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Karen?van Eunen Catharina?M.?L.?Volker-Touw Albert?Gerding Aycha?Bleeker Justina?C.?Wolters Willemijn?J.?van Rijt Anne-Claire?M.?F.?Martines Klary?E.?Niezen-Koning Rebecca?M.?Heiner Hjalmar?Permentier Albert?K.?Groen Terry?G.?J.?Derks Barbara?M.?BakkerEmail author 《BMC biology》2016,14(1):107
Background
Defects in genes involved in mitochondrial fatty-acid oxidation (mFAO) reduce the ability of patients to cope with metabolic challenges. mFAO enzymes accept multiple substrates of different chain length, leading to molecular competition among the substrates. Here, we combined computational modeling with quantitative mouse and patient data to investigate whether substrate competition affects pathway robustness in mFAO disorders.Results
First, we used comprehensive biochemical analyses of wild-type mice and mice deficient for medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) to parameterize a detailed computational model of mFAO. Model simulations predicted that MCAD deficiency would have no effect on the pathway flux at low concentrations of the mFAO substrate palmitoyl-CoA. However, high concentrations of palmitoyl-CoA would induce a decline in flux and an accumulation of intermediate metabolites. We proved computationally that the predicted overload behavior was due to substrate competition in the pathway. Second, to study the clinical relevance of this mechanism, we used patients’ metabolite profiles and generated a humanized version of the computational model. While molecular competition did not affect the plasma metabolite profiles during MCAD deficiency, it was a key factor in explaining the characteristic acylcarnitine profiles of multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficient patients. The patient-specific computational models allowed us to predict the severity of the disease phenotype, providing a proof of principle for the systems medicine approach.Conclusion
We conclude that substrate competition is at the basis of the physiology seen in patients with mFAO disorders, a finding that may explain why these patients run a risk of a life-threatening metabolic catastrophe.3.
de Boer AL Neerken S de Wijn R Permentier HP Gast P Vijgenboom E Hoff AJ 《Photosynthesis research》2002,71(3):221-239
Mutants of Rhodobacter (Rba.) sphaeroides are described which were designed to study electron transfer along the so-called B-branch of reaction center (RC) cofactors.
Combining the mutation L(M214)H, which results in the incorporation of a bacteriochlorophyll, β, for HA [Kirmaier et al. (1991) Science 251: 922–927] with two mutations, G(M203)D and Y(M210)W, near BA, we have created a double and a triple mutant with long lifetimes of the excited state P* of the primary donor P, viz. 80 and 160 ps at room temperature, respectively. The yield of P+QA
− formation in these mutants is reduced to 50 and 30%, respectively, of that in wildtype RCs. For both mutants, the quantum
yield of P+HB
− formation was less than 10%, in contrast to the 15% B-branch electron transfer demonstrated in RCs of a similar mutant of
Rba. capsulatus with a P* lifetime of 15 ps [Heller et al. (1995) Science 269: 940–945]. We conclude that the lifetime of P* is not a governing factor in switching to B-branch electron transfer. The direct photoreduction of the secondary quinone,
QB, was studied with a triple mutant combining the G(M203)D, L(M214)H and A(M260)W mutations. In this triple mutant QA does not bind to the reaction center [Ridge et al. (1999) Photosynth Res 59: 9–26]. It is shown that B-branch electron transfer
leading to P+QB
− formation occurs to a minor extent at both room temperature and at cryogenic temperatures (about 3% following a saturating
laser flash at 20 K). In contrast, in wildtype RCs P+QB
− formation involves the A-branch and does not occur at all at cryogenic temperatures. Attempts to accumulate the P+QB
− state under continuous illumination were not successful. Charge recombination of P+QB
− formed by B-branch electron transfer in the new mutant is much faster (seconds) than has been previously reported for charge
recombination of P+QB
− trapped in wildtype RCs (105 s) [Kleinfeld et al. (1984b) Biochemistry 23: 5780–5786]. This difference is discussed in light of the different binding
sites for QB and QB
− that recently have been found by X-ray crystallography at cryogenic temperatures [Stowell et al. (1997) Science 276: 812–816].
