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Fais P, Leopizzi M, Di Maio V, Longo L, Della Rocca C, Tagliaro F, Bortolotti F, Lo Vasco VR. Phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C in normal human liver and in alcohol abuse. J Cell Biochem 2019; 120:7907-7917. [PMID: 30426534 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.28067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The phosphoinositide (PI) signal transduction pathway participates in liver metabolism. Abnormal activity or expression of PI-specific phospholipase C (PLC) enzymes has been described in different liver diseases. We resume the role of the PI metabolism in liver and PLC abnormalities in different liver diseases. Moreover, we present the results of PLC analyses in a normal human liver and an alcohol-damaged liver. PLC enzymes and the expression of the corresponding genes in liver biopsies from individuals deceased for complications of the alcoholic liver disease (ALD) at different stages compared with normal controls (deceased individuals with histologically normal livers without alcohol addiction anamnesis) were analyzed by using immunohistochemistry and molecular biology techniques. The expression panel of PLCs was described in normal and alcohol abuse liver. Our observations suggest that the regulation of PLC expression might be due to posttranscriptional events and that alcohol affects the epigenetic control of PLC expression belonging to PI signaling. We also describe the alternate expression of PLCB1 and PLCH1 genes in liver. Our results corroborate literature data suggesting that PLC enzymes are differently expressed in normal versus pathological liver, playing a role in the histopathogenesis of liver tissue damage. The expression and/or localization of selected PLC isoforms is especially affected in alcohol-related liver tissue histopathology. Our present observations confirm that the modulation of protein synthesis plays a role in the regulation of PLC enzymes. We also suggest that this modulation might act at the transcription level. Further studies are required to investigate related epigenetic mechanisms.
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Affiliation(s)
- Paolo Fais
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Unit of Legal Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Polo Pontino-Sapienza University, Latina, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Polo Pontino-Sapienza University, Latina, Italy
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- Department of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Polo Pontino-Sapienza University, Latina, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Unit of Legal Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.,Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Polo Pontino-Sapienza University, Latina, Italy.,Department of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.,Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Unit of Forensic Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Unit of Legal Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.,Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Polo Pontino-Sapienza University, Latina, Italy.,Department of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.,Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Unit of Forensic Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Effects of Neuropeptide Y on Stem Cells and Their Potential Applications in Disease Therapy. Stem Cells Int 2017; 2017:6823917. [PMID: 29109742 PMCID: PMC5646323 DOI: 10.1155/2017/6823917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Revised: 08/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY), a 36-amino acid peptide, is widely distributed in the central and peripheral nervous systems and other peripheral tissues. It takes part in regulating various biological processes including food intake, circadian rhythm, energy metabolism, and neuroendocrine secretion. Increasing evidence indicates that NPY exerts multiple regulatory effects on stem cells. As a kind of primitive and undifferentiated cells, stem cells have the therapeutic potential to replace damaged cells, secret paracrine molecules, promote angiogenesis, and modulate immunity. Stem cell-based therapy has been demonstrated effective and considered as one of the most promising treatments for specific diseases. However, several limitations still hamper its application, such as poor survival and low differentiation and integration rates of transplanted stem cells. The regulatory effects of NPY on stem cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation may be helpful to overcome these limitations and facilitate the application of stem cell-based therapy. In this review, we summarized the regulatory effects of NPY on stem cells and discussed their potential applications in disease therapy.
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Lo Vasco VR, Leopizzi M, Scotto d’Abusco A, Rocca CD. Different Expression and Localization of Phosphoinositide Specific Phospholipases C in Human Osteoblasts, Osteosarcoma Cell Lines, Ewing Sarcoma and Synovial Sarcoma. AVICENNA JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY 2017. [DOI: 10.15171/ajmb.2017.01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Background: Bone hardness and strength depends on mineralization, which involves a complex process in which calcium phosphate, produced by bone-forming cells, was shed around the fibrous matrix. This process is strictly regulated, and a number of signal transduction systems were interested in calcium metabolism, such as the phosphoinositide (PI) pathway and related phospholipase C (PLC) enzymes. Objectives: Our aim was to search for common patterns of expression in osteoblasts, as well as in ES and SS. Methods: We analysed the PLC enzymes in human osteoblasts and osteosarcoma cell lines MG-63 and SaOS-2. We compared the obtained results to the expression of PLCs in samples of patients affected with Ewing sarcoma (ES) and synovial sarcoma (SS). Results: In osteoblasts, MG-63 cells and SaOS-2 significant differences were identified in the expression of PLC δ4 and PLC η subfamily isoforms. Differences were also identified regarding the expression of PLCs in ES and SS. Most ES and SS did not express PLCB1, which was expressed in most osteoblasts, MG-63 and SaOS-2 cells. Conversely, PLCB2, unexpressed in the cell lines, was expressed in some ES and SS. However, PLCH1 was expressed in SaOS-2 and inconstantly expressed in osteoblasts, while it was expressed in ES and unexpressed in SS. The most relevant difference observed in ES compared to SS regarded PLC ε and PLC η isoforms. Conclusion: MG-63 and SaOS-2 osteosarcoma cell lines might represent an inappropriate experimental model for studies about the analysis of signal transduction in osteoblasts
