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Dushianthan A, Cusack R, Goss V, Koster G, Grocott MPW, Postle AD. In Vivo Cellular Phosphatidylcholine Kinetics of CD15+ Leucocytes and CD3+ T-Lymphocytes in Adults with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Cells 2024; 13:332. [PMID: 38391944 PMCID: PMC10886962 DOI: 10.3390/cells13040332] [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: 12/22/2023] [Revised: 02/03/2024] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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Mammalian cell membranes composed of a mixture of glycerophospholipids, the relative composition of individual phospholipids and the dynamic flux vary between cells. In addition to their structural role, membrane phospholipids are involved in cellular signalling and immunomodulatory functions. In this study, we investigate the molecular membrane composition and dynamic flux of phosphatidylcholines in CD15+ leucocytes and CD3+ lymphocytes extracted from patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We identified compositional variations between these cell types, where CD15+ cells had relatively higher quantities of alkyl-acyl PC species and CD3+ cells contained more arachidonoyl-PC species. There was a significant loss of arachidonoyl-PC in CD3+ cells in ARDS patients. Moreover, there were significant changes in PC composition and the methyl-D9 enrichment of individual molecular species in CD15+ cells from ARDS patients. This is the first study to perform an in vivo assessment of membrane composition and dynamic changes in immunological cells from ARDS patients.
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- Ahilanandan Dushianthan
- Perioperative and Critical Care Theme, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK; (R.C.); (G.K.); (M.P.W.G.); (A.D.P.)
- Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK
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- Perioperative and Critical Care Theme, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK; (R.C.); (G.K.); (M.P.W.G.); (A.D.P.)
- Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK
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- Clinical Trials Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK;
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- Perioperative and Critical Care Theme, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK; (R.C.); (G.K.); (M.P.W.G.); (A.D.P.)
- Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK
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- Perioperative and Critical Care Theme, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK; (R.C.); (G.K.); (M.P.W.G.); (A.D.P.)
- Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK
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- Perioperative and Critical Care Theme, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK; (R.C.); (G.K.); (M.P.W.G.); (A.D.P.)
- Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, Hampshire, UK
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Larsson P, Holz O, Koster G, Postle A, Olin AC, Hohlfeld JM. Exhaled breath particles as a novel tool to study lipid composition of epithelial lining fluid from the distal lung. BMC Pulm Med 2023; 23:423. [PMID: 37924084 PMCID: PMC10623716 DOI: 10.1186/s12890-023-02718-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Surfactant phospholipid (PL) composition plays an important role in lung diseases. We compared the PL composition of non-invasively collected exhaled breath particles (PEx) with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and induced sputum (ISP) at baseline and following endotoxin (LPS) challenges. METHODS PEx and BAL were collected from ten healthy nonsmoking participants before and after segmental LPS challenge. Four weeks later, PEx and ISP were sampled in the week before and after a whole lung LPS inhalation challenge. PL composition was analysed using mass spectrometry. RESULTS The overall PL composition of BAL, ISP and PEx was similar, with PC(32:0) and PC(34:1) representing the largest fractions in all three sample types (baseline PC(32:0) geometric mean mol%: 52.1, 56.9, and 51.7, PC(34:1) mol%: 11.7, 11.9 and 11.4, respectively). Despite this similarity, PEx PL composition was more closely related to BAL than to ISP. For most lipids comparable inter-individual differences in BAL, ISP, and PEx were found. PL composition of PEx was repeatable. The most pronounced increase following segmental LPS challenge was detected for SM(d34:1) in BAL (0.24 to 0.52 mol%) and following inhalation LPS challenge in ISP (0.45 to 0.68 mol%). An increase of SM(d34:1) following segmental LPS challenge was also detectable in PEx (0.099 to 0.103 mol%). The inhalation challenge did not change PL composition of PEx. CONCLUSION Our data supports the peripheral origin of PEx. The lack of PL changes in PEx after inhalation challenge might to be due to the overall weaker response of inhaled LPS which primarily affects the larger airways. Compared with BAL, which always contains lining fluid from both peripheral lung and central airways, PEx analysis might add value as a selective and non-invasive method to investigate peripheral airway PL composition. TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT03044327, first posted 07/02/2017.
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- Per Larsson
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
- German Center for Lung Research, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Hannover, Germany.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, 30625, Hannover, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Hannover, Germany
- Hannover Medical School, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover, Germany
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Brandsma J, Schofield JPR, Yang X, Strazzeri F, Barber C, Goss VM, Koster G, Bakke PS, Caruso M, Chanez P, Dahlén SE, Fowler SJ, Horváth I, Krug N, Montuschi P, Sanak M, Sandström T, Shaw DE, Chung KF, Singer F, Fleming LJ, Adcock IM, Pandis I, Bansal AT, Corfield J, Sousa AR, Sterk PJ, Sánchez-García RJ, Skipp PJ, Postle AD, Djukanović R. Stratification of asthma by lipidomic profiling of induced sputum supernatant. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2023; 152:117-125. [PMID: 36918039 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.02.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease with significant heterogeneity in its clinical presentation and pathobiology. There is need for improved understanding of respiratory lipid metabolism in asthma patients and its relation to observable clinical features. OBJECTIVE We performed a comprehensive, prospective, cross-sectional analysis of the lipid composition of induced sputum supernatant obtained from asthma patients with a range of disease severities, as well as from healthy controls. METHODS Induced sputum supernatant was collected from 211 adults with asthma and 41 healthy individuals enrolled onto the U-BIOPRED (Unbiased Biomarkers for the Prediction of Respiratory Disease Outcomes) study. Sputum lipidomes were characterized by semiquantitative shotgun mass spectrometry and clustered using topologic data analysis to identify lipid phenotypes. RESULTS Shotgun lipidomics of induced sputum supernatant revealed a spectrum of 9 molecular phenotypes, highlighting not just significant differences between the sputum lipidomes of asthma patients and healthy controls, but also within the asthma patient population. Matching clinical, pathobiologic, proteomic, and transcriptomic data helped inform the underlying disease processes. Sputum lipid phenotypes with higher levels of nonendogenous, cell-derived lipids were associated with significantly worse asthma severity, worse lung function, and elevated granulocyte counts. CONCLUSION We propose a novel mechanism of increased lipid loading in the epithelial lining fluid of asthma patients resulting from the secretion of extracellular vesicles by granulocytic inflammatory cells, which could reduce the ability of pulmonary surfactant to lower surface tension in asthmatic small airways, as well as compromise its role as an immune regulator.
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- Joost Brandsma
- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom.
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- National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Centre for Proteomic Research, Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Data Science Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Department of Respiratory Diseases, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Manchester Academic Health Centre and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Data Science Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Acclarogen Ltd, St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Respiratory Therapy Unit, GlaxoSmithKline, London, United Kingdom
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- Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Proteomic Research, Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Postle AD, Clark HW, Fink J, Madsen J, Koster G, Panchal M, Djukanovic R, Brealey D, Grocott MPW, Dushianthan A. Rapid Phospholipid Turnover After Surfactant Nebulization in Severe COVID-19 Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2021; 205:471-473. [PMID: 34874818 PMCID: PMC8886955 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202110-2279le] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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- Anthony D Postle
- University of Southampton, Child Health, Southampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
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- University College London Faculty of Medical Sciences, 61142, EGA Institute for Women's Health, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Aerogen Pharma Corporation, San Mateo, California, United States
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- University College London Faculty of Medical Sciences, 61142, EGA Institute for Women's Health,, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, 12211, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Southampton Biomedical Research Centre , Southampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, 12211, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Southampton Biomedical Research Centre , Southampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Southampton University, Clinical and Experimental Sciences and Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- University College London, 4919, Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.,University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 8964, Department of Critical Care, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, 12211, Southampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, 7425, General Intensive Care Unit, Southampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Paget TL, Parkinson-Lawrence EJ, Trim PJ, Autilio C, Panchal MH, Koster G, Echaide M, Snel MF, Postle AD, Morrison JL, Pérez-Gil J, Orgeig S. Increased Alveolar Heparan Sulphate and Reduced Pulmonary Surfactant Amount and Function in the Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIA Mouse. Cells 2021; 10:849. [PMID: 33918094 PMCID: PMC8070179 DOI: 10.3390/cells10040849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 02/11/2021] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIA (MPS IIIA) is a lysosomal storage disease with significant neurological and skeletal pathologies. Respiratory dysfunction is a secondary pathology contributing to mortality in MPS IIIA patients. Pulmonary surfactant is crucial to optimal lung function and has not been investigated in MPS IIIA. We measured heparan sulphate (HS), lipids and surfactant proteins (SP) in pulmonary tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), and surfactant activity in healthy and diseased mice (20 weeks of age). Heparan sulphate, ganglioside GM3 and bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate (BMP) were increased in MPS IIIA lung tissue. There was an increase in HS and a decrease in BMP and cholesteryl esters (CE) in MPS IIIA BALF. Phospholipid composition remained unchanged, but BALF total phospholipids were reduced (49.70%) in MPS IIIA. There was a reduction in SP-A, -C and -D mRNA, SP-D protein in tissue and SP-A, -C and -D protein in BALF of MPS IIIA mice. Captive bubble surfactometry showed an increase in minimum and maximum surface tension and percent surface area compression, as well as a higher compressibility and hysteresis in MPS IIIA surfactant upon dynamic cycling. Collectively these biochemical and biophysical changes in alveolar surfactant are likely to be detrimental to lung function in MPS IIIA.
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- Tamara L. Paget
- Mechanisms in Cell Biology and Disease Group, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; (T.L.P.); (E.J.P.-L.)
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- Mechanisms in Cell Biology and Disease Group, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; (T.L.P.); (E.J.P.-L.)
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- Proteomics, Metabolomics and MS-Imaging Core Facility, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; (P.J.T.); (M.F.S.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre (Imas12), Complutense University, 28003 Madrid, Spain; (C.A.); (M.E.); (J.P.-G.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; (M.H.P.); (G.K.); (A.D.P.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; (M.H.P.); (G.K.); (A.D.P.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre (Imas12), Complutense University, 28003 Madrid, Spain; (C.A.); (M.E.); (J.P.-G.)
