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Winnik WM, Padgett W, Pitzer EM, Herr DW. Proteome Profiling of Rat Brain Cortical Changes during Early Postnatal Brain Development. J Proteome Res 2023; 22:2460-2476. [PMID: 37326657 PMCID: PMC10851773 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00172] [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] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Label-free quantitation (LFQ) was applied to proteome profiling of rat brain cortical development during the early postnatal period. Male and female rat brain extracts were prepared using a convenient, detergent-free sample preparation technique at postnatal days (PND) 2, 8, 15, and 22. The PND protein ratios were calculated using Proteome Discoverer, and the PND protein change profiles were constructed separately for male and female animals for key presynaptic, postsynaptic, and adhesion brain proteins. The profiles were compared to the analogous profiles assembled from the published mouse and rat cortex proteomic data, including the fractionated-synaptosome data. The PND protein-change trendlines, Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), and linear regression analysis of the statistically significant PND protein changes were used in the comparative analysis of the datasets. The analysis identified similarities and differences between the datasets. Importantly, there were significant similarities in the comparison of the rat cortex PND (current work) vs mouse (previously published) PND profiles, although in general, a lower abundance of synaptic proteins in mice than in rats was found. The male and female rat cortex PND profiles were expectedly almost identical (98-99% correlation by PCC), which also substantiated this LFQ nanoflow liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry approach.
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- Witold M Winnik
- Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United States
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- Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United States
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- Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United States
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- Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United States
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Signori D, Magliocca A, Hayashida K, Graw JA, Malhotra R, Bellani G, Berra L, Rezoagli E. Inhaled nitric oxide: role in the pathophysiology of cardio-cerebrovascular and respiratory diseases. Intensive Care Med Exp 2022; 10:28. [PMID: 35754072 PMCID: PMC9234017 DOI: 10.1186/s40635-022-00455-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a key molecule in the biology of human life. NO is involved in the physiology of organ viability and in the pathophysiology of organ dysfunction, respectively. In this narrative review, we aimed at elucidating the mechanisms behind the role of NO in the respiratory and cardio-cerebrovascular systems, in the presence of a healthy or dysfunctional endothelium. NO is a key player in maintaining multiorgan viability with adequate organ blood perfusion. We report on its physiological endogenous production and effects in the circulation and within the lungs, as well as the pathophysiological implication of its disturbances related to NO depletion and excess. The review covers from preclinical information about endogenous NO produced by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) to the potential therapeutic role of exogenous NO (inhaled nitric oxide, iNO). Moreover, the importance of NO in several clinical conditions in critically ill patients such as hypoxemia, pulmonary hypertension, hemolysis, cerebrovascular events and ischemia-reperfusion syndrome is evaluated in preclinical and clinical settings. Accordingly, the mechanism behind the beneficial iNO treatment in hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension is investigated. Furthermore, investigating the pathophysiology of brain injury, cardiopulmonary bypass, and red blood cell and artificial hemoglobin transfusion provides a focus on the potential role of NO as a protective molecule in multiorgan dysfunction. Finally, the preclinical toxicology of iNO and the antimicrobial role of NO-including its recent investigation on its role against the Sars-CoV2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic-are described.
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- Davide Signori
- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
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- Department of Medical Physiopathology and Transplants, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Laboratory for Critical Care Physiology, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health System, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Department of Emergency Medicine, North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health System, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, CCM/CVK Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- ARDS/ECMO Centrum Charité, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
- Department of Emergency and Intensive Care, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Respiratory Care Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
- Department of Emergency and Intensive Care, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy.
