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Bafor EE, Erwin-Cohen RA, Martin T, Baker C, Kimmel AE, Duverger O, Fenimore JM, Ramba M, Spindel T, Hess MM, Sanford M, Lazarevic V, Benayoun BA, Young HA, Valencia JC. Aberrant CD8 +T cells drive reproductive dysfunction in female mice with elevated IFN-γ levels. Front Immunol 2024; 15:1368572. [PMID: 38698852 PMCID: PMC11064017 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1368572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Introduction Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) is pivotal in orchestrating immune responses during healthy pregnancy. However, its dysregulation, often due to autoimmunity, infections, or chronic inflammatory conditions, is implicated in adverse reproductive outcomes such as pregnancy failure or infertility. Additionally, the underlying immunological mechanisms remain elusive. Methods Here, we explore the impact of systemic IFN-γ elevation on cytotoxic T cell responses in female reproduction utilizing a systemic lupus-prone mouse model with impaired IFN-γ degradation. Results Our findings reveal that heightened IFN-γ levels triggered the infiltration of CD8+T cells in the pituitary gland and female reproductive tract (FRT), resulting in prolactin deficiency and subsequent infertility. Furthermore, we demonstrate that chronic IFN-γ elevation increases effector memory CD8+T cells in the murine ovary and uterus. Discussion These insights broaden our understanding of the role of elevated IFN-γ in female reproductive dysfunction and suggest CD8+T cells as potential immunotherapeutic targets in female reproductive disorders associated with chronic systemic IFN-γ elevation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Enitome E. Bafor
- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Molecular and Computational Biology Department, University of Southern California, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Craniofacial Anomalies and Regeneration Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Experimental Immunology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Molecular and Computational Biology Department, University of Southern California, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States
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Bafor EE, Martin T, Carrell J, Karwan M, Kimmel AE, Omogiade UG, Sanford M, Young HA, Valencia JC. Isolation of single cells from individual mouse ovaries for flow cytometry and functional analysis. STAR Protoc 2023; 4:102710. [PMID: 37963022 PMCID: PMC10679862 DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023] Open
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Here, we present a validated workflow to isolate sufficient viable single ovary cells from a single mouse without the need to pool from several mice. We provide steps essential for estrous staging, ovary harvesting and dissociation, ovary cell staining, data collection, and analysis. Our approach allows the use of these single-cell suspensions for flow sorting, flow cytometry analysis, or functional in vitro assays. Importantly, our protocol is designed to maximize the isolation of immune cells, including T cell subsets.
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- Enitome E Bafor
- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Basic Science Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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Pagaddu JV, Valencia JC. Neurosyphilis in a young man having HIV infection, blurring of vision and skin rash. J Postgrad Med 2023; 69:227-230. [PMID: 37171413 PMCID: PMC10846802 DOI: 10.4103/jpgm.jpgm_484_22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 09/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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We report a 22-year-old homosexual man, a known case of HIV-1 infection but non-compliant to medications, who presented with a 5-month history of progressive painless non-pruritic coin-shaped skin lesions and recent gradual bilateral blurring of vision. His history divulged a primary syphilitic event 1 year prior to the present clinical manifestations. Investigation led to the diagnosis of neurosyphilis with ocular involvement with concurrent signs of secondary syphilis. Treatment with aqueous crystalline penicillin G, ophthalmic steroid and tropicamide drops, and topical emollients resulted in significant clinical improvement of ocular symptoms and skin lesions. The diagnosis of neurosyphilis requires a high degree of clinical suspicion and should be included in the differential diagnosis of unexplained ocular symptoms, particularly in men who have sex with men and HIV-infected patients. This is necessary for the early diagnosis, appropriate management, and good outcome of these patients.
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- JV Pagaddu
- Department of Medicine, Cagayan Valley Medical Center, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines
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- Department of Medicine, Cagayan Valley Medical Center, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines
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Fenimore JM, Springer DA, Romero ME, Edmondson EF, McVicar DW, Yanpallewar S, Sanford M, Spindel T, Engle E, Meyer TJ, Valencia JC, Young HA. IFN-γ and androgens disrupt mitochondrial function in murine myocytes. J Pathol 2023; 260:276-288. [PMID: 37185821 PMCID: PMC10330777 DOI: 10.1002/path.6081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The effect of cytokines on non-traditional immunological targets under conditions of chronic inflammation is an ongoing subject of study. Fatigue is a symptom often associated with autoimmune diseases. Chronic inflammatory response and activated cell-mediated immunity are associated with cardiovascular myopathies which can be driven by muscle weakness and fatigue. Thus, we hypothesize that immune dysfunction-driven changes in myocyte mitochondria may play a critical role in fatigue-related pathogenesis. We show that persistent low-level expression of IFN-γ in designated IFN-γ AU-Rich Element deletion mice (ARE mice) under androgen exposure resulted in mitochondrial and metabolic deficiencies in myocytes from male or castrated ARE mice. Most notably, echocardiography unveiled that low ejection fraction in the left ventricle post-stress correlated with mitochondrial deficiencies, explaining how heart function decreases under stress. We report that inefficiencies and structural changes in mitochondria, with changes to expression of mitochondrial genes, are linked to male-biased fatigue and acute cardiomyopathy under stress. Our work highlights how male androgen hormone backgrounds and active autoimmunity reduce mitochondrial function and the ability to cope with stress and how pharmacological blockade of stress signal protects heart function. These studies provide new insight into the diverse actions of IFN-γ in fatigue, energy metabolism, and autoimmunity. © 2023 The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. This article has been contributed to by U.S. Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.
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- John M Fenimore
- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Murine Phenotyping Core, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Pathology and Histology Lab, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR), Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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Valencia JC, Sanford M, Young HA. Abstract 5138: Systemic agonist anti-CD40 treatment delivers precise melanoma immunotherapy within established autoimmune landscapes. Cancer Res 2023. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2023-5138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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The overlapping signatures of type 1 interferons (IFN) and IFN-gamma (IFNg) has proven challenging in human autoimmunity and cancer immunotherapy, particularly for resistance to anti-programmed death 1 (anti-PD1) monotherapy. By contrast, agonist abs targeting of CD40 (anti-CD40) antibodies (abs) has clinically elicit anti-tumor immunity with limited autoimmune complications. Here, we explore the relationships between anti-PD1 or agonist CD40 responses in melanoma tumors from type 1 IFN alpha receptor (IFNAR)-sufficient and type 1 IFNAR-deficient lupus-prone mice that overexpress IFNg. To address this, RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data on tumors treated with either anti-PD1 or agonist anti-CD40 was evaluated for tumor objective responses compared to untreated controls. Cellular and canonical pathway identification from RNA-seq data were interrogated from the IPA library for significantly differential expressed genes (DEG). Variance patterns of the anti-PD1 and anti-CD40 monotherapies identified known resistance and response pathways highly concordant with IFN co-expression patterns in the RNA-sequencing data, respectively. IPA biomarker analysis for uniquely regulated genes showed that anti-PD1 induced only 59 DEG; while anti-CD40 induced 494 DEG including Il-27, and PR/SET Domain 1 (PRDM1), a transcription factor regulated by IL-27. Specifically, signatures of MDSC development (irf8, il10); and adaptive resistance (pdcd1, pdcd1lg2, and TNFRSF5/CD40)) were negatively associated with response to anti-P1 monotherapy. By contrast, signatures of IFN activation (stat1, Ifng, and Ifngr1), chemotaxis (Cxcl10, Il12b and Il-27), attractants (Sema3g and Sema4a), and antigen presentation MHC II (h2-Aa, h2-Ab1, and ciita) were associated positively with response to agonist anti-CD40 monotherapy. Importantly, anti-CD40 alone delivered anti-tumor immune responses in type 1 IFN receptor-deficient lupus-prone mice that overexpress IFNg (Ifnar-/-ARE-/-) mice suggesting synergy with therapies blocking type 1 IFN signaling. Thus, these findings indicate that the rational use of CD40 agonists abs provide a better therapeutic platform to deliver precise anti-melanoma responses in complex autoimmune landscapes.
Citation Format: Julio C. Valencia, Michael Sanford, Howard A. Young. Systemic agonist anti-CD40 treatment delivers precise melanoma immunotherapy within established autoimmune landscapes. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 5138.
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Bafor EE, Valencia JC, Young HA. Double Negative T Regulatory Cells: An Emerging Paradigm Shift in Reproductive Immune Tolerance? Front Immunol 2022; 13:886645. [PMID: 35844500 PMCID: PMC9283768 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.886645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Immune regulation of female reproductive function plays a crucial role in fertility, as alterations in the relationship between immune and reproductive processes result in autoimmune subfertility or infertility. The breakdown of immune tolerance leads to ovulation dysfunction, implantation failure, and pregnancy loss. In this regard, immune cells with regulatory activities are essential to restore self-tolerance. Apart from regulatory T cells, double negative T regulatory cells (DNTregs) characterized by TCRαβ+/γδ+CD3+CD4–CD8– (and negative for natural killer cell markers) are emerging as effector cells capable of mediating immune tolerance in the female reproductive system. DNTregs are present in the female reproductive tract of humans and murine models. However, their full potential as immune regulators is evolving, and studies so far indicate that DNTregs exhibit features that can also maintain tolerance in the female reproductive microenvironment. This review describes recent progress on the presence, role and mechanisms of DNTregs in the female reproductive system immune regulation and tolerance. In addition, we address how DNTregs can potentially provide a paradigm shift from the known roles of conventional regulatory T cells and immune tolerance by maintaining and restoring balance in the reproductive microenvironment of female fertility.
