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Pushie MJ, Sylvain NJ, Hou H, George D, Kelly ME. Ion Dyshomeostasis in the Early Hyperacute Phase after a Temporary Large-Vessel Occlusion Stroke. ACS Chem Neurosci 2024. [PMID: 38743904 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00685] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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Element dysregulation is a pathophysiologic hallmark of ischemic stroke. Prior characterization of post-stroke element dysregulation in the photothrombotic model demonstrated significant element changes for ions that are essential for the function of the neurovascular unit. To characterize the dynamic changes during the early hyperacute phase (<6 h), we employed a temporary large-vessel occlusion stroke model. The middle cerebral artery was temporarily occluded for 30 min in male C57BL/6 mice, and coronal brain sections were prepared for histology and X-ray fluorescence microscopy from 5 to 120 min post-reperfusion. Ion dysregulation was already apparent by 5 min post-reperfusion, evidenced by reduced total potassium in the lesion. Later time points showed further dysregulation of phosphorus, calcium, copper, and zinc. By 60 min post-reperfusion, the central portion of the lesion showed pronounced element dysregulation and could be differentiated from a surrounding region of moderate dysregulation. Despite reperfusion, the lesion continued to expand dynamically with increasing severity of element dysregulation throughout the time course. Given that the earliest time point investigated already demonstrated signs of ion disruption, we anticipate such changes may be detectable even earlier. The profound ion dysregulation at the tissue level after reperfusion may contribute to hindering treatments aimed at functional recovery of the neurovascular unit.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Physics, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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Strausbaugh Hjelmstad A, Pushie MJ, Ruth K, Escobedo M, Kuter K, Haas KL. Investigating Cu(I) binding to model peptides of N-terminal Aβ isoforms. J Inorg Biochem 2024; 253:112480. [PMID: 38309203 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112480] [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: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 12/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides and copper (Cu) ions are each involved in critical biological processes including antimicrobial activity, regulation of synaptic function, angiogenesis, and others. Aβ binds to Cu and may play a role in Cu trafficking. Aβ peptides exist in isoforms that vary at their C-and N-termini; variation at the N-terminal sequence affects Cu binding affinity, structure, and redox activity by providing different sets of coordinating groups to the metal ion. Several N-terminal isoforms have been detected in human brain tissues including Aβ1-40/42, Aβ3-42, pEAβ3-42, Aβ4-42, Aβ11-40 and pEAβ11-40 (where pE denotes an N-terminal pyroglutamic acid). Several previous works have individually investigated the affinity and structure of Cu(I) bound to some of these isoforms' metal binding domains. However, the disparately reported values are apparent constants collected under different sets of conditions, and thus an integrated comparison cannot be made. The work presented here provides the Cu(I) coordination structure and binding affinities of these six biologically relevant Aβ isoforms determined in parallel using model peptides of the Aβ metal binding domains (Aβ1-16, Aβ3-16, pEAβ3-16, Aβ4-16, Aβ11-16 and pEAβ11-16). The binding affinities of Cu(I)-Aβ complexes were measured using solution competition with ferrozine (Fz) and bicinchoninic acid (BCA), two colorimetric Cu(I) indicators in common use. The Cu(I) coordination structures were characterized by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The data presented here facilitate comparison of the isoforms' Cu-binding interactions and contribute to our understanding of the role of Aβ peptides as copper chelators in healthy and diseased brains.
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
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Boseley RE, Sylvain NJ, Peeling L, Kelly ME, Pushie MJ. A review of concepts and methods for FTIR imaging of biomarker changes in the post-stroke brain. Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr 2024; 1866:184287. [PMID: 38266967 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2024.184287] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
Abstract
Stroke represents a core area of study in neurosciences and public health due to its global contribution toward mortality and disability. The intricate pathophysiology of stroke, including ischemic and hemorrhagic events, involves the interruption in oxygen and nutrient delivery to the brain. Disruption of these crucial processes in the central nervous system leads to metabolic dysregulation and cell death. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy can simultaneously measure total protein and lipid content along with a number of key biomarkers within brain tissue that cannot be observed using conventional techniques. FTIR imaging provides the opportunity to visualize this information in tissue which has not been chemically treated prior to analysis, thus retaining the spatial distribution and in situ chemical information. Here we present a review of FTIR imaging methods for investigating the biomarker responses in the post-stroke brain.
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- Rhiannon E Boseley
- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada.
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Hayes CA, Morgan NI, Thomas KC, Pushie MJ, Vijayasankar A, Ashmore BG, Wontor K, De Leon MA, Ashpole NM. Neuronal and Astrocyte Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Signaling Differentially Modulates Ischemic Stroke Damage. bioRxiv 2023:2023.04.02.535245. [PMID: 37034764 PMCID: PMC10081310 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.02.535245] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of death and disability, as therapeutic options for mitigating the long-term deficits precipitated by the event remain limited. Acute administration of the neuroendocrine modulator insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) attenuates ischemic stroke damage in preclinical models, and clinical studies suggest IGF-1 can reduce the risk of stroke and improve overall outcomes. The cellular mechanism by which IGF-1 exerts this protection is poorly defined, as all cells within the neurovascular unit express the IGF-1 receptor. We hypothesize that the functional regulation of both neurons and astrocytes by IGF-1 is critical in minimizing damage in ischemic stroke. To test this, we utilized inducible astrocyte-specific or neuron-specific transgenic mouse models to selectively reduce IGF-1R in the adult mouse brain prior to photothrombotic stroke. Acute changes in blood brain barrier permeability, microglial activation, systemic inflammation, and biochemical composition of the brain were assessed 3 hours following photothrombosis, and significant protection was observed in mice deficient in neuronal and astrocytic IGF-1R. When the extent of tissue damage and sensorimotor dysfunction was assessed for 3 days following stroke, only the neurological deficit score continued to show improvements, and the extent of improvement was enhanced with additional IGF-1 supplementation. Overall, results indicate that neuronal and astrocytic IGF-1 signaling influences stroke damage but IGF-1 signaling within these individual cell types is not required for minimizing tissue damage or behavioral outcome.
