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Ott S, Nersesian G, Lewin D, Just I, Starck C, O'Brien B, Schoenrath F, Falk V, Potapov E, Lanmueller P. Impact of an Institutional Allocation Protocol to Short Term Mechanical Circulatory Support to Improve Survival in Cardiogenic Shock - A Propensity Score Matched Analysis. J Heart Lung Transplant 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.02.737] [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: 04/05/2023] Open
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Schön M, Just I, Krumpolec P, Blažíček P, Valkovič L, Aldini G, Tsai CL, De Courten B, Krššák M, Ukropcová B, Ukropec J. Supplementation-induced change in muscle carnosine is paralleled by changes in muscle metabolism, protein glycation and reactive carbonyl species sequestering. Physiol Res 2023; 72:87-97. [PMID: 36545878 PMCID: PMC10069809 DOI: 10.33549/physiolres.934911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 03/24/2023] Open
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Carnosine is a performance-enhancing food supplement with a potential to modulate muscle energy metabolism and toxic metabolites disposal. In this study we explored interrelations between carnosine supplementation (2 g/day, 12 weeks) induced effects on carnosine muscle loading and parallel changes in (i) muscle energy metabolism, (ii) serum albumin glycation and (iii) reactive carbonyl species sequestering in twelve (M/F=10/2) sedentary, overweight-to-obese (BMI: 30.0+/-2.7 kg/m2) adults (40.1+/-6.2 years). Muscle carnosine concentration (Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; 1H-MRS), dynamics of muscle energy metabolism (Phosphorus Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; 31P-MRS), body composition (Magnetic Resonance Imaging; MRI), resting energy expenditure (indirect calorimetry), glucose tolerance (oGTT), habitual physical activity (accelerometers), serum carnosine and carnosinase-1 content/activity (ELISA), albumin glycation, urinary carnosine and carnosine-propanal concentration (mass spectrometry) were measured. Supplementation-induced increase in muscle carnosine was paralleled by improved dynamics of muscle post-exercise phosphocreatine recovery, decreased serum albumin glycation and enhanced urinary carnosine-propanal excretion (all p<0.05). Magnitude of supplementation-induced muscle carnosine accumulation was higher in individuals with lower baseline muscle carnosine, who had lower BMI, higher physical activity level, lower resting intramuscular pH, but similar muscle mass and dietary protein preference. Level of supplementation-induced increase in muscle carnosine correlated with reduction of protein glycation, increase in reactive carbonyl species sequestering, and acceleration of muscle post-exercise phosphocreatine recovery.
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- M Schön
- Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
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Lanmueller P, Eulert-Grehn JJ, Unbehaun A, Klein C, Hommel M, Kofler M, Kempfert J, Hörmadinger C, Kaufmann F, Stawowy P, Dreysse S, Mulzer J, Müller M, Falk V, Schönrath F, Potapov E, Just I. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation for Severe Aortic Regurgitation in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Device Support. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2022. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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Roehrich L, Suendermann S, Just I, Fernandes LK, Knierim J, Potapov E, O'brien B, Falk V, Schönrath F. Influence of Cf-VAD Implantation on the Frailty Status of Advanced Heart Failure Patients. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2022. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- L. Roehrich
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Departments of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, German Heart Centre Berlin, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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- German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
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Muetzelburg M, Hofmann F, Just I, Pich A. Identification of biomarkers indicating cellular changes after treatment of neuronal cells with the C3 exoenzyme from Clostridium botulinum using the iTRAQ protocol and LC–MS/MS analysis☆. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2009; 877:1344-51. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2008.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2008] [Revised: 12/02/2008] [Accepted: 12/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Rho proteins are master regulators of a large array of cellular functions, including control of cell morphology, cell migration and polarity, transcriptional activation, and cell cycle progression. They are the eukaryotic targets of various bacterial protein toxins and effectors, which activate or inactivate the GTPases. Here Rho-inactivating toxins and effectors are reviewed, including the families of large clostridial cytotoxins and C3-like transferases, which inactivate Rho GTPases by glucosylation and ADP-ribosylation, respectively.
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- K Aktories
- Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Albertstrasse 25, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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The large clostridial cytotoxins are a family of structurally and functionally related exotoxins from Clostridium difficile (toxins A and B), C. sordellii (lethal and hemorrhagic toxin) and C. novyi (alpha-toxin). The exotoxins are major pathogenicity factors which in addition to their in vivo effects are cytotoxic to cultured cell lines causing reorganization of the cytoskeleton accompanied by morphological changes. The exotoxins are single-chain protein toxins, which are constructed of three domains: receptor-binding, translocation and catalytic domain. These domains reflect the self-mediated cell entry via receptor-mediated endocytosis, translocation into the cytoplasm, and execution of their cytotoxic activity by an inherent enzyme activity. Enzymatically, the toxins catalyze the transfer of a glucosyl moiety from UDP-glucose to the intracellular target proteins which are the Rho and Ras GTPases. The covalent attachment of the glucose moiety to a conserved threonine within the effector region of the GTPases renders the Rho-GTPases functionally inactive. Whereas the molecular mode of cytotoxic effects is fully understood, the mechanisms leading to inflammatory processes in the context of disease (e.g., antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis caused by Clostridium difficile) are less clear.
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- I Just
- Institut für Toxikologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
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Ahnert-Hilger G, Höltje M, Grosse G, Pickert G, Mucke C, Nixdorf-Bergweiler B, Boquet P, Hofmann F, Just I. Differential effects of Rho GTPases on axonal and dendritic development in hippocampal neurones. J Neurochem 2004; 90:9-18. [PMID: 15198662 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02475.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [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: 11/30/2022]
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Formation of neurites and their differentiation into axons and dendrites requires precisely controlled changes in the cytoskeleton. While small GTPases of the Rho family appear to be involved in this regulation, it is still unclear how Rho function affects axonal and dendritic growth during development. Using hippocampal neurones at defined states of differentiation, we have dissected the function of RhoA in axonal and dendritic growth. Expression of a dominant negative RhoA variant inhibited axonal growth, whereas dendritic growth was promoted. The opposite phenotype was observed when a constitutively active RhoA variant was expressed. Inactivation of Rho by C3-catalysed ADP-ribosylation using C3 isoforms (Clostridium limosum, C3(lim) or Staphylococcus aureus, C3(stau2)), diminished axonal branching. By contrast, extracellularly applied nanomolar concentrations of C3 from C. botulinum (C3(bot)) or enzymatically dead C3(bot) significantly increased axon growth and axon branching. Taken together, axonal development requires activation of RhoA, whereas dendritic development benefits from its inactivation. However, extracellular application of enzymatically active or dead C3(bot) exclusively promotes axonal growth and branching suggesting a novel neurotrophic function of C3 that is independent from its enzymatic activity.
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- G Ahnert-Hilger
- Centrum für Anatomie, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, AG Funktionelle Zellbiologie, Berlin, Germany.
