crosstalk plays a role in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Deficiency of lysosome enzymes in LSD impairs the turnover of mitochondrial defects, leading to deterioration of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC). Cells with MRC impairment are associated with reduced lysosomal calcium homeostasis, resulting in impaired autophagic and endolysosomal function. This malicious feedback loop between lysosomes and mitochondria exacerbates LSD. In this review, we assess the interactions between mitochondria and lysosomes and propose the mitochondrial-lysosomal axis as a research target to treat LSD. The importance of the mitochondrial-lysosomal axis has been systematically characterized in several studies, suggesting that proper regulation of this axis represents an important investigative guide for the development of therapeutics for LSD. Therefore, studying the mitochondrial-lysosomal axis will not only add knowledge of the essential physiological processes of LSD, but also provide new strategies for treatment of LSD.
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- Myeong Uk Kuk
- Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; (M.U.K.); (Y.H.L.); (J.W.K.); (S.Y.H.)
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- Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; (M.U.K.); (Y.H.L.); (J.W.K.); (S.Y.H.)
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- Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; (M.U.K.); (Y.H.L.); (J.W.K.); (S.Y.H.)
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- Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; (M.U.K.); (Y.H.L.); (J.W.K.); (S.Y.H.)
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- Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; (M.U.K.); (Y.H.L.); (J.W.K.); (S.Y.H.)
- Correspondence: (J.T.P.); ; (S.C.P.); Tel.: +82-32-835-8841 (J.T.P.); +82-10-5495-9200 (S.C.P.)
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- The Future Life & Society Research Center, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
- Correspondence: (J.T.P.); ; (S.C.P.); Tel.: +82-32-835-8841 (J.T.P.); +82-10-5495-9200 (S.C.P.)
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Wang X, Fan L, Wang S, Zhang Y, Li F, Zan Q, Lu W, Shuang S, Dong C. Real-Time Monitoring Mitochondrial Viscosity during Mitophagy Using a Mitochondria-Immobilized Near-Infrared Aggregation-Induced Emission Probe. Anal Chem 2021; 93:3241-3249. [PMID: 33539094 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Mitophagy plays a crucial role in maintaining intracellular homeostasis through the removal of dysfunctional mitochondria and recycling their constituents in a lysosome-degradative pathway, which leads to microenvironmental changes within mitochondria, such as the pH, viscosity, and polarity. However, most of the mitochondrial fluorescence viscosity probes only rely on electrostatic attraction and readily leak out from the mitochondria during mitophagy with a decreased membrane potential, thus easily leading to an inaccurate detection of viscosity changes. In this work, we report a mitochondria-immobilized NIR-emissive aggregation-induced emission (AIE) probe CS-Py-BC, which allows for an off-on fluorescence response to viscosity, thus enabling the real-time monitoring viscosity variation during mitophagy. This system consists of a cyanostilbene skeleton as the AIE active core and viscosity-sensitive unit, a pyridinium cation for the mitochondria-targeting group, and a benzyl chloride subunit that induces mitochondrial immobilization. As the viscosity increased from 0.903 cP (0% glycerol) to 965 cP (99% glycerol), CS-Py-BC exhibited an about 92-fold increase in fluorescence intensity at 650 nm, which might be attributed to the restriction of rotation and inhibition of twisted intramolecular charge transfer in a high viscosity system. We also revealed that CS-Py-BC could be well immobilized onto mitochondria, regardless of the mitochondrial membrane potential fluctuation. Most importantly, using CS-Py-BC, we have successfully visualized the increased mitochondrial viscosity during starvation or rapamycin-induced mitophagy in real time. All these features render CS-Py-BC a promising candidate to investigate mitophagy-associated dynamic physiological and pathological processes.
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- Xiaodong Wang
- Institute of Environmental Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, P. R. China
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- Institute of Environmental Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin 132022, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin 132022, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- Institute of Environmental Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, P. R. China
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- Institute of Environmental Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, P. R. China
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- Institute of Environmental Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, P. R. China
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- Institute of Environmental Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, P. R. China
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Vardi A, Pri-Or A, Wigoda N, Grishchuk Y, Futerman AH. Proteomics analysis of a human brain sample from a mucolipidosis type IV patient reveals pathophysiological pathways. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2021; 16:39. [PMID: 33478506 PMCID: PMC7818904 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-021-01679-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background Mucolipidosis type IV (MLIV), an ultra-rare neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorder, is caused by mutations in the MCOLN1 gene, which encodes the late endosomal/lysosomal transient receptor potential channel TRPML1 (mucolipin 1). The precise pathophysiogical pathways that cause neurological disease in MLIV are poorly understood. Recently, the first post-mortem brain sample became available from a single MLIV patient, and in the current study we performed mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics on this tissue with a view to delineating pathological pathways, and to compare with previously-published data on MLIV, including studies using the Mcoln1−/− mouse. Results A number of pathways were altered in two brain regions from the MLIV patient, including those related to the lysosome, lipid metabolism, myelination, cellular trafficking and autophagy, mTOR and calmodulin, the complement system and interferon signaling. Of these, levels of some proteins not known previously to be associated with MLIV were altered, including APOD, PLIN4, ATG and proteins related to interferon signaling. Moreover, when proteins detected by proteomics in the human brain were compared with their orthologs detected in the Mcoln1−/− mouse by RNAseq, the results were remarkably similar. Finally, analysis of proteins in human and mouse CSF suggest that calbindin 1 and calbindin 2 might be useful as biomarkers to help chart the course of disease development. Conclusions Despite the sample size limitations, our findings are consistent with the relatively general changes in lysosomal function previously reported in MLIV, and shed light on new pathways of disease pathophysiology, which is required in order to understand the course of disease development and to determine the efficacy of therapies when they become available for this devastating disease.
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- Ayelet Vardi
- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Life Sciences Core Facilities, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel
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- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge St., Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel.
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Mitochondria-targeted fluorescent probe based on vibration-induced emission for real-time monitoring mitophagy-specific viscosity dynamic. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.03.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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De Pasquale V, Caterino M, Costanzo M, Fedele R, Ruoppolo M, Pavone LM. Targeted Metabolomic Analysis of a Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB Mouse Model Reveals an Imbalance of Branched-Chain Amino Acid and Fatty Acid Metabolism. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21124211. [PMID: 32545699 PMCID: PMC7352355 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21124211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSs) are inherited disorders of the glycosaminoglycan (GAG) metabolism. The defective digestion of GAGs within the intralysosomal compartment of affected patients leads to a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from cardiovascular disease to neurological impairment. The molecular mechanisms underlying the progression of the disease downstream of the genetic mutation of genes encoding for lysosomal enzymes still remain unclear. Here, we applied a targeted metabolomic approach to a mouse model of PS IIIB, using a platform dedicated to the diagnosis of inherited metabolic disorders, in order to identify amino acid and fatty acid metabolic pathway alterations or the manifestations of other metabolic phenotypes. Our analysis highlighted an increase in the levels of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs: Val, Ile, and Leu), aromatic amino acids (Tyr and Phe), free carnitine, and acylcarnitines in the liver and heart tissues of MPS IIIB mice as compared to the wild type (WT). Moreover, Ala, Met, Glu, Gly, Arg, Orn, and Cit amino acids were also found upregulated in the liver of MPS IIIB mice. These findings show a specific impairment of the BCAA and fatty acid catabolism in the heart of MPS IIIB mice. In the liver of affected mice, the glucose-alanine cycle and urea cycle resulted in being altered alongside a deregulation of the BCAA metabolism. Thus, our data demonstrate that an accumulation of BCAAs occurs secondary to lysosomal GAG storage, in both the liver and the heart of MPS IIIB mice. Since BCAAs regulate the biogenesis of lysosomes and autophagy mechanisms through mTOR signaling, impacting on lipid metabolism, this condition might contribute to the progression of the MPS IIIB disease.
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- Valeria De Pasquale
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.P.); (M.C.); (M.C.); (L.M.P.)
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.P.); (M.C.); (M.C.); (L.M.P.)
- CEINGE—Biotecnologie Avanzate s.c.ar.l., 80145 Naples, Italy;
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.P.); (M.C.); (M.C.); (L.M.P.)
- CEINGE—Biotecnologie Avanzate s.c.ar.l., 80145 Naples, Italy;
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- CEINGE—Biotecnologie Avanzate s.c.ar.l., 80145 Naples, Italy;
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.P.); (M.C.); (M.C.); (L.M.P.)
