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Amoscato AA, Anthonymuthu T, Kapralov O, Sparvero LJ, Shrivastava IH, Mikulska-Ruminska K, Tyurin VA, Shvedova AA, Tyurina YY, Bahar I, Wenzel S, Bayir H, Kagan VE. Formation of protein adducts with Hydroperoxy-PE electrophilic cleavage products during ferroptosis. Redox Biol 2023; 63:102758. [PMID: 37245287 PMCID: PMC10238881 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [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: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Ferroptosis is an iron dependent form of cell death, that is triggered by the discoordination of iron, lipids, and thiols. Its unique signature that distinguishes it from other forms of cell death is the formation and accumulation of lipid hydroperoxides, particularly oxidized forms of polyunsaturated phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs), which drives cell death. These readily undergo iron-catalyzed secondary free radical reactions leading to truncated products which retain the signature PE headgroup and which can readily react with nucleophilic moieties in proteins via their truncated electrophilic acyl chains. Using a redox lipidomics approach, we have identified oxidatively-truncated PE species (trPEox) in enzymatic and non-enzymatic model systems. Further, using a model peptide we demonstrate adduct formation with Cys as the preferred nucleophilic residue and PE(26:2) +2 oxygens, as one of the most reactive truncated PE-electrophiles produced. In cells stimulated to undergo ferroptosis we identified PE-truncated species with sn-2 truncations ranging from 5 to 9 carbons. Taking advantage of the free PE headgroup, we have developed a new technology using the lantibiotic duramycin, to enrich and identify the PE-lipoxidated proteins. Our results indicate that several dozens of proteins for each cell type, are PE-lipoxidated in HT-22, MLE, and H9c2 cells and M2 macrophages after they were induced to undergo ferroptosis. Pretreatment of cells with the strong nucleophile, 2-mercaptoethanol, prevented the formation of PE-lipoxidated proteins and blocked ferroptotic death. Finally, our docking simulations showed that the truncated PE species bound at least as good to several of the lantibiotic-identified proteins, as compared to the non-truncated parent molecule, stearoyl-arachidonoyl PE (SAPE), indicating that these oxidatively-truncated species favor/promote the formation of PEox-protein adducts. The identification of PEox-protein adducts during ferroptosis suggests that they are participants in the ferroptotic process preventable by 2-mercaptoethanol and may contribute to a point of no return in the ferroptotic death process.
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Affiliation(s)
- A A Amoscato
- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA.
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA; Adeptrix Corp, 100 Cummings Center, Suite 339c, Beverly, MA, 01915, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- NIOSH/HELD/EAB, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, PL87100, Toruń, Poland
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- NIOSH/HELD/EAB, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, 800 Murdoch I Bldg., 3420 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA; Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Laufer Center, Z-5252, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute at UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 4401 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15224, USA; Department of Pediatrics Critical Care, Columbia University, 3959 Broadway, CHN-10, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 8-2 Trubetskaya Str, 11999, Moscow, Russia.
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Tian H, Sparvero LJ, Anthonymuthu TS, Sun WY, Amoscato AA, He RR, Bayır H, Kagan VE, Winograd N. Successive High-Resolution (H 2O) n-GCIB and C 60-SIMS Imaging Integrates Multi-Omics in Different Cell Types in Breast Cancer Tissue. Anal Chem 2021; 93:8143-8151. [PMID: 34075742 PMCID: PMC8209780 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c05311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
The temporo-spatial organization of different cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) is the key to understanding their complex communication networks and the immune landscape that exists within compromised tissues. Multi-omics profiling of single-interacting cells in the native TME is critical for providing further information regarding the reprograming mechanisms leading to immunosuppression and tumor progression. This requires new technologies for biomolecular profiling of phenotypically heterogeneous cells on the same tissue sample. Here, we developed a new methodology for comprehensive lipidomic and metabolomic profiling of individual cells on frozen-hydrated tissue sections using water gas cluster ion beam secondary ion mass spectrometry ((H2O)n-GCIB-SIMS) (at 1.6 μm beam spot size), followed by profiling cell-type specific lanthanide antibodies on the same tissue section using C60-SIMS (at 1.1 μm beam spot size). We revealed distinct variations of distribution and intensities of >150 key ions (e.g., lipids and important metabolites) in different types of the TME individual cells, such as actively proliferating tumor cells as well as infiltrating immune cells. The demonstrated feasibility of SIMS imaging to integrate the multi-omics profiling in the same tissue section at the single-cell level will lead to new insights into the role of lipid reprogramming and metabolic response in normal regulation or pathogenic discoordination of cell-cell interactions in a variety of tissue microenvironments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hua Tian
- Department
of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, Chemistry Building, Shortlidge Rd, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department
of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical
and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, PUBHL A-420, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Children’s
Neuroscience Institute, UPMC Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, United States
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- Department
of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical
and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, PUBHL A-420, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Department
Critical Care Medicine, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, United States
- Children’s
Neuroscience Institute, UPMC Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, United States
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- College
of Pharmacy, Jinan University, 601 Huangpu W Avenue, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- Department
of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical
and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, PUBHL A-420, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Children’s
Neuroscience Institute, UPMC Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, United States
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- College
of Pharmacy, Jinan University, 601 Huangpu W Avenue, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
- School of
Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, 601 Huangpu W Avenue, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- Department
of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical
and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, PUBHL A-420, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Department
Critical Care Medicine, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, United States
- Children’s
Neuroscience Institute, UPMC Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, United States
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- Department
