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Dmitry S. Bilan Mikhail E. Matlashov Andrey Yu. Gorokhovatsky Carsten Schultz Grigori Enikolopov Vsevolod V. Belousov 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2014
Background
The ratio of NAD+/NADH is a key indicator that reflects the overall redox state of the cells. Until recently, there were no methods for real time NAD+/NADH monitoring in living cells. Genetically encoded fluorescent probes for NAD+/NADH are fundamentally new approach for studying the NAD+/NADH dynamics.Methods
We developed a genetically encoded probe for the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD(H), redox state changes by inserting circularly permuted YFP into redox sensor T-REX from Thermus aquaticus. We characterized the sensor in vitro using spectrofluorometry and in cultured mammalian cells using confocal fluorescent microscopy.Results
The sensor, named RexYFP, reports changes in the NAD+/NADH ratio in different compartments of living cells. Using RexYFP, we were able to track changes in NAD+/NADH in cytoplasm and mitochondrial matrix of cells under a variety of conditions. The affinity of the probe enables comparison of NAD+/NADH in compartments with low (cytoplasm) and high (mitochondria) NADH concentration. We developed a method of eliminating pH-driven artifacts by normalizing the signal to the signal of the pH sensor with the same chromophore.Conclusion
RexYFP is suitable for detecting the NAD(H) redox state in different cellular compartments.General significance
RexYFP has several advantages over existing NAD+/NADH sensors such as smallest size and optimal affinity for different compartments. Our results show that normalizing the signal of the sensor to the pH changes is a good strategy for overcoming pH-induced artifacts in imaging. 相似文献2.
Giuseppe Maulucci Diana Troiani Sara Letizia Maria Eramo Fabiola Paciello Maria Vittoria Podda Gaetano Paludetti Massimiliano Papi Alessandro Maiorana Valentina Palmieri Marco De Spirito Anna Rita Fetoni 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2014
Background
Noise exposure impairs outer hair cells (OHCs). The common basis for OHC dysfunction and loss by acoustic over-stimulation is represented by reactive oxygen species (ROS) overload that may affect the membrane structural organization through generation of lipid peroxidation.Methods
Here we investigated in OHC different functional zones the mechanisms linking metabolic functional state (NAD(P)H intracellular distribution) to the generation of lipid peroxides and to the physical state of membranes by two photon fluorescence microscopy.Results
In OHCs of control animals, a more oxidized NAD(P)H redox state is associated to a less fluid plasma membrane structure. Acoustic trauma induces a topologically differentiated NAD(P)H oxidation in OHC rows, which is damped between 1 and 6 h. Peroxidation occurs after ~ 4 h from noise insult, while ROS are produced in the first 0.2 h and damage cells for a period of time after noise exposure has ended (~ 7.5 h) when a decrease of fluidity of OHC plasma membrane occurs. OHCs belonging to inner rows, characterized by a lower metabolic activity with respect to other rows, show less severe metabolic impairment.Conclusions
Our data indicate that plasma membrane fluidity is related to NAD(P)H redox state and lipid peroxidation in hair cells.General Significance
Our results could pave the way for therapeutic intervention targeting the onset of redox umbalance. 相似文献3.
