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Chen C, Jiang YP, You I, Gray NS, Lin RZ. Down-regulation of AKT proteins slows the growth of mutant-KRAS pancreatic tumors. bioRxiv 2024:2024.05.03.592345. [PMID: 38746217 PMCID: PMC11092743 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.03.592345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Serine/threonine kinase AKT isoforms play a well-established role in cell metabolism and growth. Most pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) harbors activation mutations of KRAS, which activates the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. However, AKT inhibitors are not effective in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. To better understand the role of AKT signaling in mutant-KRAS pancreatic tumors, this study utilizes proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) and CRISPR-Cas9-genome editing to investigate AKT proteins. PROTAC down-regulation of AKT proteins markedly slowed the growth of three pancreatic tumor cell lines harboring mutant KRAS. In contrast, inhibition of AKT kinase activity alone had very little effect on the growth of these cell lines. Concurrent genetic deletion of all AKT isoforms (AKT1, AKT2, and AKT3) in the KPC (KrasG12D; Trp53R172H; Pdx1-Cre) pancreatic cancer cell line also dramatically slowed its growth in vitro and when orthotopically implanted in syngeneic mice. Surprisingly, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), but not epidermal growth factor (EGF), restored KPC cell growth in serum-deprived conditions and the IGF-1 growth stimulation effect was AKT dependent. RNA-seq analysis of AKT1/2/3-deficient KPC cells suggested that reduced cholesterol synthesis may be responsible for the decreased response to IGF-1 stimulation. These results indicate that the presence of all three AKT isoforms supports pancreatic tumor cell growth and pharmacological degradation of AKT proteins may be more effective than AKT catalytic inhibitors for treating pancreatic cancer.
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- Chuankai Chen
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Graduate Program in Genetics, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, ChEM-H, and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, ChEM-H, and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, New York, USA
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Han HV, Efem R, Rosati B, Lu K, Maimouni S, Jiang YP, Montoya V, Van Der Velden A, Zong WX, Lin RZ. Propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunit B regulates anti-tumor T cells in a pancreatic cancer mouse model. bioRxiv 2024:2023.07.24.550301. [PMID: 37546948 PMCID: PMC10402106 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.24.550301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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Most human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are not infiltrated with cytotoxic T cells and are highly resistant to immunotherapy. Over 90% of PDAC have oncogenic KRAS mutations, and phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) are direct effectors of KRAS. Our previous study demonstrated that ablation of Pik3ca in KPC (KrasG12D; Trp53R172H; Pdx1-Cre) pancreatic cancer cells induced host T cells to infiltrate and completely eliminate the tumors in a syngeneic orthotopic implantation mouse model. Now, we show that implantation of Pik3ca-/- KPC (named αKO) cancer cells induces clonal expansion of cytotoxic T cells infiltrating the pancreatic tumors. To identify potential molecules that can regulate the activity of these anti-tumor T cells, we conducted an in vivo genome-wide gene-deletion screen using αKO cells implanted in the mouse pancreas. The result shows that deletion of propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunit B gene (Pccb) in αKO cells (named p-αKO) leads to immune evasion, tumor progression and death of host mice. Surprisingly, p-αKO tumors are still infiltrated with clonally expanded CD8+ T cells but they are inactive against tumor cells. However, blockade of PD-L1/PD1 interaction reactivated these clonally expanded T cells infiltrating p-αKO tumors, leading to slower tumor progression and improve survival of host mice. These results indicate that Pccb can modulate the activity of cytotoxic T cells infiltrating some pancreatic cancers and this understanding may lead to improvement in immunotherapy for this difficult-to-treat cancer.
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Lin RZ, Gallagher C, Tu SJ, Pitman BM, Nelson AJ, Roberts-Thomson RL, Worthley MI, Lau DH, Sanders P, Wong CX. Trends in myocardial infarction and coronary revascularisation procedures in Australia, 1993-2017. Heart 2023; 109:283-288. [PMID: 36344268 DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Prior data have shown rising acute myocardial infarction (MI) trends in Australia; whether these increases have continued in recent years is not known. This study thus sought to characterise contemporary nationwide trends in MI hospitalisations and coronary procedures in Australia and their associated economic burden. METHODS The primary outcome measure was the incidence and time trends of total MI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) hospitalisations from 1993 to 2017. The incidence and time trends of coronary procedures were additionally collected, alongside MI hospitalisation costs. RESULTS Adjusted for population changes, annual MI incidence increased from 216.2 cases per 100 000 to a peak of 270.4 in 2007 with subsequent decline to 218.7 in 2017. Similarly, NSTEMI incidence increased from 68.0 cases per 100 000 in 1993 to a peak of 192.6 in 2007 with subsequent decline to 162.6 in 2017. STEMI incidence decreased from 148.3 cases per 100 000 in 1993 to 56.2 in 2017. Across the study period, there were annual increases in MI hospitalisations of 0.7% and NSTEMI hospitalisations of 5.6%, and an annual decrease in STEMI hospitalisations of 4.8%. Angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention increased by 3.4% and 3.3% annually, respectively, while coronary artery bypass graft surgery declined by 2.2% annually. MI hospitalisation costs increased by 100% over the study period, despite a decreased average length of stay by 45%. CONCLUSIONS The rising incidence of MI hospitalisations appear to have stabilised in Australia. Despite this, associated healthcare expenditure remains significant, suggesting a need for continual implementation of public health policies and preventative strategies.
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- Richard Z Lin
- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Valiunas V, Gordon C, Valiuniene L, Devine D, Lin RZ, Cohen IS, Brink PR. Intercellular delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides. J Drug Deliv Sci Technol 2022; 72:103404. [PMID: 36721641 PMCID: PMC9886232 DOI: 10.1016/j.jddst.2022.103404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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One promising approach to cancer therapeutics is to induce changes in gene expression that either reduce cancer cell proliferation or induce cancer cell death. Therefore, delivering oligonucleotides (siRNA/miRNA) that target specific genes or gene programs might have a potential therapeutic benefit. The aim of this study was to examine the potential of cell-based delivery of oligonucleotides to cancer cells via two naturally occurring intercellular pathways: gap junctions and vesicular/exosomal traffic. We utilized human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) as delivery cells and chose to deliver in vitro two synthetic oligonucleotides, AllStars HS Cell Death siRNA and miR-16 mimic, as toxic (therapeutic) oligonucleotides targeting three cancer cell lines: prostate (PC3), pancreatic (PANC1) and cervical (HeLa). Both oligonucleotides dramatically reduced cell proliferation and/or induced cell death when transfected directly into target cells and delivery hMSCs. The delivery and target cells we chose express gap junction connexin 43 (Cx43) endogenously (PC3, PANC1, hMSC) or via stable transfection (HeLaCx43). Co-culture of hMSCs (transfected with either toxic oligonucleotide) with any of Cx43 expressing cancer cells induced target cell death (~20% surviving) or senescence (~85% proliferation reduction) over 96 hours. We eliminated gap junction-mediated delivery by using connexin deficient HeLaWT cells or knocking out endogenous Cx43 in PANC1 and PC3 cells via CRISPR/Cas9. Subsequently, all Cx43 deficient target cells co-cultured with the same toxic oligonucleotide loaded hMSCs proliferated, albeit at significantly slower rates, with cell number increasing on average ~2.2-fold (30% of control cells) over 96 hours. Our results show that both gap junction and vesicular/exosomal intercellular delivery pathways from hMSCs to target cancer cells deliver oligonucleotides and function to either induce cell death or significantly reduce their proliferation. Thus, hMSC-based cellular delivery is an effective method of delivering synthetic oligonucleotides that can significantly reduce tumor cell growth and should be further investigated as a possible approach to cancer therapy.
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- Virginijus Valiunas
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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Hou K, Shen J, Yan J, Zhai C, Zhang J, Pan JA, Zhang Y, Jiang Y, Wang Y, Lin RZ, Cong H, Gao S, Zong WX. Loss of TRIM21 alleviates cardiotoxicity by suppressing ferroptosis induced by the chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin. EBioMedicine 2021; 69:103456. [PMID: 34233258 PMCID: PMC8261003 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Doxorubicin, an anthracycline chemotherapeutic agent, is widely used in the treatment of many cancers. However, doxorubicin posts a great risk of adverse cardiovascular events, which are thought to be caused by oxidative stress. We recently reported that the ubiquitin E3 ligase TRIM21 interacts and ubiquitylates p62 and negatively regulates the p62-Keap1-Nrf2 antioxidant pathway. Therefore, we sought to determine the role TRIM21 in cardiotoxicity induced by oxidative damage. METHODS Using TRIM21 knockout mice, we examined the effects of TRIM21 on cardiotoxicity induced by two oxidative damage models: the doxorubicin treatment model and the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) model. We also explored the underlying mechanism by RNA-sequencing of the heart tissues, and by treating the mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), immortalized rat cardiomyocyte line H9c2, and immortalized human cardiomyocyte line AC16 with doxorubicin. FINDINGS TRIM21 knockout mice are protected from heart failure and fatality in both the doxorubicin and LAD models. Hearts of doxorubicin-treated wild-type mice exhibit deformed mitochondria and elevated level of lipid peroxidation reminiscent of ferroptosis, which is alleviated in TRIM21 knockout hearts. Mechanistically, TRIM21-deficient heart tissues and cultured MEFs and H9c2 cells display enhanced p62 sequestration of Keap1 and are protected from doxorubicin-induced ferroptosis. Reconstitution of wild-type but not the E3 ligase-dead and the p62 binding-deficient TRIM21 mutants impedes the protection from doxorubicin-induced cell death. INTERPRETATION Our study demonstrates that TRIM21 ablation protects doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity and illustrates a new function of TRIM21 in ferroptosis, and suggests TRIM21 as a therapeutic target for reducing chemotherapy-related cardiotoxicity. FUNDING NIH (CA129536; DK108989): data collection, analysis. Shanghai Pujiang Program (19PJ1401900): data collection. National Natural Science Foundation (31971161): data collection. Department of Veteran Affairs (BX004083): data collection. Tianjin Science and Technology Plan Project (17ZXMFSY00020): data collection.