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Goodman SR, Johnson D, Youngentob SL, Kakhniashvili D. The Spectrinome: The Interactome of a Scaffold Protein Creating Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Connectivity and Function. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2019; 244:1273-1302. [PMID: 31483159 DOI: 10.1177/1535370219867269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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We provide a review of Spectrin isoform function in the cytoplasm, the nucleus, the cell surface, and in intracellular signaling. We then discuss the importance of Spectrin’s E2/E3 chimeric ubiquitin conjugating and ligating activity in maintaining cellular homeostasis. Finally we present spectrin isoform subunit specific human diseases. We have created the Spectrinome, from the Human Proteome, Human Reactome and Human Atlas data and demonstrated how it can be a useful tool in visualizing and understanding spectrins myriad of cellular functions.Impact statementSpectrin was for the first 12 years after its discovery thought to be found only in erythrocytes. In 1981, Goodman and colleagues1found that spectrin-like molecules were ubiquitously found in non-erythroid cells leading to a great multitude of publications over the next thirty eight years. The discovery of multiple spectrin isoforms found associated with every cellular compartment, and representing 2-3% of cellular protein, has brought us to today’s understanding that spectrin is a scaffolding protein, with its own E2/E3 chimeric ubiquitin conjugating ligating activity that is involved in virtually every cellular function. We cover the history, localized functions of spectrin isoforms, human diseases caused by mutations, and provide the spectrinome: a useful tool for understanding the myriad of functions for one of the most important proteins in all eukaryotic cells.
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- Steven R Goodman
- Department of Pediatrics, Memphis Institute of Regenerative Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103
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- Department of Pediatrics, Memphis Institute of Regenerative Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Memphis Institute of Regenerative Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103
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- Department of Pediatrics, Memphis Institute of Regenerative Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103
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Delalande O, Czogalla A, Hubert JF, Sikorski A, Le Rumeur E. Dystrophin and Spectrin, Two Highly Dissimilar Sisters of the Same Family. Subcell Biochem 2017; 82:373-403. [PMID: 28101868 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49674-0_12] [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] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Dystrophin and Spectrin are two proteins essential for the organization of the cytoskeleton and for the stabilization of membrane cells. The comparison of these two sister proteins, and with the dystrophin homologue utrophin, enables us to emphasise that, despite a similar topology with common subdomains and a common structural basis of a three-helix coiled-coil, they show a large range of dissimilarities in terms of genetics, cell expression and higher level structural organisation. Interactions with cellular partners, including proteins and membrane phospholipids, also show both strikingly similar and very different behaviours. The differences between dystrophin and spectrin are also illustrated by the large variety of pathological anomalies emerging from the dysfunction or the absence of these proteins, showing that they are keystones in their function of providing a scaffold that sustains cell structure.
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- Olivier Delalande
- Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6290, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
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- Biotechnology Faculty, Department of Cytobiochemistry, University of Wrocław, ul. joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6290, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- Biotechnology Faculty, Department of Cytobiochemistry, University of Wrocław, ul. joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6290, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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In this minireview, we cover the discovery of the human erythrocyte α spectrin E2/E3 ubiquitin conjugating/ligating enzymatic activity and the specific cysteines involved. We then discuss the consequences when this activity is partially inhibited in sickle cell disease and the possibility that the same attenuation is occurring in multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. We finish by discussing the reasons for believing that nonerythroid α spectrin isoforms (I and II) also have this activity and the importance of testing this hypothesis. If correct, this would suggest that the nonerythroid spectrin isoforms play a major role in protein ubiquitination in all cell types. This would open new fields in experimental biology focused on uncovering the impact that this enzymatic activity has upon protein-protein interactions, protein turnover, cellular signaling, and many other functions impacted by spectrin, including DNA repair.
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- Steven R Goodman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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- Department of Medical Physiology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Medical Physiology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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Machnicka B, Czogalla A, Hryniewicz-Jankowska A, Bogusławska DM, Grochowalska R, Heger E, Sikorski AF. Spectrins: a structural platform for stabilization and activation of membrane channels, receptors and transporters. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2013; 1838:620-34. [PMID: 23673272 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2013] [Revised: 04/25/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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This review focuses on structure and functions of spectrin as a major component of the membrane skeleton. Recent advances on spectrin function as an interface for signal transduction mediation and a number of data concerning interaction of spectrin with membrane channels, adhesion molecules, receptors and transporters draw a picture of multifaceted protein. Here, we attempted to show the current depiction of multitask role of spectrin in cell physiology. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Reciprocal influences between cell cytoskeleton and membrane channels, receptors and transporters. Guest Editor: Jean Claude Hervé.