of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical
and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, PUBHL A-420, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
- Children’s
Neuroscience Institute, UPMC Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, United States
- Departments
of Chemistry, Radiation Oncology, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology,
Chevron Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
- Navigational
Redox Lipidomics Group, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, IM Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Bol’shaya Pirogovskaya Ulitsa,
2, ctp. 4, Moscow 119435, Russia
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- Department
of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, Chemistry Building, Shortlidge Rd, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Sparvero LJ, Tian H, Amoscato AA, Sun W, Anthonymuthu TS, Tyurina YY, Kapralov O, Javadov S, He R, Watkins SC, Winograd N, Kagan VE, Bayır H. Direct Mapping of Phospholipid Ferroptotic Death Signals in Cells and Tissues by Gas Cluster Ion Beam Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (GCIB‐SIMS). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202102001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Louis J. Sparvero
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children's Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Pennsylvania State University University Park State College PA 16802 USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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- College of Pharmacy Jinan University Guangzhou Guangdong 510632 China
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children's Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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- Department of Physiology School of Medicine University of Puerto Rico San Juan PR 00936-5067 USA
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- College of Pharmacy and School of Traditional Chinese Medicine Jinan University Guangzhou Guangdong 510632 China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Center for Biological Imaging University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Pennsylvania State University University Park State College PA 16802 USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children's Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children's Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 USA
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Sparvero LJ, Tian H, Amoscato AA, Sun WY, Anthonymuthu TS, Tyurina YY, Kapralov O, Javadov S, He RR, Watkins SC, Winograd N, Kagan VE, Bayır H. Direct Mapping of Phospholipid Ferroptotic Death Signals in Cells and Tissues by Gas Cluster Ion Beam Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (GCIB-SIMS). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:11784-11788. [PMID: 33684237 PMCID: PMC8243396 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202102001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [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: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Peroxidized phosphatidylethanolamine (PEox) species have been identified by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) as predictive biomarkers of ferroptosis, a new program of regulated cell death. However, the presence and subcellular distribution of PEox in specific cell types and tissues have not been directly detected by imaging protocols. By applying gas cluster ion beam secondary ion mass spectrometry (GCIB-SIMS) imaging with a 70 keV (H2 O)n+ (n>28 000) cluster ion beam, we were able to map PEox with 1.2 μm spatial resolution at the single cell/subcellular level in ferroptotic H9c2 cardiomyocytes and cortical/hippocampal neurons after traumatic brain injury. Application of this protocol affords visualization of physiologically relevant levels of very low abundance (20 pmol μmol-1 lipid) peroxidized lipids in subcellular compartments and their accumulation in disease conditions.
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- Louis J. Sparvero
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children’s Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University University Park, State College, PA 16802 (USA)
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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- College of Pharmacy, Jinan University Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632 (China)
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children’s Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00936-5067 (USA)
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- College of Pharmacy and School of Traditional Chinese Medicine Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632 (China)
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- Department of Cell Biology and Center for Biological Imaging University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University University Park, State College, PA 16802 (USA)
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children’s Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Children’s Neuroscience Institute UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (USA)
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Tyurina YY, Tyurin VA, Anthonymuthu T, Amoscato AA, Sparvero LJ, Nesterova AM, Baynard ML, Sun W, He R, Khaitovich P, Vladimirov YA, Gabrilovich DI, Bayır H, Kagan VE. "Redox lipidomics technology: Looking for a needle in a haystack". Chem Phys Lipids 2019; 221:93-107. [PMID: 30928338 PMCID: PMC6714565 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2019.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [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: 02/12/2019] [Revised: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 03/24/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Aerobic life is based on numerous metabolic oxidation reactions as well as biosynthesis of oxygenated signaling compounds. Among the latter are the myriads of oxygenated lipids including a well-studied group of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) - octadecanoids, eicosanoids, and docosanoids. During the last two decades, remarkable progress in liquid-chromatography-mass spectrometry has led to significant progress in the characterization of oxygenated PUFA-containing phospholipids, thus designating the emergence of a new field of lipidomics, redox lipidomics. Although non-enzymatic free radical reactions of lipid peroxidation have been mostly associated with the aberrant metabolism typical of acute injury or chronic degenerative processes, newly accumulated evidence suggests that enzymatically catalyzed (phospho)lipid oxygenation reactions are essential mechanisms of many physiological pathways. In this review, we discuss a variety of contemporary protocols applicable for identification and quantitative characterization of different classes of peroxidized (phospho)lipids. We describe applications of different types of LCMS for analysis of peroxidized (phospho)lipids, particularly cardiolipins and phosphatidylethanolalmines, in two important types of programmed cell death - apoptosis and ferroptosis. We discuss the role of peroxidized phosphatidylserines in phagocytotic signaling. We exemplify the participation of peroxidized neutral lipids, particularly tri-acylglycerides, in immuno-suppressive signaling in cancer. We also consider new approaches to exploring the spatial distribution of phospholipids in the context of their oxidizability by MS imaging, including the latest achievements in high resolution imaging techniques. We present innovative approaches to the interpretation of LC-MS data, including audio-representation analysis. Overall, we emphasize the role of redox lipidomics as a communication language, unprecedented in diversity and richness, through the analysis of peroxidized (phospho)lipids.
