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Ndinyanka Fabrice T, Bianda C, Zhang H, Jayachandran R, Ruer-Laventie J, Mori M, Moshous D, Fucile G, Schmidt A, Pieters J. An evolutionarily conserved coronin-dependent pathway defines cell population size. Sci Signal 2022; 15:eabo5363. [DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.abo5363] [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: 11/09/2022]
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Maintenance of cell population size is fundamental to the proper functioning of multicellular organisms. Here, we describe a cell-intrinsic cell density–sensing pathway that enabled T cells to reach and maintain an appropriate population size. This pathway operated “kin-to-kin” or between identical or similar T cell populations occupying a niche within a tissue or organ, such as the lymph nodes, spleen, and blood. We showed that this pathway depended on the cell density–dependent abundance of the evolutionarily conserved protein coronin 1, which coordinated prosurvival signaling with the inhibition of cell death until the cell population reached threshold densities. At or above threshold densities, coronin 1 expression peaked and remained stable, thereby resulting in the initiation of apoptosis through kin-to-kin intercellular signaling to return the cell population to the appropriate cell density. This cell population size-controlling pathway was conserved from amoeba to humans, thus providing evidence for the existence of a coronin-regulated, evolutionarily conserved mechanism by which cells are informed of and coordinate their relative population size.
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Pediatric Immunology, Hematology and Rheumatology Unit, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Imagine Institute, INSERM UMR1163, Université de Paris, 75015 Paris, France
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- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, sciCORE Computing Center, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Breda J, Banerjee A, Jayachandran R, Pieters J, Zavolan M. A novel approach to single-cell analysis reveals intrinsic differences in immune marker expression in unstimulated BALB/c and C57BL/6 macrophages. FEBS Lett 2022; 596:2630-2643. [PMID: 36001069 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14478] [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] [Received: 05/29/2022] [Revised: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The origin of functional heterogeneity among macrophages, key innate immune system components, is still debated. While mouse strains differ in their immune responses, the range of gene expression variation among their pre-stimulation macrophages is unknown. With a novel approach to scRNA-seq analysis, we reveal the gene expression variation in unstimulated macrophage populations from BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. We show that intrinsic strain-to-strain differences are detectable before stimulation and we place the unstimulated single cells within the gene expression landscape of stimulated macrophages. C57BL/6 mice show stronger evidence of macrophage polarization than BALB/c mice, which may contribute to their relative resistance to pathogens. Our computational methods can be generally adopted to uncover biological variation between cell populations.
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- Jeremie Breda
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland
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Sreejith S, Shajahan S, Prathiush PR, Anjana VM, Viswanathan A, Chandran V, Ajith Kumar GS, Jayachandran R, Mathew J, Radhakrishnan EK. Healthy broilers disseminate antibiotic resistance in response to tetracycline input in feed concentrates. Microb Pathog 2020; 149:104562. [PMID: 33039593 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2020.104562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 10/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Wide varieties of antibiotics are used in poultry farms to improve the growth and also to control the infection in broiler chicken. To identify the seriousness of the same in the poultry sector, current study has been designed to analyze the presence of tetracycline in poultry feed and also the tetracycline resistance among the bacteria released through the excreta of poultry. In the study, 27 bacteria belonging to the Escherichiacoli and Klebsiellapneumoniae. were isolated from the faecal samples collected from five different farms. Antibiotic susceptibility analysis showed 77% of E. coli and 100% of the K. pneumoniae. to be resistant to tetracycline. Further, molecular screening for tetA and tetB genes showed 85.18% of isolates to have tetA and 22.22% with tetB. The presence of tetracycline in collected feed samples was also analysed quantitatively by Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Here, three out of five feed samples were found to be positive for tetracycline. The study showed a direct correlation between the antibiotic supplemented feed and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance among the intestinal microflora. The results of the study indicate the need for strict control over antibiotic use in animal feed to limit the rapid evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance.
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- S Sreejith
- School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 686 560, India
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- School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 686 560, India
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- State Institute for Animal Diseases, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695563, India
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- State Institute for Animal Diseases, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695563, India
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- School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 686 560, India
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- School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 686 560, India
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- State Institute for Animal Diseases, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695563, India
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- State Institute for Animal Diseases, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695563, India
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- School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 686 560, India
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- School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 686 560, India.
