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Renu Goel Krishna R Murthy Srinivas M Srikanth Sneha M Pinto Mitali Bhattacharjee Dhanashree S Kelkar Anil K Madugundu Gourav Dey Sujatha S Mohan Venkatarangaiah Krishna TS Keshava Prasad Shukti Chakravarti HC Harsha Akhilesh Pandey 《Clinical proteomics》2013,10(1):9
Background
The ciliary body is the circumferential muscular tissue located just behind the iris in the anterior chamber of the eye. It plays a pivotal role in the production of aqueous humor, maintenance of the lens zonules and accommodation by changing the shape of the crystalline lens. The ciliary body is the major target of drugs against glaucoma as its inhibition leads to a drop in intraocular pressure. A molecular study of the ciliary body could provide a better understanding about the pathophysiological processes that occur in glaucoma. Thus far, no large-scale proteomic investigation has been reported for the human ciliary body.Results
In this study, we have carried out an in-depth LC-MS/MS-based proteomic analysis of normal human ciliary body and have identified 2,815 proteins. We identified a number of proteins that were previously not described in the ciliary body including importin 5 (IPO5), atlastin-2 (ATL2), B-cell receptor associated protein 29 (BCAP29), basigin (BSG), calpain-1 (CAPN1), copine 6 (CPNE6), fibulin 1 (FBLN1) and galectin 1 (LGALS1). We compared the plasma proteome with the ciliary body proteome and found that the large majority of proteins in the ciliary body were also detectable in the plasma while 896 proteins were unique to the ciliary body. We also classified proteins using pathway enrichment analysis and found most of proteins associated with ubiquitin pathway, EIF2 signaling, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.Conclusions
More than 95% of the identified proteins have not been previously described in the ciliary body proteome. This is the largest catalogue of proteins reported thus far in the ciliary body that should provide new insights into our understanding of the factors involved in maintaining the secretion of aqueous humor. The identification of these proteins will aid in understanding various eye diseases of the anterior segment such as glaucoma and presbyopia. 相似文献3.
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Sonya B Dumanis Kelly A Chamberlain Yoo Jin Sohn Young Jin Lee Suzanne Y Guénette Toshiharu Suzuki Paul M Mathews Daniel TS Pak G William Rebeck Yoo-hun Suh Hee-Sae Park Hyang-Sook Hoe 《Molecular neurodegeneration》2012,7(1):1-15
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Loss-of-function mutations in PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) have been linked to familial Parkinson??s disease, but the underlying pathogenic mechanism remains unclear. We previously reported that loss of PINK1 impairs mitochondrial respiratory activity in mouse brains.Results
In this study, we investigate how loss of PINK1 impairs mitochondrial respiration using cultured primary fibroblasts and neurons. We found that intact mitochondria in PINK1?/? cells recapitulate the respiratory defect in isolated mitochondria from PINK1?/? mouse brains, suggesting that these PINK1?/? cells are a valid experimental system to study the underlying mechanisms. Enzymatic activities of the electron transport system complexes are normal in PINK1?/? cells, but mitochondrial transmembrane potential is reduced. Interestingly, the opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) is increased in PINK1?/? cells, and this genotypic difference between PINK1?/? and control cells is eliminated by agonists or inhibitors of the mPTP. Furthermore, inhibition of mPTP opening rescues the defects in transmembrane potential and respiration in PINK1?/? cells. Consistent with our earlier findings in mouse brains, mitochondrial morphology is similar between PINK1?/? and wild-type cells, indicating that the observed mitochondrial functional defects are not due to morphological changes. Following FCCP treatment, calcium increases in the cytosol are higher in PINK1?/? compared to wild-type cells, suggesting that intra-mitochondrial calcium concentration is higher in the absence of PINK1.Conclusions
Our findings show that loss of PINK1 causes selective increases in mPTP opening and mitochondrial calcium, and that the excessive mPTP opening may underlie the mitochondrial functional defects observed in PINK1?/? cells. 相似文献5.
