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Chatterji P, Xing G, Furst L, Dave K, Zhou Q, LaBarbera DV, Thamm DH, Eaton JK, Wawer MJ, Viswanathan VS. Validation of ferroptosis in canine cancer cells to enable comparative oncology and translational medicine. bioRxiv 2024:2024.04.28.591561. [PMID: 38746359 PMCID: PMC11092520 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.28.591561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Ferroptosis is a cell death mechanism that has attracted significant attention as a potential basis for the development of new cancer therapies. Validation of ferroptosis biology in species commonly used in translation and pre-clinical development is a necessary foundation for enabling the advancement of such ferroptosis modulating drugs. Here, we demonstrate that canine cancer cells exhibit sensitivity to a wide range of ferroptosis-inducing perturbations in a manner indistinguishable from human cancer cells, and recapitulate characteristic patterns of ferroptotic response across tumor types seen in the human setting. The foundation provided herein establishes the dog as a relevant efficacy and toxicology model for ferroptosis and creates new opportunities to leverage the canine comparative oncology paradigm to accelerate the development of ferroptosis-inducing drugs for human cancer patients.
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Pulliam A, Gier EC, Gaul DA, Moore SG, Fernández FM, LaPlaca MC. Comparing Brain and Blood Lipidome Changes following Single and Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats. ACS Chem Neurosci 2024; 15:300-314. [PMID: 38179922 PMCID: PMC10797623 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health concern in the United States and globally, contributing to disability and long-term neurological problems. Lipid dysregulation after TBI is underexplored, and a better understanding of lipid turnover and degradation could point to novel biomarker candidates and therapeutic targets. Here, we investigated overlapping lipidome changes in the brain and blood using a data-driven discovery approach to understand lipid alterations in the brain and serum compartments acutely following mild TBI (mTBI) and the potential efflux of brain lipids to peripheral blood. The cortices and sera from male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were analyzed via ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS) in both positive and negative ion modes following single and repetitive closed head impacts. The overlapping lipids in the data sets were identified with an in-house data dictionary for investigating lipid class changes. MS-based lipid profiling revealed overall increased changes in the serum compartment, while the brain lipids primarily showed decreased changes. Interestingly, there were prominent alterations in the sphingolipid class in the brain and blood compartments after single and repetitive injury, which may suggest efflux of brain sphingolipids into the blood after TBI. Genetic algorithms were used for predictive panel selection to classify injured and control samples with high sensitivity and specificity. These overlapping lipid panels primarily mapped to the glycerophospholipid metabolism pathway with Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted q-values less than 0.05. Collectively, these results detail overlapping lipidome changes following mTBI in the brain and blood compartments, increasing our understanding of TBI-related lipid dysregulation while identifying novel biomarker candidates.
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- Alexis
N. Pulliam
- Coulter
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
- Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- School
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
- Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- School
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
- Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- School
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
- Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- School
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
- Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Coulter
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
- Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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Omar AM, Zhang Q. Evaluation of Lipid Extraction Protocols for Untargeted Analysis of Mouse Tissue Lipidome. Metabolites 2023; 13:1002. [PMID: 37755282 PMCID: PMC10535403 DOI: 10.3390/metabo13091002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
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Lipidomics refers to the full characterization of lipids present within a cell, tissue, organism, or biological system. One of the bottlenecks affecting reliable lipidomic analysis is the extraction of lipids from biological samples. An ideal extraction method should have a maximum lipid recovery and the ability to extract a broad range of lipid classes with acceptable reproducibility. The most common lipid extraction relies on either protein precipitation (monophasic methods) or liquid-liquid partitioning (bi- or triphasic methods). In this study, three monophasic extraction systems, isopropanol (IPA), MeOH/MTBE/CHCl3 (MMC), and EtOAc/EtOH (EE), alongside three biphasic extraction methods, Folch, butanol/MeOH/heptane/EtOAc (BUME), and MeOH/MTBE (MTBE), were evaluated for their performance in characterization of the mouse lipidome of six different tissue types, including pancreas, spleen, liver, brain, small intestine, and plasma. Sixteen lipid classes were investigated in this study using reversed-phase liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Results showed that all extraction methods had comparable recoveries for all tested lipid classes except lysophosphatidylcholines, lysophosphatidylethanolamines, acyl carnitines, sphingomyelines, and sphingosines. The recoveries of these classes were significantly lower with the MTBE method, which could be compensated by the addition of stable isotope-labeled internal standards prior to lipid extraction. Moreover, IPA and EE methods showed poor reproducibility in extracting lipids from most tested tissues. In general, Folch is the optimum method in terms of efficacy and reproducibility for extracting mouse pancreas, spleen, brain, and plasma. However, MMC and BUME methods are more favored when extracting mouse liver or intestine.
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- Ashraf M. Omar
- Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA;
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- Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA;
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
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Sarmento MJ, Llorente A, Petan T, Khnykin D, Popa I, Nikolac Perkovic M, Konjevod M, Jaganjac M. The expanding organelle lipidomes: current knowledge and challenges. Cell Mol Life Sci 2023; 80:237. [PMID: 37530856 PMCID: PMC10397142 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-023-04889-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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Lipids in cell membranes and subcellular compartments play essential roles in numerous cellular processes, such as energy production, cell signaling and inflammation. A specific organelle lipidome is characterized by lipid synthesis and metabolism, intracellular trafficking, and lipid homeostasis in the organelle. Over the years, considerable effort has been directed to the identification of the lipid fingerprints of cellular organelles. However, these fingerprints are not fully characterized due to the large variety and structural complexity of lipids and the great variability in the abundance of different lipid species. The process becomes even more challenging when considering that the lipidome differs in health and disease contexts. This review summarizes the information available on the lipid composition of mammalian cell organelles, particularly the lipidome of the nucleus, mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, plasma membrane and organelles in the endocytic pathway. The lipid compositions of extracellular vesicles and lamellar bodies are also described. In addition, several examples of subcellular lipidome dynamics under physiological and pathological conditions are presented. Finally, challenges in mapping organelle lipidomes are discussed.
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- Maria J Sarmento
- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway
- Department for Mechanical, Electronics and Chemical Engineering, Oslo Metropolitan University, 0167, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming, University of Oslo, Montebello, 0379, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Pharmacy Department, Bâtiment Henri Moissan, University Paris-Saclay, 17 Avenue des Sciences, 91400, Orsay, France
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruder Boskovic Institute, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruder Boskovic Institute, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
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Zhang Q, Linke V, Overmyer KA, Traeger LL, Kasahara K, Miller IJ, Manson DE, Polaske TJ, Kerby RL, Kemis JH, Trujillo EA, Reddy TR, Russell JD, Schueler KL, Stapleton DS, Rabaglia ME, Seldin M, Gatti DM, Keele GR, Pham DT, Gerdt JP, Vivas EI, Lusis AJ, Keller MP, Churchill GA, Blackwell HE, Broman KW, Attie AD, Coon JJ, Rey FE. Genetic mapping of microbial and host traits reveals production of immunomodulatory lipids by Akkermansia muciniphila in the murine gut. Nat Microbiol 2023; 8:424-40. [PMID: 36759753 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01326-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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The molecular bases of how host genetic variation impacts the gut microbiome remain largely unknown. Here we used a genetically diverse mouse population and applied systems genetics strategies to identify interactions between host and microbe phenotypes including microbial functions, using faecal metagenomics, small intestinal transcripts and caecal lipids that influence microbe-host dynamics. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping identified murine genomic regions associated with variations in bacterial taxa; bacterial functions including motility, sporulation and lipopolysaccharide production and levels of bacterial- and host-derived lipids. We found overlapping QTL for the abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila and caecal levels of ornithine lipids. Follow-up in vitro and in vivo studies revealed that A. muciniphila is a major source of these lipids in the gut, provided evidence that ornithine lipids have immunomodulatory effects and identified intestinal transcripts co-regulated with these traits including Atf3, which encodes for a transcription factor that plays vital roles in modulating metabolism and immunity. Collectively, these results suggest that ornithine lipids are potentially important for A. muciniphila-host interactions and support the role of host genetics as a determinant of responses to gut microbes.
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Duan L, Scheidemantle G, Lodge M, Cummings MJ, Pham E, Wang X, Kennedy A, Liu X. Prioritize biologically relevant ions for data-independent acquisition (BRI-DIA) in LC-MS/MS-based lipidomics analysis. Metabolomics 2022; 18:55. [PMID: 35842862 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-022-01913-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Data-dependent acquisition (DDA) is the most commonly used MS/MS scan method for lipidomics analysis on orbitrap-based instrument. However, MS instrument associated software decide the top N precursors for fragmentation, resulting in stochasticity of precursor selection and compromised consistency and reproducibility. We introduce a novel workflow using biologically relevant lipids to construct inclusion list for data-independent acquisition (DIA), named as BRI-DIA workflow. OBJECTIVES To ensure consistent coverage of biologically relevant lipids in LC-MS/MS-based lipidomics analysis. METHODS Biologically relevant ion list was constructed based on LIPID MAPS and lipidome atlas in MS-DIAL 4. Lipids were extracted from mouse tissues and used to assess different MS/MS scan workflow (DDA, BRI-DIA, and hybrid mode) on LC-Orbitrap Exploris 480 mass spectrometer. RESULTS DDA resulted in more MS/MS events, but the total number of unique lipids identified by three methods (DDA, BRI-DIA, and hybrid MS/MS scan mode) is comparable (580 unique lipids across 44 lipid subclasses in mouse liver). Major cardiolipin molecular species were identified by data generated using BRI-DIA and hybrid methods and allowed calculation of cardiolipin compositions, while identification of the most abundant cardiolipin CL72:8 was missing in data generated using DDA method, leading to wrong calculation of cardiolipin composition. CONCLUSION The method of using inclusion list comprised of biologically relevant lipids in DIA MS/MS scan is as efficient as traditional DDA method in profiling lipids, but offers better consistency of lipid identification, compared to DDA method. This study was performed using Orbitrap Exploris 480, and we will further evaluate this workflow on other platforms, and if verified by future work, this biologically relevant ion fragmentation workflow could be routinely used in many studies to improve MS/MS identification capacities.
