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Myoglobin is a heme-protein in the muscle of vertebrates with important functions in the oxygenation of tissues and as a regulator in nitric oxide signaling. Myoglobin from many species is also an important nutritional source of bioavailable iron. In this study, we have successfully produced human myoglobin in the leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana by transient expression using a viral vector delivered by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Analyses confirmed that heme was incorporated and the protein was functional, with observed properties consistent with those of native myoglobins. A relatively high degree of purity could be achieved with low cost methods. The results show the high potential of plants as a production platform for heme proteins, a group of proteins of interest for iron nutrition applications and possible future pharmaceutical development.
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- Magnus L R Carlsson
- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 101, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 101, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Box 124, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 101, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden.
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Huang P, Shao X, Zhu M, Xu B, Chen C, Li P. Sucrose enhances colour formation in dry sausages by up-regulating gene expression of nitric oxide synthase in Staphylococcus vitulinus. Int J Food Microbiol 2019; 315:108419. [PMID: 31734616 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2019.108419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2019] [Revised: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The effects of glucose and sucrose on the gene expression of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in Staphylococcus vitulinus and colour formation in dry sausages were investigated. The results showed that sucrose addition promoted nitric oxide (NO) production in media when compared with glucose. In addition, sucrose could up-regulate nos (encoding NOS) and katA (encoding catalase KatA) gene expression by enhancing oxidative stress levels. In the sausages inoculated with S. vitulinus, a*-values (indicating redness) of the sausages with added sucrose were higher than those of samples with added glucose (P < 0.05) but did not differ from those in the nitrite treatment group (P > 0.05). The UV-vis spectra results showed that nitrosylmyoglobin (NO-Mb) was formed in the sausages with either S. vitulinus or nitrite added. In the S. vitulinus-inoculated sausages, sucrose addition led to a higher NO-Mb content than that after glucose addition, which was attributed to up-regulation of the nos gene. This study provides a potential method to enhance NO yield in S. vitulinus and colour formation in dry sausages without nitrite addition.
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- Pan Huang
- Engineering Research Center of Bio-process, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Bio-process, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Bio-process, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Bio-process, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Bio-process, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Bio-process, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
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Sertié RAL, Sertié AL, Giannocco G, Poyares LL, Nunes MT. Acute growth hormone administration increases myoglobin expression and Glut4 translocation in rat cardiac muscle cells. Metabolism 2014; 63:1499-502. [PMID: 25306099 DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2014.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2014] [Revised: 08/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Oxygen (O2) and glucose are important energy sources for the heart. This study sought to investigate the effects of acute growth hormone (GH) administration on the expression of myoglobin (Mb) and Glut4 glucose transporter, two important limiting factors for O2 and glucose utilization for energy production, in cardiac muscle cells of treated rats. METHODS Male Wistar rats were sacrificed at 30, 45, 90 and 120 min after a single dose of intraperitoneal (ip) rat GH (1.5 mg/kg) or vehicle administration, and total RNA and protein (from whole cell or subcellular fractions) were extracted from cardiomyocytes (left ventricles) of these animals. RESULTS Acute GH injection led to a significant increase in both Mb mRNA and protein levels, and stimulated Glut4 protein translocation to the plasma membrane of cardiac cells. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that GH exerts some of its effects on cardiomyocytes shortly after the first administration inducing the expression of proteins potentially involved in cardiac performance.
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- Rogério Antônio Laurato Sertié
- Laboratório de Fisiologia do Tecido Adiposo, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Centro de Pesquisa Experimental, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Regulação Hormonal e Expressão Gênica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Regulação Hormonal e Expressão Gênica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Yeung N, Lu Y. One heme, diverse functions: using biosynthetic myoglobin models to gain insights into heme-copper oxidases and nitric oxide reductases. Chem Biodivers 2008; 5:1437-1454. [PMID: 18729107 PMCID: PMC2770894 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200890134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Natasha Yeung
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Li Y, Yan B, Deng C, Tang J, Liu J, Zhang X. On-plate digestion of proteins using novel trypsin-immobilized magnetic nanospheres for MALDI-TOF-MS analysis. Proteomics 2007; 7:3661-71. [PMID: 17853514 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In this study, a novel method of on-plate digestion using trypsin-immobilized magnetic nanospheres was developed followed by MALDI-TOF-MS for rapid and effective analysis and identification of proteins. We utilized a facile one-pot method for the direct preparation of amine-functionalized magnetic nanospheres with highly magnetic properties and the amino groups on the outer surface. Through the reaction of the aldehyde groups with amine groups, trypsin was simply and stably immobilized onto the magnetic nanospheres. The obtained trypsin-linked magnetic nanospheres were then applied for on-plate digestion of sample proteins (myoglobin and Cytochrome c). Moreover, after digestion, the trypsin-linked nanospheres could be easily removed from the plate due to their magnetic property, which would avoid causing contamination on the ion source chamber in MS. The effects of the temperature and incubation time on the digestion efficiency were characterized. Within only 5 min, proteins could be efficiently digested with the peptide sequence coverage higher than or equal to that of the traditional in-solution digestion for 12 h. Furthermore, RPLC fractions of rat liver extract were also successfully processed using this novel method. These results suggested that our improved on-plate digestion protocol for MALDI-MS may find further application in automated analysis of large sets of proteins.
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- Yan Li
- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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The fluorescent amino acid l-(7-hydroxycoumarin-4-yl) ethylglycine 1 has been genetically encoded in E. coli in response to the amber TAG codon. Because of its high fluorescence quantum yield, relatively large Stoke's shift, and sensitivity to both pH and polarity, this amino acid should provide a useful probe of protein localization and trafficking, protein conformation changes, and protein-protein interactions.
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- Jiangyun Wang
- Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Tilakaratne HK, Yang B, Hunter SK, Andracki ME, Rodgers VGJ. Can Myoglobin Expression in Pancreatic Beta Cells Improve Insulin Secretion Under Hypoxia? An Exploratory Study With Transgenic Porcine Islets. Artif Organs 2007; 31:521-31. [PMID: 17584476 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2007.00416.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The feasibility of myoglobin (Mb)-facilitated oxygen transport in improving porcine islet survival under hypoxia was investigated. Discrete groups of islets were transfected with replication-defective adenoviral vector Ad5 respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) to induce expression of Mb or green fluorescent protein (GFP). Native islets served as the controls. In vitro studies at 37 degrees C assessed islet insulin secretion efficacy: (i) to a glucose challenge from 30 to 300 mg/dL at fixed pO2; and (ii) at variable oxygen tensions ranging from 5 to 40 mm Hg over 12 h. The transfection was effective in initiating islet expression of Mb or GFP. Low Mb-expression levels equivalent to 2% the Mb concentration in a muscle cell (0.25 ng of Mb per islet) were documented, with no statistical improvement in insulin secretion. A surprising side note is that insulin secretion was impaired in islets expressing GFP. Improved Mb expression is essential to determine the feasibility of enhancing islet survival under hypoxia.