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- Yulia Y Tyurina
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Critical Care Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Laboratory of Navigational Redox Lipidomics, IM Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Anti-stress and Health Research Center, Pharmacy College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Anti-stress and Health Research Center, Pharmacy College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Laboratory of Navigational Redox Lipidomics, IM Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Critical Care Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Radiation Oncology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Laboratory of Navigational Redox Lipidomics, IM Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
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Tian H, Sparvero LJ, Blenkinsopp P, Amoscato AA, Watkins SC, Bayır H, Kagan VE, Winograd N. Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometry Images Cardiolipins and Phosphatidylethanolamines at the Subcellular Level. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:3156-3161. [PMID: 30680861 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201814256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [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: 12/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Millions of diverse molecules constituting the lipidome act as important signals within cells. Of these, cardiolipin (CL) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) participate in apoptosis and ferroptosis, respectively. Their subcellular distribution is largely unknown. Imaging mass spectrometry is capable of deciphering the spatial distribution of multiple lipids at subcellular levels. Here we report the development of a unique 70 keV gas-cluster ion beam that consists of (CO2 )n + (n>10 000) projectiles. Coupled with direct current beam buncher-time-of-flight secondary-ion mass spectrometry, it is optimized for sensitivity towards high-mass species (up to m/z 3000) at high spatial resolution (1 μm). In combination with immunohistochemistry, phospholipids, including PE and CL, have been assessed in subcellular compartments of mouse hippocampal neuronal cells and rat brain tissue.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hua Tian
- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 209 Chemistry Bldg., University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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- Ionoptika Ltd., Unit B6, Millbrook Cl, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh, SO53 4BZ, UK
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 209 Chemistry Bldg., University Park, PA, 16802, USA.,Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiation Oncology, Critical Care Medicine, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health and Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, USA.,Children's Neuroscience Institute, UPMC Children's Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 209 Chemistry Bldg., University Park, PA, 16802, USA.,Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health, Chemistry, Radiation Oncology, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA.,Laboratory of Navigational Redox Lipidomics, IM Sechenov Moscow Medical State University, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 209 Chemistry Bldg., University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Wenzel SE, Tyurina YY, Zhao J, St Croix CM, Dar HH, Mao G, Tyurin VA, Anthonymuthu TS, Kapralov AA, Amoscato AA, Mikulska-Ruminska K, Shrivastava IH, Kenny EM, Yang Q, Rosenbaum JC, Sparvero LJ, Emlet DR, Wen X, Minami Y, Qu F, Watkins SC, Holman TR, VanDemark AP, Kellum JA, Bahar I, Bayır H, Kagan VE. PEBP1 Wardens Ferroptosis by Enabling Lipoxygenase Generation of Lipid Death Signals. Cell 2017; 171:628-641.e26. [PMID: 29053969 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 537] [Impact Index Per Article: 76.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2017] [Revised: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Ferroptosis is a form of programmed cell death that is pathogenic to several acute and chronic diseases and executed via oxygenation of polyunsaturated phosphatidylethanolamines (PE) by 15-lipoxygenases (15-LO) that normally use free polyunsaturated fatty acids as substrates. Mechanisms of the altered 15-LO substrate specificity are enigmatic. We sought a common ferroptosis regulator for 15LO. We discovered that PEBP1, a scaffold protein inhibitor of protein kinase cascades, complexes with two 15LO isoforms, 15LO1 and 15LO2, and changes their substrate competence to generate hydroperoxy-PE. Inadequate reduction of hydroperoxy-PE due to insufficiency or dysfunction of a selenoperoxidase, GPX4, leads to ferroptosis. We demonstrated the importance of PEBP1-dependent regulatory mechanisms of ferroptotic death in airway epithelial cells in asthma, kidney epithelial cells in renal failure, and cortical and hippocampal neurons in brain trauma. As master regulators of ferroptotic cell death with profound implications for human disease, PEBP1/15LO complexes represent a new target for drug discovery.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sally E Wenzel
- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Computational and System Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Computational and System Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Computational and System Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Center for Critical Care Nephrology, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Tian H, Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, Bloom A, Bayır H, Kagan VE, Winograd N. Gas Cluster Ion Beam Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry High-Resolution Imaging of Cardiolipin Speciation in the Brain: Identification of Molecular Losses after Traumatic Injury. Anal Chem 2017; 89:4611-4619. [PMID: 28306235 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [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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Gas cluster ion beam-secondary ion mass spectrometry (GCIB-SIMS) has shown the full potential of mapping intact lipids in biological systems with better than 10 μm lateral resolution. This study investigated further the capability of GCIB-SIMS in imaging high-mass signals from intact cardiolipin (CL) and gangliosides in normal brain and the effect of a controlled cortical impact model (CCI) of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on their distribution. A combination of enzymatic and chemical treatments was employed to suppress the signals from the most abundant phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE)) and enhance the signals from the low-abundance CLs and gangliosides to allow their GCIB-SIMS detection at 8 and 16 μm spatial resolution. Brain CLs have not been observed previously using other contemporary imaging mass spectrometry techniques at better than 50 μm spatial resolution. High-resolution images of naive and injured brain tissue facilitated the comparison of CL species across three multicell layers in the CA1, CA3, and DG regions of the hippocampus. GCIB-SIMS also reliably mapped losses of oxidizable polyunsaturated CL species (but not the oxidation-resistant saturated and monounsaturated gangliosides) to regions including the CA1 and CA3 of the hippocampus after CCI. This work extends the detection range for SIMS measurements of intact lipids to above m/z 2000, bridging the mass range gap compared with MALDI. Further advances in high-resolution SIMS of CLs, with the potential for single cell or supra-cellular imaging, will be essential for the understanding of CL's functional and structural organization in normal and injured brain.