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- Likun Duan
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
- The Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
- The Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
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Castañé H, Iftimie S, Baiges-Gaya G, Rodríguez-Tomàs E, Jiménez-Franco A, López-Azcona AF, Garrido P, Castro A, Camps J, Joven J. Machine learning and semi-targeted lipidomics identify distinct serum lipid signatures in hospitalized COVID-19-positive and COVID-19-negative patients. Metabolism 2022; 131:155197. [PMID: 35381232 PMCID: PMC8976580 DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2022.155197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lipids are involved in the interaction between viral infection and the host metabolic and immunological responses. Several studies comparing the lipidome of COVID-19-positive hospitalized patients vs. healthy subjects have already been reported. It is largely unknown, however, whether these differences are specific to this disease. The present study compared the lipidomic signature of hospitalized COVID-19-positive patients with that of healthy subjects, as well as with COVID-19-negative patients hospitalized for other infectious/inflammatory diseases. METHODS We analyzed the lipidomic signature of 126 COVID-19-positive patients, 45 COVID-19-negative patients hospitalized with other infectious/inflammatory diseases and 50 healthy volunteers. A semi-targeted lipidomics analysis was performed using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Two-hundred and eighty-three lipid species were identified and quantified. Results were interpreted by machine learning tools. RESULTS We identified acylcarnitines, lysophosphatidylethanolamines, arachidonic acid and oxylipins as the most altered species in COVID-19-positive patients compared to healthy volunteers. However, we found similar alterations in COVID-19-negative patients who had other causes of inflammation. Conversely, lysophosphatidylcholine 22:6-sn2, phosphatidylcholine 36:1 and secondary bile acids were the parameters that had the greatest capacity to discriminate between COVID-19-positive and COVID-19-negative patients. CONCLUSION This study shows that COVID-19 infection shares many lipid alterations with other infectious/inflammatory diseases, and which differentiate them from the healthy population. The most notable alterations were observed in oxylipins, while alterations in bile acids and glycerophospholipis best distinguished between COVID-19-positive and COVID-19-negative patients. Our results highlight the value of integrating lipidomics with machine learning algorithms to explore the pathophysiology of COVID-19 and, consequently, improve clinical decision making.
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- Helena Castañé
- Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
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- Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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INTRODUCTION Brain metastasis (BrM) is a key contributor to morbidity and mortality in breast cancer patients, especially among high-risk epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive (HER2+) and triple-negative/basal-like molecular subtypes. Optimal management of BrM is focused on characterizing a "BrM dependency map" to prioritize targetable therapeutic vulnerabilities. AREAS COVERED We review recent studies addressing the targeting of BrM in the lipid-deprived brain environment, which selects for brain-tropic breast cancer cells capable of cell-autonomously generating fatty acids by upregulating de novo lipogenesis via fatty acid synthase (FASN). Disruption of FASN activity impairs breast cancer growth in the brain, but not extracranially, and mapping of the molecular causes of organ-specific patterns of metastasis has uncovered an enrichment of lipid metabolism signatures in brain metastasizing cells. Targeting SREBP1-the master regulator of lipogenic gene transcription-curtails the ability of breast cancer cells to survive in the brain microenvironment. EXPERT OPINION Targeting FASN represents a new therapeutic opportunity for patients with breast cancer and BrM. Delivery of brain-permeable FASN inhibitors and identifying strategies to target metabolic plasticity that might compensate for impaired brain FASN activity are two potential roadblocks that may hinder FASN-centered strategies against BrM.
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- Javier A Menendez
- Metabolism and Cancer Group, Program Against Cancer Therapeutic Resistance (ProCURE), Catalan Institute of Oncology, 17007 Girona, Spain.,Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), 17190 Girona, Spain
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.,Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Gwynne PJ, Clendenen LH, Turk SP, Marques AR, Hu LT. Antiphospholipid autoantibodies in Lyme disease arise after scavenging of host phospholipids by Borrelia burgdorferi. J Clin Invest 2022; 132:152506. [PMID: 35289310 PMCID: PMC8920326 DOI: 10.1172/jci152506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A close association with its vertebrate and tick hosts allows Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, to eliminate many metabolic pathways and instead scavenge key nutrients from the host. A lipid-defined culture medium was developed to demonstrate that exogenous lipids are an essential nutrient of B. burgdorferi, which can accumulate intact phospholipids from its environment to support growth. Antibody responses to host phospholipids were studied in mice and humans using an antiphospholipid ELISA. Several of these environmentally acquired phospholipids including phosphatidylserine and phosphatidic acid, as well as borrelial phosphatidylcholine, are the targets of antibodies that arose early in infection in the mouse model. Patients with acute infections demonstrated antibody responses to the same lipids. The elevation of antiphospholipid antibodies predicted early infection with better sensitivity than did the standardized 2-tier tests currently used in diagnosis. Sera obtained from patients with Lyme disease before and after antibiotic therapy showed declining antiphospholipid titers after treatment. Further study will be required to determine whether these antibodies have utility in early diagnosis of Lyme disease, tracking of the response to therapy, and diagnosis of reinfection, areas in which current standardized tests are inadequate.
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- Peter J Gwynne
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Nixon R, Ip THR, Jenkins B, Yip PK, Clarke P, Ponnusamy V, Michael-Titus AT, Koulman A, Shah DK. Lipid Profiles from Dried Blood Spots Reveal Lipidomic Signatures of Newborns Undergoing Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia after Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Nutrients 2021; 13:nu13124301. [PMID: 34959853 PMCID: PMC8703828 DOI: 10.3390/nu13124301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is associated with perinatal brain injury, which may lead to disability or death. As the brain is a lipid-rich organ, various lipid species can be significantly impacted by HIE and these correlate with specific changes to the lipidomic profile in the circulation. Objective: To investigate the peripheral blood lipidomic signature in dried blood spots (DBS) from newborns with HIE. Using univariate analysis, multivariate analysis and sPLS-DA modelling, we show that newborns with moderate-severe HIE (n = 46) who underwent therapeutic hypothermia (TH) displayed a robust peripheral blood lipidomic signature comprising 29 lipid species in four lipid classes; namely phosphatidylcholine (PC), lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), triglyceride (TG) and sphingomyelin (SM) when compared with newborns with mild HIE (n = 18). In sPLS-DA modelling, the three most discriminant lipid species were TG 50:3, TG 54:5, and PC 36:5. We report a reduction in plasma TG and SM and an increase in plasma PC and LPC species during the course of TH in newborns with moderate-severe HIE, compared to a single specimen from newborns with mild HIE. These findings may guide the research in nutrition-based intervention strategies after HIE in synergy with TH to enhance neuroprotection.
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- Rebekah Nixon
- The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London E1 1FR, UK; (R.N.); (T.H.R.I.)
- Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK; (P.K.Y.); (A.T.M.-T.)
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- The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London E1 1FR, UK; (R.N.); (T.H.R.I.)
- Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK; (P.K.Y.); (A.T.M.-T.)
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- NIHR Core Metabolomics and Lipidomics Laboratory, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK;
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK; (P.K.Y.); (A.T.M.-T.)
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- Neonatal Unit, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK;
- Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK
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- Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chertsey KT16 0PZ, UK;
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK; (P.K.Y.); (A.T.M.-T.)
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- NIHR Core Metabolomics and Lipidomics Laboratory, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK;
- Correspondence: (A.K.); (D.K.S.); Tel.: +44-20-3594-0524 (D.K.S); Fax: +44-20-7882-2180 (D.K.S.)
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- The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London E1 1FR, UK; (R.N.); (T.H.R.I.)
- Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK; (P.K.Y.); (A.T.M.-T.)
- Correspondence: (A.K.); (D.K.S.); Tel.: +44-20-3594-0524 (D.K.S); Fax: +44-20-7882-2180 (D.K.S.)
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Torres M, Parets S, Fernández-Díaz J, Beteta-Göbel R, Rodríguez-Lorca R, Román R, Lladó V, Rosselló CA, Fernández-García P, Escribá PV. Lipids in Pathophysiology and Development of the Membrane Lipid Therapy: New Bioactive Lipids. Membranes (Basel) 2021; 11:919. [PMID: 34940418 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11120919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Membranes are mainly composed of a lipid bilayer and proteins, constituting a checkpoint for the entry and passage of signals and other molecules. Their composition can be modulated by diet, pathophysiological processes, and nutritional/pharmaceutical interventions. In addition to their use as an energy source, lipids have important structural and functional roles, e.g., fatty acyl moieties in phospholipids have distinct impacts on human health depending on their saturation, carbon length, and isometry. These and other membrane lipids have quite specific effects on the lipid bilayer structure, which regulates the interaction with signaling proteins. Alterations to lipids have been associated with important diseases, and, consequently, normalization of these alterations or regulatory interventions that control membrane lipid composition have therapeutic potential. This approach, termed membrane lipid therapy or membrane lipid replacement, has emerged as a novel technology platform for nutraceutical interventions and drug discovery. Several clinical trials and therapeutic products have validated this technology based on the understanding of membrane structure and function. The present review analyzes the molecular basis of this innovative approach, describing how membrane lipid composition and structure affects protein-lipid interactions, cell signaling, disease, and therapy (e.g., fatigue and cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, tumor, infectious diseases).