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Robach P, Cairo G, Gelfi C, Bernuzzi F, Pilegaard H, Viganò A, Santambrogio P, Cerretelli P, Calbet JAL, Moutereau S, Lundby C. Strong iron demand during hypoxia-induced erythropoiesis is associated with down-regulation of iron-related proteins and myoglobin in human skeletal muscle. Blood 2007; 109:4724-31. [PMID: 17311997 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-08-040006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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AbstractIron is essential for oxygen transport because it is incorporated in the heme of the oxygen-binding proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin. An interaction between iron homeostasis and oxygen regulation is further suggested during hypoxia, in which hemoglobin and myoglobin syntheses have been reported to increase. This study gives new insights into the changes in iron content and iron-oxygen interactions during enhanced erythropoiesis by simultaneously analyzing blood and muscle samples in humans exposed to 7 to 9 days of high altitude hypoxia (HA). HA up-regulates iron acquisition by erythroid cells, mobilizes body iron, and increases hemoglobin concentration. However, contrary to our hypothesis that muscle iron proteins and myoglobin would also be up-regulated during HA, this study shows that HA lowers myoglobin expression by 35% and down-regulates iron-related proteins in skeletal muscle, as evidenced by decreases in L-ferritin (43%), transferrin receptor (TfR; 50%), and total iron content (37%). This parallel decrease in L-ferritin and TfR in HA occurs independently of increased hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) mRNA levels and unchanged binding activity of iron regulatory proteins, but concurrently with increased ferroportin mRNA levels, suggesting enhanced iron export. Thus, in HA, the elevated iron requirement associated with enhanced erythropoiesis presumably elicits iron mobilization and myoglobin down-modulation, suggesting an altered muscle oxygen homeostasis.
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- Paul Robach
- Département médical, Ecole Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme, Chamonix, France
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Witting PK, Liao WQ, Neuzil J. Expression of human myoglobin in H9c2 cells enhances toxicity to added hydrogen peroxide. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 348:485-93. [PMID: 16887098 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2006] [Accepted: 07/14/2006] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is implicated in cardiac myocyte (CM) damage during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. Myoglobin (Mb) is present in CM at significant concentrations and reacts with H2O2 to yield one- and two-electron oxidants that may promote myocardial injury. Paradoxically, hearts from mice lacking Mb are more susceptible to H2O2-induced dysfunction than the corresponding controls [U. Flogel, A. Godecke, L.O. Klotz, J. Schrader, Role of myoglobin in the anti-oxidant defense of the heart, FASEB J. 18 (2004) 1156-1158]. We have overexpressed wild-type or Y103F variant of human Mb in cultured CMs to test whether Mb protects against H2O2 insult. Contrary to expectation, cells expressing WT or the Y103F Mb show increased mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis, and decreased ATP in response to H2O2 that follows the order native < Y103F Mb < WT human Mb consistent with the increasing pro-oxidant activity for these proteins. These data indicate that (i) Mb promotes oxidative damage to cultured CM and (ii) Mb may be a useful target for the design of inhibitors of myocardial IR injury.
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- Paul K Witting
- ANZAC Research Institute, Concord Hospital, Concord, NSW, Australia.
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Ribeiro EA, Ramos CHI. Circular permutation and deletion studies of myoglobin indicate that the correct position of its N-terminus is required for native stability and solubility but not for native-like heme binding and folding. Biochemistry 2005; 44:4699-709. [PMID: 15779896 DOI: 10.1021/bi047908c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We studied the effect of deleted and circularly permuted mutations in sperm whale myoglobin and present here results on three classes of mutants: (i) a deletion mutant, Mb(1)(-)(99), in which the C-terminal helices, G and H, were removed; (ii) two circular permutations, Mb-B_GHA, in which helix B is N-terminal and helix A is C-terminal, and Mb-C_GHAB, in which helix C is N-terminal and helices A and B are C-terminal; and (iii) a deleted circular permutation, Mb-HAB_F, in which helix H is N-terminal, helix F is C-terminal, and helix G is deleted. The conformational characteristics of the apo and holo forms of these mutants were determined at neutral pH, by spectroscopic and hydrodynamic methods. The apo form of the deleted and permuted mutants exhibited a stronger tendency to aggregate and had lower ellipticity than the wild type. The mutants retained the ability to bind heme, but only the circularly permuted holoproteins had native-like heme binding and folding. These results agree with the theory that myoglobin has a central core that is able to bind heme, but also indicate that the presence of N- and C-terminal helices is necessary for native-like heme pocket formation. Because the holopermuteins were less stable than the wild-type protein and aggregated, we propose that the native position of the N-terminus is important for the precise structural architecture of myoglobin.
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- Euripedes A Ribeiro
- Centro de Biologia Molecular Estrutural, Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron, P.O. Box 6192, Campinas SP, 13084-971 Brazil
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Deiters A, Schultz PG. In vivo incorporation of an alkyne into proteins in Escherichia coli. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2005; 15:1521-4. [PMID: 15713420 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2004.12.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [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] [Received: 07/29/2004] [Revised: 11/18/2004] [Accepted: 12/21/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Using a genetic selection we identified mutants of the M. janaschii tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase that selectively charge an amber suppressor tRNA with para-propargyloxyphenylalanine in Escherichia coli. These evolved tRNA-synthetase pairs were used to site-specifically incorporate an alkynyl group into a protein, which was subsequently conjugated with fluorescent dyes by a [3+2]-cycloaddition reaction under mild reaction conditions.
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- Alexander Deiters
- Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Xu R, Hanson SR, Zhang Z, Yang YY, Schultz PG, Wong CH. Site-Specific Incorporation of the Mucin-Type N-Acetylgalactosamine-α-O-threonine into Protein in Escherichia coli. J Am Chem Soc 2004; 126:15654-5. [PMID: 15571382 DOI: 10.1021/ja044711z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Glycosylation is a prevalent posttranslational process capable of augmenting and modulating protein function. Efficient synthesis of high-purity, homogeneous glycoproteins is essential for the study of unique protein glycoforms and for the manufacture of therapeutically relevant forms. A promising new strategy for controlled in vivo synthesis of glycoproteins was recently established using suppressor tRNA technology. Using an evolved tRNA aminoacyl synthetase-tRNA pair from Methanococcus jannaschii, the glycosyl amino acid, N-acetylglucosamine-beta-O-serine (GlcNAc-beta-Ser), was site-specifically introduced into proteins cotranslationally in Escherichia coli. Herein, we report the evolution of a new tRNA aminoacyl synthetase-tRNA pair that has expanded the repertoire of glycoproteins that can be expressed in E. coli to contain the other major O-linked glycan, N-acetylgalactosamine-alpha-O-threonine (GalNAc-a-Thr).