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- Hua Tian
- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University , State College, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.,Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.,Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University , State College, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.,Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.,Department of Critical Care Medicine, and Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.,Departments of Chemistry, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.,Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University , State College, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Rolyan H, Tyurina YY, Hernandez M, Amoscato AA, Sparvero LJ, Nmezi BC, Lu Y, Estécio MRH, Lin K, Chen J, He RR, Gong P, Rigatti LH, Dupree J, Bayır H, Kagan VE, Casaccia P, Padiath QS. Defects of Lipid Synthesis Are Linked to the Age-Dependent Demyelination Caused by Lamin B1 Overexpression. J Neurosci 2015; 35:12002-17. [PMID: 26311780 PMCID: PMC4549407 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1668-15.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [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: 04/26/2015] [Revised: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Lamin B1 is a component of the nuclear lamina and plays a critical role in maintaining nuclear architecture, regulating gene expression and modulating chromatin positioning. We have previously shown that LMNB1 gene duplications cause autosomal dominant leukodystrophy (ADLD), a fatal adult onset demyelinating disease. The mechanisms by which increased LMNB1 levels cause ADLD are unclear. To address this, we used a transgenic mouse model where Lamin B1 overexpression is targeted to oligodendrocytes. These mice showed severe vacuolar degeneration of the spinal cord white matter together with marked astrogliosis, microglial infiltration, and secondary axonal damage. Oligodendrocytes in the transgenic mice revealed alterations in histone modifications favoring a transcriptionally repressed state. Chromatin changes were accompanied by reduced expression of genes involved in lipid synthesis pathways, many of which are known to play important roles in myelin regulation and are preferentially expressed in oligodendrocytes. Decreased lipogenic gene expression resulted in a significant reduction in multiple classes of lipids involved in myelin formation. Many of these gene expression changes and lipid alterations were observed even before the onset of the phenotype, suggesting a causal role. Our findings establish, for the first time, a link between LMNB1 and lipid synthesis in oligodendrocytes, and provide a mechanistic framework to explain the age dependence and white matter involvement of the disease phenotype. These results have implications for disease pathogenesis and may also shed light on the regulation of lipid synthesis pathways in myelin maintenance and turnover. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Autosomal dominant leukodystrophy (ADLD) is fatal neurological disorder caused by increased levels of the nuclear protein, Lamin B1. The disease is characterized by an age-dependent loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers nerve fibers. We have studied a mouse model where Lamin B1 level are increased in oligodendrocytes, the cell type that produces myelin in the CNS. We demonstrate that destruction of myelin in the spinal cord is responsible for the degenerative phenotype in our mouse model. We show that this degeneration is mediated by reduced expression of lipid synthesis genes and the subsequent reduction in myelin enriched lipids. These findings provide a mechanistic framework to explain the age dependence and tissue specificity of the ADLD disease phenotype.
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- Harshvardhan Rolyan
- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15216
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
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- Friedman Brain Institute Center for Neural Repair, Department of Neuroscience, and Graduate School of Biological Sciences, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15216
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, and Center for Cancer Epigenetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, and Center for Cancer Epigenetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, and Center for Cancer Epigenetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15216
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
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- Division of Laboratory Animal Resources, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, and
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research and Departments of Critical Care Medicine
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Chemistry, and Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15216,
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Milutinovic PS, Englert JM, Crum LT, Mason NS, Ramsgaard L, Enghild JJ, Sparvero LJ, Lotze MT, Oury TD. Clearance kinetics and matrix binding partners of the receptor for advanced glycation end products. PLoS One 2014; 9:e88259. [PMID: 24642901 PMCID: PMC3958346 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2013] [Accepted: 01/07/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Elucidating the sites and mechanisms of sRAGE action in the healthy state is vital to better understand the biological importance of the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE). Previous studies in animal models of disease have demonstrated that exogenous sRAGE has an anti-inflammatory effect, which has been reasoned to arise from sequestration of pro-inflammatory ligands away from membrane-bound RAGE isoforms. We show here that sRAGE exhibits in vitro binding with high affinity and reversibly to extracellular matrix components collagen I, collagen IV, and laminin. Soluble RAGE administered intratracheally, intravenously, or intraperitoneally, does not distribute in a specific fashion to any healthy mouse tissue, suggesting against the existence of accessible sRAGE sinks and receptors in the healthy mouse. Intratracheal administration is the only effective means of delivering exogenous sRAGE to the lung, the organ in which RAGE is most highly expressed; clearance of sRAGE from lung does not differ appreciably from that of albumin.