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- Beata Machnicka
- University of Zielona Góra, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Poland
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- University of Zielona Góra, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Poland
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Getty AL, Pearce DA. Interactions of the proteins of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: clues to function. Cell Mol Life Sci 2010; 68:453-74. [PMID: 20680390 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0468-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2010] [Revised: 07/07/2010] [Accepted: 07/13/2010] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) are caused by mutations in eight different genes, are characterized by lysosomal accumulation of autofluorescent storage material, and result in a disease that causes degeneration of the central nervous system (CNS). Although functions are defined for some of the soluble proteins that are defective in NCL (cathepsin D, PPT1, and TPP1), the primary function of the other proteins defective in NCLs (CLN3, CLN5, CLN6, CLN7, and CLN8) remain poorly defined. Understanding the localization and network of interactions for these proteins can offer clues as to the function of the NCL proteins and also the pathways that will be disrupted in their absence. Here, we present a review of the current understanding of the localization, interactions, and function of the proteins associated with NCL.
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- Amanda L Getty
- Sanford Children's Health Research Center, Sanford Research USD, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, 2301 East 60th Street North, Sioux Falls, SD 57104-0589, USA
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Khoutorsky A, Spira ME. Activity-dependent calpain activation plays a critical role in synaptic facilitation and post-tetanic potentiation. Learn Mem 2009; 16:129-41. [DOI: 10.1101/lm.1275709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Novel interactions of CLN3 protein link Batten disease to dysregulation of fodrin-Na+, K+ ATPase complex. Exp Cell Res 2008; 314:2895-905. [PMID: 18621045 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2008.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2008] [Revised: 05/22/2008] [Accepted: 06/13/2008] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL, Batten disease) is the most common progressive neurodegenerative disorder of childhood. CLN3, the transmembrane protein underlying JNCL, is proposed to participate in multiple cellular events including membrane trafficking and cytoskeletal functions. We demonstrate here that CLN3 interacts with the plasma membrane-associated cytoskeletal and endocytic fodrin and the associated Na(+), K(+) ATPase. The ion pumping activity of Na(+), K(+) ATPase was unchanged in Cln3(-/-) mouse primary neurons. However, the immunostaining pattern of fodrin appeared abnormal in JNCL fibroblasts and Cln3(-/-) mouse brains suggesting disturbances in the fodrin cytoskeleton. Furthermore, the basal subcellular distribution as well as ouabain-induced endocytosis of neuron-specific Na(+), K(+) ATPase were remarkably affected in Cln3(-/-) mouse primary neurons. These data suggest that CLN3 is involved in the regulation of plasma membrane fodrin cytoskeleton and consequently, the plasma membrane association of Na(+), K(+) ATPase. Most of the processes regulated by multifunctional fodrin and Na(+), K(+) ATPase are also affected in JNCL and Cln3-deficiency implicating that dysregulation of fodrin cytoskeleton and non-pumping functions of Na(+), K(+) ATPase may play a role in the neuronal degeneration in JNCL.
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Khoutorsky A, Spira ME. Calcium-activated proteases are critical for refilling depleted vesicle stores in cultured sensory-motor synapses of Aplysia. Learn Mem 2005; 12:414-22. [PMID: 16077020 PMCID: PMC1183260 DOI: 10.1101/lm.92105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Aplysia motoneurons cocultured with a presynaptic sensory neuron exhibit homosynaptic depression when stimulated at low frequencies. A single bath application of serotonin (5HT) leads within seconds to facilitation of the depressed synapse. The facilitation is attributed to mobilization of neurotransmitter-containing vesicles from a feeding vesicle store to the depleted, readily releasable pool by protein kinase C (PKC). Here, we demonstrate that the calpain inhibitors, calpeptin, MG132, and ALLN, but not the proteasome inhibitors, lactacystin and clasto-lactacystin beta-lactone, block 5HT-induced facilitation of depressed synapses. Likewise the 5HT-induced enhancement of spontaneous miniature potentials (mEPSPs) frequency of depressed synapses is significantly reduced by calpeptin. In contrast, neither the facilitation of nondepressed synapses nor the enhancement of their mEPSPs frequency is affected by the inhibitor. The data suggest that action potentials-induced calcium influx activate calpains. These, in turn, play a role in the refilling processes of the depleted, releasable vesicle store.