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- Kai Hou
- School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China; Department of Cellular and Genetic Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China; Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Genetic Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China; Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China.
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- Department of Cellular and Genetic Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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Castiglione M, Jiang Y, Mazzeo C, Lee S, Chen J, Kaushansky K, Yin W, Lin RZ, Zheng H, Zhan H. Endothelial JAK2V617F mutation leads to thrombosis, vasculopathy, and cardiomyopathy in a murine model of myeloproliferative neoplasm. J Thromb Haemost 2020; 18:3359-3370. [PMID: 32920974 PMCID: PMC7756295 DOI: 10.1111/jth.15095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Cardiovascular complications are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). The acquired kinase mutation JAK2V617F plays a central role in these disorders. Mechanisms responsible for cardiovascular dysfunction in MPNs are not fully understood, limiting the effectiveness of current treatment. Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) carrying the JAK2V617F mutation can be detected in patients with MPNs. The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that the JAK2V617F mutation alters endothelial function to promote cardiovascular complications in patients with MPNs. APPROACH AND RESULTS We employed murine models of MPN in which the JAK2V617F mutation is expressed in specific cell lineages. When JAK2V617F is expressed in both blood cells and vascular ECs, the mice developed MPN and spontaneous, age-related dilated cardiomyopathy with an increased risk of sudden death as well as a prothrombotic and vasculopathy phenotype on histology evaluation. In contrast, despite having significantly higher leukocyte and platelet counts than controls, mice with JAK2V617F-mutant blood cells alone did not demonstrate any cardiac dysfunction, suggesting that JAK2V617F-mutant ECs are required for this cardiovascular disease phenotype. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the JAK2V617F mutation promotes a pro-adhesive, pro-inflammatory, and vasculopathy EC phenotype, and mutant ECs respond to flow shear differently than wild-type ECs. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that the JAK2V617F mutation can alter vascular endothelial function to promote cardiovascular complications in MPNs. Therefore, targeting the MPN vasculature represents a promising new therapeutic strategy for patients with MPNs.
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- Department of Physiology and BiophysicsInstitute of Molecular CardiologyStony Brook UniversityStony BrookNYUSA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular PharmacologyStony Brook UniversityStony BrookNYUSA
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- Department of MedicineStony Brook School of MedicineStony BrookNYUSA
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- Office of the Sr. Vice PresidentHealth SciencesStony Brook MedicineStony BrookNYUSA
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringStony Brook UniversityStony BrookNYUSA
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- Department of Physiology and BiophysicsInstitute of Molecular CardiologyStony Brook UniversityStony BrookNYUSA
- Medical ServiceNorthport VA Medical CenterNorthportNYUSA
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- Cardiac ImagingThe Heart CenterSaint Francis HospitalRoslynNYUSA
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- Department of MedicineStony Brook School of MedicineStony BrookNYUSA
- Medical ServiceNorthport VA Medical CenterNorthportNYUSA
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It has long been known that heart rate is regulated by the autonomic nervous system. Recently, we demonstrated that the pacemaker current, If, is regulated by phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling independently of the autonomic nervous system. Inhibition of PI3K in sinus node (SN) myocytes shifts the activation of If by almost 16 mV in the negative direction. If in the SN is predominantly mediated by two members of the HCN gene family, HCN4 and HCN1. Purkinje fibers also possess If and are an important secondary pacemaker in the heart. In contrast to the SN, they express HCN2 and HCN4, while ventricular myocytes, which do not normally pace, express HCN2 alone. In the current work, we investigated PI3K regulation of HCN2 expressed in HEK293 cells. Treatment with the PI3K inhibitor PI-103 caused a negative shift in the activation voltage and a dramatic reduction in the magnitude of the HCN2 current. Similar changes were also seen in cells treated with an inhibitor of the protein kinase Akt, a downstream effector of PI3K. The effects of PI-103 were reversed by perfusion of cells with phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (the second messenger produced by PI3K) or active Akt protein. We identified serine 861 in mouse HCN2 as a putative Akt phosphorylation site. Mutation of S861 to alanine mimicked the effects of Akt inhibition on voltage dependence and current magnitude. In addition, the Akt inhibitor had no effect on the mutant channel. These results suggest that Akt phosphorylation of mHCN2 S861 accounts for virtually all of the observed actions of PI3K signaling on the HCN2 current. Unexpectedly, Akt inhibition had no effect on If in SN myocytes. This result raises the possibility that diverse PI3K signaling pathways differentially regulate HCN-induced currents in different tissues, depending on the isoforms expressed.
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- Zhongju Lu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States.,Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States.,Department of Nephrology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States.,Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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Bott AJ, Shen J, Tonelli C, Zhan L, Sivaram N, Jiang YP, Yu X, Bhatt V, Chiles E, Zhong H, Maimouni S, Dai W, Velasquez S, Pan JA, Muthalagu N, Morton J, Anthony TG, Feng H, Lamers WH, Murphy DJ, Guo JY, Jin J, Crawford HC, Zhang L, White E, Lin RZ, Su X, Tuveson DA, Zong WX. Glutamine Anabolism Plays a Critical Role in Pancreatic Cancer by Coupling Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism. Cell Rep 2019; 29:1287-1298.e6. [PMID: 31665640 PMCID: PMC6886125 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.09.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Glutamine is thought to play an important role in cancer cells by being deaminated via glutaminolysis to α-ketoglutarate (aKG) to fuel the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Supporting this notion, aKG supplementation can restore growth/survival of glutamine-deprived cells. However, pancreatic cancers are often poorly vascularized and limited in glutamine supply, in alignment with recent concerns on the significance of glutaminolysis in pancreatic cancer. Here, we show that aKG-mediated rescue of glutamine-deprived pancreatic ductal carcinoma (PDAC) cells requires glutamate ammonia ligase (GLUL), the enzyme responsible for de novo glutamine synthesis. GLUL-deficient PDAC cells are capable of the TCA cycle but defective in aKG-coupled glutamine biosynthesis and subsequent nitrogen anabolic processes. Importantly, GLUL expression is elevated in pancreatic cancer patient samples and in mouse PDAC models. GLUL ablation suppresses the development of KrasG12D-driven murine PDAC. Therefore, GLUL-mediated glutamine biosynthesis couples the TCA cycle with nitrogen anabolism and plays a critical role in PDAC.
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- Alex J Bott
- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Genetics Graduate Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 07794, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
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- Mount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Departments of Pharmacological Sciences and Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cancer Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK; Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Mount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Departments of Pharmacological Sciences and Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Departments of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
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- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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Cell migration-inducing protein (CEMIP) and binding immunoglobulin protein (BiP) are upregulated in human cancers, where they drive cancer progression and metastasis. It has been shown that CEMIP resides in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where it interacts with BiP to induce cell migration, but the relationship between the two proteins was previously unknown. Here we show that CEMIP mediates activation of the BiP promoter and upregulates BiP transcript and protein levels in breast cancer cell lines. Moreover, CEMIP overexpression confers protective adaptations to cancer cells under hypoxic conditions, by decreasing apoptosis, activating autophagy, and increasing glucose uptake, to facilitate tumor growth. We demonstrate that BiP signals downstream of CEMIP, modulating cellular resistance to hypoxia. Reducing BiP in CEMIP-expressing cells sensitized cells to hypoxia treatment, decreased glucose uptake, and resulted in tumor regression in vivo. Our study provides insights into the link between CEMIP and BiP expression and the pro-survival role they play in hypoxia. Better understanding of the mechanisms behind cancer cell adaptations to harsh tumor environments could lead to development of improved cancer treatments.
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- Anna Banach
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Medical Scientist Training Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Transplant Research Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Division of Cancer Prevention, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.,Medical Service, Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY, USA
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Lin RZ, Lu Z, Anyukhovsky EP, Jiang YP, Wang HZ, Gao J, Rosen MR, Ballou LM, Cohen IS. Regulation of heart rate and the pacemaker current by phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling. J Gen Physiol 2019; 151:1051-1058. [PMID: 31217223 PMCID: PMC6683667 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201812293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [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: 11/19/2018] [Revised: 05/01/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Heart rate is set by the specialized tissue of the sinoatrial node. Lin et al. demonstrate a novel role for phosphoinositide 3-kinase in regulating cardiac pacemaking currents independently of the autonomic nervous system, a finding with relevance for diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Heart rate in physiological conditions is set by the sinoatrial node (SN), the primary cardiac pacing tissue. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling is a major regulatory pathway in all normal cells, and its dysregulation is prominent in diabetes, cancer, and heart failure. Here, we show that inhibition of PI3K slows the pacing rate of the SN in situ and in vitro and reduces the early slope of diastolic depolarization. Furthermore, inhibition of PI3K causes a negative shift in the voltage dependence of activation of the pacemaker current, IF, while addition of its second messenger, phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate, induces a positive shift. These shifts in the activation of IF are independent of, and larger than, those induced by the autonomic nervous system. These results suggest that PI3K is an important regulator of heart rate, and perturbations in this signaling pathway may contribute to the development of arrhythmias.
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- Richard Z Lin
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.,Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.,Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.,Departments of Pharmacology and Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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Sivaram N, McLaughlin PA, Han HV, Petrenko O, Jiang YP, Ballou LM, Pham K, Liu C, van der Velden AW, Lin RZ. Tumor-intrinsic PIK3CA represses tumor immunogenecity in a model of pancreatic cancer. J Clin Invest 2019; 129:3264-3276. [PMID: 31112530 PMCID: PMC6668699 DOI: 10.1172/jci123540] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
The presence of tumor-infiltrating T cells is associated with favorable patient outcomes, yet most pancreatic cancers are immunologically silent and resistant to currently available immunotherapies. Here we show using a syngeneic orthotopic implantation model of pancreatic cancer that Pik3ca regulates tumor immunogenicity. Genetic silencing of Pik3ca in KrasG12D/Trp53R172H-driven pancreatic tumors resulted in infiltration of T cells, complete tumor regression, and 100% survival of immunocompetent host mice. By contrast, Pik3ca-null tumors implanted in T cell-deficient mice progressed and killed all of the animals. Adoptive transfer of tumor antigen-experienced T cells eliminated Pik3ca-null tumors in immunodeficient mice. Loss of PIK3CA or inhibition of its effector, AKT, increased the expression of MHC Class I and CD80 on tumor cells. These changes contributed to the increased susceptibility of Pik3ca-null tumors to T cell surveillance. Our results indicate that tumor cell PIK3CA-AKT signaling limits T cell recognition and clearance of pancreatic cancer cells. Strategies that target this pathway may yield an effective immunotherapy for this cancer.
