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Fang M, Luo L, Chen Y, Liu Y, Yan Y, Wang F, Zou Y, Zhu H, Wu X, Jin Z, Huang C, Zhang Y, Fan S. Perillaldehyde Improves Parkinson-Like Deficits by Targeting G3BP Mediated Stress Granule Assembly in Preclinical Models. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2025; 12:e2412152. [PMID: 39951026 PMCID: PMC11984871 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202412152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2024] [Revised: 12/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2025]
Abstract
Stress granules (SGs) fulfill a pivotal role in host defense mechanisms, by sequestering both mRNA and protein via the process of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). In this study, we showed that perillaldehyde (PAE), a natural occurring compound, bound directly to the core protein of SGs, Ras GTPase-activating protein-binding protein 1/2 (G3BP1/2), thereby inducing the assembly of SGs through the LLPS of G3BP/RNA complexes in vitro. Moreover, in Parkinson's disease (PD) models using Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and mice, PAE administration prompted SG formation, enhanced eIF2α phosphorylation, shielded dopaminergic neurons from toxic insults, mitigated α-synuclein (α-syn) aggregation, and improved PD-like motor disorders. In addition, these findings revealed that the interaction between G3BP1 and histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibited the functions of cytoplasmic HDAC6 and reduced α-syn aggregation in cells and worms. Notably, the inhibition of SG assembly via gtbp-1 and tiar-1 RNAi effectively counteracted the beneficial effects of PAE in C. elegans. Collectively, these results imply that PAE may exert neuroprotective effects by targeting G3BP-mediated SG formation, thereby safeguarding dopaminergic neurons from toxic damage.
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- Minglv Fang
- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
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- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
- School of Life Science and TechnologyShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai201210China
- The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese MedicineNanchang330006China
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- College of Life SciencesZhejiang Normal UniversityJinhua321004China
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- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
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- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
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- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
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- School of Life Science and TechnologyShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai201210China
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- School of Life Science and TechnologyShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai201210China
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- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
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- College of Life SciencesZhejiang Normal UniversityJinhua321004China
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- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
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- Shanghai‐MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease GenomicsNHC Key Lab of Reproduction RegulationShanghai Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical TechnologiesShanghai200237China
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- School of PharmacyShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineShanghai201203China
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Bhadauriya P, Onkar A, Nagarajan K, Angamuthu Karuppusamy K, Ganesh S, Agarwal S. Glycogen synthase is required for heat shock-mediated autophagy induction in neuronal cells. Biol Open 2025; 14:BIO061605. [PMID: 39912200 PMCID: PMC11876841 DOI: 10.1242/bio.061605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2025] [Indexed: 02/07/2025] Open
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Autophagy is an essential cellular process that facilitates the degradation of aggregated proteins and damaged organelles to maintain cellular homeostasis and promote cell survival. Recent studies have indicated a direct role for glycogen synthase (GS) in activating neuronal autophagy and in conferring protection against cytotoxic misfolded proteins. Since heat shock induces protein misfolding and autophagy is an essential component of the heat shock response that clears the misfolded proteins, we looked at the possible role of GS in heat shock response pathways in neuronal cells. We demonstrate an increase in the activity and level of GS and a concomitant increase in the glycogen level during the heat shock and post-heat shock recovery period. These changes had a direct correlation with autophagy induction. We further demonstrate that heat shock transcription factor 1 regulates the level and activation of GS during heat shock and that GS is essential for the induction of autophagy during heat stress in neuronal cells. Intriguingly, the partial knock-down of GS led to increased death due to heat shock in neuronal cells and Drosophila. Our study offers a novel insight into the role of GS and glycogen metabolic pathways in heat shock response in neuronal cells.
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- Pratibha Bhadauriya
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
- The Mehta Family Centre for Engineering in Medicine, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
- Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
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Colopi A, Guida E, Cacciotti S, Fuda S, Lampitto M, Onorato A, Zucchi A, Balistreri CR, Grimaldi P, Barchi M. Dietary Exposure to Pesticide and Veterinary Drug Residues and Their Effects on Human Fertility and Embryo Development: A Global Overview. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:9116. [PMID: 39201802 PMCID: PMC11355024 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25169116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2024] [Revised: 08/14/2024] [Accepted: 08/20/2024] [Indexed: 09/03/2024] Open
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Drug residues that contaminate food and water represent a serious concern for human health. The major concerns regard the possible irrational use of these contaminants, since this might increase the amplitude of exposure. Multiple sources contribute to the overall exposure to contaminants, including agriculture, domestic use, personal, public and veterinary healthcare, increasing the possible origin of contamination. In this review, we focus on crop pesticides and veterinary drug residues because of their extensive use in modern agriculture and farming, which ensures food production and security for the ever-growing population around the world. We discuss crop pesticides and veterinary drug residues with respect to their worldwide distribution and impacts, with special attention on their harmful effects on human reproduction and embryo development, as well as their link to epigenetic alterations, leading to intergenerational and transgenerational diseases. Among the contaminants, the most commonly implicated in causing such disorders are organophosphates, glyphosate and antibiotics, with tetracyclines being the most frequently reported. This review highlights the importance of finding new management strategies for pesticides and veterinary drugs. Moreover, due to the still limited knowledge on inter- and transgenerational effects of these contaminants, we underlie the need to strengthen research in this field, so as to better clarify the specific effects of each contaminant and their long-term impact.