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Neunlist M, Barouk J, Michel K, Just I, Oreshkova T, Schemann M, Galmiche JP. Toxin B of Clostridium difficile activates human VIP submucosal neurons, in part via an IL-1beta-dependent pathway. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2003; 285:G1049-55. [PMID: 12801886 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00487.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 01/31/2023]
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This study investigated whether toxin B of Clostridium difficile can activate human submucosal neurons and the involved pathways. Isolated segments of human colon were placed in organ culture for 3 h in the presence of toxin B or IL-1beta. Whole mounts of internal submucosal plexus were stained with antibodies against c-Fos, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), and substance P (SP). The membrane potential (Vm) response of submucosal neurons to local application of toxin B and IL-1beta was determined by a multisite optical recording technique. Toxin B (0.1 to 10 ng/ml) increased the proportion of c-Fos-positive neurons dose dependently compared with the control. In the presence of toxin B (10 ng/ml), most c-Fos-positive neurons were immunoreactive for VIP (79.8 +/- 22.5%) but only 19.4 +/- 14.0% for SP. Toxin B induced a rapid rise in IL-1beta mRNA level and a sixfold increase in IL-1beta protein in supernatant after 3 h of incubation. c-Fos expression induced by toxin B was reduced dose dependently by IL-1 receptor antagonist (0.1-10 ng/ml). IL-1beta significantly increased c-Fos expression in submucosal neurons compared with the control (34.2 +/- 10.1 vs. 5.1 +/- 1.3% of NSE neurons). Microejection of toxin B had no effect on the Vm of enteric neurons. Evidence of a direct excitatory effect of IL-1beta on Vm was detected in a minority of enteric neurons. Therefore, toxin B of C. difficile activates VIP-positive submucosal neurons, at least in part, via an indirect IL-1beta-dependent pathway.
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- M Neunlist
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U539; Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, 1, place Alexis Ricordeau, 44035 Nantes, France.
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The Rho GTPases, which belong to the Ras superfamily of low-molecular-mass GTP-binding proteins, are the preferred intracellular targets of bacterial protein toxins. The Rho GTPases RhoA/B/C, Rac1/2 and Cdc42 are the master regulators of the actin cytoskeleton. Clostridium difficile toxins A and B, the causative agents of the antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis, are intracellularly acting cytotoxins which mono-glucosylate the Rho GTPases. Clostridium botulinum C3 toxin, which is not related to the clostridial neurotoxins, catalyses ADP-ribosylation of RhoA/B/C but not of other Rho GTPases. Glucosylation as well as ADP-ribosylation result in functional inactivation of Rho causing disassembly of the actin cytoskeleton.
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- I Just
- Institut für Toxikologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany.
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Schnittler HJ, Schneider SW, Raifer H, Luo F, Dieterich P, Just I, Aktories K. Role of actin filaments in endothelial cell-cell adhesion and membrane stability under fluid shear stress. Pflugers Arch 2001; 442:675-87. [PMID: 11512023 DOI: 10.1007/s004240100589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 11/29/2000] [Accepted: 03/27/2001] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin (C2 toxin) and purified ADP-ribosylated-alpha-actin (ADP-r-alpha-actin) cause specific actin depolymerisation in living cells. This effect was used to investigate the actin microfilament system with particular emphasis on cell-cell adhesion and plasma membrane integrity in endothelial cells. C2 toxin caused time- and dose-dependent (15-100 ng/ml) changes in endothelial surface morphology (investigated by atomic force microscopy), intercellular gap formation and cell detachment under shear stress. Low concentrations of C2 toxin (1.5 ng/ml), however, did not induce cell detachment but inhibited shear stress-dependent cell alignment. Gap formation as well as cell loss under shear stress was also observed in cells microinjected with purified ADP-r-alpha-actin. Intercellular gap formation was mediated by increased alpha-catenin solubility (40%) due to actin filament depolymerisation. Disintegration of plasma membranes (measured by LDH release) and cell fragmentation during simultaneous exposure to shear stress and C2 toxin were due to a loss of more than 50% of membrane-associated actin. These data show that small disturbances in actin dynamics inhibit shear stress-dependent cell alignment; that depolymerisation of actin filaments increases the solubility of alpha-catenin, thus resulting in cell dissociation and that actin filaments of the membrane cytoskeleton are required to protect the cells from haemodynamic injury such as shear stress. Together, the study shows a heterogeneous regulation of actin filament dynamics at subcellular locations. Junction-associated actin filaments displayed the highest sensitivity whereas stress fibres were far more stable.
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- H J Schnittler
- Institut für Physiologie, TU-Dresden, Fiedlerstrasse 42, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
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Wilde C, Chhatwal GS, Schmalzing G, Aktories K, Just I. A novel C3-like ADP-ribosyltransferase from Staphylococcus aureus modifying RhoE and Rnd3. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:9537-42. [PMID: 11124969 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m011035200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Clostridium botulinum C3 is the prototype of the family of the C3-like transferases that ADP-ribosylate exclusively RhoA, -B and -C. The ADP-ribose at Asn-41 results in functional inactivation of Rho reflected by disaggregation of the actin cytoskeleton. We report on a new C3-like transferase produced by a pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus strain. The transferase designated C3(Stau) was cloned from the genomic DNA. At the amino acid level, C3(Stau) revealed an identity of 35% to C3 from C. botulinum and Clostridium limosum exoenzyme, respectively, and of 78% to EDIN from S. aureus. In addition to RhoA, which is the target of the other C3-like transferases, C3(Stau) modified RhoE and Rnd3. RhoE was ADP-ribosylated at Asn-44, which is equivalent to Asn-41 of RhoA. RhoE and Rnd3 are members of the Rho subfamily, which are deficient in intrinsic GTPase activity and possess a RhoA antagonistic cell function. The protein substrate specificity found with recombinant Rho proteins was corroborated by expression of RhoE in Xenopus laevis oocytes showing that RhoE was also modified in vivo by C3(Stau) but not by C3 from C. botulinum. The poor cell accessibility of C3(Stau) was overcome by generation of a chimeric toxin recruiting the cell entry machinery of C. botulinum C2 toxin. The chimeric C3(Stau) caused the same morphological and cytoskeletal changes as the chimeric C. botulinum C3. C3(Stau) is a new member of the family of the C3-like transferases but is also the prototype of a subfamily of RhoE/Rnd modifying transferases.
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- C Wilde
- Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- I Just
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität Freiburg, Germany
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- I Just
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Galmiche A, Rassow J, Doye A, Cagnol S, Chambard JC, Contamin S, de Thillot V, Just I, Ricci V, Solcia E, Van Obberghen E, Boquet P. The N-terminal 34 kDa fragment of Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin targets mitochondria and induces cytochrome c release. EMBO J 2000; 19:6361-70. [PMID: 11101509 PMCID: PMC305856 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.23.6361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 251] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [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] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori produces the cytotoxin VacA, which is implicated in the genesis of gastric epithelial lesions. By transfect ing HEp-2 cells with DNAs encoding either the N-terminal (p34) or the C-terminal (p58) fragment of VacA, p34 was found localized specifically to mitochondria, whereas p58 was cytosolic. Incubated in vitro with purified mitochondria, VacA and p34 but not p58 translocated into the mitochondria. Microinjection of DNAs encoding VacA-GFP and p34-GFP, but not GFP-VacA or GFP-p34, induced cell death by apoptosis. Transient transfection of HeLa cells with p34-GFP or VacA-GFP induced the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria and activated the executioner caspase 3, as determined by the cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). PARP cleavage was antagonized specifically by co-transfection of DNA encoding Bcl-2, known to block mitochondria-dependent apoptotic signals. The relevance of these observations to the in vivo mechanism of VacA action was supported by the fact that purified activated VacA applied externally to cells induced cytochrome c release into the cytosol.