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- Enitome E Bafor
- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer Innovation Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, United States
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Valencia JC, Erwin-Cohen RA, Clavijo PE, Allen C, Sanford ME, Day CP, Hess MM, Johnson M, Yin J, Fenimore JM, Bettencourt IA, Tsuneyama K, Romero ME, Klarmann KD, Jiang P, Bae HR, McVicar DW, Merlino G, Edmondson EF, Anandasabapathy N, Young HA. Myeloid-Derived Suppressive Cell Expansion Promotes Melanoma Growth and Autoimmunity by Inhibiting CD40/IL27 Regulation in Macrophages. Cancer Res 2021; 81:5977-5990. [PMID: 34642183 PMCID: PMC8639618 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-21-1148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The relationship between cancer and autoimmunity is complex. However, the incidence of solid tumors such as melanoma has increased significantly among patients with previous or newly diagnosed systemic autoimmune disease (AID). At the same time, immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy of cancer induces de novo autoinflammation and exacerbates underlying AID, even without evident antitumor responses. Recently, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) activity was found to drive myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) formation in patients, a known barrier to healthy immune surveillance and successful cancer immunotherapy. Cross-talk between MDSCs and macrophages generally drives immune suppressive activity in the tumor microenvironment. However, it remains unclear how peripheral pregenerated MDSC under chronic inflammatory conditions modulates global macrophage immune functions and the impact it could have on existing tumors and underlying lupus nephritis. Here we show that pathogenic expansion of SLE-generated MDSCs by melanoma drives global macrophage polarization and simultaneously impacts the severity of lupus nephritis and tumor progression in SLE-prone mice. Molecular and functional data showed that MDSCs interact with autoimmune macrophages and inhibit cell surface expression of CD40 and the production of IL27. Moreover, low CD40/IL27 signaling in tumors correlated with high tumor-associated macrophage infiltration and ICB therapy resistance both in murine and human melanoma exhibiting active IFNγ signatures. These results suggest that preventing global macrophage reprogramming induced by MDSC-mediated inhibition of CD40/IL27 signaling provides a precision melanoma immunotherapy strategy, supporting an original and advantageous approach to treat solid tumors within established autoimmune landscapes. SIGNIFICANCE: Myeloid-derived suppressor cells induce macrophage reprogramming by suppressing CD40/IL27 signaling to drive melanoma progression, simultaneously affecting underlying autoimmune disease and facilitating resistance to immunotherapy within preexisting autoimmune landscapes.
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- Julio C Valencia
- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland.
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- Head and Neck Surgery Branch, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Head and Neck Surgery Branch, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, CCR, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland
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- Cancer Data Science laboratory, CCR, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, CCR, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, CCR, NCI, Frederick Maryland
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Fenimore JM, Springer D, Valencia JC, Edmonston E, Young HA. METABOLIC AND STRUCTURAL MUSCULAR CHANGES DRIVEN BY CHRONIC DISEASE-LIKE IFN-G EXPOSURE. The Journal of Immunology 2021. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.206.supp.61.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Cardiovascular myopathies and fatigue have been associated with chronic inflammatory responses and activated cell-mediated immunity. We report aberrant cardiovascular activity in the form of reduced ejection fraction in vivo in male mice with persistent low-level expression of IFN-g (ARE mice). ARE mice have a replacement with random nucleotides in the 3 prime UTR of the IFN-g gene that serves to remove a regulatory element (AU Rich) that is integral at controlling the stability of IFN-g mRNA. ARE mice had increased cellular and mineral, infiltrates into heart tissue and mitochondria linked metabolic changes that were concomitantly observed following a stress-exacerbated decrease in heart function, with or without exposure to IFN-a. Our data also demonstrates an increase in glucose expenditure and increased general fatigue of ARE mice as well as structural and ultrastructural changes in the heart in male mice. We also observe a decrease in the transcripts and a reversible decrease in function of aerobic respiratory components in the muscle of male mice exposed to IFN-g. Notably, we observe a decrease in X chromosome linked pyruvate dehydrogenase, a key component in pyruvate facilitated entry to the TCA cycle, and other downstream mitochondrial genes. Furthermore, the in vivo data revealed an increase in factors associated with fatigue, such as lactic acid production and changes in expression of genes associated with an increase inanaerobic respiration in cardiac musculature. These results indicate that the chronic expression of IFN-g results in a model for male biased heart failure understress in an autoimmune environment, like the idiopathic cardiomyopathy found in male Systemic Lupus Erythematosus patients.
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Valencia JC, Egbukichi N, Erwin-Cohen RA. Autoimmunity and Cancer, the Paradox Comorbidities Challenging Therapy in the Context of Preexisting Autoimmunity. J Interferon Cytokine Res 2018; 39:72-84. [PMID: 30562133 DOI: 10.1089/jir.2018.0060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Today, improvements in diagnostic and therapeutic options allow patients with autoimmune diseases (ADs) to live longer and have more active lives compared with patients receiving conventional anti-inflammatory therapy just two decades ago. Current therapies for ADs aim to inhibit immune cell activation and effector immune pathways, including those activated by cytokines and cytokine receptors. Understandably, such goals become more complicated in patients with long-term established ADs who develop parallel chronic or comorbid conditions, including life-threatening diseases, such as cancer. Compared with the general population, patients with ADs have an increased risk of developing hematological, lymphoproliferative disorders, and solid tumors. However, the aim of current cancer therapies is to activate the immune system to create autoimmune-like conditions and eliminate tumors. As such, their comorbid presentation creates a paradox on how malignancies must be addressed therapeutically in the context of autoimmunity. Because the physiopathology of malignancies is less understood in the context of autoimmunity than it is in the general population, we undertook this review to highlight the peculiarities and mechanisms governing immune cells in established ADs. Moreover, we examined the role of the autoimmune cytokine milieu in the development of immune-related adverse events during the implementation of conventional or immune-based therapy.
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- Julio C Valencia
- Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland
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Bae HR, Hodge DL, Yang GX, Leung PS, Chodisetti SB, Valencia JC, Sanford M, Fenimore JM, Rahman ZS, Tsuneyama K, Norman GL, Gershwin ME, Young HA. The interplay of type I and type II interferons in murine autoimmune cholangitis as a basis for sex-biased autoimmunity. Hepatology 2018; 67:1408-1419. [PMID: 28921595 PMCID: PMC5856578 DOI: 10.1002/hep.29524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Revised: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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UNLABELLED We have reported on a murine model of autoimmune cholangitis, generated by altering the AU-rich element (ARE) by deletion of the interferon gamma (IFN-γ) 3' untranslated region (coined ARE-Del-/- ), that has striking similarities to human primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) with female predominance. Previously, we suggested that the sex bias of autoimmune cholangitis was secondary to intense and sustained type I and II IFN signaling. Based on this thesis, and to define the mechanisms that lead to portal inflammation, we specifically addressed the hypothesis that type I IFNs are the driver of this disease. To accomplish these goals, we crossed ARE-Del-/- mice with IFN type I receptor alpha chain (Ifnar1) knockout mice. We report herein that loss of type I IFN receptor signaling in the double construct of ARE-Del-/- Ifnar1-/- mice dramatically reduces liver pathology and abrogated sex bias. More importantly, female ARE-Del-/- mice have an increased number of germinal center (GC) B cells as well as abnormal follicular formation, sites which have been implicated in loss of tolerance. Deletion of type I IFN signaling in ARE-Del-/- Ifnar1-/- mice corrects these GC abnormalities, including abnormal follicular structure. CONCLUSION Our data implicate type I IFN signaling as a necessary component of the sex bias of this murine model of autoimmune cholangitis. Importantly these data suggest that drugs that target the type I IFN signaling pathway would have potential benefit in the earlier stages of PBC. (Hepatology 2018;67:1408-1419).
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- Heekyong R. Bae
- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and Leidos Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and Leidos Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and Leidos Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and Leidos Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and Leidos Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Cellular Interactions and Immunimaging Institutes of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology (IMMEI), University of Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and Leidos Frederick, Frederick, MD
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Interferon γ (IFNγ) is a pleiotropic protein secreted by immune cells. IFNγ signals through the IFNγ receptor, a protein complex that mediates downstream signaling events. Studies into IFNγ signaling have provided insight into the general concepts of receptor signaling, receptor internalization, regulation of distinct signaling pathways, and transcriptional regulation. Although IFNγ is the central mediator of the adaptive immune response to pathogens, it has been shown to be involved in several non-infectious physiological processes. This review will provide an introduction into IFNγ signaling biology and the functional roles of IFNγ in the autoimmune response.
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- Daniel S Green
- From the Women's Malignancy Branch, Translational Genomics Section, Center for Cancer, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201.
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201.