- CEINGE—Biotecnologie Avanzate s.c.ar.l., 80145 Naples, Italy;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-081-3737850
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (V.D.P.); (M.C.); (M.C.); (L.M.P.)
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Santoni G, Maggi F, Amantini C, Marinelli O, Nabissi M, Morelli MB. Pathophysiological Role of Transient Receptor Potential Mucolipin Channel 1 in Calcium-Mediated Stress-Induced Neurodegenerative Diseases. Front Physiol 2020; 11:251. [PMID: 32265740 PMCID: PMC7105868 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Mucolipins (TRPML) are endosome/lysosome Ca2+ permeable channels belonging to the family of transient receptor potential channels. In mammals, there are three TRPML proteins, TRPML1, 2, and 3, encoded by MCOLN1-3 genes. Among these channels, TRPML1 is a reactive oxygen species sensor localized on the lysosomal membrane that is able to control intracellular oxidative stress due to the activation of the autophagic process. Moreover, genetic or pharmacological inhibition of the TRPML1 channel stimulates oxidative stress signaling pathways. Experimental data suggest that elevated levels of reactive species play a role in several neurological disorders. There is a need to gain better understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind these neurodegenerative diseases, considering that the main sources of free radicals are mitochondria, that mitochondria/endoplasmic reticulum and lysosomes are coupled, and that growing evidence links neurodegenerative diseases to the gain or loss of function of proteins related to lysosome homeostasis. This review examines the significant roles played by the TRPML1 channel in the alterations of calcium signaling responsible for stress-mediated neurodegenerative disorders and its potential as a new therapeutic target for ameliorating neurodegeneration in our ever-aging population.
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- Giorgio Santoni
- Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.,Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.,Immunopathology Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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Viana GM, Gonzalez EA, Alvarez MMP, Cavalheiro RP, do Nascimento CC, Baldo G, D’Almeida V, de Lima MA, Pshezhetsky AV, Nader HB. Cathepsin B-associated Activation of Amyloidogenic Pathway in Murine Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Brain Cortex. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21041459. [PMID: 32093427 PMCID: PMC7073069 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21041459] [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: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) is caused by genetic deficiency of α-l-iduronidase and impairment of lysosomal catabolism of heparan sulfate and dermatan sulfate. In the brain, these substrates accumulate in the lysosomes of neurons and glial cells, leading to neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. Their storage also affects lysosomal homeostasis-inducing activity of several lysosomal proteases including cathepsin B (CATB). In the central nervous system, increased CATB activity has been associated with the deposition of amyloid plaques due to an alternative pro-amyloidogenic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP), suggesting a potential role of this enzyme in the neuropathology of MPS I. In this study, we report elevated levels of protein expression and activity of CATB in cortex tissues of 6-month-old MPS I (Idua -/- mice. Besides, increased CATB leakage from lysosomes to the cytoplasm of Idua -/- cortical pyramidal neurons was indicative of damaged lysosomal membranes. The increased CATB activity coincided with an elevated level of the 16-kDa C-terminal APP fragment, which together with unchanged levels of β-secretase 1 was suggestive for the role of this enzyme in the amyloidogenic APP processing. Neuronal accumulation of Thioflavin-S-positive misfolded protein aggregates and drastically increased levels of neuroinflammatory glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive astrocytes and CD11b-positive activated microglia were observed in Idua -/- cortex by confocal fluorescent microscopy. Together, our results point to the existence of a novel CATB-associated alternative amyloidogenic pathway in MPS I brain induced by lysosomal storage and potentially leading to neurodegeneration.
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- Gustavo Monteiro Viana
- Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP 04044-020, Brazil; (M.M.P.A.); (R.P.C.); (H.B.N.)
- Correspondence: (G.M.V); (A.V.P); Tel.: +55-11-55764438 (ext. 1188) (G.M.V.); Tel.: +1 (514)-345-4931 (ext. 2736) (A.V.P.)
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- Gene Therapy Center, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS 90035-903, Brazil; (E.A.G.); (G.B.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP 04044-020, Brazil; (M.M.P.A.); (R.P.C.); (H.B.N.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP 04044-020, Brazil; (M.M.P.A.); (R.P.C.); (H.B.N.)
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- Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP 04024-002, Brazil; (C.C.d.N.); (V.D.)
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- Gene Therapy Center, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS 90035-903, Brazil; (E.A.G.); (G.B.)
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- Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP 04024-002, Brazil; (C.C.d.N.); (V.D.)
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- Molecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK;
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- Division of Medical Genetics, CHU Ste-Justine Research Centre, Montreal, QC H3T 1C5, Canada
- Correspondence: (G.M.V); (A.V.P); Tel.: +55-11-55764438 (ext. 1188) (G.M.V.); Tel.: +1 (514)-345-4931 (ext. 2736) (A.V.P.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP 04044-020, Brazil; (M.M.P.A.); (R.P.C.); (H.B.N.)
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Li Z, Jiang T, Lu Q, Xu K, He J, Xie L, Chen Z, Zheng Z, Ye L, Xu K, Zhang H, Hu A. Berberine attenuated the cytotoxicity induced by t-BHP via inhibiting oxidative stress and mitochondria dysfunction in PC-12 cells. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2019; 40:587-602. [PMID: 31828466 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-019-00756-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 10/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Neurodegenerative diseases all share several common features such as involvement of oxidative damage and mitochondrial dysfunction in pathogenesis. Oxidative stress induced by overproduction of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) or impairment of the antioxidant deficiency results in mitochondrial dysfunction and initiation of the cell death cascade. Berberine (BBR), a traditional Chinese medicine, has been reported to exert anti-oxidative stress and anti-apoptosis effect in CNS diseases. However, the mechanism of BBR on regulating mitophagy and protecting mitochondrial function under oxidative stress remains unclear. In present study, we evaluated the beneficial effects of BBR on the tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP)-induced cytotoxicity. Furthermore, we explored the protective role of BBR in mitochondrial function and mitophagy under oxidative stress in PC-12 cells. Our results demonstrated that BBR effectively inhibited t-BHP-induced apoptosis which is associated with the decreased leakage of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and ROS overproduction. Moreover, BBR significantly suppressed cytochrome c expression, upregulated the ratio of Bcl-2/Bax, and ameliorated mitochondrial dysfunction by optimizing mitochondria membrane potential (ΔΨm) status and ATP production. In addition, BBR reduced the expression of autophagy-specific marker LC3, SQTM1/p62, and maintained lysosome normal function which involved the restoration of upstream signaling pathway AKT and mTOR phosphorylation level. Collectively, these findings suggested that BBR protects PC-12 cells from oxidative injury through inhibiting ROS level, mitochondria dysfunction, and mitophagy via PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathways, which suggest a potential therapeutic strategy for oxidative stress and neurotoxic damages.
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- Zhengmao Li
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Shaoxing No. 2 Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Shaoxing No. 2 Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Cixi People's Hospital, Wenzhou Medical Uinversity, Ninbo, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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Lambeth T, Riggs DL, Talbert LE, Tang J, Coburn E, Kang AS, Noll J, Augello C, Ford BD, Julian RR. Spontaneous Isomerization of Long-Lived Proteins Provides a Molecular Mechanism for the Lysosomal Failure Observed in Alzheimer's Disease. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2019; 5:1387-1395. [PMID: 31482121 PMCID: PMC6716341 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Proteinaceous aggregation is a well-known observable in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but failure and storage of lysosomal bodies within neurons is equally ubiquitous and actually precedes bulk accumulation of extracellular amyloid plaque. In fact, AD shares many similarities with certain lysosomal storage disorders though establishing a biochemical connection has proven difficult. Herein, we demonstrate that isomerization and epimerization, which are spontaneous chemical modifications that occur in long-lived proteins, prevent digestion by the proteases in the lysosome (namely, the cathepsins). For example, isomerization of aspartic acid into l-isoAsp prevents digestion of the N-terminal portion of Aβ by cathepsin L, one of the most aggressive lysosomal proteases. Similar results were obtained after examination of various target peptides with a full series of cathepsins, including endo-, amino-, and carboxy-peptidases. In all cases peptide fragments too long for transporter recognition or release from the lysosome persisted after treatment, providing a mechanism for eventual lysosomal storage and bridging the gap between AD and lysosomal storage disorders. Additional experiments with microglial cells confirmed that isomerization disrupts proteolysis in active lysosomes. These results are easily rationalized in terms of protease active sites, which are engineered to precisely orient the peptide backbone and cannot accommodate the backbone shift caused by isoaspartic acid or side chain dislocation resulting from epimerization. Although Aβ is known to be isomerized and epimerized in plaques present in AD brains, we further establish that the rates of modification for aspartic acid in positions 1 and 7 are fast and could accrue prior to plaque formation. Spontaneous chemistry can therefore provide modified substrates capable of inducing gradual lysosomal failure, which may play an important role in the cascade of events leading to the disrupted proteostasis, amyloid formation, and tauopathies associated with AD.