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- Ran Xu
- Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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van Weel V, Deckers MML, Grimbergen JM, van Leuven KJM, Lardenoye JHP, Schlingemann RO, van Nieuw Amerongen GP, van Bockel JH, van Hinsbergh VWM, Quax PHA. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Overexpression in Ischemic Skeletal Muscle Enhances Myoglobin Expression In Vivo. Circ Res 2004; 95:58-66. [PMID: 15155530 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.0000133247.69803.c3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Therapeutic angiogenesis using vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is considered a promising new therapy for patients with arterial obstructive disease. Clinical improvements observed consist of improved muscle function and regression of rest pain or angina. However, direct evidence for improved vascularization, as evaluated by angiography, is weak. In this study, we report an angiogenesis-independent effect of VEGF on ischemic skeletal muscle, ie, upregulation of myoglobin after VEGF treatment. Mice received intramuscular injection with adenoviral VEGF-A or either adenoviral LacZ or PBS as control, followed by surgical induction of acute hindlimb ischemia at day 3. At day 6, capillary density was increased in calf muscle of Ad.VEGF-treated versus control mice (
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- Vincent van Weel
- Gaubius Laboratory TNO-PG, PO Box 2215 2301CE, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Posttranslational modifications of proteins regulate many biological processes, including metabolism, signal transduction, and gene expression. The synthetic challenges associated with generating homogeneous populations of selectively modified proteins, however, have hindered detailed studies of the effects of these modifications on protein structure and function. Here, we report an approach to the cotranslational synthesis of selectively glycosylated proteins in which the modified amino acid is genetically encoded. We show that myoglobin containing beta-N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc)-serine at a defined position can be expressed in Escherichia coli in good yield and with high fidelity. The beta-GlcNAc moiety can be recognized by a saccharide-binding protein, or subsequently modified with a galactosyltransferase to build more complex carbohydrates. This approach should be generally applicable to other posttranslational modifications such as protein phosphorylation, acetylation, and methylation.
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- Zhiwen Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Gelfi C, De Palma S, Ripamonti M, Eberini I, Wait R, Bajracharya A, Marconi C, Schneider A, Hoppeler H, Cerretelli P. New aspects of altitude adaptation in Tibetans: a proteomic approach. FASEB J 2004; 18:612-4. [PMID: 14734630 DOI: 10.1096/fj.03-1077fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A prolonged sojourn above 5500 m induces muscle deterioration and accumulation of lipofuscin in Caucasians, probably because of overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Because Sherpas, who live at high altitude, have very limited muscle damage, it was hypothesized that Himalayan natives possess intrinsic mechanisms protecting them from oxidative damage. This possibility was investigated by comparing the muscle proteomes of native Tibetans permanently residing at high altitude, second-generation Tibetans born and living at low altitude, and Nepali control subjects permanently residing at low altitude, using 2D gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Seven differentially regulated proteins were identified: glutathione-S-transferase P1-1, which was 380% and 50% overexpressed in Tibetans born and living at high and low altitude, respectively; Delta2-enoyl-CoA-hydratase, which was up-regulated in both Tibetan groups; glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase, which were both slightly down-regulated in Tibetans born and living at high altitude; phosphoglycerate mutase, which was 50% up-regulated in the native Tibetans; NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase, slightly overexpressed in Tibetans born and living at high altitude; and myoglobin, which was overexpressed in both Tibetan groups. We concluded that Tibetans at high altitude, and to some extent, those born and living at low altitude, are protected from ROS-induced tissue damage and possess specific metabolic adaptations.
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- Cecilia Gelfi
- Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, CNR, Segrate, Italy.
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Friedmann B, Kinscherf R, Borisch S, Richter G, Bärtsch P, Billeter R. Effects of low-resistance/high-repetition strength training in hypoxia on muscle structure and gene expression. Pflugers Arch 2003; 446:742-51. [PMID: 12861415 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-003-1133-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2003] [Revised: 05/14/2003] [Accepted: 06/10/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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To test the hypothesis that severe hypoxia during low-resistance/high-repetition strength training promotes muscle hypertrophy, 19 untrained males were assigned randomly to 4 weeks of low-resistance/high-repetition knee extension exercise in either normoxia or in normobaric hypoxia ( FiO(2) 0.12) with recovery in normoxia. Before and after the training period, isokinetic strength tests were performed, muscle cross-sectional area (MCSA) measured (magnetic resonance imaging) and muscle biopsies taken. The significant increase in strength endurance capacity observed in both training groups was not matched by changes in MCSA, fibre type distribution or fibre cross-sectional area. RT-PCR revealed considerable inter-individual variations with no significant differences in the mRNA levels of hypoxia markers, glycolytic enzymes and myosin heavy chain isoforms. We found significant correlations, in the hypoxia group only, for those hypoxia marker and glycolytic enzyme mRNAs that have previously been linked to hypoxia-specific muscle adaptations. This is interpreted as a small, otherwise undetectable adaptation to the hypoxia training condition. In terms of strength parameters, there were, however, no indications that low-resistance/high-repetition training in severe hypoxia is superior to equivalent normoxic training.
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- B Friedmann
- Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Clinic and Policlinic, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 710, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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The cDNA encoding for Mus musculus myoglobin (Mb) was amplified using standard RT-PCR techniques and cloned in an appropriate bacterial expression vector. For the first time, mouse Mb was recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli cells, BL21(DE3), and purified in sufficient amounts to carry out a preliminary characterization. As shown by mass spectrometry, the protein is found in complex with glutathione, which binds the Cys residue in the topological position E9, in the proximity of the heme group. In recombinant murine Mb, azide affinities are only slightly dependent on the Cys(E9) oxidation state. This suggests that Cys(E9) does not provide a relevant contribution for the stabilization of ligands bound to the heme iron atom. Recombinant expression of M. musculus Mb might have an important role in order to investigate the eventual involvement of Cys(E9) in the new physiological roles proposed for Mb.