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- Pavle S. Milutinovic
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Center for Insoluble Protein Structures, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Insoluble Protein Structures, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Stoyanovsky DA, Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, He RR, Watkins S, Pitt BR, Bayir H, Kagan VE. Improved spatial resolution of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging of lipids in the brain by alkylated derivatives of 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2014; 28:403-12. [PMID: 24497278 PMCID: PMC3973445 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Revised: 11/26/2013] [Accepted: 11/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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RATIONALE Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) is one of the major techniques for mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) of biological systems along with secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and desorption electrospray mass spectrometry (DESI). The inherent variability of MALDI-MSI signals within intact tissues is related to the heterogeneity of both the sample surface and the matrix crystallization. To circumvent some of these limitations of MALDI-MSI, we have developed improved matrices for lipid analysis based on structural modification of the commonly used matrix 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB). METHODS We have synthesized DHB containing -C6H13 and -C12H25 alkyl chains and applied these matrices to rat brain using a capillary sprayer. We utilized a Bruker Ultraflex II MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometer to analyze lipid extracts and tissue sections, and examined these sections with polarized light microscopy and differential interference contrast microscopy. RESULTS O-alkylation of DHB yields matrices, which, when applied to brain sections, follow a trend of phase transition from crystals to an oily layer in the sequence DHB → DHB-C6H13 → DHB-C12H25 . MALDI-MSI images acquired with DHB-C12H25 exhibited a considerably higher density of lipids than DHB. CONCLUSIONS Comparative experiments with DHB and DHB-C12H25 are presented, which indicate that the latter matrix affords higher lateral resolution than the former.
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- D A Stoyanovsky
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, USA; Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, USA
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Ji J, Kline AE, Amoscato A, Samhan-Arias AK, Sparvero LJ, Tyurin VA, Tyurina YY, Fink B, Manole MD, Puccio AM, Okonkwo DO, Cheng JP, Alexander H, Clark RSB, Kochanek PM, Wipf P, Kagan VE, Bayır H. Lipidomics identifies cardiolipin oxidation as a mitochondrial target for redox therapy of brain injury. Nat Neurosci 2012; 15:1407-13. [PMID: 22922784 PMCID: PMC3697869 DOI: 10.1038/nn.3195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [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: 06/04/2012] [Accepted: 07/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Brain contains a highly diversified complement of molecular species of a mitochondria-specific phospholipid, cardiolipin (CL), which - due to its polyunsaturation - can readily undergo oxygenation. Here, we used global lipidomics analysis in experimental traumatic brain injury (TBI) and showed that TBI was accompanied by oxidative consumption of polyunsaturated CL and accumulation of more than 150 new oxygenated molecular species in CL. RNAi-based manipulations of CL-synthase and CL levels conferred resistance of primary rat cortical neurons to mechanical stretch - an in vitro model of traumatic neuronal injury. By applying the novel brain permeable mitochondria-targeted electron-scavenger, we prevented CL oxygenation in the brain, achieved a substantial reduction in neuronal death both in vitro and in vivo, and markedly reduced behavioral deficits and cortical lesion volume. We conclude that CL oxygenation generates neuronal death signals and that its prevention by mitochondria-targeted small molecule inhibitors represents a new target for neuro-drug discovery.
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- Jing Ji
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Kapralov AA, Feng WH, Amoscato AA, Yanamala N, Balasubramanian K, Winnica DE, Kisin ER, Kotchey GP, Gou P, Sparvero LJ, Ray P, Mallampalli RK, Klein-Seetharaman J, Fadeel B, Star A, Shvedova AA, Kagan VE. Adsorption of surfactant lipids by single-walled carbon nanotubes in mouse lung upon pharyngeal aspiration. ACS Nano 2012; 6:4147-56. [PMID: 22463369 PMCID: PMC3358590 DOI: 10.1021/nn300626q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The pulmonary route represents one of the most important portals of entry for nanoparticles into the body. However, the in vivo interactions of nanoparticles with biomolecules of the lung have not been sufficiently studied. Here, using an established mouse model of pharyngeal aspiration of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), we recovered SWCNTs from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALf), purified them from possible contamination with lung cells, and examined the composition of phospholipids adsorbed on SWCNTs by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis. We found that SWCNTs selectively adsorbed two types of the most abundant surfactant phospholipids: phosphatidylcholines (PC) and phosphatidylglycerols (PG). Molecular speciation of these phospholipids was also consistent with pulmonary surfactant. Quantitation of adsorbed lipids by LC-MS along with the structural assessments of phospholipid binding by atomic force microscopy and molecular modeling indicated that the phospholipids (∼108 molecules per SWCNT) formed an uninterrupted "coating" whereby the hydrophobic alkyl chains of the phospholipids were adsorbed onto the SWCNT with the polar head groups pointed away from the SWCNT into the aqueous phase. In addition, the presence of surfactant proteins A, B, and D on SWCNTs was determined by LC-MS. Finally, we demonstrated that the presence of this surfactant coating markedly enhanced the in vitro uptake of SWCNTs by macrophages. Taken together, this is the first demonstration of the in vivo adsorption of the surfactant lipids and proteins on SWCNTs in a physiologically relevant animal model.