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- Proteomics, Metabolomics and MS-Imaging Core Facility, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; (P.J.T.); (M.F.S.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; (M.H.P.); (G.K.); (A.D.P.)
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- Early Origins Adult Health Research Group, Health and Biomedical Innovation, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia;
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre (Imas12), Complutense University, 28003 Madrid, Spain; (C.A.); (M.E.); (J.P.-G.)
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- Mechanisms in Cell Biology and Disease Group, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; (T.L.P.); (E.J.P.-L.)
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Ellis SR, Hall E, Panchal M, Flinders B, Madsen J, Koster G, Heeren RMA, Clark HW, Postle AD. Mass spectrometry imaging of phosphatidylcholine metabolism in lungs administered with therapeutic surfactants and isotopic tracers. J Lipid Res 2021; 62:100023. [PMID: 33453219 PMCID: PMC7961103 DOI: 10.1016/j.jlr.2021.100023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Revised: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) visualizes molecular distributions throughout tissues but is blind to dynamic metabolic processes. Here, MSI with high mass resolution together with multiple stable isotope labeling provided spatial analyses of phosphatidylcholine (PC) metabolism in mouse lungs. Dysregulated surfactant metabolism is central to many respiratory diseases. Metabolism and turnover of therapeutic pulmonary surfactants were imaged from distributions of intact and metabolic products of an added tracer, universally 13C-labeled dipalmitoyl PC (U13C-DPPC). The parenchymal distributions of newly synthesized PC species were also imaged from incorporations of methyl-D9-choline. This dual labeling strategy demonstrated both lack of inhibition of endogenous PC synthesis by exogenous surfactant and location of acyl chain remodeling processes acting on the U13C-DPPC-labeled surfactant, leading to formation of polyunsaturated PC lipids. This ability to visualize discrete metabolic events will greatly enhance our understanding of lipid metabolism in diverse tissues and has potential application to both clinical and experimental studies.
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- Shane R Ellis
- Division of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging (M4I) Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Division of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging (M4I) Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Division of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging (M4I) Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
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Goss KCW, Goss VM, Townsend JP, Koster G, Clark HW, Postle AD. Postnatal adaptations of phosphatidylcholine metabolism in extremely preterm infants: implications for choline and PUFA metabolism. Am J Clin Nutr 2020; 112:1438-1447. [PMID: 32778895 PMCID: PMC7727469 DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Lipid metabolism in pregnancy delivers PUFAs from maternal liver to the developing fetus. The transition at birth to diets less enriched in PUFA is especially challenging for immature, extremely preterm infants who are typically supported by total parenteral nutrition. OBJECTIVE The aim was to characterize phosphatidylcholine (PC) and choline metabolism in preterm infants and demonstrate the molecular specificity of PC synthesis by the immature preterm liver in vivo. METHODS This MS-based lipidomic study quantified the postnatal adaptations to plasma PC molecular composition in 31 preterm infants <28 weeks' gestational age. Activities of the cytidine diphosphocholine (CDP-choline) and phosphatidylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PEMT) pathways for PC synthesis were assessed from incorporations of deuterated methyl-D9-choline chloride. RESULTS The concentration of plasma PC in these infants increased postnatally from median values of 481 (IQR: 387-798) µM at enrollment to 1046 (IQR: 616-1220) µM 5 d later (P < 0.001). Direct incorporation of methyl-D9-choline demonstrated that this transition was driven by an active CDP-choline pathway that synthesized PC enriched in species containing oleic and linoleic acids. A second infusion of methyl-D9-choline chloride at day 5 clearly indicated continued activity of this pathway. Oxidation of D9-choline through D9-betaine resulted in the transfer of 1 deuterated methyl group to S-adenosylmethionine. A very low subsequent transfer of this labeled methyl group to D3-PC indicated that liver PEMT activity was essentially inactive in these infants. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrated that the preterm infant liver soon after birth, and by extension the fetal liver, was metabolically active in lipoprotein metabolism. The low PEMT activity, which is the only pathway for endogenous choline synthesis and is responsible for hormonally regulated export of PUFAs from adult liver, strongly supports increased supplementation of preterm parenteral nutrition with both choline and PUFAs.
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- Kevin C W Goss
- Child Health, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom,NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Present address for HWC: UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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Stuart CM, Zotova E, Koster G, Varatharaj A, Richardson G, Cornick FR, Weal M, Newman TA, Postle AD, Galea I. High-Throughput Urinary Neopterin-to-Creatinine Ratio Monitoring of Systemic Inflammation. J Appl Lab Med 2020; 5:101-113. [PMID: 31704895 DOI: 10.1373/jalm.2019.030007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Systemic inflammation is a marker of ill health and has prognostic implications in multiple health settings. Urinary neopterin is an excellent candidate as a nonspecific marker of systemic inflammation. Expression as urinary neopterin-to-creatinine ratio (UNCR) normalizes for urinary hydration status. Major attractions include (a) urine vs blood sampling, (b) integration of inflammation over a longer period compared with serum sampling, and (c) high stability of neopterin and creatinine. METHODS A high-throughput ultraperformance LC-MS method was developed to measure neopterin and creatinine together from the same urine sample. The assay was applied in several clinical scenarios: healthy controls, symptomatic infections, and multiple sclerosis. Area under the curve was compared between weekly and monthly sampling scenarios. Analysis of a single pooled sample was compared with averaging results from analysis of individual samples. RESULTS The assay has excellent intraassay and interassay precision, linearity of dilution, and spike and recovery. Higher UNCR was demonstrated in female vs male individuals, older age, inflammatory disease (multiple sclerosis), and symptomatic infections. In healthy controls, fluctuations in inflammatory state also occurred in the absence of symptomatic infection or other inflammatory triggers. Analysis of a single pooled sample, made up from weekly urine samples, integrates inflammatory activity over time. CONCLUSIONS UNCR is a useful biomarker of systemic inflammation. The method presented offers simplicity, speed, robustness, reproducibility, efficiency, and proven utility in clinical scenarios. UNCR fluctuations underline the importance of longitudinal monitoring, vs a single time point, to capture a more representative estimate of an individual's inflammatory state over time.
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- Charlotte M Stuart
- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Electronics and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Bogdándi V, Ida T, Sutton TR, Bianco C, Ditrói T, Koster G, Henthorn HA, Minnion M, Toscano JP, van der Vliet A, Pluth MD, Feelisch M, Fukuto JM, Akaike T, Nagy P. Speciation of reactive sulfur species and their reactions with alkylating agents: do we have any clue about what is present inside the cell? Br J Pharmacol 2019; 176:646-670. [PMID: 29909607 PMCID: PMC6346080 DOI: 10.1111/bph.14394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [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: 02/20/2018] [Revised: 05/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Posttranslational modifications of cysteine residues represent a major aspect of redox biology, and their reliable detection is key in providing mechanistic insights. The metastable character of these modifications and cell lysis-induced artifactual oxidation render current state-of-the-art protocols to rely on alkylation-based stabilization of labile cysteine derivatives before cell/tissue rupture. An untested assumption in these procedures is that for all cysteine derivatives, alkylation rates are faster than their dynamic interchange. However, when the interconversion of cysteine derivatives is not rate limiting, electrophilic labelling is under Curtin-Hammett control; hence, the final alkylated mixture may not represent the speciation that prevailed before alkylation. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Buffered aqueous solutions of inorganic, organic, cysteine, GSH and GAPDH polysulfide species were used. Additional experiments in human plasma and serum revealed that monobromobimane can extract sulfide from the endogenous sulfur pool by shifting speciation equilibria, suggesting caution should be exercised when interpreting experimental results using this tool. KEY RESULTS In the majority of cases, the speciation of alkylated polysulfide/thiol derivatives depended on the experimental conditions. Alkylation perturbed sulfur speciation in both a concentration- and time-dependent manner and strong alkylating agents cleaved polysulfur chains. Moreover, the labelling of sulfenic acids with dimedone also affected cysteine speciation, suggesting that part of the endogenous pool of products previously believed to represent sulfenic acid species may represent polysulfides. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS We highlight methodological caveats potentially arising from these pitfalls and conclude that current derivatization strategies often fail to adequately capture physiological speciation of sulfur species. LINKED ARTICLES This article is part of a themed section on Chemical Biology of Reactive Sulfur Species. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v176.4/issuetoc.
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- Virág Bogdándi
- Department of Molecular Immunology and ToxicologyNational Institute of OncologyBudapestHungary
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Molecular ToxicologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of MedicineUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, University of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
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- Department of Molecular Immunology and ToxicologyNational Institute of OncologyBudapestHungary
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of MedicineUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, University of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science Institute, Institute of Molecular BiologyUniversity of OregonEugeneORUSA
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of MedicineUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, University of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
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- Department of ChemistryJohns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreMDUSA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Larner, M.D. College of MedicineUniversity of VermontBurlingtonVTUSA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science Institute, Institute of Molecular BiologyUniversity of OregonEugeneORUSA
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of MedicineUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, University of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
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- Department of ChemistrySonoma State UniversityRohnert ParkCAUSA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Molecular ToxicologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Department of Molecular Immunology and ToxicologyNational Institute of OncologyBudapestHungary
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Madsen J, Panchal MH, Mackay RMA, Echaide M, Koster G, Aquino G, Pelizzi N, Perez-Gil J, Salomone F, Clark HW, Postle AD. Metabolism of a synthetic compared with a natural therapeutic pulmonary surfactant in adult mice. J Lipid Res 2018; 59:1880-1892. [PMID: 30108154 PMCID: PMC6168297 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m085431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 03/28/2018] [Revised: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Secreted pulmonary surfactant phosphatidylcholine (PC) has a complex intra-alveolar metabolism that involves uptake and recycling by alveolar type II epithelial cells, catabolism by alveolar macrophages, and loss up the bronchial tree. We compared the in vivo metabolism of animal-derived poractant alfa (Curosurf) and a synthetic surfactant (CHF5633) in adult male C57BL/6 mice. The mice were dosed intranasally with either surfactant (80 mg/kg body weight) containing universally 13C-labeled dipalmitoyl PC (DPPC) as a tracer. The loss of [U13C]DPPC from bronchoalveolar lavage and lung parenchyma, together with the incorporation of 13C-hydrolysis fragments into new PC molecular species, was monitored by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. The catabolism of CHF5633 was considerably delayed compared with poractant alfa, the hydrolysis products of which were cleared more rapidly. There was no selective resynthesis of DPPC and, strikingly, acyl remodeling resulted in preferential synthesis of polyunsaturated PC species. In conclusion, both surfactants were metabolized by similar pathways, but the slower catabolism of CHF5633 resulted in longer residence time in the airways and enhanced recycling of its hydrolysis products into new PC species.