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- Cellas A. Hayes
- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 386671
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- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 386671
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- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 386671
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5 Canada
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- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 386671
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- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 386671
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, United States
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- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 386671
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- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 386671
- Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677
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Schulte NB, Pushie MJ, Martinez A, Sendzik M, Escobedo M, Kuter K, Haas KL. Exploration of the Potential Role of Serum Albumin in the Delivery of Cu(I) to Ctr1. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:4021-4034. [PMID: 36826341 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03753] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
Abstract
Human serum albumin (HSA) is the major copper (Cu) carrier in blood. The majority of previous studies that have investigated Cu interactions with HSA have focused primarily on the Cu(II) oxidation state. Yet, cellular Cu uptake by the human copper transport protein (Ctr1), a plasma membrane-embedded protein responsible for Cu uptake into cells, requires Cu(I). Recent in vitro work has determined that reducing agents, such as the ascorbate present in blood, are sufficient to reduce the Cu(II)HSA complex to form Cu(I)HSA and that Cu(I) is bound to HSA with pM affinity. The biological accessibility of Cu(I)HSA suggests that HSA-bound Cu(I) may be an unappreciated form of Cu cargo and a key player in extracellular Cu trafficking. To better understand Cu trafficking by HSA, we sought to investigate the exchange of Cu(I) from HSA to a model peptide of the Cu-binding ectodomain of Ctr1. In this study, we used X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy to show that Cu(I) becomes more highly coordinated as increasing amounts of the Ctr1-14 model peptide are added to a solution of Cu(I)HSA. Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy was used to further characterize the interaction of Cu(I)HSA with Ctr1-14 by determining the ligands coordinating Cu(I) and their bond lengths. The EXAFS data support that some Cu(I) likely undergoes complete transfer from HSA to Ctr1-14. This finding of HSA interacting with and releasing Cu(I) to an ectodomain model peptide of Ctr1 suggests a mechanism by which HSA delivers Cu(I) to cells under physiological conditions.
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- Natalie B Schulte
- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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Kundapur V, Mayer M, Auer RN, Alexander A, Weibe S, Pushie MJ, Cranmer-Sargison G. Is Mini Beam Ready for Human Trials? Results of Randomized Study of Treating De-Novo Brain Tumors in Canines Using Linear Accelerator Generated Mini Beams. Radiat Res 2022; 198:162-171. [PMID: 35536992 DOI: 10.1667/rade-21-00093.1] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Abstract
The main challenge in treating malignant brain neoplasms lies in eradicating the tumor while minimizing treatment-related damage. Conventional radiation treatments are associated with considerable side effects. Synchrotron generated micro-beam radiation (SMBRT) has shown to preserve brain architecture while killing tumor cells, however physical characteristics and limited facility access restrict its use. We have created a new clinical device which produces mini beams on a linear accelerator, to provide a new type of treatment called mini-beam radiation therapy (MBRT). The objective of this study is to compare the treatment outcomes of linear accelerator based MBRT versus standard radiation treatment (SRT), to evaluate the tumor response and the treatment-related changes in the normal brain with respect to each treatment type. Pet dogs with de-novo brain tumors were accrued for treatment. Dogs were randomized between standard fractionated stereotactic (9 Gy in 3 fractions) radiation treatment vs. a single fraction of MBRT (26 Gy mean dose). Dogs were monitored after treatment for clinical assessment and imaging. When the dogs were euthanized, a veterinary pathologist assessed the radiation changes and tumor response. We accrued 16 dogs, 8 dogs in each treatment arm. In the MBRT arm, 71% dogs achieved complete pathological remission. The radiation-related changes were all confined to the target region. Structural damage was not observed in the beam path outside of the target region. In contrast, none of the dogs in control group achieved remission and the treatment related damage was more extensive. Therapeutic superiority was observed with MBRT, including both tumor control and the normal structural preservation. The MBRT findings are suggestive of an immune related mechanism which is absent in standard treatment. These findings together with the widespread availability of clinical linear accelerators make MBRT a promising research topic to explore further treatment and clinical trial opportunities.
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- V Kundapur
- Radiation Oncology, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, Saskatoon Cancer Centre, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N4H4
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- Veterinary Radiation Oncology, Department of Small Animal clinical Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 0W8
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 0W8
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- Radiation Physics, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, Saskatoon Cancer Centre, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N4H4
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- Department of Clinical Imaging, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 0W8
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 0W8
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- Radiation Physics, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, Saskatoon Cancer Centre, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N4H4
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Pushie MJ, Sylvain NJ, Hou H, Hackett MJ, Kelly ME, Webb SM. X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Methods for Biological Tissues. Metallomics 2022; 14:6581349. [PMID: 35512669 PMCID: PMC9226457 DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfac032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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: 01/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Abstract
Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy is a flexible tool for identifying the distribution of trace elements in biological specimens across a broad range of sample sizes. The technique is not particularly limited by sample type and can be performed on ancient fossils, fixed or fresh tissue specimens, and in some cases even live tissue and live cells can be studied. The technique can also be expanded to provide chemical specificity to elemental maps, either at individual points of interest in a map or across a large field of view. While virtually any sample type can be characterized with X-ray fluorescence microscopy, common biological sample preparation methods (often borrowed from other fields, such as histology) can lead to unforeseen pitfalls, resulting in altered element distributions and concentrations. A general overview of sample preparation and data acquisition methods for X-ray fluorescence microscopy is presented, along with outlining the general approach for applying this technique to a new field of investigation for prospective new-users. Considerations for improving data acquisition and quality are reviewed as well as the effects of sample preparation, with a particular focus on soft tissues. The effects of common sample pre-treatment steps as well as the underlying factors that govern which, and to what extent, specific elements are likely to be altered are reviewed along with common artifacts observed in X-ray fluorescence microscopy data.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E5Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E5Canada.,Clinical Trial Support Unit, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W8Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E5Canada
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- Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, AUS.,School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, AUS
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E5Canada
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Pushie MJ, Messmer M, Sylvain NJ, Heppner J, Newton JM, Hou H, Hackett MJ, Kelly ME, Peeling L. Multimodal imaging of hemorrhagic transformation biomarkers in an ischemic stroke model. Metallomics 2022; 14:mfac007. [PMID: 35254441 PMCID: PMC9056027 DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfac007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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: 10/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
Abstract
Hemorrhagic transformation of ischemic stroke has devastating consequences, with high mortality and poor functional outcomes. Animal models of ischemic stroke also demonstrate the potential for hemorrhagic transformation, which complicates biochemical characterization, treatment studies, and hinders poststroke functional outcomes in affected subjects. The incidence of hemorrhagic transformation of ischemic stroke in animal model research is not commonly reported. The postmortem brain of such cases presents a complex milieu of biomarkers due to the presence of healthy cells, regions of varying degrees of ischemia, dead and dying cells, dysregulated metabolites, and blood components (especially reactive Fe species released from lysed erythrocytes). To improve the characterization of hemorrhage biomarkers on an ischemic stroke background, we have employed a combination of histology, X-ray fluorescence imaging (XFI), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic imaging to assess 122 photothrombotic (ischemic) stroke brains. Rapid freezing preserves brain biomarkers in situ and minimizes metabolic artifacts due to postmortem ischemia. Analysis revealed that 25% of the photothrombotic models had clear signs of hemorrhagic transformation. The XFI and FTIR metabolites provided a quantitative method to differentiate key metabolic regions in these models. Across all hemorrhage cases, it was possible to consistently differentiate otherwise healthy tissue from other metabolically distinct regions, including the ischemic infarct, the ischemic penumbra, blood vessels, sites of hemorrhage, and a region surrounding the hemorrhage core that contained elevated lipid oxidation. Chemical speciation of deposited Fe demonstrates the presence of heme-Fe and accumulation of ferritin.