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- Tyler
R. Lambeth
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Division
of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Division
of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Division
of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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Liu W, Wang Z, Xia Y, Kuang H, Liu S, Li L, Tang C, Yin D. The balance of apoptosis and autophagy via regulation of the AMPK signal pathway in aging rat striatum during regular aerobic exercise. Exp Gerontol 2019; 124:110647. [PMID: 31255733 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2019.110647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 06/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The objective was to analyze the effects of aerobic exercise on aging striatum stress resistance, and the adaptive mechanisms related to neurodegenerative diseases, and the occurrence, and development of neural degeneration. The 10-weeks of regular moderate-intensity aerobic exercise intervention were carried out in the aerobic exercise runner Sprague-Dawley rats. Apoptotic nuclei appeared in the striatum of aged rats, showing a tendency to relate to aging. The apoptotic index of the striatum in young, middle-aged, and old-aged rats of the aerobic exercise groups increased by 205.56%, 57%, and 68.24%. Autophagy markers Beclin l and LC 3-II expression, AMPKα1 and pAMPKα1 expression increased significantly in all age-exercise groups. The ratio of AMPKα1/pAMPKα1 increased after exercise, and the tendency of exercise to alter autophagy and cell apoptosis increased with aging. Then SirT2 mRNA was significantly upregulated in the aerobic exercise runner groups. In conclusion, we showed that the balance of autophagy and apoptosis were closely regulated by regular aerobic exercise, which affected the development of aging, and via regulation of the AMPK/SirT2 signaling pathway.
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- Wenfeng Liu
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Physical Fitness and Sports Rehabilitation, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410012, China; Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Physical Fitness and Sports Rehabilitation, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410012, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Physical Fitness and Sports Rehabilitation, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410012, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Physical Fitness and Sports Rehabilitation, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410012, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Physical Fitness and Sports Rehabilitation, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410012, China
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- School of Health & Kinesiology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Physical Fitness and Sports Rehabilitation, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410012, China.
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Physical Fitness and Sports Rehabilitation, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410012, China; Qingyuan People's Hospital, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511500, China.
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Zou Z, Yan Q, Ai S, Qi P, Yang H, Zhang Y, Qing Z, Zhang L, Feng F, Yang R. Real-Time Visualizing Mitophagy-Specific Viscosity Dynamic by Mitochondria-Anchored Molecular Rotor. Anal Chem 2019; 91:8574-8581. [PMID: 31247722 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Mitophagy, as an evolutionarily conserved cellular process, plays a crucial role in preserving cellular metabolism and physiology. Various microenvironment alterations assigned to mitophagy including pH, polarity, and deregulated biomarkers are increasingly understood. However, mitophagy-specific viscosity dynamic in live cells remains a mystery and needs to be explored. Here, a water-soluble mitochondria-targetable molecular rotor, ethyl-4-[3,6-bis(1-methyl-4-vinylpyridium iodine)-9 H-carbazol-9-yl)] butanoate (BMVC), was exploited as a fluorescent viscosimeter for imaging viscosity variation during mitophagy. This probe contains two positively charged 1-methyl-4-vinylpyridium components as the rotors, whose rotation will be hindered with the increase of environmental viscosity, resulting in enhancement of fluorescence emission. The results demonstrated that this probe operates well in a mitochondrial microenvironment and displays an off-on fluorescence response to viscosity. By virtue of this probe, new discoveries such as the mitochondrial viscosity will increase during mitophagy are elaborated. The real-time visualization of the mitophagy process under nutrient starvation conditions was also proposed and actualized. We expect this probe would be a robust tool in the pathogenic mechanism research of mitochondrial diseases.
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- Zhen Zou
- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering , Shanxi Datong University , Datong , Shanxi 037009 , P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering , Shanxi Datong University , Datong , Shanxi 037009 , P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering , Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha 410114 , P.R. China
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Mane NR, Gajare KA, Deshmukh AA. Mild heat stress induces hormetic effects in protecting the primary culture of mouse prefrontal cerebrocortical neurons from neuropathological alterations. IBRO Rep 2018; 5:110-115. [PMID: 30519667 PMCID: PMC6260229 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibror.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/04/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Hormesis is a dose response phenomenon of cells and organisms to various types of stressors. Mild stress stimulates prosurvival pathways and makes the cells adaptive to stressful conditions. It is a widely used fundamental dose-response phenomenon in many biomedical and toxicological sciences, radiation biology, health science etc. Mild heat stress is an easily applicable hormetic agent that exerts consistent results. In the present investigations mouse cerebrocortical prefrontal neurons from E17 mouse embryos were grown in the laboratory on poly-L-lysine coated glass cover slips. The cells from the mild heat stressed group were subjected to a hyperthermic stress of 38 °C for 30 min every alternate day (i.e. mild heat stress was repeated after 48 h) up to the sixth day. After completion of twenty four hours of the final i.e. third exposure of the mild heat stress, the neurons were fixed for the cytochemical studies of neurofibrillary tangles, senile plaques, lipofuscin granules and Nissl substance. There was highly significant decrease in the neuropathological alterations (viz. deposition of Neurofibrillary tangles, deposition of senile plaques, accumulation of Lipofuscin granules) in the neurons from the mild heat stressed group as compared to control. Moreover, the Nissl substance was significantly preserved in the mild heat stressed group as compared to control. The results indicate that the applied mild heat stress (38 °C for 30 min) exerts beneficial effects on the prefrontal cerebrocortical neurons by slowing down the neuropathological alterations, suggesting the hormetic effect of the mild heat stress.
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- Narayan R. Mane
- Cellular Stress Response Laboratory, Cell Biology Division, Department of Zoology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, 416 004, India
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- Department of Zoology, The New College Kolhapur, Maharashtra, 416 012, India
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- Cellular Stress Response Laboratory, Cell Biology Division, Department of Zoology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, 416 004, India
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Perrotta I. Occurrence and characterization of lipofuscin and ceroid in human atherosclerotic plaque. Ultrastruct Pathol 2018; 42:477-488. [PMID: 30465462 DOI: 10.1080/01913123.2018.1544953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Atherosclerotic plaque formation starts early in life, develops silently over decades, and often displays clear evidence of accelerated biological aging. Lipofuscin has been classically defined as "the most consistent and phylogenetically conserved cellular morphologic change of aging," however, despite this traditional view different lines of evidence have recently demonstrated that, besides aging, various noxious influences can engeder its accumulation in cells and also that specific experimental conditions can revert this effect. Lipofuscin has been also proven to interact with disease-related factors to enhance cell loss. Along with lipofuscin, ceroid, another autofluorescent lipopigment usually produced under various pathological conditions unrelated to aging, has been suggested to jeopardize cell performance and viability by inducing membrane fragility, mitochondrial dysfunction, DNA damage, and oxidative stress-induced apoptosis. With regard to atherosclerosis, very few investigations have been conducted to assess whether a link could exist between lipofuscin/ceroid accumulation and the progression of the disease and no information still exist regarding the anatomy and the ultrastructural diversification of lipofuscin and ceroid in the lesional vascular tissue. At the same time, data concerning their potential toxicity at the cellular level are fragmentary, dated, and scarce. The present study investigates the occurrence and distribution of lipofuscin and ceroid in human atherosclerotic plaque and adjacent healthy tissues and analyzes the ultrastructural changes associated with their accumulation within the cell.