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- Jens Madsen
- Child Health, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Child Health, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Child Health, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Hospital 12 de Octubre Research Institute, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Child Health, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.,National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Hospital 12 de Octubre Research Institute, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Child Health, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.,National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Child Health, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom .,National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Silva JPB, Wang J, Koster G, Rijnders G, Negrea RF, Ghica C, Sekhar KC, Moreira JA, Gomes MJM. Hysteretic Characteristics of Pulsed Laser Deposited 0.5Ba(Zr 0.2Ti 0.8)O 3-0.5(Ba 0.7Ca 0.3)TiO 3/ZnO Bilayers. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2018; 10:15240-15249. [PMID: 29630331 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b01695] [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] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
In the present work, we study the hysteretic behavior in the electric-field-dependent capacitance and the current characteristics of 0.5Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BCZT)/ZnO bilayers deposited on 0.7 wt % Nb-doped (001)-SrTiO3 (Nb:STO) substrates in a metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor (MFS) configuration. The X-ray diffraction measurements show that the BCZT and ZnO layers are highly oriented along the c-axis and have a single perovskite and wurtzite phases, respectively, whereas high-resolution transmission electron microscopy revealed very sharp Nb:STO/BCZT/ZnO interfaces. The capacitance-electric field ( C- E) characteristics of the bilayers exhibit a memory window of 47 kV/cm and a capacitance decrease of 22%, at a negative bias. The later result is explained by the formation of a depletion region in the ZnO layer. Moreover, an unusual resistive switching (RS) behavior is observed in the BCZT films, where the RS ratio can be 500 times enhanced in the BCZT/ZnO bilayers. The RS enhancement can be understood by the barrier potential profile modulation at the depletion region, in the BCZT/ZnO junction, via ferroelectric polarization switching of the BCZT layer. This work builds a bridge between the hysteretic behavior observed either in the C- E and current-electric field characteristics on a MFS structure.
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- J P B Silva
- Centre of Physics , University of Minho , Campus de Gualtar , 4710-057 Braga , Portugal
- IFIMUP and IN-Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Departamento de Física e Astronomia , Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto , Rua do Campo Alegre 687 , 4169-007 Porto , Portugal
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Inorganic Materials Science , University of Twente , P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede , The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Inorganic Materials Science , University of Twente , P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede , The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Inorganic Materials Science , University of Twente , P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede , The Netherlands
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- National Institute of Materials Physics , 405A Atomistilor , 077125 Magurele , Romania
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- National Institute of Materials Physics , 405A Atomistilor , 077125 Magurele , Romania
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- Department of Physics, School of Basic and Applied Sciences , Central University of Tamil Nadu , 610101 Thiruvarur , India
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- IFIMUP and IN-Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Departamento de Física e Astronomia , Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto , Rua do Campo Alegre 687 , 4169-007 Porto , Portugal
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- Centre of Physics , University of Minho , Campus de Gualtar , 4710-057 Braga , Portugal
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Sutton TR, Minnion M, Barbarino F, Koster G, Fernandez BO, Cumpstey AF, Wischmann P, Madhani M, Frenneaux MP, Postle AD, Cortese-Krott MM, Feelisch M. A robust and versatile mass spectrometry platform for comprehensive assessment of the thiol redox metabolome. Redox Biol 2018; 16:359-380. [PMID: 29627744 PMCID: PMC5953223 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2018.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [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: 12/20/2017] [Revised: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Several diseases are associated with perturbations in redox signaling and aberrant hydrogen sulfide metabolism, and numerous analytical methods exist for the measurement of the sulfur-containing species affected. However, uncertainty remains about their concentrations and speciation in cells/biofluids, perhaps in part due to differences in sample processing and detection principles. Using ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography in combination with electrospray-ionization tandem mass spectrometry we here outline a specific and sensitive platform for the simultaneous measurement of 12 analytes, including total and free thiols, their disulfides and sulfide in complex biological matrices such as blood, saliva and urine. Total assay run time is < 10 min, enabling high-throughput analysis. Enhanced sensitivity and avoidance of artifactual thiol oxidation is achieved by taking advantage of the rapid reaction of sulfhydryl groups with N-ethylmaleimide. We optimized the analytical procedure for detection and separation conditions, linearity and precision including three stable isotope labelled standards. Its versatility for future more comprehensive coverage of the thiol redox metabolome was demonstrated by implementing additional analytes such as methanethiol, N-acetylcysteine, and coenzyme A. Apparent plasma sulfide concentrations were found to vary substantially with sample pretreatment and nature of the alkylating agent. In addition to protein binding in the form of mixed disulfides (S-thiolation) a significant fraction of aminothiols and sulfide appears to be also non-covalently associated with proteins. Methodological accuracy was tested by comparing the plasma redox status of 10 healthy human volunteers to a well-established protocol optimized for reduced/oxidized glutathione. In a proof-of-principle study a deeper analysis of the thiol redox metabolome including free reduced/oxidized as well as bound thiols and sulfide was performed. Additional determination of acid-labile sulfide/thiols was demonstrated in human blood cells, urine and saliva. Using this simplified mass spectrometry-based workflow the thiol redox metabolome can be determined in samples from clinical and translational studies, providing a novel prognostic/diagnostic platform for patient stratification, drug monitoring, and identification of new therapeutic approaches in redox diseases.
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- T R Sutton
- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology & Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology & Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology & Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
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Wessels WA, Bollmann TRJ, Post D, Koster G, Rijnders G. Imaging pulsed laser deposition oxide growth by in situ atomic force microscopy. Rev Sci Instrum 2017; 88:123902. [PMID: 29289154 DOI: 10.1063/1.5004567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
To visualize the topography of thin oxide films during growth, thereby enabling to study its growth behavior quasi real-time, we have designed and integrated an atomic force microscope (AFM) in a pulsed laser deposition (PLD) vacuum setup. The AFM scanner and PLD target are integrated in a single support frame, combined with a fast sample transfer method, such that in situ microscopy can be utilized after subsequent deposition pulses. The in situ microscope can be operated from room temperature up to 700 °C and at (process) pressures ranging from the vacuum base pressure of 10-6 mbar up to 1 mbar, typical PLD conditions for the growth of oxide films. The performance of this instrument is demonstrated by resolving unit cell height surface steps and surface topography under typical oxide PLD growth conditions.
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- W A Wessels
- Inorganic Materials Science, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Inorganic Materials Science, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Inorganic Materials Science, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Inorganic Materials Science, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Inorganic Materials Science, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Thomas S, Kuiper B, Hu J, Smit J, Liao Z, Zhong Z, Rijnders G, Vailionis A, Wu R, Koster G, Xia J. Localized Control of Curie Temperature in Perovskite Oxide Film by Capping-Layer-Induced Octahedral Distortion. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 119:177203. [PMID: 29219472 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.177203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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With reduced dimensionality, it is often easier to modify the properties of ultrathin films than their bulk counterparts. Strain engineering, usually achieved by choosing appropriate substrates, has been proven effective in controlling the properties of perovskite oxide films. An emerging alternative route for developing new multifunctional perovskite is by modification of the oxygen octahedral structure. Here we report the control of structural oxygen octahedral rotation in ultrathin perovskite SrRuO_{3} films by the deposition of a SrTiO_{3} capping layer, which can be lithographically patterned to achieve local control. Using a scanning Sagnac magnetic microscope, we show an increase in the Curie temperature of SrRuO_{3} due to the suppression octahedral rotations revealed by the synchrotron x-ray diffraction. This capping-layer-based technique may open new possibilities for developing functional oxide materials.
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- S Thomas
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500AE Enschede, Netherlands
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
- College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500AE Enschede, Netherlands
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices & Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500AE Enschede, Netherlands
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500AE Enschede, Netherlands
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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Bowden JA, Heckert A, Ulmer CZ, Jones CM, Koelmel JP, Abdullah L, Ahonen L, Alnouti Y, Armando AM, Asara JM, Bamba T, Barr JR, Bergquist J, Borchers CH, Brandsma J, Breitkopf SB, Cajka T, Cazenave-Gassiot A, Checa A, Cinel MA, Colas RA, Cremers S, Dennis EA, Evans JE, Fauland A, Fiehn O, Gardner MS, Garrett TJ, Gotlinger KH, Han J, Huang Y, Neo AH, Hyötyläinen T, Izumi Y, Jiang H, Jiang H, Jiang J, Kachman M, Kiyonami R, Klavins K, Klose C, Köfeler HC, Kolmert J, Koal T, Koster G, Kuklenyik Z, Kurland IJ, Leadley M, Lin K, Maddipati KR, McDougall D, Meikle PJ, Mellett NA, Monnin C, Moseley MA, Nandakumar R, Oresic M, Patterson R, Peake D, Pierce JS, Post M, Postle AD, Pugh R, Qiu Y, Quehenberger O, Ramrup P, Rees J, Rembiesa B, Reynaud D, Roth MR, Sales S, Schuhmann K, Schwartzman ML, Serhan CN, Shevchenko A, Somerville SE, St John-Williams L, Surma MA, Takeda H, Thakare R, Thompson JW, Torta F, Triebl A, Trötzmüller M, Ubhayasekera SJK, Vuckovic D, Weir JM, Welti R, Wenk MR, Wheelock CE, Yao L, Yuan M, Zhao XH, Zhou S. Harmonizing lipidomics: NIST interlaboratory comparison exercise for lipidomics using SRM 1950-Metabolites in Frozen Human Plasma. J Lipid Res 2017; 58:2275-2288. [PMID: 28986437 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m079012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 260] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.1] [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: 07/08/2017] [Revised: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
As the lipidomics field continues to advance, self-evaluation within the community is critical. Here, we performed an interlaboratory comparison exercise for lipidomics using Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1950-Metabolites in Frozen Human Plasma, a commercially available reference material. The interlaboratory study comprised 31 diverse laboratories, with each laboratory using a different lipidomics workflow. A total of 1,527 unique lipids were measured across all laboratories and consensus location estimates and associated uncertainties were determined for 339 of these lipids measured at the sum composition level by five or more participating laboratories. These evaluated lipids detected in SRM 1950 serve as community-wide benchmarks for intra- and interlaboratory quality control and method validation. These analyses were performed using nonstandardized laboratory-independent workflows. The consensus locations were also compared with a previous examination of SRM 1950 by the LIPID MAPS consortium. While the central theme of the interlaboratory study was to provide values to help harmonize lipids, lipid mediators, and precursor measurements across the community, it was also initiated to stimulate a discussion regarding areas in need of improvement.
