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Méndez-Barredo LH, Rodríguez-Meléndez JG, Gómez-Coronado KS, Guerrero-Alba R, Valdez-Morales EE, Espinosa-Luna R, Barajas-Espinosa A, Barajas-López C. Physiological Concentrations of Zinc Have Dual Effects on P2X Myenteric Receptors of Guinea Pig. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2018; 38:1439-1449. [PMID: 30109516 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-018-0612-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/09/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
Abstract
We, hereby, characterize the pharmacological effects of physiological concentrations of Zinc on native myenteric P2X receptors from guinea-pig small intestine and on P2X2 isoforms present in most myenteric neurons. This is the first study describing opposite effects of Zinc on these P2X receptors. It was not possible to determine whether both effects were concentration dependent, yet the inhibitory effect was mediated by competitive antagonism and was concentration dependent. The potentiating effect appears to be mediated by allosteric changes induced by Zinc on P2X myenteric channels, which is more frequently observed in myenteric neurons with low zinc concentrations. In P2X2-1 and P2X2-2 variants, the inhibitory effect is more common than in P2X myenteric channels. However, in the variants, the potentiatory effect is of equal magnitude as the inhibitory effect. Inhibitory and potentiatory effects are likely mediated by different binding sites that appear to be present on both P2X2 variants. In conclusion, in myenteric native P2X receptors, Zinc has quantitatively different pharmacological effects compared to those observed on homomeric channels: P2X2-1 and P2X2-2. Potentiatory and inhibitory Zinc effects upon these receptors are mediated by two different binding sites. All our data suggest that myenteric P2X receptors have a more complex pharmacology than those of the recombinant P2X2 receptors, which is likely related to other subunits known to be expressed in myenteric neurons. Because these dual effects occur at Zinc physiological concentrations, we suggest that they could be involved in physiological and pathological processes.
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- Liliana H Méndez-Barredo
- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Col. Lomas 4a Sección, CP78216, San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Col. Lomas 4a Sección, CP78216, San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Col. Lomas 4a Sección, CP78216, San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- Departamento de Fisiología y Farmacología, Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico
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- Cátedra CONACyT, Departamento de Cirugía, Centro de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Col. Lomas 4a Sección, CP78216, San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- Cátedra CONACyT, Departamento de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Col. Lomas 4a Sección, CP78216, San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico.
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Kanagasabai R, Serdar L, Karmahapatra S, Kientz CA, Ellis J, Ritke MK, Elton TS, Yalowich JC. Alternative RNA Processing of Topoisomerase IIα in Etoposide-Resistant Human Leukemia K562 Cells: Intron Retention Results in a Novel C-Terminal Truncated 90-kDa Isoform. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2016; 360:152-163. [PMID: 27974648 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.116.237107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
DNA topoisomerase IIα (TOP2α) is a prominent target for anticancer drugs whose clinical efficacy is often limited by chemoresistance. Using antibody specific for the N-terminal of TOP2α, immunoassays indicated the existence of two TOP2α isoforms, 170 and 90 kDa, present in K562 leukemia cells and in an acquired etoposide (VP-16)-resistant clone (K/VP.5). TOP2α/90 expression was dramatically increased in etoposide-resistant K/VP.5 compared with parental K562 cells. We hypothesized that TOP2α/90 was the translation product of novel alternatively processed pre-mRNA, confirmed by 3'-rapid amplification of cDNA ends, polymerase chain reaction, and sequencing. TOP2α/90 mRNA includes retained intron 19, which harbors an in-frame stop codon, and two consensus poly(A) sites. The processed transcript is polyadenylated. TOP2α/90 mRNA encodes a 90,076-Da translation product missing the C-terminal 770 amino acids of TOP2α/170, replaced by 25 unique amino acids through translation of the exon 19/intron 19 read-through. Immunoassays, utilizing antisera raised against these unique amino acids, confirmed that TOP2α/90 is expressed in both cell types, with overexpression in K/VP.5 cells. Immunodetection of complex of enzyme-to-DNA and single-cell gel electrophoresis (Comet) assays demonstrated that K562 cells transfected with a TOP2α/90 expression plasmid exhibited reduced etoposide-mediated TOP2α-DNA covalent complexes and decreased etoposide-induced DNA damage, respectively, compared with similarly treated K562 cells transfected with empty vector. Because TOP2α/90 lacks the active site tyrosine (Tyr805) of full-length TOP2α, these results strongly suggest that TOP2α/90 exhibits dominant-negative properties. Further studies are underway to characterize the mechanism(s) by which TOP2α/90 plays a role in acquired resistance to etoposide and other TOP2α targeting agents.