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Bae HR, Leung PS, Tsuneyama K, Valencia JC, Hodge DL, Kim S, Back T, Karwan M, Merchant AS, Baba N, Feng D, Park O, Gao B, Yang GX, Gershwin ME, Young HA. Chronic expression of interferon-gamma leads to murine autoimmune cholangitis with a female predominance. Hepatology 2016; 64:1189-201. [PMID: 27178326 PMCID: PMC5033675 DOI: 10.1002/hep.28641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Revised: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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UNLABELLED In most autoimmune diseases the serologic hallmarks of disease precede clinical pathology by years. Therefore, the use of animal models in defining early disease events becomes critical. We took advantage of a "designer" mouse with dysregulation of interferon gamma (IFNγ) characterized by prolonged and chronic expression of IFNγ through deletion of the IFNγ 3'-untranslated region adenylate uridylate-rich element (ARE). The ARE-Del(-/-) mice develop primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) with a female predominance that mimics human PBC that is characterized by up-regulation of total bile acids, spontaneous production of anti-mitochondrial antibodies, and portal duct inflammation. Transfer of CD4 T cells from ARE-Del(-/-) to B6/Rag1(-/-) mice induced moderate portal inflammation and parenchymal inflammation, and RNA sequencing of liver gene expression revealed that up-regulated genes potentially define early stages of cholangitis. Interestingly, up-regulated genes specifically overlap with the gene expression signature of biliary epithelial cells in PBC, implying that IFNγ may play a pathogenic role in biliary epithelial cells in the initiation stage of PBC. Moreover, differentially expressed genes in female mice have stronger type 1 and type 2 IFN signaling and lymphocyte-mediated immune responses and thus may drive the female bias of the disease. CONCLUSION Changes in IFNγ expression are critical for the pathogenesis of PBC. (Hepatology 2016;64:1189-1201).
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- Heekyong R. Bae
- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and SAIC Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Japan
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and SAIC Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and SAIC Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and SAIC Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and SAIC Frederick, Frederick, MD
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- Laboratory of Animal Science, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland
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- CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Core, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Central Laboratory Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Takamatsu, Japan
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- Laboratory of Liver Diseases, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, Maryland
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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- Laboratory of Liver Diseases, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, Maryland
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, and SAIC Frederick, Frederick, MD
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Bae H, Valencia JC, Hodge DL, Sanford ME, Hanson CA, Back T, Karwan M, Feng D, Gao B, Park O, Tsuneyama K, Leung PS, Gershwin ME, Young HA. ID: 62. Cytokine 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2015.08.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Yin L, Coelho SG, Valencia JC, Ebsen D, Mahns A, Smuda C, Miller SA, Beer JZ, Kolbe L, Hearing VJ. Identification of Genes Expressed in Hyperpigmented Skin Using Meta-Analysis of Microarray Data Sets. J Invest Dermatol 2015; 135:2455-2463. [PMID: 25950827 PMCID: PMC4567955 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2015.179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Revised: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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More than 375 genes have been identified that are involved in regulating skin pigmentation, and those act during development, survival, differentiation and/or responses of melanocytes to the environment. Many of those genes have been cloned and disruptions of their functions are associated with various pigmentary diseases, however many remain to be identified. We have performed a series of microarray analyses of hyperpigmented compared to less pigmented skin to identify genes responsible for those differences. The rationale and goal for this study was to perform a meta-analysis on those microarray databases to identify genes that may be significantly involved in regulating skin phenotype either directly or indirectly that might not have been identified due to subtle differences by any of those individual studies alone. The meta-analysis demonstrates that 1,271 probes representing 921 genes are differentially expressed at significant levels in the 5 microarray datasets compared, which provides new insights into the variety of genes involved in determining skin phenotype. Immunohistochemistry was used to validate 2 of those markers at the protein level (TRIM63 and QPCT) and we discuss the possible functions of those genes in regulating skin physiology.
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- Lanlan Yin
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- R&D Skin Research, Beiersdorf AG, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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- Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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- R&D Skin Research, Beiersdorf AG, Hamburg, Germany.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Valencia JC, Steagall WK, Zhang Y, Fetsch P, Abati A, Tsukada K, Billings E, Hearing VJ, Yu ZX, Pacheco-Rodriguez G, Moss J. Antibody αPEP13h reacts with lymphangioleiomyomatosis cells in lung nodules. Chest 2015; 147:771-777. [PMID: 25411763 DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-0380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is characterized by the proliferation in the lung, axial lymphatics (eg, lymphangioleiomyomas), and kidney (eg, angiomyolipomas) of abnormal smooth muscle-like LAM cells, which express melanoma antigens such as Pmel17/gp100 and have dysfunctional tumor suppressor tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) genes TSC2 or TSC1. Histopathologic diagnosis of LAM in lung specimens is based on identification of the Pmel17 protein with the monoclonal antibody HMB-45. METHODS We compared the sensitivity of HMB-45 to that of antipeptide antibody αPEP13h, which reacts with a C-terminal peptide of Pmel17. LAM lung nodules were laser-capture microdissected to identify proteins by Western blotting. RESULTS HMB-45 recognized approximately 25% of LAM cells within the LAM lung nodules, whereas αPEP13h identified > 82% of LAM cells within these structures in approximately 90% of patients. Whereas HMB-45 reacted with epithelioid but not with spindle-shaped LAM cells, αPEP13h identified both spindle-shaped and epithelioid LAM cells, providing greater sensitivity for detection of all types of LAM cells. HMB-45 recognized Pmel17 in premelanosomal organelles; αPEP13h recognized proteins in the cytoplasm as well as in premelanosomal organelles. Both antibodies recognized a Pmel17 variant of approximately 50 kDa. CONCLUSIONS Based on its sensitivity and specificity, αPEP13h may be useful in the diagnosis of LAM and more sensitive than HMB-45.
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- Julio C Valencia
- Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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- Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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- Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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- Cytopathology Section, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Cytopathology Section, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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- Biochemistry and Biophysics Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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- Pigment Cell Biology Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Pathology Core, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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- Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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- Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
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Namiki T, Yaguchi T, Nakamura K, Valencia JC, Coelho SG, Yin L, Kawaguchi M, Vieira WD, Kaneko Y, Tanemura A, Katayama I, Yokozeki H, Kawakami Y, Hearing VJ. NUAK2 Amplification Coupled with PTEN Deficiency Promotes Melanoma Development via CDK Activation. Cancer Res 2015; 75:2708-15. [PMID: 25832654 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-13-3209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The AMPK-related kinase NUAK2 has been implicated in melanoma growth and survival outcomes, but its therapeutic utility has yet to be confirmed. In this study, we show how its genetic amplification in PTEN-deficient melanomas may rationalize the use of CDK2 inhibitors as a therapeutic strategy. Analysis of array-CGH data revealed that PTEN deficiency is coupled tightly with genomic amplification encompassing the NUAK2 locus, a finding strengthened by immunohistochemical evidence that phospho-Akt overexpression was correlated with NUAK2 expression in clinical specimens of acral melanoma. Functional studies in melanoma cells showed that inactivation of the PI3K pathway upregulated p21 expression and reduced the number of cells in S phase. NUAK2 silencing and inactivation of the PI3K pathway efficiently controlled CDK2 expression, whereas CDK2 inactivation specifically abrogated the growth of NUAK2-amplified and PTEN-deficient melanoma cells. Immunohistochemical analyses confirmed an association of CDK2 expression with NUAK2 amplification and p-Akt expression in melanomas. Finally, pharmacologic inhibition of CDK2 was sufficient to suppress the growth of NUAK2-amplified and PTEN-deficient melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo. Overall, our results show how CDK2 blockade may offer a promising therapy for genetically defined melanomas, where NUAK2 is amplified and PTEN is deleted.
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- Takeshi Namiki
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Division of Cellular Signaling, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Department of Dermatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cellular Signaling, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cellular Signaling, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Department of Dermatology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto-shi, Nagano, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Research Institute for Clinical Oncology, Saitama Cancer Center, Kitaadachi, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cellular Signaling, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Coelho SG, Valencia JC, Yin L, Smuda C, Mahns A, Kolbe L, Miller SA, Beer JZ, Zhang G, Tuma PL, Hearing VJ. UV exposure modulates hemidesmosome plasticity, contributing to long-term pigmentation in human skin. J Pathol 2015; 236:17-29. [PMID: 25488118 DOI: 10.1002/path.4497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2014] [Revised: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 12/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Human skin colour, ie pigmentation, differs widely among individuals, as do their responses to various types of ultraviolet radiation (UV) and their risks of skin cancer. In some individuals, UV-induced pigmentation persists for months to years in a phenomenon termed long-lasting pigmentation (LLP). It is unclear whether LLP is an indicator of potential risk for skin cancer. LLP seems to have similar features to other forms of hyperpigmentation, eg solar lentigines or age spots, which are clinical markers of photodamage and risk factors for precancerous lesions. To investigate what UV-induced molecular changes may persist in individuals with LLP, clinical specimens from non-sunburn-inducing repeated UV exposures (UVA, UVB or UVA + UVB) at 4 months post-exposure (short-term LLP) were evaluated by microarray analysis and dataset mining. Validated targets were further evaluated in clinical specimens from six healthy individuals (three LLP+ and three LLP-) followed for more than 9 months (long-term LLP) who initially received a single sunburn-inducing UVA + UVB exposure. The results support a UV-induced hyperpigmentation model in which basal keratinocytes have an impaired ability to remove melanin that leads to a compensatory mechanism by neighbouring keratinocytes with increased proliferative capacity to maintain skin homeostasis. The attenuated expression of SOX7 and other hemidesmosomal components (integrin α6β4 and plectin) leads to increased melanosome uptake by keratinocytes and points to a spatial regulation within the epidermis. The reduced density of hemidesmosomes provides supporting evidence for plasticity at the epidermal-dermal junction. Altered hemidesmosome plasticity, and the sustained nature of LLP, may be mediated by the role of SOX7 in basal keratinocytes. The long-term sustained subtle changes detected are modest, but sufficient to create dramatic visual differences in skin colour. These results suggest that the hyperpigmentation phenomenon leading to increased interdigitation develops in order to maintain normal skin homeostasis in individuals with LLP.