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- Marzia Bianchi
- CNR, Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare c/o Istituto di Biochimica e Biochimica Clinica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
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Mehl RA, Anderson JC, Santoro SW, Wang L, Martin AB, King DS, Horn DM, Schultz PG. Generation of a bacterium with a 21 amino acid genetic code. J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125:935-9. [PMID: 12537491 DOI: 10.1021/ja0284153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We have generated a completely autonomous bacterium with a 21 amino acid genetic code. This bacterium can biosynthesize a nonstandard amino acid from basic carbon sources and incorporate this amino acid into proteins in response to the amber nonsense codon. The biosynthetic pathway for the amino acid p-aminophenylalanine (pAF) as well as a unique pAF synthetase and cognate tRNA were added to Escherichia coli. Denaturing gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometric analysis show that pAF is incorporated into myoglobin with fidelity and efficiency rivaling those of the common 20 amino acids. This and other such organisms may provide an opportunity to examine the evolutionary consequences of adding new amino acids to the genetic repertoire, as well as generate proteins with new or enhanced biological functions.
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- Ryan A Mehl
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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We report the selection of a new orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair for the in vivo incorporation of a photocrosslinker, p-azido-l-phenylalanine, into proteins in response to the amber codon, TAG. The amino acid is incorporated in good yield with high fidelity and can be used to crosslink interacting proteins.
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- Jason W Chin
- Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) increases in some patients with stroke, with no clear evidence of an acute coronary syndrome. Its elevations have been suggested to represent a biological marker for stroke-related myocardial injury. Troponin T has superior sensitivity and specificity to CK-MB in revealing minor myocardial injury. Therefore, we studied troponin T levels after stroke to determine whether troponin T increases in parallel to CK-MB. METHODS We made daily measurements of CK-MB, myoglobin, total creatine kinase (total CK), and troponin T levels up to day 5 in 32 patients with large hemispheric infarction and with no history of coronary heart disease. The daily enzyme levels were compared with those of a control group of 22 patients with neurological diseases other than stroke. RESULTS Serum CK-MB, myoglobin, and total CK levels were elevated above the cutoff value in 11, 26, and 20 patients with stroke, respectively. These enzyme levels gradually increased within the first 3 days and declined afterward. Troponin T did not exceed the reference range in any patients. One patient had elevated myoglobin and 3 had elevated total CK in the control group. The difference between groups was significant for CK-MB, myoglobin, and total CK at various time points. CONCLUSIONS Troponin T, a more specific biochemical marker of myocardial injury, does not increase after stroke. Normal troponin T along with elevated CK-MB signifies that CK-MB is not the biological marker for myocytolysis. CK-MB elevations in stroke patients are likely to be noncardiac in origin.
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- Hakan Ay
- Department of Neurology, Hacettepe University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
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Wu H, Rothermel B, Kanatous S, Rosenberg P, Naya FJ, Shelton JM, Hutcheson KA, DiMaio J, Olson EN, Bassel-Duby R, Williams R. Activation of MEF2 by muscle activity is mediated through a calcineurin-dependent pathway. EMBO J 2001; 20:6414-23. [PMID: 11707412 PMCID: PMC125719 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.22.6414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 294] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Gene expression in skeletal muscles of adult vertebrates is altered profoundly by changing patterns of contractile work. Here we observed that the functional activity of MEF2 transcription factors is stimulated by sustained periods of endurance exercise or motor nerve pacing, as assessed by expression in trans genic mice of a MEF2-dependent reporter gene (desMEF2-lacZ). This response is accompanied by transformation of specialized myofiber subtypes, and is blocked either by cyclosporin A, a specific chemical inhibitor of calcineurin, or by forced expression of the endogenous calcineurin inhibitory protein, myocyte-enriched calcineurin interacting protein 1. Calcineurin removes phosphate groups from MEF2, and augments the potency of the transcriptional activation domain of MEF2 fused to a heterologous DNA binding domain. Across a broad range, the enzymatic activity of calcineurin correlates directly with expression of endogenous genes that are transcriptionally activated by muscle contractions. These results delineate a molecular pathway in which calcineurin and MEF2 participate in the adaptive mechanisms by which skeletal myofibers acquire specialized contractile and metabolic properties as a function of changing patterns of muscle contraction.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Calcineurin/metabolism
- Cyclosporine/pharmacology
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Enzyme Activation
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Genes, Reporter
- Immunoblotting
- Kinetics
- MEF2 Transcription Factors
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Biological
- Muscle Contraction
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Myogenic Regulatory Factors
- Myoglobin/biosynthesis
- Physical Conditioning, Animal
- Physical Exertion
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Precipitin Tests
- Protein Binding
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transcriptional Activation
- Transfection
- beta-Galactosidase/metabolism
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- Hai Wu
- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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Myoglobin, creatine kinase-MB (CKMB) mass concentration and troponin-I are newer biochemical markers for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We conducted a prospective study to formulate a model for the collective interpretation of these three markers in the diagnosis of AMI. Eighty-seven patients with AMI had serial serum samples taken to establish the time-frame sensitivity of individual markers. None of the markers had a good sensitivity within the first 4 h of infarction. Myoglobin and CKMB (mass) had sensitivities of 92.3% and 96.2%, respectively, at 4-8 h post infarct. CKMB (mass) and troponin-I had sensitivities >92% at 8-24 h. Troponin-I maintained sensitivity >93% until 72 h. A guideline was formulated based on the results. Our data suggest that troponin-I, myoglobin and CKMB (mass) yield satisfactory diagnostic sensitivity when used with reference to specific time frames. The combined use of these markers can provide valuable information for clinicians in managing AMI patients.
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- A Chiu
- Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, and Chemical Pathology Division, Department of Pathology, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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Small DJ, Vayda ME, Sidell BD. A novel vertebrate myoglobin gene containing three A+T-rich introns is conserved among Antarctic teleost species which differ in myoglobin expression. J Mol Evol 1998; 47:156-66. [PMID: 9694664 DOI: 10.1007/pl00006372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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This report presents the first teleost myoglobin (Mb) genomic DNA sequence, several features of which are distinct from mammalian Mb genes. We have isolated and compared genomic clones of three closely related Antarctic icefish: Chionodraco rastrospinosus, which expresses Mb mRNA and functional polypeptide; Champsocephalus gunnari, which transcribes the Mb gene but does not produce polypeptide due to a 5-base pair (bp) frameshift insertion; and Chaenocephalus aceratus, which lacks both Mb protein and mRNA. The single-copy icefish Mb gene contains three introns: two at positions identical to those found in mammalian Mb and a novel intron located in the 5' untranslated region three nucleotides upstream from the initiator codon. All three introns are shorter than those found in mammalian Mb genes and exhibit a considerably higher A+T content. The entire Mb transcriptional unit is intact in C. aceratus, indicating that the failure to express this gene is not due to aberrations in the coding region, splice junctions, polyadenylation signals, or core promoter elements. The three icefish Mb sequences display an extreme degree of identity in the transcriptional unit and putative promoter region. In contrast, sequences 65 bp downstream from the polyadenylation site bear no homology among the three species, demonstrating that rapid sequence change has occurred in the 1 million years since the divergence of these species.
