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Raffaela Pero Dario Palmieri Tiziana Angrisano Teresa Valentino Antonella Federico Renato Franco Francesca Lembo Andres J. Klein-Szanto Luigi Del Vecchio Donatella Montanaro Simona Keller Claudio Arra Vasiliki Papadopoulou Simon D. Wagner Carlo M. Croce Alfredo Fusco Lorenzo Chiariotti Monica Fedele 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2014,289(21):14966
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Sara Batelli Diego Albani Raffaela Rametta Letizia Polito Francesca Prato Marzia Pesaresi Alessandro Negro Gianluigi Forloni 《PloS one》2008,3(4)
Background
Parkinson''s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative pathology whose molecular etiopathogenesis is not known. Novel contributions have come from familial forms of PD caused by alterations in genes with apparently unrelated physiological functions. The gene coding for alpha-synuclein (α-syn) (PARK1) has been investigated as α-syn is located in Lewy bodies (LB), intraneuronal inclusions in the substantia nigra (SN) of PD patients. A-syn has neuroprotective chaperone-like and antioxidant functions and is involved in dopamine storage and release. DJ-1 (PARK7), another family-PD-linked gene causing an autosomal recessive form of the pathology, shows antioxidant and chaperone-like activities too.Methodology/Principal Findings
The present study addressed the question whether α-syn and DJ-1 interact functionally, with a view to finding some mechanism linking DJ-1 inactivation and α-syn aggregation and toxicity. We developed an in vitro model of α-syn toxicity in the human neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-BE, influencing DJ-1 and α-syn intracellular concentrations by exogenous addition of the fusion proteins TAT-α-syn and TAT-DJ-1; DJ-1 was inactivated by the siRNA method. On a micromolar scale TAT-α-syn aggregated and triggered neurotoxicity, while on the nanomolar scale it was neuroprotective against oxidative stress (induced by H2O2 or 6-hydroxydopamine). TAT-DJ-1 increased the expression of HSP70, while DJ-1 silencing made SK-N-BE cells more susceptible to oxidative challenge, rendering TAT-α-syn neurotoxic at nanomolar scale, with the appearance of TAT-α-syn aggregates.Conclusion/Significance
DJ-1 inactivation may thus promote α-syn aggregation and the related toxicity, and in this model HSP70 is involved in the antioxidant response and in the regulation of α-syn fibril formation. 相似文献24.
Tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus rep-derived resistance to homologous and heterologous geminiviruses occurs by different mechanisms and is overcome if virus-mediated transgene silencing is activated 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7 下载免费PDF全文
Lucioli A Noris E Brunetti A Tavazza R Ruzza V Castillo AG Bejarano ER Accotto GP Tavazza M 《Journal of virology》2003,77(12):6785-6798
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We consider the size distribution of amyloid nanofibrils (protofilaments) in nucleating protein solutions when the nucleation process occurs by the mechanism of direct polymerization of β-strands (extended peptides or protein segments) into β-sheets. Employing the atomistic nucleation theory, we derive a general expression for the stationary size distribution of amyloid nanofibrils constituted of successively layered β-sheets. The application of this expression to amyloid β1-40 (Aβ40) fibrils allows us to determine the nanofibril size distribution as a function of the protein concentration and temperature. The distribution is most remarkable with its exhibiting a series of peaks positioned at “magic” nanofibril sizes (or lengths), which are due to deep local minima in the work for fibril formation. This finding of magic sizes or lengths is consistent with experimental results for the size distribution of aggregates in solutions of Aβ40 proteins. Also, our approach makes it possible to gain insight into the effect of point mutations on the nanofibril size distribution, an effect that may play a role in experimentally observed substantial differences in the fibrillation lag-time of wild-type and point-mutated amyloid-β proteins. 相似文献
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Raffaela Cutzu Annalisa Coi Fulvia Rosso Laura Bardi Maurizio Ciani Marilena Budroni Giacomo Zara Severino Zara Ilaria Mannazzu 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2013,29(6):1009-1017