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- Sergio G Coelho
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Kondo T, Namiki T, Coelho SG, Valencia JC, Hearing VJ. Oculocutaneous albinism: Developing novel antibodies targeting the proteins associated with OCA2 and OCA4. J Dermatol Sci 2015; 77:21-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2014.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2014] [Revised: 10/05/2014] [Accepted: 11/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Zhang Y, Helke KL, Coelho SG, Valencia JC, Hearing VJ, Sun S, Liu B, Li Z. Essential role of the molecular chaperone gp96 in regulating melanogenesis. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 2013; 27:82-9. [PMID: 24024552 DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2013] [Accepted: 09/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Through a process known as melanogenesis, melanocyte produces melanin in specialized organelles termed melanosomes, which regulates pigmentation of the skin, eyes, and hair. Gp96 is a constitutively expressed heat shock protein in the endoplasmic reticulum whose expression is further upregulated upon ultraviolet irradiation. However, the roles and mechanisms of this chaperone in pigmentation biology are unknown. In this study, we found that knockdown of gp96 by RNA interference significantly perturbed melanin synthesis and blocked late melanosome maturation. Gp96 knockdown did not impair the expression of tyrosinase, an essential enzyme in melanin synthesis, but compromised its catalytic activity and melanosome translocation. Further, mice with melanocyte-specific deletion of gp96 displayed decreased pigmentation. A mechanistic study revealed that the defect in melanogenesis can be rescued by activation of the canonical Wnt pathway, consistent with the critical roles of gp96 in chaperoning Wnt-coreceptor LRP6. Thus, this work uncovered the essential role of gp96 in regulating melanogenesis.
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- Yongliang Zhang
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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Kawaguchi M, Namiki T, Valencia JC, Suzuki T, Hearing VJ. Diacylglycerol kinase regulates tyrosinase expression and function in human melanocytes. J Dermatol Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2012.11.584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kawaguchi M, Valencia JC, Namiki T, Suzuki T, Hearing VJ. Diacylglycerol kinase regulates tyrosinase expression and function in human melanocytes. J Invest Dermatol 2012; 132:2791-9. [PMID: 22895365 PMCID: PMC3502659 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2012.261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Diacylglycerol increases the melanin content of human melanocytes in vitro and increases the pigmentation of guinea pig skin in vivo, but the mechanism(s) underlying those effects remain unknown. In this study, we characterized the role of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK), which phosphorylates diacylglycerol to generate phosphatidic acid, in the regulation of pigmentation. Ten isoforms of DGK have been identified, and we show that DGKζ is the most abundant isoform expressed by human melanocytic cells. Melanin content, tyrosinase activity and tyrosinase protein levels were significantly reduced by a DGK inhibitor, but tyrosinase and MITF mRNA levels were not changed by that inhibition, and there were no effects on the expression of other melanogenesis-related proteins. Isoform-specific siRNAs showed that knockdown of DGKζ decreased melanin content and tyrosinase expression in melanocytic cells. Over-expression of DGKζ increased tyrosinase protein levels, but did not increase tyrosinase mRNA levels. Glycosidase digestion revealed that inhibition of DGK reduced only the mature form of tyrosinase and the decrease of tyrosinase resulting from DGK inhibition could be blocked partially by protease inhibitors. These results suggest that DGK regulates melanogenesis via modulation of the post-translational processing of tyrosinase, which may be related with the protein degradation machinery.
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- Masakazu Kawaguchi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Chen KG, Valencia JC, Gillet JP, Hearing VJ, Gottesman MM. Involvement of ABC transporters in melanogenesis and the development of multidrug resistance of melanoma. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 2009; 22:740-9. [PMID: 19725928 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148x.2009.00630.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Because melanomas are intrinsically resistant to conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy, many alternative treatment approaches have been developed such as biochemotherapy and immunotherapy. The most common cause of multidrug resistance (MDR) in human cancers is the expression and function of one or more ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters that efflux anticancer drugs from cells. Melanoma cells express a group of ABC transporters (such as ABCA9, ABCB1, ABCB5, ABCB8, ABCC1, ABCC2, and ABCD1) that may be associated with the resistance of melanoma cells to a broad range of anticancer drugs and/or of melanocytes to toxic melanin intermediates and metabolites. In this review, we propose a model (termed the ABC-M model) in which the intrinsic MDR of melanoma cells is at least in part because of the transporter systems that may also play a critical role in reducing the cytotoxicity of the melanogenic pathway in melanocytes. The ABC-M model suggests molecular strategies to reverse MDR function in the context of the melanogenic pathway, which could open therapeutic avenues towards the ultimate goal of circumventing clinical MDR in patients with melanoma.
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- Kevin G Chen
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Chen KG, Leapman RD, Zhang G, Lai B, Valencia JC, Cardarelli CO, Vieira WD, Hearing VJ, Gottesman MM. Influence of melanosome dynamics on melanoma drug sensitivity. J Natl Cancer Inst 2009; 101:1259-71. [PMID: 19704071 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djp259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Malignant melanomas are intrinsically resistant to many conventional treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy, for reasons that are poorly understood. Here we propose and test a model that explains drug resistance or sensitivity in terms of melanosome dynamics. METHODS The growth and sensitivity to cisplatin of MNT-1 cells, which are melanotic and enriched with mature stage III and IV melanosomes, and SK-MEL-28 cells, which have only immature stage I and II melanosomes, were compared using clonogenic assays. Differences in pigmentation, melanosome stages, melanosome number, and cellular structures in different cell lines in response to various treatments were examined by electron microscopy. The relative numbers of melanosomes of different stages were compared after treatment with 1-phenyl-2-thiourea. The relationship between drug transporter function and endogenous melanogenic toxicity was assessed by treating cells with the cyclosporin analog PSC-833 and by assessing vacuole formation and cell growth inhibition. All statistical tests were two-sided. RESULTS Endogenous melanogenic cytotoxicity, produced by damaged melanosomes, resulted in pronounced cell growth inhibition in MNT-1 cells compared with amelanotic SK-MEL-28 cells. The sensitivity to CDDP of MNT-1 cells was 3.8-fold higher than that of SK-MEL-28 cells (mean IC(50) for SK-MEL-28 and MNT-1 = 2.13 microM and 0.56 microM, respectively; difference = 1.57 microM, 95% confidence interval = 1.45 to 1.69; P = .0017). After treatment with 6.7 microM CDDP for 72 hours, the number of stage II-III melanosomes in surviving MNT-1 cells was 6.8-fold that of untreated cells. Modulation of MNT-1 cells to earlier-stage (II, II-III, III) melanosomes by treatment with the tyrosinase inhibitor 1-phenyl-2-thiourea dramatically increased CDDP resistance. Furthermore, PSC-833 principally suppressed MNT-1 melanotic cell growth via an elevation of autophagosome-like vacuolar structures, possibly by inhibiting melanosome membrane transporters. CONCLUSIONS Melanosome dynamics (including their biogenesis, density, status, and structural integrity) regulate the drug resistance of melanoma cells. Manipulation of melanosome functions may be an effective way to enhance the therapeutic activity of anticancer drugs against melanoma.
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- Kevin G Chen
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 37, Rm 2108, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Sánchez-Laorden BL, Herraiz C, Valencia JC, Hearing VJ, Jiménez-Cervantes C, García-Borrón JC. Aberrant trafficking of human melanocortin 1 receptor variants associated with red hair and skin cancer: Steady-state retention of mutant forms in the proximal golgi. J Cell Physiol 2009; 220:640-54. [PMID: 19452503 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R), a Gs protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) expressed in melanocytes, is a major determinant of skin pigmentation and phototype. MC1R activation stimulates melanogenesis and increases the ratio of black, strongly photoprotective eumelanins to reddish, poorly photoprotective pheomelanins. Several MC1R alleles are associated with red hair, fair skin, increased sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation (the RHC phenotype) and increased skin cancer risk. Three highly penetrant RHC variants, R151C, R160W, and D294H are loss-of-function MC1R mutants with altered cell surface expression. In this study, we show that forward trafficking was normal for D294H. Conversely, export traffic was impaired for R151C, which accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and for R160W, which was enriched in the cis-Golgi. This is the first report of steady-state retention in a post-ER secretory compartment of a GPCR mutant found in the human population. Residues R151 and R160 are located in the MC1R second intracellular loop (il2). Two other mutations in il2, T157A preventing T157 phosphorylation and R162P disrupting a (160)RARR(163) motif, also caused intracellular retention. Moreover, T157 was phosphorylated in wild-type MC1R and a T157D mutation mimicking constitutive phosphorylation allowed normal traffic, and rescued the retention phenotype of R160W and R162P. Therefore, MC1R export is likely regulated by T157 phosphorylation and the (160)RARR(163) arginine-based motif functions as an ER retrieval signal. These elements are conserved in mammalian MC1Rs and in all five types of human melanocortin receptors. Thus, members of this GPCR subfamily might share common mechanisms for regulation of plasma membrane expression.