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Objectives: The beneficial role of ROS was probably in promoting intercellular communication by modifying membrane constituents [Liang D. A salutary role of reactive oxygen species in intercellular tunnel-mediated communication. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2018;6:2]. We investigated how the membrane lipids were responding to ROS and ROS inhibitors. Methods: To examine how ROS affected the lipid profiles, we used thin-layer chromatography to characterize lipid profiles in Arabidopsis plants. Then, the confocal microscopy imaging was used to confirm the change of membrane lipid in a plasma membrane marker line exposed to ROS and ROS inhibitors. Results: We found the relative contents of most lipids in H2O2-treated Arabidopsis plants were increased in roots, rather than in shoots. The increased fluorescent signal of membrane marker induced by H2O2 was mainly enriched in the conductive parts of roots. Several ROS inhibitors also strongly affected the lipid profiles. Among them, diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC) can progressively change the lipid profiles with treatment going on. Membrane marker signal was mainly accumulated in the root tips and epidermal cells after treatment by DDC. Discussion: H2O2 may enhance intercellular communication by inducing different lipid species in the conductive parts of roots. The lipid profiles were widely responding to various ROS reagents and might play a role in intercellular signaling.
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- Tianlin Jin
- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Wetland Agriculture, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Wetland Agriculture, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Wetland Agriculture, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Wetland Agriculture, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Wetland Agriculture, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China.,School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, People's Republic of China
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Surma MA, Gerl MJ, Herzog R, Helppi J, Simons K, Klose C. Mouse lipidomics reveals inherent flexibility of a mammalian lipidome. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19364. [PMID: 34588529 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98702-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Lipidomics has become an indispensable method for the quantitative assessment of lipid metabolism in basic, clinical, and pharmaceutical research. It allows for the generation of information-dense datasets in a large variety of experimental setups and model organisms. Previous studies, mostly conducted in mice (Mus musculus), have shown a remarkable specificity of the lipid compositions of different cell types, tissues, and organs. However, a systematic analysis of the overall variation of the mouse lipidome is lacking. To fill this gap, in the present study, the effect of diet, sex, and genotype on the lipidomes of mouse tissues, organs, and bodily fluids has been investigated. Baseline quantitative lipidomes consisting of 796 individual lipid molecules belonging to 24 lipid classes are provided for 10 different sample types. Furthermore, the susceptibility of lipidomes to the tested parameters is assessed, providing insights into the organ-specific lipidomic plasticity and flexibility. This dataset provides a valuable resource for basic and pharmaceutical researchers working with murine models and complements existing proteomic and transcriptomic datasets. It will inform experimental design and facilitate interpretation of lipidomic datasets.
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Petkevicius K, Bidault G, Virtue S, Jenkins B, van Dierendonck XAMH, Dugourd A, Saez-Rodriguez J, Stienstra R, Koulman A, Vidal-Puig A. Norepinephrine promotes triglyceride storage in macrophages via beta2-adrenergic receptor activation. FASEB J 2021; 35:e21266. [PMID: 33484195 PMCID: PMC7898725 DOI: 10.1096/fj.202001101r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Revised: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Tissue‐resident macrophages are required for homeostasis, but also contribute to tissue dysfunction in pathophysiological states. The sympathetic neurotransmitter norepinephrine (NE) induces an anti‐inflammatory and tissue‐reparative phenotype in macrophages. As NE has a well‐established role in promoting triglyceride lipolysis in adipocytes, and macrophages accumulate triglyceride droplets in various physiological and disease states, we investigated the effect of NE on primary mouse bone marrow‐derived macrophage triglyceride metabolism. Surprisingly, our data show that in contrast to the canonical role of NE in stimulating lipolysis, NE acting via beta2‐adrenergic receptors (B2ARs) in macrophages promotes extracellular fatty acid uptake and their storage as triglycerides and reduces free fatty acid release from triglyceride‐laden macrophages. We demonstrate that these responses are mediated by a B2AR activation‐dependent increase in Hilpda and Dgat1 gene expression and activity. We further show that B2AR activation favors the storage of extracellular polyunsaturated fatty acids. Finally, we present evidence that macrophages isolated from hearts after myocardial injury, for which survival critically depends on leukocyte B2ARs, have a transcriptional signature indicative of a transient triglyceride accumulation. Overall, we describe a novel and unexpected role of NE in promoting triglyceride storage in macrophages that could have potential implications in multiple diseases.
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- Kasparas Petkevicius
- Institute of Metabolic Science, MDU MRC, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Metabolic Science, MDU MRC, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Metabolic Science, MDU MRC, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Metabolic Science, MDU MRC, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics Group, Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.,Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Joint Research Centre for Computational Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.,Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine & Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Joint Research Centre for Computational Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.,Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine & Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics Group, Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.,Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Metabolic Science, MDU MRC, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Metabolic Science, MDU MRC, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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Muralidharan S, Shimobayashi M, Ji S, Burla B, Hall MN, Wenk MR, Torta F. A reference map of sphingolipids in murine tissues. Cell Rep 2021; 35:109250. [PMID: 34133933 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Sphingolipids (SPs) have both a structural role in the cell membranes and a signaling function that regulates many cellular processes. The enormous structural diversity and low abundance of many SPs pose a challenge for their identification and quantification. Recent advances in lipidomics, in particular liquid chromatography (LC) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS), provide methods to detect and quantify many low-abundant SP species reliably. Here we use LC-MS to compile a "murine sphingolipid atlas," containing the qualitative and quantitative distribution of 114 SPs in 21 tissues of a widely utilized wild-type laboratory mouse strain (C57BL/6). We report tissue-specific SP fingerprints, as well as sex-specific differences in the same tissue. This is a comprehensive, quantitative sphingolipidomic map of mammalian tissues collected in a systematic fashion. It will complement other tissue compendia for interrogation into the role of SP in mammalian health and disease.
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- Sneha Muralidharan
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117558, Singapore; Singapore Lipidomics Incubator, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore
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- Biozentrum - Center for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Singapore Lipidomics Incubator, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore
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- Singapore Lipidomics Incubator, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore
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- Biozentrum - Center for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Singapore Lipidomics Incubator, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore; Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 28 Medical Drive, Singapore 117456, Singapore.
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- Singapore Lipidomics Incubator, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore; Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 28 Medical Drive, Singapore 117456, Singapore.
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Sun HY, Chen TY, Tan YC, Wang CH, Young KC. Sterol O-acyltransferase 2 chaperoned by apolipoprotein J facilitates hepatic lipid accumulation following viral and nutrient stresses. Commun Biol 2021; 4:564. [PMID: 33980978 PMCID: PMC8115332 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02093-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The risks of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) include obese and non-obese stresses such as chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, but the regulatory determinants remain obscure. Apolipoprotein J (ApoJ) served as an ER-Golgi contact-site chaperone near lipid droplet (LD), facilitating HCV virion production. We hypothesized an interplay between hepatic ApoJ, cholesterol esterification and lipid deposit in response to NAFLD inducers. Exposures of HCV or free-fatty acids exhibited excess LDs along with increased ApoJ expression, whereas ApoJ silencing alleviated hepatic lipid accumulation. Both stresses could concomitantly disperse Golgi, induce closer ApoJ and sterol O-acyltransferase 2 (SOAT2) contacts via the N-terminal intrinsically disordered regions, and increase cholesteryl-ester. Furthermore, serum ApoJ correlated positively with cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein levels in normal glycaemic HCV patients, NAFLD patients and in mice with steatosis. Taken together, hepatic ApoJ might activate SOAT2 to supply cholesteryl-ester for lipid loads, thus providing a therapeutic target of stress-induced steatosis.
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- Hung-Yu Sun
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, China
- Institute of Pathogen Biology and Immunology of College of Biology, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Virology, Hunan University, Changsha, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
- Institute of Basic Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
- Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
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Sych T, Gurdap CO, Wedemann L, Sezgin E. How Does Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Model Membranes Reflect Cell Membrane Heterogeneity? Membranes (Basel) 2021; 11:323. [PMID: 33925240 PMCID: PMC8146956 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11050323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Although liquid-liquid phase separation of cytoplasmic or nuclear components in cells has been a major focus in cell biology, it is only recently that the principle of phase separation has been a long-standing concept and extensively studied in biomembranes. Membrane phase separation has been reconstituted in simplified model systems, and its detailed physicochemical principles, including essential phase diagrams, have been extensively explored. These model membrane systems have proven very useful to study the heterogeneity in cellular membranes, however, concerns have been raised about how reliably they can represent native membranes. In this review, we will discuss how phase-separated membrane systems can mimic cellular membranes and where they fail to reflect the native cell membrane heterogeneity. We also include a few humble suggestions on which phase-separated systems should be used for certain applications, and which interpretations should be avoided to prevent unreliable conclusions.
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, 17165 Solna, Sweden; (T.S.); (C.O.G.); (L.W.)
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Oemer G, Koch J, Wohlfarter Y, Alam MT, Lackner K, Sailer S, Neumann L, Lindner HH, Watschinger K, Haltmeier M, Werner ER, Zschocke J, Keller MA. Phospholipid Acyl Chain Diversity Controls the Tissue-Specific Assembly of Mitochondrial Cardiolipins. Cell Rep 2021; 30:4281-4291.e4. [PMID: 32209484 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Cardiolipin (CL) is a phospholipid specific for mitochondrial membranes and crucial for many core tasks of this organelle. Its acyl chain configurations are tissue specific, functionally important, and generated via post-biosynthetic remodeling. However, this process lacks the necessary specificity to explain CL diversity, which is especially evident for highly specific CL compositions in mammalian tissues. To investigate the so far elusive regulatory origin of CL homeostasis in mice, we combine lipidomics, integrative transcriptomics, and data-driven machine learning. We demonstrate that not transcriptional regulation, but cellular phospholipid compositions are closely linked to the tissue specificity of CL patterns allowing artificial neural networks to precisely predict cross-tissue CL compositions in a consistent mechanistic specificity rationale. This is especially relevant for the interpretation of disease-related perturbations of CL homeostasis, by allowing differentiation between specific aberrations in CL metabolism and changes caused by global alterations in cellular (phospho-)lipid metabolism.