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- Ida Perrotta
- a Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Transmission Electron Microscopy Laboratory , University of Calabria , Cosenza , Italy
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Kobayashi H. Recent trends in mucopolysaccharidosis research. J Hum Genet 2018; 64:127-137. [PMID: 30451936 DOI: 10.1038/s10038-018-0534-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Revised: 10/29/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a group of inherited conditions involving metabolic dysfunction. Lysosomal enzyme deficiency leads to the accumulation of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) resulting in systemic symptoms, and is categorized into seven types caused by deficiency in one of eleven different enzymes. The pathophysiological mechanism of these diseases has been investigated, indicating impaired autophagy in neuronal damage initiation, association of activated microglia and astrocytes with the neuroinflammatory processes, and involvement of tauopathy. A new inherited error of metabolism resulting in a multisystem disorder with features of the MPS was also identified. Additionally, new therapeutic methods are being developed that could improve conventional therapies, such as new recombinant enzymes that can penetrate the blood brain barrier, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with reduced intensity conditioning, gene therapy using a viral vector system or gene editing, and substrate reduction therapy. In this review, we discuss the recent developments in MPS research and provide a framework for developing strategies.
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- Hiroshi Kobayashi
- Division of Gene Therapy, Research Center for Medical Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
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Bernstein AM, Ritch R, Wolosin JM. Exfoliation Syndrome: A Disease of Autophagy and LOXL1 Proteopathy. J Glaucoma 2018; 27 Suppl 1:S44-S53. [PMID: 29547474 PMCID: PMC6028293 DOI: 10.1097/ijg.0000000000000919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is an age-related disease involving the deposition of aggregated fibrillar material (exfoliation material) at extracellular matrices in tissues that synthesize elastic fibers. Its main morbidity is in the eye, where exfoliation material accumulations form on the surface of the ciliary body, iris, and lens. Exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) occurs in a high proportion of persons with XFS and can be a rapidly progressing disease. Worldwide, XFG accounts for about 25% of open-angle glaucoma cases. XFS and XFG show a sharp age-dependence, similarly to the many age-related diseases classified as aggregopathies. Progress in understanding the cellular bases for XFS/XFG has been slowed by a lack of experimental models. Working with primary human tenon fibroblasts (TF) derived from trabeculectomies of XFG patients and age-matched primary open-glaucoma controls, we found that TF from XFG cells display many of the functional features observed in cells from other protein aggregate diseases, such as Parkinson, Alzheimer, Huntington, and age-related macular degeneration. We have documented defects in lysosomal positioning, microtubule organization, autophagy processing rate, and mitochondrial health. In regard to failure of lysosomal and autophagosome positioning in XFG cells, we have found that XFG TF are unable to establish the transnuclear microtubule organizing center that is required for efficient centripetal vesicular locomotion along microtubules. In regard to potential sources of the autophagy malfunction, we have directed our attention to a potential role of the lysyl oxidase-like 1 protein (LOXL1), the elastic fiber catalyst that displays variant-dependent association with risk for XFG. Our experiments show that (a) in XFG cells, a substantial fraction of LOXL1 is processed for degradation by the autophagic system; (b) most of the LOXL1 N-terminus domain exists in a highly disordered state, a condition known to greatly increase the frequency of polypeptide misfolding; (c) that maximum misfolding occurs at amino acid position 153, the location of the high risk variant G153D; and (d) that replacement of glycine (G) by aspartate (D) there results in a substantial decrease in disorder within the 20 amino acid surrounding domain. Finally, we show that clusterin, a protein that can be induced by the presence of intracellular, or extracellular aggregates, is uniformly overexpressed in XFG TF. The implications of our results for a theory relating XFG to cellular aggregopathy are discussed.
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- Audrey M Bernstein
- Department of Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Department of Ophthalmology, Center for Vision Research, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
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- Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Biswas S, Sharma V, Kumar P, Koner AL. Selective sensing of lysosomal iron(III) via three-component fluorescence-based strategy in living cells. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B: CHEMICAL 2018; 260:460-464. [DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2018.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/19/2023]
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Stapleton M, Kubaski F, Mason RW, Yabe H, Suzuki Y, Orii KE, Orii T, Tomatsu S. Presentation and Treatments for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II (MPS II; Hunter Syndrome). Expert Opin Orphan Drugs 2017; 5:295-307. [PMID: 29158997 PMCID: PMC5693349 DOI: 10.1080/21678707.2017.1296761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II (MPS II; Hunter syndrome) is an X- linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency of iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS). IDS deficiency leads to primary accumulation of dermatan sulfate (DS) and heparan sulfate (HS). MPS II is both multi-systemic and progressive. Phenotypes are classified as either attenuated or severe (based on absence or presence of central nervous system impairment, respectively). AREAS COVERED Current treatments available are intravenous enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), anti-inflammatory treatment, and palliative care with symptomatic surgeries. Clinical trials are being conducted for intrathecal ERT and gene therapy is under pre-clinical investigation. Treatment approaches differ based on age, clinical severity, prognosis, availability and feasibility of therapy, and health insurance.This review provides a historical account of MPS II treatment as well as treatment development with insights into benefits and/or limitations of each specific treatment. EXPERT OPINION Conventional ERT and HSCT coupled with surgical intervention and palliative therapy are currently the treatment options available to MPS II patients. Intrathecal ERT and gene therapy are currently under investigation as future therapies. These investigative treatments are critical to address the limitations in treatment of the central nervous system (CNS).
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- Molly Stapleton
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
- Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
- Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
- Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA
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- Department of Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Medical Education Development Center, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
- Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
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Viana GM, do Nascimento CC, Paredes-Gamero EJ, D'Almeida V. Altered Cellular Homeostasis in Murine MPS I Fibroblasts: Evidence of Cell-Specific Physiopathology. JIMD Rep 2017; 36:109-116. [PMID: 28220405 DOI: 10.1007/8904_2017_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Revised: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I), a rare autosomal recessive disease, is caused by a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme alfa-L-iduronidase. Impaired enzyme activity promotes glycosaminoglycans accumulation in several tissues and organs, leading to complex multisystemic complications. Several studies using animal models indicated different intracellular pathways involving MPS I physiopathology; however, the exact mechanisms underlying this syndrome are still not understood. Previous results from our group showed alterations in ionic homeostasis and cell viability of splenocytes and macrophages in Idua-/- mice. In the present study, we found altered intracellular ionic homeostasis in a different cell type (fibroblasts) from the same murine model. Idua-/- fibroblasts from 3-month-old mice presented higher cytoplasmatic and endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ concentration, lower levels of mitochondrial Ca2+ and mitochondrial membrane potential and higher cytoplasmatic pH when compared to Idua+/+ animals. Also, Idua-/- fibroblasts were more resistant to the apoptotic induction with staurosporine, indicating a possible resistance to apoptotic induction in those cells. In addition, despite the intracellular ionic imbalance, no significant alterations were found in apoptosis and autophagy in Idua-/- fibroblasts, which implies that the ionic alterations did not activate those pathways. The investigation of mechanisms underlying the cellular physiopathology of lysosomal diseases is crucial for a better understanding about the progression of these diseases. Since splenocytes, macrophages, and fibroblasts have different embryonic origins and distinct structural and functional features, potentially altered signaling pathways found in a cell-specific manner in an alfa-L-iduronidase-deficient environment provide additional understanding of the clinical multisystemic presentation of this disease and provide new basis for improved therapeutic approaches.
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- Gustavo Monteiro Viana
- Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Napoleão de Barros, 325, 3rd floor, São Paulo, 04024-002, Brazil. .,Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Bioquímica, Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil
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- Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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de la Mata M, Cotán D, Villanueva-Paz M, de Lavera I, Álvarez-Córdoba M, Luzón-Hidalgo R, Suárez-Rivero JM, Tiscornia G, Oropesa-Ávila M. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Lysosomal Storage Disorders. Diseases 2016; 4:E31. [PMID: 28933411 PMCID: PMC5456326 DOI: 10.3390/diseases4040031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2016] [Revised: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) describe a heterogeneous group of rare inherited metabolic disorders that result from the absence or loss of function of lysosomal hydrolases or transporters, resulting in the progressive accumulation of undigested material in lysosomes. The accumulation of substances affects the function of lysosomes and other organelles, resulting in secondary alterations such as impairment of autophagy, mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation and apoptosis. LSDs frequently involve the central nervous system (CNS), where neuronal dysfunction or loss results in progressive neurodegeneration and premature death. Many LSDs exhibit signs of mitochondrial dysfunction, which include mitochondrial morphological changes, decreased mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm), diminished ATP production and increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Furthermore, reduced autophagic flux may lead to the persistence of dysfunctional mitochondria. Gaucher disease (GD), the LSD with the highest prevalence, is caused by mutations in the GBA1 gene that results in defective and insufficient activity of the enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase (GCase). Decreased catalytic activity and/or instability of GCase leads to accumulation of glucosylceramide (GlcCer) and glucosylsphingosine (GlcSph) in the lysosomes of macrophage cells and visceral organs. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been reported to occur in numerous cellular and mouse models of GD. The aim of this manuscript is to review the current knowledge and implications of mitochondrial dysfunction in LSDs.