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- M J Pushie
- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Clinical Trial Support Unit, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, AUS
- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, AUS
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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Hartnell D, Hollings A, Ranieri AM, Lamichhane HB, Becker T, Sylvain NJ, Hou H, Pushie MJ, Watkin E, Bambery KR, Tobin MJ, Kelly ME, Massi M, Vongsvivut J, Hackett MJ. Mapping sub-cellular protein aggregates and lipid inclusions using synchrotron ATR-FTIR microspectroscopy. Analyst 2021; 146:3516-3525. [PMID: 33881057 DOI: 10.1039/d1an00136a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Visualising direct biochemical markers of cell physiology and disease pathology at the sub-cellular level is an ongoing challenge in the biological sciences. A suite of microscopies exists to either visualise sub-cellular architecture or to indirectly view biochemical markers (e.g. histochemistry), but further technique developments and innovations are required to increase the range of biochemical parameters that can be imaged directly, in situ, within cells and tissue. Here, we report our continued advancements in the application of synchrotron radiation attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (SR-ATR-FTIR) microspectroscopy to study sub-cellular biochemistry. Our recent applications demonstrate the much needed capability to map or image directly sub-cellular protein aggregates within degenerating neurons as well as lipid inclusions within bacterial cells. We also characterise the effect of spectral acquisition parameters on speed of data collection and the associated trade-offs between a realistic experimental time frame and spectral/image quality. Specifically, the study highlights that the choice of 8 cm-1 spectral resolutions provide a suitable trade-off between spectral quality and collection time, enabling identification of important spectroscopic markers, while increasing image acquisition by ∼30% (relative to 4 cm-1 spectral resolution). Further, this study explores coupling a focal plane array detector with SR-ATR-FTIR, revealing a modest time improvement in image acquisition time (factor of 2.8). Such information continues to lay the foundation for these spectroscopic methods to be readily available for, and adopted by, the biological science community to facilitate new interdisciplinary endeavours to unravel complex biochemical questions and expand emerging areas of study.
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- David Hartnell
- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, 6845, Western Australia. and Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Bentley, 6102, Western Australia
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, 6845, Western Australia. and Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Bentley, 6102, Western Australia
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, 6845, Western Australia.
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, 6845, Western Australia.
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, 6845, Western Australia.
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada S7N 5E5
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada S7N 5E5
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada S7N 5E5
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- Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia 6845
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- ANSTO - Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
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- ANSTO - Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada S7N 5E5
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, 6845, Western Australia.
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- ANSTO - Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, 6845, Western Australia. and Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Bentley, 6102, Western Australia
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Sylvain NJ, Salman MM, Pushie MJ, Hou H, Meher V, Herlo R, Peeling L, Kelly ME. The effects of trifluoperazine on brain edema, aquaporin-4 expression and metabolic markers during the acute phase of stroke using photothrombotic mouse model. Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr 2021; 1863:183573. [PMID: 33561476 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Revised: 01/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Stroke is the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability globally. Edema is a hallmark of stroke resulting from dysregulation of water homeostasis in the central nervous system (CNS) and plays the major role in stroke-associated morbidity and mortality. The overlap between cellular and vasogenic edema makes treating this condition complicated, and to date, there is no pathogenically oriented drug treatment for edema. Water balance in the brain is tightly regulated, primarily by aquaporin 4 (AQP4) channels, which are mainly expressed in perivascular astrocytic end-feet. Targeting AQP4 could be a useful therapeutic approach for treating brain edema; however, there is no approved drug for stroke treatment that can directly block AQP4. In this study, we demonstrate that the FDA-approved drug trifluoperazine (TFP) effectively reduces cerebral edema during the early acute phase in post-stroke mice using a photothrombotic stroke model. This effect was combined with an inhibition of AQP4 expression at gene and protein levels. Importantly, TFP does not appear to induce any deleterious changes on brain electrolytes or metabolic markers, including total protein or lipid levels. Our results support a possible role for TFP in providing a beneficial extra-osmotic effect on brain energy metabolism, as indicated by the increase of glycogen levels. We propose that targeting AQP4-mediated brain edema using TFP is a viable therapeutic strategy during the early and acute phase of stroke that can be further investigated during later stages to help in developing novel CNS edema therapies.
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- Nicole J Sylvain
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Medical Sciences Division, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK.
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Neurotechnology Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Tham M, Frischer JM, Weigand SD, Fitz-Gibbon PD, Webb SM, Guo Y, Adiele RC, Robinson CA, Brück W, Lassmann H, Furber KL, Pushie MJ, Parisi JE, Lucchinetti CF, Popescu BF. Iron Heterogeneity in Early Active Multiple Sclerosis Lesions. Ann Neurol 2020; 89:498-510. [PMID: 33244761 PMCID: PMC7986227 DOI: 10.1002/ana.25974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a heterogeneous inflammatory demyelinating disease. Iron distribution is altered in MS patients' brains, suggesting iron liberation within active lesions amplifies demyelination and neurodegeneration. Whether the amount and distribution of iron are similar or different among different MS immunopatterns is currently unknown. METHODS We used synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging, histology, and immunohistochemistry to compare the iron quantity and distribution between immunopattern II and III early active MS lesions. We analyzed archival autopsy and biopsy tissue from 21 MS patients. RESULTS Immunopattern II early active lesions contain 64% more iron (95% confidence interval [CI] = 17-127%, p = 0.004) than immunopattern III lesions, and 30% more iron than the surrounding periplaque white matter (95% CI = 3-64%, p = 0.03). Iron in immunopattern III lesions is 28% lower than in the periplaque white matter (95% CI = -40 to -14%, p < 0.001). When normalizing the iron content of early active lesions to that of surrounding periplaque white matter, the ratio is significantly higher in immunopattern II (p < 0.001). Microfocused X-ray fluorescence imaging shows that iron in immunopattern II lesions localizes to macrophages, whereas macrophages in immunopattern III lesions contain little iron. INTERPRETATION Iron distribution and content are heterogeneous in early active MS lesions. Iron accumulates in macrophages in immunopattern II, but not immunopattern III lesions. This heterogeneity in the two most common MS immunopatterns may be explained by different macrophage polarization, origin, or different demyelination mechanisms, and paves the way for developing new or using existing iron-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging techniques to differentiate among immunopatterns in the general nonbiopsied MS patient population. ANN NEUROL 2021;89:498-510.
