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Mareninova OA, Jia W, Gretler SR, Holthaus CL, Thomas DDH, Pimienta M, Dillon DL, Gukovskaya AS, Gukovsky I, Groblewski GE. Transgenic expression of GFP-LC3 perturbs autophagy in exocrine pancreas and acute pancreatitis responses in mice. Autophagy 2020; 16:2084-2097. [PMID: 31942816 PMCID: PMC7595606 DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2020.1715047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Revised: 12/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Pancreatitis is a common, sometimes fatal, disease of exocrine pancreas, initiated by damaged acinar cells. Recent studies implicate disordered macroautophagy/autophagy in pancreatitis pathogenesis. ATG8/LC3 protein is critical for autophagosome formation and a widely used marker of autophagic vacuoles. Transgenic GFP-LC3 mice are a valuable tool to investigate autophagy ; however, comparison of homeostatic and disease responses between GFP-LC3 and wild-type (WT) mice has not been done. We examined the effects of GFP-LC3 expression on autophagy, acinar cell function, and experimental pancreatitis. Unexpectedly, GFP-LC3 expression markedly increased endogenous LC3-II level in pancreas, caused by downregulation of ATG4B, the protease that deconjugates/delipidates LC3-II. By contrast, GFP-LC3 expression had lesser or no effect on autophagy in liver, lung and spleen. Autophagic flux analysis showed that autophagosome formation in GFP-LC3 acinar cells increased 3-fold but was not fully counterbalanced by increased autophagic degradation. Acinar cell (ex vivo) pancreatitis inhibited autophagic flux in WT and essentially blocked it in GFP-LC3 cells. In vivo pancreatitis caused autophagy impairment in WT mice, manifest by upregulation of LC3-II and SQSTM1/p62, increased number and size of autophagic vacuoles, and decreased level of TFEB, all of which were exacerbated in GFP-LC3 mice. GFP-LC3 expression affected key pancreatitis responses; most dramatically, it worsened increases in serum AMY (amylase), a diagnostic marker of acute pancreatitis, in several mouse models. The results emphasize physiological importance of autophagy for acinar cell function, demonstrate organ-specific effects of GFP-LC3 expression, and indicate that application of GFP-LC3 mice in disease models should be done with caution.Abbreviations: AP: acute pancreatitis; Arg-AP: L-arginine-induced acute pancreatitis; ATG: autophagy-related (protein); AVs: autophagic vacuoles; CCK: cholecystokinin-8; CDE: choline-deficient, D,L-ethionine supplemented diet; CER: caerulein (ortholog of CCK); CTSB: cathepsin B; CTSD: cathepsin D; CTSL: cathepsin L; ER: endoplasmic reticulum; LAMP: lysosomal-associated membrane protein; MAP1LC3/LC3: microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3; TEM: transmission electron microscopy; TFEB: transcription factor EB; ZG: zymogen granule(s).
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- Olga A. Mareninova
- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Pancreatic Research Group, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of General Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Centre of Gerontology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Pancreatic Research Group, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Pancreatic Research Group, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Pancreatic Research Group, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Pancreatic Research Group, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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Majeau N, Fromentin R, Savard C, Duval M, Tremblay MJ, Leclerc D. Palmitoylation of hepatitis C virus core protein is important for virion production. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:33915-25. [PMID: 19783655 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.018549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hepatitis C virus core protein is the viral nucleocapsid of hepatitis C virus. Interaction of core with cellular membranes like endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and lipid droplets (LD) appears to be involved in viral assembly. However, how these interactions with different cellular membranes are regulated is not well understood. In this study, we investigated how palmitoylation, a post-translational protein modification, can modulate the targeting of core to cellular membranes. We show that core is palmitoylated at cysteine 172, which is adjacent to the transmembrane domain at the C-terminal end of core. Site-specific mutagenesis of residue Cys(172) showed that palmitoylation is not involved in the maturation process carried out by the signal peptide peptidase or in the targeting of core to LD. However, palmitoylation was shown to be important for core association with smooth ER membranes and ER closely surrounding LDs. Finally, we demonstrate that mutation of residue Cys(172) in the J6/JFH1 virus genome clearly impairs virion production.