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- Nithya Sivaram
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Center for Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Center for Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University School of Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University School of Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Center for Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, New York, USA
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Lin RZ. Phosphoinositide 3-kinases and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2017; 70:420-421. [PMID: 29215436 DOI: 10.1097/fjc.0000000000000547] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Richard Z Lin
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.,Medical Service, Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY
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Nelson RK, Ya-Ping J, Gadbery J, Abedeen D, Sampson N, Lin RZ, Frohman MA. Phospholipase D2 loss results in increased blood pressure via inhibition of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase pathway. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9112. [PMID: 28831159 PMCID: PMC5567230 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09852-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 07/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The Phospholipase D (PLD) superfamily is linked to neurological disease, cancer, and fertility, and a recent report correlated a potential loss-of-function PLD2 polymorphism with hypotension. Surprisingly, PLD2 -/- mice exhibit elevated blood pressure accompanied by associated changes in cardiac performance and molecular markers, but do not have findings consistent with the metabolic syndrome. Instead, expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), which generates the potent vasodilator nitric oxide (NO), is decreased. An eNOS inhibitor phenocopied PLD2 loss and had no further effect on PLD2 -/- mice, confirming the functional relationship. Using a human endothelial cell line, PLD2 loss of function was shown to lower intracellular free cholesterol, causing upregulation of HMG Co-A reductase, the rate-limiting enzyme in cholesterol synthesis. HMG Co-A reductase negatively regulates eNOS, and the PLD2-deficiency phenotype of decreased eNOS expression and activity could be rescued by cholesterol supplementation and HMG Co-A reductase inhibition. Together, these findings identify a novel pathway through which the lipid signaling enzyme PLD2 regulates blood pressure, creating implications for on-going therapeutic development of PLD small molecule inhibitors. Finally, we show that the human PLD2 polymorphism does not trigger eNOS loss, but rather creates another effect, suggesting altered functioning for the allele.
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- Rochelle K Nelson
- The Graduate Program in Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
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- Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
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- The Undergraduate Program in Biochemistry, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
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- Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
- Medical Service, Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, New York, USA.
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Sellitto C, Li L, Vaghefi E, Donaldson PJ, Lin RZ, White TW. The Phosphoinosotide 3-Kinase Catalytic Subunit p110α is Required for Normal Lens Growth. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2017; 57:3145-51. [PMID: 27304846 PMCID: PMC4928694 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.16-19607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Purpose Signal transduction pathways influence lens growth, but little is known about the role(s) of the class 1A phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks). To further investigate how signaling regulates lens growth, we generated and characterized mice in which the p110α and p110β catalytic subunits of PI3K were conditionally deleted in the mouse lens. Methods Floxed alleles of the catalytic subunits of PI3K were conditionally deleted in the lens by using MLR10-cre transgenic mice. Lenses of age-matched animals were dissected and photographed. Postnatal lenses were fixed, paraffin embedded, sectioned, and stained with hematoxylin-eosin. Cell proliferation was quantified by labeling S-phase cells in intact lenses with 5-ethynyl-2′-deoxyuridine. Protein kinase B (AKT) activation was examined by Western blotting. Results Lens-specific deletion of p110α resulted in a significant reduction of eye and lens size, without compromising lens clarity. Conditional knockout of p110β had no effect on lens size or clarity, and deletion of both the p110α and p110β subunits resulted in a phenotype that resembled the p110α single-knockout phenotype. Levels of activated AKT were decreased more in p110α- than in p110β-deficient lenses. A significant reduction in proliferating cells in the germinative zone was observed on postnatal day 0 in p110α knockout mice, which was temporally correlated with decreased lens volume. Conclusions These data suggest that the class 1A PI3K signaling pathway plays an important role in the regulation of lens size by influencing the extent and spatial location of cell proliferation in the perinatal period.
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- Caterina Sellitto
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Medical Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States 4Medical Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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Cohen IS, Lin RZ, Ballou LM. Acquired long QT syndrome and phosphoinositide 3-kinase. Trends Cardiovasc Med 2017; 27:451-459. [PMID: 28687226 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcm.2017.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Revised: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
While it is well known that mutation of several different ion channels can cause congenital long QT syndrome, block of IKr is widely thought to be responsible for most cases of drug-induced acquired long QT syndrome (aLQTS). In this article, we review evidence supporting another cause of aLQTS due to inhibition of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling. Inhibition of PI3K affects multiple plateau currents, reducing IKr, IKs, and ICaL while increasing the persistent sodium current (INaP). The effects of PI3K inhibitors develop slowly, requiring hours to days to reach steady state. Dofetilide and terfenadine, an antihistamine on which much of the original IKr hypothesis was based, are among the many drugs that inhibit the PI3K pathway. Reduced PI3K signaling may also play a role in aLQTS associated with diabetes. Drug safety testing to identify aLQTS risk may be improved by examining PI3K-dependent effects that develop over time.
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- Ira S Cohen
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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Pan JA, Sun Y, Jiang YP, Bott AJ, Jaber N, Dou Z, Yang B, Chen JS, Catanzaro JM, Du C, Ding WX, Diaz-Meco MT, Moscat J, Ozato K, Lin RZ, Zong WX. TRIM21 Ubiquitylates SQSTM1/p62 and Suppresses Protein Sequestration to Regulate Redox Homeostasis. Mol Cell 2016; 62:149-51. [PMID: 27058791 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Qiu XS, Chauveau S, Anyukhovsky EP, Rahim T, Jiang YP, Harleton E, Feinmark SJ, Lin RZ, Coronel R, Janse MJ, Opthof T, Rosen TS, Cohen IS, Rosen MR. Increased Late Sodium Current Contributes to the Electrophysiological Effects of Chronic, but Not Acute, Dofetilide Administration. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 2016; 9:e003655. [PMID: 27071826 DOI: 10.1161/circep.115.003655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2015] [Accepted: 03/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Drugs are screened for delayed rectifier potassium current (IKr) blockade to predict long QT syndrome prolongation and arrhythmogenesis. However, single-cell studies have shown that chronic (hours) exposure to some IKr blockers (eg, dofetilide) prolongs repolarization additionally by increasing late sodium current (INa-L) via inhibition of phosphoinositide 3-kinase. We hypothesized that chronic dofetilide administration to intact dogs prolongs repolarization by blocking IKr and increasing INa-L. METHODS AND RESULTS We continuously infused dofetilide (6-9 μg/kg bolus+6-9 μg/kg per hour IV infusion) into anesthetized dogs for 7 hours, maintaining plasma levels within the therapeutic range. In separate experiments, myocardial biopsies were taken before and during 6-hour intravenous dofetide infusion, and the level of phospho-Akt was determined. Acute and chronic dofetilide effects on action potential duration (APD) were studied in canine left ventricular subendocardial slabs using microelectrode techniques. Dofetilide monotonically increased QTc and APD throughout 6.5-hour exposure. Dofetilide infusion during ≥210 minutes inhibited Akt phosphorylation. INa-L block with lidocaine shortened QTc and APD more at 6.5 hours than at 50 minutes (QTc) or 30 minutes (APD) dofetilide administration. In comparison, moxifloxacin, an IKr blocker with no effects on phosphoinositide 3-kinase and INa-L prolonged APD acutely but no additional prolongation occurred on chronic superfusion. Lidocaine shortened APD equally during acute and chronic moxifloxacin superfusion. CONCLUSIONS Increased INa-L contributes to chronic dofetilide effects in vivo. These data emphasize the need to include time and INa-L in evaluating the phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibition-derived proarrhythmic potential of drugs and provide a mechanism for benefit from lidocaine administration in clinical acquired long QT syndrome.
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- Xiaoliang S Qiu
- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.).
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, NY (X.S.Q., S.C., E.P.A., T.R., Y.-P.J., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); Departments of Pharmacology (E.H., S.J.F., M.R.R.) and Pediatrics (T.S.R., M.R.R.), College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY; Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.); Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.C., M.J.J., T.O.); L'Institut de RYthmologie et de modélisation Cardiaque (LIRYC), Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France (R.C.); and Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.O.)
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Pan JA, Sun Y, Jiang YP, Bott AJ, Jaber N, Dou Z, Yang B, Chen JS, Catanzaro JM, Du C, Ding WX, Diaz-Meco MT, Moscat J, Ozato K, Lin RZ, Zong WX. TRIM21 Ubiquitylates SQSTM1/p62 and Suppresses Protein Sequestration to Regulate Redox Homeostasis. Mol Cell 2016; 61:720-733. [PMID: 26942676 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Revised: 01/13/2016] [Accepted: 02/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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TRIM21 is a RING finger domain-containing ubiquitin E3 ligase whose expression is elevated in autoimmune disease. While TRIM21 plays an important role in immune activation during pathogen infection, little is known about its inherent cellular function. Here we show that TRIM21 plays an essential role in redox regulation by directly interacting with SQSTM1/p62 and ubiquitylating p62 at lysine 7 (K7) via K63-linkage. As p62 oligomerizes and sequesters client proteins in inclusions, the TRIM21-mediated p62 ubiquitylation abrogates p62 oligomerization and sequestration of proteins including Keap1, a negative regulator of antioxidant response. TRIM21-deficient cells display an enhanced antioxidant response and reduced cell death in response to oxidative stress. Genetic ablation of TRIM21 in mice confers protection from oxidative damages caused by arsenic-induced liver insult and pressure overload heart injury. Therefore, TRIM21 plays an essential role in p62-regulated redox homeostasis and may be a viable target for treating pathological conditions resulting from oxidative damage.
