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Haiyan Chen Giorgia Valle Sandra Furlan Alma Nani Sandor Gyorke Michael Fill Pompeo Volpe 《The Journal of general physiology》2013,142(2):127-136
Release of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) drives contractile function of cardiac myocytes. Luminal Ca2+ regulation of SR Ca2+ release is fundamental not only in physiology but also in physiopathology because abnormal luminal Ca2+ regulation is known to lead to arrhythmias, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), and/or sudden cardiac arrest, as inferred from animal model studies. Luminal Ca2+ regulates ryanodine receptor (RyR)2-mediated SR Ca2+ release through mechanisms localized inside the SR; one of these involves luminal Ca2+ interacting with calsequestrin (CASQ), triadin, and/or junctin to regulate RyR2 function.CASQ2-RyR2 regulation was examined at the single RyR2 channel level. Single RyR2s were incorporated into planar lipid bilayers by the fusion of native SR vesicles isolated from either wild-type (WT), CASQ2 knockout (KO), or R33Q-CASQ2 knock-in (KI) mice. KO and KI mice have CPVT-like phenotypes. We show that CASQ2(WT) action on RyR2 function (either activation or inhibition) was strongly influenced by the presence of cytosolic MgATP. Function of the reconstituted CASQ2(WT)–RyR2 complex was unaffected by changes in luminal free [Ca2+] (from 0.1 to 1 mM). The inhibition exerted by CASQ2(WT) association with the RyR2 determined a reduction in cytosolic Ca2+ activation sensitivity. RyR2s from KO mice were significantly more sensitive to cytosolic Ca2+ activation and had significantly longer mean open times than RyR2s from WT mice. Sensitivity of RyR2s from KI mice was in between that of RyR2 channels from KO and WT mice. Enhanced cytosolic RyR2 Ca2+ sensitivity and longer RyR2 open times likely explain the CPVT-like phenotype of both KO and KI mice. 相似文献
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Giorgia Valle Simona Boncompagni Roberta Sacchetto Feliciano Protasi Pompeo Volpe 《Experimental cell research》2014
Cardiac calsequestrin (CASQ2) contributes to intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis by virtue of its low-affinity/high-capacity Ca2+ binding properties, maintains sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) architecture and regulates excitation–contraction coupling, especially or exclusively upon β-adrenergic stimulation. Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is an inherited arrhythmogenic disease associated with cardiac arrest in children or young adults. Recessive CPVT variants are due to mutations in the CASQ2 gene. Molecular and ultra-structural properties were studied in hearts of CASQ2R33Q/R33Q and of CASQ2−/− mice from post-natal day 2 to week 8. The drastic reduction of CASQ2-R33Q is an early developmental event and is accompanied by down-regulation of triadin and junctin, and morphological changes of jSR and of SR-transverse-tubule junctions. Although endoplasmic reticulum stress is activated, no signs of either apoptosis or autophagy are detected. The other model of recessive CPVT, the CASQ2−/− mouse, does not display the same adaptive pattern. Expression of CASQ2-R33Q influences molecular and ultra-structural heart development; post-natal, adaptive changes appear capable of ensuring until adulthood a new pathophysiological equilibrium. 相似文献
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Association of dystrobrevin and regulatory subunit of protein kinase A: a new role for dystrobrevin as a scaffold for signaling proteins 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Ceccarini M Grasso M Veroni C Gambara G Artegiani B Macchia G Ramoni C Torreri P Mallozzi C Petrucci TC Macioce P 《Journal of molecular biology》2007,371(5):1174-1187
The dystrophin-related and -associated protein dystrobrevin is a component of the dystrophin-associated protein complex, which directly links the cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix. It is now thought that this complex also serves as a dynamic scaffold for signaling proteins, and dystrobrevin may play a role in this context. Since dystrobrevin involvement in signaling pathways seems to be dependent on its interaction with other proteins, we sought new insights and performed a two-hybrid screen of a mouse brain cDNA library using beta-dystrobrevin, the isoform expressed in non-muscle tissues, as bait. Among the positive clones characterized after the screen, one encodes the regulatory subunit RIalpha