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- Arkady Khoutorsky
- Department of Neurobiology, The Life Sciences Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Pielage J, Fetter RD, Davis GW. Presynaptic spectrin is essential for synapse stabilization. Curr Biol 2005; 15:918-28. [PMID: 15916948 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2005] [Revised: 03/24/2005] [Accepted: 04/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Precise neural circuitry is established and maintained through a regulated balance of synapse stabilization and disassembly. Currently, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that specify synapse stability versus disassembly. RESULTS Here, we demonstrate that presynaptic spectrin is an essential scaffold that is required to maintain synapse stability at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Loss of presynaptic spectrin leads to synapse disassembly and ultimately to the elimination of the NMJ. Synapse elimination is documented through light-level, ultrastructural, and electrophysiological assays. These combined assays reveal that impaired neurotransmission is secondary to synapse retraction. We demonstrate that loss of presynaptic, but not postsynaptic, spectrin leads to the disorganization and elimination of essential synaptic cell-adhesion molecules. In addition, we provide evidence of altered axonal transport and disrupted synaptic microtubules as events that contribute to synapse retraction in animals lacking presynaptic spectrin. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that presynaptic spectrin functions as an essential presynaptic scaffold that may link synaptic cell adhesion with the stabilization of the underlying microtubule cytoskeleton.
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- Jan Pielage
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Program in Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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Aspengren S, Wallin M. A Role for Spectrin in Dynactin-dependent Melanosome Transport in Xenopus laevis Melanophores. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 17:295-301. [PMID: 15140076 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2004.00150.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The bi-directional movement of pigment granules in frog melanophores involves the microtubule-based motors cytoplasmic dynein, which is responsible for aggregation, and kinesin II and myosin V, which are required for dispersion of pigment. It was recently shown that dynactin acts as a link between dynein and kinesin II and melanosomes, but it is not fully understood how this is regulated and if more proteins are involved. Here, we suggest that spectrin, which is known to be associated with Golgi vesicles as well as synaptic vesicles in a number of cells, is of importance for melanosome movements in Xenopus laevis melanophores. Large amounts of spectrin were found on melanosomes isolated from both aggregated and dispersed melanophores. Spectrin and two components of the oligomeric dynactin complex, p150(glued) and Arp1/centractin, co-localized with melanosomes during aggregation and dispersion, and the proteins were found to interact as determined by co-immunoprecipitation. Spectrin has been suggested as an important link between cargoes and motor proteins in other cell types, and our new data indicate that spectrin has a role in the specialized melanosome transport processes in frog melanophores, in addition to a more general vesicle transport.
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- Sara Aspengren
- Department of Zoology, Zoophysiology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
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Ca2+ store depletion activates both Ca2+ selective and non-selective currents in endothelial cells. Recently, considerable progress has been made in understanding the molecular make-up and regulation of an endothelial cell thapsigargin-activated Ca2+ selective current, I(SOC). Indeed, I(SOC) is a relatively small inward Ca2+ current that exhibits an approximate +40mV reversal potential and is strongly inwardly rectifying. This current is sensitive to organization of the actin-based cytoskeleton. Transient receptor potential (TRP) proteins 1 and 4 (TRPC1 and TRPC4, respectively) each contribute to the molecular basis of I(SOC), although it is TRPC4 that appears to be tethered to the cytoskeleton through a dynamic interaction with protein 4.1. Activation of I(SOC) requires association between protein 4.1 and the actin-based cytoskeleton (mediated through spectrin), suggesting protein 4.1 mediates the physical communication between Ca2+ store depletion and channel activation. Thus, at present findings indicate a TRPC4-protein 4.1 physical linkage regulates I(SOC) activation following Ca2+ store depletion.