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- A Galmiche
- INSERM U452, Faculté de Médecine, 28 avenue de Valombrose, 06107 Nice, CNRS-UMR 6543 and Centre Antoine Lacassagne, avenue de Valombrose, 06189 Nice, France
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Vetter IR, Hofmann F, Wohlgemuth S, Herrmann C, Just I. Structural consequences of mono-glucosylation of Ha-Ras by Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin. J Mol Biol 2000; 301:1091-5. [PMID: 10966807 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 11/22/2022]
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Mono-glucosylation of Ha-Ras by Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin at effector region threonine 35 has diverse effects on the Ras GTPase cycle, the dominant one of which is the inhibition of Ras-Raf coupling, leading to complete blockade of Ras downstream signaling. To understand the structural basis of the functional consequences of glucosylation, the X-ray crystal structure of glucosylated Ras-GDP was compared with that of non-modified Ras. Glucosylated Ras exhibits a different crystal packing but the overall three-dimensional structure is not altered. The glucose group does not affect the conformation of the effector loop. Due to steric constraints, the glucose moiety prevents the formation of the GTP conformation of the effector loop, which is a prerequisite for binding to the Raf-kinase. The X-ray crystal data also revealed the alpha-anomeric configuration of the bound glucose, indicating that the glucose transfer proceeds under retention of the C-1 configuration of the d-alpha-glucose. Therefore, glucosylation preserves the inactive conformation of the effector loop independently of the nucleotide occupancy, leading to a complete inhibition of downstream signaling of Ras.
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- I R Vetter
- Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Dortmund, D-44227, Germany
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The C3-like ADP-ribosyltransferases exhibit a very confined substrate specificity compared with other Rho-modifying bacterial toxins; they selectively modify the RhoA, -B, and -C isoforms but not other members of the Rho or Ras subfamilies. In this study, the amino acid residues involved in the RhoA substrate recognition by C3 from Clostridium botulinum are identified by applying mutational analyses of the nonsubstrate Rac. First, the minimum domain responsible for the recognition by C3 was identified as the N-terminal 90 residues. Second, the combination of the N-terminal basic amino acids ((Rho)Arg(5)-Lys(6)), the acid residues (Rho)Glu(47) and (Rho)Glu(54) only slightly increases ADP-ribosylation but fully restores the binding of the respective mutant Rac to C3. Third, the residues (Rho)Glu(40) and (Rho)Val(43) also participate in binding to C3 but they are mainly involved in the correct formation of the ternary complex between Rho, C3, and NAD(+). Thus, these six residues (Arg(5), Lys(6), Glu(40), Val(43), Glu(47), and Glu(54)) distributed over the N-terminal part of Rho are involved in the correct binding of Rho to C3. Mutant Rac harboring these residues shows a kinetic property with regard to ADP-ribosylation, which is identical with that of RhoA. Differences in the conformation of Rho given by the nucleotide occupancy have only minor effects on ADP-ribosylation.
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- C Wilde
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Several bacterial toxins target Rho GTPases, which constitute molecular switches in several signaling processes and master regulators of the actin cytoskeleton. The biological activities of Rho GTPases are blocked by C3-like transferases, which ADP-ribosylate Rho at Asn41, but not Rac or Cdc42. Large clostridial cytotoxins (e. g., Clostridium difficile toxin A and B) glucosylate Rho GTPases at Thr37 (Rho) or Thr35 (Rac/Cdc42), thereby inhibiting Rho functions by preventing effector coupling. The 'injected' toxins ExoS, YopE and SptP from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Yersinia and Salmonella ssp., respectively, which are transferred into the eukaryotic target cells by the type-III secretion system, inhibit Rho functions by acting as Rho GAP proteins. Rho GTPases are activated by the cytotoxic necrotizing factors CNF1 and CNF2 from Escherichia coli and by the dermonecrotizing toxin DNT from B. bronchiseptica. These toxins deamidate/transglutaminate Gln63 of Rho to block the intrinsic and GAP-stimulated GTP hydrolysis, thereby constitutively activating the GTPases. Rho GTPases are also activated by SopE, a type-III system injected protein from Salmonella ssp., that acts as a GEF protein.
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- K Aktories
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Genth H, Selzer J, Busch C, Dumbach J, Hofmann F, Aktories K, Just I. New method to generate enzymatically deficient Clostridium difficile toxin B as an antigen for immunization. Infect Immun 2000; 68:1094-101. [PMID: 10678912 PMCID: PMC97253 DOI: 10.1128/iai.68.3.1094-1101.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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The family of the large clostridial cytotoxins, encompassing Clostridium difficile toxins A and B as well as the lethal and hemorrhagic toxins from Clostridium sordellii, monoglucosylate the Rho GTPases by transferring a glucose moiety from the cosubstrate UDP-glucose. Here we present a new detoxification procedure to block the enzyme activity by treatment with the reactive UDP-2', 3'-dialdehyde to result in alkylation of toxin A and B. Alkylation is likely to occur in the catalytic domain, because the native cosubstrate UDP-glucose completely protected the toxins from inactivation and the alkylated toxin competes with the native toxin at the cell receptor. Alkylated toxins are good antigens resulting in antibodies recognizing only the C-terminally located receptor binding domain, whereas formaldehyde treatment resulted in antibodies recognizing both the receptor binding domain and the catalytic domain, indicating that the catalytic domain is concealed under native conditions. Antibodies against the native catalytic domain (amino acids 1 through 546) and those holotoxin antibodies recognizing the catalytic domain inhibited enzyme activity. However, only antibodies against the receptor binding domain protected intact cells from the cytotoxic activity of toxin B, whereas antibodies against the catalytic domain were protective only when inside the cell.
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- H Genth
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Wagner AH, Köhler T, Rückschloss U, Just I, Hecker M. Improvement of nitric oxide-dependent vasodilatation by HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors through attenuation of endothelial superoxide anion formation. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2000; 20:61-9. [PMID: 10634801 DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.20.1.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 352] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [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: 11/16/2022]
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Three 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (HCRIs), atorvastatin, pravastatin, and cerivastatin, inhibited phorbol ester-stimulated superoxide anion (O(2)(-)) formation in endothelium-intact segments of the rat aorta in a time- and concentration-dependent manner (maximum inhibition of 70% after 18 hours at 1 to 10 micromol/L). The HMG-CoA reductase product mevalonic acid (400 micromol/L) reversed the inhibitory effect of the HCRIs, which, conversely, was mimicked by inactivation of p21 Rac with Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin but not by inactivation of p21 Rho with Clostridium botulinum exoenzyme (C3). A mevalonate-sensitive inhibition of phorbol ester-stimulated O(2)(-) formation by atorvastatin was also observed in porcine cultured endothelial cells and in a murine macrophage cell line. In the rat aorta, no effect of the HCRIs on protein kinase C, NADPH oxidase, or superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and expression was detected, whereas that of endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase was enhanced approximately 2-fold. Moreover, exposure of the segments to atorvastatin resulted in a significant improvement of endothelium-dependent NO-mediated relaxation, and this effect was abolished in the presence of SOD. Taken together, these findings suggest that in addition to augmenting endothelial NO synthesis, HCRIs inhibit endothelial O(2)(-) formation by preventing the isoprenylation of p21 Rac, which is critical for the assembly of NADPH oxidase after activation of protein kinase C. The resulting shift in the balance between NO and O(2)(-) in the endothelium improves endothelial function even in healthy blood vessels and therefore may provide a reasonable explanation for the beneficial effects of HCRIs in patients with coronary heart disease in addition to or as an alternative to the reduction in serum LDL cholesterol.
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- A H Wagner
- Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, University of Göttingen, Germany
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The small GTPases Rho, Rac, and Cdc42 are monoglucosylated at effector domain amino acid threonine 37/35 by Clostridium difficile toxins A and B. Glucosylation renders the Rho proteins inactive by inhibiting effector coupling. To understand the functional consequences, effects of glucosylation on subcellular distribution and cycling of Rho GTPases between cytosol and membranes were analyzed. In intact cells and in cell lysates, glucosylation leads to a translocation of the majority of RhoA GTPase to the membranes whereas a minor fraction is monomeric in the cytosol without being complexed with the guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor (GDI-1). Rho complexed with GDI-1 is not substrate for glucosylation, and modified Rho does not bind to GDI-1. However, a membranous factor inducing release of Rho from the GDI complex makes cytosolic Rho available as a substrate for glucosylation. The binding of glucosylated RhoA to the plasma membranes is saturable, competable with unmodified Rho-GTPgammaS guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate), and takes place at a membrane protein with a molecular mass of about 70 kDa. Membrane-bound glucosylated Rho is not extractable by GDI-1 as unmodified Rho is, leading to accumulation of modified Rho at membranous binding sites. Thus, in addition to effector coupling inhibition, glucosylation also inhibits Rho cycling between cytosol and membranes, a prerequisite for Rho activation.
