脂肪酸跨膜转运蛋白及其表达的调控

细胞对长链脂肪酸的吸收主要是依靠脂肪酸跨膜转运蛋白来完成的,其异常表达与多种糖脂代谢疾病密切相关,因此有望成为早期诊断及临床治疗的重要指标。本文将对几种最为重要脂肪酸跨膜转运蛋白的结构、功能及其表达的调控做一综述。     

放线菌中腺苷三磷酸结合盒转运蛋白的研究进展

放线菌由于能产生多种结构新颖、活性独特的次级代谢产物,在医药工业、农业和环境保护上具有重要作用。全基因组测序的数据显示,放线菌中含有数目众多的腺苷三磷酸结合盒(ATP-binding cassette,ABC)转运蛋白基因,在营养摄入、次级代谢产物转运、外源毒素解毒等一系列过程中发挥着重要的作用。本文概述了ABC转运蛋白的结构和作用机制,并结合本实验室的研究工作,对近年来放线菌中ABC转运蛋白的研究进展进行了比较全面的综述,着重介绍了负责次级代谢产物跨膜转运的ABC外排蛋白,并展望了放线菌ABC转运蛋白的研究热点和应用前景。     

跨膜离子转运蛋白与植物耐盐的分子生物学

植物抵御盐害的主要方式是增加Na 的外排、减少Na 的吸入和Na 的区隔化,而Na 的跨膜运输主要由质膜和液泡膜上的离子转运蛋白完成。对质膜和液泡膜跨膜离子转运蛋白包括K /Na 离子转运蛋白,Na /H 逆向转运蛋白以及液泡膜H -PPase的分子生物学研究及应用进展进行了综述。     

铁转运刺激因子研究进展

铁转运刺激因子 (stimulatorofFetransport,SFT)是近年新发现的一个重要的铁代谢蛋白。SFT是一种跨膜糖蛋白 ,含 6个跨膜区域 ,在第一个细胞内环中含有功能上十分重要的REIHE序列。它广泛分布于各组识 ,其主要功能是促进转铁蛋白结合铁和非转铁蛋白结合铁的转运。SFT的基因表达和功能发挥受铁的调控。遗传性血色素沉着病人的肝脏内SFTmRNA的表达显著增加 ,因而SFT超表达可能与遗传性血色素沉着病的形成有关     

葡萄糖转运载体及其在单糖肠吸收中的作用研究进展

糖类物质是机体的主要能源物质,对机体代谢与内环境稳态有非常重要的作用.葡萄糖作为该类化合物主要的消化尾产物,其吸收主要通过位于肠黏膜上皮细胞的两类葡萄糖转运载体家族来完成.在该吸收过程中,Na+依赖性葡萄糖转运载体1(SGLT-1)和易化性葡萄糖转运我体2、5(Glut-2、Glut-5)发挥了重要的作用.本文综述了肠道不同葡萄糖转运载体家族的成员和分类,并结合葡萄糖肠吸收跨膜转运的机理详细阐述了上述三个载体的分布和影响其功能及表达的因素.     

植物氨基酸转运子研究进展

氨基酸是高等植物氮素同化产物长距离运输及在组织间分配的主要形式,通过跨膜转运的方式在植物体内进行运输。氨基酸转运子是位于生物膜上吸收及转运氨基酸的蛋白家族,对植物氮素营养具有重要贡献。本文对植物氨基酸转运子的表达、调控及其与氮素利用效率、植物产量与品质形成、抗逆性及适应性等方面的研究进展进行了综述。     

蔗糖膜运输系统与植物整体碳分配相关（综述）

蔗糖是光合作用的主要产物,作为碳同化的产物在植物体内进行分配。蔗糖的转运机制和效率通过减弱产物抑制来影响光合产率,通过控制源／库关系和生物量分配来调控植物活性。蔗糖在细胞质合成,或通过胞间连丝进行细胞问转运,或跨膜区域化,或外输入质外体被相邻细胞吸收。作为相对大极性的化合物,蔗糖的有效膜转运需要转运蛋白协助。跨液泡膜运输机制可能通过异化扩散、质子对向运输和同向运输;而跨质膜的运输则可能通过质子同向运输和异化扩散类似机制。近几十年仅在分子水平对质子同向运输进行了较为详尽的研究。这篇综述旨在综合介绍最近和过去关于蔗糖跨膜转运与植物整体碳分布机制。     