of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA). We confirmed the interaction by in vitro and in vivo association assays, and mapped the binding site of beta-dystrobrevin on RIalpha to the amino-terminal region encompassing the dimerization/docking domain of PKA regulatory subunit. We also found that the domain of interaction for RIalpha is contained in the amino-terminal region of beta-dystrobrevin. We obtained evidence that beta-dystrobrevin also interacts directly with RIIbeta, and that not only beta-dystrobrevin but also alpha-dystrobrevin interacts with PKA regulatory subunits. We show that both alpha and beta-dystrobrevin are specific phosphorylation substrates for PKA and that protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) is associated with dystrobrevins. Our results suggest a new role for dystrobrevin as a scaffold protein that may play a role in different cellular processes involving PKA signaling. 相似文献
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M. Girasole G. Pompeo A. Congiu-Castellano A. Serafino G. Boumis 《生物化学与生物物理学报:生物膜》2007,1768(5):1268-1276
A novel approach to the study of RBCs based on the collection of three-dimensional high-resolution AFM images and on the measure of the surface roughness of their plasma membrane is presented. The dependence of the roughness from several parameters of the imaging was investigated and a general rule for a trustful analysis and comparison has been suggested. The roughness of RBCs is a morphology-related parameter which has been shown to be characteristic of the single cells composing a sample, but independent of the overall geometric shape (discocyte or spherocyte) of the erythrocytes, thus providing extra-information with respect to a conventional morphology study. The use of the average roughness value as a label of a whole sample was tested on different kinds of samples. Analyzed data revealed that the quantitative roughness value does not change after treatment of RBCs with various commonly used fixation and staining methods while a drastic decrease occurs when studying cells with membrane-skeletal alteration both naturally occurring or artificially induced by chemical treatments. The present method provides a quantitative and powerful tool for a novel approach to the study of erythrocytes structure through an ultrastructural morphological analysis with the potential to give information, in a non-invasive way, on the RBCs function. 相似文献
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Tomasi M Canato M Paolini C Dainese M Reggiani C Volpe P Protasi F Nori A 《American journal of physiology. Cell physiology》2012,302(3):C575-C586
Amplitude of Ca(2+) transients, ultrastructure of Ca(2+) release units, and molecular composition of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) are altered in fast-twitch skeletal muscles of calsequestrin-1 (CASQ1)-null mice. To determine whether such changes are directly caused by CASQ1 ablation or are instead the result of adaptive mechanisms, here we assessed ability of CASQ1 in rescuing the null phenotype. In vivo reintroduction of CASQ1 was carried out by cDNA electro transfer in flexor digitorum brevis muscle of the mouse. Exogenous CASQ1 was found to be correctly targeted to the junctional SR (jSR), as judged by immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy; terminal cisternae (TC) lumen was filled with electron dense material and its width was significantly increased, as judged by electron microscopy; peak amplitude of Ca(2+) transients was significantly increased compared with null muscle fibers transfected only with green fluorescent protein (control); and finally, transfected fibers were able to sustain cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration during prolonged tetanic stimulation. Only the expression of TC proteins, such as calsequestrin 2, sarcalumenin, and triadin, was not rescued as judged by Western blot. Thus our results support the view that CASQ1 plays a key role in both Ca(2+) homeostasis and TC structure. 相似文献
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In 330 cases of male sterility, the authors found in the seminal fluid 270 cases of quantitative alteration, 196 of qualitative alteration, 62 cases with biochemical disturbances and 122 patients with infections. After the specific treatment of these patients, the result was that 50 to 58.2% of them presented response for the quantitative, qualitative and biochemical alterations. In the infections, the index obtained was 85.2%. Among these 330 cases, they were obtained 73 cases of pregnancy (22.1%) with eight cases of abortion(10.9%). 相似文献