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- H Genth
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Small GTPases of the Rho family are involved in the regulation of a variety of cellular processes, such as the organization of the microfilamental network, cell-cell contact and malignant transformation. To address the question of whether Rho proteins are involved in carcinogenesis in man, we compared their expression in tumors from colon, breast and lung with that of the corresponding normal tissue originating from the same patient. As shown by Rho-specific 32P-ADP-ribosylation, as well as Western-blot analysis, the amount of RhoA protein was largely increased in all 3 types of tumors tested. The most dramatic differences in the expression of Rho GTPases were observed in breast tissue. All breast tumors analyzed showed high levels of RhoA, Rac and Cdc42 proteins, whereas in the corresponding normal tissue these Rho proteins were hardly or not detectable. Progression of breast tumors from WHO grade I to grade III was accompanied by a significant average increase in RhoA protein. Overall, increase in the amount of Rho GTPases, in particular RhoA, appears to be a frequent event in different types of human tumors. This supports the view that Rho GTPases are involved in human carcinogenesis.
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- G Fritz
- Institute of Toxicology, Division of Applied Toxicology, University of Mainz, Germany.
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Small GTPases of the Rho family are involved in the regulation of a variety of cellular processes, such as the organization of the microfilamental network, cell-cell contact and malignant transformation. To address the question of whether Rho proteins are involved in carcinogenesis in man, we compared their expression in tumors from colon, breast and lung with that of the corresponding normal tissue originating from the same patient. As shown by Rho-specific 32P-ADP-ribosylation, as well as Western-blot analysis, the amount of RhoA protein was largely increased in all 3 types of tumors tested. The most dramatic differences in the expression of Rho GTPases were observed in breast tissue. All breast tumors analyzed showed high levels of RhoA, Rac and Cdc42 proteins, whereas in the corresponding normal tissue these Rho proteins were hardly or not detectable. Progression of breast tumors from WHO grade I to grade III was accompanied by a significant average increase in RhoA protein. Overall, increase in the amount of Rho GTPases, in particular RhoA, appears to be a frequent event in different types of human tumors. This supports the view that Rho GTPases are involved in human carcinogenesis.
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- G Fritz
- Institute of Toxicology, Division of Applied Toxicology, University of Mainz, Germany.
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Feick P, Gilhaus S, Blum R, Hofmann F, Just I, Schulz I. Inhibition of amylase secretion from differentiated AR4-2J pancreatic acinar cells by an actin cytoskeleton controlled protein tyrosine phosphatase activity. FEBS Lett 1999; 451:269-74. [PMID: 10371203 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00592-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Disruption of the actin cytoskeleton in AR4-2J pancreatic acinar cells led to an increase in cytosolic protein tyrosine phosphatase activity, abolished bombesin-induced tyrosine phosphorylation and reduced bombesin-induced amylase secretion by about 45%. Furthermore, both tyrosine phosphorylation and amylase secretion induced by phorbol ester-induced activation of protein kinase C were abolished. An increase in the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration by the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 had no effect on tyrosine phosphorylation but induced amylase release. Only when added together with phorbol ester, the same level of amylase secretion as with bombesin was reached. This amylase secretion was inhibited by about 40%, by actin cytoskeleton disruption similar to that induced by bombesin. We conclude that actin cytoskeleton-controlled protein tyrosine phosphatase activity downstream of protein kinase C activity regulates tyrosine phosphorylation which in part is involved in bombesin-stimulated amylase secretion.
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- P Feick
- Institut für Physiologie II, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany
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Herrmann C, Ahmadian MR, Hofmann F, Just I. Functional consequences of monoglucosylation of Ha-Ras at effector domain amino acid threonine 35. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:16134-9. [PMID: 9632667 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.26.16134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Monoglucosylation of low molecular mass GTPases is an important post-translational modification by which microbes interfere with eukaryotic cell signaling. Ha-Ras is monoglucosylated at effector domain amino acid threonine 35 by Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin, resulting in a blockade of the downstream mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade. To understand the molecular consequences of this modification, effects of glucosylation on each step of the GTPase cycle of Ras were analyzed. Whereas nucleotide binding was not significantly altered, intrinsic GTPase activity was markedly decreased, and GTPase stimulation by the GTPase-activating protein p120(GAP) and neurofibromin NF-1 was completely blocked, caused by failure to bind to glucosylated Ras. Guanine nucleotide exchange factor (Cdc25)-catalyzed GTP loading was decreased, but not completely inhibited. A dominant-negative property of modified Ras to sequester exchange factor was not detectable. However, the crucial step in downstream signaling, Ras-effector coupling, was completely blocked. The Kd for the interaction between Ras.GTP and the Ras-binding domain of Raf was 15 nM, whereas glucosylation increased the Kd to >1 mM. Because the affinity of Ras.GDP for Raf (Kd = 22 microM) is too low to allow functional interaction, a glucose moiety at threonine 35 of Ras seems to block completely the interaction with Raf. The net effect of lethal toxin-catalyzed glucosylation of Ras is the complete blockade of Ras downstream signaling.
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- C Herrmann
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie, Rheinlanddamm 201, D-44139 Dortmund, Germany
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Sehr P, Joseph G, Genth H, Just I, Pick E, Aktories K. Glucosylation and ADP ribosylation of rho proteins: effects on nucleotide binding, GTPase activity, and effector coupling. Biochemistry 1998; 37:5296-304. [PMID: 9548761 DOI: 10.1021/bi972592c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [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: 02/07/2023]
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We studied the effects of glucosylation of RhoA, Rac1, and Cdc42 at threonine-35 and -37 by Clostridium difficile toxin B on nucleotide binding, GTPase activity, and effector coupling and compared these results with the ADP ribosylation of RhoA at asparagine-41 catalyzed by Clostridium botulinum C3 transferase. Whereas glucosylation and ADP ribosylation had no major effects on GDP release from RhoA, Rac1, and Cdc42, the rate of GTPgammaS release from Rho proteins was increased 3-6-fold by glucosylation. ADP ribosylation decreased the rate of GTPgammaS release by about 50%. Glucosylation reduced the intrinsic activities of the GTPases by 3-7-fold and completely blocked GTPase stimulation by Rho-GAP. In contrast, ADP ribosylation slightly increased GTPase activity ( approximately 2-fold) and had no major effect on GAP stimulation of GTPase. Whereas ADP ribosylation did not affect the interaction of RhoA with the binding domain of protein kinase N, glucosylation inhibited this interaction. Glucosylation of Rac1 markedly diminished its ability to support the activation of the superoxide-generating NADPH oxidase of phagocytes. Glucosylated Rac1 did not interfere with NADPH oxidase activation by unmodified Rac1, even when present in marked molar excess, indicating that it was incapable of competing for a common effector. The data indicate that the functional inactivation of small GTPases by glucosylation is mainly caused by inhibition of GTPase-effector protein interaction.