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- Nathalie Majeau
- Infectious Disease Research Centre, CHUL, Université Laval, 2705 boulevard Laurier, Québec G1V 4G2, Canada
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Crunkhorn SE, Plant KE, Gibson GG, Kramer K, Lyon J, Lord PG, Plant NJ. Gene expression changes in rat liver following exposure to liver growth agents: role of Kupffer cells in xenobiotic-mediated liver growth. Biochem Pharmacol 2004; 67:107-18. [PMID: 14667933 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2003.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Many xenobiotics are known to cause liver enlargement and hepatocarcinogenesis in rats, although the molecular mechanisms that underlie this effect remain largely undefined. Human exposure to several of these compounds, including glucocorticoids and peroxisome proliferators may be significant, due to their use in both pharmaceutical and industrial processes. It is therefore important to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying this abnormal liver enlargement in rats, as this will enable more accurate extrapolation of the possible outcomes of human exposure. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were dosed with the peroxisome proliferator Wy-14,643 and changes in liver gene expression examined using subtractive suppression hybridisation examined either 12 of 24hr later. Twenty-five transcripts were identified which showed differential gene expression in liver following exposure to Wy-14,643. Biochemical indices of liver growth (DNA synthesis, apoptosis) showed that these changes correlated with the initiation of liver enlargement. Rats were next treated with either Wy-14,643, cyproterone acetate and dexamethasone, chemically and mechanistically-distinct hepatomegalic compounds. Carboxylesterase and Kupffer cell receptor mRNA levels were seen to alter in a qualitatively similar fashion for all three compounds, and in a liver specific fashion. In addition, these changes correlated with a decrease in the density of Kupffer cells within the liver, which are known to release mitogenic cytokines, and have been linked to Wy-14,643-induced cell proliferation. We therefore propose that Kupffer cells play a role in a general mechanism of xenobiotic-mediated liver enlargement.
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- Sarah E Crunkhorn
- Department of Biomedical & Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey GU2 5XH, Guildford, UK
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Radaeva S, Li Y, Hacker HJ, Burger V, Kopp-Schneider A, Bannasch P. Hepadnaviral hepatocarcinogenesis: in situ visualization of viral antigens, cytoplasmic compartmentation, enzymic patterns, and cellular proliferation in preneoplastic hepatocellular lineages in woodchucks. J Hepatol 2000. [PMID: 11059863 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8278(00)80010-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS Hepadnaviral hepatocarcinogenesis induced in woodchucks with and without dietary aflatoxin B1 has been established as an appropriate animal model for studying the pathogenesis of human hepatocellular carcinoma in high-risk areas. Our aim in this study was the elucidation of phenotypic cellular changes in early stages of this process. METHODS Woodchucks were inoculated as newborns with woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV), and partly also exposed to aflatoxin B1. Sequential hepatocellular changes in the expression of viral antigens, ultrastructural organization, cellular proliferation and apoptosis were studied in situ by electron microscopy, enzyme and immunohistochemistry. RESULTS A characteristic finding in WHV-infected animals (with and without aflatoxin B1) was proliferative areas of minimal structural deviation, which predominated periportally, comprised glycogen-rich, amphophilic, and ground-glass hepatocytes, and expressed the woodchuck hepatitis core and surface antigens. Two main types of proliferative foci emerged from minimal deviation areas, glycogenotic clear cell foci and amphophilic cell foci (being poor in glycogen but rich in mitochondria), giving rise to the glycogenotic-basophilic and the amphophilic preneoplastic hepatocellular lineages. A gradual loss in the expression of viral antigens appeared in both lineages, particularly early in the glycogenotic-basophilic cell lineage. Whereas glycogenosis was associated with an enzymic pattern suggesting an early activation of the insulin-signaling pathway, amphophilic cells showed changes in enzyme activities mimicking a response of the hepatocytes to thyroid hormone, which may also result from early changes in signal transduction. CONCLUSION Preneoplastic hepatocellular lineages in hepadnaviral and chemical hepatocarcinognesis show striking phenotypic similarities, indicating concordant and possibly synergistic early changes in signaling.