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- D J Small
- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, and School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5735, USA
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Nakanishi AL, Roza AM, Adams MB, Seibel R, Moore-Hilton G, Kalyanaraman B, Pieper GM. Electron spin resonance analysis of heme-nitrosyl and reduced iron-sulfur centered complexes in allogeneic, heterotopic cardiac transplants: effects of treatment with pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate. Free Radic Biol Med 1998; 25:201-7. [PMID: 9667497 DOI: 10.1016/s0891-5849(98)00051-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 02/08/2023]
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Inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) prolongs allograft survival suggesting a role for nitric oxide (.NO) in allograft rejection. Induction of iNOS is regulated by the oxidant-sensitive, nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) in many cell types. In the present study using electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy, we evaluated whether pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC), a metal chelator and antioxidant, might limit .NO production during the development of rejection in cardiac allografts. We performed either isogeneic (Lewis to Lewis) or allogeneic (Wistar-Furth to Lewis) heterotopic abdominal cardiac transplantation. Allograft recipients received daily injections of PDTC or aminoguanidine (a known inhibitor of iNOS). At postoperative days 4 or 6, grafted and native hearts of transplant recipients were flushed with cardioplegic solution to remove blood contamination. ESR data of allografts revealed a triplet nitrogen signal (aN=17.5 G) and centered at g=2.012 and an additional broad signal at g=2.08. This signal was not seen in either isografts or native hearts of either isograft or allograft recipients. Based upon these parameters, these signals are attributed to nitrosomyoglobin. This signal was inhibited by treatment with aminoguanidine or PDTC. Under these conditions, PDTC also prolonged graft survival from 6.6+/-0.2 to 11.7+/-0.3 days. Thus, it is conceivable that nitrosylmyoglobin formation precedes rejection in cardiac allografts and inhibition of nitrosomyoglobin with agents such as PDTC contribute to improved graft survival.
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- A L Nakanishi
- Department of Transplant Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
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Trikulenko AV. Role of hydrophobic interactions in protein chain folding during biosynthesis. Biochemistry (Mosc) 1998; 63:564-7. [PMID: 9632893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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It has been found that hydrophobic potentials of 30- to 40-amino acid fragments of amino acid sequences of myoglobin, cytochrome b5, alpha-chymotrypsin, and seven other globular proteins analyzed are similar and correspond to free energies of formation of limited hydrophobic nuclei.
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Neufer PD, Ordway GA, Williams RS. Transient regulation of c-fos, alpha B-crystallin, and hsp70 in muscle during recovery from contractile activity. Am J Physiol 1998; 274:C341-6. [PMID: 9486122 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1998.274.2.c341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Endurance exercise training increases the oxidative capacity of skeletal muscles, reflecting the induction of genes encoding enzymes of intermediary metabolism. To test the hypothesis that changes in gene expression may be triggered specifically during recovery from contractile activity, we quantified c-fos, alpha B-crystallin, 70-kDa heat shock protein (hsp70), myoglobin, and citrate synthase RNA in rabbit tibialis anterior muscle during recovery from intermittent (8 h/day), low-frequency (10 Hz) motor nerve stimulation. Recovery from a single 8-h bout of stimulation was characterized by large (> 10-fold) transient increases in c-fos, alpha B-crystallin, and hsp70 mRNA. Similar changes were noted during recovery after 7 or 14 days of stimulation (8 h/day). Myoglobin and citrate synthase mRNA were also induced during recovery, but the changes were of lesser magnitude (2- to 2.5-fold) and were observed only following repeated bouts of muscle activity (7th or 14th day) that promoted sustained (> 24 h) increases in these transcripts. These findings indicate that recovery from exercise is associated with specific transient changes in the expression of immediate early and stress protein genes, suggesting that the products of these genes may have specific roles in the remodeling process evoked by repeated bouts of contractile activity.
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- P D Neufer
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-8573, USA
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Chai D, Zhou ZN. [Effects of hypoxia on myoglobin in cultured rat myocytes]. Sheng Li Xue Bao 1997; 49:497-503. [PMID: 9813487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The effects of hyoxia and reoxygenation on myoglobin (Mb), cAMP, myocardial contractility and the effects of theophylline (an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase), procaine (an inhibitor of SR calcium release) on Mb expression were studied in cultured myocytes under hypoxic condition. Our results showed that hypoxia increased the Mb expression, but decreased cAMP and myocardial contractility. All these effects of hypoxia were recovered upon reoxygenation. The increase of Mb expression requires the participation of intracellular calcium and cAMP.
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- D Chai
- Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai
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Shu F, Ramakrishnan V, Schoenborn BP. High-level expression and deuteration of sperm whale myoglobin. A study of its solvent structure by X-ray and neutron diffraction methods. Basic Life Sci 1996; 64:309-23. [PMID: 9031516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Neutron diffraction has become one of the best ways to study light atoms, such as hydrogens. Hydrogen however has a negative coherent scattering factor, and a large incoherent scattering factor, while deuterium has virtually no incoherent scattering, but a large positive coherent scattering factor. Beside causing high background due to its incoherent scattering, the negative coherent scattering of hydrogen tends to cancel out the positive contribution from other atoms in a neutron density map. Therefore a fully deuterated sample will yield better diffraction data with stronger density in the hydrogen position. On this basis, a sperm whale myoglobin gene modified to include part of the A c11 protein gene has been cloned into the T7 expression system. Milligram amounts of fully deuterated holo-myoglobin have been obtained and used for crystallization. The synthetic sperm whale myoglobin crystallized in P2(1) space group isomorphous with the native protein crystal. A complete X-ray diffraction dataset at 1.5A has been collected. This X-ray dataset, and a neutron data set collected previously on a protonated carbon-monoxymyoglobin crystal have been used for solvent structure studies. Both X-ray and neutron data have shown that there are ordered hydration layers around the protein surface. Solvent shell analysis on the neutron data further has shown that the first hydration layer behaves differently around polar and apolar regions of the protein surface. Finally, the structure of per-deuterated myoglobin has been refined using all reflections to a R factor of 17%.