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- P Sehr
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Barth H, Hofmann F, Olenik C, Just I, Aktories K. The N-terminal part of the enzyme component (C2I) of the binary Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin interacts with the binding component C2II and functions as a carrier system for a Rho ADP-ribosylating C3-like fusion toxin. Infect Immun 1998; 66:1364-9. [PMID: 9529054 PMCID: PMC108061 DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1364-1369.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [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: 02/07/2023] Open
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The binary actin-ADP-ribosylating Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin consists of the enzyme component C2I and the binding component C2II, which are separate proteins. The active component C2I enters cells through C2II by receptor-mediated endocytosis and membrane translocation. The N-terminal part of C2I (C2IN), which consists of 225 amino acid residues but lacks ADP-ribosyltransferase activity, was identified as the C2II contact site. A fusion protein (C2IN-C3) of C2IN and the full-length C3-like ADP-ribosyltransferase from Clostridium limosum was constructed. The fusion protein C2IN-C3 ADP-ribosylated Rho but not actin in CHO cell lysates. Together with C2II, C2IN-C3 induced complete rounding up of CHO and HeLa cells after incubation for 3 h. No cell rounding was observed without C2II or with the original C3-like transferase from C. limosum. The data indicate that the N-terminal 225 amino acid residues of C2I are sufficient to cause the cellular uptake of C. limosum transferase via the binding component of C2II, thereby increasing the cytotoxicity of the C3-like exoenzyme several hundred-fold.
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- H Barth
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Major advances have been made in the past five years in the identification of cellular targets of toxins produced by anaerobic bacteria. These targets include the vesicular membrane docking and fusion apparatus, the actin cytoskeleton, the signal transduction machinery and the cell membrane. The recent discovery that large clostridial toxins (Clostridium difficile A and B toxins, C. sordellii lethal and hemorrhagic toxins, and alpha C. novyi toxin) are monoglucosyltransferases, together with the establishment of the perfringolysin crystal structure, has led to new insights in the field of toxins from anaerobic bacteria.
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- P Boquet
- INSERM Unit 452, Faculté de Médecine de Nice, F-06107 Nice Cedex 2, France.
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Olenik C, Barth H, Just I, Aktories K, Meyer DK. Gene expression of the small GTP-binding proteins RhoA, RhoB, Rac1, and Cdc42 in adult rat brain. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1997; 52:263-9. [PMID: 9495548 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(97)00270-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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GTPases of the Rho subfamily, i.e. Rho, Rac and Cdc42, are molecular switches in various signaling pathways. Best characterized are their functions in the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton. In neuronal cell lines they are involved in the mechanisms leading to synapse formation and plasticity. It is still unknown whether they have respective functions in the mammalian CNS. In this case, they should be present in the adult brain, especially in areas known for their synaptic remodeling. We have studied the expression of the Rho GTPases in adult rat brain with in situ hybridization and Western blot analysis. High amounts of RhoA, RhoB, Rac1 and Cdc42 mRNAs were detected in neurons of the hippocampus, i.e. in pyramidal cells of the CA1-CA4 regions as well as in granule cells of the dentate gyrus and in hilar cells. Also in cerebellum, Purkinje and granular cells expressed the four mRNAs. Strong gene expression was also found in brainstem, thalamus and neocortex. Using Western blot analysis, RhoA and Cdc42 proteins were detected in hippocampus, cerebellum, thalamus and neocortex. It is concluded that GTPases of the Rho family play a role in the regulation of cellular functions in the adult brain.
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- C Olenik
- Institut für Pharmakologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Verschueren H, De Baetselier P, De Braekeleer J, Dewit J, Aktories K, Just I. ADP-ribosylation of Rho-proteins with botulinum C3 exoenzyme inhibits invasion and shape changes of T-lymphoma cells. Eur J Cell Biol 1997; 73:182-7. [PMID: 9208232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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C3 exoenzyme from Clostridium botulinum ADP-ribosylates the small GTP-binding protein Rho with a high specificity. The use of C3 has shown that Rho-mediated signaling is involved in the regulation of actin-dependent processes in various cell types. In order to investigate the role of Rho-proteins in lymphocyte crawling, we have analyzed the effects of C3 on a T-cell line derived from the murine BW5147 lymphoma. Pretreatment of the lymphoma cells with C3, in conditions where Rho was actually ADP-ribosylated, strongly inhibited the characteristic shape changes resulting from extension and retraction of pseudopodia. Concomitantly, invasion of the cells through a monolayer of fibroblast-like cells was also inhibited. C3-treatment did not affect the total F-actin content of the cells, as measured by flow cytometry of cells stained with phalloidin. Yet, microscopical observation revealed that the accumulations of F-actin, which were seen in the pseudopodia of untreated cells, were absent after treatment with C3. This suggests that C3 may affect actin polymerization locally. The inhibitory effect of C3 on invasion was not restricted to the murine BW5147 lymphoma cell line, as it occurred also with CCRF-CEM, a human T-cell lymphoma line. Our results demonstrate that invasion-bound motility of lymphocytes depends on a Rho-mediated signal transduction pathway.
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Hofmann F, Busch C, Prepens U, Just I, Aktories K. Localization of the glucosyltransferase activity of Clostridium difficile toxin B to the N-terminal part of the holotoxin. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:11074-8. [PMID: 9111001 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.17.11074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [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: 02/04/2023] Open
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Clostridium difficile toxin B that is one of the largest cytotoxins (270 kDa) known acts on Rho subfamily proteins by monoglucosylation (Just, I., Selzer, J., Wilm, M., von Eichel-Streiber, C., Mann, M., and Aktories, K. (1995) Nature 375, 500-503). By deletion analysis we identified the enzyme and cytotoxic activity of the toxin to be located at the N terminus of the holotoxin. A 63-kDa fragment of toxin B covering the first 546 amino acid residues glucosylated Rho, Rac, and Cdc42, but not Ras, by using UDP-glucose as a cosubstrate. As known for the holotoxin, glucosylation by the toxin fragment was favored with the GDP-bound form of the low molecular mass GTPases. Microinjection of the toxin fragment into NIH-3T3 cells induced rounding up of cells and redistribution of the actin cytoskeleton. In contrast, a toxin fragment encompassing the first 516 amino acid residues was at least 1000-fold less active than toxin fragment 1-546 and cytotoxically inactive. The data give direct evidence for location of the enzyme activity of C. difficile toxin B at the N-terminal 546 amino acids residues and indicate a functionally and/or structurally important role of the region from amino acid residues 516 through 546 for enzyme and cytotoxic activities.
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- F Hofmann
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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The influence of different ADP-ribosylating and glucosylating cytotoxins on stimulated protein tyrosine phosphorylation and secretion in rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) cells was studied. Treatment of RBL cells with Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin, which specifically ADP-ribosylated monomeric G-actin and caused complete depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton in intact cells, inhibited Fc epsilon RI receptor-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of various proteins in a time- and concentration-dependent manner with maximal effects at 100 ng/ml C2I and 200 ng/ml C2I. C2 toxin (10 ng/ml C2I and 20 ng/ml C2II) increased antigen- or calcium ionophore (A23187)-stimulated [3H]serotonin release maximally by about 3 fold. Clostridium botulinum C3, which ADP-ribosylated Rho in intact RBL cells, had no effect on protein tyrosine phosphorylation and stimulated secretion. In contrast, the cytotoxic Clostridium difficile toxin B (ToxB), which glucosylated the Rho-subtype family members RhoA and Cdc42, blocked or reduced antigen- or calcium ionophore-mediated [3H]serotonin release, respectively, and decreased tyrosine phosphorylation of a 110 kDa protein. The data indicate that different actin pools control tyrosine phosphorylation and secretion in RBL cells and suggest that Rho subfamily proteins regulate secretion independently of the actin cytoskeleton.