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Crystal structure of the bifunctional N-acetylglucosamine 1-phosphate uridyltransferase from Escherichia coli: a paradigm for the related pyrophosphorylase superfamily. 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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K Brown F Pompeo S Dixon D Mengin-Lecreulx C Cambillau Y Bourne 《The EMBO journal》1999,18(15):4096-4107
N-acetylglucosamine 1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GlmU) is a cytoplasmic bifunctional enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of the nucleotide-activated UDP-GlcNAc, which is an essential precursor for the biosynthetic pathways of peptidoglycan and other components in bacteria. The crystal structure of a truncated form of GlmU has been solved at 2.25 A resolution using the multiwavelength anomalous dispersion technique and its function tested with mutagenesis studies. The molecule is composed of two distinct domains connected by a long alpha-helical arm: (i) an N-terminal domain which resembles the dinucleotide-binding Rossmann fold; and (ii) a C-terminal domain which adopts a left-handed parallel beta-helix structure (LbetaH) as found in homologous bacterial acetyltransferases. Three GlmU molecules assemble into a trimeric arrangement with tightly packed parallel LbetaH domains, the long alpha-helical linkers being seated on top of the arrangement and the N-terminal domains projected away from the 3-fold axis. In addition, the 2.3 A resolution structure of the GlmU-UDP-GlcNAc complex reveals the structural bases required for the uridyltransferase activity. These structures exemplify a three-dimensional template for the development of new antibacterial agents and for studying other members of the large family of XDP-sugar bacterial pyrophosphorylases. 相似文献
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The integrative role of cryo electron microscopy in molecular and cellular structural biology
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Igor Orlov Alexander G. Myasnikov Leonid Andronov S. Kundhavai Natchiar Brice Beinsteiner Jean‐François Ménétret Isabelle Hazemann Kareem Mohideen Karima Tazibt Rachel Tabaroni Hanna Kratzat Nadia Djabeur Tatiana Bruxelles Finaritra Raivoniaina Lorenza di Pompeo Morgan Torchy Isabelle Billas Alexandre Urzhumtsev Bruno P. Klaholz 《Biology of the cell / under the auspices of the European Cell Biology Organization》2017,109(2):81-93
After gradually moving away from preparation methods prone to artefacts such as plastic embedding and negative staining for cell sections and single particles, the field of cryo electron microscopy (cryo‐EM) is now heading off at unprecedented speed towards high‐resolution analysis of biological objects of various sizes. This ‘revolution in resolution’ is happening largely thanks to new developments of new‐generation cameras used for recording the images in the cryo electron microscope which have much increased sensitivity being based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor devices. Combined with advanced image processing and 3D reconstruction, the cryo‐EM analysis of nucleoprotein complexes can provide unprecedented insights at molecular and atomic levels and address regulatory mechanisms in the cell. These advances reinforce the integrative role of cryo‐EM in synergy with other methods such as X‐ray crystallography, fluorescence imaging or focussed‐ion beam milling as exemplified here by some recent studies from our laboratory on ribosomes, viruses, chromatin and nuclear receptors. Such multi‐scale and multi‐resolution approaches allow integrating molecular and cellular levels when applied to purified or in situ macromolecular complexes, thus illustrating the trend of the field towards cellular structural biology. 相似文献
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Brooke EW Davies SG Mulvaney AW Okada M Pompeo F Sim E Vickers RJ Westwood IM 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2003,13(15):2527-2530
The synthesis and inhibitory activity of a series of 5-substituted-(1,1-dioxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-1 lambda(6)-benzo[e][1,2]thiazin-4-ylidene)-thiazolidine-2,4-dione derivatives as competitive inhibitors of recombinant bacterial arylamine-N-acetyltransferases (NATs) are described. The most potent NAT inhibitors are those that contain planar hydrophobic substituents on the sultam nitrogen. 相似文献