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- F Shu
- Physics Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794, USA
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Garry DJ, Bassel-Duby RS, Richardson JA, Grayson J, Neufer PD, Williams RS. Postnatal development and plasticity of specialized muscle fiber characteristics in the hindlimb. Dev Genet 1996; 19:146-56. [PMID: 8900047 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6408(1996)19:2<146::aid-dvg6>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Recent progress in defining molecular components of pathways controlling early stages of myogenesis has been substantial, but regulatory factors that govern the striking functional specialization of adult skeletal muscle fibers in vertebrate organisms have not yet been identified. A more detailed understanding of the temporal and spatial patterns by which specialized fiber characteristics arise may provide clues to the identity of the relevant regulatory factors. In this study, we used immunohistochemical, in situ hybridization, and Northern blot analyses to examine the time course and spatial characteristics of expression of myoglobin protein and mRNA during development of the distal hindlimb in the mouse. In adult animals, myoglobin is expressed selectively in oxidative, mitochondria-rich, fatigue-resistant myofibers, and it provides a convenient marker for this particular subset of specialized fibers. We observed only minimal expression of myoglobin in the hindlimb prior to the second day after birth, but a rapid and large (50-fold) induction of this gene in the ensuing neonatal period. Myoglobin expression was limited, however, to fibers located centrally within the limb which coexpress myosin isoforms characteristic of type I, IIA, and IIX fibers. This induction of myoglobin expression within the early postnatal period was accompanied by increased expression of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins, and exhibited a time course similar to the upregulation of myoglobin and mitochondrial proteins, and exhibited a time course similar to the upregulation of myoglobin and mitochondrial protein expression that can be induced in adult muscle fibers by continuous motor nerve stimulation. This comparison suggests that progressive locomotor activity of neonatal animals may provide signals which trigger the development of the specialized features of oxidative, fatigue-resistant skeletal muscle fibers.
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- D J Garry
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
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Sperm whale apomyoglobin was expressed to high levels on minimal media and isotopically labeled with 13C and 15N nuclei. The isotopically labeled apoprotein was purified to homogeneity in a single step by reversed-phase chromatography and reconstituted with hemin and carbon monoxide gas for NMR analysis. Sequence-specific backbone 1HN, 15N and 13C alpha as well as side-chain 13C beta resonance assignments have been made for over 90% of the amino acids in the carbon monoxide complex of the protein. Resonance assignments were made by analysis of a series of 3D triple resonance spectra measured on the uniformly labeled sample. These assignments will provide the basis for analyzing the effects of point site mutations on the structure, stability and dynamics of the protein in solution.
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- P A Jennings
- Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Tolman JR, Flanagan JM, Kennedy MA, Prestegard JH. Nuclear magnetic dipole interactions in field-oriented proteins: information for structure determination in solution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:9279-83. [PMID: 7568117 PMCID: PMC40968 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.20.9279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 635] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The measurement of dipolar contributions to the splitting of 15N resonances of 1H-15N amide pairs in multidimensional high-field NMR spectra of field-oriented cyanometmyoglobin is reported. The splittings appear as small field-dependent perturbations of normal scalar couplings. Assignment of more than 90 resonances to specific sequential sites in the protein allows correlation of the dipolar contributions with predictions based on the known susceptibility and known structure of the protein. Implications as an additional source of information for protein structure determination in solution are discussed.
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- J R Tolman
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA
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Grayson J, Williams RS, Yu YT, Bassel-Duby R. Synergistic interactions between heterologous upstream activation elements and specific TATA sequences in a muscle-specific promoter. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15:1870-8. [PMID: 7891680 PMCID: PMC230412 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.4.1870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Previous investigations have defined three upstream activation elements--CCAC, A/T, and TATA sequences--necessary for muscle-specific transcription of the myoglobin gene. In the present study, we demonstrate that these three sequences elements, prepared as synthetic oligonucleotide cassettes, function synergistically to constitute a cell-type-specific transcription unit. Previously, cognate binding factors that recognize the CCAC and TATA elements were identified. In this study we determine that the A/T element binds two nuclear factors, including myocyte enhancer factor-2 (MEF-2) and an apparently unknown factor we provisionally termed ATF35 (A/T-binding factor, 35 kDa). Mutations that alter in vitro binding of either MEF-2 or ATF35 to this site diminish promoter function in vivo. Functional synergism between factors binding the CCAC and A/T elements is sensitive to subtle mutations in the TATA sequence, recapitulating the unusual preference for specific TATA variants exhibited by the native myoglobin promoter. These results provide new insights into mechanisms that underlie the distinctive pattern of myoglobin gene regulation in mammalian muscle development and lay a foundation for further studies to elucidate general principles of transcriptional control of complex mammalian promoters through combinatorial actions of heterologous transcriptional factors.
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- J Grayson
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medial Center, Dallas 75235-8570
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We describe a procedure for mapping residues on the surface of a protein molecule to its sequence, using a scheme that is analogous to nucleic acid footprinting. The protein is end labeled radioactively and subjected to limited proteolysis, and the products are analyzed by denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. The method is tested with the heme protein myoglobin and applied to mapping the (unknown) surface of the molecule lacking the heme group: apomyoglobin. Sites of protein-protein interaction can be identified, as illustrated by footprinting the association between myoglobin and an anti-myoglobin monoclonal antibody.
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- M Zhong
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, NY 10003
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Blaxter ML, Vanfleteren JR, Xia J, Moens L. Structural characterization of an Ascaris myoglobin. J Biol Chem 1994; 269:30181-6. [PMID: 7982924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Globin was purified from the body wall of adults of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum. Internal peptide fragments were sequenced and cDNAs encoding a polypeptide of 154 amino acids isolated by polymerase chain reaction. The polypeptide lacks a signal sequence, identifying it as a cytosolic myoglobin-like species. The native protein is a dimer. The predicted amino acid sequence shares several unusual substitutions with other nematode globins. Like the abundant pseudocoelomic A. suum hemoglobin it has a Tyr at B10 and a Gln at E7, substitutions thought to be determinants of high affinity. However, the 10-fold lower oxygen affinity of body wall globin suggests that in this molecule Tyr(B10) does not form an additional hydrogen bond with the heme bound oxygen. Evolutionary analysis of the nematode globins suggests that the monodomain myoglobin-like molecules and the two-domain hemoglobin-like molecules diverged about 500 million years ago, well before the divergence of the ascarid genera Ascaris and Pseudoterranova. The absence of introns in the A. suum myoglobin, in contrast to other nematode globin genes, is consistent with the hypothesis that during evolution intron elimination was the predominant event.