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- Mylyne Tham
- Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology/Cameco MS Neuroscience Research Centre, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology/Cameco MS Neuroscience Research Centre, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Saskatoon Health Region/College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Neuropathology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Neuroimmunology, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology/Cameco MS Neuroscience Research Centre, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology/Cameco MS Neuroscience Research Centre, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Stefaniak E, Pushie MJ, Vaerewyck C, Corcelli D, Griggs C, Lewis W, Kelley E, Maloney N, Sendzik M, Bal W, Haas KL. Exploration of the Potential Role for Aβ in Delivery of Extracellular Copper to Ctr1. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:16952-16966. [PMID: 33211469 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02100] [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] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides are notorious for their involvement in Alzheimer's disease (AD), by virtue of their propensity to aggregate to form oligomers, fibrils, and eventually plaques in the brain. Nevertheless, they appear to be essential for correct neurophysiology on the synaptic level and may have additional functions including antimicrobial activity, sealing the blood-brain barrier, promotion of recovery from brain injury, and even tumor suppression. Aβ peptides are also avid copper chelators, and coincidentally copper is significantly dysregulated in the AD brain. Copper (Cu) is released in significant amounts during calcium signaling at the synaptic membrane. Aβ peptides may have a role in maintaining synaptic Cu homeostasis, including as a scavenger for redox-active Cu and as a chaperone for clearing Cu from the synaptic cleft. Here, we employed the Aβ1-16 and Aβ4-16 peptides as well-established non-aggregating models of major Aβ species in healthy and AD brains, and the Ctr1-14 peptide as a model for the extracellular domain of the human cellular copper transporter protein (Ctr1). With these model peptides and a number of spectroscopic techniques, we investigated whether the Cu complexes of Aβ peptides could provide Ctr1 with either Cu(II) or Cu(I). We found that Aβ1-16 fully and rapidly delivered Cu(II) to Ctr1-14 along the affinity gradient. Such delivery was only partial for the Aβ4-16/Ctr1-14 pair, in agreement with the higher complex stability for the former peptide. Moreover, the reaction was very slow and took ca. 40 h to reach equilibrium under the given experimental conditions. In either case of Cu(II) exchange, no intermediate (ternary) species were present in detectable amounts. In contrast, both Aβ species released Cu(I) to Ctr1-14 rapidly and in a quantitative fashion, but ternary intermediate species were detected in the analysis of XAS data. The results presented here are the first direct evidence of a Cu(I) and Cu(II) transfer between the human Ctr1 and Aβ model peptides. These results are discussed in terms of the fundamental difference between the peptides' Cu(II) complexes (pleiotropic ensemble of open structures of Aβ1-16 vs the rigid closed-ring system of amino-terminal Cu/Ni binding Aβ4-16) and the similarity of their Cu(I) complexes (both anchored at the tandem His13/His14, bis-His motif). These results indicate that Cu(I) may be more feasible than Cu(II) as the cargo for copper clearance from the synaptic cleft by Aβ peptides and its delivery to Ctr1. The arguments in favor of Cu(I) include the fact that cellular Cu export and uptake proteins (ATPase7A/B and Ctr1, respectively) specifically transport Cu(I), the abundance of extracellular ascorbate reducing agent in the brain, and evidence of a potential associative (hand-off) mechanism of Cu(I) transfer that may mirror the mechanisms of intracellular Cu chaperone proteins.
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- Ewelina Stefaniak
- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States.,Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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Summers KL, Pushie MJ, Sopasis GJ, James AK, Dolgova NV, Sokaras D, Kroll T, Harris HH, Pickering IJ, George GN. Solution Chemistry of Copper(II) Binding to Substituted 8-Hydroxyquinolines. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:13858-13874. [PMID: 32936627 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
8-Hydroxyquinolines (8HQs) are a family of lipophilic metal ion chelators that have been used in a range of analytical and pharmaceutical applications over the last 100 years. More recently, CQ (clioquinol; 5-chloro-7-iodo-8-hydroxyquinoline) and PBT2 (5,7-dichloro-2-[(dimethylamino)methyl]-8-hydroxyquinoline) have undergone clinical trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease. Because CQ and PBT2 appear to redistribute metals into cells, these compounds have been redefined as copper and zinc ionophores. Despite the attention surrounding the clinical trials and the clear link between 8HQs and metals, the fundamental solution chemistry of how these compounds bind divalent metals such as copper and zinc, as well as their mechanism(s) of action in mammalian systems, remains poorly understood. In this study, we used a combination of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), high-energy resolution fluorescence detected (HERFD) XAS, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and UV-visible absorption spectroscopies to investigate the aqueous solution chemistry of a range of 8HQ derivatives. To circumvent the known solubility issues with 8HQ compounds and their complexes with Cu(II), and to avoid the use of abiological organic solvents, we have devised a surfactant buffer system to investigate these Cu(II) complexes in aqueous solution. Our study comprises the first comprehensive investigation of the Cu(II) complexes formed with many 8HQs of interest in aqueous solution, and it provides the first structural information on some of these complexes. We find that halogen substitutions in 8HQ derivatives appear to have little effect on the Cu(II) coordination environment; 5,7-dihalogenated 8HQ conformers all have a pseudo square planar Cu(II) bound by two quinolin-8-olate anions, in agreement with previous studies. Conversely, substituents in the 2-position of the 8HQ moiety appear to cause significant distortions from the typical square-planar-like coordination of most Cu(II)-bis-8HQ complexes, such that the 8HQ moieties in the Cu(II)-bis-8HQ complex are rotated approximately 30-40° apart in a "propeller-like" arrangement.
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- Kelly L Summers
- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.,Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C9, Canada
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.,Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada.,Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, 44 Campus Dr, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B3, Canada
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.,Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C9, Canada.,Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, 44 Campus Dr, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B3, Canada
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.,Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C9, Canada.,Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada
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Schilling KM, Tao L, Wu B, Kiblen JTM, Ubilla-Rodriguez NC, Pushie MJ, Britt RD, Roseman GP, Harris DA, Millhauser GL. Both N-Terminal and C-Terminal Histidine Residues of the Prion Protein Are Essential for Copper Coordination and Neuroprotective Self-Regulation. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:4408-4425. [PMID: 32473880 PMCID: PMC7387163 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
The cellular prion protein (PrPC) comprises two domains: a globular C-terminal domain and an unstructured N-terminal domain. Recently, copper has been observed to drive tertiary contact in PrPC, inducing a neuroprotective cis interaction that structurally links the protein's two domains. The location of this interaction on the C terminus overlaps with the sites of human pathogenic mutations and toxic antibody docking. Combined with recent evidence that the N terminus is a toxic effector regulated by the C terminus, there is an emerging consensus that this cis interaction serves a protective role, and that the disruption of this interaction by misfolded PrP oligomers may be a cause of toxicity in prion disease. We demonstrate here that two highly conserved histidines in the C-terminal domain of PrPC are essential for the protein's cis interaction, which helps to protect against neurotoxicity carried out by its N terminus. We show that simultaneous mutation of these histidines drastically weakens the cis interaction and enhances spontaneous cationic currents in cultured cells, the first C-terminal mutant to do so. Whereas previous studies suggested that Cu2+ coordination was localized solely to the protein's N-terminal domain, we find that both domains contribute equatorially coordinated histidine residue side-chains, resulting in a novel bridging interaction. We also find that extra N-terminal histidines in pathological familial mutations involving octarepeat expansions inhibit this interaction by sequestering copper from the C terminus. Our findings further establish a structural basis for PrPC's C-terminal regulation of its otherwise toxic N terminus.