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- Berta L Sánchez-Laorden
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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Passeron T, Valencia JC, Namiki T, Vieira WD, Passeron H, Miyamura Y, Hearing VJ. Upregulation of SOX9 inhibits the growth of human and mouse melanomas and restores their sensitivity to retinoic acid. J Clin Invest 2009; 119:954-63. [PMID: 19273910 DOI: 10.1172/jci34015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2008] [Accepted: 01/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Treatments for primary and metastatic melanomas are rarely effective. Even therapeutics such as retinoic acid (RA) that are successfully used to treat several other forms of cancer are ineffective. Recent evidence indicates that the antiproliferative effects of RA are mediated by the transcription factor SOX9 in human cancer cell lines. As we have previously shown that SOX9 is expressed in normal melanocytes, here we investigated SOX9 expression and function in human melanomas. Although SOX9 was expressed in normal human skin, it was increasingly downregulated as melanocytes progressed to the premalignant and then the malignant and metastatic states. Overexpression of SOX9 in both human and mouse melanoma cell lines induced cell cycle arrest by increasing p21 transcription and restored sensitivity to RA by downregulating expression of PRAME, a melanoma antigen. Furthermore, SOX9 overexpression in melanoma cell lines inhibited tumorigenicity both in mice and in a human ex vivo model of melanoma. Treatment of melanoma cell lines with PGD2 increased SOX9 expression and restored sensitivity to RA. Thus, combined treatment with PGD2 and RA substantially decreased tumor growth in human ex vivo and mouse in vivo models of melanoma. The results of our experiments targeting SOX9 provide insight into the pathophysiology of melanoma. Further, the effects of SOX9 on melanoma cell proliferation and RA sensitivity suggest the encouraging possibility of a noncytotoxic approach to the treatment of melanoma.
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- Thierry Passeron
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Namiki T, Valencia JC, Hall MD, Hearing VJ. A novel approach to enhance antibody sensitivity and specificity by peptide cross-linking. Anal Biochem 2008; 383:265-9. [PMID: 18801330 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2008.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2008] [Revised: 08/21/2008] [Accepted: 08/25/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Most current techniques employed to improve antigen-antibody signals in Western blotting and in immunohistochemistry rely on sample processing prior to staining (e.g., microwaving) or using a more robust reporter (e.g., a secondary antibody with biotin-streptavidin). We have developed and optimized a new approach intended to stabilize the complexes formed between antigens and their respective primary antibodies by cupric ions at high pH. This technique improves the affinity and lowers cross-reactivity with nonspecific bands of approximately 20% of antibodies tested (5/25). Here we report that this method can enhance antigen-antibody specificity and can improve the utility of some poorly reactive primary antibodies.
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- Takeshi Namiki
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 37, Room 3132, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
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Randhawa M, Huff T, Valencia JC, Younossi Z, Chandhoke V, Hearing VJ, Baranova A. Evidence for the ectopic synthesis of melanin in human adipose tissue. FASEB J 2008; 23:835-43. [PMID: 18971261 DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-116327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Melanin is a common pigment in animals. In humans, melanin is produced in melanocytes, in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells, in the inner ear, and in the central nervous system. Previously, we noted that human adipose tissue expresses several melanogenesis-related genes. In the current study, we confirmed the expression of melanogenesis-related mRNAs and proteins in human adipose tissue using real-time polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemical staining. TYR mRNA signals were also detected by in situ hybridization in visceral adipocytes. The presence of melanin in human adipose tissue was revealed both by Fontana-Masson staining and by permanganate degradation of melanin coupled with liquid chromatography/ultraviolet/mass spectrometry determination of the pyrrole-2,3,5-tricarboxylic acid (PTCA) derivative of melanin. We also compared melanogenic activities in adipose tissues and in other human tissues using the L-[U-(14)C] tyrosine assay. A marked heterogeneity in the melanogenic activities of individual adipose tissue extracts was noted. We hypothesize that the ectopic synthesis of melanin in obese adipose may serve as a compensatory mechanism that uses its anti-inflammatory and its oxidative damage-absorbing properties. In conclusion, our study demonstrates for the first time that the melanin biosynthesis pathway is functional in adipose tissue.
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- Manpreet Randhawa
- Molecular Biology and Microbiology Department and Center for the Study of Genomics in Liver Diseases, College of Science, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA
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The methods used to purify early and late melanosomes are detailed. These methods include the use of highly pigmented cells to maximize recovery and the use of various sucrose density gradients to separate melanosome fractions based on their density (which is determined in large part by the amount of dense melanin pigment that they contain). Early melanosomes lacking pigment must be further purified using free-flow electrophoresis.
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Passeron T, Valencia JC, Bertolotto C, Hoashi T, Le Pape E, Takahashi K, Ballotti R, Hearing VJ. SOX9 is a key player in ultraviolet B-induced melanocyte differentiation and pigmentation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:13984-9. [PMID: 17702866 PMCID: PMC1955778 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705117104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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SOX (SRY type HMG box) proteins are transcription factors that are predominantly known for their roles during development. During melanocyte development from the neural crest, SOX10 regulates microphthalmia-associated transcription factor, which controls a set of genes critical for pigment cell development and pigmentation, including dopachrome tautomerase and tyrosinase. We report here that another SOX factor, SOX9, is expressed by melanocytes in neonatal and adult human skin and is up-regulated by UVB exposure. We demonstrate that this regulation is mediated by cAMP and protein kinase. We also show that agouti signal protein, a secreted factor known to decrease pigmentation, down-regulates SOX9 expression. In adult and neonatal melanocytes, SOX9 regulates microphthalmia-associated transcription factor, dopachrome tautomerase, and tyrosinase promoters, leading to an increase in the expression of these key melanogenic proteins and finally to a stimulation of pigmentation. SOX9 completes the complex and tightly regulated process leading to the production of melanin by acting at a very upstream level. This role of SOX9 in pigmentation emphasizes the poorly understood impact of SOX proteins in adult tissues.
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- Thierry Passeron
- *Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814; and
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- *Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814; and
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- Unité 597, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Nice Sophia–Antipolis, 06103 Nice, France
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- *Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814; and
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- *Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814; and
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- *Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814; and
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- Unité 597, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Nice Sophia–Antipolis, 06103 Nice, France
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- *Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814; and
- To whom correspondence may be addressed.
Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 37, Room 2132, MSC 4256, Bethesda, MD 20892. E-mail:
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Watabe H, Valencia JC, Le Pape E, Yamaguchi Y, Nakamura M, Rouzaud F, Hoashi T, Kawa Y, Mizoguchi M, Hearing VJ. Involvement of dynein and spectrin with early melanosome transport and melanosomal protein trafficking. J Invest Dermatol 2007; 128:162-74. [PMID: 17687388 PMCID: PMC2167631 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5701019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Melanosomes are unique membrane-bound organelles specialized for the synthesis and distribution of melanin. Mechanisms involved in the trafficking of proteins to melanosomes and in the transport of mature pigmented melanosomes to the dendrites of melanocytic cells are being characterized, but details about those processes during early stages of melanosome maturation are not well understood. Early melanosomes must remain in the perinuclear area until critical components are assembled. In this study, we characterized the processing of two distinct melanosomal proteins, tyrosinase (TYR) and Pmel17, to elucidate protein processing in early or late steps of the secretory pathway, respectively, and to determine mechanisms underlying the subcellular localization and transport of early melanosomes. We used immunological, biochemical, and molecular approaches to demonstrate that the movement of early melanosomes in the perinuclear area depends primarily on microtubules but not on actin filaments. In contrast, the trafficking of TYR and Pmel17 depends on cytoplasmic dynein and its interaction with the spectrin/ankyrin system, which is involved with the sorting of cargo from the plasma membrane. These results provide important clues toward understanding the processes involved with early events in melanosome formation and transport.
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- Hidenori Watabe
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Department of Dermatology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Valencia JC, Rouzaud F, Julien S, Chen KG, Passeron T, Yamaguchi Y, Abu-Asab M, Tsokos M, Costin GE, Yamaguchi H, Jenkins LMM, Nagashima K, Appella E, Hearing VJ. Sialylated core 1 O-glycans influence the sorting of Pmel17/gp100 and determine its capacity to form fibrils. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:11266-80. [PMID: 17303571 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m608449200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Pmel17 is a melanocyte/melanoma-specific protein that is essential for the maturation of melanosomes to form mature, fibrillar, and pigmented organelles. Recently, we reported that the less glycosylated form of Pmel17 (termed iPmel17) is sorted via the plasma membrane in a manner distinct from mature Pmel17 (termed mPmel17), which is sorted directly to melanosomes. To clarify the mechanism(s) underlying the distinct processing and sorting of Pmel17, we generated a highly specific antibody (termed alphaPEP25h) against an epitope within the repeat domain of Pmel17 that is sensitive to changes in O-glycosylation. alphaPEP25h recognizes only iPmel17 and allows analysis of the processing and sorting of iPmel17 when compared with alphaPEP13h, an antibody that recognizes both iPmel17 and mPmel17. Our novel findings using alphaPEP25h demonstrate that iPmel17 differs from mPmel17 not only in its sensitivity to endoglycosidase H, but also in the content of core 1 O-glycans modified with sialic acid. This evidence reveals that iPmel17 is glycosylated differently in the Golgi and that it is sorted through the secretory pathway. Analysis of Pmel17 processing in glycosylation-deficient mutant cells reveals that Pmel17 lacking the correct addition of sialic acid and galactose loses the ability to form fibrils. Furthermore, we show that addition of sialic acid affects the stability and sorting of Pmel17 and reduces pigmentation. Alterations in sialyltransferase activity and substrates differ between normal and transformed melanocytes and may represent a critical change during malignant transformation.