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- Ji-An Pan
- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, 164 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA; Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, 164 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA; Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, 164 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA; Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Cells, Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin 300170, China
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Cancer Metabolism and Signaling Networks Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Cancer Metabolism and Signaling Networks Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Division of Developmental Biology, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, 164 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA; Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
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Takeuchi KK, Carpenter E, Wu C, Halbrook CJ, Lin RZ, Crawford HC. Abstract A04: PI3K regulation of RAC1 is required for Kras-induced pancreatic tumorigenesis. Cancer Res 2015. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.panca2014-a04] [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: 11/16/2022]
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Nearly all pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas are caused by oncogenic mutations in the KRAS gene. Pharmacological inhibition of mutant KRAS has thus far been unsuccessful in the clinical setting, precipitating a need to understand the pathways downstream of KRAS which may prove more easily targeted with small molecule inhibitors. Here we show that PI3K p110α is absolutely required for pancreatic tumorigenesis while p110β is dispensable for this process. Surprisingly, ablation of p110α does not impair the ability of KRAS to activate AKT, demonstrating that AKT activation is not sufficient for transformation. Instead we find that p110α is required for robust activation of RAC1, a small GTPase required for pancreatic metaplasia. Consistent with this, our data show that p110α is necessary for regulating epithelial expression and activation of RAC-GEFs including Vav1, Tiam1 and Ect2. Ultimately, these results define the mechanistic role of p110α in pancreatic tumorigenesis and suggest selective inhibition of this PI3K isoform as a promising therapeutic approach to treating patients with pancreas cancer.
Citation Format: Kenneth K. Takeuchi, Eileen Carpenter, Claire Wu, Christopher J. Halbrook, Richard Z. Lin, Howard C. Crawford. PI3K regulation of RAC1 is required for Kras-induced pancreatic tumorigenesis. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer: Innovations in Research and Treatment; May 18-21, 2014; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(13 Suppl):Abstract nr A04.
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- 2Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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Guo A, Hall D, Zhang C, Peng T, Miller JD, Kutschke W, Grueter CE, Johnson FL, Lin RZ, Song LS. Molecular Determinants of Calpain-dependent Cleavage of Junctophilin-2 Protein in Cardiomyocytes. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:17946-17955. [PMID: 26063807 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.652396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Junctophilin-2 (JP2), a membrane-binding protein that provides a structural bridge between the plasmalemma and sarcoplasmic reticulum, is essential for precise Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) release during excitation-contraction coupling in cardiomyocytes. In animal and human failing hearts, expression of JP2 is decreased markedly, but the molecular mechanisms underlying JP2 down-regulation remain incompletely defined. In mouse hearts, ischemia/reperfusion injury resulted in acute JP2 down-regulation, which was attenuated by pretreatment with the calpain inhibitor MDL-28170 or by transgenic overexpression of calpastatin, an endogenous calpain inhibitor. Using a combination of computational analysis to predict calpain cleavage sites and in vitro calpain proteolysis reactions, we identified four putative calpain cleavage sites within JP2 with three N-terminal and one C-terminal cleavage sites. Mutagenesis defined the C-terminal region of JP2 as the predominant calpain cleavage site. Exogenous expression of putative JP2 cleavage fragments was not sufficient to rescue Ca(2+) handling in JP2-deficient cardiomyocytes, indicating that cleaved JP2 is non-functional for normal Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) release. These data provide new molecular insights into the posttranslational regulatory mechanisms of JP2 in cardiac diseases.
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- Ang Guo
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 4G5, Canada
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- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.
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Martinez JM, Wang HZ, Lin RZ, Brink PR, White TW. Differential regulation of Connexin50 and Connexin46 by PI3K signaling. FEBS Lett 2015; 589:1340-5. [PMID: 25935417 PMCID: PMC4433579 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 03/06/2015] [Revised: 04/06/2015] [Accepted: 04/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Gap junction channels can modify their activity in response to cell signaling pathways. Here, we demonstrate that Connexin50 (Cx50) coupling, but not Connexin46 (Cx46), increased when co-expressed with a constitutively active p110α subunit of PI3K in Xenopus oocytes. In addition, inhibition of PI3K signaling by blocking p110α, or Akt, significantly decreased gap junctional conductance in Cx50 transfected HeLa cells, with no effect on Cx46. Alterations in coupling levels were not a result of reduced Cx50 unitary conductance, suggesting that changes in the number of active channels were responsible. These data indicate that Cx50 is specifically regulated by the PI3K signaling pathway.
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- Jennifer M Martinez
- The Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- The Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- The Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- The Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA
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- The Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661, USA.
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Upregulation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling is a common alteration in human cancer, and numerous drugs that target this pathway have been developed for cancer treatment. However, recent studies have implicated inhibition of the PI3K signaling pathway as the cause of a drug-induced long-QT syndrome in which alterations in several ion currents contribute to arrhythmogenic drug activity. Surprisingly, some drugs that were thought to induce long-QT syndrome by direct block of the rapid delayed rectifier (IKr) also seem to inhibit PI3K signaling, an effect that may contribute to their arrhythmogenicity. The importance of PI3K in regulating cardiac repolarization is underscored by evidence that QT interval prolongation in diabetes mellitus also may result from changes in multiple currents because of decreased insulin activation of PI3K in the heart. How PI3K signaling regulates ion channels to control the cardiac action potential is poorly understood. Hence, this review summarizes what is known about the effect of PI3K and its downstream effectors, including Akt, on sodium, potassium, and calcium currents in cardiac myocytes. We also refer to some studies in noncardiac cells that provide insight into potential mechanisms of ion channel regulation by this signaling pathway in the heart. Drug development and safety could be improved with a better understanding of the mechanisms by which PI3K regulates cardiac ion channels and the extent to which PI3K inhibition contributes to arrhythmogenic susceptibility.
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- Lisa M Ballou
- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, NY (L.M.B., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); and the Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, NY (L.M.B., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); and the Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.).
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, NY (L.M.B., R.Z.L., I.S.C.); and the Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, NY (R.Z.L.).
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Obesity is often associated with systemic insulin resistance, and the decline of insulin sensitivity marks the progression of obesity into a disease state. We recently generated a mouse with adipose-specific ablation of the p110α phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) catalytic subunit to model insulin resistance in this organ. The phenotypes of this animal revealed novel roles of adipose PI3K signaling in regulating body weight and systemic glucose and lipid homeostasis. Loss of p110α in the brown adipose tissue resulted in reduced expression of mitochondrial-associated genes and decreased respiration in brown adipocytes. Reduced activity of the brown adipose tissue in p110α-null mice lowered their energy expenditure, which promoted obesity and systemic metabolic dysfunction with increased lipid deposition in the liver. Loss of PI3K activity did not affect adiposity until sexual maturation, suggesting that the effect of adipose PI3K on obesity might be linked to the development of puberty. Elevated leptin in the p110α knockout mice might interfere with the reproductive axis to delay pubertal development. The increase in adiposity induced by adipose-specific loss of p110α provides a link between insulin resistance and obesity onset and may also provide deeper insight into changes in prepubescent insulin sensitivity that can affect metabolism later in life.
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Wu CYC, Carpenter ES, Takeuchi KK, Halbrook CJ, Peverley LV, Bien H, Hall JC, DelGiorno KE, Pal D, Song Y, Shi C, Lin RZ, Crawford HC. PI3K regulation of RAC1 is required for KRAS-induced pancreatic tumorigenesis in mice. Gastroenterology 2014; 147:1405-16.e7. [PMID: 25311989 PMCID: PMC4252806 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2014.08.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2014] [Revised: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 08/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS New drug targets are urgently needed for the treatment of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). Nearly all PDAs contain oncogenic mutations in the KRAS gene. Pharmacological inhibition of KRAS has been unsuccessful, leading to a focus on downstream effectors that are more easily targeted with small molecule inhibitors. We investigated the contributions of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) to KRAS-initiated tumorigenesis. METHODS Tumorigenesis was measured in the Kras(G12D/+);Ptf1a(Cre/+) mouse model of PDA; these mice were crossed with mice with pancreas-specific disruption of genes encoding PI3K p110α (Pik3ca), p110β (Pik3cb), or RAC1 (Rac1). Pancreatitis was induced with 5 daily intraperitoneal injections of cerulein. Pancreata and primary acinar cells were isolated; acinar cells were incubated with an inhibitor of p110α (PIK75) followed by a broad-spectrum PI3K inhibitor (GDC0941). PDA cell lines (NB490 and MiaPaCa2) were incubated with PIK75 followed by GDC0941. Tissues and cells were analyzed by histology, immunohistochemistry, quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction, and immunofluorescence analyses for factors involved in the PI3K signaling pathway. We also examined human pancreas tissue microarrays for levels of p110α and other PI3K pathway components. RESULTS Pancreas-specific disruption of Pik3ca or Rac1, but not Pik3cb, prevented the development of pancreatic tumors in Kras(G12D/+);Ptf1a(Cre/+) mice. Loss of transformation was independent of AKT regulation. Preneoplastic ductal metaplasia developed in mice lacking pancreatic p110α but regressed. Levels of activated and total RAC1 were higher in pancreatic tissues from Kras(G12D/+);Ptf1a(Cre/+) mice compared with controls. Loss of p110α reduced RAC1 activity and expression in these tissues. p110α was required for the up-regulation and activity of RAC guanine exchange factors during tumorigenesis. Levels of p110α and RAC1 were increased in human pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias and PDAs compared with healthy pancreata. CONCLUSIONS KRAS signaling, via p110α to activate RAC1, is required for transformation in Kras(G12D/+);Ptf1a(Cre/+) mice.