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Ruer-Laventie J, Jayachandran R, Schmaler M, Rossi SW, Pieters J. Skin Transplantation and Lymphoid Organ Analysis in Mice. Bio Protoc 2020; 10:e3531. [PMID: 33654755 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.3531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 08/25/2019] [Revised: 12/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Skin transplantation in mice is an important procedure to evaluate immune responses generated against heterologous grafts, especially given its highly immunogenic nature. In fact, skin is one of the most challenging organs in terms of allograft retention. In this protocol, we provide a detailed procedure for skin grafting using the tail skin as donor organ that is grafted on the dorsal site of thoracic cage in a recipient mouse. We also provide protocols for the systematic analysis of lymphoid organ analysis in transplanted mice. Together these protocols may be valuable for evaluation of parameters that affect skin grafting, including genetic factors, immune cell activation as well as the analysis of compounds that may be useful in allowing graft tolerance.
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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LK P, Jayachandran R, Ragavendra S, Iyer RB. Looking Beyond the Fog-Apomorphine Demystified. Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2020; 23:363-364. [PMID: 32606533 PMCID: PMC7313597 DOI: 10.4103/aian.aian_19_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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- Prashanth LK
- Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India,Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospitals, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India,Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India,Address for correspondence: Dr. Prashanth LK, Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. E-mail:
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- Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospitals, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospitals, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospitals, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Jayachandran R, Gumienny A, Bolinger B, Ruehl S, Lang MJ, Fucile G, Mazumder S, Tchang V, Woischnig AK, Stiess M, Kunz G, Claudi B, Schmaler M, Siegmund K, Li J, Dertschnig S, Holländer G, Medina E, Karrer U, Moshous D, Bumann D, Khanna N, Rossi SW, Pieters J. Disruption of Coronin 1 Signaling in T Cells Promotes Allograft Tolerance while Maintaining Anti-Pathogen Immunity. Immunity 2019; 50:152-165.e8. [PMID: 30611611 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2018] [Revised: 10/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
The ability of the immune system to discriminate self from non-self is essential for eradicating microbial pathogens but is also responsible for allograft rejection. Whether it is possible to selectively suppress alloresponses while maintaining anti-pathogen immunity remains unknown. We found that mice deficient in coronin 1, a regulator of naive T cell homeostasis, fully retained allografts while maintaining T cell-specific responses against microbial pathogens. Mechanistically, coronin 1-deficiency increased cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) concentrations to suppress allo-specific T cell responses. Costimulation induced on microbe-infected antigen presenting cells was able to overcome cAMP-mediated immunosuppression to maintain anti-pathogen immunity. In vivo pharmacological modulation of this pathway or a prior transfer of coronin 1-deficient T cells actively suppressed allograft rejection. These results define a coronin 1-dependent regulatory axis in T cells important for allograft rejection and suggest that modulation of this pathway may be a promising approach to achieve long-term acceptance of mismatched allografts.
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- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, sciCORE Computing Center, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital of Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
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- Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, Paris, France and APHP Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Unité d'Immunologie-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Paris, France
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Division of Infectious Diseases, University and University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Liu X, BoseDasgupta S, Jayachandran R, Studer V, Rühl S, Stiess M, Pieters J. Activation of the cAMP/protein kinase A signalling pathway by coronin 1 is regulated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 activity. FEBS Lett 2016; 590:279-87. [PMID: 26823173 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2015] [Revised: 12/03/2015] [Accepted: 12/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Coronins constitute a family of conserved proteins expressed in all eukaryotes that have been implicated in the regulation of a wide variety of cellular activities. Recent work showed an essential role for coronin 1 in the modulation of the cAMP/PKA pathway in neurons through the interaction of coronin 1 with the G protein subtype Gαs in a stimulus-dependent manner, but the molecular mechanism regulating coronin 1-Gαs interaction remains unclear. We here show that phosphorylation of coronin 1 on Thr(418/424) by cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 5 activity was responsible for coronin 1-Gαs association and the modulation of cAMP production. Together these results show an essential role for CDK5 activity in promoting the coronin 1-dependent cAMP/PKA pathway.