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- Donna L Cioffi
- Department of Pharmacology, Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
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Serotonin stimulates phosphorylation of Aplysia synapsin and alters its subcellular distribution in sensory neurons. J Neurosci 2002. [PMID: 12097493 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-13-05412.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Only a small fraction of neurotransmitter-containing synaptic vesicles (SVs), the readily releasable pool, is available for fast Ca(2+)-induced release at any synapse. Most SVs are sequestered at sites away from the plasma membrane and cannot be exocytosed directly. Recruitment of SVs to the releasable pool is thought to be an important component of short-term synaptic facilitation by serotonin (5-HT) at Aplysia sensorimotor synapses. Synapsins are associated with SVs and hypothesized to play a central role in the regulation of SV mobilization in nerve terminals. Aplysia synapsin was cloned to examine its role in synaptic plasticity at the well characterized sensorimotor neuron synapse of this animal. Acute 5-HT treatment of ganglia induced synapsin phosphorylation. Immunohistochemical analyses of cultured Aplysia neurons revealed that synapsin is distributed in distinct puncta in the neurites. These puncta are rapidly dispersed after treatment of the neurons with 5-HT. The dispersion of synapsin puncta by 5-HT was fully reversible after washout of the modulator. Both 5-HT-induced phosphorylation and dispersion of synapsin were mediated, at least in part, by cAMP-dependent protein kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase. These experiments indicate that synapsin and its regulation by 5-HT may play an important role in the modulation of SV trafficking in short-term synaptic plasticity.
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Schmitz F. Immunological heterogeneity of synaptic and extrasynaptic forms of non-erythroid alpha-spectrin in the rat retina. Neurosci Lett 2001; 313:25-8. [PMID: 11684331 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(01)02238-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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alpha-, beta- Spectrin is ubiquitously distributed in neuronal compartments, i.e. at the plasma membrane of neuronal cell bodies, axonal and dendritic processes, pre- and postsynaptic nerve terminals and around synaptic vesicles, "Brain Res. Bull. 50 (1999) 345". Ultrastructural analyses in the rat retina using the monoclonal antibody AA6, "Hear. Res. 43 (1990) 199", against non-erythroid alpha-spectrin, alphaSPII (spectrin nomenclature according to "Blood 81 (1993) 3173"), revealed that the antibody intensively labeled the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane in virtually all neuronal processes. However, no significant immunolabel was observed at the presynaptic plasma membrane, around synaptic vesicles, at presynaptic densities and synaptic ribbons. Therefore, synaptic non-erythroid alpha-spectrin differs immunologically from extrasynaptic non-erythroid alpha-spectrin. This heterogeneity might contribute to the generation of distinct retinal microdomains.
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- F Schmitz
- Institute for Anatomy, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Koellikerstrasse 6, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
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Wu S, Sangerman J, Li M, Brough GH, Goodman SR, Stevens T. Essential control of an endothelial cell ISOC by the spectrin membrane skeleton. J Cell Biol 2001; 154:1225-33. [PMID: 11564759 PMCID: PMC2150809 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200106156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Mechanism(s) underlying activation of store-operated Ca2+ entry currents, ISOC, remain incompletely understood. F-actin configuration is an important determinant of channel function, although the nature of interaction between the cytoskeleton and ISOC channels is unknown. We examined whether the spectrin membrane skeleton couples Ca2+ store depletion to Ca2+ entry. Thapsigargin activated an endothelial cell ISOC (-45 pA at -80 mV) that reversed at +40 mV, was inwardly rectifying when Ca2+ was the charge carrier, and was inhibited by La3+ (50 microM). Disruption of the spectrin-protein 4.1 interaction at residues A207-V445 of betaSpIISigma1 decreased the thapsigargin-induced global cytosolic Ca2+ response by 50% and selectively abolished the endothelial cell ISOC, without altering activation of a nonselective current through cyclic nucleotide-gated channels. In contrast, disruption of the spectrin-actin interaction at residues A47-K186 of betaSpIISigma1 did not decrease the thapsigargin-induced global cytosolic Ca2+ response or inhibit ISOC. Results indicate that the spectrin-protein 4.1 interaction selectively controls ISOC, indicating that physical coupling between calcium release and calcium entry is reliant upon the spectrin membrane skeleton.