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- Gregor Oemer
- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Warwick, CV4 7AL Coventry, UK
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Basic Sciences in Engineering Science, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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Dahdah N, Gonzalez-Franquesa A, Samino S, Gama-Perez P, Herrero L, Perales JC, Yanes O, Malagón MDM, Garcia-Roves PM. Effects of Lifestyle Intervention in Tissue-Specific Lipidomic Profile of Formerly Obese Mice. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:3694. [PMID: 33916315 PMCID: PMC8037078 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22073694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Lipids are highly diverse in their composition, properties and distribution in different biological entities. We aim to establish the lipidomes of several insulin-sensitive tissues and to test their plasticity when divergent feeding regimens and lifestyles are imposed. Here, we report a proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) study of lipid abundance across 4 tissues of C57Bl6J male mice that includes the changes in the lipid profile after every lifestyle intervention. Every tissue analysed presented a specific lipid profile irrespective of interventions. Glycerolipids and fatty acids were most abundant in epididymal white adipose tissue (eWAT) followed by liver, whereas sterol lipids and phosphoglycerolipids were highly enriched in hypothalamus, and gastrocnemius had the lowest content in all lipid species compared to the other tissues. Both when subjected to a high-fat diet (HFD) and after a subsequent lifestyle intervention (INT), the lipidome of hypothalamus showed no changes. Gastrocnemius and liver revealed a pattern of increase in content in many lipid species after HFD followed by a regression to basal levels after INT, while eWAT lipidome was affected mainly by the fat composition of the administered diets and not their caloric density. Thus, the present study demonstrates a unique lipidome for each tissue modulated by caloric intake and dietary composition.
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MESH Headings
- Adipose Tissue, White/metabolism
- Animals
- Caloric Restriction
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/etiology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/metabolism
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/etiology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/metabolism
- Diet, High-Fat/adverse effects
- Disease Models, Animal
- Healthy Lifestyle
- Hypothalamus/metabolism
- Lipidomics
- Liver/metabolism
- Male
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Obesity/complications
- Obesity/diet therapy
- Obesity/metabolism
- Physical Conditioning, Animal
- Mice
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- Norma Dahdah
- Department of Physiological Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; (A.G.-F.); (P.G.-P.); (J.C.P.)
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; (A.G.-F.); (P.G.-P.); (J.C.P.)
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Electronic Engineering & IISPV, 43004 Tarragona, Spain; (S.S.); (O.Y.)
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; (A.G.-F.); (P.G.-P.); (J.C.P.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, School of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain;
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain;
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; (A.G.-F.); (P.G.-P.); (J.C.P.)
- Nutrition, Metabolism and Gene Therapy Group, Diabetes and Metabolism Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), 08908 Barcelona, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Electronic Engineering & IISPV, 43004 Tarragona, Spain; (S.S.); (O.Y.)
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain;
- Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, IMIBIC, Reina Sofía University Hospital, University of Córdoba, 14004 Cordoba, Spain
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; (A.G.-F.); (P.G.-P.); (J.C.P.)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain;
- Nutrition, Metabolism and Gene Therapy Group, Diabetes and Metabolism Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), 08908 Barcelona, Spain
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Symons JL, Cho KJ, Chang JT, Du G, Waxham MN, Hancock JF, Levental I, Levental KR. Lipidomic atlas of mammalian cell membranes reveals hierarchical variation induced by culture conditions, subcellular membranes, and cell lineages. Soft Matter 2021; 17:288-297. [PMID: 32451522 PMCID: PMC7688498 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm00404a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
Abstract
Lipid membranes are ubiquitous biological organizers, required for structural and functional compartmentalization of the cell and sub-cellular organelles. Membranes in living cells are compositionally complex, comprising hundreds of dynamically regulated, distinct lipid species. Cellular physiology requires tight regulation of these lipidomic profiles to achieve proper membrane functionality. While some general features of tissue- and organelle-specific lipid complements have been identified, less is known about detailed lipidomic variations caused by cell-intrinsic or extrinsic factors. Here, we use shotgun lipidomics to report detailed, comprehensive lipidomes of a variety of cultured and primary mammalian membrane preparations to identify trends and sources of variation. Unbiased principle component analysis (PCA) shows clear separation between cultured and primary cells, with primary erythrocytes, synaptic membranes, and other mammalian tissue lipidomes sharply diverging from all cultured cell lines and also from one other. Most broadly, cultured cell membrane preparations were distinguished by their paucity of polyunsaturated lipids. Cultured mammalian cell lines were comparatively similar to one another, although we detected clear, highly reproducible lipidomic signatures of individual cell lines and plasma membrane (PM) isolations thereof. These measurements begin to establish a comprehensive lipidomic atlas of mammalian cells and tissues, identifying some major sources of variation. These observations will allow investigation of the regulation and functional significance of mammalian lipidomes in various contexts.
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- Jessica L Symons
- Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Suite 4.202, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Suite 4.202, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Suite 4.202, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Suite 4.202, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Suite 4.202, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Suite 4.202, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Chakraborty A, Hegde S, Praharaj SK, Prabhu K, Patole C, Shetty AK, Mayya SS, Acharya RV, Hande HM, Prabhu MM, Upadhya D. Age Related Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the Indian Population and Association of Serum Lipids With Cognitive Dysfunction. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2021; 12:798652. [PMID: 35035379 PMCID: PMC8758578 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.798652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The magnitude of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is ever-increasing in India, and at present, ~77 million people live with diabetes. Studies have established that T2DM increases the risk of neurodegenerative disorders. This study aimed to determine the age-related prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in T2DM patients in the Indian population and to identify link between cognitive dysfunction in T2DM patients and serum lipid composition through untargeted and targeted lipidomic studies. Using a cross-sectional study, we evaluated 1278 T2DM patients with Montreal cognitive assessment test (MoCA) and digit symbol substitution test (DSST) for cognitive functions. As per MoCA, the prevalences of MCI in T2DM patients in age groups below 40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80 and 81-90 years were 13.7, 20.5, 33.5, 43.7, 57.1 and 75% with DSST scores of 45.8, 41.7, 34.4, 30.5, 24.2 and 18.8% respectively. Binomial logistic regression analysis revealed serum HbA1c ≥ 7.51, duration of T2DM over 20 years, age above 41 years, and females were independent contributors for cognitive dysfunction in T2DM patients. Preliminary studies with untargeted lipidomics of the serum from 20 T2DM patients, including MCI and normal cognition (NC) group, identified a total of 646 lipids. Among the identified lipids, 33 lipids were significantly different between MCI and NC group, which comprised of triglycerides (TGs, 14), sphingolipids (SL, 11), and phosphatidylcholines (PC, 5). Importantly, 10 TGs and 3 PCs containing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) were lower, while 8 sphingolipids were increased in the MCI group. Since brain-derived sphingolipids are known to get enriched in the serum, we further quantified sphingolipids from the same 20 serum samples through targeted lipidomic analysis, which identified a total of 173 lipids. Quantitation revealed elevation of 3 species of ceramides, namely Cer (d18:1_24:1), Hex1Cer (d16:0_22:6), and Hex2Cer (d28:1) in the MCI group compared to the NC group of T2DM patients. Overall, this study demonstrated an age-related prevalence of MCI in T2DM patients and highlighted reduced levels of several species of PUFA containing TGs and PCs and increased levels of specific ceramides in T2DM patients exhibiting MCI. Large-scale lipidomic studies in future could help understand the cognitive dysfunction domain in T2DM patients, while studies with preclinical models are required to understand the functional significance of the identified lipids.
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- Arpita Chakraborty
- Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
- Department of General Medicine, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Mass Spectrometry Facility, Institute For Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms Campus, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) Health Science Center College of Medicine, College Station, TX, United States
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) Health Science Center College of Medicine, College Station, TX, United States
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- Department of Data Science, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Department of General Medicine, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Department of General Medicine, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Department of General Medicine, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
- *Correspondence: Dinesh Upadhya, ; M. Mukhyaprana Prabhu,
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- Centre for Molecular Neurosciences, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
- *Correspondence: Dinesh Upadhya, ; M. Mukhyaprana Prabhu,
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Jin X, Demere Z, Nair K, Ali A, Ferraro GB, Natoli T, Deik A, Petronio L, Tang AA, Zhu C, Wang L, Rosenberg D, Mangena V, Roth J, Chung K, Jain RK, Clish CB, Vander Heiden MG, Golub TR. A metastasis map of human cancer cell lines. Nature 2020; 588:331-336. [PMID: 33299191 PMCID: PMC8439149 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2969-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Most deaths from cancer are explained by metastasis, and yet large-scale metastasis research has been impractical owing to the complexity of in vivo models. Here we introduce an in vivo barcoding strategy that is capable of determining the metastatic potential of human cancer cell lines in mouse xenografts at scale. We validated the robustness, scalability and reproducibility of the method and applied it to 500 cell lines1,2 spanning 21 types of solid tumour. We created a first-generation metastasis map (MetMap) that reveals organ-specific patterns of metastasis, enabling these patterns to be associated with clinical and genomic features. We demonstrate the utility of MetMap by investigating the molecular basis of breast cancers capable of metastasizing to the brain—a principal cause of death in patients with this type of cancer. Breast cancers capable of metastasizing to the brain showed evidence of altered lipid metabolism. Perturbation of lipid metabolism in these cells curbed brain metastasis development, suggesting a therapeutic strategy to combat the disease and demonstrating the utility of MetMap as a resource to support metastasis research. A method in which pooled barcoded human cancer cell lines are injected into a mouse xenograft model enables simultaneous mapping of the metastatic potential of multiple cell lines, and shows that breast cancer cells that metastasize to the brain have altered lipid metabolism.
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- Xin Jin
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. .,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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Jové M, Mota-Martorell N, Pradas I, Galo-Licona JD, Martín-Gari M, Obis È, Sol J, Pamplona R. The Lipidome Fingerprint of Longevity. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25184343. [PMID: 32971886 PMCID: PMC7570520 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25184343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2020] [Revised: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Lipids were determinants in the appearance and evolution of life. Recent studies disclose the existence of a link between lipids and animal longevity. Findings from both comparative studies and genetics and nutritional interventions in invertebrates, vertebrates, and exceptionally long-lived animal species—humans included—demonstrate that both the cell membrane fatty acid profile and lipidome are a species-specific optimized evolutionary adaptation and traits associated with longevity. All these emerging observations point to lipids as a key target to study the molecular mechanisms underlying differences in longevity and suggest the existence of a lipidome profile of long life.