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Harihara Prakash R, Jayachandran R. Stability in children with cerebral palsy. Hong Kong Physiother J 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hkpj.2015.09.012] [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: 11/29/2022] Open
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Jayachandran R, Pieters J. Regulation of immune cell homeostasis and function by coronin 1. Int Immunopharmacol 2015; 28:825-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2015.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Gruber AR, Martin G, Müller P, Schmidt A, Gruber AJ, Gumienny R, Mittal N, Jayachandran R, Pieters J, Keller W, van Nimwegen E, Zavolan M. Global 3′ UTR shortening has a limited effect on protein abundance in proliferating T cells. Nat Commun 2014; 5:5465. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Jayachandran R, BoseDasgupta S, Pieters J. Surviving the macrophage: tools and tricks employed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2014; 374:189-209. [PMID: 23154833 DOI: 10.1007/82_2012_273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has evolved to withstand one of the most inhospitable cells within the human body, namely the macrophage, a cell that is normally geared toward the destruction of any invading microbe. How M. tuberculosis achieves this is still incompletely understood; however, a number of mechanisms are now known that provide advantages to M. tuberculosis for its survival and proliferation inside the macrophage. While some of these mechanisms are mediated by factors released by M. tuberculosis, others rely on host components that are being hijacked to benefit survival of M. tuberculosis within the macrophage as well to avoid the generation of an effective immune response. Here, we describe several of these mechanisms, also pointing out the potential usage of this knowledge toward the development of novel strategies to treat tuberculosis. Furthermore, we attempt to put the 'macrophage niche' into context with other intracellular pathogens and discuss some of the generalities as well as specializations that M. tuberculosis employs to survive.
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- Rajesh Jayachandran
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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Jayachandran R, Liu X, BoseDasgupta S, Müller P, Zhang CL, Moshous D, Studer V, Schneider J, Genoud C, Fossoud C, Gambino F, Khelfaoui M, Müller C, Bartholdi D, Rossez H, Stiess M, Houbaert X, Jaussi R, Frey D, Kammerer RA, Deupi X, de Villartay JP, Lüthi A, Humeau Y, Pieters J. Coronin 1 regulates cognition and behavior through modulation of cAMP/protein kinase A signaling. PLoS Biol 2014; 12:e1001820. [PMID: 24667537 PMCID: PMC3965382 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2013] [Accepted: 02/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The evolutionarily conserved protein coronin 1 is needed for activating the cyclic AMP signaling pathway in the brain and is important for cognition and behavior. Cognitive and behavioral disorders are thought to be a result of neuronal dysfunction, but the underlying molecular defects remain largely unknown. An important signaling pathway involved in the regulation of neuronal function is the cyclic AMP/Protein kinase A pathway. We here show an essential role for coronin 1, which is encoded in a genomic region associated with neurobehavioral dysfunction, in the modulation of cyclic AMP/PKA signaling. We found that coronin 1 is specifically expressed in excitatory but not inhibitory neurons and that coronin 1 deficiency results in loss of excitatory synapses and severe neurobehavioral disabilities, including reduced anxiety, social deficits, increased aggression, and learning defects. Electrophysiological analysis of excitatory synaptic transmission in amygdala revealed that coronin 1 was essential for cyclic–AMP–protein kinase A–dependent presynaptic plasticity. We further show that upon cell surface stimulation, coronin 1 interacted with the G protein subtype Gαs to stimulate the cAMP/PKA pathway. The absence of coronin 1 or expression of coronin 1 mutants unable to interact with Gαs resulted in a marked reduction in cAMP signaling. Strikingly, synaptic plasticity and behavioral defects of coronin 1–deficient mice were restored by in vivo infusion of a membrane-permeable cAMP analogue. Together these results identify coronin 1 as being important for cognition and behavior through its activity in promoting cAMP/PKA-dependent synaptic plasticity and may open novel avenues for the dissection of signal transduction pathways involved in neurobehavioral processes. Memory and behavior depend on the proper transduction of signals in the brain, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown. Coronin 1 is a member of a highly conserved family of proteins, and although its gene lies in a chromosome region associated with neurobehavioral dysfunction in mice and men, it has never been directly ascribed a specific function in the brain. Here we show that coronin 1 plays an important role in cognition and behavior by regulating the cyclic AMP (cAMP) signaling pathway. We find that when cell surface receptors are activated, coronin 1 stimulates cAMP production and activation of protein kinase A. Coronin 1 deficiency resulted in severe functional defects at excitatory synapses. Furthermore, in both mice and humans, deletion or mutation of coronin 1 causes severe neurobehavioral defects, including social deficits, increased aggression, and learning disabilities. Strikingly, treatment with a membrane-permeable analogue of cAMP restored synaptic plasticity and behavioral defects in mice lacking coronin 1. Together this work not only shows a critical role for coronin 1 in neurobehavior but also defines a role for the coronin family in regulating the transmission of signals within cells.