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- Chia-Yen C. Wu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, Jacksonville, FL,Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY,Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, Jacksonville, FL
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, Jacksonville, FL,Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Graduate Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY,Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, NY
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY,Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, Jacksonville, FL
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Beymer M, Negrón AL, Yu G, Wu S, Mayer C, Lin RZ, Boehm U, Acosta-Martínez M. Kisspeptin cell-specific PI3K signaling regulates hypothalamic kisspeptin expression and participates in the regulation of female fertility. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2014; 307:E969-82. [PMID: 25269483 PMCID: PMC4254985 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00385.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hypothalamic kisspeptin neurons integrate and translate cues from the internal and external environments that regulate gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion and maintain fertility in mammals. However, the intracellular signaling pathways utilized to translate such information into changes in kisspeptin expression, release, and ultimately activation of the kisspeptin-receptive GnRH network have not yet been identified. PI3K is an important signaling node common to many peripheral factors known to regulate kisspeptin expression and GnRH release. We investigated whether PI3K signaling regulates hypothalamic kisspeptin expression, pubertal development, and adult fertility in mice. We generated mice with a kisspeptin cell-specific deletion of the PI3K catalytic subunits p110α and p110β (kiss-p110α/β-KO). Using in situ hybridization, we examined Kiss1 mRNA expression in gonad-intact, gonadectomized (Gdx), and Gdx + steroid-replaced mice. Kiss1 cell number in the anteroventral periventricular hypothalamus (AVPV) was significantly reduced in intact females but not in males. In contrast, compared with WT and regardless of steroid hormone status, Kiss1 cell number was lower in the arcuate (ARC) of kiss-p110α/β-KO males, but it was unaffected in females. Both intact Kiss-p110α/β-KO males and females had reduced ARC kisspeptin-immunoreactive (IR) fibers compared with WT animals. Adult kiss-p110α/β-KO males had significantly lower circulating luteinizing hormone (LH) levels, whereas pubertal development and fertility were unaffected in males. Kiss-p110α/β-KO females exhibited a reduction in fertility despite normal pubertal development, LH levels, and estrous cyclicity. Our data show that PI3K signaling is important for the regulation of hypothalamic kisspeptin expression and contributes to normal fertility in females.
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- Matthew Beymer
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York; Graduate Program in Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Saarland School of Medicine, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York; Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook, New York; and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Saarland School of Medicine, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York;
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Aziz R, Beymer M, Negrón AL, Newshan A, Yu G, Rosati B, McKinnon D, Fukuda M, Lin RZ, Mayer C, Boehm U, Acosta-Martínez M. Galanin-like peptide (GALP) neurone-specific phosphoinositide 3-kinase signalling regulates GALP mRNA levels in the hypothalamus of males and luteinising hormone levels in both sexes. J Neuroendocrinol 2014; 26:426-38. [PMID: 24796383 PMCID: PMC4076824 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Revised: 04/23/2014] [Accepted: 04/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Galanin-like peptide (GALP) neurones participate in the metabolic control of reproduction and are targets of insulin and leptin regulation. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) is common to the signalling pathways utilised by both insulin and leptin. Therefore, we investigated whether PI3K signalling in neurones expressing GALP plays a role in the transcriptional regulation of the GALP gene and in the metabolic control of luteinising hormone (LH) release. Accordingly, we deleted PI3K catalytic subunits p110α and p110β via conditional gene targeting (cKO) in mice (GALP-p110α/β cKO). To monitor PI3K signalling in GALP neurones, these animals were also crossed with Cre-dependent FoxO1GFP reporter mice. Compared to insulin-infused control animals, the PI3K-Akt-dependent FoxO1GFP nuclear exclusion in GALP neurones was abolished in GALP-p110α/β cKO mice. We next used food deprivation to investigate whether the GALP-neurone specific ablation of PI3K activity affected the susceptibility of the gonadotrophic axis to negative energy balance. Treatment did not affect LH levels in either sex. However, a significant genotype effect on LH levels was observed in females. By contrast, no genotype effect on LH levels was observed in males. A sex-specific genotype effect on hypothalamic GALP mRNA was observed, with fed and fasted GALP-p110α/β cKO males having lower GALP mRNA expression compared to wild-type fed males. Finally, the effects of gonadectomy and steroid hormone replacement on GALP mRNA levels were investigated. Compared to vehicle-treated mice, steroid hormone replacement reduced mediobasal hypothalamus GALP expression in wild-type and GALP-p110α/β cKO animals. In addition, within the castrated and vehicle-treated group and compared to wild-type mice, LH levels were lower in GALP-p110α/β cKO males. Double immunofluorescence using GALP-Cre/R26-YFP mice showed androgen and oestrogen receptor co-localisation within GALP neurones. Our data demonstrate that GALP neurones are direct targets of steroid hormones and that PI3K signalling regulates hypothalamic GALP mRNA expression and LH levels in a sex-specific fashion.
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- R Aziz
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Medical Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Wu CYC, Chen B, Jiang YP, Jia Z, Martin DW, Liu S, Entcheva E, Song LS, Lin RZ. Calpain-dependent cleavage of junctophilin-2 and T-tubule remodeling in a mouse model of reversible heart failure. J Am Heart Assoc 2014; 3:e000527. [PMID: 24958777 PMCID: PMC4309042 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.113.000527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Background A highly organized transverse tubule (T‐tubule) network is necessary for efficient Ca2+‐induced Ca2+ release and synchronized contraction of ventricular myocytes. Increasing evidence suggests that T‐tubule remodeling due to junctophilin‐2 (JP‐2) downregulation plays a critical role in the progression of heart failure. However, the mechanisms underlying JP‐2 dysregulation remain incompletely understood. Methods and Results A mouse model of reversible heart failure that is driven by conditional activation of the heterotrimeric G protein Gαq in cardiac myocytes was used in this study. Mice with activated Gαq exhibited disruption of the T‐tubule network and defects in Ca2+ handling that culminated in heart failure compared with wild‐type mice. Activation of Gαq/phospholipase Cβ signaling increased the activity of the Ca2+‐dependent protease calpain, leading to the proteolytic cleavage of JP‐2. A novel calpain cleavage fragment of JP‐2 is detected only in hearts with constitutive Gαq signaling to phospholipase Cβ. Termination of the Gαq signal was followed by normalization of the JP‐2 protein level, repair of the T‐tubule network, improvements in Ca2+ handling, and reversal of heart failure. Treatment of mice with a calpain inhibitor prevented Gαq‐dependent JP‐2 cleavage, T‐tubule disruption, and the development of heart failure. Conclusions Disruption of the T‐tubule network in heart failure is a reversible process. Gαq‐dependent activation of calpain and subsequent proteolysis of JP‐2 appear to be the molecular mechanism that leads to T‐tubule remodeling, Ca2+ handling dysfunction, and progression to heart failure in this mouse model.
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- Chia-Yen C Wu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (C.Y.C.W., Y.P.J., S.L., E.E., R.Z.L.)
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA (B.C., L.S.S.)
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (C.Y.C.W., Y.P.J., S.L., E.E., R.Z.L.)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (Z.J., E.E.)
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- Department of Medicine and Proteomics Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (D.W.M.)
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (C.Y.C.W., Y.P.J., S.L., E.E., R.Z.L.)
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (C.Y.C.W., Y.P.J., S.L., E.E., R.Z.L.) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (Z.J., E.E.)
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA (B.C., L.S.S.)
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (C.Y.C.W., Y.P.J., S.L., E.E., R.Z.L.) Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY (R.Z.L.)
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Kanakia S, Toussaint JD, Mullick Chowdhury S, Tembulkar T, Lee S, Jiang YP, Lin RZ, Shroyer KR, Moore W, Sitharaman B. Dose ranging, expanded acute toxicity and safety pharmacology studies for intravenously administered functionalized graphene nanoparticle formulations. Biomaterials 2014; 35:7022-31. [PMID: 24854092 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.04.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [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: 02/17/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Graphene nanoparticle dispersions show immense potential as multifunctional agents for in vivo biomedical applications. Herein, we follow regulatory guidelines for pharmaceuticals that recommend safety pharmacology assessment at least 10-100 times higher than the projected therapeutic dose, and present comprehensive single dose response, expanded acute toxicology, toxicokinetics, and respiratory/cardiovascular safety pharmacology results for intravenously administered dextran-coated graphene oxide nanoplatelet (GNP-Dex) formulations to rats at doses between 1 and 500 mg/kg. Our results indicate that the maximum tolerable dose (MTD) of GNP-Dex is between 50 mg/kg ≤ MTD < 125 mg/kg, blood half-life < 30 min, and majority of nanoparticles excreted within 24 h through feces. Histopathology changes were noted at ≥250 mg/kg in the heart, liver, lung, spleen, and kidney; we found no changes in the brain and no GNP-Dex related effects in the cardiovascular parameters or hematological factors (blood, lipid, and metabolic panels) at doses < 125 mg/kg. The results open avenues for pivotal preclinical single and repeat dose safety studies following good laboratory practices (GLP) as required by regulatory agencies for investigational new drug (IND) application.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
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Nelson VLB, Jiang YP, Dickman KG, Ballou LM, Lin RZ. Adipose tissue insulin resistance due to loss of PI3K p110α leads to decreased energy expenditure and obesity. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2014; 306:E1205-16. [PMID: 24691033 PMCID: PMC4025064 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00625.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Adipose tissue is a highly insulin-responsive organ that contributes to metabolic regulation. Insulin resistance in the adipose tissue affects systemic lipid and glucose homeostasis. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) mediates downstream insulin signaling in adipose tissue, but its physiological role in vivo remains unclear. Using Cre recombinase driven by the aP2 promoter, we created mice that lack the class 1A PI3K catalytic subunit p110α or p110β specifically in the white and brown adipose tissue. The loss of p110α, not p110β, resulted in increased adiposity, glucose intolerance and liver steatosis. Mice lacking p110α in adipose tissue exhibited a decrease in energy expenditure but no change in food intake or activity compared with control animals. This low energy expenditure is a consequence of low cellular respiration in the brown adipocytes caused by a decrease in expression of key mitochondrial genes including uncoupling protein-1. These results illustrate a critical role of p110α in the regulation of energy expenditure through modulation of cellular respiration in the brown adipose tissue and suggest that compromised insulin signaling in adipose tissue might be involved in the onset of obesity.