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- U Prepens
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universiät, Freiburg, Germany
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Hippenstiel S, Tannert-Otto S, Vollrath N, Krüll M, Just I, Aktories K, von Eichel-Streiber C, Suttorp N. Glucosylation of small GTP-binding Rho proteins disrupts endothelial barrier function. Am J Physiol 1997; 272:L38-43. [PMID: 9038900 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.1997.272.1.l38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The endothelial cytoskeleton is important for the regulation of endothelial barrier function. Small GTP-binding Rho proteins play a central role in the organization of the microfilament system. Clostridium difficile toxin B (TcdB) inactivates Rho proteins by glucosylation at Thr-37. We used TcdB as a probe to study the role of Rho proteins in the regulation of endothelial barrier function. TcdB time (50-170 min) and dose (10-100 ng/ml) dependently increased the hydraulic conductivity of cultured porcine pulmonary artery endothelial cell monolayers approximately 10-fold. Simultaneously, the albumin reflection coefficient decreased substantially from 0.8 to 0.15. Before endothelial hyperpermeability, TcdB reduced F-actin content in a dose-dependent manner, whereas G-actin content remained unchanged. Finally, we proved that TcdB caused dose (5-100 ng/ml)- and time-dependent glucosylation of Rho proteins in endothelial cells. Phalloidin, which stabilizes filamentous actin, prevented the effect of TcdB on endothelial permeability. In contrast to thrombin-, hydrogen peroxide-, or Escherichia coli hemolysin-induced hyperpermeability, the elevation of cyclic nucleotides did not block TcdB-related permeability. The data demonstrate a central role of small GTP-binding Rho proteins for the control of endothelial barrier function.
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- S Hippenstiel
- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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Genth H, Hofmann F, Selzer J, Rex G, Aktories K, Just I. Difference in protein substrate specificity between hemorrhagic toxin and lethal toxin from Clostridium sordellii. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1996; 229:370-4. [PMID: 8954906 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.1812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The hemorrhagic toxin (HT) from Clostridium sordellii is pharmacologically related to Clostridium difficile toxins A and B and Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin which have been recently identified as mono-glucosyl-transferases. Here we report that HT, which is coexpressed with lethal toxin, is also a glucosyltransferase. Whereas lethal toxin glucosylates the Rho subfamily proteins Rac and Cdc42 and the Ras subfamily proteins H-Ras and Rap, the substrate specificity of HT is strictly confined to the Rho subfamily proteins Rho, Rac and Cdc42. Comparable to lethal toxin, transferase activity of HT is stimulated by Mn2+. Acceptor amino acid in Rho was identified by mutagenesis as threonine-37. C. sordellii HT is a novel member of the family of clostridial mono-glucosyl-transferases, a family which modifies the Rho and Ras GTPases.
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- H Genth
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Sehr P, Just I, Aktories K. ADP-ribosylation of actin by Clostridium perfringens iota toxin and turkey erythrocyte ADP-ribosyltransferase A: effects on profilin-regulated nucleotide exchange and ATPase activity. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 1996; 354:693-7. [PMID: 8971727 DOI: 10.1007/bf00166893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Effects of ADP-ribosylation of skeletal muscle alpha-actin by Clostridium perfringens iota toxin and by turkey erythrocyte ADP-ribosyltransferase A on profilin-regulated nucleotide exchange and ATPase activity were compared. ADP-ribosylation of actin at Arg 177 by Clostridium perfringens iota toxin increased the nucleotide dissociation rate from 2.2 x 10(-3) s-1 to 4.5 x 10(-3) s-1 without affecting the profilin-induced stimulation of nucleotide exchange. In contrast, ADP-ribosylation of actin at Arg95/Arg372 induced by turkey erythrocyte transferase decreased the nucleotide dissociation rate to 1.5 x 10(3) s-1 and inhibited the profilin-induced stimulation of nucleotide exchange. Whereas toxin-induced ADP-ribosylation at Arg177 blocked actin ATPase, basal G-actin ATPase was not altered by ADP-ribosylation at Arg95/Arg372 but inhibited profilin effects on actin ATPase.
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- P Sehr
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Reuner KH, van der Does A, Dunker P, Just I, Aktories K, Katz N. Microinjection of ADP-ribosylated actin inhibits actin synthesis in hepatocyte-hepatoma hybrid cells. Biochem J 1996; 319 ( Pt 3):843-9. [PMID: 8920989 PMCID: PMC1217865 DOI: 10.1042/bj3190843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 02/03/2023]
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Treatment of hepatocyte-hepatoma hybrid cells with Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin led to a 167% increase in monomeric globular actin (G-actin) and to a 57% decrease in filamentous actin (F-actin) within 2 h. Simultaneously, the level of actin mRNA was specifically decreased to 49% and actin synthesis was significantly diminished. In contrast, treatment of hybrid cells with phalloidin led to a decrease in G-actin to 55% and to a reciprocal increase in actin mRNA to 244% and an increase in actin synthesis. These alterations of actin synthesis depending on the G-actin/F-actin ratio corresponded to the autoregulation of actin synthesis observed in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes. Microinjection of C2 toxin or of phalloidin into hepatocyte-hepatoma hybrid cells had the same effects on actin synthesis as incubation with either toxin in the culture medium. Microinjection of nonpolymerizable ADP-ribosylated G-actin into hepatocyte-hepatoma hybrid cells specifically decreased the incorporation of [35S]methionine into newly synthesized actin within 1 h. This decrease continued for at least 19 h. Microinjection of ADP-ribosylated actin led to rounding of cells and obvious disaggregation of actin filaments, which might be due to capping of actin filaments by the ADP-ribosylated actin. Because stabilization of actin filaments by phalloidin before microinjection of ADP-ribosylated actin also resulted in decreased actin synthesis, the concentration of monomeric G-actin seems to be responsible for the regulation of actin synthesis in hepatocyte-hepatoma hybrid cells, which can be regarded as immortalized hepatocytes.
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- K H Reuner
- Institut für Klinische Chemie und Pathobiochemie der Universität Giessen, Federal Republic of Germany
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Otto B, Steusloff A, Just I, Aktories K, Pfitzer G. Role of Rho proteins in carbachol-induced contractions in intact and permeabilized guinea-pig intestinal smooth muscle. J Physiol 1996; 496 ( Pt 2):317-29. [PMID: 8910218 PMCID: PMC1160879 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [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: 02/03/2023] Open
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1. The aim of this study was to determine whether the low molecular mass GTPase RhoA or related proteins are involved in carbachol- and high-K(+)-induced contractions in intact intestinal smooth muscle as well as the carbachol-induced increase in Ca2+ sensitivity of the myofilaments in permeabilized preparations. 2. The carbachol-induced increase in the Ca2+ sensitivity of force production in beta-escin-permeabilized intestinal smooth muscle was enhanced in preparations that were loaded with the constitutively active mutant of RhoA, Val14RhoA, and was inhibited by exoenzyme C3 from Clostridium botulinum, which ADP-ribosylates and inactivates small GTPases of the Rho family. The effect of C3 on Ca2+ sensitivity in the absence of the agonist was negligible, while the maximal Ca(2+)-activated force was inhibited by about 20%. 3. Inhibition of carbachol-induced force was associated with an increase in ADP-ribosylation of a protein band with a molecular mass of approximately 22 kDa, corresponding to Rho, and was partially reversed in the presence of Ile41RhoA, which is not a substrate for C3. Val14RhoA did not restore carbachol-induced Ca2+ sensitization in C3-treated smooth muscle. 4. In intact intestinal smooth muscle, toxin B from Clostridium difficile, which monoglucosylates members of the Rho family, inhibited high-K(+)-induced contractions and the initial phasic response to carbachol by about 30%. The delayed contractile response to carbachol was completely inhibited. 5. In smooth muscle preparations that were permeabilized with beta-escin after treatment with toxin B, carbachol-and GTP gamma S-induced Ca2+ sensitization was significantly inhibited. 6. These findings are consistent with a role for Rho or Rho-like proteins in agonist-induced increase in Ca2+ sensitivity of force production in intact and permeabilized intestinal smooth muscle.
