蓝藻的蛋白质翻译后修饰研究进展

蛋白质翻译后修饰系统几乎参与了细胞所有的正常生命活动过程,并发挥着重要的调控作用。目前,基于生物质谱技术进行蛋白质翻译后修饰的规模化分析鉴定,已经成为蛋白质组学研究的核心内容之一。近年来的研究表明,蓝藻细胞中存在着复杂的蛋白质翻译后修饰系统,如磷酸化,乙酰化,甲基化,糖基化,氧化等,这些翻译后修饰在蓝藻细胞的代谢过程中可能发挥着重要的调控作用。本文主要针对蓝藻细胞中蛋白质翻译后修饰的发现与鉴定,以及翻译后修饰潜在的生物学功能展开简要综述。     

蛋白质翻译后修饰在肝癌免疫治疗中的作用机制

蛋白质翻译后修饰（PTM）是蛋白质活性调节、定位、表达以及与其他细胞分子相互作用的调节机制,能引起蛋白质性质和功能的变化,其传统形式包括磷酸化、糖基化、甲基化、泛素化等。越来越多的研究表明,PTMs不仅调节肝癌的发生和发展,而且在抗癌免疫反应中起着至关重要的作用。本文综述了目前几种传统类型的PTMs在肝癌免疫治疗中的作用机制,为肝癌治疗提供新的见解和未来研究方向。     

蛋白质棕榈酰化修饰在病毒感染过程中的作用

蛋白质棕榈酰化修饰是脂质修饰的一种,赋予了底物蛋白更加多样化的生物学功能.在哺乳动物细胞中,棕榈酰化修饰主要是由ZDHHC家族介导的.病毒入侵细胞后,可利用宿主的棕榈酰化修饰促进自身的复制和感染.宿主通过模式识别受体识别病原体相关分子模式诱发天然免疫应答以保护自身免受病毒的伤害并达到清除病原体的目的.天然免疫是宿主抵抗...     

蛋白质修饰组学在肉品质研究中的应用

蛋白质翻译后修饰(Post-translational modifications, PTMs)在生命体中具有十分重要的作用。生命有机体中常见的PTMs有磷酸化、酰化、糖基化、泛素化、乙酰化、氧化和甲基化等。文章主要介绍了蛋白质组学在肉制品科学方面的应用、PTMs的主要内容以及分析蛋白修饰特性常见技术的发展,总结了PTMs对肌肉生理特性的影响和蛋白质组学方法在肉质蛋白质修饰研究中的重要性及前景,讨论了利用蛋白质修饰组学技术研究肌肉熟化过程中品质特性变化的特点。     

蛋白质翻译后修饰及定位对p53活性的调节作用

抑癌蛋白p53具有转录激活作用,在细胞应激条件下激活一系列下游靶分子蛋白,发挥其调节细胞周期、细胞凋亡及DNA修复的功能。本文着重叙述了磷酸化、泛素化、乙酰化等不同的翻译后修饰及定位调控与p53活性调节之间的关系、特点和作用。     

有丝分裂期间蛋白质的翻译后修饰及其功能

有丝分裂期间蛋白质的翻译后修饰对于有丝分裂顺利完成以及细胞功能发挥具有重要的调控作用。常见的修饰类型包括磷酸化修饰、糖基化修饰、SUMO化修饰、乙酰化修饰、甲基化修饰。这些翻译后修饰可以维持染色体结构、促进后期染色体分离、协助末期核膜重新形成。本文对有丝分裂过程中相关蛋白质翻译后修饰的最新类型和功能进行了系统总结,以期能为肿瘤基础研究提供新的方向。     

炎症反应中的蛋白质翻译后修饰

炎症相关的信号转导蛋白、转录因子、炎性介质、组蛋白等可在炎症发生发展过程中发生磷酸化、乙酰化、泛素化、苏素化、甲基化等一系列翻译后修饰。这些化学修饰可高效调节相关蛋白质的功能活性及基因表达水平,不同化学修饰之间还可相互作用,共同影响炎症的发生、发展与转归;而异常的翻译后修饰与炎症相关性疾病关系密切。     