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- Mario de la Mata
- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, University of Algarve, Faro 8005-139, Portugal.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD-CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Sevilla 41013, Spain.
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Want A, Gillespie SR, Wang Z, Gordon R, Iomini C, Ritch R, Wolosin JM, Bernstein AM. Autophagy and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Tenon Fibroblasts from Exfoliation Glaucoma Patients. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0157404. [PMID: 27391778 PMCID: PMC4938507 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2015] [Accepted: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Purpose To test the hypothesis that autophagy dysfunction is involved in exfoliation syndrome (XFS), a systemic disorder of extracellular elastic matrices that causes a distinct form of human glaucoma. Methods Fibroblasts derived from tenon tissue discards (TFs) from filtration surgery to relieve intraocular pressure in XFS patients were compared against age-matched TFs derived from surgery in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients or from strabismus surgery. Differential interference contrast light, and electron microscopy were used to examine structural cell features. Immunocytochemistry was used to visualize LOXL1 and Fibulin-5, lysosomes, endosomes, Golgi, and microtubules. Light scatter, Cyto-IDTM and JC1 flow cytometry were used to measure relative cell size, autophagic flux rate and mitochondrial membrane potential (MMPT), respectively. Enhanced autophagy was induced by serum withdrawal. Results In culture, XFS-TFs were 1.38-fold larger (by light scatter ratio, p = 0.05), proliferated 42% slower (p = 0.026), and were morphologically distinct in 2D and 3D culture compared to their POAG counterparts. In extended 3D cultures, XFS-TFs accumulated 8–10 times more Fibulin-5 than the POAG-TFs, and upon serum withdrawal, there were marked deficiencies in relocation of endosomes and lysosomes to the perinuclear area. Correspondingly, the XFS-TFs displayed significant accumulation of the autophagasome marker LC3 II (3.9 fold increase compared to POAG levels, p = 0.0001) and autophagic flux rate as measured by Cyto-ID dye was 53% lower in XFS-TFs than in POAG-TFs (p = 0.01), indicating reduced clearance of autophagasomes. Finally the percent of cells with diminished MMPT was 3–8 times larger in the XFS-TFs than in POAG-TFs (p = 0.02). Conclusions Our results provide for the first time a link between XFS pathology to autophagy dysfunction, a major contributor to multiple age related diseases systemically throughout the body, in the brain and in the retina. A diminished capacity for degradation of denatured protein and aging cellular organelles may underpin the development of extracellular protein aggregates in XFS.
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- Andrew Want
- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
- Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
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- Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10003, United States of America
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AMB); (JMW)
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
- Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AMB); (JMW)
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Nesset CK, Kong XY, Damme M, Schjalm C, Roos N, Løberg EM, Eskild W. Age-dependent development of liver fibrosis in Glmp (gt/gt) mice. FIBROGENESIS & TISSUE REPAIR 2016; 9:5. [PMID: 27141234 PMCID: PMC4852418 DOI: 10.1186/s13069-016-0042-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/20/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Background Mice lacking glycosylated lysosomal membrane protein (Glmpgt/gt mice) have liver fibrosis as the predominant phenotype due to chronic liver injury. The Glmpgt/gt mice grow and reproduce at the same rate as their wild-type siblings. Life expectancy is around 18 months. Methods Wild-type and Glmpgt/gt mice were studied between 1 week and 18 months of age. Livers were analyzed using histological, immunohistochemical, biochemical, and qPCR analyses. Results It was shown that Glmpgt/gt mice were not born with liver injury; however, it appeared shortly after birth as indicated by excess collagen expression, deposition of fibrous collagen in the periportal areas, and increased levels of hydroxyproline in Glmpgt/gt liver. Liver functional tests indicated a chronic, mild liver injury. Markers of inflammation, fibrosis, apoptosis, and modulation of extracellular matrix increased from an early age, peaking around 4 months of age and followed by attenuation of these signals. To compensate for loss of hepatocytes, the oval cell compartment was activated, with the highest activity of the oval cells detected at 3 months of age, suggesting insufficient hepatocyte proliferation in Glmpgt/gt mice around this age. Although constant proliferation of hepatocytes and oval cells maintained adequate hepatic function in Glmpgt/gt mice, it also resulted in a higher frequency of liver tumors in older animals. Conclusions The Glmpgt/gt mouse is proposed as a model for slowly progressing liver fibrosis and possibly as a model for a yet undescribed human lysosomal disorder. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13069-016-0042-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Department of Bioscience, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ; Research Institute for Internal Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ; Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ; K.G. Jebsen Inflammation Research Centre, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Bioscience, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Bioscience, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Onyenwoke RU, Brenman JE. Lysosomal Storage Diseases-Regulating Neurodegeneration. J Exp Neurosci 2016; 9:81-91. [PMID: 27081317 PMCID: PMC4822725 DOI: 10.4137/jen.s25475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Revised: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Autophagy is a complex pathway regulated by numerous signaling events that recycles macromolecules and can be perturbed in lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs). The concept of LSDs, which are characterized by aberrant, excessive storage of cellular material in lysosomes, developed following the discovery of an enzyme deficiency as the cause of Pompe disease in 1963. Great strides have since been made in better understanding the biology of LSDs. Defective lysosomal storage typically occurs in many cell types, but the nervous system, including the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system, is particularly vulnerable to LSDs, being affected in two-thirds of LSDs. This review provides a summary of some of the better characterized LSDs and the pathways affected in these disorders.
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- Rob U Onyenwoke
- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.; Neuroscience Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Viana GM, Buri MV, Paredes-Gamero EJ, Martins AM, D'Almeida V. Impaired Hematopoiesis and Disrupted Monocyte/Macrophage Homeostasis in Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Mice. J Cell Physiol 2016; 231:698-707. [PMID: 26235607 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.25120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency in which heparan and dermatan sulfate degradation is compromised. Besides primary lysosomal glycosaminoglycan accumulation, further changes in cellular functions have also been described in several murine MPS models. Herein, we evaluated alterations in hematopoiesis and its implications on the production of mature progeny in a MPS I murine model. Despite the significant increase in hematopoietic stem cells, a reduction in common myeloid progenitors and granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells was observed in Idua -/- mice bone marrow. Furthermore, no alterations in number, viability nor activation of cell death mechanisms were observed in Idua -/- mice mature macrophages but they presented higher sensitivity to apoptotic induction after staurosporine treatment. In addition, changes in Ca(2+) signaling and a reduction in phagocytosis ability were also found. In summary, our results revealed significant intracellular changes in mature Idua -/- macrophages related to alterations in Idua -/- mice hematopoiesis, revealing a disruption in cell homeostasis. These results provide new insights into physiopathology of MPS I.
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- Gustavo Monteiro Viana
- Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Bioquímica, Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Referência de Erros Inatos do Metabolismo (CREIM), Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Grishchuk Y, Stember KG, Matsunaga A, Olivares AM, Cruz NM, King VE, Humphrey DM, Wang SL, Muzikansky A, Betensky RA, Thoreson WB, Haider N, Slaugenhaupt SA. Retinal Dystrophy and Optic Nerve Pathology in the Mouse Model of Mucolipidosis IV. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2015; 186:199-209. [PMID: 26608452 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2015.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2015] [Revised: 08/31/2015] [Accepted: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Mucolipidosis IV is a debilitating developmental lysosomal storage disorder characterized by severe neuromotor retardation and progressive loss of vision, leading to blindness by the second decade of life. Mucolipidosis IV is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the MCOLN1 gene, which encodes the transient receptor potential channel protein mucolipin-1. Ophthalmic pathology in patients includes corneal haze and progressive retinal and optic nerve atrophy. Herein, we report ocular pathology in Mcoln1(-/-) mouse, a good phenotypic model of the disease. Early, but non-progressive, thinning of the photoreceptor layer, reduced levels of rhodopsin, disrupted rod outer segments, and widespread accumulation of the typical storage inclusion bodies were the major histological findings in the Mcoln1(-/-) retina. Electroretinograms showed significantly decreased functional response (scotopic a- and b-wave amplitudes) in the Mcoln1(-/-) mice. At the ultrastructural level, we observed formation of axonal spheroids and decreased density of axons in the optic nerve of the aged (6-month-old) Mcoln1(-/-) mice, which indicates progressive axonal degeneration. Our data suggest that mucolipin-1 plays a role in postnatal development of photoreceptors and provides a set of outcome measures that can be used for ocular therapy development for mucolipidosis IV.