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- B Otto
- II. Physiologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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Selzer J, Hofmann F, Rex G, Wilm M, Mann M, Just I, Aktories K. Clostridium novyi alpha-toxin-catalyzed incorporation of GlcNAc into Rho subfamily proteins. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:25173-7. [PMID: 8810274 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.41.25173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 02/02/2023] Open
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The lethal and edema-inducing alpha-toxin from Clostridium novyi causes rounding up of cultured cell lines by redistribution of the actin cytoskeleton. alpha-Toxin belongs to the family of large clostridial cytotoxins that encompasses Clostridium difficile toxin A and B and the lethal toxin from Clostridium sordellii. Toxin A and toxin B have been recently identified as monoglucosyltransferases to modify the low molecular mass GTPases of the Rho subfamily (Just, I., Selzer, J., Wilm, M., Von Eichel-Streiber, C., Mann, M., and Aktories, K. (1995) Nature 375, 500-503 and Just, I., Wilm, M., Selzer, J., Rex, G., Von Eichel-Streiber, C., Mann, M., and Aktories, K. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 13932-13936). We report here the identification of the alpha-toxin-catalyzed modification of Rho. Using electrospray mass spectrometry, the mass of the modification was determined as 203 Da, consistent with a N-acetyl-hexosamine moiety. UDP-N-acetyl-glucosamine selectively served as cosubstrate for alpha-toxin-catalyzed modification into the Rho subfamily proteins Rho, Rac, Cdc42, and RhoG. The acceptor amino acid of N-acetyl-glucosaminylation was identified by mutagenesis as Thr-37 in Rho (equivalent to Thr-35 in Rac/Cdc42), which is located in the effector domain of the GTPases. C. novyi alpha-toxin seems to mediate its cytotoxic effects on cells by mimicking endogenous post-translational modification of cellular proteins.
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- J Selzer
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin (LT), a cytotoxin which causes preferential destruction of the actin cytoskeleton, has been recently identified as glucosyltransferase to modify the low molecular mass GTPases Rac, Ras and Rap. We report here on LT produced by C. sordellii strain 6018 which glucosylates in addition to Rac, Ras and Rap the Ral protein. LT from strain VPI9048 however does not glucosylate Ral. Besides recombinant Ral, cellular Ral is also substrate. In the GDP-bound form, Ral is a superior substrate to the GTP form. Acceptor amino acid for glucose is threonine-46 which is equivalent to threonine-35 in H-Ras located in the effector region. The Ral-glucosylating toxin is a novel isoform of Ras-modifying clostridial cytotoxins.
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- F Hofmann
- Institut für Pharmakologie and Toxikologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Schmidt M, Bienek C, Rümenapp U, Zhang C, Lümmen G, Jakobs KH, Just I, Aktories K, Moos M, von Eichel-Streiber C. A role for Rho in receptor- and G protein-stimulated phospholipase C. Reduction in phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate by Clostridium difficile toxin B. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 1996; 354:87-94. [PMID: 8857584 DOI: 10.1007/bf00178707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Receptors coupled to heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins) activate phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P2)-hydrolyzing phospholipase C (PLC) enzymes by activated alpha of free beta gamma subunits of the relevant G proteins. To study whether low molecular weight G proteins of the Rho family are involved in receptor signaling to PLC, we examined the effect of Clostridium difficile toxin B, which glucosylates and thereby inactivates Rho proteins, on the regulation of PLC activity in human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells stably expressing the m3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) subtype. Toxin B treatment of HEK cells did not affect basal PLC activity, but potently and efficiently inhibited mAChR-stimulated inositol phosphate formation. PLC activation by the endogenously expressed thrombin receptor and by the direct G protein activators, A1F-4 and guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP gamma S), studied in intact and permeabilized cells, respectively, were also inhibited by toxin B treatment. C3 exoenzyme, which ADP-ribosylates Rho proteins, mimicked the inhibitory effect of toxin B on GTP gamma S-stimulated PLC activity. Finally both toxin B and C3 exoenzyme significantly reduced, by 40 to 50%, the total level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 in HEK cells, without affecting the levels of phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate. Accordingly, When PLC activity was measured with exogenous PtdIns(4,5)P2 as enzyme substrate, Ca(2+)- as well as GTP gamma S- or A1F-4-stimulated PLC activities were not altered by prior toxin B treatment. In conclusion, evidence is provided that toxin B and C3 exoenzyme, apparently by inactivating Rho proteins, inhibit G protein-coupled receptor signalling to PLC, most likely by reducing the cellular substrate supply.
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- M Schmidt
- Institut für Pharmakologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany
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An approximately 70-kDa protein in the culture supernatant of a human pathogenic strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae was labeled in the presence of [32P-adenylate]NAD. Labeling was significantly increased by the addition of dithiothreitol ( > 1 mM) but prevented by treatment of the culture supernatant for 3 min at 56 degrees C. The addition of unlabeled NAD, but not of ADP-ribose, blocked labeling of the approximately 70-kDa protein. The radioactive label was released by formic acid but not by HgCl2 (1 mM) or neutral hydroxylamine (0.5 M). The addition of homogenates of human platelets, human neutrophils, rat brain, rat lung, or rat spleen tissues to the culture supernatant did not induce labeling of eukaryotic proteins. The data indicate that the K. pneumoniae strain produces ADP-ribosyltransferase which modifies an endogenous protein.
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- U Geipel
- Abteilung Bakteriologie und Hygiene, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Homburg/Saar, Germany
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The lethal toxin (LT) from Clostridium sordellii belongs to the family of large clostridial cytotoxins causing morphological alterations in cultured cell lines accompanied by destruction of the actin cytoskeleton. C. sordellii LT exhibits 90% homology to Clostridium difficile toxin B, which has been recently identified as a monoglucosyltransferase (Just, I., Selzer, J., Wilm, M., von Eichel-Streiber, C., Mann, M., and Aktories, K. (1995) Nature 375, 500-503). We report here that LT too is a glucosyltransferase, which uses UDP-glucose as cosubstrate to modify low molecular mass GTPases. LT selectively modifies Rac and Ras, whereas the substrate specificity of toxin B is confined to the Rho subfamily proteins Rho, Rac, and Cdc42, which participate in the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton. In Rac, both toxin B and LT share the same acceptor amino acid, threonine 35. Glucosylation of Ras by LT results in inhibition of the epidermal growth factor-stimulated p42/p44 MAP-kinase signal pathway. LT is the first bacterial toxin to inactivate Ras in intact cells.
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- I Just
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Prepens U, Just I, von Eichel-Streiber C, Aktories K. Inhibition of Fc epsilon-RI-mediated activation of rat basophilic leukemia cells by Clostridium difficile toxin B (monoglucosyltransferase). J Biol Chem 1996; 271:7324-9. [PMID: 8631752 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.13.7324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [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: 02/01/2023] Open
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Treatment of rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) 2H3-hm1 cells with Clostridium difficile toxin B (2 ng/ml), which reportedly depolymerizes the actin cytoskeleton, blocked [3H]serotonin release induced by 2,4-dinitrophenyl-bovine serum albumin, carbachol, mastoparan, and reduced ionophore A23187-stimulated degranulation by about 55-60%. In lysates of RBL cells, toxin B 14C-glucosylated two major and one minor protein. By using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting, RhoA and Cdc42 were identified as protein substrates of toxin B. In contrast to toxin B, Clostridium botulinum transferase C3 that selectively inactivates RhoA by ADP-ribosylation did not inhibit degranulation up to a concentration of 150 microg/ml. Antigen-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of a 110-kDa protein was inhibited by toxin B as well as by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor wortmannin. Depolymerization of the microfilament cytoskeleton of RBL cells by C. botulinum C2 toxin or cytochalasin D resulted in an increased [3H]serotonin release induced by antigen, carbachol, mastoparan, or by calcium ionophore A23187, but without affecting toxin B-induced inhibition of degranulation. The data indicate that toxin B inhibits activation of RBL cells by glucosylation of low molecular mass GTP-binding proteins of the Rho subfamily (most likely Cdc42) by a mechanism not involving the actin cytoskeleton.