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- Ambra Colopi
- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics (Bi.N.D.), University of Palermo, 90134 Palermo, Italy;
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.C.); (E.G.); (S.C.); (S.F.); (M.L.); (A.O.); (A.Z.); (P.G.)
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Kosnik MB, Antczak P, Fantke P. Data-Driven Characterization of Genetic Variability in Disease Pathways and Pesticide-Induced Nervous System Disease in the United States Population. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2024; 132:57003. [PMID: 38752992 PMCID: PMC11098008 DOI: 10.1289/ehp14108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2023] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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BACKGROUND Genetic susceptibility to chemicals is incompletely characterized. However, nervous system disease development following pesticide exposure can vary in a population, implying some individuals may have higher genetic susceptibility to pesticide-induced nervous system disease. OBJECTIVES We aimed to build a computational approach to characterize single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) implicated in chemically induced adverse outcomes and used this framework to assess the link between differential population susceptibility to pesticides and human nervous system disease. METHODS We integrated publicly available datasets of Chemical-Gene, Gene-Pathway, and SNP-Disease associations to build Chemical-Pathway-Gene-SNP-Disease linkages for humans. As a case study, we integrated these linkages with spatialized pesticide application data for the US from 1992 to 2018 and spatialized nervous system disease rates for 2018. Through this, we characterized SNPs that may be important in states with high disease occurrence based on the pesticides used there. RESULTS We found that the number of SNP hits per pesticide in US states positively correlated with disease incidence and prevalence for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson disease, and multiple sclerosis. We performed frequent itemset mining to differentiate pesticides used over time in states with high and low disease occurrence and found that only 19% of pesticide sets overlapped between 10 states with high disease occurrence and 10 states with low disease occurrence rates, and more SNPs were implicated in pathways in high disease occurrence states. Through a cross-validation of subsets of five high and low disease occurrence states, we characterized SNPs, genes, pathways, and pesticides more frequently implicated in high disease occurrence states. DISCUSSION Our findings support that pesticides contribute to nervous system disease, and we developed priority lists of SNPs, pesticides, and pathways for further study. This data-driven approach can be adapted to other chemicals, diseases, and locations to characterize differential population susceptibility to chemical exposures. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP14108.
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- Marissa B. Kosnik
- Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Toxicology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Cologne University Hospital, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department II of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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Pathak VM, Verma VK, Rawat BS, Kaur B, Babu N, Sharma A, Dewali S, Yadav M, Kumari R, Singh S, Mohapatra A, Pandey V, Rana N, Cunill JM. Current status of pesticide effects on environment, human health and it's eco-friendly management as bioremediation: A comprehensive review. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:962619. [PMID: 36060785 PMCID: PMC9428564 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.962619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 72.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Pesticides are either natural or chemically synthesized compounds that are used to control a variety of pests. These chemical compounds are used in a variety of sectors like food, forestry, agriculture and aquaculture. Pesticides shows their toxicity into the living systems. The World Health Organization (WHO) categorizes them based on their detrimental effects, emphasizing the relevance of public health. The usage can be minimized to a least level by using them sparingly with a complete grasp of their categorization, which is beneficial to both human health and the environment. In this review, we have discussed pesticides with respect to their global scenarios, such as worldwide distribution and environmental impacts. Major literature focused on potential uses of pesticides, classification according to their properties and toxicity and their adverse effect on natural system (soil and aquatic), water, plants (growth, metabolism, genotypic and phenotypic changes and impact on plants defense system), human health (genetic alteration, cancer, allergies, and asthma), and preserve food products. We have also described eco-friendly management strategies for pesticides as a green solution, including bacterial degradation, myco-remediation, phytoremediation, and microalgae-based bioremediation. The microbes, using catabolic enzymes for degradation of pesticides and clean-up from the environment. This review shows the importance of finding potent microbes, novel genes, and biotechnological applications for pesticide waste management to create a sustainable environment.
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gurukul Kangri Deemed to be University, Haridwar, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Baba Farid Institute of Technology, Sudhowala, India
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- Allergy and Immunology Section, CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi, India
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- Laboratory of Alternative Protocols in Zoology and Biotechnology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Kumaun University, Nainital, India
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- Cancer Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Botany & Microbiology, Gurukul Kangri Deemed to be University, Haridwar, India
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- Multidisciplinary Clinical Translational Research, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India
- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur, India
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Newai Tonk, India
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- Department of Environmental Science, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, India
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- Biotechnology Engineering, Universidad Politécnica Metropolitana de Puebla, Mexico, Mexico
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