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Antonella Santoro Anna Rita CappelloMarianna Madeo Emanuela MartelloDomenico Iacopetta Vincenza Dolce 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2011
Background
Fosfomycin is widely used to treat urinary tract and pediatric gastrointestinal infections of bacteria. It is supposed that this antibiotic enters cells via two transport systems, including the bacterial Glycerol-3-phosphate Transporter (GlpT). Impaired function of GlpT is one mechanism for fosfomycin resistance.Methods
The interaction of fosfomycin with the recombinant and purified GlpT of Escherichia coli reconstituted in liposomes has been studied. IC50 and the half-saturation constant of the transporter for external fosfomycin (Ki) were determined by transport assay of [14C]glycerol-3-phosphate catalyzed by recombinant GlpT. Efficacy of fosfomycin on growth rates of GlpT defective bacteria strains transformed with recombinant GlpT was measured.Results
Fosfomycin, externally added to the proteoliposomes, poorly inhibited the glycerol-3-phosphate/glycerol-3-phosphate antiport catalyzed by the reconstituted transporter with an IC50 of 6.4 mM. A kinetic analysis revealed that the inhibition was completely competitive, that is, fosfomycin interacted with the substrate-binding site and the Ki measured was 1.65 mM. Transport assays performed with proteoliposomes containing internal fosfomycin indicate that it was not very well transported by GlpT. Complementation study, performed with GlpT defective bacteria strains, indicated that the fosfomycin resistance, beside deficiency in antibiotic transporter, could be due to other gene defects.Conclusions
The poor transport observed in a reconstituted system together with the high value of Ki and the results of complementation study well explain the usual high dosage of this drug for the treatment of the urinary tract infections.General significance
This is the first report regarding functional analysis of interaction between fosfomycin and GlpT. 相似文献12.
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Thrombin's effects on osteoblastic cells. I. Cytosolic calcium and phosphoinositides 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
D N Tatakis C Dolce R Dziak 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1989,164(1):119-127
Thrombin, a blood coagulation factor, has been shown to be a very effective in vitro bone resorbing agent whose mechanism of action on osteoblastic cells remains to be elucidated. In the present study, the effects of highly purified human thrombin on Saos-2 and G292 cells, two human osteoblast-like osteosarcoma cell lines, were investigated. Thrombin (0.6-16 U/ml) caused a significant, dose-dependent increase in osteoblastic cell proliferation. Thrombin also elicited a dose-dependent increase in cytosolic calcium concentration in both Saos-2 and G292 cells (maximal increases were 38% and 200% over baseline, respectively). Addition of thrombin to the osteoblast-like cells resulted in significant time- and dose-dependent changes in phosphoinositide levels: the percentage of inositol monophosphate levels were decreased, whereas the percentage of inositol bisphosphate, inositol trisphosphate and inositol tetrakisphosphate levels were increased. The relative magnitude of the changes in phosphoinositide levels was similar to the changes in cytosolic calcium concentration. These results suggest that thrombin's mechanism of action on bone cells may involve increases in cytosolic calcium levels and in phosphoinositide metabolism. 相似文献
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Carrisi C Madeo M Morciano P Dolce V Cenci G Cappello AR Mazzeo G Iacopetta D Capobianco L 《Journal of biochemistry》2008,144(3):389-392
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Marjan Huizing Wim Ruitenbeek Lambert P. van den Heuvel Vincenza Dolce Vito Iacobazzi Jan A. M. Smeitink Ferdinando Palmieri J. M. Frans Trijbels 《Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes》1998,30(3):277-284