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- Ragu Kanagasabai
- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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- Division of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (R.K., L.S., S.K., C.A.K., J.E., T.S.E., J.C.Y.); James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (J.C.Y.); and Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (M.K.R.)
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Jaramillo-Polanco J, Liñán-Rico A, Espinosa-Luna R, Jiménez-Bremont JF, Montaño LM, Miranda-Morales M, Barajas-López C. Heteromeric channels with different phenotypes are generated when coexpressing two P2X2 receptor isoforms. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2016; 477:54-61. [PMID: 27282483 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/04/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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To investigate if channels with different stoichiometry are formed from P2X2 receptor isoforms during their heterologous co-expression. The two-electrode voltage-clamp technique was used to measured ATP induced currents in Xenopus laevis oocytes. We used a mutant (P2X2-2bm) because its ATP sensitivity is lower than P2X2-2b receptors, which highlights the differences with its splice variant P2X2-1a.Currents through homomeric channels had significantly different Hill coefficients. P2XR are trimeric proteins with three agonist binding sites; therefore, only two homomeric and two heteromeric stoichiometries are possible when both P2X2 isoforms are coexpressed, the heteromeric channels might be formed by: i) 2(P2X2-1a)+1(P2X2-2bm); or ii) 1(P2X2-1a)+2(P2X2-2bm). Because P2X2 channels open when two binding sites are occupied, these stoichiometries are expected to have different ATP sensitivities. Thus, co-expressing both P2X2 isoforms, two oocyte populations were distinguished based on their sensitivity to ATP and Hill coefficients. For the first population (P2X2-1a like), the ATP EC50 and the Hill coefficient were not different than those of homomeric P2X2-1a channels similarly, for the second population (P2X2-2bm like), these variables were also not different than for those of homomeric P2X2-2bm channels. Various findings indicate that homomeric channel expression is not responsible for such differences. Our observations indicate that two heteromeric channels can be assembled from two P2X2 receptor isoforms. Our data support a current model, according to which, ATP activation of two subunits can open P2X2 channel. However, PPADS appears to bind to all three subunits in order to inhibit ATP effects on P2X2 receptors.
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- Josue Jaramillo-Polanco
- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San Luís Potosí, San Luís Potosí, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San Luís Potosí, San Luís Potosí, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San Luís Potosí, San Luís Potosí, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San Luís Potosí, San Luís Potosí, Mexico
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- Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF, Mexico
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- División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San Luís Potosí, San Luís Potosí, Mexico.
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Buckley PT, Khaladkar M, Kim J, Eberwine J. Cytoplasmic intron retention, function, splicing, and the sentinel RNA hypothesis. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2013; 5:223-30. [PMID: 24190870 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2013] [Revised: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Cytoplasmic splicing represents a newly emerging level of transcriptional regulation adding to the molecular diversity of mammalian cells. As examples of this noncanonical form of transcript processing are discovered, the evidence of its importance to normal cellular function grows. Work from a number of groups using a variety of cell types is steadily identifying a large number of transcripts (and soon to be even larger as genome-wide analyses of retained introns across a number of cellular phenotypes are currently underway) that undergo some level of regulated endogenous extranuclear splicing as part of their normal biosynthetic pathway. Here, we review the existing data covering cytoplasmic retained intron sequences and suggest that such sequences may be a component of 'sentinel RNA' that serves to generate transcript variants within the cytoplasm as well as a source for RNA-based secondary messages.
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- Peter T Buckley
- Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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