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- Kevin M Schilling
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord St Silvio Conte., Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Rd B419, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord St Silvio Conte., Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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Pushie MJ, Stefaniak E, Sendzik MR, Sokaras D, Kroll T, Haas KL. Using N-Terminal Coordination of Cu(II) and Ni(II) to Isolate the Coordination Environment of Cu(I) and Cu(II) Bound to His13 and His14 in Amyloid-β(4-16). Inorg Chem 2019; 58:15138-15154. [PMID: 31657204 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
The amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is a cleavage product of the amyloid precursor protein and has been implicated as a central player in Alzheimer's disease. The N-terminal end of Aβ is variable, and different proportions of these variable-length Aβ peptides are present in healthy individuals and those with the disease. The N-terminally truncated form of Aβ starting at position 4 (Aβ4-x) has a His residue as the third amino acid (His6 using the formal Aβ numbering). The N-terminal sequence Xaa-Xaa-His is known as an amino terminal copper and nickel binding motif (ATCUN), which avidly binds Cu(II). This motif is not present in the commonly studied Aβ1-x peptides. In addition to the ATCUN site, Aβ4-x contains an additional metal binding site located at the tandem His residues (bis-His at His13 and 14) which is also found in other isoforms of Aβ. Using the ATCUN and bis-His motifs, the Aβ4-x peptide is capable of binding multiple metal ions simultaneously. We confirm that Cu(II) bound to this particular ATCUN site is redox silent, but the second Cu(II) site is redox active and can be readily reduced with ascorbate. We have employed surrogate metal ions to block copper coordination at the ATCUN or the tandem His site in order to isolate spectral features of the copper coordination environment for structural characterization using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy. This approach reveals that each copper coordination environment is independent in the Cu2Aβ4-x state. The identification of two functionally different copper binding environments within the Aβ4-x sequence may have important implications for this peptide in vivo.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Department of Surgery , University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon , Saskatchewan S7N 5E5 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics , Saint Mary's College , Notre Dame , Indiana 46556 , United States.,Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences , Pawińskiego 5a , 02-106 Warsaw , Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics , Saint Mary's College , Notre Dame , Indiana 46556 , United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , 2575 Sand Hill Road , Menlo Park , California 94025 , United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , 2575 Sand Hill Road , Menlo Park , California 94025 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics , Saint Mary's College , Notre Dame , Indiana 46556 , United States
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Stefaniak E, Płonka D, Drew SC, Bossak-Ahmad K, Haas KL, Pushie MJ, Faller P, Wezynfeld NE, Bal W. The N-terminal 14-mer model peptide of human Ctr1 can collect Cu(ii) from albumin. Implications for copper uptake by Ctr1. Metallomics 2019; 10:1723-1727. [PMID: 30489586 DOI: 10.1039/c8mt00274f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
Human cells acquire copper primarily via the copper transporter 1 protein, hCtr1. We demonstrate that at extracellular pH 7.4 CuII is bound to the model peptide hCtr11-14via an ATCUN motif and such complexes are strong enough to collect CuII from albumin, supporting the potential physiological role of CuII binding to hCtr1.
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- Ewelina Stefaniak
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland.
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McDonald AJ, Leon DR, Markham KA, Wu B, Heckendorf CF, Schilling K, Showalter HD, Andrews PC, McComb ME, Pushie MJ, Costello CE, Millhauser GL, Harris DA. Altered Domain Structure of the Prion Protein Caused by Cu 2+ Binding and Functionally Relevant Mutations: Analysis by Cross-Linking, MS/MS, and NMR. Structure 2019; 27:907-922.e5. [PMID: 30956132 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2019.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [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: 08/28/2018] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
The cellular isoform of the prion protein (PrPC) serves as precursor to the infectious isoform (PrPSc), and as a cell-surface receptor, which binds misfolded protein oligomers as well as physiological ligands such as Cu2+ ions. PrPC consists of two domains: a flexible N-terminal domain and a structured C-terminal domain. Both the physiological and pathological functions of PrP depend on intramolecular interactions between these two domains, but the specific amino acid residues involved have proven challenging to define. Here, we employ a combination of chemical cross-linking, mass spectrometry, NMR, molecular dynamics simulations, and functional assays to identify residue-level contacts between the N- and C-terminal domains of PrPC. We also determine how these interdomain contacts are altered by binding of Cu2+ ions and by functionally relevant mutations. Our results provide a structural basis for interpreting both the normal and toxic activities of PrP.
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- Alex J McDonald
- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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Pushie MJ, Kelly ME, Hackett MJ. Direct label-free imaging of brain tissue using synchrotron light: a review of new spectroscopic tools for the modern neuroscientist. Analyst 2019; 143:3761-3774. [PMID: 29961790 DOI: 10.1039/c7an01904a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
The incidence of brain disease and brain disorders is increasing on a global scale. Unfortunately, development of new therapeutic strategies has not increased at the same rate, and brain diseases and brain disorders now inflict substantial health and economic impacts. A greater understanding of the fundamental neurochemistry that underlies healthy brain function, and the chemical pathways that manifest in brain damage or malfunction, are required to enable and accelerate therapeutic development. A previous limitation to the study of brain function and malfunction has been the limited number of techniques that provide both a wealth of biochemical information, and spatially resolved information (i.e., there was a previous lack of techniques that provided direct biochemical or elemental imaging at the cellular level). In recent times, a suite of direct spectroscopic imaging techniques, such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM), and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) have been adapted, optimized and integrated into the field of neuroscience, to fill the above mentioned capability-gap. Advancements at synchrotron light sources, such as improved light intensity/flux, increased detector sensitivities and new capabilities of imaging/optics, has pushed the above suite of techniques beyond "proof-of-concept" studies, to routine application to study complex research problems in the field of neuroscience (and other scientific disciplines). This review examines several of the major advancements that have occurred over the last several years, with respect to FTIR, XFM and XAS capabilities at synchrotron facilities, and how the increases in technical capabilities have being integrated and used in the field of neuroscience.