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- Victoria L B Nelson
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; and
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York
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Lu Z, Jiang YP, Wu CYC, Ballou LM, Liu S, Carpenter ES, Rosen MR, Cohen IS, Lin RZ. Increased persistent sodium current due to decreased PI3K signaling contributes to QT prolongation in the diabetic heart. Diabetes 2013; 62:4257-65. [PMID: 23974924 PMCID: PMC3837031 DOI: 10.2337/db13-0420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Diabetes is an independent risk factor for sudden cardiac death and ventricular arrhythmia complications of acute coronary syndrome. Prolongation of the QT interval on the electrocardiogram is also a risk factor for arrhythmias and sudden death, and the increased prevalence of QT prolongation is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular death in diabetic patients. The pathophysiological mechanisms responsible for this lethal complication are poorly understood. Diabetes is associated with a reduction in phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling, which regulates the action potential duration (APD) of individual myocytes and thus the QT interval by altering multiple ion currents, including the persistent sodium current INaP. Here, we report a mechanism for diabetes-induced QT prolongation that involves an increase in INaP caused by defective PI3K signaling. Cardiac myocytes of mice with type 1 or type 2 diabetes exhibited an increase in APD that was reversed by expression of constitutively active PI3K or intracellular infusion of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3), the second messenger produced by PI3K. The diabetic myocytes also showed an increase in INaP that was reversed by activated PI3K or PIP3. The increases in APD and INaP in myocytes translated into QT interval prolongation for both types of diabetic mice. The long QT interval of type 1 diabetic hearts was shortened by insulin treatment ex vivo, and this effect was blocked by a PI3K inhibitor. Treatment of both types of diabetic mouse hearts with an INaP blocker also shortened the QT interval. These results indicate that downregulation of cardiac PI3K signaling in diabetes prolongs the QT interval at least in part by causing an increase in INaP. This mechanism may explain why the diabetic population has an increased risk of life-threatening arrhythmias.
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- Zhongju Lu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
- Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
- Corresponding author: Ira S. Cohen, , or Richard Z. Lin,
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
- Medical Service, Northport VA Medical Center, Northport, New York
- Corresponding author: Ira S. Cohen, , or Richard Z. Lin,
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Sellitto C, Li L, Gao J, Robinson ML, Lin RZ, Mathias RT, White TW. AKT activation promotes PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome-associated cataract development. J Clin Invest 2013; 123:5401-9. [PMID: 24270425 DOI: 10.1172/jci70437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 09/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Mutations in the human phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) gene cause PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS), which includes cataract development among its diverse clinical pathologies. Currently, it is not known whether cataract formation in PHTS patients is secondary to other systemic problems, or the result of the loss of a critical function of PTEN within the lens. We generated a mouse line with a lens-specific deletion of Pten (PTEN KO) and identified a regulatory function for PTEN in lens ion transport. Specific loss of PTEN in the lens resulted in cataract. PTEN KO lenses exhibited a progressive age-related increase in intracellular hydrostatic pressure, along with, increased intracellular sodium concentrations, and reduced Na+/K+-ATPase activity. Collectively, these defects lead to lens swelling, opacities and ultimately organ rupture. Activation of AKT was highly elevated in PTEN KO lenses compared to WT mice. Additionally, pharmacological inhibition of AKT restored normal Na+/K+-ATPase activity in primary cultured lens cells and reduced lens pressure in intact lenses from PTEN KO animals. These findings identify a direct role for PTEN in the regulation of lens ion transport through an AKT-dependent modulation of Na+/K+-ATPase activity, and provide a new animal model to investigate cataract development in PHTS patients.
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Sahashi K, Ling KKY, Hua Y, Wilkinson JE, Nomakuchi T, Rigo F, Hung G, Xu D, Jiang YP, Lin RZ, Ko CP, Bennett CF, Krainer AR. Pathological impact of SMN2 mis-splicing in adult SMA mice. EMBO Mol Med 2013; 5:1586-601. [PMID: 24014320 PMCID: PMC3799581 DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201302567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2013] [Revised: 08/06/2013] [Accepted: 08/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Loss-of-function mutations in SMN1 cause spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a leading genetic cause of infant mortality. The related SMN2 gene expresses suboptimal levels of functional SMN protein, due to a splicing defect. Many SMA patients reach adulthood, and there is also adult-onset (type IV) SMA. There is currently no animal model for adult-onset SMA, and the tissue-specific pathogenesis of post-developmental SMN deficiency remains elusive. Here, we use an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) to exacerbate SMN2 mis-splicing. Intracerebroventricular ASO injection in adult SMN2-transgenic mice phenocopies key aspects of adult-onset SMA, including delayed-onset motor dysfunction and relevant histopathological features. SMN2 mis-splicing increases during late-stage disease, likely accelerating disease progression. Systemic ASO injection in adult mice causes peripheral SMN2 mis-splicing and affects prognosis, eliciting marked liver and heart pathologies, with decreased IGF1 levels. ASO dose–response and time-course studies suggest that only moderate SMN levels are required in the adult central nervous system, and treatment with a splicing-correcting ASO shows a broad therapeutic time window. We describe distinctive pathological features of adult-onset and early-onset SMA.
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Dou Z, Pan JA, Dbouk HA, Ballou LM, DeLeon JL, Fan Y, Chen JS, Liang Z, Li G, Backer JM, Lin RZ, Zong WX. Class IA PI3K p110β subunit promotes autophagy through Rab5 small GTPase in response to growth factor limitation. Mol Cell 2013; 50:29-42. [PMID: 23434372 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2012] [Revised: 10/10/2012] [Accepted: 01/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved membrane trafficking process. Induction of autophagy in response to nutrient limitation or cellular stress occurs by similar mechanisms in organisms from yeast to mammals. Unlike yeast, metazoan cells rely more on growth factor signaling for a wide variety of cellular activities including nutrient uptake. How growth factor availability regulates autophagy is poorly understood. Here we show that, upon growth factor limitation, the p110β catalytic subunit of the class IA phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) dissociates from growth factor receptor complexes and increases its interaction with the small GTPase Rab5. This p110β-Rab5 association maintains Rab5 in its guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-bound state and enhances the Rab5-Vps34 interaction that promotes autophagy. p110β mutants that fail to interact with Rab5 are defective in autophagy promotion. Hence, in mammalian cells, p110β acts as a molecular sensor for growth factor availability and induces autophagy by activating a Rab5-mediated signaling cascade.
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- Zhixun Dou
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Lu Z, Wu CYC, Jiang YP, Ballou LM, Clausen C, Cohen IS, Lin RZ. Suppression of phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling and alteration of multiple ion currents in drug-induced long QT syndrome. Sci Transl Med 2012; 4:131ra50. [PMID: 22539774 PMCID: PMC3494282 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Many drugs, including some commonly used medications, can cause abnormal heart rhythms and sudden death, as manifest by a prolonged QT interval in the electrocardiogram. Cardiac arrhythmias caused by drug-induced long QT syndrome are thought to result mainly from reductions in the delayed rectifier potassium ion (K(+)) current I(Kr). Here, we report a mechanism for drug-induced QT prolongation that involves changes in multiple ion currents caused by a decrease in phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling. Treatment of canine cardiac myocytes with inhibitors of tyrosine kinases or PI3Ks caused an increase in action potential duration that was reversed by intracellular infusion of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate. The inhibitors decreased the delayed rectifier K(+) currents I(Kr) and I(Ks), the L-type calcium ion (Ca(2+)) current I(Ca,L), and the peak sodium ion (Na(+)) current I(Na) and increased the persistent Na(+) current I(NaP). Computer modeling of the canine ventricular action potential showed that the drug-induced change in any one current accounted for less than 50% of the increase in action potential duration. Mouse hearts lacking the PI3K p110α catalytic subunit exhibited a prolonged action potential and QT interval that were at least partly a result of an increase in I(NaP). These results indicate that down-regulation of PI3K signaling directly or indirectly via tyrosine kinase inhibition prolongs the QT interval by affecting multiple ion channels. This mechanism may explain why some tyrosine kinase inhibitors in clinical use are associated with increased risk of life-threatening arrhythmias.
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- Zhongju Lu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
- Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
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PIK3C3/Vps34 is the class III PtdIns3K that is evolutionarily conserved from yeast to mammals. Its central role in mammalian autophagy has been suggested through the use of pharmacological inhibitors and the study of its binding partners. However, the precise role of PIK3C3 in mammals is not clear. Using mouse strains that allow tissue-specific deletion of PIK3C3, we have described an essential role of PIK3C3 in regulating autophagy, and liver and heart function.
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- Nadia Jaber
- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Hamidi SA, Lin RZ, Szema AM, Lyubsky S, Jiang YP, Said SI. VIP and endothelin receptor antagonist: an effective combination against experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension. Respir Res 2011; 12:141. [PMID: 22029879 PMCID: PMC3210095 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-12-141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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: 08/11/2011] [Accepted: 10/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) remains a therapeutic challenge, and the search continues for more effective drugs and drug combinations. We recently reported that deletion of the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) gene caused the spontaneous expression of a PH phenotype that was fully corrected by VIP. The objectives of this investigation were to answer the questions: 1) Can VIP protect against PH in other experimental models? and 2) Does combining VIP with an endothelin (ET) receptor antagonist bosentan enhance its efficacy? METHODS Within 3 weeks of a single injection of monocrotaline (MCT, s.c.) in Sprague Dawley rats, PAH developed, manifested by pulmonary vascular remodeling, lung inflammation, RV hypertrophy, and death within the next 2 weeks. MCT-injected animals were either untreated, treated with bosentan (p.o.) alone, with VIP (i.p.) alone, or with both together. We selected this particular combination upon finding that VIP down-regulates endothelin receptor expression which is further suppressed by bosentan. Therapeutic outcomes were compared as to hemodynamics, pulmonary vascular pathology, and survival. RESULTS Treatment with VIP, every other day for 3 weeks, begun on the same day as MCT, almost totally prevented PAH pathology, and eliminated mortality for 45 days. Begun 3 weeks after MCT, however, VIP only partially reversed PAH pathology, though more effectively than bosentan. Combined therapy with both drugs fully reversed the pathology, while preventing mortality for at least 45 days. CONCLUSIONS 1) VIP completely prevented and significantly reversed MCT-induced PAH; 2) VIP was more effective than bosentan, probably because it targets a wider range of pro-remodeling pathways; and 3) combination therapy with VIP plus bosentan was more effective than either drug alone, probably because both drugs synergistically suppressed ET-ET receptor pathway.
