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Semenov AN, Lugovtsov AE, Rodionov SA, Maksimov EG, Priezzhev AV, Shirshin EA. Erythrocytes membrane fluidity changes induced by adenylyl cyclase cascade activation: study using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 2024; 53:239-247. [PMID: 38625405 PMCID: PMC11098875 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-024-01707-x] [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: 01/09/2024] [Revised: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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In this study, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiments were performed on RBC labeled by lipophilic fluorescent dye CM-DiI to evaluate the role of adenylyl cyclase cascade activation in changes of lateral diffusion of erythrocytes membrane lipids. Stimulation of adrenergic receptors with epinephrine (adrenaline) or metaproterenol led to the significant acceleration of the FRAP recovery, thus indicating an elevated membrane fluidity. The effect of the stimulation of protein kinase A with membrane-permeable analog of cAMP followed the same trend but was less significant. The observed effects are assumed to be driven by increased mobility of phospholipids resulting from the weakened interaction between the intermembrane proteins and RBC cytoskeleton due to activation of adenylyl cyclase signaling cascade.
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- A N Semenov
- Dynamics of Fluids, Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Campus E2 6, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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- Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-2 Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- N.N. Priorov National Medical Research Center for Traumatology and Orthopedics, Priorova St. 10, 127299, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-12 Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-2 Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-2 Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia
- World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign and Personalized Healthcare", Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 8-2 Trubetskaya Str., 119991, Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 5 Fizicheskaya Str., 108840, Moscow, Russia
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Cilek N, Ugurel E, Goksel E, Yalcin O. Signaling mechanisms in red blood cells: A view through the protein phosphorylation and deformability. J Cell Physiol 2024; 239:e30958. [PMID: 36748950 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.30958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Intracellular signaling mechanisms in red blood cells (RBCs) involve various protein kinases and phosphatases and enable rapid adaptive responses to hypoxia, metabolic requirements, oxidative stress, or shear stress by regulating the physiological properties of the cell. Protein phosphorylation is a ubiquitous mechanism for intracellular signal transduction, volume regulation, and cytoskeletal organization in RBCs. Spectrin-based cytoskeleton connects integral membrane proteins, band 3 and glycophorin C to junctional proteins, ankyrin and Protein 4.1. Phosphorylation leads to a conformational change in the protein structure, weakening the interactions between proteins in the cytoskeletal network that confers a more flexible nature for the RBC membrane. The structural organization of the membrane and the cytoskeleton determines RBC deformability that allows cells to change their ability to deform under shear stress to pass through narrow capillaries. The shear stress sensing mechanisms and oxygenation-deoxygenation transitions regulate cell volume and mechanical properties of the membrane through the activation of ion transporters and specific phosphorylation events mediated by signal transduction. In this review, we summarize the roles of Protein kinase C, cAMP-Protein kinase A, cGMP-nitric oxide, RhoGTPase, and MAP/ERK pathways in the modulation of RBC deformability in both healthy and disease states. We emphasize that targeting signaling elements may be a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of hemoglobinopathies or channelopathies. We expect the present review will provide additional insights into RBC responses to shear stress and hypoxia via signaling mechanisms and shed light on the current and novel treatment options for pathophysiological conditions.
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- Neslihan Cilek
- Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM), Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- School of Medicine, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM), Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- School of Medicine, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM), Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- School of Medicine, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM), Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- School of Medicine, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Proteomic Analysis of the Role of the Adenylyl Cyclase-cAMP Pathway in Red Blood Cell Mechanical Responses. Cells 2022; 11:cells11071250. [PMID: 35406814 PMCID: PMC8997765 DOI: 10.3390/cells11071250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Red blood cell (RBC) deformability is modulated by the phosphorylation status of the cytoskeletal proteins that regulate the interactions of integral transmembrane complexes. Proteomic studies have revealed that receptor-related signaling molecules and regulatory proteins involved in signaling cascades are present in RBCs. In this study, we investigated the roles of the cAMP signaling mechanism in modulating shear-induced RBC deformability and examined changes in the phosphorylation of the RBC proteome. We implemented the inhibitors of adenylyl cyclase (SQ22536), protein kinase A (H89), and phosphodiesterase (PDE) (pentoxifylline) to whole blood samples, applied 5 Pa shear stress (SS) for 300 s with a capillary tubing system, and evaluated RBC deformability using a LORRCA MaxSis. The inhibition of signaling molecules significantly deteriorated shear-induced RBC deformability (p < 0.05). Capillary SS slightly increased the phosphorylation of RBC cytoskeletal proteins. Tyrosine phosphorylation was significantly elevated by the modulation of the cAMP/PKA pathway (p < 0.05), while serine phosphorylation significantly decreased as a result of the inhibition of PDE (p < 0.05). AC is the core element of this signaling pathway, and PDE works as a negative feedback mechanism that could have potential roles in SS-induced RBC deformability. The cAMP/PKA pathway could regulate RBC deformability during capillary transit by triggering significant alterations in the phosphorylation state of RBCs.
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Brun JF, Varlet-Marie E, Myzia J, Raynaud de Mauverger E, Pretorius E. Metabolic Influences Modulating Erythrocyte Deformability and Eryptosis. Metabolites 2021; 12:4. [PMID: 35050126 PMCID: PMC8778269 DOI: 10.3390/metabo12010004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Many factors in the surrounding environment have been reported to influence erythrocyte deformability. It is likely that some influences represent reversible changes in erythrocyte rigidity that may be involved in physiological regulation, while others represent the early stages of eryptosis, i.e., the red cell self-programmed death. For example, erythrocyte rigidification during exercise is probably a reversible physiological mechanism, while the alterations of red blood cells (RBCs) observed in pathological conditions (inflammation, type 2 diabetes, and sickle-cell disease) are more likely to lead to eryptosis. The splenic clearance of rigid erythrocytes is the major regulator of RBC deformability. The physicochemical characteristics of the surrounding environment (thermal injury, pH, osmolality, oxidative stress, and plasma protein profile) also play a major role. However, there are many other factors that influence RBC deformability and eryptosis. In this comprehensive review, we discuss the various elements and circulating molecules that might influence RBCs and modify their deformability: purinergic signaling, gasotransmitters such as nitric oxide (NO), divalent cations (magnesium, zinc, and Fe2+), lactate, ketone bodies, blood lipids, and several circulating hormones. Meal composition (caloric and carbohydrate intake) also modifies RBC deformability. Therefore, RBC deformability appears to be under the influence of many factors. This suggests that several homeostatic regulatory loops adapt the red cell rigidity to the physiological conditions in order to cope with the need for oxygen or fuel delivery to tissues. Furthermore, many conditions appear to irreversibly damage red cells, resulting in their destruction and removal from the blood. These two categories of modifications to erythrocyte deformability should thus be differentiated.
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- Jean-Frédéric Brun
- UMR CNRS 9214-Inserm U1046 Physiologie et Médecine Expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles-PHYMEDEXP, Unité D’explorations Métaboliques (CERAMM), Département de Physiologie Clinique, Université de Montpellier, Hôpital Lapeyronie-CHRU de Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France; (J.M.); (E.R.d.M.)
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- UMR CNRS 5247-Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), Laboratoire du Département de Physicochimie et Biophysique, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université de Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France;
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- UMR CNRS 9214-Inserm U1046 Physiologie et Médecine Expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles-PHYMEDEXP, Unité D’explorations Métaboliques (CERAMM), Département de Physiologie Clinique, Université de Montpellier, Hôpital Lapeyronie-CHRU de Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France; (J.M.); (E.R.d.M.)
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- UMR CNRS 9214-Inserm U1046 Physiologie et Médecine Expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles-PHYMEDEXP, Unité D’explorations Métaboliques (CERAMM), Département de Physiologie Clinique, Université de Montpellier, Hôpital Lapeyronie-CHRU de Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France; (J.M.); (E.R.d.M.)
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1 MATIELAND, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa;
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Anyona SB, Raballah E, Cheng Q, Hurwitz I, Ndege C, Munde E, Otieno W, Seidenberg PD, Schneider KA, Lambert CG, McMahon BH, Ouma C, Perkins DJ. Differential Gene Expression in Host Ubiquitination Processes in Childhood Malarial Anemia. Front Genet 2021; 12:764759. [PMID: 34880904 PMCID: PMC8646022 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.764759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: Malaria remains one of the leading global causes of childhood morbidity and mortality. In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission regions, such as western Kenya, severe malarial anemia [SMA, hemoglobin (Hb) < 6.0 g/dl] is the primary form of severe disease. Ubiquitination is essential for regulating intracellular processes involved in innate and adaptive immunity. Although dysregulation in ubiquitin molecular processes is central to the pathogenesis of multiple human diseases, the expression patterns of ubiquitination genes in SMA remain unexplored. Methods: To examine the role of the ubiquitination processes in pathogenesis of SMA, differential gene expression profiles were determined in Kenyan children (n = 44, aged <48 mos) with either mild malarial anemia (MlMA; Hb ≥9.0 g/dl; n = 23) or SMA (Hb <6.0 g/dl; n = 21) using the Qiagen Human Ubiquitination Pathway RT2 Profiler PCR Array containing a set of 84 human ubiquitination genes. Results: In children with SMA, 10 genes were down-regulated (BRCC3, FBXO3, MARCH5, RFWD2, SMURF2, UBA6, UBE2A, UBE2D1, UBE2L3, UBR1), and five genes were up-regulated (MDM2, PARK2, STUB1, UBE2E3, UBE2M). Enrichment analyses revealed Ubiquitin-Proteasomal Proteolysis as the top disrupted process, along with altered sub-networks involved in proteasomal, protein, and ubiquitin-dependent catabolic processes. Conclusion: Collectively, these novel results show that protein coding genes of the ubiquitination processes are involved in the pathogenesis of SMA.