Summary ThePhysarum plasmodium shows rhythmic contractile activities with a period of a few min. Phases of the oscillation in the plasmodium migrating unindirectionally agreed sideways throughout at the frontal part. So, time course of an intracellular chemical component was determined by analyzing small pieces cut off successively from the frontal part of the large plasmodium. Intracellular NAD(P)H concentration oscillated with the same period as the rhythmic contraction but with a different phase advancing about 1/3 of the period. UV irradiation suppressed the rhythmic contraction without affecting the rhythmic variation of NAD(P)H. Thus, the NAD(P)H oscillator works independently of the rhythmic contractile system, but seems entraining with each other.Abbreviations UV
ultraviolet
- NADH
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, reduced form
- NADPH
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, reduced form
- ATP
adenosine 5-triphosphate
- cAMP
cyclic adenosine 3, 5-monophosphate
- FMNH2
flavin mononucleotide, reduced form
- TCA
tricarboxylic acid
- BSA
bovine serum albumin
- DTT
dithiothreitol 相似文献
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Valdecir F. Ximenes Adriano S. PessoaCamila Z. Padovan Daniele C. AbrantesFabiana Helena F. Gomes Michele A. MaticoliManoel L. de Menezes 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2009
Background
Melatonin is well-established as a powerful reducing agent of oxidant generated in the cell medium. We aimed to investigate how readily melatonin is oxidized by peroxyl radicals ROO⋅ generated by the thermolysis of 2,2′-azobis(2-amidinopropane) hydrochloride (AAPH) and the role of glutathione (GSH) during the reaction course.Methods
Chromatographic, mass spectroscopy, and UV–visible spectrometric techniques were used to study the oxidation of melatonin by ROO⋅ or horseradish peroxidase (HRP)/H2O2. Our focus was the characterization of products and the study of features of the reaction.Results
We found that N1-acetyl-N2-formyl-5-methoxykynuramine (AFMK) and a monohydroxylated derivative of melatonin were the main products of the reaction between melatonin and ROO⋅. Higher pH or saturation of the medium with molecular oxygen increased the yield of AFMK but did not affect the reaction rate. Melatonin increased the depletion of intracellular GSH mediated by AAPH. Using the HRP/H2O2 as the oxidant system, the addition of melatonin promoted the oxidation of GSH to GSSG.Conclusions
These results show, for the first time, that melatonin radical is able to oxidize GSH.General significance
We propose that this new property of melatonin could explain or be related to the recently reported pro-oxidant activities of melatonin. 相似文献5.
Galina Melman Fadi Bou-Abdallah Eleanor Vane Poli Maura Paolo Arosio Artem Melman 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2013
Background
Extensive in-vitro studies have focused on elucidating the mechanism of iron uptake and mineral core formation in ferritin. However, despite a plethora of studies attempting to characterize iron release under different experimental conditions, the in-vivo mobilization of iron from ferritin remains poorly understood.Several iron-reductive mobilization pathways have been proposed including, among others, flavin mononucleotides, ascorbate, glutathione, dithionite, and polyphenols. Here, we investigate the kinetics of iron release from ferritin by reduced flavin nucleotide, FMNH2, and discuss the physiological significance of this process in-vivo.Methods
Iron release from horse spleen ferritin and recombinant human heteropolymer ferritin was followed by the change in optical density of the Fe(II)–bipyridine complex using a Cary 50 Bio UV–Vis spectrophotometer. Oxygen consumption curves were followed on a MI 730 Clark oxygen microelectrode.Results
The reductive mobilization of iron from ferritin by the nonenzymatic FMN/NAD(P)H system is extremely slow in the presence of oxygen and might involve superoxide radicals, but not FMNH2. Under anaerobic conditions, a very rapid phase of iron mobilization by FMNH2 was observed.Conclusions
Under normoxic conditions, FMNH2 alone might not be a physiologically significant contributor to iron release from ferritin.General significance
There is no consensus on which iron release pathway is predominantly responsible for iron mobilization from ferritin under cellular conditions. While reduced flavin mononucleotide (FMNH2) is one likely candidate for in-vivo ferritin iron removal, its significance is confounded by the rapid oxidation of the latter by molecular oxygen. 相似文献6.