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- Yulia Grishchuk
- Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
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- Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Antagonizing Neuronal Toll-like Receptor 2 Prevents Synucleinopathy by Activating Autophagy. Cell Rep 2015; 13:771-782. [PMID: 26489461 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.09.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Revised: 08/05/2015] [Accepted: 09/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Impaired autophagy has been implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), and might be responsible for deposition of aggregated proteins in neurons. However, little is known about how neuronal autophagy and clearance of aggregated proteins are regulated. Here, we show a role for Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), a pathogen-recognizing receptor in innate immunity, in regulation of neuronal autophagy and clearance of α-synuclein, a protein aggregated in synucleinopathies, including in PD. Activation of TLR2 resulted in the accumulation of α-synuclein aggregates in neurons as a result of inhibition of autophagic activity through regulation of the AKT/mTOR pathway. In contrast, inactivation of TLR2 resulted in autophagy activation and increased clearance of neuronal α-synuclein, and hence reduced neurodegeneration, in transgenic mice and in in vitro models. These results uncover roles of TLR2 in regulating neuronal autophagy and suggest that the TLR2 pathway may be targeted for autophagy activation strategies in treating neurodegenerative disorders.
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Mitochondrial degradation and energy metabolism. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2015; 1853:2812-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2015.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Revised: 04/23/2015] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Endolysosomal Deficits Augment Mitochondria Pathology in Spinal Motor Neurons of Asymptomatic fALS Mice. Neuron 2015; 87:355-70. [PMID: 26182418 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Revised: 05/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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One pathological hallmark in ALS motor neurons (MNs) is axonal accumulation of damaged mitochondria. A fundamental question remains: does reduced degradation of those mitochondria by an impaired autophagy-lysosomal system contribute to mitochondrial pathology? We reveal MN-targeted progressive lysosomal deficits accompanied by impaired autophagic degradation beginning at asymptomatic stages in fALS-linked hSOD1(G93A) mice. Lysosomal deficits result in accumulation of autophagic vacuoles engulfing damaged mitochondria along MN axons. Live imaging of spinal MNs from the adult disease mice demonstrates impaired dynein-driven retrograde transport of late endosomes (LEs). Expressing dynein-adaptor snapin reverses transport defects by competing with hSOD1(G93A) for binding dynein, thus rescuing autophagy-lysosomal deficits, enhancing mitochondrial turnover, improving MN survival, and ameliorating the disease phenotype in hSOD1(G93A) mice. Our study provides a new mechanistic link for hSOD1(G93A)-mediated impairment of LE transport to autophagy-lysosomal deficits and mitochondrial pathology. Understanding these early pathological events benefits development of new therapeutic interventions for fALS-linked MN degeneration.
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Exposure of cells to micromolar Cu activates recombinant transcription factor EB (TFEB), leading to expression of the lysosomal network genes. Whereas TFEB overexpression has a cytoprotective effect under moderate Cu exposure, it enhances oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage caused by high levels of Cu. Transition metal toxicity is an important factor in the pathogenesis of numerous human disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases. Lysosomes have emerged as important factors in transition metal toxicity because they handle transition metals via endocytosis, autophagy, absorption from the cytoplasm and exocytosis. Transcription factor EB (TFEB) regulates lysosomal biogenesis and the expression of lysosomal proteins in response to lysosomal and/or metabolic stresses. Since transition metals cause lysosomal dysfunction, we proposed that TFEB may be activated to drive gene expression in response to transition metal exposure and that such activation may influence transition metal toxicity. We found that transition metals copper (Cu) and iron (Fe) activate recombinant TFEB and stimulate the expression of TFEB-dependent genes in TFEB-overexpressing cells. In cells that show robust lysosomal exocytosis, TFEB was cytoprotective at moderate levels of Cu exposure, decreasing oxidative stress as reported by the expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HMOX1) gene. However, at high levels of Cu exposure, particularly in cells with low levels of lysosomal exocytosis, activation of overexpressed TFEB was toxic, increasing oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage. Based on these data, we conclude that TFEB-driven gene network is a component of the cellular response to transition metals. These data suggest limitations and disadvantages of TFEB overexpression as a therapeutic approach.
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Autophagy, a lysosomal degradative pathway that maintains cellular homeostasis, has emerged as an innate immune defense against pathogens. The role of autophagy in the deregulated HIV-infected central nervous system (CNS) is unclear. We have found that HIV-1-induced neuro-glial (neurons and astrocytes) damage involves modulation of the autophagy pathway. Neuro-glial stress induced by HIV-1 led to biochemical and morphological dysfunctions. X4 HIV-1 produced neuro-glial toxicity coupled with suppression of autophagy, while R5 HIV-1-induced toxicity was restricted to neurons. Rapamycin, a specific mTOR inhibitor (autophagy inducer) relieved the blockage of the autophagy pathway caused by HIV-1 and resulted in neuro-glial protection. Further understanding of the regulation of autophagy by cytokines and chemokines or other signaling events may lead to recognition of therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Rajeev Mehla
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29209, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29209, USA.
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Rama Rao KV, Kielian T. Astrocytes and lysosomal storage diseases. Neuroscience 2015; 323:195-206. [PMID: 26037807 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.05.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2015] [Revised: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) encompass a wide range of disorders characterized by inborn errors of lysosomal function. The majority of LSDs result from genetic defects in lysosomal enzymes, although some arise from mutations in lysosomal proteins that lack known enzymatic activity. Neuropathological abnormalities are a feature of several LSDs and when severe, represent an important determinant in disease outcome. Glial dysfunction, particularly in astrocytes, is also observed in numerous LSDs and has been suggested to impact neurodegeneration. This review will discuss the potential role of astrocytes in LSDs and highlight the possibility of targeting glia as a beneficial strategy to counteract the neuropathology associated with LSDs.
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- K V Rama Rao
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, United States.
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Morgan AH, Hammond VJ, Sakoh-Nakatogawa M, Ohsumi Y, Thomas CP, Blanchet F, Piguet V, Kiselyov K, O'Donnell VB. A novel role for 12/15-lipoxygenase in regulating autophagy. Redox Biol 2014; 4:40-7. [PMID: 25498966 PMCID: PMC4309860 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2014.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2014] [Revised: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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12/15-Lipoxygenase (LOX) enzymatically generates oxidized phospholipids in monocytes and macrophages. Herein, we show that cells deficient in 12/15-LOX contain defective mitochondria and numerous cytoplasmic vacuoles containing electron dense material, indicating defects in autophagy or membrane processing, However, both LC3 expression and lipidation were normal both basally and on chloroquine treatment. A LOX-derived oxidized phospholipid, 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid-phosphatidylethanolamine (12-HETE-PE) was found to be a preferred substrate for yeast Atg8 lipidation, versus native PE, while both native and oxidized PE were effective substrates for LC3 lipidation. Last, phospholipidomics demonstrated altered levels of several phospholipid classes. Thus, we show that oxidized phospholipids generated by 12/15-LOX can act as substrates for key proteins required for effective autophagy and that cells deficient in this enzyme show evidence of autophagic dysfunction. The data functionally link phospholipid oxidation with autophagy for the first time. 12/15-Lipoxygenase-deficient macrophages show evidence of autophagic dysfunction. 12-HETE-PE is a substrate for LC2 and Atg8 lipidation. Macrophages deficient in 12/15-lipoxygenase show altered phospholipid content.
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- Alwena H Morgan
- Institute of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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- Institute of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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- Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259-S2-12, Yokohama, Japan
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- Institute of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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- Institute of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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- Institute of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Langley Hall, 4249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Institute of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK.