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- Samuel B. Anyona
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya,University of New Mexico-Kenya Global Health Programs, Kisumu and Siaya, Kenya,*Correspondence: Samuel B. Anyona,
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- University of New Mexico-Kenya Global Health Programs, Kisumu and Siaya, Kenya,Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Public Health Biomedical Sciences and Technology, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya
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- Center for Global Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Center for Global Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- University of New Mexico-Kenya Global Health Programs, Kisumu and Siaya, Kenya
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- University of New Mexico-Kenya Global Health Programs, Kisumu and Siaya, Kenya,Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Health Science, Kirinyaga University, Kerugoya, Kenya
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department Applied Computer and Bio-Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Mittweida, Germany
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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- University of New Mexico-Kenya Global Health Programs, Kisumu and Siaya, Kenya,Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, School of Public Health and Community Development, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya
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- University of New Mexico-Kenya Global Health Programs, Kisumu and Siaya, Kenya,Center for Global Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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Andreyeva AY, Kladchenko ES, Sudnitsyna JS, Krivchenko AI, Mindukshev IV, Gambaryan S. Protein kinase A activity and NO are involved in the regulation of crucian carp (Carassius carassius) red blood cell osmotic fragility. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 2021; 47:1105-1117. [PMID: 34052972 DOI: 10.1007/s10695-021-00971-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Activation of the cAMP pathway by β-adrenergic stimulation and cGMP pathway by activation of guanylate cyclase substantially affects red blood cell (RBC) membrane properties in mammals. However, whether similar mechanisms are involved in RBC regulation of lower vertebrates, especially teleosts, is not elucidated yet. In this study, we evaluated the effects of adenylate cyclase activation by epinephrine and forskolin, guanylate cyclase activation by sodium nitroprusside, and the role of Na+/H+-exchanger in the changes of osmotic fragility and regulatory volume decrease (RVD) response in crucian carp RBCs. Western blot analysis of protein kinase A and protein kinase G substrate phosphorylation revealed that changes in osmotic fragility were regulated via the protein kinase A, but not protein kinase G signaling pathway. At the same time, the RVD response in crucian carp RBCs was not affected either by activation of adenylate or guanylate cyclase. Adenylate cyclase/protein kinase A activation significantly decreased RBC osmotic fragility, i.e., increased cell rigidity. Inhibition of Na+/H+-exchanger by amiloride had no effect on the epinephrine-mediated decrease of RBC osmotic fragility. NO donor SNP did not activate guanylate cyclase, however affected RBCs osmotic fragility by protein kinase G-independent mechanisms. Taken together, our data demonstrated that the cAMP/PKA signaling pathway and NO are involved in the regulation of crucian carp RBC osmotic fragility, but not in RVD response. The authors confirm that the study has no clinical trial.
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- Aleksandra Yu Andreyeva
- Department of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, Moscow Representative Office A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Leninsky ave 38, Moscow, Russia, 119991.
- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Toreza, 44, St-Petersburg, Russia, 194223.
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- Department of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, Moscow Representative Office A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Leninsky ave 38, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Toreza, 44, St-Petersburg, Russia, 194223
- Center for Theoretical Problems of Physicochemical Pharmacology, RAS, Srednyaya Kalitnikovskaya Str., 30, Moscow, Russia, 109029
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- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Toreza, 44, St-Petersburg, Russia, 194223
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- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Toreza, 44, St-Petersburg, Russia, 194223
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- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Toreza, 44, St-Petersburg, Russia, 194223
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Pecchiari M, Pontikis K, Alevrakis E, Vasileiadis I, Kompoti M, Koutsoukou A. Cardiovascular Responses During Sepsis. Compr Physiol 2021; 11:1605-1652. [PMID: 33792902 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c190044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Sepsis is the life-threatening organ dysfunction arising from a dysregulated host response to infection. Although the specific mechanisms leading to organ dysfunction are still debated, impaired tissue oxygenation appears to play a major role, and concomitant hemodynamic alterations are invariably present. The hemodynamic phenotype of affected individuals is highly variable for reasons that have been partially elucidated. Indeed, each patient's circulatory condition is shaped by the complex interplay between the medical history, the volemic status, the interval from disease onset, the pathogen, the site of infection, and the attempted resuscitation. Moreover, the same hemodynamic pattern can be generated by different combinations of various pathophysiological processes, so the presence of a given hemodynamic pattern cannot be directly related to a unique cluster of alterations. Research based on endotoxin administration to healthy volunteers and animal models compensate, to an extent, for the scarcity of clinical studies on the evolution of sepsis hemodynamics. Their results, however, cannot be directly extrapolated to the clinical setting, due to fundamental differences between the septic patient, the healthy volunteer, and the experimental model. Numerous microcirculatory derangements might exist in the septic host, even in the presence of a preserved macrocirculation. This dissociation between the macro- and the microcirculation might account for the limited success of therapeutic interventions targeting typical hemodynamic parameters, such as arterial and cardiac filling pressures, and cardiac output. Finally, physiological studies point to an early contribution of cardiac dysfunction to the septic phenotype, however, our defective diagnostic tools preclude its clinical recognition. © 2021 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 11:1605-1652, 2021.
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- Matteo Pecchiari
- Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Medico Chirurgica e dei Trapianti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Intensive Care Unit, 1st Department of Pulmonary Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 'I Sotiria', Athens, Greece
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- 4th Department of Pulmonary Medicine, General Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 'I Sotiria', Athens, Greece
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- Intensive Care Unit, 1st Department of Pulmonary Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 'I Sotiria', Athens, Greece
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- Intensive Care Unit, Thriassio General Hospital of Eleusis, Magoula, Greece
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- Intensive Care Unit, 1st Department of Pulmonary Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 'I Sotiria', Athens, Greece
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Sladkova EA, Skorkina MY. Changes of the Biophysical Properties of Blood Corpuscles from the Elderly under Mechanical Stress in vitro. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006350920060196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide loading reduces sickle red cell adhesion and vaso-occlusion in vivo. Blood Adv 2020; 3:2586-2597. [PMID: 31484636 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2019031633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Sickle red blood cells (SSRBCs) are adherent to the endothelium, activate leukocyte adhesion, and are deficient in bioactive nitric oxide (NO) adducts such as S-nitrosothiols (SNOs), with reduced ability to induce vasodilation in response to hypoxia. All these pathophysiologic characteristics promote vascular occlusion, the hallmark of sickle cell disease (SCD). Loading hypoxic SSRBCs in vitro with NO followed by reoxygenation significantly decreased epinephrine-activated SSRBC adhesion to the endothelium, the ability of activated SSRBCs to mediate leukocyte adhesion in vitro, and vessel obstruction in vivo. Because transfusion is frequently used in SCD, we also determined the effects of banked (SNO-depleted) red blood cells (RBCs) on vaso-occlusion in vivo. Fresh or 14-day-old normal RBCs (AARBCs) reduced epinephrine-activated SSRBC adhesion to the vascular endothelium and prevented vaso-occlusion. In contrast, AARBCs stored for 30 days failed to decrease activated SSRBC adhesivity or vaso-occlusion, unless these RBCs were loaded with NO. Furthermore, NO loading of SSRBCs increased S-nitrosohemoglobin and modulated epinephrine's effect by upregulating phosphorylation of membrane proteins, including pyruvate kinase, E3 ubiquitin ligase, and the cytoskeletal protein 4.1. Thus, abnormal SSRBC NO/SNO content both contributes to the vaso-occlusive pathophysiology of SCD, potentially by affecting at least protein phosphorylation, and is potentially amenable to correction by (S)NO repletion or by RBC transfusion.