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Radiology, University Children Hospital, UKBB, Basel, Switzerland
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- Center for Cellular Imaging and NanoAnalytics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France
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- Biomolecular Research Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Biomolecular Research Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Biomolecular Research Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Biomolecular Research Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
- Condensed Matter Theory, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France
- * E-mail: (Y.H.); (J.P.)
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- * E-mail: (Y.H.); (J.P.)
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Recent work has implicated members of the evolutionarily conserved family of coronin proteins - in particular coronin 1 - in immune homeostasis. Coronins are involved in processes as diverse as pathogen survival in phagocytes and homeostatic T cell signalling. Notably, in both mice and humans, coronin mutations are associated with immune deficiencies and resistance to autoimmunity. In this article, we review what is currently known about these conserved molecules and discuss a potential common mechanism that underlies their diverse activities, which seem to involve cytoskeletal interactions as well as calcium-calcineurin signalling.
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- Jean Pieters
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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Jayachandran R, Scherr N, Pieters J. Elimination of intracellularly residing Mycobacterium tuberculosis through targeting of host and bacterial signaling mechanisms. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2013; 10:1007-22. [PMID: 23106276 DOI: 10.1586/eri.12.95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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: 12/20/2022]
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With more than 2 billion latently infected people, TB continues to represent a serious threat to human health. According to the WHO, 1.1 million people died from TB in 2010, which is equal to approximately 3000 deaths per day. The causative agent of the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a highly successful pathogen having evolved remarkable strategies to persist within the host. Although normally, upon phagocytosis by macrophages, bacteria are readily eliminated by lysosomes, pathogenic mycobacteria actively prevent destruction within macrophages. The strategies that pathogenic mycobacteria apply range from releasing virulence factors to manipulating host molecules resulting in the modulation of host signal transduction pathways in order to sustain their viability within the infected host. Here, we analyze the current status of how a better understanding of both the bacterial and host factors involved in virulence can be used to develop drugs that may be helpful to curb the TB epidemic.
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- Rajesh Jayachandran
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Tuberculosis remains a disease with an enormous impact on public health worldwide. With the continuously increasing epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis, new drugs are desperately needed. However, even for the treatment of drug-sensitive tuberculosis, new drugs are required to shorten the treatment duration and thereby prevent development of drug resistance. Within the past ten years, major advances in tuberculosis drug research have been made, leading to a considerable number of antimycobacterial compounds which are now in the pipeline. Here we discuss a number of these novel promising tuberculosis drugs, as well as the discovery of two new potential drug targets for the development of novel effective drugs to curb the tuberculosis pandemic, ie, the coronin 1 and protein kinase G pathways. Protein kinase G is secreted by mycobacteria and is responsible for blocking lysosomal delivery within the macrophage. Coronin 1 is responsible for activating the phosphatase, calcineurin, and thereby preventing phagosome-lysosome fusion within the macrophage. Blocking these two pathways may lead to rapid killing of mycobacteria.