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Polo Pontino –Sapienza University, Latina, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences A. Rossi Fanelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Polo Pontino –Sapienza University, Latina, Rome, Italy
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LPS, Oleuropein and Blueberry extracts affect the survival, morphology and Phosphoinositide signalling in stimulated human endothelial cells. J Cell Commun Signal 2017; 11:317-327. [PMID: 28452007 DOI: 10.1007/s12079-017-0391-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Endothelial cells (EC) act as leading actors in angiogenesis. Understanding the complex network of signal transduction pathways which regulate angiogenesis might offer insights in the regulation of normal and pathological events, including tumours, vascular, inflammatory and immune diseases. The effects of olive oil and of Blueberry extracts upon the phosphoinositide (PI)-specific phospholipase C (PLC) enzymes were evaluated both in quiescent and inflammatory stimulated human umbilical vein EC (HUVEC) using molecular biology (multiliquid bioanalysis) and immunofluorescence techniques. Oleuropein significantly increased the number of surviving HUVEC compared to untreated controls, suggesting that it favours the survival and proliferation of EC. Our results suggest that Oleuropein might be useful to induce EC proliferation, an important event during angiogenesis, with special regard to wound healing. Blueberry extracts increased the number of surviving HUVEC, although the comparison to untreated controls did not result statistically significant. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) administration significantly reduced the number of live HUVEC. LPS can also modify the expression of selected PLC genes. Adding Blueberry extracts to LPS treated HUVEC cultures did not significantly modify the variations of PLC expression induced by LPS. Oleuropein increased or reduced the expression of PLC genes, and statistically significant results were identified for selected PLC isoforms. Oleuropein also modified the effects of LPS upon PLC genes' expression. Thus, our results corroborate the hypothesis that Oleuropein owns anti-inflammatory activity. The intracellular localization of PLC enzymes was modified by the different treatments we used. Podosome-like structures were observed in differently LPS treated HUVEC.
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Different expression and subcellular localization of Phosphoinositide-specific Phospholipase C enzymes in differently polarized macrophages. J Cell Commun Signal 2016; 10:283-293. [PMID: 27394153 DOI: 10.1007/s12079-016-0335-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 07/02/2016] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Macrophages' phenotypic and functional diversity depends on differentiating programs related to local environmental factors. Recent interest was deserved to the signal transduction pathways acting in macrophage polarization, including the phosphoinositide (PI) system and related phospholipase C (PLC) family of enzymes. The expression panel of PLCs and the subcellular localization differs in quiescent cells compared to the pathological counterpart. We analyzed the expression of PLC enzymes in unpolarized (M0), as well as in M1 and M2 macrophages to list the expressed isoforms and their subcellular localization. Furthermore, we investigated whether inflammatory stimulation modified the basal panel of PLCs' expression and subcellular localization. All PLC enzymes were detected within both M1 and M2 cells, but not in M0 cells. M0, as well as M1 and M2 cells own a specific panel of expression, different for both genes' mRNA expression and intracellular localization of PLC enzymes. The panel of PLC genes' expression and PLC proteins' presence slightly changes after inflammatory stimulation. PLC enzymes might play a complex role in macrophages during inflammation and probably also during polarization.
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Lo Vasco VR, Leopizzi M, Scotto d'abusco A, Della Rocca C. Comparison of Phosphoinositide-Specific Phospholipase C Expression Panels of Human Osteoblasts Versus MG-63 and Saos Osteoblast-Like Cells. AVICENNA JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY 2016. [DOI: 10.17795/ajmb-34104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Lo Vasco VR, Leopizzi M, Della Rocca C, Fais P, Montisci M, Cecchetto G. Impairment and reorganization of the phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C enzymes in suicide brains. J Affect Disord 2015; 174:324-8. [PMID: 25532079 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2014] [Revised: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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A number of studies suggested that suicide may be associated with specific neurobiological abnormalities. Neurobiology studies focused upon abnormalities of signalling mechanisms with special regard to the serotonin system and the related Phosphoinositide (PI) signalling system. Previous data suggested the involvement of the PI-specific phospholipase C (PLC) family in neuropsychiatric disorders. By using PCR and morphological microscopy observation we examined the whole panel of expression of PLC isoforms in the brains of 28 individuals who committed suicide and in normal controls in order to evaluate the involvement of specific PLC isoforms. The overall PLC expression was reduced and a complex reorganization of the isoforms was observed. The knowledge of the complex network of neurobiological molecules and interconnected signal transduction pathways in the brain of suicide victims might be helpful to understand the natural history and the pathogenesis of the suicidal behavior. That might lead to obtain prognostic suggestions in order to prevent suicide and to new therapeutic agents targeting specific sites in this signalling cascade.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vincenza Rita Lo Vasco
- Sense Organs Department, Policlinico Umberto I, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, viale del Policlinico 155, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnology, Sapienza University- Polo Pontino, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnology, Sapienza University- Polo Pontino, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Forensic Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona University, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Cardiological, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Institute of Legal Medicine, Padova University, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Cardiological, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Institute of Legal Medicine, Padova University, Padova, Italy
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