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Sladkova EA. The Change of Electrical Properties of Blood Corpuscles under in vitro Mechanical Stress. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s000635092005019x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Ugurel E, Connes P, Yavas G, Eglenen B, Turkay M, Aksu AC, Renoux C, Joly P, Gauthier A, Hot A, Bertrand Y, Cannas G, Yalcin O. Differential effects of adenylyl cyclase-protein kinase A cascade on shear-induced changes of sickle cell deformability. Clin Hemorheol Microcirc 2020; 73:531-543. [DOI: 10.3233/ch-190563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Elif Ugurel
- Department of Physiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM) EA7424, Team « Vascular Biology and Red Blood Cell », Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
- Laboratoire d’Excellence du Globule Rouge (Labex GR-Ex), PRES Sorbonne, Paris, France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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- Department of Physiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM) EA7424, Team « Vascular Biology and Red Blood Cell », Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
- Laboratoire d’Excellence du Globule Rouge (Labex GR-Ex), PRES Sorbonne, Paris, France
- UF de biochimie des pathologies érythrocytaires, Centre de Biologie Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM) EA7424, Team « Vascular Biology and Red Blood Cell », Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
- Laboratoire d’Excellence du Globule Rouge (Labex GR-Ex), PRES Sorbonne, Paris, France
- UF de biochimie des pathologies érythrocytaires, Centre de Biologie Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM) EA7424, Team « Vascular Biology and Red Blood Cell », Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
- Laboratoire d’Excellence du Globule Rouge (Labex GR-Ex), PRES Sorbonne, Paris, France
- Institut d’hématologie et d’oncologie pédiatrique (IHOP), Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Clinique de Médecine Ambulatoire/Hématologie Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institut d’hématologie et d’oncologie pédiatrique (IHOP), Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM) EA7424, Team « Vascular Biology and Red Blood Cell », Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
- Laboratoire d’Excellence du Globule Rouge (Labex GR-Ex), PRES Sorbonne, Paris, France
- Clinique de Médecine Ambulatoire/Hématologie Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Department of Physiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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McMahon TJ. Red Blood Cell Deformability, Vasoactive Mediators, and Adhesion. Front Physiol 2019; 10:1417. [PMID: 31803068 PMCID: PMC6873820 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.01417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Healthy red blood cells (RBCs) deform readily in response to shear stress in the circulation, facilitating their efficient passage through capillaries. RBCs also export vasoactive mediators in response to deformation and other physiological and pathological stimuli. Deoxygenation of RBC hemoglobin leads to the export of vasodilator and antiadhesive S-nitrosothiols (SNOs) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in parallel with oxygen transport in the respiratory cycle. Together, these mediated responses to shear stress and oxygen offloading promote the efficient flow of blood cells and in turn optimize oxygen delivery. In diseases including sickle cell anemia and conditions including conventional blood banking, these adaptive functions may be compromised as a result, for example, of limited RBC deformability, impaired mediator formation, or dysfunctional mediator export. Ongoing work, including single cell approaches, is examining relevant mechanisms and remedies in health and disease.
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- Timothy J McMahon
- Durham VA Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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Semenov AN, Shirshin EA, Muravyov AV, Priezzhev AV. The Effects of Different Signaling Pathways in Adenylyl Cyclase Stimulation on Red Blood Cells Deformability. Front Physiol 2019; 10:923. [PMID: 31474870 PMCID: PMC6702543 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Signaling pathways of red blood cells’ (RBCs) micromechanics regulation, which are responsible for maintaining microcirculation, constitute an important property of RBC physiology. Selective control over these processes may serve as an indispensable tool for correction of hemorheological disorders, which accompany a number of systemic diseases (diabetes mellitus I&II, arterial hypertension, malaria, etc.). Activation of certain pathways involving adenylyl cyclase may provide fast adaptive regulation of RBC deformability (RBC-D). However the specific molecular conditions of intracellular signal transduction in mediating RBC microrheological properties at adenylyl cyclase stimulation remain unclear. In this paper, we present the results of the in vitro study of the effects of different signaling pathways in adenylyl cyclase stimulation on RBC-D. We studied (1) the direct stimulation of adenylyl cyclase with forskolin; (2) non-selective adrenoreceptor stimulation with epinephrine; (3) β2-adrenoreceptor agonist metaproterenol; (4) membrane-permeable analog of cAMP (dibutyryl-cAMP). Using laser ektacytometry, we observed a concentration-dependent increase in RBC-D for all studied effectors. The EC50 values for each substance were estimated to be in the range of 1–100 μM depending on the shear stress applied to the RBC suspension. The results can serve as an evidence of adenylyl cyclase signaling cascade involvement in the regulation of RBC micromechanical properties presenting a complex molecular pathway for fast increase of microcirculation efficiency in case of corresponding physiologic metabolic demands of the organism, e.g., during stress or physical activity. Further studies of this molecular system will reveal new knowledge which may improve the quality of medical treatment of hemorheological disorders.
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- Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,International Laser Center, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Medicine and Biology, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University, Yaroslavl, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,International Laser Center, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Smirnova MD, Svirida ON, Ageev FT. Protective measures of patients with cardiovascular diseases from exposure to heat waves: medicated and non-medicated. TERAPEVT ARKH 2019; 91:101-107. [PMID: 31090380 DOI: 10.26442/00403660.2019.01.000038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In conditions of climate warming with an increase in heat waves associated with an increase in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, the particular interest is the effect of cardiovascular drugs on adaptation to high temperatures. The review reflects the results of European and domestic studies on the safety of therapy during long and short heat waves. Recommendations for the correction of therapy during this period are given. Self-control of blood pressure (SCAD) is a mandatory component of the therapy of arterial hypertension during heat waves. With the development of clinically significant hypotension, a reduction in the dose of antihypertensive drugs is necessary. It is recommended to start with a dose reduction and/or withdrawal of diuretics and nitrates. Not recommended the complete abolition of antihypertensive therapy because of the risk of hypertensive crises, characteristic of abnormal heat, as well as due to the increase in blood pressure when the weather changes and the temperature drops. With increasing blood pressure during heat waves, it is recommended to give preference to calcium channel antagonists, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) and selective beta-blockers. It is necessary to inform patients about the additional protective effect of statins in order to increase adherence to therapy. Patients taking diuretics require individual daily monitoring of fluid intake and body weight. An overview of recommendations on sanogenic behavior during heat waves is given. Details are considered rules for the use of air conditioning, methods of diagnosis of dehydration and drinking mode Keywords: heat waves, cardiovascular complications, preventive measures.
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- M D Smirnova
- A.L. Myasnikov Research Institute of Cardiology of National Medical Research Center of Cardiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.,Institute of Economic Forecasting Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- A.L. Myasnikov Research Institute of Cardiology of National Medical Research Center of Cardiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
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- A.L. Myasnikov Research Institute of Cardiology of National Medical Research Center of Cardiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
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Brun JF, Varlet-Marie E, Richou M, Mercier J, Raynaud de Mauverger E. Blood rheology as a mirror of endocrine and metabolic homeostasis in health and disease1. Clin Hemorheol Microcirc 2018; 69:239-265. [PMID: 29660919 DOI: 10.3233/ch-189124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Rheological properties of plasma and blood cells are markedly influenced by the surrounding milieu: physicochemical factors, metabolism and hormones. Acid/base status, osmolality, lipid status, plasma protein pattern, oxidative stress induced by increased free radicals production, endothelium-derived factors such as nitric oxide (NO), achidonic acid derivatives modulate both red blood cell (RBC) and white cell mechanics. Therefore, regulatory axes involving liver, endothelium, kidney, pancreas, adrenal gland, endocrine heart, adipose tissue, pituitary gland, and surely other tissues play important roles in the regulation of blood fluidity. A comprehensive picture of all this complex network of regulatory loops is still unavailable but current progress of knowledge suggest that some attempts can currently be made.
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- Jean-Frédéric Brun
- U1046 INSERM, UMR 9214 CNRS « Physiopathologie and Médecine Expérimentale du Coeur et des Muscles-PHYMEDEXP », Unité d'ExplorationsMétaboliques (CERAMM), Université de Montpellier, Département de Physiologie Clinique, Hôpital Lapeyronie CHRU Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM) UMR CNRS 5247, Université de Montpellier, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France.,Laboratoire de Biophysique and Bio-Analyses, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Montpellier, France
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- U1046 INSERM, UMR 9214 CNRS « Physiopathologie and Médecine Expérimentale du Coeur et des Muscles-PHYMEDEXP », Unité d'ExplorationsMétaboliques (CERAMM), Université de Montpellier, Département de Physiologie Clinique, Hôpital Lapeyronie CHRU Montpellier, France
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- U1046 INSERM, UMR 9214 CNRS « Physiopathologie and Médecine Expérimentale du Coeur et des Muscles-PHYMEDEXP », Unité d'ExplorationsMétaboliques (CERAMM), Université de Montpellier, Département de Physiologie Clinique, Hôpital Lapeyronie CHRU Montpellier, France
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- U1046 INSERM, UMR 9214 CNRS « Physiopathologie and Médecine Expérimentale du Coeur et des Muscles-PHYMEDEXP », Unité d'ExplorationsMétaboliques (CERAMM), Université de Montpellier, Département de Physiologie Clinique, Hôpital Lapeyronie CHRU Montpellier, France
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Huisjes R, Bogdanova A, van Solinge WW, Schiffelers RM, Kaestner L, van Wijk R. Squeezing for Life - Properties of Red Blood Cell Deformability. Front Physiol 2018; 9:656. [PMID: 29910743 PMCID: PMC5992676 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Deformability is an essential feature of blood cells (RBCs) that enables them to travel through even the smallest capillaries of the human body. Deformability is a function of (i) structural elements of cytoskeletal proteins, (ii) processes controlling intracellular ion and water handling and (iii) membrane surface-to-volume ratio. All these factors may be altered in various forms of hereditary hemolytic anemia, such as sickle cell disease, thalassemia, hereditary spherocytosis and hereditary xerocytosis. Although mutations are known as the primary causes of these congenital anemias, little is known about the resulting secondary processes that affect RBC deformability (such as secondary changes in RBC hydration, membrane protein phosphorylation, and RBC vesiculation). These secondary processes could, however, play an important role in the premature removal of the aberrant RBCs by the spleen. Altered RBC deformability could contribute to disease pathophysiology in various disorders of the RBC. Here we review the current knowledge on RBC deformability in different forms of hereditary hemolytic anemia and describe secondary mechanisms involved in RBC deformability.