In this work eighteen red yeasts were screened for carotenoids production on glycerol containing medium. Strain C2.5t1 of Rhodotorula glutinis, that showed the highest productivity, was UV mutagenized. Mutant 400A15, that exhibited a 280 % increase in β–carotene production in respect to the parental strain, was selected. A central composite design was applied to 400A15 to optimize carotenoids and biomass productions. Regression analyses of the quadratic polynomial equations obtained (R2 = 0.87 and 0.94, for carotenoids and biomass, respectively) suggest that the models are reliable and significant (P < 0.0001) in the prediction of carotenoids and biomass productions on the basis of the concentrations of crude glycerol, yeast extract and peptone. Accordingly, total carotenoids production achieved (14.07 ± 1.45 mg l?1) under optimized growth conditions was not statistically different from the maximal predicted (14.64 ± 1.57 mg l?1) (P < 0.05), and it was about 100 % higher than that obtained under un-optimized conditions. Therefore mutant 400A15 may represent a biocatalyst of choice for the bioconversion of crude glycerol into value-added metabolites, and a tool for the valorization of this by-product of the biodiesel industry. 相似文献
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Gagliardi MC Starnino S Teloni R Mariotti S Dal Conte I Di Carlo A Stefanelli P 《FEMS immunology and medical microbiology》2011,61(1):129-132
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the etiological agent of gonorrhoea, an infectious disease characterized by acute inflammation of the urogenital tract with a massive infiltration of neutrophils. Polymorphonuclear leukocyte recruitment is one of the activities of the recently described interleukin-17A (IL-17A); thus, we analyzed the serum concentration of IL-17A, together with IL-23 and interferon-γ (IFN-γ), in 27 patients with gonorrhoea. The concentration of these cytokines in patients' sera was significantly higher than that detected in healthy controls and an inverse correlation was found between the concentrations of IL-17A and IFN-γ. This is the first report showing a significant increase of IL-17A and IL-23 serum levels in patients with gonorrhoea, suggesting new players in the immune response to N. gonorrhoeae. 相似文献
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Costanzo CM Monte I Zappal D Palermo CI Span S Russo R Oliveri S Patamia I Scalia G 《The new microbiologica》2011,34(3):255-262
Treatment of myocarditis and pericarditis can differ on the basis of aetiology: systemic or auto-immune disease can be positively influenced by corticoid therapy, whereas this kind of treatment can worsen the course of virus-induced disease. Therefore, the aetiological diagnosis is extremely important. The synergistic use of minimally invasive serological, IgG, IgM, IgA, and neutralizing titres, and RNA detection was evaluated on representative patients out of 238 suffering from cardiopathies. The results obtained for each case can yield reliable guidelines that rapidly highlight the presence of a viral aetiology so that an endomyocardial biopsy can be performed thus eliminating incorrect therapies. Thus, not only is this technique rapid, minimally invasive providing the clinician with decisive data, but it is cost effective for the health system. 相似文献
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Ducluzeau PH Priou M Weitheimer M Flamment M Duluc L Iacobazi F Soleti R Simard G Durand A Rieusset J Andriantsitohaina R Malthièry Y 《Journal of physiology and biochemistry》2011,67(3):285-296
Mitochondria have been shown to be impaired in insulin resistance-related diseases but have not been extensively studied during the first steps of adipose cell development. This study was designed to determine the sequence of changes of the mitochondrial network and function during the first days of adipogenesis. 3T3-L1 preadipocytes were differentiated into adipocytes without using glitazone compounds. At days?0, 3, 6, 9, and 12, mitochondrial network imaging, mitochondrial oxygen consumption, membrane potential, and oxidative phosphorylation efficiency were assessed in permeabilized cells. Gene and protein expressions related to fatty acid metabolism and mitochondrial network were also determined. Compared to preadipocytes (day?0), new adipocytes (days?6 and 9) displayed profound changes of their mitochondrial network that underwent fragmentation and redistribution around lipid droplets. Drp1 and mitofusin 2 displayed a progressive increase in their gene expression and protein content during the first 9?days of differentiation. In parallel with the mitochondrial network redistribution, mitochondria switched to uncoupled respiration with a tendency towards decreased membrane potential, with no variation of mtTFA and NRF1 gene expression. The expression of PGC1α and NRF2 genes and genes involved in lipid oxidation (UCP2, CD36, and CPT1) was increased. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) production displayed a nadir at day?6 with a concomitant increase in antioxidant enzyme gene expression. This 3T3-L1-based in vitro model of adipogenesis showed that mitochondria adapted to the increased number of lipid droplets by network redistribution and uncoupling respiration. The timing and regulation of lipid oxidation-associated ROS production appeared to play an important role in these changes. 相似文献