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- Alexander A. Kapralov
- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Lab Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Molecular Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Lab Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Corresponding author: Valerian E. Kagan, Ph.D., D.Sc., Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Bridgeside Point 100 Technology Drive, Suite 350, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Tel: 412-624-9479, Fax: 412-624-9361,
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Samhan-Arias AK, Ji J, Demidova OM, Sparvero LJ, Feng W, Tyurin V, Tyurina YY, Epperly MW, Shvedova AA, Greenberger JS, Bayır H, Kagan VE, Amoscato AA. Oxidized phospholipids as biomarkers of tissue and cell damage with a focus on cardiolipin. Biochim Biophys Acta 2012; 1818:2413-23. [PMID: 22464971 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2011] [Revised: 02/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Oxidized phospholipid species are important, biologically relevant, lipid signaling molecules that usually exist in low abundance in biological tissues. Along with their inherent stability issues, these oxidized lipids present themselves as a challenge in their detection and identification. Often times, oxidized lipid species can co-chromatograph with non-oxidized species making the detection of the former extremely difficult, even with the use of mass spectrometry. In this study, a normal-phase and reverse-phase two dimensional high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-mass spectrometric system was applied to separate oxidized phospholipids from their non-oxidized counterparts, allowing unambiguous detection in a total lipid extract. We have utilized bovine heart cardiolipin as well as commercially available tetralinoleoyl cardiolipin oxidized with cytochrome c (cyt c) and hydrogen peroxide as well as with lipoxygenase to test the separation power of the system. Our findings indicate that oxidized species of not only cardiolipin, but other phospholipid species, can be effectively separated from their non-oxidized counterparts in this two dimensional system. We utilized three types of biological tissues and oxidative insults, namely rotenone treatment of lymphocytes to induce mitochondrial damage and cell death, pulmonary inhalation exposure to single walled carbon nanotubes, as well as total body irradiation, in order to identify cardiolipin oxidation products, critical to the cell damage/cell death pathways in these tissues following cellular stress/injury. Our results indicate that selective cardiolipin (CL) oxidation is a result of a non-random free radical process. In addition, we assessed the ability of the system to identify CL oxidation products in the brain, a tissue known for its extreme complexity and diversity of CL species. The ability of the two dimensional HPLC-mass spectrometric system to detect and characterize oxidized lipid products will allow new studies to be formulated to probe the answers to biologically important questions with regard to oxidative lipidomics and cellular insult. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Oxidized phospholipids - their properties and interactions with proteins.
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- Alejandro K Samhan-Arias
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Tyurina YY, Kisin ER, Murray A, Tyurin VA, Kapralova VI, Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, Samhan-Arias AK, Swedin L, Lahesmaa R, Fadeel B, Shvedova AA, Kagan VE. Global phospholipidomics analysis reveals selective pulmonary peroxidation profiles upon inhalation of single-walled carbon nanotubes. ACS Nano 2011; 5:7342-53. [PMID: 21800898 PMCID: PMC3321726 DOI: 10.1021/nn202201j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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It is commonly believed that nanomaterials cause nonspecific oxidative damage. Our mass spectrometry-based oxidative lipidomics analysis of all major phospholipid classes revealed highly selective patterns of pulmonary peroxidation after inhalation exposure of mice to single-walled carbon nanotubes. No oxidized molecular species were found in the two most abundant phospholipid classes: phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Peroxidation products were identified in three relatively minor classes of anionic phospholipids, cardiolipin, phosphatidylserine, and phosphatidylinositol, whereby oxygenation of polyunsaturated fatty acid residues also showed unusual substrate specificity. This nonrandom peroxidation coincided with the accumulation of apoptotic cells in the lung. A similar selective phospholipid peroxidation profile was detected upon incubation of a mixture of total lung lipids with H(2)O(2)/cytochrome c known to catalyze cardiolipin and phosphatidylserine peroxidation in apoptotic cells. The characterized specific phospholipid peroxidation signaling pathways indicate new approaches to the development of mitochondria-targeted regulators of cardiolipin peroxidation to protect against deleterious effects of pro-apoptotic effects of single-walled carbon nanotubes in the lung.
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- Yulia Y. Tyurina
- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Finland
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Molecular Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Finland
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- Division of Molecular Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Address correspondence to or
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Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, Kochanek PM, Pitt BR, Kagan VE, Bayir H. Mass-spectrometry based oxidative lipidomics and lipid imaging: applications in traumatic brain injury. J Neurochem 2010; 115:1322-36. [PMID: 20950335 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.07055.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Lipids, particularly phospholipids, are fundamental to CNS tissue architecture and function. Endogenous polyunsaturated fatty acid chains of phospholipids possess cis-double bonds each separated by one methylene group. These phospholipids are very susceptible to free-radical attack and oxidative modifications. A combination of analytical methods including different versions of chromatography and mass spectrometry allows detailed information to be obtained on the content and distribution of lipids and their oxidation products thus constituting the newly emerging field of oxidative lipidomics. It is becoming evident that specific oxidative modifications of lipids are critical to a number of cellular functions, disease states and responses to oxidative stresses. Oxidative lipidomics is beginning to provide new mechanistic insights into traumatic brain injury which may have significant translational potential for development of therapies in acute CNS insults. In particular, selective oxidation of a mitochondria-specific phospholipid, cardiolipin, has been associated with the initiation and progression of apoptosis in injured neurons thus indicating new drug discovery targets. Furthermore, imaging mass-spectrometry represents an exciting new opportunity for correlating maps of lipid profiles and their oxidation products with structure and neuropathology. This review is focused on these most recent advancements in the field of lipidomics and oxidative lipidomics based on the applications of mass spectrometry and imaging mass spectrometry as they relate to studies of phospholipids in traumatic brain injury.