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- Julio C Valencia
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Hu ZZ, Valencia JC, Huang H, Chi A, Shabanowitz J, Hearing VJ, Appella E, Wu C. Comparative Bioinformatics Analyses and Profiling of Lysosome-Related Organelle Proteomes. Int J Mass Spectrom 2007; 259:147-160. [PMID: 17375895 PMCID: PMC1828028 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2006.09.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Complete and accurate profiling of cellular organelle proteomes, while challenging, is important for the understanding of detailed cellular processes at the organelle level. Mass spectrometry technologies coupled with bioinformatics analysis provide an effective approach for protein identification and functional interpretation of organelle proteomes. In this study, we have compiled human organelle reference datasets from large-scale proteomic studies and protein databases for 7 lysosome-related organelles (LROs), as well as the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, for comparative organelle proteome analysis. Heterogeneous sources of human organelle proteins and rodent homologs are mapped to human UniProtKB protein entries based on ID and/or peptide mappings, followed by functional annotation and categorization using the iProXpress proteomic expression analysis system. Cataloging organelle proteomes allows close examination of both shared and unique proteins among various LROs and reveals their functional relevance. The proteomic comparisons show that LROs are a closely related family of organelles. The shared proteins indicate the dynamic and hybrid nature of LROs, while the unique transmembrane proteins may represent additional candidate marker proteins for LROs. This comparative analysis, therefore, provides a basis for hypothesis formulation and experimental validation of organelle proteins and their functional roles.
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- Zhang-Zhi Hu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
- Address Correspondence to: Dr. Ettore Appella, Laboratory of Cell Biology, Building 37, Room 2140, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, , Dr. Cathy H. Wu, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3300 Whitehaven Street, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20007,
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
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Chi A, Valencia JC, Hu ZZ, Watabe H, Yamaguchi H, Mangini NJ, Huang H, Canfield VA, Cheng KC, Yang F, Abe R, Yamagishi S, Shabanowitz J, Hearing VJ, Wu C, Appella E, Hunt DF. Proteomic and bioinformatic characterization of the biogenesis and function of melanosomes. J Proteome Res 2006; 5:3135-44. [PMID: 17081065 DOI: 10.1021/pr060363j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Melanin, which is responsible for virtually all visible skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in humans, is synthesized, deposited, and distributed in subcellular organelles termed melanosomes. A comprehensive determination of the protein composition of this organelle has been obstructed by the melanin present. Here, we report a novel method of removing melanin that includes in-solution digestion and immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC). Together with in-gel digestion, this method has allowed us to characterize melanosome proteomes at various developmental stages by tandem mass spectrometry. Comparative profiling and functional characterization of the melanosome proteomes identified approximately 1500 proteins in melanosomes of all stages, with approximately 600 in any given stage. These proteins include 16 homologous to mouse coat color genes and many associated with human pigmentary diseases. Approximately 100 proteins shared by melanosomes from pigmented and nonpigmented melanocytes define the essential melanosome proteome. Proteins validated by confirming their intracellular localization include PEDF (pigment-epithelium derived factor) and SLC24A5 (sodium/potassium/calcium exchanger 5, NCKX5). The sharing of proteins between melanosomes and other lysosome-related organelles suggests a common evolutionary origin. This work represents a model for the study of the biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles.
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- An Chi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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Valencia JC, Hoashi T, Pawelek JM, Solano F, Hearing VJ. Pmel17: controversial indeed but critical to melanocyte function. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 19:250-2; author reply 253-7. [PMID: 16704461 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00308.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Rouzaud F, Costin GE, Yamaguchi Y, Valencia JC, Berens WF, Chen KG, Hoashi T, Böhm M, Abdel-Malek ZA, Hearing VJ. Regulation of constitutive and UVR‐induced skin pigmentation by melanocortin 1 receptor isoforms. FASEB J 2006; 20:1927-9. [PMID: 16877522 DOI: 10.1096/fj.06-5922fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Melanin synthesized by epidermal melanocytes protects the skin against UVR-induced DNA damage and skin cancer. Exposure to UVR increases the synthesis of the photoprotective eumelanin on activation of MC1R, a melanoma susceptibility gene. We studied the expression of MC1R under UVR and alpha-MSH stimulation in skin of different ethnic origins and in melanocytes of various pigmentary levels. This study identifies and characterizes a novel MC1R isoform (MC1R350) generated by alternative splicing of the classically known MC1R (MC1R317). We demonstrate that the melanin content of melanocytes shows a significant positive correlation with MC1R317 levels but correlates inversely with the amount of MC1R350, suggesting that this latter isoform could act as a negative regulator of melanin synthesis. We confirmed that hypothesis by showing that while MC1R317 signaling significantly increases the expression of MITF and tyrosinase, two key factors in the melanin synthesis pathway, MC1R350 dramatically hampers their expression. In the skin, we show that UVR does not increase MC1R350 expression but does significantly increase MC1R317. Taken together, our results strongly suggest that MC1R350 acts as a negative regulator of skin pigmentation and demonstrate for the first time that MC1R isoform-specific expression is closely related to skin pigmentation and photoprotection.
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- Francois Rouzaud
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Chen KG, Valencia JC, Lai B, Zhang G, Paterson JK, Rouzaud F, Berens W, Wincovitch SM, Garfield SH, Leapman RD, Hearing VJ, Gottesman MM. Melanosomal sequestration of cytotoxic drugs contributes to the intractability of malignant melanomas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:9903-7. [PMID: 16777967 PMCID: PMC1502551 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600213103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Multidrug resistance mechanisms underlying the intractability of malignant melanomas remain largely unknown. In this study, we demonstrate that the development of multidrug resistance in melanomas involves subcellular sequestration of intracellular cytotoxic drugs such as cis-diaminedichloroplatinum II (cisplatin; CDDP). CDDP is initially sequestered in subcellular organelles such as melanosomes, which significantly reduces its nuclear localization when compared with nonmelanoma/KB-3-1 epidermoid carcinoma cells. The melanosomal accumulation of CDDP remarkably modulates melanogenesis through a pronounced increase in tyrosinase activity. The altered melanogenesis manifested an approximately 8-fold increase in both intracellular pigmentation and extracellular transport of melanosomes containing CDDP. Thus, our experiments provide evidence that melanosomes contribute to the refractory properties of melanoma cells by sequestering cytotoxic drugs and increasing melanosome-mediated drug export. Preventing melanosomal sequestration of cytotoxic drugs by inhibiting the functions of melanosomes may have great potential as an approach to improving the chemosensitivity of melanoma cells.
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; and
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- Division of Bioengineering and Physical Science, Office of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Experimental Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Experimental Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Division of Bioengineering and Physical Science, Office of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratories of *Cell Biology and
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 37, Room 2108, Bethesda, MD 20892. E-mail:
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Valencia JC, Watabe H, Chi A, Rouzaud F, Chen KG, Vieira WD, Takahashi K, Yamaguchi Y, Berens W, Nagashima K, Shabanowitz J, Hunt DF, Appella E, Hearing VJ. Sorting of Pmel17 to melanosomes through the plasma membrane by AP1 and AP2: evidence for the polarized nature of melanocytes. J Cell Sci 2006; 119:1080-91. [PMID: 16492709 PMCID: PMC4629779 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Adaptor proteins (AP) play important roles in the sorting of proteins from the trans-Golgi network, but how they function in the sorting of various melanosome-specific proteins such as Pmel17, an essential structural component of melanosomes, in melanocytes is unknown. We characterized the processing and trafficking of Pmel17 via adaptor protein complexes within melanocytic cells. Proteomics analysis detected Pmel17, AP1 and AP2, but not AP3 or AP4 in early melanosomes. Real-time PCR, immunolabeling and tissue in-situ hybridization confirmed the coexpression of AP1 isoforms mu1A and mu1B (expressed only in polarized cells) in melanocytes and keratinocytes, but expression of mu1B is missing in some melanoma cell lines. Transfection with AP1 isoforms (mu1A or mu1B) showed two distinct distribution patterns that involved Pmel17, and only mu1B was able to restore the sorting of Pmel17 to the plasma membrane in cells lacking mu1B expression. Finally, we established that expression of mu1B is regulated physiologically in melanocytes by UV radiation or DKK1. These results show that Pmel17 is sorted to melanosomes by various intracellular routes, directly or indirectly through the plasma membrane, and the presence of basolateral elements in melanocytes suggests their polarized nature.
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- Julio C. Valencia
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Chemistry Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Image Analysis Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
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- Chemistry Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319, USA
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- Chemistry Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319, USA
- Pathology Department, Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Valencia JC, Pacheco-Rodriguez G, Carmona AK, Xavier J, Bruneval P, Riemenschneider WK, Ikeda Y, Yu ZX, Ferrans VJ, Moss J. Tissue-specific renin-angiotensin system in pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2006; 35:40-7. [PMID: 16474096 PMCID: PMC2658696 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2005-0387oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a multisystem disease found in middle-aged women, is characterized by cystic lung destruction and abdominal tumors (e.g., angiomyolipomas, lymphangioleimyomas), resulting from proliferation of abnormal-appearing, smooth muscle-like cells (LAM cells). The LAM cells, in combination with other cells, form nodular structures within the lung interstitium and in the walls of the cysts. LAM cells contain mutations in the tuberous sclerosis complex TSC1 and/or TSC2 genes, which lead to dysregulation of the mammalian target of rapamycin, affecting cell growth and proliferation. Proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells and production of angiogenic factors are regulated, in part, by angiotensin II. To determine whether a LAM-specific renin-angiotensin system might play a role in the pathogenesis of LAM, we investigated the expression of genes and gene products of this system in LAM nodules. mRNA for angiotensinogen was present in RNA isolated by laser-captured microdissection from LAM nodules. Angiotensin I-converting enzyme and chymase-producing mast cells were present within the LAM nodules. We detected renin in LAM cells, as determined by the presence of mRNA and immunohistochemistry. Angiotensin II type 1 and type II receptors were identified in LAM cells by immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting of microdissected LAM nodules. Angiotensin II is localized in cells containing alpha-smooth muscle actin (LAM cells). A LAM-specific renin-angiotensin system appears to function within the LAM nodule as an autocrine system that could promote LAM cell proliferation and migration, and could represent a pharmacologic target.