Using isolated chloroplasts or purified thylakoids from photoautotrophically grown cells of the chromophytic alga Pleurochloris meiringensis (Xanthophyceae) we were able to demonstrate a membrane bound NAD(P)H dehydrogenase activity. NAD(P)H oxidation was detectable with menadione, coenzyme Q0, decylplastoquinone and decylubiquinone as acceptors in an in vitro assay. K
m-values for both pyridine nucleotides were in the molar range (K
m[NADH]=9.8 M, K
m[NADPH]=3.2 M calculated according to Lineweaver-Burk). NADH oxidation was optimal at pH 9 while pH dependence of NADPH oxidation showed a main peak at 9.8 and a smaller optimum at pH 7.5–8. NADH oxidation could be completely inhibited with rotenone, an inhibitor of mitochondrial complex I dehydrogenase, while NADPH oxidation revealed the typical inhibition pattern upon addition of oxidized pyridine nucleotides reported for ferredoxin: NADP+ reductase. Partly-denaturing gel electrophoresis followed by NAD(P)H dehydrogenase activity staining showed that NADPH and NADH oxidizing proteins had different electrophoretic mobilities. As revealed by denaturing electrophoresis, the NADH oxidizing enzyme had one main subunit of 22 kDa and two further polypeptides of 29 and 44 kDa, whereas separation of the NADPH depending protein yielded five bands of different molecular weight. Measurement of oxygen consumption due to PS I mediated methylviologen reduction upon complete inhibition of PS II showed that the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase is able to catalyze an input of electrons from NADH to the photosynthetic electron transport chain in case of an oxidized plastoquinone-pool. We suggest ferredoxin: NADP+ reductase to be the main NADPH oxidizing activity while a thylakoidal NAD(P)H: plastoquinone oxidoreductase involved in the chlororespiratory pathway in the dark acts mainly as an NADH oxidizing enzyme.Abbreviations Coenzyme
Q0-2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl-1,4-benzoquinone
- FNR
ferredoxin: NADP+ reductase
- MD
menadione
- MV
methylviologen
- NDH
NAD(P)H dehydrogenase
- PQ
plastoquinone
- PQ10
decylplastoquinone
- SDH
succinate dehydrogenase
- UQ10
decylubiquinone (2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl-6-decyl-1,4-benzoquinone) 相似文献
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Background
In the membrane-bound enzyme cytochrome c oxidase, electron transfer from cytochrome c to O2 is linked to proton uptake from solution to form H2O, resulting in a charge separation across the membrane. In addition, the reaction drives pumping of protons across the membrane.Methods
In this study we have measured voltage changes as a function of pH during reaction of the four-electron reduced cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides with O2. These electrogenic events were measured across membranes containing purified enzyme reconstituted into lipid vesicles.Results
The results show that the pH dependence of voltage changes (primarily associated with proton transfer) during O2 reduction does not match that of the previously studied absorbance changes (primarily associated with electron transfer). Furthermore, the voltage changes decrease with increasing pH.Conclusions
The data indicate that cytochrome c oxidase does not pump protons at high pH (10.5) (or protons are taken from the “wrong” side of the membrane) and that at this pH the net proton-uptake stoichiometry is ∼ 1/2 of that at pH 8. Furthermore, the results provide a basis for interpretation of results from studies of mutant forms of the enzyme.General significance
These results provide new insights into the function of cytochrome c oxidase. 相似文献8.
Hiroshi Tsujikawa Takehiro Shoda Toshiyuki Mizota Kazuhiko Fukuda 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2009
Background
Morphine has been shown to affect the function of immune system, but the precise mechanism remains to be elucidated. The present study was aimed to clarify the mechanism for the morphine-induced immune suppression by analyzing the direct effect of morphine on human CD3+ T cells.Methods
To identify genes up-regulated by action of morphine on the opioid receptor expressed in CD3+ T cells, PCR-select cDNA subtraction was performed by the use of total RNA from human CD3+ T cells treated with morphine in the presence and absence of naloxone.Results
We show that p53 and damage-specific DNA binding protein 2 (ddb2) genes are up-regulated by morphine in a naloxone-sensitive manner. Furthermore, the results indicate that DNA damage, quantified by apurinic–apyrimidinic site counting assay and phosphorylation of Ser-15 in P53 protein, is induced in CD3+ T cells by morphine in a naloxone-sensitive manner.General significance
Because it was shown that only the κ opioid receptor gene is expressed in CD3+ T cells in the opioid receptor family, the present study suggests that morphine induces DNA damage through the action on the κ opioid receptor, which leads to immune suppression by activation of P53-mediated signal transduction. 相似文献9.