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- John A Bowden
- Marine Biochemical Sciences Group, Chemical Sciences Division, Hollings Marine Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Charleston, SC
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- Statistical Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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- Marine Biochemical Sciences Group, Chemical Sciences Division, Hollings Marine Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Charleston, SC
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- Marine Biochemical Sciences Group, Chemical Sciences Division, Hollings Marine Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Charleston, SC
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Division of Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Division of Metabolomics, Research Center for Transomics Medicine, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.,Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Proteomics Centre, Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Division of Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- National Institutes of Health West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, CA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Singapore Lipidomic Incubator (SLING), Life Sciences Institute, Singapore
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- Division of Physiological Chemistry 2, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Biomarker Core Laboratory, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Division of Physiological Chemistry 2, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- National Institutes of Health West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, CA.,Biochemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Singapore Lipidomic Incubator (SLING), Life Sciences Institute, Singapore
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- Division of Metabolomics, Research Center for Transomics Medicine, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Biomarker Core Laboratory, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Metabolomics Core, BRCF, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Core Facility for Mass Spectrometry, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Division of Physiological Chemistry 2, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Faculty of Medicine, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA
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- Stable Isotope and Metabolomics Core Facility, Diabetes Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
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- Analytical Facility of Bioactive Molecules, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Lipidomics Core Facility and Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource, Levine Science Research Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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- Biomarker Core Laboratory, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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- Analytical Facility of Bioactive Molecules, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Environmental Specimen Bank Group, Hollings Marine Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Charleston, SC
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- Stable Isotope and Metabolomics Core Facility, Diabetes Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
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- Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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- Analytical Facility of Bioactive Molecules, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Biology, Kansas Lipidomics Research Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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- Hollings Marine Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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- Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource, Levine Science Research Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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- Division of Metabolomics, Research Center for Transomics Medicine, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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- Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource, Levine Science Research Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Singapore Lipidomic Incubator (SLING), Life Sciences Institute, Singapore
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- Core Facility for Mass Spectrometry, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Core Facility for Mass Spectrometry, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Biology, Kansas Lipidomics Research Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
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- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Singapore Lipidomic Incubator (SLING), Life Sciences Institute, Singapore
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- Division of Physiological Chemistry 2, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Biology, Kansas Lipidomics Research Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
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- Division of Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Stable Isotope and Metabolomics Core Facility, Diabetes Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
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- Lipidomics Core Facility and Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
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Thakuria L, Romano R, Goss V, Koster G, Townsend P, Popov A, de Robertis F, Pitt T, Carby M, Simon A, Marczin N, Griffiths M, Postle A, Reed A. Surfactant Metabolism During Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion. J Heart Lung Transplant 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2017.01.229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Brandsma J, Bailey AP, Koster G, Gould AP, Postle AD. Stable isotope analysis of dynamic lipidomics. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2017; 1862:792-796. [PMID: 28302590 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2017.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [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: 12/16/2016] [Revised: 03/07/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Metabolic pathway flux is a fundamental element of biological activity, which can be quantified using a variety of mass spectrometric techniques to monitor incorporation of stable isotope-labelled substrates into metabolic products. This article contrasts developments in electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) for the measurement of lipid metabolism with more established gas chromatography mass spectrometry and isotope ratio mass spectrometry methodologies. ESI-MS combined with diagnostic tandem MS/MS scans permits the sensitive and specific analysis of stable isotope-labelled substrates into intact lipid molecular species without the requirement for lipid hydrolysis and derivatisation. Such dynamic lipidomic methodologies using non-toxic stable isotopes can be readily applied to quantify lipid metabolic fluxes in clinical and metabolic studies in vivo. However, a significant current limitation is the absence of appropriate software to generate kinetic models of substrate incorporation into multiple products in the time domain. Finally, we discuss the future potential of stable isotope-mass spectrometry imaging to quantify the location as well as the extent of lipid synthesis. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: BBALIP_Lipidomics Opinion Articles edited by Sepp Kohlwein.
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- Joost Brandsma
- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London, United Kingdom
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Unit in Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
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- The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London, United Kingdom
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
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Smith WS, Baker EJ, Holmes SE, Koster G, Hunt AN, Johnston DA, Flavell SU, Flavell DJ. Membrane cholesterol is essential for triterpenoid saponin augmentation of a saporin-based immunotoxin directed against CD19 on human lymphoma cells. Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr 2017; 1859:993-1007. [PMID: 28235471 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Revised: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Triterpenoid saponins from Saponinum Album (SA) exert potent lytic effects on eukaryotic cell plasma membranes and, when used at sub-lytic concentrations, significantly augment the cytotoxicity of saporin-based immunotoxins (IT). To help elucidate the mechanism(s) behind these two phenomena we investigated the role of cholesterol to both. Human Daudi lymphoma cells were lipid deprived using a combination of three different approaches. Following treatment, the total cellular lipid content was analyzed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) and plasma membrane (PM) cholesterol content measured using the lipophilic fluorescent probe NR12S. Maximal lipid deprivation of cells resulted in a complete loss of sensitivity to lysis by SA. Similarly augmentation of the anti-CD19 immunotoxin (IT) BU12-SAPORIN by SA was lost but without a concomitant loss of intrinsic IT cytotoxicity. The lytic activity of SA was restored following incubation of lipid deprived Daudi cells with Synthecol or LDL. The augmentative effect of SA on IT cytotoxicity for Daudi cells was restored following repletion of PM cholesterol levels with LDL. NR12S fluorescence and ESI-MS analysis of cellular lipids demonstrated that restoration of SA lytic activity by Synthecol was entirely due to increased PM cholesterol levels. Restoration of cellular and PM cholesterol levels by LDL also restored the augmentative effect of SA for IT, an effect associated with repletion of PM cholesterol with minor changes in some phospholipid species. These results indicate that the lytic and IT augmentative properties of SA are cholesterol-dependent in contrast to intrinsic IT cytotoxicity that is at least partially cholesterol independent.
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- Wendy S Smith
- The Simon Flavell Leukaemia Research Laboratory, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- The Simon Flavell Leukaemia Research Laboratory, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire SO16 6YD, United Kingdom; Human Development and Health Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- The Simon Flavell Leukaemia Research Laboratory, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, UHS, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom; Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- Biomedical Imaging Unit, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- The Simon Flavell Leukaemia Research Laboratory, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- The Simon Flavell Leukaemia Research Laboratory, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire SO16 6YD, United Kingdom.
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Dantz M, Pelliciari J, Samal D, Bisogni V, Huang Y, Olalde-Velasco P, Strocov VN, Koster G, Schmitt T. Quenched Magnon excitations by oxygen sublattice reconstruction in (SrCuO2)n/(SrTiO3)2 superlattices. Sci Rep 2016; 6:32896. [PMID: 27616448 PMCID: PMC5018731 DOI: 10.1038/srep32896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The recently discovered structural reconstruction in the cuprate superlattice (SrCuO2)n/(SrTiO3)2 has been investigated across the critical value of n = 5 using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). We find that at the critical value of n, the cuprate layer remains largely in the bulk-like two-dimensional structure with a minority of Cu plaquettes being reconstructed. The partial reconstruction leads to quenching of the magnons starting at the Γ-point due to the minority plaquettes acting as scattering points. Although comparable in relative abundance, the doped charge impurities in electron-doped cuprate superconductors do not show this quenching of magnetic excitations.
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- M. Dantz
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Post Office Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Post Office Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Liao Z, Huijben M, Zhong Z, Gauquelin N, Macke S, Green RJ, Van Aert S, Verbeeck J, Van Tendeloo G, Held K, Sawatzky GA, Koster G, Rijnders G. Controlled lateral anisotropy in correlated manganite heterostructures by interface-engineered oxygen octahedral coupling. Nature Mater 2016; 15:425-31. [PMID: 26950593 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Sebastián M, Smith AF, González JM, Fredricks HF, Van Mooy B, Koblížek M, Brandsma J, Koster G, Mestre M, Mostajir B, Pitta P, Postle AD, Sánchez P, Gasol JM, Scanlan DJ, Chen Y. Lipid remodelling is a widespread strategy in marine heterotrophic bacteria upon phosphorus deficiency. ISME J 2016; 10:968-78. [PMID: 26565724 PMCID: PMC4796936 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Upon phosphorus (P) deficiency, marine phytoplankton reduce their requirements for P by replacing membrane phospholipids with alternative non-phosphorus lipids. It was very recently demonstrated that a SAR11 isolate also shares this capability when phosphate starved in culture. Yet, the extent to which this process occurs in other marine heterotrophic bacteria and in the natural environment is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the substitution of membrane phospholipids for a variety of non-phosphorus lipids is a conserved response to P deficiency among phylogenetically diverse marine heterotrophic bacteria, including members of the Alphaproteobacteria and Flavobacteria. By deletion mutagenesis and complementation in the model marine bacterium Phaeobacter sp. MED193 and heterologous expression in recombinant Escherichia coli, we confirm the roles of a phospholipase C (PlcP) and a glycosyltransferase in lipid remodelling. Analyses of the Global Ocean Sampling and Tara Oceans metagenome data sets demonstrate that PlcP is particularly abundant in areas characterized by low phosphate concentrations. Furthermore, we show that lipid remodelling occurs seasonally and responds to changing nutrient conditions in natural microbial communities from the Mediterranean Sea. Together, our results point to the key role of lipid substitution as an adaptive strategy enabling heterotrophic bacteria to thrive in the vast P-depleted areas of the ocean.