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The invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) was first reported in South Africa in 1999 and it has become widespread across the country, with some evidence to suggest that it reduces benthic macroinvertebrate biodiversity. The current study aimed to identify the primary abiotic drivers behind abundance patterns of T. granifera, by comparing the current abundance of the snail in three different regions, and at three depths, of the highly modified Nseleni River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Tarebia granifera was well established throughout the Nseleni River system, with an overall preference for shallow waters and seasonal temporal patterns of abundance. Although it is uncertain what the ecological impacts of the snail in this system are, its high abundances suggest that it should be controlled where possible and prevented from invading other systems in the region. 相似文献
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Sairah Y Malkin Alexandra MF Rao Dorina Seitaj Diana Vasquez-Cardenas Eva-Maria Zetsche Silvia Hidalgo-Martinez Henricus TS Boschker Filip JR Meysman 《The ISME journal》2014,8(9):1843-1854
Recently, a novel mode of sulphur oxidation was described in marine sediments, in which sulphide oxidation in deeper anoxic layers was electrically coupled to oxygen reduction at the sediment surface. Subsequent experimental evidence identified that long filamentous bacteria belonging to the family Desulfobulbaceae likely mediated the electron transport across the centimetre-scale distances. Such long-range electron transfer challenges some long-held views in microbial ecology and could have profound implications for sulphur cycling in marine sediments. But, so far, this process of electrogenic sulphur oxidation has been documented only in laboratory experiments and so its imprint on the seafloor remains unknown. Here we show that the geochemical signature of electrogenic sulphur oxidation occurs in a variety of coastal sediment environments, including a salt marsh, a seasonally hypoxic basin, and a subtidal coastal mud plain. In all cases, electrogenic sulphur oxidation was detected together with an abundance of Desulfobulbaceae filaments. Complementary laboratory experiments in intertidal sands demonstrated that mechanical disturbance by bioturbating fauna destroys the electrogenic sulphur oxidation signal. A survey of published geochemical data and 16S rRNA gene sequences identified that electrogenic sulphide oxidation is likely present in a variety of marine sediments with high sulphide generation and restricted bioturbation, such as mangrove swamps, aquaculture areas, seasonally hypoxic basins, cold sulphide seeps and possibly hydrothermal vent environments. This study shows for the first time that electrogenic sulphur oxidation occurs in a wide range of marine sediments and that bioturbation may exert a dominant control on its natural distribution. 相似文献
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van Dooren SH Raijmakers R Pluk H Lokate AM Koemans TS Spanjers RE Heck AJ Boelens WC van Venrooij WJ Pruijn GJ 《Biochimie et biologie cellulaire》2011,89(6):545-553
The aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are ubiquitously expressed enzymes that catalyze the esterification of amino acids to their cognate tRNAs. Autoantibodies against several aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are found in autoimmune polymyositis and dermatomyositis patients. Because necrosis is often found in skeletal muscle biopsies of these patients, we hypothesized that cell-death-induced protein modifications may help in breaking immunological tolerance. Since cell death is associated with oxidative stress, the effect of oxidative stress on the main myositis-specific autoantibody target Jo-1 (histidyl-tRNA synthetase; HisRS) was studied in detail. The exposure of Jurkat cells to hydrogen peroxide resulted in the detection of several oxidized methionines and one oxidized tryptophan residue in the HisRS protein, as demonstrated by mass spectrometry. Unexpectedly, the tRNA aminoacylation activity of HisRS appeared to be increased upon oxidative modification. The analysis of myositis patient sera did not lead to the detection of autoantibodies that are specifically reactive with the modified HisRS protein. The results of this study demonstrate that the Jo-1/HisRS autoantigen is modified under oxidative stress conditions. The consequences of these modifications for the function of HisRS and its autoantigenicity are discussed. 相似文献
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Quantitative analysis of sugar constituents of glycoproteins by capillary electrophoresis 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
A method for quantitative analysis of monosaccharides including N-
acetylneuraminic acid derived from sialic acid-containing oligosaccharides
and glycoproteins is presented. The analysis is based on the combination of
chemical and enzymatic methods coupled with capillary electrophoretic (CE)
separation and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection. The present
method utilizes a simplified acid hydrolysis procedure consisting of mild
hydrolysis (0.1 M TFA) to release sialic acid and strong acid hydrolysis
(2.0 N TFA) to produce amino and neutral sugars. Amino sugars released from
strong acid hydrolysis of oligosaccharides and glycoproteins were
reacetylated and derivatized with 8-aminopyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonate (APTS)
along with neutral sugars in the presence of sodium cyanoborohydride to
yield quantitatively the highly stable fluorescent APTS adducts. N-
acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac), a major component of most mammalian
glycoproteins, was converted in a fast specific reaction by the action of
neuraminic acid aldolase (N-acylneuraminate pyruvate-lyase EC 4.1.3.3) to
N-acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) and pyruvate. ManNAc was then derivatized with
APTS in the same manner as the other monosaccharides. This method was
demonstrated for the quantitation of pure Neu5Ac and the species derived
from mild acid hydrolysis of 6'-sialyl-N- acetyllactosamine and bovine
fetuin glycan. Quantitative recovery of the N-acetylmannosamine was
obtained from a known amount of Neu5Ac in a mixture of seven other
monosaccharides or from the sialylated oligosaccharides occurring in
glycoproteins. The sequence of procedures consists of acid hydrolysis,
enzymatic conversion and APTS derivatization which produced quantitative
recovery of APTS- monosaccharide adducts. The detection limits for sugars
derivatized with APTS and detected by CE-LIF are 100 pmol for Neu5Ac and 50
pmol for the other sugars.
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