Alessandra Linardi Thomaz A.A. Rocha e Silva Elen H. Miyabara Carla F. Franco-Penteado Kiara C. Cardoso Patrícia A. Boer Anselmo S. Moriscot José A.R. Gontijo Paulo P. Joazeiro Carla B. Collares-Buzato Stephen Hyslop 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2011
Background
Acute renal failure is a serious complication of human envenoming by Bothrops snakes. The ion pump Na+/K+-ATPase has an important role in renal tubule function, where it modulates sodium reabsorption and homeostasis of the extracellular compartment. Here, we investigated the morphological and functional renal alterations and changes in Na+/K+-ATPase expression and activity in rats injected with Bothrops alternatus snake venom.Methods
Male Wistar rats were injected with venom (0.8 mg/kg, i.v.) and renal function was assessed 6, 24, 48 and 72 h and 7 days post-venom. The rats were then killed and renal Na+/K+-ATPase activity was assayed based on phosphate release from ATP; gene and protein expressions were assessed by real time PCR and immunofluorescence microscopy, respectively.Results
Venom caused lobulation of the capillary tufts, dilation of Bowman's capsular space, F-actin disruption in Bowman's capsule and renal tubule brush border, and deposition of collagen around glomeruli and proximal tubules that persisted seven days after envenoming. Enhanced sodium and potassium excretion, reduced proximal sodium reabsorption, and proteinuria were observed 6 h post-venom, followed by a transient decrease in the glomerular filtration rate. Gene and protein expressions of the Na+/K+-ATPase α1 subunit were increased 6 h post-venom, whereas Na+/K+-ATPase activity increased 6 h and 24 h post-venom.Conclusions
Bothrops alternatus venom caused marked morphological and functional renal alterations with enhanced Na+/K+-ATPase expression and activity in the early phase of renal damage.General significance
Enhanced Na+/K+-ATPase activity in the early hours after envenoming may attenuate the renal dysfunction associated with venom-induced damage. 相似文献10.
Background
Recombination activation gene 1 deficient (rag1−/−) mutant zebrafish have a reduced lymphocyte-like cell population that lacks functional B and T lymphocytes of the acquired immune system, but includes Natural Killer (NK)-like cells and Non-specific cytotoxic cells (NCC) of the innate immune system. The innate immune system is thought to lack the adaptive characteristics of an acquired immune system that provide enhanced protection to a second exposure of the same pathogen. It has been shown that NK cells have the ability to mediate adaptive immunity to chemical haptens and cytomegalovirus in murine models. In this study we evaluated the ability of rag1−/− mutant zebrafish to mount a protective response to the facultative intracellular fish bacterium Edwardsiella ictaluri.Methodology/Principal Findings
Following secondary challenge with a lethal dose of homologous bacteria 4 and 8 weeks after a primary vaccination, rag1−/− mutant zebrafish demonstrated protective immunity. Heterologous bacterial exposures did not provide protection. Adoptive leukocyte transfers from previously exposed mutants conferred protective immunity to naïve mutants when exposed to homologous bacteria.Conclusions/Significance
Our findings show that a component of the innate immune system mounted a response that provided significantly increased survival when rag1−/− mutant zebrafish were re-exposed to the same bacteria. Further, adoptive cell transfers demonstrated that kidney interstitial leukocytes from previously exposed rag1−/− mutant zebrafish transferred this protective immunity. This is the first report of any rag1−/− mutant vertebrate mounting a protective secondary immune response to a bacterial pathogen, and demonstrates that a type of zebrafish innate immune cell can mediate adaptive immunity in the absence of T and B cells. 相似文献11.
Jianchang Zhou Paul C. Dimayuga Xiaoning Zhao Juliana YanoWai Man Lio Portia TrinidadTomoyuki Honjo Bojan CercekPrediman K. Shah Kuang-Yuh Chyu 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2014
Background
It is increasingly evident that CD8+ T cells are involved in atherosclerosis but the specific subtypes have yet to be defined. CD8+CD25+ T cells exert suppressive effects on immune signaling and modulate experimental autoimmune disorders but their role in atherosclerosis remains to be determined. The phenotype and functional role of CD8+CD25+ T cells in experimental atherosclerosis were investigated in this study.Methods and results
CD8+CD25+ T cells were observed in atherosclerotic plaques of apoE(−/−) mice fed hypercholesterolemic diet. Characterization by flow cytometric analysis and functional evaluation using a CFSE-based proliferation assays revealed a suppressive phenotype and function of splenic CD8+CD25+ T cells from apoE(−/−) mice. Depletion of CD8+CD25+ from total CD8+ T cells rendered higher cytolytic activity of the remaining CD8+CD25− T cells. Adoptive transfer of CD8+CD25+ T cells into apoE(−/−) mice suppressed the proliferation of splenic CD4+ T cells and significantly reduced atherosclerosis in recipient mice.Conclusions
Our study has identified an athero-protective role for CD8+CD25+ T cells in experimental atherosclerosis. 相似文献12.