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- Marta Sebastián
- Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- Institute of Microbiology, Center Algatech, Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center of Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation (MARBEC), UMR 9190, CNRS – Université de Montpellier – IRD – IFREMER, Place Eugène Bataillon, Université de Montpellier, Case 93, Montpellier, France
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Oceanography Institute, Heraklion, Greece
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Bailey AP, Koster G, Guillermier C, Hirst EMA, MacRae JI, Lechene CP, Postle AD, Gould AP. Antioxidant Role for Lipid Droplets in a Stem Cell Niche of Drosophila. Cell 2016; 163:340-53. [PMID: 26451484 PMCID: PMC4601084 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 387] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Revised: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 08/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Stem cells reside in specialized microenvironments known as niches. During Drosophila development, glial cells provide a niche that sustains the proliferation of neural stem cells (neuroblasts) during starvation. We now find that the glial cell niche also preserves neuroblast proliferation under conditions of hypoxia and oxidative stress. Lipid droplets that form in niche glia during oxidative stress limit the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and inhibit the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). These droplets protect glia and also neuroblasts from peroxidation chain reactions that can damage many types of macromolecules. The underlying antioxidant mechanism involves diverting PUFAs, including diet-derived linoleic acid, away from membranes to the core of lipid droplets, where they are less vulnerable to peroxidation. This study reveals an antioxidant role for lipid droplets that could be relevant in many different biological contexts. Oxidative stress stimulates lipid droplet biosynthesis in a neural stem cell niche Lipid droplets protect niche and neural stem cells from damaging PUFA peroxidation PUFAs are less vulnerable to peroxidation in lipid droplets than in cell membranes
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- Andrew P Bailey
- The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
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- National Resource for Imaging Mass Spectroscopy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
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- National Resource for Imaging Mass Spectroscopy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK.
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Chen YZ, Trier F, Wijnands T, Green RJ, Gauquelin N, Egoavil R, Christensen DV, Koster G, Huijben M, Bovet N, Macke S, He F, Sutarto R, Andersen NH, Sulpizio JA, Honig M, Prawiroatmodjo GEDK, Jespersen TS, Linderoth S, Ilani S, Verbeeck J, Van Tendeloo G, Rijnders G, Sawatzky GA, Pryds N. Extreme mobility enhancement of two-dimensional electron gases at oxide interfaces by charge-transfer-induced modulation doping. Nat Mater 2015; 14:801-806. [PMID: 26030303 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) formed at the interface of insulating complex oxides promise the development of all-oxide electronic devices. These 2DEGs involve many-body interactions that give rise to a variety of physical phenomena such as superconductivity, magnetism, tunable metal-insulator transitions and phase separation. Increasing the mobility of the 2DEG, however, remains a major challenge. Here, we show that the electron mobility is enhanced by more than two orders of magnitude by inserting a single-unit-cell insulating layer of polar La(1-x)Sr(x)MnO3 (x = 0, 1/8, and 1/3) at the interface between disordered LaAlO3 and crystalline SrTiO3 produced at room temperature. Resonant X-ray spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy show that the manganite layer undergoes unambiguous electronic reconstruction, leading to modulation doping of such atomically engineered complex oxide heterointerfaces. At low temperatures, the modulation-doped 2DEG exhibits Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and fingerprints of the quantum Hall effect, demonstrating unprecedented high mobility and low electron density.
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- Y Z Chen
- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- 1] Quantum Matter Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada [2] Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzerstraße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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- EMAT, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- EMAT, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- 1] Quantum Matter Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada [2] Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 2V3, Canada
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- Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 2V3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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- Center for Quantum devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Quantum devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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- EMAT, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- EMAT, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Quantum Matter Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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Jones KDJ, Ali R, Khasira MA, Odera D, West AL, Koster G, Akomo P, Talbert AWA, Goss VM, Ngari M, Thitiri J, Ndoro S, Knight MAG, Omollo K, Ndungu A, Mulongo MM, Bahwere P, Fegan G, Warner JO, Postle AD, Collins S, Calder PC, Berkley JA. Ready-to-use therapeutic food with elevated n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid content, with or without fish oil, to treat severe acute malnutrition: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Med 2015; 13:93. [PMID: 25902844 PMCID: PMC4407555 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0315-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 03/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) are lipid-based pastes widely used in the treatment of acute malnutrition. Current specifications for RUTF permit a high n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content and low n-3 PUFA, with no stipulated requirements for preformed long-chain n-3 PUFA. The objective of this study was to develop an RUTF with elevated short-chain n-3 PUFA and measure its impact, with and without fish oil supplementation, on children's PUFA status during treatment of severe acute malnutrition. METHODS This randomized controlled trial in children with severe acute malnutrition in rural Kenya included 60 children aged 6 to 50 months who were randomized to receive i) RUTF with standard composition; ii) RUTF with elevated short chain n-3 PUFA; or iii) RUTF with elevated short chain n-3 PUFA plus fish oil capsules. Participants were followed-up for 3 months. The primary outcome was erythrocyte PUFA composition. RESULTS Erythrocyte docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content declined from baseline in the two arms not receiving fish oil. Erythrocyte long-chain n-3 PUFA content following treatment was significantly higher for participants in the arm receiving fish oil than for those in the arms receiving RUTF with elevated short chain n-3 PUFA or standard RUTF alone: 3 months after enrollment, DHA content was 6.3% (interquartile range 6.0-7.3), 4.5% (3.9-4.9), and 3.9% (2.4-5.7) of total erythrocyte fatty acids (P <0.001), respectively, while eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) content was 2.0% (1.5-2.6), 0.7% (0.6-0.8), and 0.4% (0.3-0.5) (P <0.001). RUTF with elevated short chain n-3 PUFA and fish oil capsules were acceptable to participants and carers, and there were no significant differences in safety outcomes. CONCLUSIONS PUFA requirements of children with SAM are not met by current formulations of RUTF, or by an RUTF with elevated short-chain n-3 PUFA without additional preformed long-chain n-3 PUFA. Clinical and growth implications of revised formulations need to be addressed in large clinical trials. TRIAL REGISTRATION Clinicaltrials.gov NCT01593969. Registered 4 May 2012.
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- Kelsey D J Jones
- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
- Centre for Global Health Research and Section of Paediatrics, Imperial College, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hosptial, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hosptial, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
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- Valid Nutrition, Cuibín Farm, Derry Duff, Bantry, Co., Cork, Republic of Ireland.
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- Southampton National Institute of Health Research Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton General Hosptial, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
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- Kilifi County Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
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- Valid International, 35 Leopold Street, Oxford, OX4 1TW, UK.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK.
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- Centre for Global Health Research and Section of Paediatrics, Imperial College, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hosptial, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
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- Valid Nutrition, Cuibín Farm, Derry Duff, Bantry, Co., Cork, Republic of Ireland.
- Valid International, 35 Leopold Street, Oxford, OX4 1TW, UK.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hosptial, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
- National Institute of Health Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton General Hosptial, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, 230-80108, Kenya.
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK.
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Kleibeuker JE, Zhong Z, Nishikawa H, Gabel J, Müller A, Pfaff F, Sing M, Held K, Claessen R, Koster G, Rijnders G. Electronic reconstruction at the isopolar LaTiO(3)/LaFeO(3) interface: an X-ray photoemission and density-functional theory study. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 113:237402. [PMID: 25526156 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.237402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We report the formation of a nonmagnetic band insulator at the isopolar interface between the antiferromagnetic Mott-Hubbard insulator LaTiO_{3} and the antiferromagnetic charge transfer insulator LaFeO_{3}. By density-functional theory calculations, we find that the formation of this interface state is driven by the combination of O band alignment and crystal field splitting energy of the t_{2g} and e_{g} bands. As a result of these two driving forces, the Fe 3d bands rearrange and electrons are transferred from Ti to Fe. This picture is supported by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, which confirms the rearrangement of the Fe 3d bands and reveals an unprecedented charge transfer up to 1.2±0.2 e^{-}/interface unit cell in our LaTiO_{3}/LaFeO_{3} heterostructures.
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- J E Kleibeuker
- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands and Physikalisches Institut, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, Kinokawa 649-6493, Japan
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- Physikalisches Institut, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Physikalisches Institut, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands
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Wessels WA, Broekmaat JJ, Beerends RJL, Koster G, Rijnders G. Fast and gentle side approach for atomic force microscopy. Rev Sci Instrum 2013; 84:123704. [PMID: 24387438 DOI: 10.1063/1.4847055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Atomic force microscopy is one of the most popular imaging tools with atomic resolution in different research fields. Here, a fast and gentle side approach for atomic force microscopy is proposed to image the same surface location and to reduce the time delay between modification and imaging without significant tip degradation. This reproducible approach to image the same surface location using atomic force microscopy shortly after, for example, any biological, chemical, or physical modification on a geometrically separated position has the potential to become widely used.