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- M L Blaxter
- Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, London, United Kingdom
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The intracellular localization of myoglobin mRNA in the skeletal muscles of normal subjects was examined by in situ hybridization using a biotin-labeled cDNA probe. By phase-contrast microscopy, myoglobin mRNA signals were demonstrated to be located preferentially on the A-band. Two different methods of tissue preparation, i.e., pre-embedding method and post-embedding method, were used for the electron microscopic study. With the pre-embedding method, only a few gold particles were found to be associated with cytoskeletal filaments in the intermyofibrillar space. With the post-embedding method, superior preservation of sections and higher signal intensities were obtained. Although most of the gold particles were localized on the A-band, some were seen in other regions; i.e., in the intermyofibrillar space, perinuclear space, or the I-band, where myoglobin is localized. These findings suggest that myoglobin is primarily synthesized on the A-band, where ribosomes predominantly exist, although myoglobin is also localized on the I-band. The predominant localization of myoglobin mRNA on the A-band may aid in the mRNA transcription and may be related to the regulation of myoglobin synthesis in skeletal muscle cells.
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- T Mitsui
- First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
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Noguchi I, Suzuki G, Amemiya Y. Effects of different doses of thiopentone on the increase in serum myoglobin induced by suxamethonium in children. Br J Anaesth 1993; 71:291-3. [PMID: 8123409 DOI: 10.1093/bja/71.2.291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We have studied the effects of different doses of thiopentone on the increase in serum myoglobin after administration of suxamethonium during inhalation induction of anaesthesia in children. Forty-three children were anaesthetized with halothane and nitrous oxide in oxygen and allocated to four groups: group S received suxamethonium 1 mg kg-1 to facilitate intubation; group ST2 received thiopentone 2 mg kg-1 and group ST4 received thiopentone 4 mg kg-1, before administration of suxamethonium 1 mg kg-1; group N did not receive thiopentone or suxamethonium. Serum myoglobin and creatine kinase (CK) concentrations were measured until 60 min after the injection of suxamethonium. Both myoglobin and CK concentrations increased in the three groups receiving suxamethonium. There were no significant differences between groups S and ST2, but the myoglobin concentration was less in group ST4 than in groups S and ST2. A significant difference in CK concentration was found only between groups ST2 and ST4 at 60 min. In group N, both values remained reasonably constant. Thiopentone 4 mg kg-1, but not 2 mg kg-1, attenuated the increase. The results indicate that to prevent a marked elevation in serum myoglobin after administration of suxamethonium, thiopentone 4 mg kg-1 should be administered.
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- I Noguchi
- Department of Dental Anaesthesiology, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Bilateral biopsies from the erector spinae muscles were taken during surgery from 10 females and two males (mean age 14, range 13-17 years) with thoracal scoliosis for 6 years (range 2-11 years). The biopsies were analysed for myoglobin (MYO), citrate synthase (CS) and creatine kinase MB (CK-MB). The severity of scioliosis was estimated by Cobb's angle, the greater the angle the more severe the disease. The convex/concave side ratio (CVX/CCV) was for CS 1.3 +/- 0.4 (P less than 0.01), CK 0.9 +/- 0.1 (P less than 0.05), CK-MB 1.6 +/- 0.4 (P less than 0.01) and for MYO 1.1 +/- 0.2 (P greater than 0.05). No significant correlations were found between the CVX/CCV for CS, CK or CK-MB on the one hand and the Cobb's angle on the other. The CVX/CCV for MYO was, however, directly related to the angle (r = 0.80, P less than 0.01). For the lower range of angles (less than or equal to 59 degrees) the CVX/CCV for MYO was below unity (0.88, P greater than 0.05) and for the larger angles (greater than 59 degrees) above unity (1.23, P less than 0.05). In conclusion, a dissociation in the adaptive response of m. erector spinae in scoliosis between mitochondrial enzyme and myoglobin content was demonstrated.
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- E Jansson
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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To compare two situations with similar magnitudes of mitochondrial substrate flux but different blood oxygen contents, one-legged training was employed. Ten healthy subjects trained one leg under normobaric conditions and the other under hypobaric conditions. At each session the subjects trained each leg for 30 min. The absolute work intensity was the same for both legs and was chosen to correspond to 65% of the average (right and left) pretraining one-legged maximal work capacity. There were three to four training sessions per week for 4 wk. Muscle biopsies from each leg were taken before and after training and analyzed for fiber types, capillaries, myoglobin, and oxidative and glycolytic enzymes. The most striking finding was a greater increase of citrate synthase activity under hypobaric conditions than under normobaric conditions. In addition, the myoglobin content increased in the leg trained under hypobaric conditions, whereas it tended to decrease in the normobarically trained leg. Because both legs were trained at the same intensity, the oxygen turnover and the substrate flux through the carboxylic acid cycle and the respiratory chain must have been of similar magnitude. Thus a difference in substrate flux is less likely to have caused the differences in enzyme activities and myoglobin content between training under normobaric and hypobaric conditions. Instead, the stimulus seems to be related to the blood oxygen content or tension.
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- N Terrados
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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We isolated a cDNA clone for myoglobin mRNA from fetal bovine skeletal muscle using a DNA fragment of human myoglobin exon 2 as a probe. The complete coding sequence of myoglobin as well as the 3'- and part of the 5'-nontranslatable sequences (546 and 66 basepairs, respectively) were determined. The amino acid sequence predicted from the nucleotide sequence was in agreement with that determined in the purified protein from adult bovine cardiac muscle (Han, K. K., Dautrevaux, M., Chaila, X., & Biserte, G. [1970] Eur. J. Biochem. 16, 465-471), except for eight amino acid residues: Val-99----Ile,Ile-101----Val, Asn-122----Asp, Ala-124----Gly, Gly-129----Ala, Ala-142----Met, Glu-144----Ala, and Lys-145----Gln. When the myoglobin cDNA was expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the control of the GAL7 promoter, myoglobin was synthesized as a functionally active holoprotein which bound molecular oxygen reversibly. The amount of myoglobin reached nearly 1% of the total extractable protein in the yeast. N-terminal sequence analysis of the produced myoglobin revealed a glycine residue at the terminus, indicating that as in native muscle the N-terminal Met was removed in yeast by processing.
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- H Shimada
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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Wernerman J, Sylvén C, Jansson E, von der Decken A, Vinnars E. Enzymatic capacity and protein synthesis in human muscle postoperatively. Acta Chir Scand 1988; 154:489-94. [PMID: 3144105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The glycolytic and aerobic oxidative capacity in skeletal muscle was investigated to reveal if the decrease seen in muscle protein synthesis is accompanied by a fall in the enzymatic capacity to oxidize substrates. Six patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery were investigated by percutaneous muscle biopsies taken before surgery and on the first and third postoperative days. Protein synthesis as assessed by the polyribosome concentration was 40% lower on the third day postoperatively than before surgery (p less than 0.01). The glycolytic and oxidative capacity was evaluated by determining the activity of eight key enzymes in the intracellular oxidative metabolism, namely total creatine kinase (CK), the isozymes CK-MB and mitochondrial CK, lactate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, aspartate aminotransferase, and phosphofructokinase, and also the concentration of myoglobin. None of these parameters were affected in the immediate postoperative period independently of the provision of nutritional support. It was concluded that the decrease in protein synthesis is not accompanied by a concomitant decline in the enzymatic oxidative capacity in skeletal muscle in the period immediately following elective surgery.