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- Saskia Janssen
- Center for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Scherr N, Jayachandran R, Mueller P, Pieters J. Interference of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with macrophage responses. Indian J Exp Biol 2009; 47:401-406. [PMID: 19634703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
Abstract
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has become an important health and economic burden, with more than four thousand people succumbing to the disease every day. Thus, there is an urgent need to understand the molecular basis of this pathogen's success in causing disease in humans, in order to develop new drugs superior to conventional drugs available at present. One reason why M. tuberculosis is such a dangerous microbe lies within its ability to survive within infected hosts, thereby efficiently circumventing host immune responses. Over the past few years, a number of mechanisms have been unravelled that are utilized by M. tuberculosis to survive within hosts and to avoid immune defence mechanisms. Several of these mechanisms have been described in this communication that may be useful for the development of novel compounds to treat tuberculosis.
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- Nicole Scherr
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Infectious diseases continue to represent a great burden to human society, being responsible for approximately 14 to 16 million deaths annually. Today, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, remains one of the most important infectious agents. Moreover, with the emergence of multi drug and extensive drug resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, there is a great need for a better understanding of the virulence strategies utilized by this pathogen. In this manuscript, we discuss some of the strategies that have been followed to unravel virulence mechanisms utilized by M. tuberculosis. Knowledge of these mechanisms is important to reveal potential targets that may be useful for the development of compounds to treat tuberculosis.
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Mueller P, Massner J, Jayachandran R, Combaluzier B, Albrecht I, Gatfield J, Blum C, Ceredig R, Rodewald HR, Rolink AG, Pieters J. Regulation of T cell survival through coronin-1-mediated generation of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate and calcium mobilization after T cell receptor triggering. Nat Immunol 2008; 9:424-31. [PMID: 18345003 DOI: 10.1038/ni1570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2007] [Accepted: 01/28/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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T cell homeostasis is essential for the functioning of the vertebrate immune system, but the intracellular signals required for T cell homeostasis are largely unknown. We here report that the WD-repeat protein family member coronin-1, encoded by the gene Coro1a, is essential in the mouse for T cell survival through its promotion of Ca2+ mobilization from intracellular stores. Upon T cell receptor triggering, coronin-1 was essential for the generation of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate from phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate. The absence of coronin-1, although it did not affect T cell development, resulted in a profound defect in Ca2+ mobilization, interleukin-2 production, T cell proliferation and T cell survival. We conclude that coronin-1, through activation of Ca2+ release from intracellular stores, is an essential regulator of peripheral lymphocyte survival.
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- Philipp Mueller
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Jayachandran R, Gatfield J, Massner J, Albrecht I, Zanolari B, Pieters J. RNA interference in J774 macrophages reveals a role for coronin 1 in mycobacterial trafficking but not in actin-dependent processes. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 19:1241-51. [PMID: 18162581 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-07-0640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [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] Open
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Macrophages are crucial for innate immunity, apoptosis, and tissue remodeling, processes that rely on the capacity of macrophages to internalize and process cargo through phagocytosis. Coronin 1, a member of the WD repeat protein family of coronins specifically expressed in leukocytes, was originally identified as a molecule that is recruited to mycobacterial phagosomes and prevents the delivery of mycobacteria to lysosomes, allowing these to survive within phagosomes. However, a role for coronin 1 in mycobacterial pathogenesis has been disputed in favor for its role in mediating phagocytosis and cell motility. In this study, a role for coronin 1 in actin-mediated cellular processes was addressed using RNA interference in the murine macrophage cell line J774. It is shown that the absence of coronin 1 in J774 macrophages expressing small interfering RNA constructs specific for coronin 1 does not affect phagocytosis, macropinocytosis, cell locomotion, or regulation of NADPH oxidase activity. However, in coronin 1-negative J774 cells, internalized mycobacteria were rapidly transferred to lysosomes and killed. Therefore, these results show that in J774 cells coronin 1 has a specific role in modulating phagosome-lysosome transport upon mycobacterial infection and that it is dispensable for most F-actin-mediated cytoskeletal rearrangements.