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- Sayyed A Hamidi
- Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) catalytic subunits p110-α and p110-β play a role in liver steatosis induced by a high-fat diet (HFD). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Liver-specific p110-α and p110-β knockout mice and control animals for each group were fed an HFD or normal chow for 8 weeks. Biochemical assays and quantitative real-time PCR were used to measure triglyceride, expression of lipogenic and gluconeogenic genes, and activity of protein kinases downstream of PI3K in liver lysates. Fatty acid uptake and incorporation into triglycerides were assessed in isolated hepatocytes. RESULTS Hepatic triglyceride levels in HFD-fed p110-α(-/-) mice were 84 ± 3% lower than in p110-α(+/+) mice, whereas the loss of p110-β did not significantly alter liver lipid accumulation. p110-α(-/-) livers also showed a reduction in atypical protein kinase C activity and decreased mRNA and protein expression of several lipogenic genes. Hepatocytes isolated from p110-α(-/-) mice exhibited decreased palmitate uptake and reduced fatty acid incorporation into triglycerides as compared with p110-α(+/+) cells, and hepatic expression of liver fatty acid binding protein was lower in p110-α(-/-) mice fed the HFD as compared with controls. Ablation of neither p110-α nor p110-β ameliorated glucose intolerance induced by the HFD, and genes involved in gluconeogenesis were upregulated in the liver of both knockout animals. CONCLUSIONS PI3K p110-α, and not p110-β, promotes liver steatosis in mice fed an HFD. p110-α might exert this effect in part through activation of atypical protein kinase C, upregulation of lipogenesis, and increased uptake of fatty acids.
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- Mohar Chattopadhyay
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York
- Corresponding author: Richard Z. Lin,
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Autophagy is critically controlled by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PtdIns3Ks). The common understanding for mammalian autophagy is that class I PtdIns3Ks inhibit autophagy by activating the Akt-TOR kinase cascade, whereas the class III PtdIns3K (Vps34) promotes autophagy by generating the phospholipid PtdIns(3)P. However, direct genetic evidence for a role of class I PtdIns3Ks in autophagy has been lacking. Using mice with a conditional deletion of the class I PtdIns3K catalytic subunit isoform p110α or p110β, we revealed an unexpected function of p110β as a positive regulator of autophagy.
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Dou Z, Chattopadhyay M, Pan JA, Guerriero JL, Jiang YP, Ballou LM, Yue Z, Lin RZ, Zong WX. The class IA phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase p110-beta subunit is a positive regulator of autophagy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 191:827-43. [PMID: 21059846 PMCID: PMC2983054 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201006056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [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] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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p110-β associates with the Vps34–Vps15–Beclin 1–Atg14L complex and facilitates generation of PtdIns(3)P to promote autophagy. Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved cell renewal process that depends on phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PtdIns(3)P). In metazoans, autophagy is inhibited by PtdIns(3,4,5)P3, the product of class IA PI3Ks, which mediates the activation of the Akt–TOR kinase cascade. However, the precise function of class IA PI3Ks in autophagy remains undetermined. Class IA PI3Ks are heterodimeric proteins consisting of an 85-kD regulatory subunit and a 110-kD catalytic subunit. Here we show that the class IA p110-β catalytic subunit is a positive regulator of autophagy. Genetic deletion of p110-β results in impaired autophagy in mouse embryonic fibroblasts, liver, and heart. p110-β does not promote autophagy by affecting the Akt–TOR pathway. Rather, it associates with the autophagy-promoting Vps34–Vps15–Beclin 1–Atg14L complex and facilitates the generation of cellular PtdIns(3)P. Our results unveil a previously unknown function for p110-β as a positive regulator of autophagy in multicellular organisms.
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Lu Z, Jiang YP, Wang W, Xu XH, Mathias RT, Entcheva E, Ballou LM, Cohen IS, Lin RZ. Loss of cardiac phosphoinositide 3-kinase p110 alpha results in contractile dysfunction. Circulation 2009; 120:318-25. [PMID: 19597047 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.109.873380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) p110alpha plays a key role in insulin action and tumorigenesis. Myocyte contraction is initiated by an inward Ca(2+) current (I(Ca,L)) through the voltage-dependent L-type Ca(2+) channel (LTCC). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether p110alpha also controls cardiac contractility by regulating the LTCC. METHODS AND RESULTS Genetic ablation of p110alpha (also known as Pik3ca), but not p110beta (also known as Pik3cb), in cardiac myocytes of adult mice reduced I(Ca,L) and blocked insulin signaling in the heart. p110alpha-null myocytes had a reduced number of LTCCs on the cell surface and a contractile defect that decreased cardiac function in vivo. Similarly, pharmacological inhibition of p110alpha decreased I(Ca,L) and contractility in canine myocytes. Inhibition of p110beta did not reduce I(Ca,L). CONCLUSIONS PI3K p110alpha but not p110beta regulates the LTCC in cardiac myocytes. Decreased signaling to p110alpha reduces the number of LTCCs on the cell surface and thus attenuates I(Ca,L) and contractility.
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- Zhongju Lu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8151, USA
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Lute BJ, Khoshbouei H, Saunders C, Sen N, Lin RZ, Javitch JA, Galli A. PI3K signaling supports amphetamine-induced dopamine efflux. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2008; 372:656-61. [PMID: 18510945 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.05.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2008] [Accepted: 05/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT) is a major molecular target of the psychostimulant amphetamine (AMPH). AMPH, as a result of its ability to reverse DAT-mediated inward transport of DA, induces DA efflux thereby increasing extracellular DA levels. This increase is thought to underlie the behavioral effects of AMPH. We have demonstrated previously that insulin, through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling, regulates DA clearance by fine-tuning DAT plasma membrane expression. PI3K signaling may represent a novel mechanism for regulating DA efflux evoked by AMPH, since only active DAT at the plasma membrane can efflux DA. Here, we show in both a heterologous expression system and DA neurons that inhibition of PI3K decreases DAT cell surface expression and, as a consequence, AMPH-induced DA efflux.
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- Brandon J Lute
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Molecular Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232-8548, USA
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Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a protein kinase that controls cell growth, proliferation, and survival. mTOR signaling is often upregulated in cancer and there is great interest in developing drugs that target this enzyme. Rapamycin and its analogs bind to a domain separate from the catalytic site to block a subset of mTOR functions. These drugs are extremely selective for mTOR and are already in clinical use for treating cancers, but they could potentially activate an mTOR-dependent survival pathway that could lead to treatment failure. By contrast, small molecules that compete with ATP in the catalytic site would inhibit all of the kinase-dependent functions of mTOR without activating the survival pathway. Several non-selective mTOR kinase inhibitors have been described and here we review their chemical and cellular properties. Further development of selective mTOR kinase inhibitors holds the promise of yielding potent anticancer drugs with a novel mechanism of action.
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- Lisa M Ballou
- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA
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Lu Z, Jiang YP, Xu XH, Ballou LM, Cohen IS, Lin RZ. Decreased L-type Ca2+ current in cardiac myocytes of type 1 diabetic Akita mice due to reduced phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling. Diabetes 2007; 56:2780-9. [PMID: 17666471 DOI: 10.2337/db06-1629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Contraction of cardiac myocytes is initiated by Ca(2+) entry through the voltage-dependent L-type Ca(2+) channel (LTCC). Previous studies have shown that phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase signaling modulates LTCC function. Because PI 3-kinases are key mediators of insulin action, we investigated whether LTCC function is affected in diabetic animals due to reduced PI 3-kinase signaling. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used whole-cell patch clamping and biochemical assays to compare cardiac LTCC function and PI 3-kinase signaling in insulin-deficient diabetic mice heterozygous for the Ins2(Akita) mutation versus nondiabetic littermates. RESULTS Diabetic mice had a cardiac contractility defect, reduced PI 3-kinase signaling in the heart, and decreased L-type Ca(2+) current (I(Ca,L)) density in myocytes compared with control nondiabetic littermates. The lower I(Ca,L) density in myocytes from diabetic mice is due at least in part to reduced cell surface expression of the LTCC. I(Ca,L) density in myocytes from diabetic mice was increased to control levels by insulin treatment or intracellular infusion of PI 3,4,5-trisphosphate [PI(3,4,5)P(3)]. This stimulatory effect was blocked by taxol, suggesting that PI(3,4,5)P(3) stimulates microtubule-dependent trafficking of the LTCC to the cell surface. The voltage dependence of steady-state activation and inactivation of I(Ca,L) was also shifted to more positive potentials in myocytes from diabetic versus nondiabetic animals. PI(3,4,5)P(3) infusion eliminated only the difference in voltage dependence of steady-state inactivation of I(Ca,L). CONCLUSIONS Decreased PI 3-kinase signaling in myocytes from type 1 diabetic mice leads to reduced Ca(2+) entry through the LTCC, which might contribute to the negative effect of diabetes on cardiac contractility.