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Aging dogs and cats show neurodegenerative features that are similar to human aging and Alzheimer disease. Neuropathologic changes with age may be linked to signs of cognitive dysfunction both in the laboratory and in a clinic setting. Less is known about cat brain aging and cognition and this represents an area for further study. Neurodegenerative diseases such as lysosomal storage diseases in dogs and cats also show similar features of human aging, suggesting some common underlying pathogenic mechanisms and also suggesting pathways that can be modified to promote healthy brain aging.
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- Charles H Vite
- Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Section of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Studies - Philadelphia, 3900 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology & Nutritional Sciences, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, 800 South Limestone Street, 203 Sanders Brown Building, Lexington, KY 40515, USA.
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Prada CE, Grabowski GA. Neuronopathic lysosomal storage diseases: clinical and pathologic findings. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 17:226-46. [PMID: 23798011 DOI: 10.1002/ddrr.1116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The lysosomal-autophagocytic system diseases (LASDs) affect multiple body systems including the central nervous system (CNS). The progressive CNS pathology has its onset at different ages, leading to neurodegeneration and early death. METHODS Literature review provided insight into the current clinical neurological findings, phenotypic spectrum, and pathogenic mechanisms of LASDs with primary neurological involvement. CONCLUSIONS CNS signs and symptoms are variable and related to the disease-specific underlying pathogenesis. LAS dysfunction leads to diverse global cellular consequences in the CNS ranging from specific axonal and dendritic abnormalities to neuronal death. Pathogenic mechanisms for disease progression vary from impaired autophagy, massive storage, regional involvement, to end-stage inflammation. Some of these features are also found in adult neurodegenerative disorders, for example, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Lack of effective therapies is a significant unmet medical need.
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- Carlos E Prada
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA
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Kong XY, Nesset CK, Damme M, Løberg EM, Lübke T, Mæhlen J, Andersson KB, Lorenzo PI, Roos N, Thoresen GH, Rustan AC, Kase ET, Eskild W. Loss of lysosomal membrane protein NCU-G1 in mice results in spontaneous liver fibrosis with accumulation of lipofuscin and iron in Kupffer cells. Dis Model Mech 2014; 7:351-62. [PMID: 24487409 PMCID: PMC3944495 DOI: 10.1242/dmm.014050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Human kidney predominant protein, NCU-G1, is a highly conserved protein with an unknown biological function. Initially described as a nuclear protein, it was later shown to be a bona fide lysosomal integral membrane protein. To gain insight into the physiological function of NCU-G1, mice with no detectable expression of this gene were created using a gene-trap strategy, and Ncu-g1gt/gt mice were successfully characterized. Lysosomal disorders are mainly caused by lack of or malfunctioning of proteins in the endosomal-lysosomal pathway. The clinical symptoms vary, but often include liver dysfunction. Persistent liver damage activates fibrogenesis and, if unremedied, eventually leads to liver fibrosis/cirrhosis and death. We demonstrate that the disruption of Ncu-g1 results in spontaneous liver fibrosis in mice as the predominant phenotype. Evidence for an increased rate of hepatic cell death, oxidative stress and active fibrogenesis were detected in Ncu-g1gt/gt liver. In addition to collagen deposition, microscopic examination of liver sections revealed accumulation of autofluorescent lipofuscin and iron in Ncu-g1gt/gt Kupffer cells. Because only a few transgenic mouse models have been identified with chronic liver injury and spontaneous liver fibrosis development, we propose that the Ncu-g1gt/gt mouse could be a valuable new tool in the development of novel treatments for the attenuation of fibrosis due to chronic liver damage.
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- Xiang Y Kong
- Department of Bioscience, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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Archer LD, Langford-Smith KJ, Bigger BW, Fildes JE. Mucopolysaccharide diseases: a complex interplay between neuroinflammation, microglial activation and adaptive immunity. J Inherit Metab Dis 2014; 37:1-12. [PMID: 23653226 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-013-9613-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2012] [Accepted: 04/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Mucopolysaccharide (MPS) diseases are lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) caused by deficiencies in enzymes required for glycosaminoglycan (GAG) catabolism. Mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I), MPS IIIA, MPS IIIB and MPS VII are deficient in the enzymes α-L-Iduronidase, Heparan-N-Sulphatase, N-Acetylglucosaminidase and Beta-Glucuronidase, respectively. Enzyme deficiency leads to the progressive multi-systemic build-up of heparan sulphate (HS) and dermatan sulphate (DS) within cellular lysosomes, followed by cell, tissue and organ damage and in particular neurodegeneration. Clinical manifestations of MPS are well established; however as lysosomes represent vital components of immune cells, it follows that lysosomal accumulation of GAGs could affect diverse immune functions and therefore influence disease pathogenesis. Theoretically, MPS neurodegeneration and GAGs could be substantiating a threat of danger and damage to alert the immune system for cellular clearance, which due to the progressive nature of MPS storage would propagate disease pathogenesis. Innate immunity appears to have a key role in MPS; however the extent of adaptive immune involvement remains to be elucidated. The current literature suggests a complex interplay between neuroinflammation, microglial activation and adaptive immunity in MPS disease.
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- Louise D Archer
- The Transplant Centre, UHSM, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
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Loss of TRPML1 promotes production of reactive oxygen species: is oxidative damage a factor in mucolipidosis type IV? Biochem J 2013; 457:361-8. [DOI: 10.1042/bj20130647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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TRPML1 is a lysosomal ion channel permeable to cations, including Fe2+. Our data suggest that TRPML1 redistributes Fe2+ between the lysosomes and the cytoplasm. Loss of TRPML1 leads to production of reactive oxygen species, and to mitochondrial deterioration.
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Luo T, Park Y, Sun X, Liu C, Hu B. Protein misfolding, aggregation, and autophagy after brain ischemia. Transl Stroke Res 2013; 4:581-8. [PMID: 24323413 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-013-0299-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2013] [Revised: 10/17/2013] [Accepted: 10/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Ischemic brain injury is a common disorder linked to a variety of diseases. Significant progress has been made in our understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Previous studies show that protein misfolding, aggregation, and multiple organelle damage are major pathological events in postischemic neurons. The autophagy pathway is the chief route for bulk degradation of protein aggregates and damaged organelles. The latest studies suggest that impairment of autophagy contributes to abnormal protein aggregation and organelle damages after brain ischemia. This article reviews recent studies of protein misfolding, aggregation, and impairment of autophagy after brain ischemia.
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- Tianfei Luo
- Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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Dasgupta N, Xu YH, Oh S, Sun Y, Jia L, Keddache M, Grabowski GA. Gaucher disease: transcriptome analyses using microarray or mRNA sequencing in a Gba1 mutant mouse model treated with velaglucerase alfa or imiglucerase. PLoS One 2013; 8:e74912. [PMID: 24124461 PMCID: PMC3790783 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2013] [Accepted: 08/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Gaucher disease type 1, an inherited lysosomal storage disorder, is caused by mutations in GBA1 leading to defective glucocerebrosidase (GCase) function and consequent excess accumulation of glucosylceramide/glucosylsphingosine in visceral organs. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with the biosimilars, imiglucerase (imig) or velaglucerase alfa (vela) improves/reverses the visceral disease. Comparative transcriptomic effects (microarray and mRNA-Seq) of no ERT and ERT (imig or vela) were done with liver, lung, and spleen from mice having Gba1 mutant alleles, termed D409V/null. Disease-related molecular effects, dynamic ranges, and sensitivities were compared between mRNA-Seq and microarrays and their respective analytic tools, i.e. Mixed Model ANOVA (microarray), and DESeq and edgeR (mRNA-Seq). While similar gene expression patterns were observed with both platforms, mRNA-Seq identified more differentially expressed genes (DEGs) (∼3-fold) than the microarrays. Among the three analytic tools, DESeq identified the maximum number of DEGs for all tissues and treatments. DESeq and edgeR comparisons revealed differences in DEGs identified. In 9V/null liver, spleen and lung, post-therapy transcriptomes approximated WT, were partially reverted, and had little change, respectively, and were concordant with the corresponding histological and biochemical findings. DEG overlaps were only 8–20% between mRNA-Seq and microarray, but the biological pathways were similar. Cell growth and proliferation, cell cycle, heme metabolism, and mitochondrial dysfunction were most altered with the Gaucher disease process. Imig and vela differentially affected specific disease pathways. Differential molecular responses were observed in direct transcriptome comparisons from imig- and vela-treated tissues. These results provide cross-validation for the mRNA-Seq and microarray platforms, and show differences between the molecular effects of two highly structurally similar ERT biopharmaceuticals.