鼻咽癌细胞5-8F通过TLR4介导的信号通路对革兰氏阴性细菌脂多糖的反应性研究

鼻咽上皮细胞无时无刻不暴露和接触到共生微生物与病原微生物,机体依靠天然防御系统和抗原识别的适应性免疫反应系统来进行自我保护.慢性感染的重要毒力因素被认为是革兰氏阴性细菌细胞壁的主要成分脂多糖(LPS),对LPS的识别与信号传导是宿主细胞抵御革兰氏阴性细菌的关键.通过流式细胞术、RT-PCR等研究发现,5-8F细胞可与LPS相结合并产生反应,且其受LPS调节的机制是由于5-8F细胞中存在LPS受体分子如CD14、TLR4与MD2等的表达.同时应用免疫荧光、蛋白质印迹、荧光素酶报告系统等研究发现,5-8F细胞可受到LPS的诱导而活化TLR4的下游信号传导通路.5-8F细胞在LPS的诱导下,磷酸化NFκBp65的表达增加,并且使NFκBp65活化迁移至核内.研究还发现,LPS增加TNF-α全长启动子活性,同时LPS可使5-8F细胞中TNF-α的分泌增加,从而介导炎性因子的释放.因此,5-8F细胞可通过与LPS受体分子:CD14、TLR4及MD2与LPS相结合并反应,从而激活TLR4介导的NFκB信号通路,使炎性因子的释放增加,导致鼻咽部的炎症反应诱发鼻咽癌.     

蛋白质翻译后修饰研究进展

蛋白质是执行细胞功能的基本功能单元,其表达受基因组和表观遗传学的调控。通常,蛋白质在表达以后还需要经过不同程度的修饰才能发挥所需要的功能。这种翻译后修饰过程受到一系列修饰酶和去修饰酶的严格调控,使得在某一瞬间细胞中蛋白质表现出某种稳定或动态的特定功能。最新的研究表明,真核细胞中存在着各种各样的蛋白质修饰过程,其中大约70%目前还无法解释。有理由认为,这种经过了特定修饰的蛋白质,更客观地反映了细胞的各种生理以及病理过程。因此,除了基因组所编码的＂裸＂蛋白质组的表达以外,更需要对经过翻译后修饰的蛋白质及蛋白质组的调控过程进行深入的研究。该文对常见翻译后修饰以及研究方法进行了综述。     

Pellino-1 Positively Regulates Toll-like Receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4 Signaling and Is Suppressed upon Induction of Endotoxin Tolerance

Endotoxin tolerance reprograms Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4-mediated macrophage responses by attenuating induction of proinflammatory cytokines while retaining expression of anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial mediators. We previously demonstrated deficient TLR4-induced activation of IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) 4, IRAK1, and TANK-binding kinase (TBK) 1 as critical hallmarks of endotoxin tolerance, but mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, we examined the role of the E3 ubiquitin ligase Pellino-1 in endotoxin tolerance and TLR signaling. LPS stimulation increased Pellino-1 mRNA and protein expression in macrophages from mice injected with saline and in medium-pretreated human monocytes, THP-1, and MonoMac-6 cells, whereas endotoxin tolerization abrogated LPS inducibility of Pellino-1. Overexpression of Pellino-1 in 293/TLR2 and 293/TLR4/MD2 cells enhanced TLR2- and TLR4-induced nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) and expression of IL-8 mRNA, whereas Pellino-1 knockdown reduced these responses. Pellino-1 ablation in THP-1 cells impaired induction of myeloid differentiation primary response protein (MyD88), and Toll-IL-1R domain-containing adapter inducing IFN-β (TRIF)-dependent cytokine genes in response to TLR4 and TLR2 agonists and heat-killed Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, whereas only weakly affecting phagocytosis of heat-killed bacteria. Co-expressed Pellino-1 potentiated NF-κB activation driven by transfected MyD88, TRIF, IRAK1, TBK1, TGF-β-activated kinase (TAK) 1, and TNFR-associated factor 6, whereas not affecting p65-induced responses. Mechanistically, Pellino-1 increased LPS-driven K63-linked polyubiquitination of IRAK1, TBK1, TAK1, and phosphorylation of TBK1 and IFN regulatory factor 3. These results reveal a novel mechanism by which endotoxin tolerance re-programs TLR4 signaling via suppression of Pellino-1, a positive regulator of MyD88- and TRIF-dependent signaling that promotes K63-linked polyubiquitination of IRAK1, TBK1, and TAK1.     

蛋白质巯基亚硝基化———一种典型氧化还原依赖的蛋白质翻译后修饰

综述了蛋白质巯基亚硝基化修饰的特点、检测方法、功能研究、相关疾病和发展态势.蛋白质巯基亚硝基化(S-nitrosation)是指一氧化氮(nitricoxide,NO)及其衍生物修饰蛋白质半胱氨酸(cysteine,Cys)巯基—SH生成—SNO,其是一种典型的氧化还原依赖的蛋白质翻译后修饰,也是一氧化氮发挥其广泛信号转导作用的新的重要途径.     