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- Rick Huisjes
- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Red Blood Cell Research Group, Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty and the Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Theoretical Medicine and Biosciences, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.,Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Silkin YA, Silkina EN. The role of ecto-ATPases of erythrocyte plasma membrane in hemodynamics of fishes. J EVOL BIOCHEM PHYS+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0022093017010094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fatini C, Mannini L, Sticchi E, Cecchi E, Bruschettini A, Leprini E, Pagnini P, Gensini GF, Prisco D, Abbate R. eNOS Gene Affects Red Cell Deformability: Role of T-786C, G894T, and 4a/4b Polymorphisms. Clin Appl Thromb Hemost 2016; 11:481-8. [PMID: 16244776 DOI: 10.1177/107602960501100417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Plasma viscosity and erythrocyte deformability play a key role in maintaining and regulating microcirculation. In vitro and in vivo studies suggested a role for nitric oxide (NO) in modulating flow-mediated vasodilatation and red blood cell deformability. Impaired NO availability due to mutations in eNOS gene might contribute to the altered haemorheologic state. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of eNOS T-786C, G894T, and 4a/4b polymorphisms in modulating the haemorheologic state in a clinical condition characterized by a microcirculatory disorder. Eighty patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) and 80 healthy subjects were studied. By using a dominant model of inheritance, we found a significant association between eNOS 894T rare variant and ISSHL (odds ratio [OR] 894TT+GT = 2.08, p = 0.03) after adjustment with traditional vascular risk factors. A higher percentage of altered red cell deformability both in patients and in controls carrying the eNOS rare variants was found in comparison to subjects carrying the wild type. Apart from the disease, eNOS T-786C and G894T polymorphisms independently affected the deformability index (OR,-786CC+TC = 2.81, p = 0.01 and OR, 894TT+GT = 2.5, p = 0.02, respectively), in particular in subjects in whom the contemporary presence of the two rare alleles was observed (OR,-786CC+TC and 894TT+GT combined genotype = 6.9, p<0.0001). Our study documented that eNOS gene affects the red blood cell deformability, so possibly contributing to ISSHL, which may represent a suitable model of microcirculatory disorder.
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- Cinzia Fatini
- Department of Medical and Surgical Critical Care, Section of Clinical Medicine and Cardiology, Thrombosis Centre, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy.
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Tikhomirova IA, Muravyov AV, Petrochenko EP, Kislov NV, Cheporov SV, Peganova EV. Alteration of red blood cell microrheology by anti-tumor chemotherapy drugs. BIOCHEMISTRY MOSCOW SUPPLEMENT SERIES A-MEMBRANE AND CELL BIOLOGY 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990747815050153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Tang F, Ren Y, Wang R, Lei X, Deng X, Zhao Y, Chen D, Wang X. Ankyrin exposure induced by activated protein kinase C plays a potential role in erythrophagocytosis. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2015; 1860:120-8. [PMID: 26498044 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2015.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Revised: 10/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND In physiological and pathological conditions activated protein kinace C (PKC) has been observed in the erythrocytes. Externalization of ankyrin followed by Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD)/integrin recognition also triggers erythrophagocytosis. In the present study, to test whether activated PKC is associated with ankyrin exposure in erythrophagocytosis. METHODS Phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA)-induced PKC activation and ankyrin phosphorylation were tested, and under different treatment conditions the subpopulation of erythrocytes with ankyrin exposure and the levels of intracellular calcium were analyzed by flow cytometry. RESULTS Results showed that treatment of erythrocytes with PMA in a calcium-containing buffer led to ankyrin exposure. In the absence of extracellular calcium, no ankyrin exposure was observed. PKC inhibition with calphostin C, a blocker of the PMA binding site, completely prevented the calcium entry, protein phosphorylation and ankyrin exposure. PKC inhibition with chelerythrine chloride, an inhibitor of the active site, diminished the level of ankyrin-exposing cells and ankyrin phosphorylation; however it even led to a higher percentage of cells with increased levels of calcium than with PMA treatment alone. Although PKC was activated and ankyrin phosphorylation occurred, no ankyrin exposure was observed in the absence of extracellular calcium. CONCLUSION Analyses of results suggested that PMA induces calcium influx into the erythrocytes, leading to the activation of calcium-dependent enzymes and the phosphorylation of membrane proteins, ultimately inducing ankyrin exposure and erythrophagocytosis. This study may provide insights into the molecular mechanisms of removing aged or diseased erythrocytes.
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- Fuzhou Tang
- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, PR China.
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Odashiro K, Saito K, Arita T, Maruyama T, Fujino T, Akashi K. Impaired deformability of circulating erythrocytes obtained from nondiabetic hypertensive patients: investigation by a nickel mesh filtration technique. Clin Hypertens 2015; 21:17. [PMID: 26893927 PMCID: PMC4750801 DOI: 10.1186/s40885-015-0030-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2015] [Accepted: 07/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Introduction Hypertension is associated with microcirculatory disturbance, and erythrocyte deformability is a major determinant of the microcirculation. However, impairment of erythrocyte deformability in hypertensive patients in relation to antihypertensive treatment is unclear. The present study aimed to investigate this impairment in hypertensive patients under treatment using a highly sensitive and quantitative nickel mesh filtration technique. Methods Deformability was evaluated by filterability, defined as the flow rate of a hematocrit-adjusted erythrocyte suspension relative to that of saline under a specific filtration pressure in a pressure-flow curve obtained by continuous filtration. Baseline characteristics of hypertensive patients (n = 101) and age-matched normotensive subjects (n = 14) were obtained from medical records, and diabetic patients were excluded. Results Erythrocyte deformability in the hypertensive group was significantly (p = 0.010) lower (87.8 ± 2.2 %) than that of the normotensive group (89.4 ± 1.7 %) and inversely proportional (r = −0.303, p = 0.002) to the mean blood pressure (BP) measured on blood sampling for the filtration study. Stepwise multiple regression analysis demonstrated that this impairment was mostly attributable to the mean BP (p = 0.001), whereas current smoking and episodes of stroke or coronary artery disease were not contributors. Discussion These findings indicate that erythrocyte deformability is impaired in the hypertensive patients, which depends on the current BP control rather than target organ damage.
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- Keita Odashiro
- Department of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan
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- Faculty of Art and Science, Kyushu University, Kasuga Kohen 6-1, Kasuga, 816-8580 Japan
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- Institute of Rheological Function of Foods Co., Ltd, Hisayama, 811-2501 Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan
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Luo GY, Sun L, Wei EX, Tan X, Liu TCY. The effects of low-intensity He-Ne laser irradiation on erythrocyte metabolism. Lasers Med Sci 2015; 30:2313-8. [PMID: 26407713 DOI: 10.1007/s10103-015-1806-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Low-intensity laser irradiation (LILI) can improve the deformability of red blood cells (RBCs). It might be due to the LILI effects on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) level. However, ATP content may not be a valid surrogate marker for RBC deformability. The LILI effects on RBC glycolysis were studied in this paper. Hypertonic RBCs were used in this study. After 5 min irradiation with low-intensity He-Ne laser irradiation (LHNL) at 632.8 nm and 4.4 mW/cm(2), the concentration of intracellular glucose and the activities of phosphofructokinase (PFK) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) were measured, respectively. There was no significant change in intracellular glucose concentration. The activity of PFK decreased significantly, but the activity of GAPDH increased significantly. In hypertonic RBCs, LHNL irradiation may decrease the activity of energy-consuming enzymes, but increases the activity of energy-generating enzymes in glycolysis, to improve the RBC deformability.
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- Gang-Yue Luo
- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China
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- Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Laboratory of Laser Sports Medicine, South China Normal University, University Town, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Laboratory of Laser Sports Medicine, South China Normal University, University Town, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
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Muravyov A, Tikhomirova I. Red blood cell microrheological changes and drug transport efficiency. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.3233/jcb-15005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Chiou E, Zennadi R. Gαs proteins activate p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src tyrosine kinases to mediate sickle red blood cell adhesion to endothelium via LW-αvβ3 and CD44-CD44 interactions. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2015; 65:40-51. [PMID: 26007235 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2015.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Revised: 04/16/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been suggested as new drug targets to treat a variety of diseases. In sickle cell disease (SCD), the LW erythrocyte adhesion receptor can be activated by stimulation of β2 adrenergic receptors (β2ARs), to mediate sickle erythrocyte (SSRBC) adhesion to endothelium. However, the involvement of tyrosine protein kinases in β2AR signaling to activate SSRBC adhesion to endothelium has not been thoroughly elucidated. Either direct activation with Cholera toxin of Gαs protein, which acts downstream of β2ARs, or inhibition with Pertussis toxin of Gαi, mediating suppression of adenylyl cyclase, increased SSRBC adhesion to endothelium over baseline adhesion. This effect involved the non-receptor tyrosine kinases, p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src, which were more abundant in SSRBCs than in normal erythrocytes. In contrast, Pertussis toxin and Cholera toxin failed to increase adhesion of normal erythrocytes. SSRBC Gαi inhibition also increased phosphorylation of p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src. Further, we investigated the relevance of activation of p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src, and identified LW (ICAM-4, CD242) and CD44 as the erythroid adhesion molecules both physically interacting with activated p60-c-Src. As a result, SSRBC LW underwent increased tyrosine phosphorylation, leading to SSRBC LW and CD44 binding to endothelial αvβ3 integrin and CD44, respectively. These data provide in vitro mechanistic evidence that p60-c-Src, which could act downstream of Gαs/p72(Syk), associates with LW and CD44 on SSRBCs leading to their interactions with endothelial αvβ3 and CD44, respectively. Thus, increased activation of these signaling mechanisms in SSRBCs could initiate or exacerbate vascular occlusion, the hallmark of SCD.