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- Louis J Sparvero
- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Bayir H, Kapralov AA, Jiang J, Huang Z, Tyurina YY, Tyurin VA, Zhao Q, Belikova NA, Vlasova II, Maeda A, Zhu J, Na HM, Mastroberardino PG, Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, Chu CT, Greenamyre JT, Kagan VE. Peroxidase mechanism of lipid-dependent cross-linking of synuclein with cytochrome C: protection against apoptosis versus delayed oxidative stress in Parkinson disease. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:15951-69. [PMID: 19351880 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m900418200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Damage of presynaptic mitochondria could result in release of proapoptotic factors that threaten the integrity of the entire neuron. We discovered that alpha-synuclein (Syn) forms a triple complex with anionic lipids (such as cardiolipin) and cytochrome c, which exerts a peroxidase activity. The latter catalyzes covalent hetero-oligomerization of Syn with cytochrome c into high molecular weight aggregates. Syn is a preferred substrate of this reaction and is oxidized more readily than cardiolipin, dopamine, and other phenolic substrates. Co-localization of Syn with cytochrome c was detected in aggregates formed upon proapoptotic stimulation of SH-SY5Y and HeLa cells and in dopaminergic substantia nigra neurons of rotenone-treated rats. Syn-cardiolipin exerted protection against cytochrome c-induced caspase-3 activation in a cell-free system, particularly in the presence of H(2)O(2). Direct delivery of Syn into mouse embryonic cells conferred resistance to proapoptotic caspase-3 activation. Conversely, small interfering RNA depletion of Syn in HeLa cells made them more sensitive to dopamine-induced apoptosis. In human Parkinson disease substantia nigra neurons, two-thirds of co-localized Syn-cytochrome c complexes occurred in Lewy neurites. Taken together, these results indicate that Syn may prevent execution of apoptosis in neurons through covalent hetero-oligomerization of cytochrome c. This immediate protective function of Syn is associated with the formation of the peroxidase complex representing a source of oxidative stress and postponed damage.
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- Hülya Bayir
- Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219-3130, USA.
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Sparvero LJ, Asafu-Adjei D, Kang R, Tang D, Amin N, Im J, Rutledge R, Lin B, Amoscato AA, Zeh HJ, Lotze MT. RAGE (Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts), RAGE ligands, and their role in cancer and inflammation. J Transl Med 2009; 7:17. [PMID: 19292913 PMCID: PMC2666642 DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-7-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 426] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.4] [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: 01/09/2009] [Accepted: 03/17/2009] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts [RAGE] is an evolutionarily recent member of the immunoglobulin super-family, encoded in the Class III region of the major histocompatability complex. RAGE is highly expressed only in the lung at readily measurable levels but increases quickly at sites of inflammation, largely on inflammatory and epithelial cells. It is found either as a membrane-bound or soluble protein that is markedly upregulated by stress in epithelial cells, thereby regulating their metabolism and enhancing their central barrier functionality. Activation and upregulation of RAGE by its ligands leads to enhanced survival. Perpetual signaling through RAGE-induced survival pathways in the setting of limited nutrients or oxygenation results in enhanced autophagy, diminished apoptosis, and (with ATP depletion) necrosis. This results in chronic inflammation and in many instances is the setting in which epithelial malignancies arise. RAGE and its isoforms sit in a pivotal role, regulating metabolism, inflammation, and epithelial survival in the setting of stress. Understanding the molecular structure and function of it and its ligands in the setting of inflammation is critically important in understanding the role of this receptor in tumor biology.
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- Louis J Sparvero
- Departments of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, USA.
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Komita H, Zhao X, Taylor JL, Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, Alber S, Watkins SC, Pardee AD, Wesa AK, Storkus WJ. CD8+ T-cell responses against hemoglobin-beta prevent solid tumor growth. Cancer Res 2008; 68:8076-84. [PMID: 18829566 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-0387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bone marrow-derived dendritic cells engineered using recombinant adenovirus to secrete high levels of IL-12p70 dramatically inhibited the growth of established CMS4 sarcomas in BALB/c mice after intratumoral administration. An analysis of splenic CD8(+) T cells in regressor mice revealed a strong, complex reactivity pattern against high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-resolved peptides isolated by acid elution from single-cell suspensions of surgically resected CMS4 lesions. Mass spectrometry analyses defined two major overlapping peptide species that derive from the murine hemoglobin-beta (HBB) protein within the most stimulatory HPLC fractions. Although cultured CMS4 tumor cells failed to express HBB mRNA based on reverse transcription-PCR analyses, prophylactic vaccination of BALB/c mice with vaccines containing HBB peptides promoted specific CD8(+) T-cell responses that protected mice against a subsequent challenge with CMS4 or unrelated syngeneic (HBB(neg)) tumors of divergent histology (sarcoma, carcinomas of the breast or colon). In situ imaging suggested that vaccines limit or destabilize tumor-associated vascular structures, potentially by promoting immunity against HBB+ vascular pericytes. Importantly, there were no untoward effects of vaccination with the HBB peptide on peripheral RBC numbers, RBC hemoglobin content, or vascular structures in the brain or eye.