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- M J Pushie
- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada
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Approximately 11% of enzymes contain a transition metal ion that is essential for catalytic function. Such metalloenzymes catalyze much of the most chemically challenging and biologically essential chemistry carried out by life. X-ray-based methods, predominantly macromolecular crystallography (MX) and also X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), have proved essential for determining structures of transition metal ion-containing active sites in order to deduce enzyme catalytic mechanisms. However, X-ray irradiation can induce change in both the oxidation state and structure of the metal, which is problematic in structure determination. We present an XAS study of whether cryoprotectants such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) or glycerol, routinely added to MX or XAS samples to improve data quality, affect photoreduction. Our data demonstrate a remarkable 10-fold exacerbation in rate of photoreduction of Cu(II) to Cu(I) when alcohol or ether cryoprotectants are present. Our results suggest that widespread use of cryoprotectants may increase the potential for erroneous structures.
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- Kurt H Nienaber
- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W8, Canada
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C9, Canada
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C9, Canada
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Warelow TP, Pushie MJ, Cotelesage JJH, Santini JM, George GN. The active site structure and catalytic mechanism of arsenite oxidase. Sci Rep 2017; 7:1757. [PMID: 28496149 PMCID: PMC5432002 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01840-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Arsenite oxidase is thought to be an ancient enzyme, originating before the divergence of the Archaea and the Bacteria. We have investigated the nature of the molybdenum active site of the arsenite oxidase from the Alphaproteobacterium Rhizobium sp. str. NT-26 using a combination of X-ray absorption spectroscopy and computational chemistry. Our analysis indicates an oxidized Mo(VI) active site with a structure that is far from equilibrium. We propose that this is an entatic state imposed by the protein on the active site through relative orientation of the two molybdopterin cofactors, in a variant of the Rây-Dutt twist of classical coordination chemistry, which we call the pterin twist hypothesis. We discuss the implications of this hypothesis for other putatively ancient molybdopterin-based enzymes.
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- Thomas P Warelow
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E5, Canada.,Molecular and Environmental Sciences Research Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, SK, S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Research Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, SK, S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Molecular and Environmental Sciences Research Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, SK, S7N 5E2, Canada. .,Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C9, Canada.
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Block E, Booker SJ, Flores-Penalba S, George GN, Gundala S, Landgraf BJ, Liu J, Lodge SN, Pushie MJ, Rozovsky S, Vattekkatte A, Yaghi R, Zeng H. Trifluoroselenomethionine: A New Unnatural Amino Acid. Chembiochem 2016; 17:1738-51. [PMID: 27383291 PMCID: PMC5373900 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201600266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 05/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Trifluoroselenomethionine (TFSeM), a new unnatural amino acid, was synthesized in seven steps from N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-l-aspartic acid tert-butyl ester. TFSeM shows enhanced methioninase-induced cytotoxicity, relative to selenomethionine (SeM), toward HCT-116 cells derived from human colon cancer. Mechanistic explanations for this enhanced activity are computationally and experimentally examined. Comparison of TFSeM and SeM by selenium EXAFS and DFT calculations showed them to be spectroscopically and structurally very similar. Nonetheless, when two different variants of the protein GB1 were expressed in an Escherichia coli methionine auxotroph cell line in the presence of TFSeM and methionine (Met) in a 9:1 molar ratio, it was found that, surprisingly, 85 % of the proteins contained SeM residues, even though no SeM had been added, thus implying loss of the trifluoromethyl group from TFSeM. The transformation of TFSeM into SeM is enzymatically catalyzed by E. coli extracts, but TFSeM is not a substrate of E. coli methionine adenosyltransferase.
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- Eric Block
- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12222, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 302 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 302 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 163 The Green, Newark, DE, 19716, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2, Canada
- College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 163 The Green, Newark, DE, 19716, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12222, USA
- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knoll Strasse 8, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12222, USA
- Atlanta Metropolitan State College, 1630 Metropolitan Parkway SW, Atlanta, GA, 30310, USA
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, 2420 2nd Avenue North, Grand Forks, ND, 58203, USA
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Panahifar A, Swanston TM, Jake Pushie M, Belev G, Chapman D, Weber L, Cooper DML. Three-dimensional labeling of newly formed bone using synchrotron radiation barium K-edge subtraction imaging. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:5077-5088. [PMID: 27320962 PMCID: PMC5173444 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/13/5077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Bone is a dynamic tissue which exhibits complex patterns of growth as well as continuous internal turnover (i.e. remodeling). Tracking such changes can be challenging and thus a high resolution imaging-based tracer would provide a powerful new perspective on bone tissue dynamics. This is, particularly so if such a tracer can be detected in 3D. Previously, strontium has been demonstrated to be an effective tracer which can be detected by synchrotron-based dual energy K-edge subtraction (KES) imaging in either 2D or 3D. The use of strontium is, however, limited to very small sample thicknesses due to its low K-edge energy (16.105 keV) and thus is not suitable for in vivo application. Here we establish proof-of-principle for the use of barium as an alternative tracer with a higher K-edge energy (37.441 keV), albeit for ex vivo imaging at the moment, which enables application in larger specimens and has the potential to be developed for in vivo imaging of preclinical animal models. New bone formation within growing rats in 2D and 3D was demonstrated at the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy bending magnet (BMIT-BM) beamline of the Canadian Light Source synchrotron. Comparative x-ray fluorescence imaging confirmed those patterns of uptake detected by KES. This initial work provides a platform for the further development of this tracer and its exploration of applications for in vivo development.
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- Arash Panahifar
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Evans EGB, Pushie MJ, Markham KA, Lee HW, Millhauser GL. Interaction between Prion Protein's Copper-Bound Octarepeat Domain and a Charged C-Terminal Pocket Suggests a Mechanism for N-Terminal Regulation. Structure 2016; 24:1057-67. [PMID: 27265848 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2016.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2016] [Revised: 04/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Copper plays a critical role in prion protein (PrP) physiology. Cu(2+) binds with high affinity to the PrP N-terminal octarepeat (OR) domain, and intracellular copper promotes PrP expression. The molecular details of copper coordination within the OR are now well characterized. Here we examine how Cu(2+) influences the interaction between the PrP N-terminal domain and the C-terminal globular domain. Using nuclear magnetic resonance and copper-nitroxide pulsed double electron-electron resonance, with molecular dynamics refinement, we localize the position of Cu(2+) in its high-affinity OR-bound state. Our results reveal an interdomain cis interaction that is stabilized by a conserved, negatively charged pocket of the globular domain. Interestingly, this interaction surface overlaps an epitope recognized by the POM1 antibody, the binding of which drives rapid cerebellar degeneration mediated by the PrP N terminus. The resulting structure suggests that the globular domain regulates the N-terminal domain by binding the Cu(2+)-occupied OR within a complementary pocket.