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- Edward Chiou
- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, United States
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, United States.
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Identification of signalling cascades involved in red blood cell shrinkage and vesiculation. Biosci Rep 2015; 35:BSR20150019. [PMID: 25757360 PMCID: PMC4400636 DOI: 10.1042/bsr20150019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Even though red blood cell (RBC) vesiculation is a well-documented phenomenon, notably in the context of RBC aging and blood transfusion, the exact signalling pathways and kinases involved in this process remain largely unknown. We have established a screening method for RBC vesicle shedding using the Ca2+ ionophore ionomycin which is a rapid and efficient method to promote vesiculation. In order to identify novel pathways stimulating vesiculation in RBC, we screened two libraries: the Library of Pharmacologically Active Compounds (LOPAC) and the Selleckchem Kinase Inhibitor Library for their effects on RBC from healthy donors. We investigated compounds triggering vesiculation and compounds inhibiting vesiculation induced by ionomycin. We identified 12 LOPAC compounds, nine kinase inhibitors and one kinase activator which induced RBC shrinkage and vesiculation. Thus, we discovered several novel pathways involved in vesiculation including G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling, the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)–Akt (protein kinase B) pathway, the Jak–STAT (Janus kinase–signal transducer and activator of transcription) pathway and the Raf–MEK (mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase)–ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) pathway. Moreover, we demonstrated a link between casein kinase 2 (CK2) and RBC shrinkage via regulation of the Gardos channel activity. In addition, our data showed that inhibition of several kinases with unknown functions in mature RBC, including Alk (anaplastic lymphoma kinase) kinase and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2), induced RBC shrinkage and vesiculation. After screening two libraries of small bioactive molecules and kinase inhibitors, we identified several signalling pathways to be involved in red blood cell (RBC) shrinkage and vesiculation. These include the Jak (Janus kinase)–STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) pathway, phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)–Akt pathway, the Raf–MEK (mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase)–ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) pathway and GPCR (G protein-coupled receptor) signalling.
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Odashiro K, Maruyama T, Yokoyama T, Nakamura H, Fukata M, Yasuda S, Saito K, Fujino T, Akashi K. Impaired Erythrocyte Deformability in Patients with Coronary Risk Factors: Significance of Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation. J Atr Fibrillation 2013; 6:939. [PMID: 28496902 DOI: 10.4022/jafib.939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2013] [Revised: 10/30/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Although coronary risk factors promote the formation of atherosclerotic plaque containing activated platelets and inflammatory leukocytes, and play a pivotal role in the development of coronary artery diseases (CAD), the hemorheological effects of these risk factors on circulating intact erythrocytes, a major component of whole blood cells, are poorly understood. Therefore, this study aimed to quantify erythrocyte deformability in patients with coronary risk factors, and enrolled 320 consecutive cardiac outpatients including 33 patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF). Patients with acute coronary syndrome or valvular AF were excluded. Demographic variables obtained by medical records were correlated with erythrocyte deformability investigated by our highly sensitive and reproducible filtration technique. Among demographic variables, triglyceride (p = 0.004), HbA1c (p = 0.014) and body weight (p = 0.020) showed significant inverse correlation to the erythrocyte deformability. This deformability was not associated with types of CAD (old myocardial infarction vs. stable angina) or modality of treatment (percutaneous intervention vs. coronary artery bypass grafting). Unexpectedly, stepwise multiple regression analysis demonstrated that nonvalvular AF was the most significant contributor to the impaired erythrocyte deformability (p = 0.002). Hypertension and dyslipidemia are more prevalent in the AF patients (p < 0.001), and the erythrocyte deformability was found to be impaired synergistically and significantly (p < 0.001) during the stepwise accumulation of the coronary risk factors in addition to AF. In conclusion coronary risk factors synergistically impair the erythrocyte deformability, which may play an important role in critically stenotic coronary arteries. Since the impairment of intact erythrocyte deformability is mostly associated with nonvalvular AF, this common arrhythmia may reflect the coronary risk accumulation.
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- Institute of Rheological Function of Foods Co. Ltd., Fukuoka, Japan
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Saito K, Odashiro K, Maruyama T, Akashi K, Mawatari S, Fujino T. Improvement of diabetic or obese patients' erythrocyte deformability by the program of the brain-oriented obesity control system (BOOCS). J Physiol Sci 2012; 62:445-51. [PMID: 22843251 PMCID: PMC10717795 DOI: 10.1007/s12576-012-0221-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/25/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Diabetes is characterized by absolute or relative insulin deficiency complicated with microangiopathy, whereas obesity stems from insulin resistance. A psychosomatic approach to obesity and diabetes has been highlighted, including the brain-oriented obesity control system (BOOCS). Impaired deformability of erythrocytes in obese or diabetic patients is closely linked to disturbed microcirculation, and improvement of abnormal erythrocyte rheology is a prerequisite for the prevention and treatment of microangiopathy. Therefore, erythrocyte filterability, whole cell deformability defined as flow rate of erythrocyte suspension relative to that of saline, was assessed by the nickel-mesh-filtration technique. Subjects included healthy controls (group A, n = 14), diabetic, non-obese participants (group B, n = 29), and non-diabetic, obese participants (group C, n = 32) in the 6-month BOOCS program, and most patients in groups B and C (86.9 %) completed this program. Baseline mean erythrocyte filterabilities were 89.4 ± 1.7 % in group A, 82.8 ± 5.2 % in group B, and 84.1 ± 5.6 % in group C, showing significant intergroup differences (p < 0.001). This program significantly improved (p < 0.001) the impaired erythrocyte filterability in groups B (87.9 ± 4.4 %) and C (88.5 ± 3.7 %). Declines in HbA1c (p = 0.387) and body mass index (p = 0.479) were not correlated to this improvement. These findings indicate that the mechanisms of BOOCS-induced improvement of diabetic or obese patients' erythrocyte deformability are multifactorial, and that the BOOCS program for these patients is a holistic, cost-effective, and highly compliant approach possibly ameliorating microcirculation.
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- BOOCS Clinic Fukuoka, Fukuoka, 812-0025 Japan
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- Department of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan
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- Institute of Health Science, Kyushu University, Kasuga Kohen 6-1, Kasuga, 816-8580 Japan
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- Department of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan
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- Institute of Rheological Function of Foods Co. Ltd., Hisayama, 811-2501 Japan
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- BOOCS Clinic Fukuoka, Fukuoka, 812-0025 Japan
- Institute of Rheological Function of Foods Co. Ltd., Hisayama, 811-2501 Japan
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Muravyov AV, Maimistova AA, Tikhomirova IA, Bulaeva SV, Mikhailov PV, Muravyov AA. Role of protein kinases of human red cell membrane in deformability and aggregation changes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s036211971202017x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Muravyov A, Tikhomirova I. Role Ca(2+) in mechanisms of the red blood cells microrheological changes. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2012; 740:1017-38. [PMID: 22453982 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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To assess the physiological role of intracellular Ca(2+) in the changes of microrheological red blood cell (RBC) properties (RBC deformability and aggregation), we employed several types of chemicals that can increase and decrease of the intracellular Ca(2+) concentration. The rise of Ca(2+) influx, stimulated by mechanical loading, A23187, thrombin, prostaglandin F(2α) was accompanied by a moderate red cell deformability lowering and an increase of their aggregation. In contrast, Ca(2+) entry blocking into the red cells by verapamil led to a significant RBC aggregation decrease and deformability rise. Similar microrheological changes were observed in the red blood cells treated with phosphodiesterase inhibitors IBMX, vinpocetine, rolipram, pentoxifylline. When forskolin (10 μM), an AC stimulator was added to RBC suspension, the RBC deformability was increased (p <0.05). Somewhat more significant deformability rise appeared after RBC incubation with dB-AMP. Red cell aggregation was significantly decreased under these conditions (p<0.01). On the whole the total data clearly show that the red cell aggregation and deformation changes were connected with an activation of both intracellular signaling pathways: Ca(2+) regulatory mechanism and Gs-protein/adenylyl-cyclase-cAMP system. And the final red cell microrheological regulatory effect is connected with the crosstalk between these systems.
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- Alexei Muravyov
- Department of Medicine and Biology, State Pedagogical University, Yaroslavl, Russia.
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Erythrocyte plasma membrane-bound ERK1/2 activation promotes ICAM-4-mediated sickle red cell adhesion to endothelium. Blood 2011; 119:1217-27. [PMID: 22147898 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-03-344440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The core pathology of sickle cell disease (SCD) starts with the erythrocyte (RBC). Aberration in MAPK/ERK1/2 signaling, which can regulate cell adhesion, occurs in diverse pathologies. Because RBCs contain abundant ERK1/2, we predicted that ERK1/2 is functional in sickle (SS) RBCs and promotes adherence, a hallmark of SCD. ERK1/2 remained active in SS but not normal RBCs. β(2)-adrenergic receptor stimulation by epinephrine can enhance ERK1/2 activity only in SS RBCs via PKA- and tyrosine kinase p72(syk)-dependent pathways. ERK signaling is implicated in RBC ICAM-4 phosphorylation, promoting SS RBC adhesion to the endothelium. SS RBC adhesion and phosphorylation of both ERK and ICAM-4 all decreased with continued cell exposure to epinephrine, implying that activation of ICAM-4-mediated SS RBC adhesion is temporally associated with ERK1/2 activation. Furthermore, recombinant ERK2 phosphorylated α- and β-adducins and dematin at the ERK consensus motif. Cytoskeletal protein 4.1 also showed dynamic phosphorylation but not at the ERK consensus motif. These results demonstrate that ERK activation induces phosphorylation of cytoskeletal proteins and the adhesion molecule ICAM-4, promoting SS RBC adhesion to the endothelium. Thus, blocking RBC ERK1/2 activation, such as that promoted by catecholamine stress hormones, could ameliorate SCD pathophysiology.