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- Hideo Komita
- Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Lotze MT, Zeh HJ, Rubartelli A, Sparvero LJ, Amoscato AA, Washburn NR, Devera ME, Liang X, Tör M, Billiar T. The grateful dead: damage-associated molecular pattern molecules and reduction/oxidation regulate immunity. Immunol Rev 2008; 220:60-81. [PMID: 17979840 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.2007.00579.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 435] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The response to pathogens and damage in plants and animals involves a series of carefully orchestrated, highly evolved, molecular mechanisms resulting in pathogen resistance and wound healing. In metazoans, damage- or pathogen-associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs, PAMPs) execute precise intracellular tasks and are also able to exert disparate functions when released into the extracellular space. The emergent consequence for both inflammation and wound healing of the abnormal extracellular persistence of these factors may underlie many clinical disorders. DAMPs/PAMPs are recognized by hereditable receptors including the Toll-like receptors, the NOD1-like receptors and retinoic-acid-inducible gene I-like receptors, as well as the receptor for advanced glycation end products. These host molecules 'sense' not only pathogens but also misfolded/glycated proteins or exposed hydrophobic portions of molecules, activating intracellular cascades that lead to an inflammatory response. Equally important are means to not only respond to these molecules but also to eradicate them. We have speculated that their destruction through oxidative mechanisms normally exerted by myeloid cells, such as neutrophils and eosinophils, or their persistence in the setting of pathologic extracellular reducing environments, maintained by exuberant necrotic cell death and/or oxidoreductases, represent important molecular means enabling chronic inflammatory states.
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- Michael T Lotze
- Department of Surgery, G.27A Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Sparvero LJ, Patz S, Brodsky JL, Coughlan CM. Proteomic analysis of the amyloid precursor protein fragment C99: expression in yeast. Anal Biochem 2007; 370:162-70. [PMID: 17869211 PMCID: PMC2220045 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2007.07.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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] [Received: 04/19/2007] [Revised: 07/24/2007] [Accepted: 07/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The accumulation and aggregation of fragments of amyloid precursor protein (APP) are central to the development of Alzheimer's disease. The production of the small fragment C99 is thought to form the rate-limiting step in the APP processing pathway, which can lead to the production of the toxic Abeta peptide. It has also been suggested that the proteasome contributes to APP catabolism. While the identities and aggregation propensities of many APP fragments have been studied in vitro, the sequences, structures, and cellular sources of fragments generated in vivo remains poorly elucidated. To better identify the specific APP fragments generated in vivo and to elucidate the role of the proteasome in APP processing, we developed a C99 yeast expression system. Using Zip Tip immunocapture, a specific anti-Abeta antiserum (6E10), and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization- time of flight mass spectrometry, we identified over one dozen APP-generated peptide fragments in wild-type yeast (PRE1PRE2) and over three dozen unique fragments in proteasome mutant cells (pre1- 1pre2-1) expressing C99. Based on the identities of the immunocaptured species, we propose that defects in proteasome function are compensated by other proteases and that the combination of techniques described here will be invaluable to further delineate the APP processing pathway in vivo.
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- Louis J. Sparvero
- Department of Surgery, Center for Bioengineering, Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
- Corresponding author. Fax: +1 303 871 3471. E-mail address: (C.M. Coughlan)
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Thiourea dioxide was used in chemical modification studies to identify functionally important amino acids in Escherichia coli CTP synthetase. Incubation at pH 8.0 in the absence of substrates led to rapid, time dependent, and irreversible inactivation of the enzyme. The second-order rate constant for inactivation was 0.18 M-1 s-1. Inactivation also occurred in the absence of oxygen and in the presence of catalase, thereby ruling out mixed-function oxidation/reduction as the mode of amino acid modification. Saturating concentrations of the substrates ATP and UTP, and the allosteric activator GTP prevented inactivation by thiourea dioxide, whereas saturating concentrations of glutamine (a substrate) did not. The concentration dependence of nucleotide protection revealed cooperative behavior with respect to individual nucleotides and with respect to various combinations of nucleotides. Mixtures of nucleotides afforded greater protection against inactivation than single nucleotides alone, and a combination of the substrates ATP and UTP provided the most protection. The Hill coefficient for nucleotide protection was approximately 2 for ATP, UTP, and GTP. In the presence of 1:1 ratios of ATP:UTP, ATP:GTP, and UTP:GTP, the Hill coefficient was approximately 4 in each case. Fluorescence and circular dichroism measurements indicated that modification by thiourea dioxide causes detectable changes in the structure of the protein. Modification with [14C]thiourea dioxide demonstrated that complete inactivation correlates with incorporation of 3 mol of [14C]thiourea dioxide per mole of CTP synthetase monomer. The specificity of thiourea dioxide for lysine residues indicates that one or more lysines are most likely involved in CTP synthetase activity. The data further indicate that nucleotide binding prevents access to these functionally important residues.
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- J G Robertson
- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802
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