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- W A Wessels
- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Philips Innovation Services, High Tech Campus 7, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Fernández J, Caccin P, Koster G, Lomonte B, Gutiérrez JM, Montecucco C, Postle AD. Muscle phospholipid hydrolysis byBothrops asperAsp49 and Lys49 phospholipase A2myotoxins - distinct mechanisms of action. FEBS J 2013; 280:3878-86. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.12386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Revised: 06/06/2013] [Accepted: 06/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Julián Fernández
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and National Research Council Institute of Neuroscience; University of Padova; Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and National Research Council Institute of Neuroscience; University of Padova; Italy
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- National Institute for Health Research Respiratory Medicine Biomedical Research Unit; University Hospitals Southampton; UK
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- Instituto Clodomiro Picado; Facultad de Microbiología; Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa Rica
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- Instituto Clodomiro Picado; Facultad de Microbiología; Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa Rica
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and National Research Council Institute of Neuroscience; University of Padova; Italy
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Sewell GW, Hannun YA, Han X, Koster G, Bielawski J, Goss V, Smith PJ, Rahman FZ, Vega R, Bloom SL, Walker AP, Postle AD, Segal AW. Lipidomic profiling in Crohn's disease: abnormalities in phosphatidylinositols, with preservation of ceramide, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine composition. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2012; 44:1839-46. [PMID: 22728312 PMCID: PMC3778899 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2012.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 03/02/2012] [Revised: 06/08/2012] [Accepted: 06/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory condition largely affecting the terminal ileum and large bowel. A contributing cause is the failure of an adequate acute inflammatory response as a result of impaired secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines by macrophages. This defective secretion arises from aberrant vesicle trafficking, misdirecting the cytokines to lysosomal degradation. Aberrant intestinal permeability is also well-established in Crohn's disease. Both the disordered vesicle trafficking and increased bowel permeability could result from abnormal lipid composition. We thus measured the sphingo- and phospholipid composition of macrophages, using mass spectrometry and stable isotope labelling approaches. Stimulation of macrophages with heat-killed Escherichia coli resulted in three main changes; a significant reduction in the amount of individual ceramide species, an altered composition of phosphatidylcholine, and an increased rate of phosphatidylcholine synthesis in macrophages. These changes were observed in macrophages from both healthy control individuals and patients with Crohn's disease. The only difference detected between control and Crohn's disease macrophages was a reduced proportion of newly-synthesised phosphatidylinositol 16:0/18:1 over a defined time period. Shotgun lipidomics analysis of macroscopically non-inflamed ileal biopsies showed a significant decrease in this same lipid species with overall preservation of sphingolipid, phospholipid and cholesterol composition.
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Key Words
- cct, phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase
- cd, crohn's disease
- gwas, genome-wide association study
- hc, healthycontrol
- hkec, heat-killed escherichia coli
- pa, phosphatidic acid
- pc, phosphatidylcholine
- pi, phosphatidylinositol
- ps, phosphatidylserine
- tnf, tumor necrosis factor
- crohn's disease
- macrophage
- lipids
- ceramide
- sphingolipid
- phospholipid
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- Gavin W. Sewell
- Division of Medicine, UCL, 5 University Street, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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- Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Orlando, FL, United States
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- Division of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity, University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Mailpoint 803, South Block, Tremona Road, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Division of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity, University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Mailpoint 803, South Block, Tremona Road, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Division of Medicine, UCL, 5 University Street, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Medicine, UCL, 5 University Street, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity, University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Mailpoint 803, South Block, Tremona Road, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Division of Medicine, UCL, 5 University Street, London, United Kingdom
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Garner K, Hunt AN, Koster G, Somerharju P, Groves E, Li M, Raghu P, Holic R, Cockcroft S. Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein, cytoplasmic 1 (PITPNC1) binds and transfers phosphatidic acid. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:32263-76. [PMID: 22822086 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.375840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins (PITPs) are versatile proteins required for signal transduction and membrane traffic. The best characterized mammalian PITPs are the Class I PITPs, PITPα (PITPNA) and PITPβ (PITPNB), which are single domain proteins with a hydrophobic cavity that binds a phosphatidylinositol (PI) or phosphatidylcholine molecule. In this study, we report the lipid binding properties of an uncharacterized soluble PITP, phosphatidylinositol transfer protein, cytoplasmic 1 (PITPNC1) (alternative name, RdgBβ), of the Class II family. We show that the lipid binding properties of this protein are distinct to Class I PITPs because, besides PI, RdgBβ binds and transfers phosphatidic acid (PA) but hardly binds phosphatidylcholine. RdgBβ when purified from Escherichia coli is preloaded with PA and phosphatidylglycerol. When RdgBβ was incubated with permeabilized HL60 cells, phosphatidylglycerol was released, and PA and PI were now incorporated into RdgBβ. After an increase in PA levels following activation of endogenous phospholipase D or after addition of bacterial phospholipase D, binding of PA to RdgBβ was greater at the expense of PI binding. We propose that RdgBβ, when containing PA, regulates an effector protein or can facilitate lipid transfer between membrane compartments.
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- Kathryn Garner
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London WC1E 6JJ, United Kingdom
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Postle AD, Henderson NG, Koster G, Clark HW, Hunt AN. Analysis of lung surfactant phosphatidylcholine metabolism in transgenic mice using stable isotopes. Chem Phys Lipids 2011; 164:549-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2011.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2011] [Revised: 04/09/2011] [Accepted: 04/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Pynn CJ, Henderson NG, Clark H, Koster G, Bernhard W, Postle AD. Specificity and rate of human and mouse liver and plasma phosphatidylcholine synthesis analyzed in vivo. J Lipid Res 2010; 52:399-407. [PMID: 21068006 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.d011916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Phosphatidylcholine (PC) synthesis by the direct cytidine diphosphate choline (CDP-choline) pathway in rat liver generates predominantly mono- and di-unsaturated molecular species, while polyunsaturated PC species are synthesized largely by the phosphatidylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PEMT) pathway. Although altered PC synthesis has been suggested to contribute to development of hepatocarcinoma and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, analysis of the specificity of hepatic PC metabolism in human patients has been limited by the lack of sensitive and safe methodologies. Here we incorporated a deuterated methyl-D(9)-labled choline chloride, to quantify biosynthesis fluxes through both of the PC synthetic pathways in vivo in human volunteers and compared these fluxes with those in mice. Rates and molecular specificities of label incorporated into mouse liver and plasma PC were very similar and strongly suggest that label incorporation into human plasma PC can provide a direct measure of hepatic PC synthesis in human subjects. Importantly, we demonstrate for the first time that the PEMT pathway in human liver is selective for polyunsaturated PC species, especially those containing docosahexaenoic acid. Finally, we present a multiple isotopomer distribution analysis approach, based on transfer of deuterated methyl groups to S-adenosylmethionine and subsequent sequential methylations of PE, to quantify absolute flux rates through the PEMT pathway that are applicable to studies of liver dysfunction in clinical studies.
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- Christopher J Pynn
- Department of Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany
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Pentcheva R, Huijben M, Otte K, Pickett WE, Kleibeuker JE, Huijben J, Boschker H, Kockmann D, Siemons W, Koster G, Zandvliet HJW, Rijnders G, Blank DHA, Hilgenkamp H, Brinkman A. Parallel electron-hole bilayer conductivity from electronic interface reconstruction. Phys Rev Lett 2010; 104:166804. [PMID: 20482074 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.166804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The perovskite SrTiO3-LaAlO3 structure has advanced to a model system to investigate the rich electronic phenomena arising at polar oxide interfaces. Using first principles calculations and transport measurements we demonstrate that an additional SrTiO3 capping layer prevents atomic reconstruction at the LaAlO3 surface and triggers the electronic reconstruction at a significantly lower LaAlO3 film thickness than for the uncapped systems. Combined theoretical and experimental evidence (from magnetotransport and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy) suggests two spatially separated sheets with electron and hole carriers, that are as close as 1 nm.
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- R Pentcheva
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Munich, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Hessvik NP, Bakke SS, Fredriksson K, Boekschoten MV, Fjørkenstad A, Koster G, Hesselink MK, Kersten S, Kase ET, Rustan AC, Thoresen GH. Metabolic switching of human myotubes is improved by n-3 fatty acids. J Lipid Res 2010; 51:2090-104. [PMID: 20363834 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m003319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The aim of the present study was to examine whether pretreatment with different fatty acids, as well as the liver X receptor (LXR) agonist T0901317, could modify metabolic switching of human myotubes. The n-3 FA eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) increased suppressibility, the ability of glucose to suppress FA oxidation. Substrate-regulated flexibility, the ability to increase FA oxidation when changing from a high glucose, low fatty acid condition ("fed") to a high fatty acid, low glucose ("fasted") condition, was increased by EPA and other n-3 FAs. Adaptability, the capacity to increase FA oxidation with increasing FA availability, was enhanced after pretreatment with EPA, linoleic acid (LA), and palmitic acid (PA). T0901317 counteracted the effect of EPA on suppressibility and adaptability, but it did not affect these parameters alone. EPA per se accumulated less, however, EPA, LA, oleic acid, and T0901317 treatment increased the number of lipid droplets (LD) in myotubes. LD volume and intensity, as well as mitochondrial mass, were independent of FA pretreatment. Microarray analysis showed that EPA regulated more genes than the other FAs and that specific pathways involved in carbohydrate metabolism were induced only by EPA. The present study suggests a favorable effect of n-3 FAs on skeletal muscle metabolic switching and glucose utilization.
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- N P Hessvik
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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Paoli M, Rigoni M, Koster G, Rossetto O, Montecucco C, Postle AD. Mass spectrometry analysis of the phospholipase A(2) activity of snake pre-synaptic neurotoxins in cultured neurons. J Neurochem 2009; 111:737-44. [PMID: 19712054 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.06365.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Snake pre-synaptic phospholipase A(2) neurotoxins paralyse the neuromuscular junction by releasing phospholipid hydrolysis products that alter curvature and permeability of the pre-synaptic membrane. Here, we report results deriving from the first chemical analysis of the action of these neurotoxic phospholipases in neurons, made possible by the use of high sensitivity mass spectrometry. The time-course of the phospholipase A(2) activity (PLA(2)) hydrolysis of notexin, beta-bungarotoxin, taipoxin and textilotoxin acting in cultured neurons was determined. At variance from their enzymatic activities in vitro, these neurotoxins display comparable kinetics of lysophospholipid release in neurons, reconciling the large discrepancy between their in vivo toxicities and their in vitro enzymatic activities. The ratios of the lyso derivatives of phosphatidyl choline, ethanolamine and serine obtained here together with the known distribution of these phospholipids among cell membranes, suggest that most PLA(2) hydrolysis takes place on the cell surface. Although these toxins were recently shown to enter neurons, their intracellular hydrolytic action and the activation of intracellular PLA(2)s appear to contribute little, if any, to the phospholipid hydrolysis measured here.