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Aims
Aristolochic acid (AA) nephrotoxicity is related to accumulation of methylglyoxal (MGO) and Nε-(carboxymethyl)lysine (CML) in the mouse kidney. We studied the activity of renal semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase (SSAO), a key enzyme involved in MGO generation, in AA-treated mice, and investigated nephroprotective effects produced by metformin, a MGO scavenger.Methods
Mice were orally administered water or metformin for 15 days (12 or 24 mg kg− 1 day− 1), and injected AA (5 mg kg− 1 day− 1) intraperitoneally for 8 days starting on day 8. Renal function was studied, and histopathological examination, determination of renal SSAO activity, and measurement of MGO levels were performed.Key findings
Compared to control mice, AA-injected mice showed significant renal damage and approximately 2.7-fold greater renal SSAO activity (p < 0.05). Further, compared to control treatment, administration of 12 mg/kg metformin inhibited formation of renal lesions, and significantly decreased renal MGO levels (37.33 ± 9.78 vs. 5.89 ± 2.64 μg/mg of protein, respectively, p < 0.01). In the AA-treated mice, metformin also inhibited the accumulation of CML in renal tubules, but did not affect SSAO activity.Significance
This study is the first to show elevated renal SSAO activity in AA-treated mice, which could be involved in MGO accumulation. Moreover, MGO scavenging by metformin reduces AA nephrotoxicity. These findings suggest that reducing MGO accumulation produces nephroprotection, revealing new therapeutic strategies for the management. SSAO is a key enzyme involved in MGO generation, and consequently, inhibition of renal SSAO activity is worth investigating in AA nephrotoxicity and other renal pathologies further. 相似文献14.
Lee Hedden Cyril H. Benes Stephen P. Soltoff 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2011
Background
The activation of various P2 receptors (P2R) by extracellular nucleotides promotes diverse cellular events, including the stimulation of cell signaling protein and increases in [Ca2+]i. We report that some agents that can block P2X7R receptors also promote diverse P2X7R-independent effects on cell signaling.Methods
We exposed native rat parotid acinar cells, salivary gland cell lines (Par-C10, HSY, HSG), and PC12 cells to suramin, DIDS (4,4′-diisothiocyano stilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid), Cibacron Blue 3GA, Brilliant Blue G, and the P2X7R-selective antagonist A438079, and examined the activation/phosphorylation of ERK1/2, PKCδ, Src, CDCP1, and other signaling proteins.Results
With the exception of suramin, these agents blocked the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 by BzATP in rat parotid acinar cells; but higher concentrations of suramin blocked ATP-stimulated 45Ca2+ entry. Aside from A438079, these agents increased the phosphorylation of ERK1/2, Src, PKCδ, and other proteins (including Dok-1) within minutes in an agent- and cell type-specific manner in the absence of a P2X7R ligand. The stimulatory effect of these compounds on the tyrosine phosphorylation of CDCP1 and its Src-dependent association with PKCδ was blocked by knockdown of CDCP1, which also blocked Src and PKCδ phosphorylation.Conclusions
Several agents used as P2X7R blockers promote the activation of various signaling proteins and thereby act more like receptor agonists than antagonists.General significance
Some compounds used to block P2 receptors have complicated effects that may confound their use in blocking receptor activation and other biological processes for which they are employed, including their use as blockers of various ion transport proteins. 相似文献15.