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- Nupur Dasgupta
- The Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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- CCR Bioinformatics Core, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- The Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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The Alzheimer's β-secretase BACE1 localizes to normal presynaptic terminals and to dystrophic presynaptic terminals surrounding amyloid plaques. Acta Neuropathol 2013; 126:329-52. [PMID: 23820808 PMCID: PMC3753469 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-013-1152-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Accepted: 06/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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β-Site amyloid precursor protein (APP) cleaving enzyme-1 (BACE1) is the β-secretase that initiates Aβ production in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). BACE1 levels are increased in AD, which could contribute to pathogenesis, yet the mechanism of BACE1 elevation is unclear. Furthermore, the normal function of BACE1 is poorly understood. We localized BACE1 in the brain at both the light and electron microscopic levels to gain insight into normal and pathophysiologic roles of BACE1 in health and AD, respectively. Our findings provide the first ultrastructural evidence that BACE1 localizes to vesicles (likely endosomes) in normal hippocampal mossy fiber terminals of both non-transgenic and APP transgenic (5XFAD) mouse brains. In some instances, BACE1-positive vesicles were located near active zones, implying a function for BACE1 at the synapse. In addition, BACE1 accumulated in swollen dystrophic autophagosome-poor presynaptic terminals surrounding amyloid plaques in 5XFAD cortex and hippocampus. Importantly, accumulations of BACE1 and APP co-localized in presynaptic dystrophies, implying increased BACE1 processing of APP in peri-plaque regions. In primary cortical neuron cultures, treatment with the lysosomal protease inhibitor leupeptin caused BACE1 levels to increase; however, exposure of neurons to the autophagy inducer trehalose did not reduce BACE1 levels. This suggests that BACE1 is degraded by lysosomes but not by autophagy. Our results imply that BACE1 elevation in AD could be linked to decreased lysosomal degradation of BACE1 within dystrophic presynaptic terminals. Elevated BACE1 and APP levels in plaque-associated presynaptic dystrophies could increase local peri-plaque Aβ generation and accelerate amyloid plaque growth in AD.
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Hendriksz CJ, Harmatz P, Beck M, Jones S, Wood T, Lachman R, Gravance CG, Orii T, Tomatsu S. Review of clinical presentation and diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis IVA. Mol Genet Metab 2013; 110:54-64. [PMID: 23665161 PMCID: PMC3755102 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2013.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2013] [Revised: 04/01/2013] [Accepted: 04/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA (MPS IVA) was described in 1929 by Luis Morquio from Uruguay and James Brailsford from England, and was later found as an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease. MPS IVA is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the enzyme, N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase (GALNS). Reduced GALNS activity results in impaired catabolism of two glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), chondroitin-6-sulfate (C6S) and keratan sulfate (KS). Clinical presentations of MPS IVA reflect a spectrum of progression from a severe "classical" phenotype to a mild "attenuated" phenotype. More than 180 different mutations have been identified in the GALNS gene, which likely explains the phenotypic heterogeneity of the disorder. Accumulation of C6S and KS manifests predominantly as short stature and skeletal dysplasia (dysostosis multiplex), including atlantoaxial instability and cervical cord compression. However, abnormalities in the visual, auditory, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems can also affect individuals with MPS IVA. Diagnosis is typically based on clinical examination, skeletal radiographs, urinary GAG, and enzymatic activity of GALNS in blood cells or fibroblasts. Deficiency of GALNS activity is a common assessment for the laboratory diagnosis of MPS IVA; however, with recently increased availability, gene sequencing for MPS IVA is often used to confirm enzyme results. As multiple clinical presentations are observed, diagnosis of MPS IVA may require multi-system considerations. This review provides a history of defining MPS IVA and how the understanding of the disease manifestations has changed over time. A summary of the accumulated knowledge is presented, including information from the International Morquio Registry. The classical phenotype is contrasted with attenuated cases, which are now being recognized and diagnosed more frequently. Laboratory based diagnoses of MPS IVA are also discussed.
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- C J Hendriksz
- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK
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Dysregulated autophagy contributes to podocyte damage in Fabry's disease. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63506. [PMID: 23691056 PMCID: PMC3656911 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2012] [Accepted: 04/05/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Fabry’s disease results from an inborn error of glycosphingolipid metabolism that is due to deficiency of the lysosomal hydrolase α-galactosidase A. This X-linked defect results in the accumulation of enzyme substrates with terminally α-glycosidically bound galactose, mainly the neutral glycosphingolipid Globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) in various tissues, including the kidneys. Although end-stage renal disease is one of the most common causes of death in hemizygous males with Fabry’s disease, the pathophysiology leading to proteinuria, hematuria, hypertension, and kidney failure is not well understood. Histological studies suggest that the accumulation of Gb3 in podocytes plays an important role in the pathogenesis of glomerular damage. However, due to the lack of appropriate animal or cellular models, podocyte damage in Fabry’s disease could not be directly studied yet. As murine models are insufficient, a human model is needed. Here, we developed a human podocyte model of Fabry’s disease by combining RNA interference technology with lentiviral transduction of human podocytes. Knockdown of α-galactosidase A expression resulted in diminished enzymatic activity and slowly progressive accumulation of intracellular Gb3. Interestingly, these changes were accompanied by an increase in autophagosomes as indicated by an increased abundance of LC3-II and a loss of mTOR kinase activity, a negative regulator of the autophagic machinery. These data suggest that dysregulated autophagy in α-galactosidase A-deficient podocytes may be the result of deficient mTOR kinase activity. This finding links the lysosomal enzymatic defect in Fabry’s disease to deregulated autophagy pathways and provides a promising new direction for further studies on the pathomechanism of glomerular injury in Fabry patients.
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Yamashima T. Reconsider Alzheimer's disease by the 'calpain-cathepsin hypothesis'--a perspective review. Prog Neurobiol 2013; 105:1-23. [PMID: 23499711 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2013.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2012] [Revised: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by slowly progressive neuronal death, but its molecular cascade remains elusive for over 100 years. Since accumulation of autophagic vacuoles (also called granulo-vacuolar degenerations) represents one of the pathologic hallmarks of degenerating neurons in AD, a causative connection between autophagy failure and neuronal death should be present. The aim of this perspective review is at considering such underlying mechanism of AD that age-dependent oxidative stresses may affect the autophagic-lysosomal system via carbonylation and cleavage of heat-shock protein 70.1 (Hsp70.1). AD brains exhibit gradual but continual ischemic insults that cause perturbed Ca(2+) homeostasis, calpain activation, amyloid β deposition, and oxidative stresses. Membrane lipids such as linoleic and arachidonic acids are vulnerable to the cumulative oxidative stresses, generating a toxic peroxidation product 'hydroxynonenal' that can carbonylate Hsp70.1. Recent data advocate for dual roles of Hsp70.1 as a molecular chaperone for damaged proteins and a guardian of lysosomal integrity. Accordingly, impairments of lysosomal autophagy and stabilization may be driven by the calpain-mediated cleavage of carbonylated Hsp70.1, and this causes lysosomal permeabilization and/or rupture with the resultant release of the cell degradation enzyme, cathepsins (calpain-cathepsin hypothesis). Here, the author discusses three topics; (1) how age-related decrease in lysosomal and autophagic activities has a causal connection to programmed neuronal necrosis in sporadic AD, (2) how genetic factors such as apolipoprotein E and presenilin 1 can facilitate lysosomal destabilization in the sequential molecular events, and (3) whether a single cascade can simultaneously account for implications of all players previously reported. In conclusion, Alzheimer neuronal death conceivably occurs by the similar 'calpain-hydroxynonenal-Hsp70.1-cathepsin cascade' with ischemic neuronal death. Blockade of calpain and/or extra-lysosomal cathepsins as well as scavenging of hydroxynonenal would become effective AD therapeutic approaches.
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- Tetsumori Yamashima
- Department of Restorative Neurosurgery, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan.
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