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- Marco Paoli
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and CNR Institute of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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Luce S, Rau G, Koster G, Peter CS, Postle AD, Bernhard W. Developmental physiology of human surfactant phosphatidylcholine – Intrauterine changes relative to prenatal glucocorticoids (PNG), respiratory distress (RDS) and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Z Geburtshilfe Neonatol 2009. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1222842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Koster G, Brinkman A, Hilgenkamp H, Rijnders AJHM, Blank DHA. High-T(c) superconducting thin films with composition control on a sub-unit cell level; the effect of the polar nature of the cuprates. J Phys Condens Matter 2008; 20:264007. [PMID: 21694341 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/26/264007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Inspired by the work of Ohtomo and Hwang in 2004, we shed new light on thin films of layered cuprate high-T(c) superconductors (HTS). In principle all HTS materials consist of charged perovskite-like layers which in thin films can lead to polar discontinuities at the interfaces of different materials. The resulting charge redistribution has to occur but we expect it to be far more complex than in the LaAlO(3)/SrTiO(3) system since copper can be multivalent. This makes it hard to predict what will happen in terms of transport or even magnetic properties compared to the 'simple' insulator LaAlO(3). Nevertheless, we point out that the picture of systems of charged layers is important and necessary to fully understand heterostructures of these complex materials.
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- G Koster
- MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology and Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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Xia J, Schemm E, Deutscher G, Kivelson SA, Bonn DA, Hardy WN, Liang R, Siemons W, Koster G, Fejer MM, Kapitulnik A. Polar Kerr-effect measurements of the high-temperature YBa2Cu3O6+x superconductor: evidence for broken symmetry near the pseudogap temperature. Phys Rev Lett 2008; 100:127002. [PMID: 18517903 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.127002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The polar Kerr effect in the high-T_(c) superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x was measured at zero magnetic field with high precision using a cyogenic Sagnac fiber interferometer. We observed nonzero Kerr rotations of order approximately 1 microrad appearing near the pseudogap temperature T(*) and marking what appears to be a true phase transition. Anomalous magnetic behavior in magnetic-field training of the effect suggests that time reversal symmetry is already broken above room temperature.
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- Jing Xia
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Davis B, Koster G, Douet LJ, Scigelova M, Woffendin G, Ward JM, Smith A, Humphries J, Burnand KG, Macphee CH, Postle AD. Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Identifies Substrates and Products of Lipoprotein-associated Phospholipase A2 in Oxidized Human Low Density Lipoprotein. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:6428-37. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m709970200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hunt AN, Macken M, Koster G, Kohler JA, Postle AD. Diclofenac mediated derangement of neuroblastoma cell lipidomic profiles is accompanied by increased phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 48:74-87. [DOI: 10.1016/j.advenzreg.2007.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Bernhard W, Schmiedl A, Koster G, Orgeig S, Acevedo C, Poets CF, Postle AD. Developmental changes in rat surfactant lipidomics in the context of species variability. Pediatr Pulmonol 2007; 42:794-804. [PMID: 17659602 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Lung surfactant comprises mainly phosphatidylcholine (PC) species together with phosphatidylglycerols and surfactant proteins (SP) SP-A to -D. Changes in the concentrations of its principal components dipalmitoyl-PC, palmitoylmyristoyl-PC, palmitoylpalmitoleoyl-PC relative to developmental, structural and physiological differences are only partially understood. Particularly, their attribution to differences in air-liquid interface curvature, compared with dynamic parameters, such as respiratory rate, are controversial. We postulated that during alveolarization the changes in these principal PC components of surfactant differ from those in other phospholipid parameters, and that across endothermic vertebrates their concentrations are related to lung physiology rather than structure. We therefore investigated in rats from postnatal day (d)1 to d42 the pattern of surfactant phospholipids relative to alveolarization (d4-d14), and we discuss these changes in terms of molecular adaptation to pulmonary structure or physiology. Contrary to mammals with advanced alveolarization and increased respiratory rate (RR) at term, concentrations of dipalmitoyl-PC (49-52%) and palmitoylmyristoyl-PC (7-9%) in lung lavage fluid were identical at d1 and d42. At d7-d14, when in rats RR is increased, palmitoyl-myristoyl-PC transiently increased by 2.5- to 3.9-fold at the expense of dipalmitoyl-PC (-32% to 34%) and palmitoyl-palmitoleoyl-PC (-16%). Other lipidomic changes followed essentially different patterns of increase or decrease. Palmitoyl-myristoyl-PC was increased in large aggregates suggesting that it is an integral component of active surfactant. In the overall context of vertebrates, irrespective of age and lung structure, fractions of palmitoyl-myristoyl-PC, dipalmitoyl-PC and palmitoyl-palmitoleoyl-PC correlate with differences in RR rather than alveolar curvature. In adult mammals, however, only concentrations of palmitoyl-palmitoleoyl-PC correlate with RR.
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- Wolfgang Bernhard
- Department of Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany.
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Holt HB, Wild SH, Postle AD, Zhang J, Koster G, Umpleby M, Shojaee-Moradie F, Dewbury K, Wood PJ, Phillips DI, Byrne CD. Cortisol clearance and associations with insulin sensitivity, body fat and fatty liver in middle-aged men. Diabetologia 2007; 50:1024-32. [PMID: 17370058 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-007-0629-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 11/23/2006] [Accepted: 01/23/2007] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS The regulation of cortisol metabolism in vivo is not well understood. We evaluated the relationship between cortisol metabolism and insulin sensitivity, adjusting for total and regional fat content and for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-nine middle-aged healthy men with a wide range of BMI were recruited. We measured fat content by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), liver fat by ultrasound and MRI, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis by adrenal response to ACTH(1-24), unconjugated urinary cortisol excretion, corticosteroid-binding globulin, and cortisol clearance by MS. We assessed insulin sensitivity by hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp and by OGTT. RESULTS Cortisol clearance was strongly inversely correlated with insulin sensitivity (M value) (r = -0.61, p = 0.002). Cortisol clearance was increased in people with fatty liver compared with those without (mean+/-SD: 243 +/- 10 vs 158 +/- 36 ml/min; p = 0.014). Multiple regression modelling showed that the relationship between cortisol clearance and insulin sensitivity was independent of body fat. The relationship between fatty liver and insulin sensitivity was significantly influenced by body fat and cortisol clearance. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Cortisol clearance is strongly associated with insulin sensitivity, independently of the amount of body fat. The relationship between fatty liver and insulin sensitivity is mediated in part by both fatness and cortisol clearance.
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- H B Holt
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, DOHaD Division, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Rigoni M, Caccin P, Gschmeissner S, Koster G, Postle AD, Rossetto O, Schiavo G, Montecucco C. Equivalent Effects of Snake PLA2 Neurotoxins and Lysophospholipid-Fatty Acid Mixtures. Science 2005; 310:1678-80. [PMID: 16339444 DOI: 10.1126/science.1120640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [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] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Snake presynaptic phospholipase A2 neurotoxins (SPANs) paralyze the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Upon intoxication, the NMJ enlarges and has a reduced content of synaptic vesicles, and primary neuronal cultures show synaptic swelling with surface exposure of the lumenal domain of the synaptic vesicle protein synaptotagmin I. Concomitantly, these neurotoxins induce exocytosis of neurotransmitters. We found that an equimolar mixture of lysophospholipids and fatty acids closely mimics all of the biological effects of SPANs. These results draw attention to the possible role of local lipid changes in synaptic vesicle release and provide new tools for the study of exocytosis.
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- Michela Rigoni
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche Institute of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Italy
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AIMS To highlight the variation in the diagnosis of gestational diabetes (GDM) as defined by six well-accepted international expert panels. METHODS Two thousand, five hundred and fifty-four pregnant women underwent a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test for routine, antenatal GDM screening. They were classified using the criteria of the American Diabetes Association, Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society, the Canadian Diabetes Association, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the New Zealand Society for the study of Diabetes and the World Health Organization (WHO). RESULTS Between any two criteria, both the GDM prevalence (range; 7.9-24.9%) and the women classified differently [range; 70 (2.7%)-454 (17.8%) women], was significant (P<0.001). The most inclusive criteria, i.e. Australasian, despite generating the highest prevalence of GDM, did not pick up all the women identified by the most restrictive criteria, i.e. Canadian. The Australasian and the WHO criteria were associated with an increase in the number of Caesarean sections [odds ratio (OR); 1.64, 1.45, respectively] while the American, Canadian and New Zealand criteria identified an increase in macrosomia (birthweight>or=4000 g) incidence (OR; 2.09, 2.01, 1.92, respectively). CONCLUSIONS The guidelines of the various professional committees, being based on consensus and expert opinion, show major discrepancies in their ability to identify women with GDM and their capacity to predict adverse pregnancy outcome. Only evidence-based criteria derived from reliable and consistent scientific data will eliminate the confusion caused in clinical practice.
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- M M Agarwal
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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Miller NJ, Postle AD, Orgeig S, Koster G, Daniels CB. The composition of pulmonary surfactant from diving mammals. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2005; 152:152-68. [PMID: 16140043 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2005.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2005] [Revised: 08/03/2005] [Accepted: 08/03/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Maintaining a functional pulmonary surfactant system at depth is critical for diving mammals to ensure that inspiration is possible upon re-emergence. The lipid and protein composition of lavage extracts from three pinniped species (California sea lion, Northern elephant seal and Ringed seal) were compared to several terrestrial species. Lavage samples were purified using a NaBr discontinuous gradient. Concentrations of phospholipid classes and molecular species were measured using electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry, cholesterol was measured using high-performance liquid chromatography, surfactant protein A (SP-A) and SP-B were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. There were small differences in phospholipid classes, with a lower level of anionic surfactant phospholipids, PG and PI, between diving and terrestrial mammals. There were no differences in PL saturation or SP-A levels between species. PC16:0/14:0, PC16:0/16:1, PC16:0/16:0, long chain PI species and the total concentrations of alkyl-acyl species of PC and PG as a ratio of diacyl species were increased in diving mammals, whereas concentrations of PC16:0/18:1, PG16:0/16:0 and PG16:0/18:1 were decreased. Cholesterol levels were very variable between species and SP-B was very low in diving mammals. These differences may explain the very poor surface activity of pinniped surfactant that we have previously described [Miller, N.J., Daniels, C.B., Schürch, S., Schoel, W.M., Orgeig, S., 2005. The surface activity of pulmonary surfactant from diving mammals. Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 150 (2006) 220-232], supporting the hypothesis that pinniped surfactant has primarily an anti-adhesive function to meet the challenges of regularly collapsing lungs.