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- Zhongju Lu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8151, USA
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Hasaneen NA, Zucker S, Lin RZ, Vaday GG, Panettieri RA, Foda HD. Angiogenesis is induced by airway smooth muscle strain. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2007; 293:L1059-68. [PMID: 17693481 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00480.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Angiogenesis is an important feature of airway remodeling in both chronic asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Airways in those conditions are exposed to excessive mechanical strain during periods of acute exacerbations. We recently reported that mechanical strain of human airway smooth muscle (HASM) led to an increase in their proliferation and migration. Sustained growth in airway smooth muscle in vivo requires an increase in the nutritional supply to these muscles, hence angiogenesis. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that cyclic mechanical strain of HASM produces factors promoting angiogenic events in the surrounding vascular endothelial cells. Our results show: 1) a significant increase in human lung microvascular endothelial cell (HMVEC-L) proliferation, migration, and tube formation following incubation in conditioned media (CM) from HASM cells exposed to mechanical strain; 2) mechanical strain of HASM cells induced VEGF expression and release; 3) VEGF neutralizing antibodies inhibited the proliferation, migration, and tube formations of HMVEC-L induced by the strained airway smooth muscle CM; 4) mechanical strain of HASM induced a significant increase in hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) mRNA and protein, a transcription factor required for VEGF gene transcription; and 5) mechanical strain of HASM induced HIF-1alpha/VEGF through dual phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and ERK pathways. In conclusion, exposing HASM cells to mechanical strain induces signal transduction pathway through PI3K/Akt/mTOR and ERK pathways that lead to an increase in HIF-1alpha, a transcription factor required for VEGF expression. VEGF release by mechanical strain of HASM may contribute to the angiogenesis seen with repeated exacerbation of asthma and COPD.
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MESH Headings
- Antibodies/pharmacology
- Cell Movement/drug effects
- Cell Proliferation/drug effects
- Cells, Cultured
- Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases/metabolism
- Humans
- Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/biosynthesis
- Lung/blood supply
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiology
- Myocytes, Smooth Muscle/metabolism
- Myocytes, Smooth Muscle/physiology
- Neovascularization, Physiologic/drug effects
- Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism
- Protein Kinases/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Stress, Mechanical
- TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/immunology
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/metabolism
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- Nadia A Hasaneen
- The Department of Medicine and Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York, USA.
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Ballou LM, Selinger ES, Choi JY, Drueckhammer DG, Lin RZ. Inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin signaling by 2-(morpholin-1-yl)pyrimido[2,1-alpha]isoquinolin-4-one. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:24463-70. [PMID: 17562705 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m704741200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Signaling through the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is hyperactivated in many human tumors, including hamartomas associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Several small molecules such as LY294002 inhibit mTOR kinase activity, but they also inhibit phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) at similar concentrations. Compound 401 is a synthetic inhibitor of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) that also targets mTOR but not PI3K in vitro (Griffin, R. J., Fontana, G., Golding, B. T., Guiard, S., Hardcastle, I. R., Leahy, J. J., Martin, N., Richardson, C., Rigoreau, L., Stockley, M., and Smith, G. C. (2005) J. Med. Chem. 48, 569-585). We used 401 to test the cellular effect of mTOR inhibition without the complicating side effects on PI3K. Treatment of cells with 401 blocked the phosphorylation of sites modified by mTOR-Raptor and mTOR-Rictor complexes (ribosomal protein S6 kinase 1 Thr(389) and Akt Ser(473), respectively). By contrast, there was no direct inhibition of Akt Thr(308) phosphorylation, which is dependent on PI3K. Similar effects were also observed in cells that lack DNA-PK. The proliferation of TSC1-/- fibroblasts was inhibited in the presence of 401, but TSC1+/+ cells were resistant. In contrast to rapamycin, long-term treatment of TSC1-/- cells with 401 did not up-regulate phospho-Akt Ser(473). Because increased Akt activity promotes survival, this may explain why the level of apoptosis was increased in the presence of 401 but not rapamycin. These results suggest that mTOR kinase inhibitors might be more effective than rapamycins in controlling the growth of TSC hamartomas and other tumors that depend on elevated mTOR activity.
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- Lisa M Ballou
- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA.
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Said SI, Hamidi SA, Dickman KG, Szema AM, Lyubsky S, Lin RZ, Jiang YP, Chen JJ, Waschek JA, Kort S. Moderate Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Male Mice Lacking the Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Gene. Circulation 2007; 115:1260-8. [PMID: 17309917 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.106.681718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Background—
Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), a pulmonary vasodilator and inhibitor of vascular smooth muscle proliferation, has been reported absent in pulmonary arteries from patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We have tested the hypothesis that targeted deletion of the VIP gene may lead to PAH with pulmonary vascular remodeling.
Methods and Results—
We examined VIP knockout (VIP
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) mice for evidence of PAH, right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy, and pulmonary vascular remodeling. Relative to wild-type control mice, VIP
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mice showed moderate RV hypertension, RV hypertrophy confirmed by increased ratio of RV to left ventricle plus septum weight, and enlarged, thickened pulmonary artery and smaller branches with increased muscularization and narrowed lumen. Lung sections also showed perivascular inflammatory cell infiltrates. No systemic hypertension and no arterial hypoxemia existed to explain the PAH. The condition was associated with increased mortality. Both the vascular remodeling and RV remodeling were attenuated after a 4-week treatment with VIP.
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Deletion of the VIP gene leads to spontaneous expression of moderately severe PAH in mice during air breathing. Although not an exact model of idiopathic PAH, the VIP
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- Sami I Said
- Departments of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
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For many patients with cardiac insufficiency, the disease progresses inexorably to organ dilatation, pump failure, and death. Although there are examples of reversible heart failure in man, our understanding of how the myocardium repairs itself is limited. A well defined animal model of reversible heart failure would allow us to better investigate these restorative processes. Receptors that activate Galpha(q), a signal transduction molecule in the heterotrimeric G protein superfamily, are thought to play a key role in the development of heart failure. We demonstrated previously that mice expressing a recombinant Galpha(q) protein, the activity of which can be turned on or off at will in cardiac myocytes, develop a dilated cardiomyopathy with generalized edema and heart failure following activation of the protein (Fan, G., Jiang, Y.-P., Lu, Z., Martin, D. W., Kelly, D. J., Zuckerman, J. M., Ballou, L. M., Cohen, I. S., and Lin, R. Z. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280, 40337-40346). Here we report that the contractile dysfunction and pathological structural changes in the myocardium improved significantly after termination of the Galpha(q) signal, even in animals with overt heart failure. Abnormalities in two proteins that regulate Ca(2+) handling in myocytes, phospholamban and the voltage-dependent L-type Ca(2+) channel, were also reversed, as was the increased expression of genes that are associated with heart failure. These results indicate that the heart has a substantial reparative capacity if the molecular signals responsible for the myocardial dysfunction can be identified and blocked.
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- Ya-Ping Jiang
- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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Fan G, Jiang YP, Lu Z, Martin DW, Kelly DJ, Zuckerman JM, Ballou LM, Cohen IS, Lin RZ. A transgenic mouse model of heart failure using inducible Galpha q. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:40337-46. [PMID: 16210321 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m506810200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Receptors coupled to Galpha q play a key role in the development of heart failure. Studies using genetically modified mice suggest that Galpha q mediates a hypertrophic response in cardiac myocytes. Galpha q signaling in these models is modified during early growth and development, whereas most heart failure in humans occurs after cardiac damage sustained during adulthood. To determine the phenotype of animals that express increased Galpha q signaling only as adults, we generated transgenic mice that express a silent Galpha q protein (Galpha qQ209L-hbER) in cardiac myocytes that can be activated by tamoxifen. Following drug treatment to activate Galpha q Q209L-hbER, these mice rapidly develop a dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure. This phenotype does not appear to involve myocyte hypertrophy but is associated with dephosphorylation of phospholamban (PLB), decreased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase activity, and a decrease in L-type Ca2+ current density. Changes in Ca2+ handling and decreased cardiac contractility are apparent 1 week after Galpha qQ209L-hbER activation. In contrast, transgenic mice that express an inducible Galpha q mutant that cannot activate phospholipase Cbeta (PLCbeta) do not develop heart failure or changes in PLB phosphorylation, but do show decreased L-type Ca2+ current density. These results demonstrate that activation of Galpha q in cardiac myocytes of adult mice causes a dilated cardiomyopathy that requires the activation of PLCbeta. However, increased PLCbeta signaling is not required for all of the Galpha q-induced cardiac abnormalities.
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- Gaofeng Fan
- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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Cardiac myocyte contractility is initiated by Ca2+ entry through the voltage-dependent L-type Ca2+ channel (LTCC). To study the effect of Galpha q on the cardiac LTCC, we utilized two transgenic mouse lines that selectively express inducible Galpha q-estrogen receptor hormone-binding domain fusion proteins (Galpha qQ209L-hbER or Galpha qQ209L-AA-hbER) in cardiac myocytes. Both of these proteins inhibit phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling, but Galpha qQ209L-AA-hbER cannot activate the canonical Galpha q effector phospholipase Cbeta (PLCbeta). L-type Ca2+ current (I(Ca,L)) density measured by whole-cell patch clamping was reduced by more than 50% in myocytes from both Galpha q animals as compared with wild-type cells, suggesting that inhibition of the LTCC by Galpha q does not require PLCbeta. To investigate the role of PI3K in this inhibitory effect, I(Ca,L) was measured in the presence of various phosphoinositides infused through the patch pipette. Infusion of PI 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PI(3,4,5)P3) into wild-type myocytes did not affect I(Ca,L), but it fully restored I(Ca,L) density in both Galpha q transgenic myocytes to wild-type levels. By contrast, PI 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2) or PI 3,5-bisphosphate had no effect. Infusion with p110beta/p85alpha or p110gamma PI3K in the presence of PI(4,5)P2 also restored I(Ca,L) density to wild-type levels. Last, infusion of either PTEN, a PI(3,4,5)P3 phosphatase, or the pleckstrin homology domain of Grp1, which sequesters PI(3,4,5)P3, reduced the peak I(Ca,L) density in wild-type myocytes by approximately 30%. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that the inhibitory effect of Galpha q on the cardiac LTCC is mediated by inhibition of PI3K.
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- Zhongju Lu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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