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Qazi AS, Sun M, Huang Y, Wei Y, Tang J. Subcellular proteomics: Determination of specific location and expression levels of lymphatic metastasis associated proteins in hepatocellular carcinoma by subcellular fractionation. Biomed Pharmacother 2011; 65:407-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2011.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2011] [Accepted: 04/23/2011] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Muravyov AV, Koshelev VB, Fadukova OE, Tikhomirova IA, Maimistova AA, Bulaeva SV. The role of red blood cell adenylyl cyclase activation in changes of erythrocyte membrane microrheological properties. BIOCHEMISTRY MOSCOW SUPPLEMENT SERIES A-MEMBRANE AND CELL BIOLOGY 2011. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990747811020036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Horn P, Cortese-Krott MM, Keymel S, Kumara I, Burghoff S, Schrader J, Kelm M, Kleinbongard P. Nitric oxide influences red blood cell velocity independently of changes in the vascular tone. Free Radic Res 2011; 45:653-61. [PMID: 21480762 DOI: 10.3109/10715762.2011.574288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) plays a key role in regulation of vascular tone and blood flow. In the microcirculation blood flow is strongly dependent on red blood cells (RBC) deformability. In vitro NO increases RBC deformability. This study hypothesized that NO increases RBC velocity in vivo not only by regulating vascular tone, but also by modifying RBC deformability. The effects of NO on RBC velocity were analysed by intra-vital microscopy in the microcirculation of the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) of the avian embryo at day 7 post-fertilization, when all vessels lack smooth muscle cells and vascular tone is not affected by NO. It was found that inhibition of enzymatic NO synthesis and NO scavenging decreased intracellular NO levels and avian RBC deformability in vitro. Injection of a NO synthase-inhibitor or a NO scavenger into the microcirculation of the CAM decreased capillary RBC velocity and deformation, while the diameter of the vessels remained constant. The results indicate that scavenging of NO and inhibition of NO synthesis decrease RBC velocity not only by regulating vascular tone but also by decreasing RBC deformability.
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- Patrick Horn
- Division of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany
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Ariyoshi K, Maruyama T, Odashiro K, Akashi K, Fujino T, Uyesaka N. Impaired erythrocyte filterability of spontaneously hypertensive rats: investigation by nickel filtration technique. Circ J 2009; 74:129-36. [PMID: 19952438 DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-09-0252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Deformability of erythrocytes plays a key role in the impairment of the microcirculation in hypertension. However, erythrocyte deformability in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) during development of hypertension has not been fully investigated so far. METHODS AND RESULTS Erythrocyte filterability (whole cell deformability) was investigated in relation to blood pressure measured by the tail-cuff method in SHR and age-matched Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY), using a highly sensitive and reproducible nickel mesh filtration technique. Impaired erythrocyte filterability was marked (37.0+/-17.5%) in prehypertensive young SHR (7 weeks of age) and sustained (51.6+/-13.3%) in hypertensive mature SHR (18 weeks of age), when compared with that of age-matched WKY (62.1+/-7.2% in 7 weeks of age, P<0.005, and 71.1+/-3.9% in 18 weeks of age, P<0.005, respectively). This impairment in SHR could not be explained by the mean corpuscular volume or mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration of erythrocytes, but the erythrocyte count was significantly (P<0.005) greater in SHR than in the age-matched WKY. CONCLUSIONS Although the precise mechanisms remain to be elucidated, markedly impaired erythrocyte filterability in SHR is considered to contribute to the development and maintenance of genetic hypertension. (Circ J 2010; 74: 129 - 136).
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- Kyoko Ariyoshi
- Department of Medicine & Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University, Japan
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Wang X, Chen X, Tang Z, Yao W, Liu X, Wei R, Wang X, Ka W, Sun D, He D, Wen Z, Chien S. Ryanodine receptor 1 mediates Ca2+ transport and influences the biomechanical properties in RBCs. J Biomech 2009; 42:2774-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.07.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2009] [Revised: 07/27/2009] [Accepted: 07/29/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Murphy SC, Hiller NL, Harrison T, Lomasney JW, Mohandas N, Haldar K. Lipid rafts and malaria parasite infection of erythrocytes (Review). Mol Membr Biol 2009; 23:81-8. [PMID: 16611583 DOI: 10.1080/09687860500473440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Infection of human erythrocytes by the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, results in complex membrane sorting and signaling events in the mature erythrocyte. These events appear to rely heavily on proteins resident in erythrocyte lipid rafts. Over the past five years, we and others have undertaken a comprehensive characterization of major proteins present in erythrocyte detergent-resistant membrane lipid rafts and determined which of these proteins traffic to the host-derived membrane that bounds the intraerythrocytic parasite. The data suggest that raft association is necessary but not sufficient for vacuolar recruitment, and that there is likely a mechanism of active uptake of a subset of erythrocyte detergent-resistant membrane proteins. Of the ten internalized proteins, few have been evaluated for a role in malarial entry. The beta(2)-adrenergic receptor and heterotrimeric G protein G(s) signaling pathway proteins regulate invasion. The implications of these differences are discussed. In addition, the latter finding indicates that erythrocytes possess important signaling pathways. These signaling cascades may have important influences on in vivo malarial infection, as well as on erythrocyte membrane flexibility and adhesiveness in sickle cell anemia. With respect to malarial infection, host signaling components alone are not sufficient to induce formation of the malarial vacuole. Parasite proteins are likely to have a major role in making the intraerythrocytic environment conducive for vacuole formation. Such interactions should be the focus of future efforts to understand malarial infection of erythrocytes since host- and parasite-targeted interventions are urgently needed to combat this terrible disease.
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- Sean C Murphy
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Bor-Kucukatay M, Keskin A, Akdam H, Kabukcu-hacioglu S, Erken G, Atsak P, Kucukatay V. Effect of thrombocytapheresis on blood rheology in healthy donors: role of nitric oxide. Transfus Apher Sci 2009; 39:101-8. [PMID: 18707921 DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2008.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Platelet transfusions are increasingly being used to treat thrombocytopenic conditions. Because of anticoagulation, changes in blood composition and extracorporeal circulation, donor apheresis may cause alterations in hemorheology. This study aimed at investigating the effects of thrombocytapheresis on donor blood rheology. The effect of nitric oxide (NO) on donor red blood cell (RBC) deformability after thrombocytapheresis was also studied. Platelets were collected by a Haemonetics MCS 3p cell seperator. Blood samples were obtained before and 15 min after thrombocytapheresis. RBC deformability and aggregation were measured using an ektacytometer, whole blood viscosity (WBV) was determined with a cone-plate rotational viscometer. Donor RBCs were shown to be less deformable at all stress levels except 0.30 Pa after thrombocytapheresis and NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP, 10(-6) M) reversed the reduced deformability caused by thrombocytapheresis. It was observed that donor apheresis induces a decrement in RBC aggregation and WBV measured at standard hematocrit (Hct). No significant alterations were observed in WBV values determined at native Hct values. Thrombocytapheresis also resulted in a decrement in fibrinogen, total protein, cholesterol and albumin levels whereas Hct was found to be increased and serum glucose, triglyceride, hemoglobin levels unaltered after apheresis. These results suggest that, thrombocytapheresis causes alterations in hemorheological parameters and hence in the perfusion of the microvasculature of the donors and NO appears to have a protective effect on the impairment observed in RBC deformability.
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- Melek Bor-Kucukatay
- Pamukkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Kinikli, 20070 Denizli, Turkey
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Gilson PR, Crabb BS. Morphology and kinetics of the three distinct phases of red blood cell invasion by Plasmodium falciparum merozoites. Int J Parasitol 2008; 39:91-6. [PMID: 18952091 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2008] [Revised: 09/25/2008] [Accepted: 09/28/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The invasion of red blood cells (RBCs) is an essential event in the life cycle of all malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites; however, there are major gaps in our knowledge of this process. Here, we use video microscopy to address the kinetics of RBC invasion in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Under in vitro conditions merozoites generally recognise new target RBCs within 1 min of their release from their host RBC. Parasite entry ensues and is complete on average 27.6s after primary contact. This period can be divided into two distinct phases. The first is an approximately 11s 'pre-invasion' phase that involves an often dramatic RBC deformation and recovery process. The second is the classical 'invasion' phase where the merozoite becomes internalised within the RBC in a approximately 17s period. After invasion, a third 'echinocytosis' phase commences when about 36 s after every successful invasion a dramatic dehydration-type morphology was adopted by the infected RBC. During this phase, the echinocytotic effect reached a peak over the next 23.4s, after which the infected RBC recovered over a 5-11 min period. By then the merozoite had assumed an amoeboid-like state and was apparently free in the cytoplasm. A comparison of our data with that of an earlier study of the distantly related primate parasite Plasmodium knowlesi indicated remarkable similarities, suggesting that the kinetics of invasion are conserved across the Plasmodium genus. This study provides a morphological and kinetic framework onto which the invasion-associated physiological and molecular events can be overlaid.