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Prasinou P, Crisi PE, Chatgilialoglu C, Di Tommaso M, Sansone A, Gramenzi A, Belà B, De Santis F, Boari A, Ferreri C. The Erythrocyte Membrane Lipidome of Healthy Dogs: Creating a Benchmark of Fatty Acid Distribution and Interval Values. Front Vet Sci 2020; 7:502. [PMID: 32974399 PMCID: PMC7472600 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Molecular-based approaches are rapidly developing in medicine for the evaluation of physiological and pathological conditions and discovery of new biomarkers in prevention and therapy. Fatty acid diversity and roles in health and disease in humans are topical subjects of lipidomics. In particular, membrane fatty acid-based lipidomics provides molecular data of relevance in the study of human chronic diseases, connecting metabolic, and nutritional aspects to health conditions. In veterinary medicine, membrane lipidomics, and fatty acid profiles have not been developed yet in nutritional approaches to health and in disease conditions. Using a protocol widely tested in human profiling, in the present study erythrocyte membrane lipidome was examined in 68 clinically healthy dogs, with different ages, sex, and sizes. In particular, a cluster composed of 10 fatty acids, present in membrane glycerophospholipids and representative of structural and functional properties of cell membrane, was chosen, and quantitatively analyzed. The interval values and distribution for each fatty acid of the cluster were determined, providing the first panel describing the healthy dog lipidomic membrane profile, with interesting correlation to bodyweight increases. This molecular information can be advantageously developed as benchmark in veterinary medicine for the evaluation of metabolic and nutritional status in healthy and diseased dogs.
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- Paraskevi Prasinou
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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- ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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- ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy
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Koch J, Lackner K, Wohlfarter Y, Sailer S, Zschocke J, Werner ER, Watschinger K, Keller MA. Unequivocal Mapping of Molecular Ether Lipid Species by LC-MS/MS in Plasmalogen-Deficient Mice. Anal Chem 2020; 92:11268-11276. [PMID: 32692545 PMCID: PMC7439256 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Deficient ether lipid biosynthesis in rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata and other disorders is associated with a wide range of severe symptoms including small stature with proximal shortening of the limbs, contractures, facial dysmorphism, congenital cataracts, ichthyosis, spasticity, microcephaly, and mental disability. Mouse models are available but show less severe symptoms. In both humans and mice, it has remained elusive which of the symptoms can be attributed to lack of plasmanyl or plasmenyl ether lipids. The latter compounds, better known as plasmalogens, harbor a vinyl ether double bond conferring special chemical and physical properties. Discrimination between plasmanyl and plasmenyl ether lipids is a major analytical challenge, especially in complex lipid extracts with many isobaric species. Consequently, these lipids are often neglected also in recent lipidomic studies. Here, we present a comprehensive LC-MS/MS based approach that allows unequivocal distinction of these two lipid subclasses based on their chromatographic properties. The method was validated using a novel plasmalogen-deficient mouse model, which lacks plasmanylethanolamine desaturase and therefore cannot form plasmenyl ether lipids. We demonstrate that plasmanylethanolamine desaturase deficiency causes an accumulation of plasmanyl species, a too little studied but biologically important substance class.
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- Jakob Koch
- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Grankvist N, Watrous JD, Jain M, Nilsson R. Large-Scale Profiling of Cellular Metabolic Activities Using Deep 13C Labeling Medium. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2088:73-92. [PMID: 31893371 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0159-4_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2023]
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The recently developed deep labeling method allows for large-scale profiling of metabolic activities in human cells or tissues using isotope tracing with a highly 13C enriched culture medium in combination with liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. This method generates mass spectrometry data sets where endogenous cellular products can be identified, and active pathways can be determined from observed 13C mass isotopomers of the various metabolites measured. Here we describe in detail the experimental procedures for deep labeling experiments in cultured mammalian cells, including synthesis of the deep labeling medium, experimental considerations for cell culture, metabolite extractions and sample preparation, and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. We also outline a workflow for the downstream data analysis using publicly available software.
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- Nina Grankvist
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Naoe S, Tsugawa H, Takahashi M, Ikeda K, Arita M. Characterization of Lipid Profiles after Dietary Intake of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Using Integrated Untargeted and Targeted Lipidomics. Metabolites 2019; 9:E241. [PMID: 31640217 PMCID: PMC6836067 DOI: 10.3390/metabo9100241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Illuminating the comprehensive lipid profiles after dietary supplementation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is crucial to revealing the tissue distribution of PUFAs in living organisms, as well as to providing novel insights into lipid metabolism. Here, we performed lipidomic analyses on mouse plasma and nine tissues, including the liver, kidney, brain, white adipose, heart, lung, small intestine, skeletal muscle, and spleen, with the dietary intake conditions of arachidonic acid (ARA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) as the ethyl ester form. We incorporated targeted and untargeted approaches for profiling oxylipins and complex lipids such as glycerol (phospho) lipids, sphingolipids, and sterols, respectively, which led to the characterization of 1026 lipid molecules from the mouse tissues. The lipidomic analysis indicated that the intake of PUFAs strongly impacted the lipid profiles of metabolic organs such as the liver and kidney, while causing less impact on the brain. Moreover, we revealed a unique lipid modulation in most tissues, where phospholipids containing linoleic acid were significantly decreased in mice on the ARA-supplemented diet, and bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate (BMP) selectively incorporated DHA over ARA and EPA. We comprehensively studied the lipid profiles after dietary intake of PUFAs, which gives insight into lipid metabolism and nutrition research on PUFA supplementation.
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- Satoko Naoe
- Laboratory for Metabolomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
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- Laboratory for Metabolomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
- Metabolome informatics research team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
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- Metabolome informatics research team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
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- Laboratory for Metabolomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
- Cellular and Molecular Epigenetics Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
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- Laboratory for Metabolomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
- Cellular and Molecular Epigenetics Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
- Division of Physiological Chemistry and Metabolism, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan.
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Lee J, Tsang YF, Oh JI, Hong S, Kim C, Kwon EE. Analysis of fatty acids in mouse tissue via in situ transmethylation with biochar. Environ Geochem Health 2019; 41:1723-1728. [PMID: 28455818 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-017-9965-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Lipid derivatization technology-mediated fatty acid profiling studies have been suggested to dissect the contents of lipids in white fat and brown fat tissue. The focus of this study is to profile fatty acid lipidomics in brown adipose tissue and white adipose tissue of mice by derivatizing their lipids into fatty acid methyl esters via in situ transmethylation using a rice husk-derived biochar as porous media. The in situ transmethylation using biochar is advantageous in biological analysis because there was no loss of samples inevitably occurring in the loss of lipid in solvent extraction and purification steps.
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- Jechan Lee
- Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Korea
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- Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Educational University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong
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- Advanced Technology Department, Land and Housing Institute, Daejeon, 34047, Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Korea.
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- Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Korea.
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Cao Z, Schmitt TC, Varma V, Sloper D, Beger RD, Sun J. Evaluation of the Performance of Lipidyzer Platform and Its Application in the Lipidomics Analysis in Mouse Heart and Liver. J Proteome Res 2019; 19:2742-2749. [PMID: 31310547 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lipids play important roles in cell signaling, energy storage, and as major structural components of cell membranes. To date, little work has been conducted to show the extent of tissue specificity of lipid compositions. Here, the recently acquired Lipidyzer platform was employed in this pilot study: (i) to assess the performance of the Lipidyzer platform, (ii) to explore lipid profiles in liver and cardiac tissue in mice, (iii) to examine sex-specific differences in lipids in the liver tissue, and (iv) to evaluate biological variances in lipidomes present in animals. In total, 787 lipid species from 13 lipid classes were measured in the liver and heart. Lipidomics data from the Lipidyzer platform were very reproducible with the coefficient of variations of the quality control (QC) samples, ∼10%. The total concentration of the cholesterol esters (CE) lipid class, and specifically CE(16:1) and CE(18:1) species, showed sex differences in the liver. Cardiac tissue had higher levels of phospholipids containing docosahexaenoic acid, which could be related to heart health status and function. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of the Lipidyzer platform in identifying differences in lipid profile at the tissue level and between male and female mice in specific tissues.
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- Zhijun Cao
- Division of System Biology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, United States
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- Division of System Biology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, United States
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- Division of System Biology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, United States
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- Division of System Biology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, United States
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- Division of System Biology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, United States
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- Division of System Biology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, United States
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Bai A, Liu X, Bielawski J, Hannun YA. Bioactive sphingolipid profile in a xenograft mouse model of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215770. [PMID: 31002723 PMCID: PMC6474618 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to determine the profile of bioactive sphingolipids in xenograft mouse tissues of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. We utilized UHPLC-MS/MS to determine the profile of full set of ceramides, sphingosine, and sphingosine 1-phosphate in this xenograft mouse model. The tissues isolated and investigated were from brain, lung, heart, liver, spleen, kidney, bladder, tumors and blood. With the exception of equal volume of blood plasma (100ul), all tissues were studied with the same amount of protein (800ug). Results demonstrated that brain contained the highest level of ceramide and kidney had the highest level of sphingosine, whereas sphingosine 1-phosphate and dihydrosphingosine 1-phosphate were heavily presented in the blood. Brain also comprised the highest level of phospholipids. As for the species, several ceramides, usually present in very low amounts in cultured tumor cells, showed relatively high levels in certain tissues. This study highlights levels of bioactive sphingolipids profiles in xenograft mouse model of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and provides resources to investigate potential therapeutic targets and biomarkers that target bioactive sphingolipids metabolism pathways.