干扰素调控因子3：细胞抗病毒反应的核心转录因子

固有免疫系统是宿主抵御病毒入侵的第一道防线．Ⅰ型干扰素是关键的抗病毒细胞因子,它在细胞建立抗病毒状态的过程中发挥了核心的作用．Ⅰ型干扰素的诱导表达是固有免疫的重要调节与效应机制．已有的研究表明：多种转录因子(NF-kappa B、ATF-2/c-Jun、IRF3、IRF7)通过在Ⅰ型干扰素的转录调控区形成稳定的转录增强复合物(enhanceosome),迅速并大量地诱导Ⅰ型干扰素表达．体内与体外的生物学分析已确立,干扰素调控因子3 (IRF3)是介导细胞表达Ⅰ型干扰素最关键的转录因子,其转录活力与生物学功能直接影响细胞的抗病毒的能力．近年来,IRF3相关的细胞信号转导与调控机制等研究取得重大进展．围绕IRF3的结构、功能以及分子调控机制等方面,概述相关的研究进展,并做前沿展望．     

Modification of Akt by SUMO conjugation regulates alternative splicing and cell cycle

Akt/PKB is a key signaling molecule in higher eukaryotes and a crucial protein kinase in human health and disease. Phosphorylation, acetylation, and ubiquitylation have been reported as important regulatory post-translational modifications of this kinase. We describe here that Akt is modified by SUMO conjugation, and show that lysine residues 276 and 301 are the major SUMO attachment sites within this protein. We found that phosphorylation and SUMOylation of Akt appear as independent events. However, decreasing Akt SUMOylation levels severely affects the role of this kinase as a regulator of fibronectin and Bcl-x alternative splicing. Moreover, we observed that the Akt mutant (Akt E17K) found in several human tumors displays increased levels of SUMOylation and also an enhanced capacity to regulate fibronectin splicing patterns. This splicing regulatory activity is completely abolished by decreasing Akt E17K SUMO conjugation levels. Additionally, we found that SUMOylation controls Akt regulatory function at G?/S transition during cell cycle progression. These findings reveal SUMO conjugation as a novel level of regulation for Akt activity, opening new areas of exploration related to the molecular mechanisms involved in the diverse cellular functions of this kinase.     

The N-terminal domain of DDA3 regulates the spindle-association of the microtubule depolymerase Kif2a and controls the mitotic function of DDA3

DDA3 is a microtubule-associated protein that controls chromosome congression and segregation by regulating the dynamics of the mitotic spindle. Depletion of DDA3 alters spindle structure, generates unaligned chromosomes at metaphase, and delays the mitotic progression. DDA3 interacts with the microtubule depolymerase Kif2a and controls the association of Kif2a to the mitotic spindle and the dynamic turnover of microtubules in the spindle. To understand the function and regulation of DDA3, we analyzed its domain structure and found that the C-terminal domain of DDA3 directly binds to microtubules in vitro and associates with the mitotic spindle in vivo. The N-terminal domain of DDA3 does not interact with microtubules, but acts dominant negatively over the wild-type protein. Ectopic expression of this domain prevents the endogenous DDA3 from association with the spindle and results in a high frequency of unaligned chromosomes in metaphase cells, a phenotype similar to that in metaphase cells depleted of DDA3. Mechanistically, expression of N-terminal DDA3 reduces the amount of spindle-associated Kif2a and increases the spindle microtubule density, pheno-copying those in DDA3-depleted cells. We conclude that DDA3 has a distinct domain structure. The C-terminal domain confers its ability to associate with the mitotic spindle, while the regulatory N-terminal domain controls the microtubule-binding by the C-terminal domain and determines the cellular activity of the DDA3 protein.     

TLR4在哺乳动物对脂多糖反应中的作用

Toll信号转导通路在果蝇的发育和天然免疫反应中起重要作用.最近在小鼠进行的定点克隆研究表明Lps位座编码一种Toll样受体TLR4,该受体作为LPS受体复合物的跨膜成分而转导脂多糖(LPS)信号,而其相关蛋白TLR2则在其他病原体微生物介导的细胞反应中起作用.TLR4的发现使我们对LPS信号转导通路的认识前进了一大步.