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- Julio C Valencia
- Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Berens W, Van Den Bossche K, Yoon TJ, Westbroek W, Valencia JC, Out CJ, Naeyaert JM, Hearing VJ, Lambert J. Different approaches for assaying melanosome transfer. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 18:370-81. [PMID: 16162177 PMCID: PMC1360235 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2005.00263.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Many approaches have been tried to establish assays for melanosome transfer to keratinocytes. In this report, we describe and summarize various novel attempts to label melanosomes in search of a reliable, specific, reproducible and quantitative assay system. We tried to fluorescently label melanosomes by transfection of GFP-labeled melanosomal proteins and by incubation of melanocytes with fluorescent melanin intermediates or homologues. In most cases a weak cytoplasmic fluorescence was perceived, which was probably because of incorrect sorting or deficient incorporation of the fluorescent protein and different localization. We were able to label melanosomes via incorporation of 14C-thiouracil into melanin. Consequently, we tried to develop an assay to separate keratinocytes with transferred radioactivity from melanocytes after co-culture. Differential trypsinization and different magnetic bead separation techniques were tested with unsatisfactory results. An attempt was also made to incorporate fluorescent thiouracil, since this would allow cells to be separated by FACS. In conclusion, different methods to measure pigment transfer between donor melanocytes and acceptor keratinocytes were thoroughly examined. This information could give other researchers a head start in the search for a melanosome transfer assay with said qualities to better understand pigment transfer.
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- Werner Berens
- Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
- Department of Dermatology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Chinju, Korea
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- Department of Dermatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, Gent, Belgium
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- Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Dermatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, Gent, Belgium
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- Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, Gent, Belgium
- Address Correspondence to: Dr. Jo Lambert, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, Gent, 9000 Belgium, Phone: +32 (9) 240-2298, Fax: +32 (9) 240-4996, E-mail:
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Chen KG, Szakács G, Annereau JP, Rouzaud F, Liang XJ, Valencia JC, Nagineni CN, Hooks JJ, Hearing VJ, Gottesman MM. Principal expression of two mRNA isoforms (ABCB 5alpha and ABCB 5beta ) of the ATP-binding cassette transporter gene ABCB 5 in melanoma cells and melanocytes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 18:102-12. [PMID: 15760339 PMCID: PMC3915408 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2005.00214.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters play a pivotal role in physiology and pathology. We identified and cloned two novel mRNA isoforms (ABCB 5alpha and ABCB 5beta) of the ABC transporter ABCB 5 in human melanoma cells. The deduced ABCB 5alpha protein appears to be an altered splice variant containing only a putative ABC, whereas the ABCB 5beta isoform shares approximately 70% similarity with ABCB1 (MDR1) and has a deduced topological arrangement similar to that of the whole carboxyl terminal half of the ABCB1 gene product, P-glycoprotein, including an intact ABC. Northern blot, real-time PCR, and conventional RT-PCR were used to verify the expression profiles of ABCB 5alpha/beta. We found that the melanomas included among the NCI-60 panel of cell lines preferentially expressed both ABCB 5alpha and ABCB 5beta. However, ABCB 5alpha/beta expression was undetectable in two amelanotic melanomas (M14 and LOX-IMVI). The expression profile of ABCB 5alpha/beta in all of the other melanomas of the panel was confirmed both by RT-PCR and by sequencing. Neither ABCB 5alpha nor ABCB 5beta expression was found in normal tissues such as liver, spleen, thymus, kidney, lung, colon, small intestines or placenta. ABCB 5alpha/beta mRNAs were also expressed in normal melanocytes and in retinal pigment epithelial cells, suggesting that ABCB 5alpha/beta expression is pigment cell-specific and might be involved in melanogenesis. Our findings indicate that expression of ABCB 5alpha/beta might possibly provide two novel molecular markers for differential diagnosis of melanomas and constitute potential molecular targets for therapy of melanomas.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/biosynthesis
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/genetics
- Alternative Splicing
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Biomarkers, Tumor/biosynthesis
- Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cells, Cultured
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Library
- Humans
- Melanocytes/metabolism
- Melanoma
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Organ Specificity
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
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- Kevin G. Chen
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Address correspondence to Michael M. Gottesman,
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Costin GE, Vieira WD, Valencia JC, Rouzaud F, Lamoreux ML, Hearing VJ. Immortalization of mouse melanocytes carrying mutations in various pigmentation genes. Anal Biochem 2005; 335:171-4. [PMID: 15519586 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2004.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Gertrude-E Costin
- Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Yasumoto KI, Watabe H, Valencia JC, Kushimoto T, Kobayashi T, Appella E, Hearing VJ. Epitope mapping of the melanosomal matrix protein gp100 (PMEL17): rapid processing in the endoplasmic reticulum and glycosylation in the early Golgi compartment. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:28330-8. [PMID: 15096515 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m401269200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Melanosomes, specific organelles produced only by melanocytes, undergo a unique maturation process that involves their transition form amorphous rounded vesicles to fibrillar ellipsoid organelles, during which they move from the perinuclear to the distal areas of the cells. This depends upon the trafficking and processing of gp100 (also known as Pmel17 and the silver protein), a protein of great interest, because it elicits immune responses in melanoma patients but in which specific function(s) remains elusive. In this study, we have used biochemical and immunochemical approaches to more critically assess the synthesis, processing, glycosylation, and trafficking of gp100. We now report that gp100 is processed and sorted in a manner distinct from other melanosomal proteins (such as tyrosinase, Tyrp1 and Dct) and is predominantly delivered directly to immature melanosomes following its rapid processing in the endoplasmic reticulum and cis-Golgi. Following its arrival, gp100 is cleaved at the amino and at the carboxyl termini in a series of specific steps that result in the reorganization of immature melanosomes to the fibrillar mature melanosomes. Once this structural reorganization occurs, melanogenic enzymes begin to be targeted to the melanosomes, which are then competent to synthesize melanin pigment.
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- Ken-ichi Yasumoto
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Room 1B25, Building 37, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Watabe H, Valencia JC, Yasumoto KI, Kushimoto T, Ando H, Muller J, Vieira WD, Mizoguchi M, Appella E, Hearing VJ. Regulation of Tyrosinase Processing and Trafficking by Organellar pH and by Proteasome Activity. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:7971-81. [PMID: 14634018 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m309714200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Pigmentation of the hair, skin, and eyes of mammals results from a number of melanocyte-specific proteins that are required for the biosynthesis of melanin. Those proteins comprise the structural and enzymatic components of melanosomes, the membrane-bound organelles in which melanin is synthesized and deposited. Tyrosinase (TYR) is absolutely required for melanogenesis, but other melanosomal proteins, such as TYRP1, DCT, and gp100, also play important roles in regulating mammalian pigmentation. However, pigmentation does not always correlate with the expression of TYR mRNA/protein, and thus its function is also regulated at the post-translational level. Thus, TYR does not necessarily exist in a catalytically active state, and its post-translational activation could be an important control point for regulating melanin synthesis. In this study, we used a multidisciplinary approach to examine the processing and sorting of TYR through the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Golgi apparatus, coated vesicles, endosomes and early melanosomes because those organelles hold the key to understanding the trafficking of TYR to melanosomes and thus the regulation of melanogenesis. In pigmented cells, TYR is trafficked through those organelles rapidly, but in amelanotic cells, TYR is retained within the ER and is eventually degraded by proteasomes. We now show that TYR can be released from the ER in the presence of protonophore or proton pump inhibitors which increase the pH of intracellular organelles, after which TYR is transported correctly to the Golgi, and then to melanosomes via the endosomal sorting system. The expression of TYRP1, which facilitates TYR processing in the ER, is down-regulated in the amelanotic cells; this is analogous to a hypopigmentary disease known as oculocutaneous albinism type 3 and further impairs melanin production. The sum of these results shows that organellar pH, proteasome activity, and down-regulation of TYRP1 expression all contribute to the lack of pigmentation in TYR-positive amelanotic melanoma cells.
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- Hidenori Watabe
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Ando H, Watabe H, Valencia JC, Yasumoto KI, Furumura M, Funasaka Y, Oka M, Ichihashi M, Hearing VJ. Fatty acids regulate pigmentation via proteasomal degradation of tyrosinase: a new aspect of ubiquitin-proteasome function. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:15427-33. [PMID: 14739285 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m313701200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fatty acids are common components of biological membranes that are known to play important roles in intracellular signaling. We report here a novel mechanism by which fatty acids regulate the degradation of tyrosinase, a critical enzyme associated with melanin biosynthesis in melanocytes and melanoma cells. Linoleic acid (unsaturated fatty acid, C18:2) accelerated the spontaneous degradation of tyrosinase, whereas palmitic acid (saturated fatty acid, C16:0) retarded the proteolysis. The linoleic acid-induced acceleration of tyrosinase degradation could be abrogated by inhibitors of proteasomes, the multicatalytic proteinase complexes that selectively degrade intracellular ubiquitinated proteins. Linoleic acid increased the ubiquitination of many cellular proteins, whereas palmitic acid decreased such ubiquitination, as compared with untreated controls, when a proteasome inhibitor was used to stabilize ubiquitinated proteins. Immunoprecipitation analysis also revealed that treatment with fatty acids modulated the ubiquitination of tyrosinase, i.e. linoleic acid increased the amount of ubiquitinated tyrosinase whereas, in contrast, palmitic acid decreased it. Furthermore, confocal immunomicroscopy showed that the colocalization of ubiquitin and tyrosinase was facilitated by linoleic acid and diminished by palmitic acid. Taken together, these data support the view that fatty acids regulate the ubiquitination of tyrosinase and are responsible for modulating the proteasomal degradation of tyrosinase. In broader terms, the function of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway might be regulated physiologically, at least in part, by fatty acids within cellular membranes.