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- Natalie J Miller
- Environmental Biology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Darling Building, University of Adelaide, North Tce, Australia
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Pynn C, Henderson NG, Koster G, Postle AD, Jaworski A, Bernhard W. Differenzielle Synthese von Plasma-Phospholipiden via Cholineinbau und N-Methylierung beim Menschen in vivo. Z Geburtshilfe Neonatol 2005. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-871348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Hunt AN, Alb JG, Koster G, Postle AD, Bankaitis VA. Use of mass spectrometry-based lipidomics to probe PITPalpha (phosphatidylinositol transfer protein alpha) function inside the nuclei of PITPalpha+/+ and PITPalpha-/- cells. Biochem Soc Trans 2005; 32:1063-5. [PMID: 15506964 DOI: 10.1042/bst0321063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The mammalian phospholipid exchange protein PITPalpha (phosphatidylinositol transfer protein alpha), found in both extranuclear and endonuclear compartments, is thought in part to facilitate nuclear import of the PtdIns (phosphatidylinositol) consumed in the generation of proliferation-associated endonuclear diacylglycerol accumulations. Unlike phosphatidylcholine, endonuclear PtdIns is not synthesized in situ. However, despite progressive postnatal lethality of PITPalpha ablation in mice, PITPalpha(-/-) MEF (mouse embryonic fibroblasts) lack an obviously impaired proliferative capacity. We used ESI-MS (tandem electrospray ionization-MS) to monitor incorporation of the deuterated phospholipid precursors, choline-d(9) and inositol-d(6), into molecular species of whole cell and endonuclear phosphatidylcholine and PtdIns over 24 h to assess the contribution of PITPalpha to the nuclear import of PtdIns into MEF cells. In cells labelled for 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 h fractional inositol-d(6) incorporation into whole-cell PtdIns species was consistently higher in PITPalpha(-/-) MEF implying greater flux through its biosynthetic pathway. Moreover, endonuclear accumulation of PtdIns-d(6) was apparent in the PITPalpha(-/-) cells and mirrored that in PITPalpha(+/+) cells. Together, these results suggest that the essential endonuclear PtdIns import via PITPalpha can be accommodated by other mechanisms.
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- A N Hunt
- Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK.
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Postle AD, Dombrowsky H, Clarke H, Pynn CJ, Koster G, Hunt AN. Mass spectroscopic analysis of phosphatidylinositol synthesis using 6-deuteriated-myo-inositol: comparison of the molecular specificities and acyl remodelling mechanisms in mouse tissues and cultured cells. Biochem Soc Trans 2005; 32:1057-9. [PMID: 15506962 DOI: 10.1042/bst0321057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mammalian cell PtdIns (phosphatidylinositol) in vivo is enriched in the sn-1-stearoyl 2-arachidonoyl species, the physiological precursor of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. Mechanisms regulating this specificity are unclear but are typically lost for cells in culture. We used ESI-MS (tandem electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry) to determine the molecular species of PtdIns synthesized by mouse tissues in vivo compared with cultured cells in vitro. After incorporation of deuteriated myo-d(6)-inositol over 3 h, endogenous and newly synthesized PtdIns and lysoPtdIns species were quantified from precursor scans of m/z 241(-) and m/z 247(-) respectively. PtdIns was synthesized as a wide range of species irrespective of the final membrane composition. Analyses of isotope enrichments argued against acyl remodelling as the major regulatory mechanism: composition of the lysoPtdIns pool under all conditions reflected that of either endogenous or newly synthesized PtdIns and was always at equilibrium. The kinetics of PtdIns synthesis, together with the prolonged time scale required for achieving final equilibrium compositions suggest that selective transport between membranes and/or hydrolysis of selected molecular species are the most probable mechanisms regulating compositions of PtdIns and, ultimately, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate.
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- A D Postle
- Division of Infection Inflammation and Repair, School of Medicine, University of Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
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Byrne R, Barona T, Garnier M, Koster G, Katan M, Poccia D, Larijani B. Nuclear envelope assembly is promoted by phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C with selective recruitment of phosphatidylinositol-enriched membranes. Biochem J 2005; 387:393-400. [PMID: 15554872 PMCID: PMC1134967 DOI: 10.1042/bj20040947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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: 06/07/2004] [Revised: 11/10/2004] [Accepted: 11/19/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Nuclear envelope (NE) formation in a cell-free egg extract proceeds by precursor membrane vesicle binding to chromatin in an ATP-dependent manner, followed by a GTP-induced NE assembly step. The requirement for GTP in the latter step of this process can be mimicked by addition of bacterial PI-PLC [phosphoinositide (PtdIns)-specific phospholipase C]. The NE assembly process is here dissected in relation to the requirement for endogenous phosphoinositide metabolism, employing recombinant eukaryotic PI-PLC, inhibitors and direct phospholipid analysis using ESI-MS (electrospray ionization mass spectrometry). PtdIns (phosphatidylinositol) species analysis by ESI-MS indicates that the chromatin-bound NE precursor vesicles are enriched for specific PtdIns species. Moreover, during GTP-induced precursor vesicle fusion, the membrane vesicles become partially depleted of the PtdIns 18:0/20:4 species. These data indicate that eukaryotic PI-PLC can support NE formation, and the sensitivity to exogenous recombinant PtdIns-5-phosphatases shows that the endogenous PLC hydrolyses a 5-phosphorylated species. It is shown further that the downstream target of this DAG (diacylglycerol) pathway does not involve PKC (protein kinase C) catalytic function, but is mimicked by phorbol esters, indicating a possible engagement of one of the non-PKC phorbol ester receptors. The results show that ESI-MS can be used as a sensitive means to measure the lipid composition of biological membranes and their changes during, for example, membrane fusogenic events. We have exploited this and the intervention studies to illustrate a pivotal role for PI-PLC and its product DAG in the formation of NEs.
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Key Words
- diacylglycerol
- electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
- membrane fusion
- nuclear envelope
- phosphatidylinositol
- phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase c
- atp-gs, atp-generating system
- bapta, bis-(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-n,n,n′,n′-tetra-acetic acid
- dag, 1,2-diacylglycerol
- dioc6, 3,3′-dihexyloxacarbocyanine iodide
- ptdcho, phosphatidylcholine
- dmpc, dimyristoyl-ptdcho
- ptdins, phosphatidylinositol
- dppi, dipalmitoyl-ptdins
- er, endoplasmic reticulum
- esi-ms, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
- gap, gtpase-activating protein
- gtp[s], guanosine 5′-[γ-thio]triphosphate
- lb, lysis buffer
- mv, membrane vesicle
- ne, nuclear envelope
- pi-plc, phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase c
- pkc, protein kinase c
- snare, soluble n-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein attachment protein receptor
- sxn, nuclei preparation buffer
- syn1-5ptase, synaptojanin 1 phosphatase
- tn, tris/nacl buffer
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- Richard D. Byrne
- *Cell Biophysics Laboratory, London Research Institute (LRI), Cancer Research UK (CR-UK), 44, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX, U.K
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- †Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, U.S.A
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- *Cell Biophysics Laboratory, London Research Institute (LRI), Cancer Research UK (CR-UK), 44, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX, U.K
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- ‡Infection, Inflammation and Repair Division, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, U.K
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- §Cancer Research UK Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology, Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), Fulham Rd, London, SW3 6JB, U.K
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- †Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, U.S.A
- ∥UIBD, Universidade Lusófona, Campo Grande 376, 1749–1024, Lisbon, Portugal
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- *Cell Biophysics Laboratory, London Research Institute (LRI), Cancer Research UK (CR-UK), 44, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX, U.K
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Hunt AN, Skippen AJ, Koster G, Postle AD, Cockcroft S. Acyl chain-based molecular selectivity for HL60 cellular phosphatidylinositol and of phosphatidylcholine by phosphatidylinositol transfer protein α. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2004; 1686:50-60. [PMID: 15522822 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2004.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2004] [Accepted: 08/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Mammalian phosphatidylinositol transfer protein alpha (PITP) is an intracellular lipid transporter with a binding site that can accommodate a single molecule of phosphatidylinositol (PI) or phosphatidylcholine (PC). Phospholipids are a heterogeneous population of molecular species that can be distinguished by their characteristic headgroups as well as their acyl chains at the sn-1 and sn-2 position. In this study, we have defined the acyl chain preference for PITPalpha when presented with a total population of cellular lipids. Recombinant PITPalpha loaded with bacterial lipid, phosphatidylglycerol (PG), was incubated with permeabilised HL60 cells, followed by recovery of PITPalpha by affinity chromatography. Lipids extracted from the PITPalpha were analysed by tandem electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) and showed total exchange of acquired bacterial lipids for HL60 cellular PI and PC. Detailed comparison of the molecular species composition of bound phospholipids with those in whole cells permitted the assessment of selectivity of acyl chain binding. For both phospholipid classes, progressive fractional enrichments in bound species possessing shorter acyl chains were apparent with a preference order: 16:1>16:0>18:1>18:0>20:4. A recapitulation of this specificity order was also seen from a dramatically altered range of molecular species present in HL60 cells enriched with arachidonate over many weeks of culture. We speculate that short-chain, saturate-binding preferences under both conditions may reflect properties in vivo. This is consistent with target cell membranes actively remodelling newly delivered phospholipids after transport rather than relying on the transport of the specific molecular species conventionally found in mammalian membranes.
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- Alan N Hunt
- Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
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Caldwell WA, Tamura N, Celestre RS, MacDowell AA, Padmore HA, Geballe TH, Koster G, Batterman BW, Patel JR. Shear at twin domain boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7-x. Phys Rev Lett 2004; 92:216105. [PMID: 15245298 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.92.216105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The microstructure and strain state of twin domains in YBa2Cu3O7-x are discussed based upon synchrotron white-beam x-ray microdiffraction measurements. Intensity variations of the fourfold twin splitting of Laue diffraction peaks are used to determine the twin domain structure. Strain analysis shows that interfaces between neighboring twin domains are strained in shear, whereas the interior of these domains are regions of low strain. These measurements are consistent with the orientation relationships of twin boundaries within and across domains and show that basal plane shear stresses can exceed 100 MPa where twin domains meet. Our results support stress field pinning of magnetic flux vortices by twin domain boundaries.
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- W A Caldwell
- Advanced Light Source, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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