谷氨酸棒杆菌中氨基酸分泌转运蛋白及其代谢改造研究进展

氨基酸是一类在食品、医药及化工等领域具有广泛应用的重要化合物。谷氨酸棒杆菌Corynebacterium glutamicum是生物合成氨基酸最重要的微生物菌株,其年产各类氨基酸超过百万吨。谷氨酸棒杆菌高产氨基酸除具有强大的合成代谢能力外,高效的分泌转运能力也是不可忽略的分子基础。文中综述了近年来谷氨酸棒杆菌中氨基酸分泌转运蛋白及其代谢改造的研究进展,并展望了未来发展方向,为进一步改造提升其发酵生产氨基酸的能力提供了可资借鉴的资料。     

单羧酸转运蛋白家族及其生物学功能

单羧酸转运蛋白家族是哺乳动物细胞膜上一类重要的跨膜转运蛋白,负责乳酸,短链脂肪酸等单羧酸类化合物的跨膜转运,涉及多种生物学功能,包括促进营养物质吸收、影响代谢动态平衡、调节胞内pH值以及参与药物输送等.迄今为止,单羧酸转运蛋白家族已发现有1 4个成员,各亚型间具有底物差异性和组织分布特异性.研究单羧酸转运蛋白家族的生化特征、组织分布、生物学功能及基因表达调控,将为人和动物的营养代谢稳衡和疾病治疗提供新的方法.     

拟南芥养分离子转运蛋白研究进展

养分离子的跨膜转运是细胞获取养分的重要环节,亦是植物在组织和器官水平上进行养分吸收运移的基础。文中综述了拟南芥中养分离子转运蛋白在基因克隆、序列与结构分析、功能鉴定、表达与调控方面的研究进展,其中着重讨论了这些转运蛋白在氮、磷和钾等营养元素吸收、运输、分配中的作用。     

Transporter Engineering for Microbial Manufacturing

Microbes play an important role in biotransformation and biosynthesis of biofuels, natural products, and polymers. Therefore, microbial manufacturing has been widely used in medicine, industry, and agriculture. However, common strategies including enzyme engineering, pathway optimization, and host engineering are generally inadequate to obtain an efficient microbial production system. Transporter engineering provides an alternative strategy to promote the transmembrane transfer of substrates, intermediates, and final products in microbial cells and thus enhances production by alleviating feedback inhibition and cytotoxicity caused by final products. According to the current studies in transport engineering, native transporters usually have low expression and poor transportation ability, resulting in inefficient transport processes and microbial production. In this review, current approaches for transporter mining, characterization, and verification are comprehensively summarized. Practical approaches to enhance the transport system in engineered cells, such as balancing transporter overexpression and cell growth, and evolution of native transporters are discussed. Furthermore, the applications of transporter engineering in microbial manufacturing, including enhancement of substrate utilization, concentration of metabolic flux to the target pathway, and acceleration of efflux and recovery of products, demonstrate its outstanding advantages and promising prospects.     

肌肉脂肪酸转运膜蛋白及其相互关系

肌肉（骨骼肌）组织对脂肪酸的利用水平是影响机体能量稳态的关键因素.肌肉摄取的长链脂肪酸(long chain fatty acids,LCFAs)主要依赖细胞膜载体蛋白协助的跨膜转运过程.近年来,一系列与脂肪酸转运相关的膜蛋白被相继克隆鉴定,其中在肌肉中大量表达的有脂肪酸转运蛋白-1（fatty acid transport protein-1,FATP-1）、膜脂肪酸结合蛋白（plasma membrane fatty acid binding protein,FABPpm）、脂肪酸转位酶（fatty acid translocase,FAT/CD36）和小窝蛋白-1（caveolin-1）.研究上述肌肉脂肪酸转运膜蛋白的结构功能、调控机制及相互关系,可能为肥胖等脂类代谢紊乱疾病的诊治提供新的手段.     