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- Eric G B Evans
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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Pushie MJ, Shaw K, Franz KJ, Shearer J, Haas KL. Model Peptide Studies Reveal a Mixed Histidine-Methionine Cu(I) Binding Site at the N-Terminus of Human Copper Transporter 1. Inorg Chem 2015; 54:8544-51. [PMID: 26258435 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Copper is a vital metal cofactor in enzymes that are essential to myriad biological processes. Cellular acquisition of copper is primarily accomplished through the Ctr family of plasma membrane copper transport proteins. Model peptide studies indicate that the human Ctr1 N-terminus binds to Cu(II) with high affinity through an amino terminal Cu(II), Ni(II) (ATCUN) binding site. Unlike typical ATCUN-type peptides, the Ctr1 peptide facilitates the ascorbate-dependent reduction of Cu(II) bound in its ATCUN site by virtue of an adjacent HH (bis-His) sequence in the peptide. It is likely that the Cu(I) coordination environment influences the redox behavior of Cu bound to this peptide; however, the identity and coordination geometry of the Cu(I) site has not been elucidated from previous work. Here, we show data from NMR, XAS, and structural modeling that sheds light on the identity of the Cu(I) binding site of a Ctr1 model peptide. The Cu(I) site includes the same bis-His site identified in previous work to facilitate ascorbate-dependent Cu(II) reduction. The data presented here are consistent with a rational mechanism by which Ctr1 provides coordination environments that facilitate Cu(II) reduction prior to Cu(I) transport.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.,Canadian Light Source Incorporated, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College , Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University , Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada , Reno, Nevada 895030, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Saint Mary's College , Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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Pushie MJ, Nienaber KH, McDonald A, Millhauser GL, George GN. Combined EXAFS and DFT structure calculations provide structural insights into the 1:1 multi-histidine complexes of Cu(II) , Cu(I) , and Zn(II) with the tandem octarepeats of the mammalian prion protein. Chemistry 2014; 20:9770-83. [PMID: 25042361 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201304201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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: 10/28/2013] [Revised: 04/06/2014] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The metal-coordinating properties of the prion protein (PrP) have been the subject of intense focus and debate since the first reports of its interaction with copper just before the turn of the century. The picture of metal coordination to PrP has been improved and refined over the past decade, but structural details of the various metal coordination modes have not been fully elucidated in some cases. In the present study, we have employed X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy as well as extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy to structurally characterize the dominant 1:1 coordination modes for Cu(II) , Cu(I) , and Zn(II) with an N-terminal fragment of PrP. The PrP fragment corresponds to four tandem repeats representative of the mammalian octarepeat domain, designated as OR4 , which is also the most studied PrP fragment for metal interactions, making our findings applicable to a large body of previous work. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have provided additional structural and thermodynamic data, and candidate structures have been used to inform EXAFS data analysis. The optimized geometries from DFT calculations have been used to identify potential coordination complexes for multi-histidine coordination of Cu(II) , Cu(I) , and Zn(II) in an aqueous medium, modelled using 4-methylimidazole to represent the histidine side chain. Through a combination of in silico coordination chemistry as well as rigorous EXAFS curve-fitting, using full multiple scattering on candidate structures derived from DFT calculations, we have characterized the predominant coordination modes for the 1:1 complexes of Cu(II) , Cu(I) , and Zn(II) with the OR4 peptide at pH 7.4 at atomic resolution, which are best represented as square-planar [Cu(II) (His)4 ](2+) , digonal [Cu(I) (His)2 ](+) , and tetrahedral [Zn(II) (His)3 (OH2 )](2+) , respectively.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E2 (Canada), Fax: (+1) 306-966-8593.
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McDonald A, Pushie MJ, Millhauser GL, George GN. New insights into metal interactions with the prion protein: EXAFS analysis and structure calculations of copper binding to a single octarepeat from the prion protein. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:13822-41. [PMID: 24102071 PMCID: PMC3890359 DOI: 10.1021/jp408239h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Copper coordination to the prion protein (PrP) has garnered considerable interest for almost 20 years, due in part to the possibility that this interaction may be part of the normal function of PrP. The most characterized form of copper binding to PrP has been Cu(2+) interaction with the conserved tandem repeats in the N-terminal domain of PrP, termed the octarepeats, with many studies focusing on single and multiple repeats of PHGGGWGQ. Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy has been used in several previous instances to characterize the solution structure of Cu(2+) binding into the peptide backbone in the HGGG portion of the octarepeats. All previous EXAFS studies, however, have benefitted from crystallographic structure information for [Cu(II) (Ac-HGGGW-NH2)(-2H)] but have not conclusively demonstrated that the complex EXAFS spectrum represents the same coordination environment for Cu(2+) bound to the peptide backbone. Density functional structure calculations as well as full multiple scattering EXAFS curve fitting analysis are brought to bear on the predominant coordination mode for Cu(2+) with the Ac-PHGGGWGQ-NH2 peptide at physiological pH, under high Cu(2+) occupancy conditions. In addition to the structure calculations, which provide a thermodynamic link to structural information, methods are also presented for extensive deconvolution of the EXAFS spectrum. We demonstrate how the EXAFS data can be analyzed to extract the maximum structural information and arrive at a structural model that is significantly improved over previous EXAFS characterizations. The EXAFS spectrum for the chemically reduced form of copper binding to the Ac-PHGGGWGQ-NH2 peptide is presented, which is best modeled as a linear two-coordinate species with a single His imidazole ligand and a water molecule. The extent of in situ photoreduction of the copper center during standard data collection is also presented, and EXAFS curve fitting of the photoreduced species reveals an intermediate structure that is similar to the Cu(2+) form with reduced coordination number.