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- Paul R Gilson
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Vic. 3050, Australia.
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Haldar K, Murphy SC, Milner DA, Taylor TE. Malaria: mechanisms of erythrocytic infection and pathological correlates of severe disease. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PATHOLOGY-MECHANISMS OF DISEASE 2008; 2:217-49. [PMID: 18039099 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pathol.2.010506.091913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Malaria is an ancient disease that continues to cause enormous human morbidity and mortality. The life cycle of the causative parasite involves multiple tissues in two distinct host organisms, mosquitoes and humans. However, all the clinical symptoms of malaria are a consequence of infection of human erythrocytes. An understanding of the basic mechanisms that govern parasite invasion, remodeling, growth, and reinvasion of erythrocytes and the complex events leading to tissue pathology may yield new diagnostics and treatments for malaria. This approach is revealing a more complete picture of the most serious syndrome associated with this infection-cerebral malaria. We focus on the most recent understanding of the molecular basis of infection, summarize our finding from an ongoing pediatric cerebral malaria autopsy study in Malawi, and integrate these insights to malarial pathology.
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- Kasturi Haldar
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
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Taogoshi T, Nagai J, Yumoto R, Takano M. Transport of prostaglandin E1 across rat erythrocyte membrane. Biol Pharm Bull 2008; 31:1288-91. [PMID: 18520071 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.31.1288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In this study erythrocyte transport of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) was investigated by employing inside-out membrane vesicles prepared from rat erythrocytes. The uptake of [3H]PGE1 in the presence of ATP was significantly higher than that of AMP, suggesting the involvement of an ATP-dependent efflux system in PGE1 transport across the erythrocyte membrane. Coincubation of glutathione with ATP further stimulated the uptake of [3H]PGE1. The uptake of [3H]PGE1 in the presence of ATP and glutathione was temperature-sensitive, and various eicosanoids including PGE2 and PGF2alpha decreased the uptake. Multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP) 4 substrates/inhibitors including methotrexate, indomethacin, taurocholic acid and indocyanine green significantly inhibited [3H]PGE1 uptake. Western blot analysis revealed that Mrp4 is expressed in rat erythrocyte membrane. These results suggest that the release of PGE1 from the erythrocyte into the blood circulation may be mediated by ATP-dependent efflux pump(s) such as Mrp4.
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- Takanori Taogoshi
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Filippini A, Villa G, Corrocher R, De Franceschi L. Acute Hemolytic Anemia With Acanthocytosis Associated With High-Dose Misoprostol for Medical Abortion. Ann Emerg Med 2007; 50:289-91. [PMID: 17084939 DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2006] [Revised: 08/04/2006] [Accepted: 09/05/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We report a case of acute hemolytic anemia in a 21-year-old Nigerian woman after high-dose misoprostol (4 mg), used for medical abortion. The major causes of inherited or immune hemolytic anemia were excluded. The patient's peripheral blood smear showed acanthocytes and anisopoikilocytosis, which progressively disappeared in the days postingestion. We evaluated RBC features, and we observed reduced RBC Na+ and K+ content and abnormalities in membrane cation transport pathways and in Ca2+ activated K+ channel (Gardos channel), suggesting possible direct effects of misoprostol on RBCs. Although further studies need to be carried out, the present case suggests that high-dose misoprostol, a prostaglandin E1 analogue, severely affects RBC features and causes an acquired acute hemolytic anemia, which is self-limited when misoprostol is withdrawn.
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- Alida Filippini
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Internal Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Zennadi R, Moeller BJ, Whalen EJ, Batchvarova M, Xu K, Shan S, Delahunty M, Dewhirst MW, Telen MJ. Epinephrine-induced activation of LW-mediated sickle cell adhesion and vaso-occlusion in vivo. Blood 2007; 110:2708-17. [PMID: 17609430 PMCID: PMC1988948 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-11-056101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sickle red cell (SS RBC) adhesion is believed to contribute to the process of vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease (SCD). We previously found that the LW RBC adhesion receptor can be activated by epinephrine to mediate SS RBC adhesion to endothelial alphavbeta3 integrin. To determine the contribution of LW activation to vaso-occlusive events in vivo, we investigated whether in vitro treatment of SS RBCs by epinephrine resulted in vaso-occlusion in intact microvasculature after RBC infusion into nude mice. Epinephrine enhanced human SS but not normal RBC adhesion to murine endothelial cells in vitro and to endothelium in vivo, promoting vaso-occlusion and RBC organ sequestration. Murine sickle RBCs also responded to epinephrine with increased adhesion to postcapillary endothelium in nude mice. Epinephrine-induced SS RBC adhesion, vaso-occlusion, and RBC organ trapping could be prevented by the beta-adrenergic receptor (beta-AR) antagonist, propranolol. Infusion of soluble recombinant LW also significantly reduced adhesion and vaso-occlusion. In addition, epinephrine-treated SS RBCs induced activation of murine leukocyte adhesion to endothelium as well. We conclude that LW activation by epinephrine via beta-AR stimulation can promote both SS RBC and leukocyte adhesion as well as vaso-occlusion, suggesting that both epinephrine and LW play potentially pathophysiological roles in SCD.
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- Rahima Zennadi
- Division of Hematology and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Plasmodium falciparum causes the most virulent form of human malarias. It is a protozoan parasite that infects human erythrocytes and the erythrocytic stages are responsible for all symptoms and pathologies of the disease. Critical to infection is the formation of a parasitophorous vacuolar membrane at the time of entry and within which the intracellular parasite proliferates. Since erythrocytes lack endocytic machinery, it is surprising that they can be infected by pathogens. This review summarizes recent studies of the erythrocyte-malaria interaction that have provided insights into properties of erythrocyte membranes as well as parasite mechanisms that remodel the erythrocyte. RECENT FINDINGS Themes revealed by recent literature suggest that both parasite and erythrocyte components regulate parasite entry and intracellular growth by extensively remodeling host membranes. These remodeling events include the invagination of the host cell membrane during parasite entry that results in the creation and maintenance of a vacuole that surrounds the intracellular organism, and the development of antigenic, structural and transport alterations during intracellular parasite development. SUMMARY The implications are that malarial erythrocyte remodeling events occur at a significant cost to the human host since many of the associated virulence events have been linked to severe disease pathologies.
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- Kasturi Haldar
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
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Seki R, Okamura T, Ide T, Kage M, Sata M, Uyesaka N, Maruyama T. Impaired Filterability of Erythrocytes from Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C and Effects of Eicosapentaenoic Acid on the Filterability. J Physiol Sci 2007; 57:43-9. [PMID: 17204208 DOI: 10.2170/physiolsci.rp010506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2006] [Accepted: 01/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Although erythrocyte filterability plays a key role in microcirculation, it is unknown whether the filterability of erythrocytes from patients with chronic hepatitis C (CH-C) is impaired. This study aimed to investigate erythrocyte filterability in CH-C patients in relation to medical treatment. The mean erythrocyte filterability (%) for all 24 patients with CH-C (69.2 +/- 10.8%) was significantly lower than that for 5 normal controls (80.5 +/- 1.7%, P < 0.03). In 8 patients, the combination therapy of ribavirin (RBV) and interferon improved liver function but caused anemia. The filterability after treatment (57.8 +/- 12.8%) was lower than that before treatment (70.8 +/- 9.7%, P < 0.05). Decreased filterability showed no correlation with the mean corpuscular volume or mean corpuscular Hb concentration during treatment, suggesting that the decrease in filterability mainly arises from changes in erythrocyte membrane properties. We investigated the protective effects of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) on the RBV-induced anemia. Filterability in 7 responders was markedly improved from 68.4 +/- 4.6% to 77.4 +/- 2.4% (P < 0.001), but not in 3 nonresponders. In the responders, the progression of anemia was restrained. In conclusion, we found an obvious impairment of the filterability of erythrocytes from CH-C patients, further impairment of the filterability induced by oxidative membrane damage caused by RBV leading to hemolytic anemia, and amelioration of the filterability caused by the antioxidative effects of EPA.
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- Ritsuko Seki
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan
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Lang PA, Kempe DS, Akel A, Klarl BA, Eisele K, Podolski M, Hermle T, Niemoeller OM, Attanasio P, Huber SM, Wieder T, Lang F, Duranton C. Inhibition of erythrocyte "apoptosis" by catecholamines. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 2005; 372:228-35. [PMID: 16247607 DOI: 10.1007/s00210-005-0009-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2005] [Accepted: 08/23/2005] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Osmotic shock, oxidative stress and Cl- removal activate a non-selective Ca2+-permeable cation conductance in human erythrocytes. The entry of Ca2+ leads to activation of a scramblase with subsequent exposure of phosphatidylserine at the cell surface. Phosphatidylserine mediates binding to phosphatidylserine receptors on macrophages which engulf and degrade phosphatidylserine exposing cells. Moreover, phosphatidylserine exposure may lead to adherence of erythrocytes to the vascular wall. In the present study, we explored whether activation of the non-selective cation conductance and subsequent phosphatidylserine exposure might be influenced by catecholamines. Phosphatidylserine exposure has been determined by FITC-annexin V binding while cell volume was estimated from forward scatter in FACS analysis. Removal of Cl- enhanced annexin binding and decreased forward scatter, an effect significantly blunted by the beta agonist isoproterenol (IC50 approx. 1 microM). Fluo-3 fluorescence measurements revealed an increase of cytosolic Ca2+ activity following Cl- removal, an effect again significantly blunted by isoproterenol exposure (10 microM). Whole-cell patch-clamp experiments performed in Cl- free bath solution indeed disclosed a time-dependent inactivation of a non-selective cation conductance following isoproterenol exposure (10 microM). Phenylephrine (IC50<10 microM), dobutamine (IC50 approx. 1 microM) and dopamine (IC50 approx. 3 microM) similarly inhibited the effect of Cl- removal on annexin binding and forward scatter. In conclusion, several catecholamines inhibit the Cl- removal-activated Ca2+ entry into erythrocytes, thus preventing increase of cytosolic Ca2+ activity, subsequent cell shrinkage and activation of erythrocyte scramblase. The catecholamines thus counteract erythrocyte phosphatidylserine exposure and subsequent clearance of erythrocytes from circulating blood.