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- Aiping Bai
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Lipidomics Shared Resources, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Lipidomics Shared Resources, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry & the Stony Brook Cancer Center at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
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Kim W, Deik A, Gonzalez C, Gonzalez ME, Fu F, Ferrari M, Churchhouse CL, Florez JC, Jacobs SBR, Clish CB, Rhee EP. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Desaturation Is a Mechanism for Glycolytic NAD + Recycling. Cell Metab 2019; 29:856-870.e7. [PMID: 30686744 PMCID: PMC6447447 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2018.12.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2018] [Revised: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The reactions catalyzed by the delta-5 and delta-6 desaturases (D5D/D6D), key enzymes responsible for highly unsaturated fatty acid (HUFA) synthesis, regenerate NAD+ from NADH. Here, we show that D5D/D6D provide a mechanism for glycolytic NAD+ recycling that permits ongoing glycolysis and cell viability when the cytosolic NAD+/NADH ratio is reduced, analogous to lactate fermentation. Although lesser in magnitude than lactate production, this desaturase-mediated NAD+ recycling is acutely adaptive when aerobic respiration is impaired in vivo. Notably, inhibition of either HUFA synthesis or lactate fermentation increases the other, underscoring their interdependence. Consistent with this, a type 2 diabetes risk haplotype in SLC16A11 that reduces pyruvate transport (thus limiting lactate production) increases D5D/D6D activity in vitro and in humans, demonstrating a chronic effect of desaturase-mediated NAD+ recycling. These findings highlight key biologic roles for D5D/D6D activity independent of their HUFA end products and expand the current paradigm of glycolytic NAD+ regeneration.
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- Wondong Kim
- Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Metabolite Profiling, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Unidad de Investigación en Diabetes y Riesgo Cardiovascular, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Curenavaca, Mexico
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- Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Metabolism Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Metabolism Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Metabolite Profiling, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Metabolism Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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- Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Metabolism Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Enkavi G, Javanainen M, Kulig W, Róg T, Vattulainen I. Multiscale Simulations of Biological Membranes: The Challenge To Understand Biological Phenomena in a Living Substance. Chem Rev 2019; 119:5607-5774. [PMID: 30859819 PMCID: PMC6727218 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
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Biological
membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex
in terms of molecular composition and structure, functional
over a wide range of time scales, and characterized
by nonequilibrium conditions. Because of all of these
features, simulations are a great technique to study biomembrane
behavior. A significant part of the functional processes
in biological membranes takes place at the molecular
level; thus computer simulations are the method of
choice to explore how their properties emerge from specific
molecular features and how the interplay among the numerous
molecules gives rise to function over spatial and
time scales larger than the molecular ones. In this
review, we focus on this broad theme. We discuss the current
state-of-the-art of biomembrane simulations that, until
now, have largely focused on a rather narrow picture
of the complexity of the membranes. Given this, we
also discuss the challenges that we should unravel in the
foreseeable future. Numerous features such as the actin-cytoskeleton
network, the glycocalyx network, and nonequilibrium
transport under ATP-driven conditions have so far
received very little attention; however, the potential
of simulations to solve them would be exceptionally high. A
major milestone for this research would be that one day
we could say that computer simulations genuinely research
biological membranes, not just lipid bilayers.
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- Giray Enkavi
- Department of Physics , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki , Finland
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- Department of Physics , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki , Finland.,Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Flemingovo naḿesti 542/2 , 16610 Prague , Czech Republic.,Computational Physics Laboratory , Tampere University , P.O. Box 692, FI-33014 Tampere , Finland
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- Department of Physics , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki , Finland
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- Department of Physics , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki , Finland.,Computational Physics Laboratory , Tampere University , P.O. Box 692, FI-33014 Tampere , Finland
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- Department of Physics , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki , Finland.,Computational Physics Laboratory , Tampere University , P.O. Box 692, FI-33014 Tampere , Finland.,MEMPHYS-Center for Biomembrane Physics
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MacDonald K, Krishnan A, Cervenka E, Hu G, Guadagno E, Trakadis Y. Biomarkers for major depressive and bipolar disorders using metabolomics: A systematic review. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2019; 180:122-137. [PMID: 30411484 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) lack robust biomarkers useful for screening purposes in a clinical setting. A systematic review of the literature was conducted on metabolomic studies of patients with MDD or BD through the use of analytical platforms such as in vivo brain imaging, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance. Our search identified a total of 7,590 articles, of which 266 articles remained for full-text revision. Overall, 249 metabolites were found to be dysregulated with 122 of these metabolites being reported in two or more of the studies included. A list of biomarkers for MDD and BD established from metabolites found to be abnormal, along with the number of studies supporting each metabolite and a comparison of which biological fluids they were reported in, is provided. Metabolic pathways that may be important in the pathophysiology of MDD and BD were identified and predominantly center on glutamatergic metabolism, energy metabolism, and neurotransmission. Using online drug registries, we also illustrate how metabolomics can facilitate the discovery of novel candidate drug targets.
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- Kellie MacDonald
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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- McConnell Resource Centre, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.,Department of Medical Genetics, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec
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The liver is an organ with many facets, including a role in energy production and metabolic balance, detoxification and extraordinary capacity of regeneration. Hepatic glucose production plays a crucial role in the maintenance of normal glucose levels in the organism i.e. between 0.7 to 1.1 g/l. The loss of this function leads to a rare genetic metabolic disease named glycogen storage disease type I (GSDI), characterized by severe hypoglycemia during short fasts. On the contrary, type 2 diabetes is characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, partly due to an overproduction of glucose by the liver. Indeed, diabetes is characterized by increased uptake/production of glucose by hepatocytes, leading to the activation of de novo lipogenesis and the development of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. In GSDI, the accumulation of glucose-6 phosphate, which cannot be hydrolyzed into glucose, leads to an increase of glycogen stores and the development of hepatic steatosis. Thus, in these pathologies, hepatocytes are subjected to cellular stress mainly induced by glucotoxicity and lipotoxicity. In this review, we have compared hepatic cellular stress induced in type 2 diabetes and GSDI, especially oxidative stress, autophagy deregulation, and ER-stress. In addition, both GSDI and diabetic patients are prone to the development of hepatocellular adenomas (HCA) that occur on a fatty liver in the absence of cirrhosis. These HCA can further acquire malignant traits and transform into hepatocellular carcinoma. This process of tumorigenesis highlights the importance of an optimal metabolic control in both GSDI and diabetic patients in order to prevent, or at least to restrain, tumorigenic activity during disturbed glucose metabolism pathologies.
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- Monika Gjorgjieva
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U1213, Lyon, F-69008, France.,Université de Lyon, Lyon, F-69008 France.,Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne, F-69622 France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U1213, Lyon, F-69008, France.,Université de Lyon, Lyon, F-69008 France.,Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne, F-69622 France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U1213, Lyon, F-69008, France.,Université de Lyon, Lyon, F-69008 France.,Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne, F-69622 France
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Martens C, Shekhar M, Borysik AJ, Lau AM, Reading E, Tajkhorshid E, Booth PJ, Politis A. Direct protein-lipid interactions shape the conformational landscape of secondary transporters. Nat Commun 2018; 9:4151. [PMID: 30297844 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06704-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Secondary transporters undergo structural rearrangements to catalyze substrate translocation across the cell membrane – yet how such conformational changes happen within a lipid environment remains poorly understood. Here, we combine hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to understand how lipids regulate the conformational dynamics of secondary transporters at the molecular level. Using the homologous transporters XylE, LacY and GlpT from Escherichia coli as model systems, we discover that conserved networks of charged residues act as molecular switches that drive the conformational transition between different states. We reveal that these molecular switches are regulated by interactions with surrounding phospholipids and show that phosphatidylethanolamine interferes with the formation of the conserved networks and favors an inward-facing state. Overall, this work provides insights into the importance of lipids in shaping the conformational landscape of an important class of transporters. Secondary transporters catalyse substrate translocation across the cell membrane but the role of lipids during the transport cycle remains unclear. Here authors used hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulations to understand how lipids regulate the conformational dynamics of secondary transporters.
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Pradas I, Huynh K, Cabré R, Ayala V, Meikle PJ, Jové M, Pamplona R. Lipidomics Reveals a Tissue-Specific Fingerprint. Front Physiol 2018; 9:1165. [PMID: 30210358 PMCID: PMC6121266 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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In biological systems lipids generate membranes and have a key role in cell signaling and energy storage. Therefore, there is a wide diversity of molecular lipid expressed at the compositional level in cell membranes and organelles, as well as in tissues, whose lipid distribution remains unclear. Here, we report a mass spectrometry study of lipid abundance across 7 rat tissues, detecting and quantifying 652 lipid molecular species from the glycerolipid, glycerophospholipid, fatty acyl, sphingolipid, sterol lipid and prenol lipid categories. Our results demonstrate that every tissue analyzed presents a specific lipid distribution and concentration. Thus, glycerophospholipids are the most abundant tissue lipid, they share a similar tissue distribution but differ in particular lipid species between tissues. Sphingolipids are more concentrated in the renal cortex and sterol lipids can be found mainly in both liver and kidney. Both types of white adipose tissue, visceral and subcutaneous, are rich in glycerolipids but differing the amount. Acylcarnitines are mainly in the skeletal muscle, gluteus and soleus, while heart presents higher levels of ubiquinone than other tissues. The present study demonstrates the existence of a rat tissue-specific fingerprint.