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- J Wernerman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Dodson G, Hubbard RE, Oldfield TJ, Smerdon SJ, Wilkinson AJ. Apomyoglobin as a molecular recognition surface: expression, reconstitution and crystallization of recombinant porcine myoglobin in Escherichia coli. Protein Eng 1988; 2:233-7. [PMID: 3070546 DOI: 10.1093/protein/2.3.233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Recombinant porcine myoglobin has been produced in Escherichia coli using the lambda cII fusion expression system of Nagai and Thøgersen [Nature, 309, 810-812 (1984)]. After processing and reconstitution with haem, the protein is gel-electrophoretically and spectrophotometrically indistinguishable from native pig myoglobin. Large crystals of both native and recombinant porcine myoglobin were grown from 50 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.1, 80% ammonium sulphate. The crystals belong to space group C2 (a = 156.9 A, b = 42.0 A, c = 92.2 A, beta = 127.9 degrees) and diffract to a nominal 2.5 A resolution. We plan to explore apomyoglobin as a binding surface in studies combining site-directed mutagenesis and X-ray analysis. These experiments will be extended by studying the binding of haem analogues to the mutant apoproteins.
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- G Dodson
- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, UK
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To evaluate the participation of proteins derived from mitochondrial genes in the adaptive response of skeletal muscle to increased contractile activity, we administered chloramphenicol (CAP; 200-1,000 mg.kg-1.day-1), an inhibitor of translation from mitochondrial ribosomes, to adult rabbits undergoing electrical stimulation of the tibialis anterior muscle of one hind limb. In unmedicated animals, 10 days of electrical stimulation increased maximum velocity (Vmax) of cytochrome oxidase and citrate synthase by 214 +/- 17 and 201 +/- 16% (P less than 0.01). In a dose-dependent manner, CAP abolished activity-induced increases in cytochrome oxidase Vmax, suggesting that augmented mitochondrial protein synthesis is necessary for the adaptive response of enzymes that require protein subunits encoded by mitochondrial genes. However, CAP failed to inhibit activity-induced changes in Vmax of enzymes derived exclusively from nuclear genes (citrate synthase and aldolase). CAP also failed to inhibit activity-induced increases in mRNA transcribed from the nuclear genes encoding beta-F1 ATPase or myoglobin, or from the mitochondrial genes encoding 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, or cytochrome b. These latter findings suggest that mitochondrial translation products do not participate in pretranslational regulation of these nuclear or mitochondrial genes in response to changes in contractile activity of skeletal muscle.
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- R S Williams
- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Jørgensen HR. [Muscle damage after bloodless fields in the extremities. Myoglobin production as an indicator of the effect of a tourniquet on striated muscle]. Ugeskr Laeger 1987; 149:1377-9. [PMID: 3603791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Graber SG, Woodworth RC. Myoglobin expression in L6 muscle cells. Role of differentiation and heme. J Biol Chem 1986; 261:9150-4. [PMID: 3722191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Analysis of myoglobin levels in L6 cells (derived from rat skeletal muscle) by radioimmunoassay shows that myoglobin is not synthesized until after the cells differentiate to form multinucleated myotubes. Thereafter, myoglobin accumulates in a linear fashion for up to 20 days, the longest time for which the cultures may be reliably maintained. Treatment of cultures with hemin increased myoglobin levels in a dose-dependent manner resulting in a 70% increase in myoglobin with 20 microM hemin. Succinyl acetone, a heme synthesis inhibitor, reduced myoglobin levels by 40% while simultaneous treatment with hemin restored myoglobin levels to control values. Treatment of cultures with a variety of Fe(III) chelates known to enhance both iron accumulation and ferritin synthesis in L6 cells had no effect on myoglobin levels. delta-Aminolevulinic acid also had no effect on myoglobin levels. None of the treatments had any effect on either the total soluble protein or DNA content of the cultures, and, therefore, the observed effects appear to be specific for myoglobin. These results suggest that myoglobin is expressed as a function of differentiation and that intracellular heme exerts a regulatory effect on myoglobin levels.
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Isner JM, Clarke RH, Donaldson RF, Aharon A. Identification of photoproducts liberated by in vitro argon laser irradiation of atherosclerotic plaque, calcified cardiac valves and myocardium. Am J Cardiol 1985; 55:1192-6. [PMID: 3984898 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(85)90661-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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To determine how laser light effects alterations in cardiovascular tissue, photoproducts liberated as the result of argon laser irradiation of atherosclerotic plaque, myocardium and calcified aortic valve leaflets were analyzed by gas chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and absorbance spectroscopy. The products formed in gas phase are those expected when proteins and porphyrins are pyrolyzed--light hydrocarbon fragments, carbon monoxide and water vapor. The laser-generated products dissolved in solution are those expected when a protein chain or porphyrin ring is degraded in a thermal reaction, namely protein fragments and nitrogen heterocyclic ring fragments. These photoproducts are those typical of combustion or thermal degradation, and indicate that the fundamental nature of laser irradiation of coronary plaque, myocardium and calcified valve leaflets is thermal rather than photochemical. Thermal degradation of myocardium is more extensive than thermal degradation of atherosclerotic arteries or calcified valves because the red hue of myoglobin-containing myocardium enhances the absorption of the blue-green argon laser light. In contrast, the yellow-white hue of both atherosclerotic plaque and calcified aortic valve leaflets allows less complete absorbance of the argon laser light, leading to a lesser amount of converted heat and, therefore, less complete thermal degradation.
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Molloy G, Puckett L. The metabolism of heterogeneous nuclear RNA and the formation of cytoplasmic messenger RNA in animal cells. Prog Biophys Mol Biol 1978; 31:1-38. [PMID: 785543 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(78)90003-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Schreiber SS, Rothschild MA, Oratz M. Investigation into the causes of increased protein synthesis in acute hemodynamic overload. Recent Adv Stud Cardiac Struct Metab 1976; 12:49-59. [PMID: 1032003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Koga K. [Control of protein synthesis during development (author's transl)]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1976; 21:81-90. [PMID: 769086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Kagen LJ, Collins K, Roberts L, Butt A. Inhibition of muscle cell development in culture by cells from spinal cord due to production of low molecular weight factor. Dev Biol 1976; 48:25-34. [PMID: 1245260 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(76)90042-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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