Mitochondrial transmembrane carrier deficiencies are a recently discovered group of disorders, belonging to the so-called mitochondriocytopathies. We examined the human tissue distribution of carriers which are involved in the process of oxidative phosphorylation (adenine nucleotide translocator, phosphate carrier, and voltage-dependent anion channel) and some mitochondrial substrate carriers (2-oxoglutarate carrier, carnitine-acylcarnitine carrier, and citrate carrier). The tissue distribution on mRNA level of mitochondrial transport proteins appears to be roughly in correlation with the dependence of these tissues on mitochondrial energy production capacity. In general the main mRNA expression of carriers involved in mitochondrial energy metabolism occurs in skeletal muscle and heart. Expression in liver and pancreas differs between carriers. Expression in brain, placenta, lung, and kidney is lower than in the other tissues. Western and Northern blotting experiments show a comparable HVDAC1 protein and mRNA distribution for the tested tissues. Patient's studies showed that cultured skin fibroblasts may not be a reliable alternative for skeletal muscle in screening for human mitochondrial carrier defects. 相似文献
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Marianna Madeo Chiara Carrisi Domenico Iacopetta Loredana Capobianco Anna Rita Cappello Cecilia Bucci Ferdinando Palmieri Giancarlo Mazzeo Anna Montalto Vincenza Dolce 《Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes》2009,41(3):289-297
Heterologous expression of recombinant proteins is an essential technology for protein characterization. A major obstacle
to investigating the biochemical properties of membrane proteins is the difficulty in obtaining sufficient amounts of functional
protein. Here we report the successful expression of the tricarboxylate (or citrate) carrier (CIC) of eel (Anguilla anguilla) from Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells using the baculovirus expression system. The recombinant CIC was purified by affinity chromatography on Ni2+-NTA agarose; the yield of the purified active protein was 0.4–0.5 mg/l of culture. The transport characteristics of the recombinant
CIC and the effects of inhibitors on transport are similar to those determined for eel liver mitochondrial CIC. Because the
CIC is one member of an extensive family of mitochondrial transport proteins, it is likely that the procedure used in this
study to express and purify this carrier can be successfully applied to other mitochondrial transport proteins, thus providing
sufficient protein for functional characterization.
Marianna Madeo and Chiara Carrisi contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Daniela Bonofiglio Antonella Santoro Emanuela Martello Donatella Vizza Daniela Rovito Anna Rita Cappello Ines Barone Cinzia Giordano Salvatore Panza Stefania Catalano Vito Iacobazzi Vincenza Dolce Sebastiano Andò 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids》2013,1831(6):1027-1036
The citrate carrier (CIC), a nuclear-encoded protein located in the mitochondrial inner membrane, plays an important metabolic role in the transport of acetyl-CoA from the mitochondrion to the cytosol in the form of citrate for fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis. Citrate has been reported to be essential for fibroblast differentiation into fat cells. Because peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARγ) is known to be one of the master regulators of adipogenesis, we aimed to study the regulation of CIC by the PPARγ ligand rosiglitazone (BRL) in 3T3-L1 fibroblasts and in adipocytes. We demonstrated that BRL up-regulated CIC mRNA and protein levels in fibroblasts, while it did not elicit any effects in mature adipocytes. The enhancement of CIC levels upon BRL treatment was reversed using the PPARγ antagonist GW9662, addressing how this effect was mediated by PPARγ. Functional experiments using a reporter gene containing rat CIC promoter showed that BRL enhanced CIC promoter activity. Mutagenesis studies, electrophoretic-mobility-shift assay and chromatin-immunoprecipitation analysis revealed that upon BRL treatment, PPARγ and Sp1 are recruited on the Sp1-containing region within the CIC promoter, leading to an increase in CIC expression. In addition, mithramycin, a specific inhibitor for Sp1-DNA binding activity, abolished the PPARγ-mediated up-regulation of CIC in fibroblasts. The stimulatory effects of BRL disappeared in mature adipocytes in which PPARγ/Sp1 complex recruited SMRT corepressor to the Sp1 site of the CIC promoter. Taken together, our results contribute to clarify the molecular mechanisms by which PPARγ regulates CIC expression during the differentiation stages of fibroblasts into mature adipocytes. 相似文献
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