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- Irene Pradas
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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Hiroshima Y, Yamamoto T, Watanabe M, Baba Y, Shinohara Y. Effects of cold exposure on metabolites in brown adipose tissue of rats. Mol Genet Metab Rep 2018; 15:36-42. [PMID: 30023288 PMCID: PMC6047462 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2018.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Revised: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Brown adipose tissue (BAT) plays an important role in regulation of energy expenditure while adapting to a cold environment. BAT thermogenesis depends on uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1), which is expressed in the inner mitochondrial membranes of BAT. Gene expression profiles induced by cold exposure in BAT have been studied, but the metabolomic biological pathway that contributes to the activation of thermogenesis in BAT remains unclear. In this study, we comprehensively compared the relative levels of metabolites between the BAT of rats kept at room temperature (22 °C) and of those exposed to a cold temperature (4 °C) for 48 h using capillary electrophoresis (CE) time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) and liquid chromatography (LC)-TOFMS. We identified 218 metabolites (137 cations and 81 anions) by CE-TOFMS and detected 81 metabolites (47 positive and 34 negative) by LC-TOFMS in BAT. We found that cold exposure highly influenced the BAT metabolome. We showed that the cold environment lead to lower levels of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis intermediates and higher levels of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle metabolites, fatty acids, and acyl-carnitine metabolites than control conditions in the BAT of rats. These results indicate that glycolysis and β-oxidation of fatty acids in BAT are positive biological pathways that contribute to the activation of thermogenesis by cold exposure, thereby facilitating the generation of heat by UCP1. These data provide useful information for understanding the basal metabolic functions of BAT thermogenesis in rats in response to cold exposure.
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- Yuka Hiroshima
- Institute for Genome Research, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
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- Institute for Genome Research, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Tokushima, 1-78 Shomachi, Tokushima 770-8505, Japan
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- School of Pharmacy, Shujitsu University, 1-6-1 Nishigawara, Naka-ku, Okayama 703-8516, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
- ImPACT Research Center for Advanced Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
- Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Takamatsu 761-0395, Japan
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- Institute for Genome Research, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Tokushima, 1-78 Shomachi, Tokushima 770-8505, Japan
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Eggers LF, Müller J, Marella C, Scholz V, Watz H, Kugler C, Rabe KF, Goldmann T, Schwudke D. Lipidomes of lung cancer and tumour-free lung tissues reveal distinct molecular signatures for cancer differentiation, age, inflammation, and pulmonary emphysema. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11087. [PMID: 28894173 PMCID: PMC5594029 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11339-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 08/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Little is known about the human lung lipidome, its variability in different physiological states, its alterations during carcinogenesis and the development of pulmonary emphysema. We investigated how health status might be mirrored in the lung lipidome. Tissues were sampled for both lipidomic and histological analysis. Using a screening approach, we characterised lipidomes of lung cancer tissues and corresponding tumour-free alveolar tissues. We quantified 311 lipids from 11 classes in 43 tissue samples from 26 patients. Tumour tissues exhibited elevated levels of triacylglycerols and cholesteryl esters, as well as a significantly lower abundance of phosphatidylglycerols, which are typical lung surfactant components. Adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas were distinguished with high specificity based on lipid panels. Lipidomes of tumour biopsy samples showed clear changes depending on their histology and, in particular, their proportion of active tumour cells and stroma. Partial least squares regression showed correlations between lipid profiles of tumour-free alveolar tissues and the degree of emphysema, inflammation status, and the age of patients. Unsaturated long-chain phosphatidylserines and phosphatidylinositols showed a positive correlation with a worsened emphysema status and ageing. This work provides a resource for the human lung lipidome and a systematic data analysis strategy to link clinical characteristics and histology.
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- Lars F Eggers
- Research Center Borstel, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Parkallee 1-40, 23845, Borstel, Germany
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- Pathology of the University Hospital of Lübeck and the Research Center Borstel, Location Borstel, Clinical and Experimental Pathology, 23845, Borstel, Germany
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- Research Center Borstel, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Parkallee 1-40, 23845, Borstel, Germany
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- Research Center Borstel, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Parkallee 1-40, 23845, Borstel, Germany
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- Pulmonary Research Institute at LungenClinic Großhansdorf, Wöhrendamm 80, 22927, Großhansdorf, Germany.,Airway Research Center North, German Center for Lung Research, Wöhrendamm 80, 22927, Großhansdorf, Germany
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- LungenClinic Großhansdorf, Wöhrendamm 80, 22927, Großhansdorf, Germany
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- Airway Research Center North, German Center for Lung Research, Wöhrendamm 80, 22927, Großhansdorf, Germany.,LungenClinic Großhansdorf, Wöhrendamm 80, 22927, Großhansdorf, Germany
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- Pathology of the University Hospital of Lübeck and the Research Center Borstel, Location Borstel, Clinical and Experimental Pathology, 23845, Borstel, Germany.,Airway Research Center North, German Center for Lung Research, Wöhrendamm 80, 22927, Großhansdorf, Germany
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- Research Center Borstel, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Parkallee 1-40, 23845, Borstel, Germany. .,Airway Research Center North, German Center for Lung Research, Wöhrendamm 80, 22927, Großhansdorf, Germany.
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Gutierrez MG, Mansfield KS, Malmstadt N. The Functional Activity of the Human Serotonin 5-HT1A Receptor Is Controlled by Lipid Bilayer Composition. Biophys J 2017; 110:2486-2495. [PMID: 27276266 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.04.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2016] [Accepted: 04/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Although the properties of the cell plasma membrane lipid bilayer are broadly understood to affect integral membrane proteins, details of these interactions are poorly understood. This is particularly the case for the large family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Here, we examine the lipid dependence of the human serotonin 5-HT1A receptor, a GPCR that is central to neuronal function. We incorporate the protein in synthetic bilayers of controlled composition together with a fluorescent reporting system that detects GPCR-catalyzed activation of G protein to measure receptor-catalyzed oligonucleotide exchange. Our results show that increased membrane order induced by sterols and sphingomyelin increases receptor-catalyzed oligonucleotide exchange. Increasing membrane elastic curvature stress also increases this exchange. These results reveal the broad dependence that the 5-HT1A receptor has on plasma membrane properties, demonstrating that membrane lipid composition is a biochemical control parameter and highlighting the possibility that compositional changes related to aging, diet, or disease could impact cell signaling functions.
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- M Gertrude Gutierrez
- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
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Lipids have the potential to serve as bio-markers, which allow us to analyze and to identify cells under various experimental settings, and to serve as a clinical diagnostic tool. For example, diagnosis according to specific lipids that are associated with diabetes and obesity. The rapid development of mass-spectrometry techniques enables identification and profiling of multiple types of lipid species. Together, lipid profiling and data interpretation forge the new field of lipidomics. Lipidomics can be used to characterize physiologic and pathophysiological processes in adipocytes, since lipid metabolism is at the core of adipocyte physiology and energy homeostasis. A significant bulk of lipids are stored in adipocytes, which can be released and used to produce energy, used to build membranes, or used as signaling molecules that regulate metabolism. In this review, we discuss how exhaust of lipidomes can be used to study adipocyte differentiation, physiology and pathophysiology.
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- Kfir Lapid
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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Schneider M, Levant B, Reichel M, Gulbins E, Kornhuber J, Müller CP. Lipids in psychiatric disorders and preventive medicine. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 76:336-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Revised: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 06/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Nault R, Fader KA, Lydic TA, Zacharewski TR. Lipidomic Evaluation of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-Mediated Hepatic Steatosis in Male and Female Mice Elicited by 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. Chem Res Toxicol 2017; 30:1060-1075. [PMID: 28238261 PMCID: PMC5896278 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The environmental contaminant 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) induces hepatic steatosis mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. To further characterize TCDD-elicited hepatic lipid accumulation, mice were gavaged with TCDD every 4 days for 28 days. Liver samples were examined using untargeted lipidomics with structural confirmation of lipid species by targeted high-resolution MS/MS, and data were integrated with complementary RNA-Seq analyses. Approximately 936 unique spectral features were detected, of which 379 were confirmed as unique lipid species. Both male and female samples exhibited similar qualitative changes (lipid species) but differed in quantitative changes. A shift to higher mass lipid species was observed, indicative of increased free fatty acid (FFA) packaging. For example, of the 13 lipid classes examined, triglycerides increased from 46 to 48% of total lipids to 68-83% in TCDD treated animals. Hepatic cholesterol esters increased 11.3-fold in male mice with moieties consisting largely of dietary fatty acids (FAs) (i.e., linolenate, palmitate, and oleate). Phosphatidylserines, phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidic acids, and cardiolipins decreased 4.1-, 5.0-, 5.4- and 7.4-fold, respectively, while ceramides increased 6.6-fold. Accordingly, the integration of lipidomic data with differential gene expression associated with lipid metabolism suggests that in addition to the repression of de novo fatty acid synthesis and β-oxidation, TCDD also increased hepatic uptake and packaging of lipids, while inhibiting VLDL secretion, consistent with hepatic fat accumulation and the progression to steatohepatitis with fibrosis.
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- Rance Nault
- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Müller CP, Kalinichenko LS, Tiesel J, Witt M, Stöckl T, Sprenger E, Fuchser J, Beckmann J, Praetner M, Huber SE, Amato D, Mühle C, Büttner C, Ekici AB, Smaga I, Pomierny-Chamiolo L, Pomierny B, Filip M, Eulenburg V, Gulbins E, Lourdusamy A, Reichel M, Kornhuber J. Paradoxical antidepressant effects of alcohol are related to acid sphingomyelinase and its control of sphingolipid homeostasis. Acta Neuropathol 2017; 133:463-83. [PMID: 28000031 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-016-1658-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Revised: 12/13/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Alcohol is a widely consumed drug that can lead to addiction and severe brain damage. However, alcohol is also used as self-medication for psychiatric problems, such as depression, frequently resulting in depression-alcoholism comorbidity. Here, we identify the first molecular mechanism for alcohol use with the goal to self-medicate and ameliorate the behavioral symptoms of a genetically induced innate depression. An induced over-expression of acid sphingomyelinase (ASM), as was observed in depressed patients, enhanced the consumption of alcohol in a mouse model of depression. ASM hyperactivity facilitates the establishment of the conditioned behavioral effects of alcohol, and thus drug memories. Opposite effects on drinking and alcohol reward learning were observed in animals with reduced ASM function. Importantly, free-choice alcohol drinking—but not forced alcohol exposure—reduces depression-like behavior selectively in depressed animals through the normalization of brain ASM activity. No such effects were observed in normal mice. ASM hyperactivity caused sphingolipid and subsequent monoamine transmitter hypo-activity in the brain. Free-choice alcohol drinking restores nucleus accumbens sphingolipid- and monoamine homeostasis selectively in depressed mice. A gene expression analysis suggested strong control of ASM on the expression of genes related to the regulation of pH, ion transmembrane transport, behavioral fear response, neuroprotection and neuropeptide signaling pathways. These findings suggest that the paradoxical antidepressant effects of alcohol in depressed organisms are mediated by ASM and its control of sphingolipid homeostasis. Both emerge as a new treatment target specifically for depression-induced alcoholism.