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- U Prepens
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
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van Damme J, Jung M, Hofmann F, Just I, Vandekerckhove J, Aktories K. Analysis of the catalytic site of the actin ADP-ribosylating Clostridium perfringens iota toxin. FEBS Lett 1996; 380:291-5. [PMID: 8601443 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00052-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 01/31/2023]
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The enzyme component of actin ADP-ribosylating Clostridium perfringens iota toxin was affinity labelled by UV irradiation in the presence of [carbonyl-14C]NAD. A peptide containing the radiolabel was generated by CNBr cleavage and subsequent proteolysis with trypsin. Its amino acid sequence is Gly-Ser-Pro-Gly-Ala-Tyr-Leu-Ser-Ala-Ile-Pro-Gly-Tyr-Ala-Gly-X-Tyr-Glu-Va l-Leu-Leu-Asn-His-Gly-Ser-Lys corresponding with the region Gly-363 through Lys-388 in the C. perfringens iota toxin. Mass spectrometric data as well as results of the PTH-amino acid analysis are in line with a modification of a glutamic acid side chain located at position 378. Therefore, in addition to Glu-380, as could be concluded by analogy with other ADP-ribosyltransferases, Glu-378 may play a pivotal role in the active site of C. perfringens iota toxin.
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- J van Damme
- Institute for Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gent, Belgium
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Kiefer G, Lerner M, Sehr P, Just I, Aktories K. Cytotoxic effects by microinjection of ADP-ribosylated skeletal muscle G-actin in PtK2 cells in the absence of Clostridium perfringens iota toxin. Med Microbiol Immunol 1996; 184:175-80. [PMID: 8811649 DOI: 10.1007/bf02456132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 02/02/2023]
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The ADP-ribosylating toxins Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin and C. perfringens iota toxin, which ADP-ribosylate monomeric G-actin at Arg-177 but not the polymeric F-actin, induce depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton in cultured cells. Since ADP-ribosylated G-actin has properties of a barbed-end-capping protein, we studied whether the ADP-ribosylated actin affects the actin cytoskeleton of PtK2 cells even in the absence of ADP-ribosylating toxin. Skeletal muscle actin was ADP-ribosylated by C. perfringens iota toxin and the toxin was removed using an anti-iota toxin antibody. Microinjection of ADP-ribosylated actin caused retraction of the cell body, redistribution and depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. The finding that ADP-ribosylated actin affects per se the actin cytoskeleton explains the cytopathic effects of ADP-ribosylating toxins on microfilaments, although F-actin is not directly modified by the toxins.
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- G Kiefer
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg-Saar, Germany
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Reuner KH, Dunker P, van der Does A, Wiederhold M, Just I, Aktories K, Katz N. Regulation of actin synthesis in rat hepatocytes by cytoskeletal rearrangements. Eur J Cell Biol 1996; 69:189-96. [PMID: 8907620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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- K H Reuner
- Institut fur Klinische Chemie und Pathobiochemie der Universitat Giessen, Germany
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Böhmer J, Jung M, Sehr P, Fritz G, Popoff M, Just I, Aktories K. Active site mutation of the C3-like ADP-ribosyltransferase from Clostridium limosum--analysis of glutamic acid 174. Biochemistry 1996; 35:282-9. [PMID: 8555186 DOI: 10.1021/bi951784+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 01/31/2023]
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Clostridium limosum ADP-ribosyltransferase modifies low molecular mass GTP-binding proteins of the Rho subtype family. Here we cloned and sequenced the gene of the transferase and expressed it in Escherichia coli. The gene encodes a protein of 250 amino acids (M(r) = 27,840), with a putative signal peptide of 45 amino acids, that shows about 60-65% identity with C3 transferases from Clostridium botulinum. The mature C. limosum transferase was expressed as a maltose-binding fusion protein in E. coli and purified to apparent homogeneity. To study the functional role of Glu174 of C. limosum transferase, which was recently photoaffinity-labeled with [carbonyl-14C]NAD [Jung, M., et al. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 23215-23218], two mutants E174D and E174Q were constructed by a polymerase chain reaction-based system. The E174D and E174Q mutants showed a dramatic decrease in kcat, but no major changes in Km,NAD. Furthermore, replacement of Glu174 by aspartic acid and glutamine largely reduced and completely blocked UV-induced incorporation of [carbonyl-14C]NAD into the transferase. The data indicate that Glu174 is an active site residue of C. limosum transferase.
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- J Böhmer
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg, Germany
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Rho proteins, which are involved in receptor-mediated regulation of the actin cytoskeleton, are substrates for ADP-ribosylation by Clostridium botulinum C3 toxins. Recently, it was shown that Rho and other members of the Rho subfamily of low-molecular-mass GTP-binding proteins are glucosylated by C. difficile toxins A and B. Glucosylation occurs at threonine-37, which is a crucial amino acid residue for the regulatory functions of the small GTP-binding proteins. These toxins should prove useful as tools for studying the functions of Rho proteins.
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- K Aktories
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Aktories K, Just I. Molecular mechanisms of bacterial toxins acting on the cytoskeleton. Toxicon 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)98358-3] [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: 10/18/2022]
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Schmalzing G, Richter HP, Hansen A, Schwarz W, Just I, Aktories K. Involvement of the GTP binding protein Rho in constitutive endocytosis in Xenopus laevis oocytes. J Cell Biol 1995; 130:1319-32. [PMID: 7559755 PMCID: PMC2120574 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.130.6.1319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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To study an endocytotic role of the GTP-binding protein RhoA in Xenopus oocytes, we have monitored changes in the surface expression of sodium pumps, the surface area of the oocyte and the uptake of the fluid-phase marker inulin. Xenopus oocytes possess intracellular sodium pumps that are continuously exchanged for surface sodium pumps by constitutive endo- and exocytosis. Injection of Clostridium botulinum C3 exoenzyme, which inactivates Rho by ADP-ribosylation, induced a redistribution of virtually all intracellular sodium pumps to the plasma membrane and increased the surface area of the oocytes. The identical effects were caused by injection of ADP-ribosylated recombinant RhoA into oocytes. The C3 exoenzyme acts by blocking constitutive endocytosis in oocytes, as determined using a mAb to the beta 1 subunit of the mouse sodium pump as a reporter molecule and oocytes expressing heterologous sodium pumps. In contrast, an increase in endocytosis and a decrease in the surface area was induced by injection of recombinant Val14-RhoA protein or Val14-rhoA cRNA. PMA stimulated sodium pump endocytosis, an effect that was blocked by a specific inhibitor of protein kinase C (Gö 16) or by ADP-ribosylation of Rho by C3. Similarly, the phorbol ester-induced increase in fluid-phase endocytosis in oocytes was inhibited by Gö 16, C3 transferase, or by injection of ADP-ribosylated RhoA. In contrast to C3 transferase, C. botulinum C2 transferase, which ADP-ribosylates actin, had no effect on sodium pump endocytosis or PMA-stimulated fluid-phase endocytosis. The data suggests that RhoA is an essential component of a presumably clathrin-independent endocytic pathway in Xenopus oocytes which can be regulated by protein kinase C.
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- G Schmalzing
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt, Germany
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