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- Philipp A Lang
- Department of Physiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Barvitenko NN, Adragna NC, Weber RE. Erythrocyte signal transduction pathways, their oxygenation dependence and functional significance. Cell Physiol Biochem 2005; 15:1-18. [PMID: 15665511 DOI: 10.1159/000083634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/02/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Erythrocytes play a key role in human and vertebrate metabolism. Tissue O2 supply is regulated by both hemoglobin (Hb)-O2 affinity and erythrocyte rheology, a key determinant of tissue perfusion. Oxygenation-deoxygenation transitions of Hb may lead to re-organization of the cytoskeleton and signalling pathways activation/deactivation in an O2-dependent manner. Deoxygenated Hb binds to the cytoplasmic domain of the anion exchanger band 3, which is anchored to the cytoskeleton, and is considered a major mechanism underlying the oxygenation-dependence of several erythrocyte functions. This work discusses the multiple modes of Hb-cytoskeleton interactions. In addition, it reviews the effects of Mg2+, 2,3-diphosphoglycerate, NO, shear stress and Ca2+, all factors accompanying the oxygenation-deoxygenation cycle in circulating red cells. Due to the extensive literature on the subject, the data discussed here, pertain mainly to human erythrocytes whose O2 affinity is modulated by 2,3-diphosphoglycerate, ectothermic vertebrate erythrocytes that use ATP, and to bird erythrocytes that use inositol pentaphosphate.
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- Nadezhda N Barvitenko
- I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
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Ren H, Obike I, Okpala I, Ghebremeskel K, Ugochukwu C, Crawford M. Steady-state haemoglobin level in sickle cell anaemia increases with an increase in erythrocyte membrane n-3 fatty acids. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2005; 72:415-21. [PMID: 15876528 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2005.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2004] [Revised: 02/15/2005] [Accepted: 03/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The aim of the study was to investigate, whether (a) patients with homozygous sickle cell disease (SCD, HbSS) have abnormal blood fatty acids; (b) the abnormality, if it exists, affects all the plasma and erythrocyte lipids or it is restricted to a particular lipid moiety; (c) there is an association between levels of membrane n-3 or n-6 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) and the degree of anaemia. Fatty acids of erythrocyte choline (CPG), serine (SPG) and ethanolamine (EPG) phosphoglycerides and sphingomyelin (SPM); and plasma CPG, triglycerides and cholesterol esters of 43 steady-state HbSS patients and 43 ethnically matched, healthy, HbAA controls were analysed. The levels of the n-6 LCPUFA, arachidonic (AA), adrenic and docosapentaenoic acids in erythrocyte CPG (P<0.001) and EPG (P<0.01) were higher in the patients compared with the controls. In contrast, the proportions of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) in CPG and EPG (P<0.001) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and total n-3 metabolites in CPG (P<0.001) were lower in the patients. The steady-state haemoglobin level of the patients correlated with erythrocyte DHA (r=0.55, P<0.01), EPA (r=0.38, P<0.05) and total n-3 metabolites (r=0.51, P<0.001) in CPG. Also, it correlated with erythrocyte EPA (r=0.64, P<0.01) and total n-3 metabolites (r=0.42, P<0.01) in EPG. The study revealed an imbalance between n-3 and n-6 LCPUFA in erythrocyte and plasma lipid moieties of the HbSS group. Furthermore, it suggested that correction of the imbalance by supplementation with EPA and DHA could ameliorate anaemia in the patients. This observation is consistent with the results of pilot studies, which demonstrated that treatment with n-3 fatty acids confers clinical benefit to sickle cell patients.
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- Hongmei Ren
- Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB, UK.
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Okamoto K, Maruyama T, Kaji Y, Harada M, Mawatari S, Fujino T, Uyesaka N. Verapamil prevents impairment in filterability of human erythrocytes exposed to oxidative stress. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 54:39-46. [PMID: 15040847 DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.54.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Effects of oxidative stress on intact human erythrocytes were investigated using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (tBHP). Exposure of erythrocytes to tBHP caused a marked decrease in filterability in a time-dependent manner. Erythrocytes exposed to tBHP also show an increase in mean corpuscular volume and a remarkable formation of methemoglobin (met-Hb) without any appearance of hemichromes that form Heinz bodies. High performance liquid chromatography demonstrated that the tBHP-treated erythrocytes exhibited an apparent decrease in the membrane phospholipid, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). The decrease in PE was inhibited by pretreatment with ascorbate, but not with verapamil. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the tBHP-treated erythrocyte membrane showed a degradation of spectrin, band 3, band 4.2, and band 4.5, accompanied by the appearance of low-molecular-weight products. The degradation of the membrane proteins was not prevented by pretreatment with verapamil or ascorbate. However, the pretreatment with verapamil but not with ascorbate revealed significant inhibition of the tBHP-induced impairment in filterability in the presence of extracellular Ca2+. Thus, the present study shows that verapamil, a potent drug in reperfusion therapy, plays an important role in protection against oxidative injury, based on a close linkage among decreased filterability, met-Hb formation, and impaired membrane integrity.
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- Kazuhiko Okamoto
- Department of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan
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Zennadi R, Hines PC, De Castro LM, Cartron JP, Parise LV, Telen MJ. Epinephrine acts through erythroid signaling pathways to activate sickle cell adhesion to endothelium via LW-alphavbeta3 interactions. Blood 2004; 104:3774-81. [PMID: 15308566 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-01-0042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The possible role of physiologic stress hormones in enhancing adhesion of sickle erythrocytes (SS RBCs) to endothelial cells (ECs) in sickle cell disease (SCD) has not been previously explored. We have now found that up-regulation of intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) by epinephrine significantly increased sickle but not normal erythrocyte adhesion to both primary and immortalized ECs. Inhibition of serine/threonine phosphatases also enhanced sickle erythrocyte adhesion at least partially through a PKA-dependent mechanism. Adhesion was mediated through LW (intercellular adhesion molecule-4 [ICAM-4], CD242) blood group glycoprotein, and immunoprecipitation studies showed that LW on sickle but not on normal erythrocytes undergoes increased PKA-dependent serine phosphorylation as a result of activation. The major counter receptor for LW was identified as the alphavbeta3 integrin on ECs. These data suggest that adrenergic hormones such as epinephrine may initiate or exacerbate vaso-occlusion and thus contribute to the association of vaso-occlusive events with physiologic stress.
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- Rahima Zennadi
- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Herr C, Clemen CS, Lehnert G, Kutschkow R, Picker SM, Gathof BS, Zamparelli C, Schleicher M, Noegel AA. Function, expression and localization of annexin A7 in platelets and red blood cells: insights derived from an annexin A7 mutant mouse. BMC BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 4:8. [PMID: 12925238 PMCID: PMC194730 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-4-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2003] [Accepted: 08/19/2003] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Annexin A7 is a Ca2+- and phospholipid-binding protein expressed as a 47 and 51 kDa isoform, which is thought to be involved in membrane fusion processes. Recently the 47 kDa isoform has been identified in erythrocytes where it was proposed to be a key component in the process of the Ca2+-dependent vesicle release, a process with which red blood cells might protect themselves against an attack by for example complement components. RESULTS The role of annexin A7 in red blood cells was addressed in erythrocytes from anxA7-/- mice. Interestingly, the Ca2+-mediated vesiculation process was not impaired. Also, the membrane organization appeared not to be disturbed as assessed using gradient fractionation studies. Instead, lack of annexin A7 led to an altered cell shape and increased osmotic resistance of red blood cells. Annexin A7 was also identified in platelets. In these cells its loss led to a slightly slower aggregation velocity which seems to be compensated by an increased number of platelets. The results appear to rule out an important role of annexin A7 in membrane fusion processes occurring in red blood cells. Instead the protein might be involved in the organization of the membrane cytoskeleton. Red blood cells may represent an appropriate model to study the role of annexin A7 in cellular processes. CONCLUSION We have demonstrated the presence of both annexin A7 isoforms in red blood cells and the presence of the small isoform in platelets. In both cell types the loss of annexin A7 impairs cellular functions. The defects observed are however not compatible with a crucial role for annexin A7 in membrane fusion processes in these cell types.
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- Claudia Herr
- Center for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 52, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Center for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 52, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Center for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 52, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany
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- Transfusion Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany
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- Transfusion Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany
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- Centro Biologia Molecolare CNR, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Universita La Sapienza, P.le A. Moro, 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Institut für Zellbiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
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- Center for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 52, 50931 Cologne, Germany
- Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany
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