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Jayachandran R, Sundaramurthy V, Combaluzier B, Mueller P, Korf H, Huygen K, Miyazaki T, Albrecht I, Massner J, Pieters J. Survival of mycobacteria in macrophages is mediated by coronin 1-dependent activation of calcineurin. Cell 2007; 130:37-50. [PMID: 17632055 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.04.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2006] [Revised: 03/13/2007] [Accepted: 04/26/2007] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Pathogenic mycobacteria survive within macrophages by avoiding lysosomal delivery, instead residing in mycobacterial phagosomes. Upon infection, the leukocyte-specific protein coronin 1 is actively recruited to mycobacterial phagosomes, where it blocks lysosomal delivery by an unknown mechanism. Analysis of macrophages from coronin 1-deficient mice showed that coronin 1 is dispensable for F-actin-dependent processes such as phagocytosis, motility, and membrane ruffling. However, upon mycobacterial infection, coronin 1 was required for activation of the Ca(2+)-dependent phosphatase calcineurin, thereby blocking lysosomal delivery of mycobacteria. In the absence of coronin 1, calcineurin activity did not occur, resulting in lysosomal delivery and killing of mycobacteria. Furthermore, blocking calcineurin activation with cyclosporin A or FK506 led to lysosomal delivery and intracellular mycobacterial killing. These results demonstrate a role for coronin 1 in activating Ca(2+) dependent signaling processes in macrophages and reveal a function for calcineurin in the regulation of phagosome-lysosome fusion upon mycobacterial infection.
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- Rajesh Jayachandran
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Scherr N, Honnappa S, Kunz G, Mueller P, Jayachandran R, Winkler F, Pieters J, Steinmetz MO. Structural basis for the specific inhibition of protein kinase G, a virulence factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:12151-6. [PMID: 17616581 PMCID: PMC1924570 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702842104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [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] Open
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The pathogenicity of mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis is closely associated with their capacity to survive within host macrophages. A crucial virulence factor for intracellular mycobacterial survival is protein kinase G (PknG), a eukaryotic-like serine/threonine protein kinase expressed by pathogenic mycobacteria that blocks the intracellular degradation of mycobacteria in lysosomes. Inhibition of PknG with the highly selective low-molecular-weight inhibitor AX20017 results in mycobacterial transfer to lysosomes and killing of the mycobacteria. Here, we report the 2.4 A x-ray crystal structure of PknG in complex with AX20017. The unique multidomain topology of PknG reveals a central kinase domain that is flanked by N- and C-terminal rubredoxin and tetratrico-peptide repeat domains, respectively. Directed mutagenesis suggests that the rubredoxin domain functions as a regulator of PknG kinase activity. The structure of PknG-AX20017 further reveals that the inhibitor is buried deep within the adenosine-binding site, targeting an active conformation of the kinase domain. Remarkably, although the topology of the kinase domain is reminiscent of eukaryotic kinases, the AX20017-binding pocket is shaped by a unique set of amino acid side chains that are not found in any human kinase. Directed mutagenesis of the unique set of residues resulted in a drastic loss of the compound's inhibitory potency. Our results explain the specific mode of action of AX20017 and demonstrate that virulence factors highly homologous to host molecules can be successfully targeted to block the proliferation of M. tuberculosis.
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- Nicole Scherr
- *Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and
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- Biomolecular Research, Structural Biology, Paul Scherrer Insititut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- *Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and
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- *Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and
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- Biomolecular Research, Structural Biology, Paul Scherrer Insititut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- *Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Klingelbergstrasse 50, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. E-mail:
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- Biomolecular Research, Structural Biology, Paul Scherrer Insititut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Jayachandran R, Radcliffe CM, Royle L, Harvey DJ, Dwek RA, Rudd PM, Karande AA. Oligosaccharides modulate the apoptotic activity of glycodelin. Glycobiology 2006; 16:1052-63. [PMID: 16854946 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwl024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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GlycodelinA (GdA), a multifunctional glycoprotein secreted at high concentrations by the uterine endometrium during the early phases of pregnancy, carries glycan chains on asparagines at positions N28 and N63. GdA purified from amniotic fluid is known to be a suppressor of T-cell proliferation, an inducer of T-cell apoptosis, and an inhibitor of sperm-zona binding in contrast to its glycoform, glycodelinS (GdS), which is secreted by the seminal vesicles into the seminal plasma. The oligosaccharide chains of GdA terminate in sialic acid residues, whereas those of GdS are not sialylated but are heavily fucosylated. Our previous work has shown that the apoptogenic activity of GdA resides in the protein backbone, and we have also demonstrated the importance of sialylation for the manifestation of GdA-induced apoptosis. Recombinant glycodelin (Gd) expressed in the Sf21 insect cell line yielded an apoptotically active Gd; however, the same gene expressed in the insect cell line Tni produced apoptotically inactive Gd, as observed with the gene expressed in the Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line and earlier in Pichia pastoris. Glycan analysis of the Tni and Sf21 cell line-expressed Gd proteins reveals differences in their glycan structures, which modulate the manifestation of apoptogenic activity of Gd. Through apoptotic assays carried out with the wild-type (WT) and glycosylation mutants of Gd expressed in Sf21 and Tni cells before and after mannosidase digestion, we conclude that the accessibility to the apoptogenic region of Gd is influenced by the size of the glycans.