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- S Radaeva
- Division of Cell Pathology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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Rocha E, Monteiro RA, Pereira CA. Liver of the brown trout, Salmo trutta (Teleostei, Salmonidae): a stereological study at light and electron microscopic levels. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 1997; 247:317-28. [PMID: 9066909 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0185(199703)247:3<317::aid-ar3>3.0.co;2-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND A quantitative study was undertaken for the first time on the normal liver of male and female 2-year-old brown trout, Salmo trutta. METHODS Liver was fixed by controlled perfusion. Organ-level morphometry provided weight and volume. A two-stage stereological approach was performed at light and electron microscopy levels. Systematic sampling and point-counting morphometry were used for estimating the relative volumes of the structural compartments. Total absolute volumes of these components were obtained by multiplying each volume density by the volume of its reference space. RESULTS Liver volume was 3,423.6 mm3 for males and 3,657.4 mm3 for females. Parenchyma accounted for 95% of hepatic volume. Veins and bile ducts occupied, respectively, 76% and 17% of the stroma, whereas arteries, connective tissue, and melanomacrophages together composed only 6%. Hepatocytes occupied 88% of the parenchyma. Nonhepatocytic cells (endothelium, biliary epithelial cells, Ito cells, and macrophages) composed 4% of the parenchyma, the capillary lumen 6%, and other spaces (Disse space, canaliculi, and lumina of preductules and ductules) composed 2%. Significant sexual differences were found: (1) Females showed a greater parenchymal volume density (0.85% vs. 0.35%) and absolute volume (29.5 mm2 vs. 11.7 mm3) of Ito cells; (2) macrophages of females also presented a greater parenchymal volume density (0.94% vs. 0.46%), but not absolute volume. CONCLUSIONS The need to analyze both relative and absolute stereological data was stressed. Similarities and differences were detected between brown trout and other species (fishes and mammals); the findings suggest that, despite architectural differences, some quantitative parameters of liver microanatomy were retained during phylogeny. Factors mediating sexual differences in Ito cells and macrophages were discussed and the need for further studies was highlighted.
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- E Rocha
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Oporto, Porto, Portugal
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Lum PY, Wright R. Degradation of HMG-CoA reductase-induced membranes in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1995; 131:81-94. [PMID: 7559789 PMCID: PMC2120600 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.131.1.81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Elevated levels of certain membrane proteins, including the sterol biosynthetic enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, induce proliferation of the endoplasmic reticulum. When the amounts of these proteins return to basal levels, the proliferated membranes are degraded, but the molecular details of this degradation remain unknown. We have examined the degradation of HMG-CoA reductase-induced membranes in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. In this yeast, increased levels of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HMG-CoA reductase isozyme encoded by HMG1 induced several types of membranes, including karmellae, which formed a cap of stacked membranes that partially surrounded the nucleus. When expression of HMG1 was repressed, the karmellae detached from the nucleus and formed concentric, multilayered membrane whorls that were then degraded. During the degradation process, CDCFDA-stained compartments distinct from preexisting vacuoles formed within the interior of the whorls. In addition to these compartments, particles that contained neutral lipids also formed within the whorl. As the thickness of the whorl decreased, the lipid particle became larger. When degradation was complete, only the lipid particle remained. Cycloheximide treatment did not prevent the formation of whorls. Thus, new protein synthesis was not needed for the initial stages of karmellae degradation. On the contrary, cycloheximide promoted the detachment of karmellae to form whorls, suggesting that a short lived protein may be involved in maintaining karmellae integrity. Taken together, these results demonstrate that karmellae membranes differentiated into self-degradative organelles. This process may be a common pathway by which ER membranes are turned over in cells.
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- P Y Lum
- Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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McCuskey PA, Kan Z, Wallace S. An electron microscopy study of Kupffer cells in livers of mice having Friend erythroleukemia hepatic metastases. Clin Exp Metastasis 1994; 12:416-26. [PMID: 7923994 DOI: 10.1007/bf01755885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Kupffer cells, which are part of the reticuloendothelial system, play an important role in clearing pathogenic substances, including tumor cells, from the liver. The role of Kupffer cells in tumor development is very important as Kupffer cells can be manipulated to a tumoricidal state with biological response modifiers to kill tumor cells and thus to decrease tumor burden and extend survival time. To gain additional information on the role of Kupffer cells and their interaction with tumor cells in hepatic metastases, we studied an established experimental hematogenous metastatic model (Friend erythroleukemia) in mouse livers by light and electron microscopy. Highly activated Kupffer cells were observed in close contact with tumor cells in sinusoids and also in tumor forming foci within the hepatic parenchyma. The Kupffer cells were activated by the presence of the hematogenous tumor cells and were able to lyse and phagocytose them. However, some tumor cells evaded the Kupffer cells as metastases still occurred. Kupffer cells and other macrophages were found to leave the sinusoids and migrate to sites of potential tumor development where they interacted with tumor cells and intimately wrapped their processes around fat storing cells. It is possible that these macrophages which cross biological barriers could be used to deliver drug-loaded microparticles (liposomes and microcapsules) to tumors.
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- P A McCuskey
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030
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Bannasch P, Hacker HJ, Klimek F, Mayer D, Stumpf H, Zerban H. Cytochemical, microbiochemical and molecular genetic analysis of chemical carcinogenesis. PROGRESS IN HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CYTOCHEMISTRY 1991; 23:45-60. [PMID: 1947167 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6336(11)80168-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- P Bannasch
- Department of Cytopathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
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