We present the first low-temperature absorption difference spectrum due to P+QB
−.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Permentier HP Neerken S Schmidt KA Overmann J Amesz J 《Biochimica et biophysica acta》2000,1460(2-3):338-345
The antenna reaction centre system of the recently described purple non-sulfur bacterium Roseospirillum parvum strain 930I was studied with various spectroscopic techniques. The bacterium contains bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) a, 20% of which was esterified with tetrahydrogeranylgeraniol. In the near-infrared, the antenna showed absorption bands at 805 and 909 nm (929 nm at 6 K). Fluorescence bands were located at 925 and 954 nm, at 300 and 6 K, respectively. Fluorescence excitation spectra and time resolved picosecond absorbance difference spectroscopy showed a nearly 100% efficient energy transfer from BChl 805 to BChl 909, with a time constant of only 2.6 ps. This and other evidence indicate that both types of BChl belong to a single LH1 complex. Flash induced difference spectra show that the primary electron donor absorbs at 886 nm, i.e. at 285 cm(-1) higher energy than the long wavelength antenna band. Nevertheless, the time constant for trapping in the reaction centre was the same as for almost all other purple bacteria: 55+/-5 ps. The shape as well as the amplitude of the absorbance difference spectrum of the excited antenna indicated exciton interaction and delocalisation of the excited state over the BChl 909 ring, whereas BChl 805 appeared to have a monomeric nature. 相似文献
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Steensgaard DB van Walree CA Permentier H Bañeras L Borrego CM Garcia-Gil J Aartsma TJ Amesz J Holzwarth AR 《Biochimica et biophysica acta》2000,1457(1-2):71-80
We have studied energy transfer in chlorosomes of Chlorobium limicola UdG6040 containing a mixture of about 50% bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c and BChl d each. BChl d-depleted chlorosomes were obtained by acid treatment. The energy transfer between the different pigment pools was studied using both steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy at room temperature and low temperature. The steady-state emission of the intact chlorosome originated mainly from BChl c, as judged by comparison of fluorescence emission spectra of intact and BChl d-depleted chlorosomes. This indicated that efficient energy transfer from BChl d to BChl c takes place. At room temperature BChl c/d to BChl a excitation energy transfer (EET) was characterized by two components of 27 and 74 ps. At low temperature we could also observe EET from BChl d to BChl c with a time constant of approximately 4 ps. Kinetic modeling of the low temperature data indicated heterogeneous fluorescence kinetics and suggested the presence of an additional BChl c pool, E790, which is more or less decoupled from the baseplate BChl a. This E790 pool is either a low-lying exciton state of BChl c which acts as a trap at low temperature or alternatively represents the red edge of a broad inhomogeneous absorption band of BChl c. We present a refined model for the organization of the spatially separated pigment pools in chlorosomes of Cb. limicola UdG6040 in which BChl d is situated distal and BChl c proximal with respect to the baseplate. 相似文献
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Neerken S Ma YZ Aschenbrücker J Schmidt KA Nowak FR Permentier HP Aartsma TJ Gillbro T Amesz J 《Photosynthesis research》2000,65(3):261-268
Properties of the excited states in reaction center core (RCC) complexes of the green sulfur bacterium Prosthecochloris aestuarii were studied by means of femtosecond time-resolved isotropic and anisotropic absorption difference spectroscopy at 275 K.
Selective excitation of the different transitions of the complex resulted in the rapid establishment of a thermal equilibrium.
At about 1 ps after excitation, the energy was located at the lowest energy transition, BChl a 835. Time constants varying between 0.26 and 0.46 ps were observed for the energy transfer steps leading to this equilibrium.
These transfer steps were also reflected in changes in polarization. Our measurements indicate that downhill energy transfer
towards excited BChl a 835 occurs via the energetically higher spectral forms BChl a 809 and BChl a 820. Low values of the anisotropy of about 0.07 were found in the ‘two-color’ measurements at 820 and 835 nm upon excitation
at 800 nm, whereas the ‘one-color’ kinetics showed much higher anisotropies. Charge separation occurred with a time constant
varying between 20 and 30 ps.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Andres Gil David Siegel Silke Bonsing-Vedelaar Hjalmar Permentier Dirk-Jan Reijngoud Frank Dekker Rainer Bischoff 《Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society》2017,13(1):1
Introduction
Boiling ethanol extraction is a frequently used method for metabolomics studies of biological samples. However, the stability of several central carbon metabolites, including nucleotide triphosphates, and the influence of the cellular matrix on their degradation have not been addressed.Objectives
To study how a complex cellular matrix extracted from yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) may affect the degradation profiles of nucleotide triphosphates extracted under boiling ethanol conditions.Methods
We present a double-labelling LC–MS approach with a 13C-labeled yeast cellular extract as complex surrogate matrix, and 13C15N-labeled nucleotides as internal standards, to study the effect of the yeast matrix on the degradation of nucleotide triphosphates.Results
While nucleotide triphosphates were degraded to the corresponding diphosphates in pure solutions, degradation was prevented in the presence of the yeast matrix under typical boiling ethanol extraction conditions.Conclusions
Extraction of biological samples under boiling ethanol extraction conditions that rapidly inactivate enzyme activity are suitable for labile central energy metabolites such as nucleotide triphosphates due to the stabilizing effect of the yeast matrix. The basis of this phenomenon requires further study.Graphical abstract
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Martijn F Schenk Jan HG Cordewener Antoine HP America Wendy PC van't Westende Marinus JM Smulders Luud JWJ Gilissen 《BMC plant biology》2009,9(1):24
Background
Bet v 1 is an important cause of hay fever in northern Europe. Bet v 1 isoforms from the European white birch (Betula pendula) have been investigated extensively, but the allergenic potency of other birch species is unknown. The presence of Bet v 1 and closely related PR-10 genes in the genome was established by amplification and sequencing of alleles from eight birch species that represent the four subgenera within the genus Betula. Q-TOF LC-MSE was applied to identify which PR-10/Bet v 1 genes are actually expressed in pollen and to determine the relative abundances of individual isoforms in the pollen proteome. 相似文献10.