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Although the measurement of triacylglycerols (TAGs) by clinical chemistry has been used in the diagnosis of a range of metabolic diseases, such approaches ignore the different species of TAGs that contribute to the total concentration. With the advent of LC and direct infusion forms of MS it is now possible to profile the individual TAGs in blood plasma or tissue extracts. This mini review surveys the information that is obtainable from the lipidomic profiling of TAGs in following metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2DM), cardiovascular disease (CVD) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, as well as the development of insulin resistance and obesity.
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Huston JP, Kornhuber J, Mühle C, Japtok L, Komorowski M, Mattern C, Reichel M, Gulbins E, Kleuser B, Topic B, De Souza Silva MA, Müller CP. A sphingolipid mechanism for behavioral extinction. J Neurochem 2016; 137:589-603. [PMID: 26788861 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.13537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Revised: 01/07/2016] [Accepted: 01/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Reward-dependent instrumental behavior must continuously be re-adjusted according to environmental conditions. Failure to adapt to changes in reward contingencies may incur psychiatric disorders like anxiety and depression. When an expected reward is omitted, behavior undergoes extinction. While extinction involves active re-learning, it is also accompanied by emotional behaviors indicative of frustration, anxiety, and despair (extinction-induced depression). Here, we report evidence for a sphingolipid mechanism in the extinction of behavior. Rapid extinction, indicating efficient re-learning, coincided with a decrease in the activity of the enzyme acid sphingomyelinase (ASM), which catalyzes turnover of sphingomyelin to ceramide, in the dorsal hippocampus of rats. The stronger the decline in ASM activity, the more rapid was the extinction. Sphingolipid-focused lipidomic analysis showed that this results in a decline of local ceramide species in the dorsal hippocampus. Ceramides shape the fluidity of lipid rafts in synaptic membranes and by that way can control neural plasticity. We also found that aging modifies activity of enzymes and ceramide levels in selective brain regions. Aging also changed how the chronic treatment with corticosterone (stress) or intranasal dopamine modified regional enzyme activity and ceramide levels, coinciding with rate of extinction. These data provide first evidence for a functional ASM-ceramide pathway in the brain involved in the extinction of learned behavior. This finding extends the known cellular mechanisms underlying behavioral plasticity to a new class of membrane-located molecules, the sphingolipids, and their regulatory enzymes, and may offer new treatment targets for extinction- and learning-related psychopathological conditions. Sphingolipids are common lipids in the brain which form lipid domains at pre- and postsynaptic membrane compartments. Here we show a decline in dorsal hippocampus ceramide species together with a reduction of acid sphingomyelinase activity during extinction of conditioned behavior in rats. This reduction was associated with expression of re-learning-related behavior, but not with emotional behaviors. Read the Editorial Highlight for this article on page 485.
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- Joseph P Huston
- Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Nutritional Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- M et P Pharma AG, Emmetten, Switzerland.,Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.,Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Institute of Nutritional Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Chen W, Wang L, Van Berkel GJ, Kertesz V, Gan J. Quantitation of repaglinide and metabolites in mouse whole-body thin tissue sections using droplet-based liquid microjunction surface sampling-high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr A 2015; 1439:137-143. [PMID: 26589943 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2015.10.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2015] [Revised: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 10/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Herein, quantitation aspects of a fully automated autosampler/HPLC-MS/MS system applied for unattended droplet-based surface sampling of repaglinide dosed thin tissue sections with subsequent HPLC separation and mass spectrometric analysis of parent drug and various drug metabolites were studied. Major organs (brain, lung, liver, kidney and muscle) from whole-body thin tissue sections and corresponding organ homogenates prepared from repaglinide dosed mice were sampled by surface sampling and by bulk extraction, respectively, and analyzed by HPLC-MS/MS. A semi-quantitative agreement between data obtained by surface sampling and that by employing organ homogenate extraction was observed. Drug concentrations obtained by the two methods followed the same patterns for post-dose time points (0.25, 0.5, 1 and 2 h). Drug amounts determined in the specific tissues was typically higher when analyzing extracts from the organ homogenates. In addition, relative comparison of the levels of individual metabolites between the two analytical methods also revealed good semi-quantitative agreement.
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- Weiqi Chen
- Pharmaceutical Candidate Optimization, Bristol-Myers Squibb Research and Development, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA
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- Pharmaceutical Candidate Optimization, Bristol-Myers Squibb Research and Development, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA
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- Organic and Biological Mass Spectrometry Group, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Organic and Biological Mass Spectrometry Group, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
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- Pharmaceutical Candidate Optimization, Bristol-Myers Squibb Research and Development, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA.
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Müller CP, Reichel M, Mühle C, Rhein C, Gulbins E, Kornhuber J. Brain membrane lipids in major depression and anxiety disorders. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2015; 1851:1052-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2014.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Revised: 12/06/2014] [Accepted: 12/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Pseudogymnoascus destructans is an ascomycetous fungus responsible for the disease dubbed white-nose syndrome (WNS) and massive mortalities of cave-dwelling bats. The fungus infects bat epidermal tissue, causing damage to integumentary cells and pilosebaceous units. Differences in epidermal lipid composition caused by P. destructans infection could have drastic consequences for a variety of physiological functions, including innate immune efficiency and water retention. While bat surface lipid and stratum corneum lipid composition have been described, the differences in epidermal lipid content between healthy tissue and P. destructans-infected tissue have not been documented. In this study, we analyzed the effect of wing damage from P. destructans infection on the epidermal polar lipid composition (glycerophospholipids [GPs] and sphingomyelin) of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus). We hypothesized that infection would lead to lower levels of total lipid or higher oxidized lipid product proportions. Polar lipids from three damaged and three healthy wing samples were profiled by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. We found lower total broad lipid levels in damaged tissue, specifically ether-linked phospholipids, lysophospholipids, phosphatidylcholine, and phosphatidylethanolamine. Thirteen individual GP species from four broad GP classes were present in higher amounts in healthy tissue. Six unsaturated GP species were absent in damaged tissue. Our results confirm that P. destructans infection leads to altered lipid profiles. Clinical signs of WNS may include lower lipid levels and lower proportions of unsaturated lipids due to cellular and glandular damage.
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- Evan L. Pannkuk
- Graduate Program of Environmental Science, Arkansas State University, P.O. Box 847, State University, AR 72467
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- Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3B 2E9
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- Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3B 2E9
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- Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3B 2E9
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- Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3B 2E9
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Arkansas State University, P.O. Box 599, State University, AR 72467
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Sheth SA, Iavarone AT, Liebeskind DS, Won SJ, Swanson RA. Targeted Lipid Profiling Discovers Plasma Biomarkers of Acute Brain Injury. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0129735. [PMID: 26076478 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Prior efforts to identify a blood biomarker of brain injury have relied almost exclusively on proteins; however their low levels at early time points and poor correlation with injury severity have been limiting. Lipids, on the other hand, are the most abundant molecules in the brain and readily cross the blood-brain barrier. We previously showed that certain sphingolipid (SL) species are highly specific to the brain. Here we examined the feasibility of using SLs as biomarkers for acute brain injury. A rat model of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a mouse model of stroke were used to identify candidate SL species though our mass-spectrometry based lipid profiling approach. Plasma samples collected after TBI in the rat showed large increases in many circulating SLs following injury, and larger lesions produced proportionately larger increases. Plasma samples collected 24 hours after stroke in mice similarly revealed a large increase in many SLs. We constructed an SL score (sum of the two SL species showing the largest relative increases in the mouse stroke model) and then evaluated the diagnostic value of this score on a small sample of patients (n = 14) who presented with acute stroke symptoms. Patients with true stroke had significantly higher SL scores than patients found to have non-stroke causes of their symptoms. The SL score correlated with the volume of ischemic brain tissue. These results demonstrate the feasibility of using lipid biomarkers to diagnose brain injury. Future studies will be needed to further characterize the diagnostic utility of this approach and to transition to an assay method applicable to clinical settings.
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Rosen EP, Bokhart MT, Ghashghaei HT, Muddiman DC. Influence of Desorption Conditions on Analyte Sensitivity and Internal Energy in Discrete Tissue or Whole Body Imaging by IR-MALDESI. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2015; 26:899-910. [PMID: 25840812 PMCID: PMC4425634 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-015-1114-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2014] [Revised: 02/22/2015] [Accepted: 02/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Analyte signal in a laser desorption/postionization scheme such as infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption electrospray ionization (IR-MALDESI) is strongly coupled to the degree of overlap between the desorbed plume of neutral material from a sample and an orthogonal electrospray. In this work, we systematically examine the effect of desorption conditions on IR-MALDESI response to pharmaceutical drugs and endogenous lipids in biological tissue using a design of experiments approach. Optimized desorption conditions have then been used to conduct an untargeted lipidomic analysis of whole body sagittal sections of neonate mouse. IR-MALDESI response to a wide range of lipid classes has been demonstrated, with enhanced lipid coverage received by varying the laser wavelength used for mass spectrometry imaging (MSI). Targeted MS(2) imaging (MS(2)I) of an analyte, cocaine, deposited beneath whole body sections allowed determination of tissue-specific ion response factors, and CID fragments of cocaine were monitored to comment on wavelength-dependent internal energy deposition based on the "survival yield" method.
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- Elias P. Rosen
- W.M. Keck FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
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- W.M. Keck FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
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- Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
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- W.M. Keck FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Author for Correspondence David C. Muddiman, Ph.D., W.M. Keck FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, Phone: 919-513-0084,
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