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- S Wu
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
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Ort T, Voronov S, Guo J, Zawalich K, Froehner SC, Zawalich W, Solimena M. Dephosphorylation of beta2-syntrophin and Ca2+/mu-calpain-mediated cleavage of ICA512 upon stimulation of insulin secretion. EMBO J 2001; 20:4013-23. [PMID: 11483505 PMCID: PMC149140 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.15.4013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Islet cell autoantigen (ICA) 512 is a receptor-tyrosine phosphatase-like protein associated with the secretory granules of neuroendocrine cells, including pancreatic beta-cells. Binding of its cytoplasmic tail to beta2-syntrophin suggests that ICA512 connects secretory granules to the utrophin complex and the actin cytoskeleton. Here we show that stimulation of insulin secretion from INS-1 cells triggers the biosynthesis of pro-ICA512 and the degradation of its mature form. Inhibition of calpain, which is activated upon stimulation of insulin secretion, prevents the Ca2+-dependent proteolysis of ICA512. In vitro mu-calpain cleaves ICA512 between a putative PEST domain and the beta2-syntrophin binding site, whereas binding of ICA512 to beta2-syntrophin protects the former from cleavage. beta2-syntrophin and its F-actin-binding protein utrophin are enriched in subcellular fractions containing secretory granules. ICA512 preferentially binds phospho-beta2-syntrophin and stimulation of insulin secretion induces the Ca2+-dependent, okadaic acid-sensitive dephosphorylation of beta2-syntrophin. Similarly to calpeptin, okadaic acid inhibits ICA512 proteolysis and insulin secretion. Thus, stimulation of insulin secretion might promote the mobilization of secretory granules by inducing the dissociation of ICA512 from beta2-syntrophin-utrophin complexes and the cleavage of the ICA512 cytoplasmic tail by mu-calpain.
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- Tatiana Ort
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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Sangerman J, Killilea A, Chronister R, Pappolla M, Goodman SR. Alpha-spectrins are major ubiquitinated proteins in rat hippocampal neurons and components of ubiquitinated inclusions in neurodegenerative disorders. Brain Res Bull 2001; 54:405-11. [PMID: 11306193 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(01)00426-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
We have demonstrated that alpha-spectrins (alphaSpISigma* and alphaSpIISigma1) are major ubiquitinated proteins in terminally differentiated hippocampal neurons in culture. Western blotting experiments, using alphaSpISigma1, alphaSpIISigma1, and ubiquitin antibodies and lysates of 11-day-old cultured rat hippocampal neurons, have demonstrated that a single band comigrating with alphaSpISigma* and alphaSpIISigma1 in a 5% polyacrylamide sodium dodecyl sulfate gel is recognized by ubiquitin antibodies when (125)I-protein A is used for detection. Immunofluorescence staining of the 7- and 12 -day-old rat hippocampal neuron cultures using ubiquitin, alphaSpISigma1, and alphaSpIISigma1 antibodies demonstrated that all of these antibodies label neurons but not the astrocytes in the cultures. Immunoprecipitation of spectrin subunits in lysates of 12-day-old rat hippocampal neurons under stringent conditions (9.5 M urea) using alphaSpISigma1 and alphaSpIISigma1 antibodies followed by Western blot experiments of the immunoprecipitated spectrin subunits using alphaSpISigma1, alphaSpIISigma1 and ubiquitin antibodies confirmed that both alphaSpISigma* and alphaSpIISigma1 are ubiquitinated in rat hippocampal neurons. Furthermore, we demonstrated by immunohistochemistry that alpha-spectrins are components of the cytoplasmic ubiquitinated inclusions in hippocampal neurons in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease patients.
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- J Sangerman
- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
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