Microbial products trigger amino acid exudation from plant roots

Plants naturally cycle amino acids across root cell plasma membranes, and any net efflux is termed exudation. The dominant ecological view is that microorganisms and roots passively compete for amino acids in the soil solution, yet the innate capacity of roots to recover amino acids present in ecologically relevant concentrations is unknown. We find that, in the absence of culturable microorganisms, the influx rates of 16 amino acids (each supplied at 2.5 microm) exceed efflux rates by 5% to 545% in roots of alfalfa (Medicago sativa), Medicago truncatula, maize (Zea mays), and wheat (Triticum aestivum). Several microbial products, which are produced by common soil microorganisms such as Pseudomonas bacteria and Fusarium fungi, significantly enhanced the net efflux (i.e. exudation) of amino acids from roots of these four plant species. In alfalfa, treating roots with 200 microm phenazine, 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol, or zearalenone increased total net efflux of 16 amino acids 200% to 2,600% in 3 h. Data from (15)N tests suggest that 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol blocks amino acid uptake, whereas zearalenone enhances efflux. Thus, amino acid exudation under normal conditions is a phenomenon that probably reflects both active manipulation and passive uptake by microorganisms, as well as diffusion and adsorption to soil, all of which help overcome the innate capacity of plant roots to reabsorb amino acids. The importance of identifying potential enhancers of root exudation lies in understanding that such compounds may represent regulatory linkages between the larger soil food web and the internal carbon metabolism of the plant.     

Sugar transporters in efficient utilization of mixed sugar substrates: current knowledge and outlook

There is increasing interest in production of transportation fuels and commodity chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass, most desirably through biological fermentation. Considerable effort has been expended to develop efficient biocatalysts that convert sugars derived from lignocellulose directly to value-added products. Glucose, the building block of cellulose, is the most suitable fermentation substrate for industrial microorganisms such as Escherichia coli, Corynebacterium glutamicum, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Other sugars including xylose, arabinose, mannose, and galactose that comprise hemicellulose are generally less efficient substrates in terms of productivity and yield. Although metabolic engineering including introduction of functional pentose-metabolizing pathways into pentose-incompetent microorganisms has provided steady progress in pentose utilization, further improvements in sugar mixture utilization by microorganisms is necessary. Among a variety of issues on utilization of sugar mixtures by the microorganisms, recent studies have started to reveal the importance of sugar transporters in microbial fermentation performance. In this article, we review current knowledge on diversity and functions of sugar transporters, especially those associated with pentose uptake in microorganisms. Subsequently, we review and discuss recent studies on engineering of sugar transport as a driving force for efficient bioconversion of sugar mixtures derived from lignocellulose.     

Unravelling the significance of cellular fatty acid-binding proteins

Cellular long-chain fatty acid (FA) transport and metabolism are believed to be regulated by membrane-associated and soluble proteins that bind and transport FAs. Several different classes of membrane proteins have been proposed as FA acceptors or transmembrane FA transporters. New evidence from in-vitro and whole-animal studies supports the existence of protein-mediated transmembrane transport of FAs, which is likely to coexist with passive diffusional uptake. The trafficking of FAs by intracellular fatty acid-binding proteins may involve their interaction with specific membrane or protein targets. Evidence is also emerging for concerted actions between the membrane and cytoplasmic fatty acid-binding proteins that allow for efficient regulation of FA transport and metabolism.     

酿酒酵母乙酸耐性分子机制的功能基因组进展

提高工业酿酒酵母对高浓度代谢产物及原料中的毒性底物等环境胁迫因素的耐受性,对提高工业生产效率具有重要的意义。乙酸是纤维素原料水解产生的主要毒性副产物之一,其对酵母细胞的生长和代谢都具有较强的抑制作用,因此,对酿酒酵母乙酸耐性分子机制的研究可为选育优良菌种提供理论依据。近年来,通过细胞全局基因表达分析和代谢组分析,以及对单基因敲除的所有突变体的表型组研究,对酿酒酵母乙酸耐性的分子机制有了更多新的认识,揭示了很多新的与乙酸毒性适应性反应和乙酸耐性提高相关的基因。综述了近年来酿酒酵母乙酸耐性的基因组规模的研究进展,以及在此基础上构建乙酸耐性提高的工业酵母菌的代谢工程操作。结合本课题组的研究,对金属离子锌在酿酒酵母乙酸耐性中的作用进行了深入分析。未来对酿酒酵母乙酸耐性分子机理的认识及改造将深入到翻译后修饰和合成生物学等新的水平,所获得的认知,将为选育可高效进行纤维素原料生物转化、高效生产生物燃料和生物基化学品的工业酿酒酵母的菌株奠定理论基础。     