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- Hideya Ando
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Rouzaud F, Annereau JP, Valencia JC, Costin GE, Hearing VJ. Regulation of melanocortin 1 receptor expression at the mRNA and protein levels by its natural agonist and antagonist. FASEB J 2003; 17:2154-6. [PMID: 14500544 DOI: 10.1096/fj.03-0206fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Five melanocortin receptors, which form a subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors, are expressed in mammalian tissues and regulate such diverse physiological processes as pigmentation, adrenal function, energy homeostasis, feeding efficiency, and sebaceous gland lipid production, as well as immune and sexual function. Pigmentation in mammals is stimulated by alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH), which binds to the melanocortin 1 receptor (Mc1r) and induces an activation of melanogenic enzymes through stimulation of adenylate cyclase and protein kinase A. The antagonist agouti signal protein (ASP) interacts with the Mc1r and blocks its stimulation by MSH. We examined the influence of ASP or MSH on Mc1r gene expression, and we report that both ligands influence the Mc1r 5' promoter structure in distinct manners. Our study further shows that MSH regulates Mc1r function at both the mRNA and protein levels, whereas ASP acts only on its translation.
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- Francois Rouzaud
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Costin GE, Valencia JC, Vieira WD, Lamoreux ML, Hearing VJ. Tyrosinase processing and intracellular trafficking is disrupted in mouse primary melanocytes carrying the underwhite (uw) mutation. A model for oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) type 4. J Cell Sci 2003; 116:3203-12. [PMID: 12829739 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) type 4 is a newly identified human autosomal recessive hypopigmentary disorder that disrupts pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes. Three other forms of OCA have been previously characterized, each resulting from the aberrant processing and/or sorting of tyrosinase, the enzyme critical to pigment production in mammals. The disruption of tyrosinase trafficking occurs at the level of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in OCA1 and OCA3, but at the post-Golgi level in OCA2. The gene responsible for OCA4 is the human homologue of the mouse underwhite (uw) gene, which encodes the membrane-associated transporter protein (MATP). To characterize OCA4, we investigated the processing and sorting of melanogenic proteins in primary melanocytes derived from uw/uw mice and from wild-type mice. OCA4 melanocytes were found to be constantly secreted into the medium dark vesicles that contain tyrosinase and two other melanogenic enzymes, Tyrp1 (tyrosinase-related protein 1) and Dct (DOPAchrome tautomerase); this secretory process is not seen in wild-type melanocytes. Although tyrosinase was synthesized at comparable rates in wild-type and in uw-mutant melanocytes, tyrosinase activity in uw-mutant melanocytes was only about 20% of that found in wild-type melanocytes, and was enriched only about threefold in melanosomes compared with the ninefold enrichment in wild-type melanocytes. OCA4 melanocytes showed a marked difference from wild-type melanocytes in that tyrosinase was abnormally secreted from the cells, a process similar to that seen in OCA2 melanocytes, which results from a mutation of the pink-eyed dilution (P) gene. The P protein and MATP have 12 transmembrane regions and are predicted to function as transporters. Ultrastructural analysis shows that the vesicles secreted from OCA4 melanocytes are mostly early stage melanosomes. Taken together, our results show that in OCA4 melanocytes, tyrosinase processing and intracellular trafficking to the melanosome is disrupted and the enzyme is abnormally secreted from the cells in immature melanosomes, which disrupts the normal maturation process of those organelles. This mechanism explains the hypopigmentary phenotype of these cells and provides new insights into the involvement of transporters in the normal physiology of melanocytes.
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- Gertrude-E Costin
- Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Kushimoto T, Valencia JC, Costin GE, Toyofuku K, Watabe H, Yasumoto KI, Rouzaud F, Vieira WD, Hearing VJ. The Seiji memorial lecture: the melanosome: an ideal model to study cellular differentiation. Pigment Cell Res 2003; 16:237-44. [PMID: 12753396 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00034.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Melanosomes provide an intriguing model for study at many levels. In part this is due to their unique structure and function, but also in part to their involvement in pigmentary diseases and as a model to study basic cellular mechanisms of organelle biogenesis. Recent studies have elucidated the full proteome of the melanosome and the metabolic and molecular lesions involved in a number of pigmentary diseases have been resolved. This paper summarizes recent advances in the field in these areas.
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- Tsuneto Kushimoto
- Pigment Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Toyofuku K, Valencia JC, Kushimoto T, Costin GE, Virador VM, Vieira WD, Ferrans VJ, Hearing VJ. The etiology of oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) type II: the pink protein modulates the processing and transport of tyrosinase. Pigment Cell Res 2002; 15:217-24. [PMID: 12028586 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2002.02007.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is caused by reduced or deficient melanin pigmentation in the skin, hair, and eyes. OCA has different phenotypes resulting from mutations in distinct pigmentation genes involved in melanogenesis. OCA type 2 (OCA2), the most common form of OCA, is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the P gene, the function(s) of which is controversial. In order to elucidate the mechanism(s) involved in OCA2, our group used several antibodies specific for various melanosomal proteins (tyrosinase, Tyrp1, Dct, Pmel17 and HMB45), including a specific set of polyclonal antibodies against the p protein. We used confocal immunohistochemistry to compare the processing and distribution of those melanosomal proteins in wild type (melan-a) and in p mutant (melan-p1) melanocytes. Our results indicate that the melanin content of melan-p1 melanocytes was less than 50% that of wild type melan-a melanocytes. In contrast, the tyrosinase activities were similar in extracts of wild type and p mutant melanocytes. Confocal microscopy studies and pulse-chase analyses showed altered processing and sorting of tyrosinase, which is released from melan-p1 cells to the medium. Processing and sorting of Tyrp1 was also altered to some extent. However, Dct and Pmel17 expression and subcellular localization were similar in melan-a and in melan-p1 melanocytes. In melan-a cells, the p protein showed mainly a perinuclear pattern with some staining in the cytoplasm where some co-localization with HMB45 antibody was observed. These findings suggest that the p protein plays a major role in modulating the intracellular transport of tyrosinase and a minor role for Tyrp1, but is not critically involved in the transport of Dct and Pmel17. This study provides a basis to understand the relationship of the p protein with tyrosinase function and melanin synthesis, and also provides a rational approach to unveil the consequences of P gene mutations in the pathogenesis of OCA2.
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- Kazutomo Toyofuku
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Toyofuku K, Wada I, Valencia JC, Kushimoto T, Ferrans VJ, Hearing VJ. Oculocutaneous albinism types 1 and 3 are ER retention diseases: mutation of tyrosinase or Tyrp1 can affect the processing of both mutant and wild-type proteins. FASEB J 2001; 15:2149-61. [PMID: 11641241 DOI: 10.1096/fj.01-0216com] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Various types of oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) are associated with reduced pigmentation in the skin, hair, and eyes that results from mutations in genes involved in melanin synthesis. Immortal mouse melanocyte lines (melan-a, melan-b, and melan-c) provide opportune models with which to investigate the etiology of two different types of OCA (types I and III), which arise from mutations in Tyr and Tyrp1, respectively. We compared intracellular processing, sorting, and degradation of tyrosinase and Tyrp1, and the effects on their catalytic function and melanin synthesis, in these wild-type and mutant melanocytes. A mutation in either Tyr or Tyrp1 increased the time of association of tyrosinase and Tyrp1 with calnexin and Bip, which in turn resulted in the retention of these mutant products in the ER. A mutation in either gene selectively enhanced the duration and efficiency of chaperone interactions (even with the wild-type protein in the mutant melanocytes) and markedly slowed their transport to melanosomes. These results show that OCA1 and OCA3 are (in some cases, at least) ER retention diseases wherein a mutation in one melanogenic protein affects the maturation and stability of the other in the melanogenic pathway.
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- K Toyofuku
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Valencia JC, Matsui K, Bondy C, Zhou J, Rasmussen A, Cullen K, Yu ZX, Moss J, Ferrans VJ. Distribution and mRNA expression of insulin-like growth factor system in pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis. J Investig Med 2001; 49:421-33. [PMID: 11523698 DOI: 10.2310/6650.2001.33787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1 and IGF-2), the IGF-1 receptor (IGF-1R), and IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs) are involved in normal pulmonary development and in the pathogenesis of smooth muscle cell tumors. METHODS To evaluate the role of the IGF system in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), we used immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization techniques to characterize the expression of IGF-1, IGF-2, IGF-1R, and IGFBP-2, -4, -5, and -6 in lung tissue from 18 LAM patients. RESULTS IGF-1, ICGF-2, IGF-1R, IGFBP-1, IGFBP-2, IGFBP-4, IGFBP-5, and IGFBP-6 were expressed by LAM cells. Reactivity and mRNA expression for IGF-2 were observed in LAM cells and resembled that found in normal smooth muscle cells during pulmonary development as well as in smooth muscle cell tumors. IGFBP-2, IGFBP-4, and IGFBP-6 were associated with spindle-shaped LAM cells, whereas IGFBP-5 was associated mainly with epithelioid LAM cells. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that the IGFBPs modulate the effects of the IGFs on LAM cells. Thus, the patterns of localization and expression of components of the IGF system in LAM strongly suggest that these agents are involved in the proliferation of LAM cells.
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- J C Valencia
- Pathology Section, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1518, USA
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