Abhijit Mukhopadhyay Baoxian Wei Henry Weiner 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2013
Background
In a previous study, we deleted three aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) genes, involved in ethanol metabolism, from yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and found that the triple deleted yeast strain did not grow on ethanol as sole carbon source. The ALDHs were NADP dependent cytosolic ALDH1, NAD dependent mitochondrial ALDH2 and NAD/NADP dependent mitochondrial ALDH5. Double deleted strain ΔALDH2+ΔALDH5 or ΔALDH1+ΔALDH5 could grow on ethanol. However, the double deleted strain ΔALDH1+ΔALDH2 did not grow in ethanol.Methods
Triple deleted yeast strain was used. Mitochondrial NAD dependent ALDH from yeast or human was placed in yeast cytosol.Results
In the present study we found that a mutant form of cytoplasmic ALDH1 with very low activity barely supported the growth of the triple deleted strain (ΔALDH1+ΔALDH2+ΔALDH5) on ethanol. Finding the importance of NADP dependent ALDH1 on the growth of the strain on ethanol we examined if NAD dependent mitochondrial ALDH2 either from yeast or human would be able to support the growth of the triple deleted strain on ethanol if the mitochondrial form was placed in cytosol. We found that the NAD dependent mitochondrial ALDH2 from yeast or human was active in cytosol and supported the growth of the triple deleted strain on ethanol.Conclusion
This study showed that coenzyme preference of ALDH is not critical in cytosol of yeast for the growth on ethanol.General significance
The present study provides a basis to understand the coenzyme preference of ALDH in ethanol metabolism in yeast. 相似文献16.
Summary The single-channel current recording technique has been used to study the influences that the pyridine nucleotides NAD, NADH, NADP and NADPH have on the gating of ATP-sensitive K+ channels in an insulin-secreting cell line (RINm5F). The effects of the nucleotides were studied at the intracellular surface using either excised inside-out membrane patches or permeabilized cells. All four pyridine nucleotides were found to evoke similar effects. At low concentrations, 100 m and less, each promoted channel opening whereas high concentrations, 500 m and above, evoked channel closure. The degree of K+ channel activation by pyridine nucleotides (low conc.) was found to be similar to that evoked by the same concentrations of ADP or GTP, whereas the degree of K+ channel inhibition (high conc.) was less marked than that evoked by the same concentrations of ATP, and never resulted in refreshment of K+ channels following removal. The effects of NAD, NADH, NADP and NADPH seemed to interact with those of ATP and ADP. In the presence of 1mm ADP and 4mm ATP, 10 to 100 m concentrations of the pyridine nucleotides could not evoke channel opening, whereas concentrations of 500 m and above were found to evoke channel closure. In the presence of 2mm ATP and 0.5mm ADP, however, 10 to 100 m concentrations of the pyridine nucleotides were able to activate K+ channels. 相似文献
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Light modulation of chloroplast glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (NAD(P)-GAPDH; EC 1.2.1.13) has been investigated. Complete activation of NADPH-dependent activity is achieved at 25 W.m–2 photosynthetically active radiation in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) and 100 W.m–2 in maize (Zea mays L.) leaves. Light activation is stronger in spinach (fivefold on average) than in maize (twofold), which shows higher dark activity. The NADH dependent activity does not change appreciably. Several substrate activators can simulate in vitro the light effect with recovery of latent NADPH-dependent activity of spinach enzyme, but they are almost inactive with maize enzyme. A mixture of activators has been devised to fully activate the spinach enzyme under most conditions. The NAD(P)-GAPDH protein can be resolved by rapid gel filtration (fast protein liquid chromatography) into three conformers which have different molecular masses according to the light conditions. Enzyme from darkened leaves or chloroplasts, or dichlorophenyl-1,1-dimethylurea-treated chloroplasts is mainly a 600-kDa regulatory form with low NADPH-dependent activity relative to NADH-activity. Enzyme from spinach leaves or chloroplasts during photosynthesis is mainly a 300-kDa oligomer, which along with the 600-kDa form also occurs in leaves of darkened maize. The conformer of illuminated maize leaves is mainly a 160-kDa species. Results are consistent with a model of NAD(P)-GAPDH freely interconvertible between protomers of the 160-kDa (or 300-kDa intermediate) form with high NADPH-activity, produced in the light by the action of thioredoxin and activating metabolites (spinach only), and a regulatory 600-kDa conformer with lower NADPH-activity produced in darkness or when photosynthesis is inhibited. This behavior is reminiscent of the in-vitro properties of purified enzyme; therefore, it seems unlikely that NAD(P)-GAPDH in the chloroplast is part of a stable multienzyme complex or is bound to membranes.Abbreviations AEM