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- Rajesh Jayachandran
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Balgalore 560012, India
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Karande AA, Mukhopadhyay D, Jayachandran R, Sundarraj S, Alok A. Mechanism of the immunomodulatory activity of glycodelin. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol 2005; 49:271-83. [PMID: 16440844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Glycodelin, a progesterone regulated protein synthesized by the endometrium (GdA) has been well documented to inhibit the proliferation of activated T-cells and is an indispensable molecule in the maternal system for the establishment, maintenance and progression of pregnancy. Data from our laboratory have unequivocally shown that the immunosuppression by GdA is via induction of apoptosis in activated T cells. Another isoform of glycodein, GdS, from the male reproductive system, in spite of sharing an identical amino acid sequence as that of GdA has been shown not to harbour the immunosuppressive activity of GdA. As the only difference between the two proteins is glycosylation, we proposed to study the role of the sugars in imparting apoptotic activity to Gd. Using the recombinant baculovirus system, Gd lacking glycosylation was expressed and from the experimental observations we could conclude that the activity of Gd lies in the protein backbone. Recombinant Gd expressed in P. pastoris, and Chinese hamster ovary cells, like the GdS did not exhibit apoptotic activity. A close analyses of the glycans associated with the Gd molecules from various sources suggested that though the apoptogenic activity of Gd lies in the protein backbone, the glycans modulate the activity by masking (as in case of GdS and most recombinant Gd expressed in our laboratory) or unmasking (as in case of GdA and baculovirus expressed Gd), the functional region of the molecule.
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- Anjali A Karande
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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Glycodelin A, also known as placental protein-14, is a multifunctional glycosylated protein secreted by the uterine endometrium during the early phases of pregnancy. It is a known suppressor of T cell proliferation, inducer of T cell apoptosis, and inhibitor of sperm zona binding. Unlike in contraceptive activity, where the glycans on the molecule have been shown to play a crucial role, mutagenesis of the asparagines at sites of N-linked glycosylation (Asn(28) and Asn(63)) to glutamine shows that the apoptogenic activity of glycodelin A is executed by the protein backbone. Glycosylation at Asn(28) appears to play a role in the extracellular secretion of the molecule, as mutation of Asn(28) resulted in a significant decrease in the amount of secreted protein, and loss of both glycosylation sites reduced the secretion drastically. Our results also suggest that the loss of glycosylation does not affect the dimerization status of the molecule.
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- Rajesh Jayachandran
- Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Jayachandran R, Boyce MC, Montagut E, Argon AS. Thermomechanical analysis of indentation behavior of thin PMMA coatings. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00701679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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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Thiagarajan CM, Reddy KC, Shunmugasundaram D, Jayachandran R, Nayar P, Thomas S, Ramachandran V. The practice of unconventional renal transplantation (UCRT) at a single centre in India. Transplant Proc 1990; 22:912-4. [PMID: 2349702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Reddy KC, Thiagarajan CM, Shunmugasundaram D, Jayachandran R, Nayar P, Thomas S, Ramachandran V. Unconventional renal transplantation in India. Transplant Proc 1990; 22:910-1. [PMID: 2349701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- K C Reddy
- Pandalai Cardiothoracic Foundation, Madras, India
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Jayachandran R, Sathyamurthy I, Subramanyam K, Ramachandran P, Jhansi MS, Girinath MR, Reddy PC. Coronary artery disease in the young. Indian Heart J 1987; 39:21-3. [PMID: 3505498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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