Dicer1 敲除对肝脏胆酸代谢和转运功能的影响

目的:微小RNA(microRNAs,miRNAs)在胆固醇的合成,代谢和转运中起着重要作用,而mi RNAs在胆固醇代谢物胆酸的代谢和转运中的作用尚不清楚。Dicer基因是miRNAs生成过程的关键酶。本课题使用肝脏特异的Dicer1基因敲除小鼠,考察肝脏Dicer1基因敲除对C57BL/6小鼠肝脏胆酸代谢和转运的影响。方法:使用白蛋白启动子驱动的Cre重组酶和Loxp系统(Alb-Cre/Loxp)在小鼠肝脏中特异的敲除Dicer1基因;分别收集3~12周龄的小鼠血液和肝脏组织,使用Cobas生化仪检测小鼠血液和肝脏中总胆酸含量;利用实时定量PCR的方法分析肝脏中胆汁酸代谢转运相关基因的表达。结果:实验发现,肝脏Dicer基因敲除后,胆酸在血液和肝脏中明显蓄积,弥漫性肝细胞轻微空泡化,偶见单个肝细胞坏死。检测胆酸代谢和转运相关基因的表达发现,胆酸合成相关基因的表达有轻度升高,但缺乏统计学差异;在肝脏细胞血管侧的胆酸摄取转运体中,Oatp1a1在Dicer1敲除小鼠肝脏中明显下调,Ntcp和Oatp1b2则无明显改变;而肝细胞血管侧胆酸外排转运体的表达均有显著升高,胆管侧的外排转运体中Abcb11表达有明显增加。结论:Dicer基因敲除后,胆酸在血液和肝脏中明显蓄积,肝脏和血液中胆酸总量显著增加。血液中胆酸的蓄积可能与肝脏细胞血管侧摄取转运体的低表达和血管侧外排转运体的高表达有关;而肝脏中胆酸的蓄积可能部分来自于轻度升高的胆酸合成酶,胆酸在肝细胞内运输途径的紊乱可能与肝脏和血液中胆酸总量的显著增加相关。     

Characterization of modes of release of amino acids in the ischemic/reperfused rat cerebral cortex

Brain extracellular levels of glutamate, aspartate, GABA and glycine increase rapidly following the onset of ischemia, remain at an elevated level during the ischemia, and then decline over 20-30 min following reperfusion. The elevated levels of the excitotoxic amino acids, glutamate and aspartate, are thought to contribute to ischemia-evoked neuronal injury and death. Calcium-evoked exocytotic release appears to account for the initial (1-2 min) efflux of neurotransmitter-type amino acids following the onset of ischemia, with non-vesicular release responsible for much of the subsequent efflux of these and other amino acids, including taurine and phosphoethanolamine. Extracellular Ca(2+)-independent release is mediated, in part by Na(+)-dependent amino acid transporters in the plasma membrane operating in a reversed mode, and by the opening of swelling-induced chloride channels, which allow the passage of amino acids down their concentration gradients. Experiments on cultured neurons and astrocytes have suggested that it is the astrocytes which make the primary contribution to this amino acid efflux. Inhibition of phospholipase A(2) attenuates ischemia-evoked release of both amino and free fatty acids from the rat cerebral cortex indicating that this group of enzymes is involved in amino acid efflux, and also accounting for the consistent ischemia-evoked release of phosphoethanolamine. It is, therefore, possible that disruption of membrane integrity by phospholipases plays a role in amino acid release. Recovery of amino acid levels to preischemic levels requires their uptake by high affinity Na(+)-dependent transporters, operating in their normal mode, following restoration of energy metabolism, cell resting potentials and ionic gradients.     

Amino acid composition analysis of human secondary transport proteins and implications for reliable membrane topology prediction

Secondary transporters in humans are a large group of proteins that transport a wide range of ions, metals, organic and inorganic solutes involved in energy transduction, control of membrane potential and osmotic balance, metabolic processes and in the absorption or efflux of drugs and xenobiotics. They are also emerging as important targets for development of new drugs and as target sites for drug delivery to specific organs or tissues. We have performed amino acid composition (AAC) and phylogenetic analyses and membrane topology predictions for 336 human secondary transport proteins and used the results to confirm protein classification and to look for trends and correlations with structural domains and specific substrates and/or function. Some proteins showed statistically high contents of individual amino acids or of groups of amino acids with similar physicochemical properties. One recurring trend was a correlation between high contents of charged and/or polar residues with misleading results in predictions of membrane topology, which was especially prevalent in Mitochondrial Carrier family proteins. We demonstrate how charged or polar residues located in the middle of transmembrane helices can interfere with their identification by membrane topology tools resulting in missed helices in the prediction. Comparison of AAC in the human proteins with that in 235 secondary transport proteins from Escherichia coli revealed similar overall trends along with differences in average contents for some individual amino acids and groups of similar amino acids that are presumed to result from a greater number of functions and complexity in the higher organism.