activator equilibrium mixture
- Chl
chlorophyll
- DCMU
dichlorophenyl 1,1-dimethylurea
- DTT
dithiothreitol
- FPLC
fast protein liquid chromatography
- NAD(P)-GAPDH
glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, NAD(P)-dependent
- PAR
photosynthetic active radiation
- PGK
phosphoglycerate kinase
- Tricine
N-tris(hydroxy-methyl) methyl-glycine
This work was supported by grants from the Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Seientifica e Tecnologica (40%, years 1990 and 1991). 相似文献
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Joseph D.T. Ndika Cristina Martinez-Munoz Nandaja Anand Silvy J.M. van Dooren Warsha Kanhai Desiree E.C. Smith Cornelis Jakobs Gajja S. Salomons 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2014
Background
Aberrations in about 10–15% of X-chromosome genes account for intellectual disability (ID); with a prevalence of 1–3% (Gécz et al., 2009 [1]). The SLC6A8 gene, mapped to Xq28, encodes the creatine transporter (CTR1). Mutations in SLC6A8, and the ensuing decrease in brain creatine, lead to co-occurrence of speech/language delay, autism-like behaviors and epilepsy with ID. A splice variant of SLC6A8–SLC6A8C, containing intron 4 and exons 5–13, was identified. Herein, we report the identification of a novel variant — SLC6A8D, and functional relevance of these isoforms.Methods
Via (quantitative) RT-PCR, uptake assays, and confocal microscopy, we investigated their expression and function vis-à-vis creatine transport.Results
SLC6A8D is homologous to SLC6A8C except for a deletion of exon 9 (without occurrence of a frame shift). Both contain an open reading frame encoding a truncated protein but otherwise identical to CTR1. Like SLC6A8, both variants are predominantly expressed in tissues with high energy requirement. Our experiments reveal that these truncated isoforms do not transport creatine. However, in SLC6A8 (CTR1)-overexpressing cells, a subsequent infection (transduction) with viral constructs encoding either the SLC6A8C (CTR4) or SLC6A8D (CTR5) isoform resulted in a significant increase in creatine accumulation compared to CTR1 cells re-infected with viral constructs containing the empty vector. Moreover, transient transfection of CTR4 or CTR5 into HEK293 cells resulted in significantly higher creatine uptake.Conclusions
CTR4 and CTR5 are possible regulators of the creatine transporter since their overexpression results in upregulated CTR1 protein and creatine uptake.General significance
Provides added insight into the mechanism(s) of creatine transport regulation. 相似文献19.
Karina Ckless Samantha R. Hodgkins Jennifer L. Ather Rebecca Martin Matthew E. Poynter 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2011
Background
While many of the contributing cell types and mediators of allergic asthma are known, less well understood are the factors that induce allergy in the first place. Amongst the mediators speculated to affect initial allergen sensitization and the development of pathogenic allergic responses to innocuous inhaled antigens and allergens are exogenously or endogenously generated reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS).Scope of review
The interactions between ROS/RNS, dendritic cells (DCs), and CD4+ T cells, as well as their modulation by lung epithelium, are of critical importance for the genesis of allergies that later manifest in allergic asthma. Therefore, this review will primarily focus on the initiation of pulmonary allergies and the role that ROS/RNS may play in the steps therein, using examples from our own work on the roles of NO2 exposure and airway epithelial NF-κB activation.Major conclusions
Endogenously generated ROS/RNS and those encountered from environmental sources interact with epithelium, DCs, and CD4+ T cells to orchestrate allergic sensitization through modulation of the activities of each of these cell types, which quantitiatively and qualitatively dictate the degree and type of the allergic asthma phenotype.General significance
Knowledge of the effects of ROS/RNS at the molecular and cellular levels has the potential to provide powerful insight into the balance between inhalational tolerance (the typical immunologic response to an innocuous inhaled antigen) and allergy, as well as to potentially provide mechanistic targets for the prevention and treatment of asthma. 相似文献20.
Juan P. Bustamante Alessandra Bonamore Alejandro D. Nadra Natascia Sciamanna Alberto Boffi Darío A. Estrin Leonardo Boechi 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2014