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- Alex McDonald
- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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Pushie MJ, Zhang L, Pickering IJ, George GN. The fictile coordination chemistry of cuprous-thiolate sites in copper chaperones. Biochim Biophys Acta 2011; 1817:938-47. [PMID: 22056518 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2011] [Revised: 10/06/2011] [Accepted: 10/14/2011] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Copper plays vital roles in the active sites of cytochrome oxidase and in several other enzymes essential for human health. Copper is also highly toxic when dysregulated; because of this an elaborate array of accessory proteins have evolved which act as intracellular carriers or chaperones for the copper ions. In most cases chaperones transport cuprous copper. This review discusses some of the chemistry of these copper sites, with a view to some of the structural factors in copper coordination which are important in the biological function of these chaperones. The coordination chemistry and accessible geometries of the cuprous oxidation state are remarkably plastic and we discuss how this may relate to biological function. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Biogenesis/Assembly of Respiratory Enzyme Complexes.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N5E2
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Pushie MJ, Pickering IJ, Martin GR, Tsutsui S, Jirik FR, George GN. Prion protein expression level alters regional copper, iron and zinc content in the mouse brain. Metallomics 2011; 3:206-14. [PMID: 21264406 DOI: 10.1039/c0mt00037j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The central role of the prion protein (PrP) in a family of fatal neurodegenerate diseases has garnered considerable research interest over the past two decades. Moreover, the role of PrP in neuronal development, as well as its apparent role in metal homeostasis, is increasingly of interest. The host-encoded form of the prion protein (PrP(C)) binds multiple copper atoms via its N-terminal domain and can influence brain copper and iron levels. The importance of PrP(C) to the regulation of brain metal homeostasis and metal distribution, however, is not fully understood. We therefore employed synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence imaging to map the level and distributions of several key metals in the brains of mice that express different levels of PrP(C). Brain sections from wild-type, prion gene knockout (Prnp(-/-)) and PrP(C) over-expressing mice revealed striking variation in the levels of iron, copper, and even zinc in specific brain regions as a function of PrP(C) expression. Our results indicate that one important function of PrP(C) may be to regulate the amount and distribution of specific metals within the central nervous system. This raises the possibility that PrP(C) levels, or its activity, might regulate the progression of diseases in which altered metal homeostasis is thought to play a pathogenic role such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Wilson's diseases and disorders such as hemochromatosis.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Molecular and Environmental Science Research Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2, Canada.
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Pushie MJ, Shaykhutdinov R, Nazyrova A, Graham C, Vogel HJ. An NMR metabolomics study of elk inoculated with chronic wasting disease. J Toxicol Environ Health A 2011; 74:1476-1492. [PMID: 22043909 DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2011.618977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting both farmed and wild cervids, specifically deer and elk, and is a member of the larger family of prion diseases. Prion disease transmission is believed to occur through exposure to infectious prion material-a misfolded and infectious form of the prion protein that is normally present in the host. Chronic wasting disease is endemic to regions of central North America and infectious material can persist for long periods in the environment, posing challenges for remediation and monitoring. The current methods of detection are relatively invasive, require the host animal to be in intermediate to late stages of disease incubation, and are not without risk to those collecting samples. The potential for a blood test that could identify key biomarkers of disease incubation is of great interest. Serum from elk (Cervus elaphus) (n = 4) was collected on a monthly schedule before, and following, oral inoculation of CWD-positive homogenate, and collection continued until clinical signs were apparent. Blood was collected on the same schedule for a group of control animals (n = 2) housed under identical conditions. Targeted profiling, using (1)H-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, of serum metabolites was used to yield metabolite identification as well as quantitation. Hierarchical multivariate statistical orthogonal partial least-squares (O-PLS) models were generated to identify predictive components in the data. Due to the duration of the study (25 mo) a significant aging component was taken into account during analysis. Several metabolites were correlated with aging in elk inoculated with CWD, but not in the control group.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Biochemistry Research Group, Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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The physiologically vital enzyme sulfite oxidase employs rapid intramolecular electron transfer between a molybdenum ion in the C-terminal domain (the site of sulfite oxidation) and a heme moeity in the N-terminal domain to complete its catalytic cycle. Crystal structures of the enzyme show C- and N-terminal domain orientations that are not consistent with rapid intramolecular electron transfer. Domain motion has been postulated to explain this discrepancy. In the present work we employ molecular dynamics simulations to understand the large-scale domain motions of the enzyme. We observe motion of the N-terminal domain into an orientation similar to that postulated for rapid electron transfer. Our simulations also probe the dynamics of the active site and surrounding residues, adding a further level of structural and thermodynamic detail in understanding sulfite oxidase function.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Molecular and Environmental Science Research Group, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2, Canada
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Qiu JA, Wilson HL, Pushie MJ, Kisker C, George GN, Rajagopalan KV. The structures of the C185S and C185A mutants of sulfite oxidase reveal rearrangement of the active site. Biochemistry 2010; 49:3989-4000. [PMID: 20356030 DOI: 10.1021/bi1001954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sulfite oxidase (SO) catalyzes the physiologically critical conversion of sulfite to sulfate. Enzymatic activity is dependent on the presence of the metal molybdenum complexed with a pyranopterin-dithiolene cofactor termed molybdopterin. Comparison of the amino acid sequences of SOs from a variety of sources has identified a single conserved Cys residue essential for catalytic activity. The crystal structure of chicken liver sulfite oxidase indicated that this residue, Cys185 in chicken SO, coordinates the Mo atom in the active site. To improve our understanding of the role of this residue in the catalytic mechanism of sulfite oxidase, serine and alanine variants at position 185 of recombinant chicken SO were generated. Spectroscopic and kinetic studies indicate that neither variant is capable of sulfite oxidation. The crystal structure of the C185S variant was determined to 1.9 A resolution and to 2.4 A resolution in the presence of sulfite, and the C185A variant to 2.8 A resolution. The structures of the C185S and C185A variants revealed that neither the Ser or Ala side chains appeared to closely interact with the Mo atom and that a third oxo group replaced the usual cysteine sulfur ligand at the Mo center, confirming earlier extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS) work on the human C207S mutant. An unexpected result was that in the C185S variant, in the absence of sulfite, the active site residue Tyr322 became disordered as did the loop region flanking it. In the C185S variant crystallized in the presence of sulfite, the Tyr322 residue relocalized to the active site. The C185A variant structure also indicated the presence of a third oxygen ligand; however, Tyr322 remained in the active site. EXAFS studies of the Mo coordination environment indicate the Mo atom is in the oxidized Mo(VI) state in both the C185S and C185A variants of chicken SO and show the expected trioxodithiolene active site. Density functional theory calculations of the trioxo form of the cofactor reasonably reproducd the Mo horizontal lineO distances of the complex; however, the calculated Mo-S distances were slightly longer than either crystallographic or EXAFS measurements. Taken together, these results indicate that the active sites of the C185S and C185A variants are essentially catalytically inactive, the crystal structures of C185S and C185A variants contain a fully oxidized, trioxo form of the cofactor, and Tyr322 can undergo a conformational change that is relevant to the reaction mechanism. Additional DFT calculations demonstrated that such methods can reasonably reproduce the geometry and bond lengths of the active site.
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- James A Qiu
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Pushie MJ, Vogel HJ. A potential mechanism for Cu2+ reduction, beta-cleavage, and beta-sheet initiation within the N-terminal domain of the prion protein: insights from density functional theory and molecular dynamics calculations. J Toxicol Environ Health A 2009; 72:1040-1059. [PMID: 19697239 DOI: 10.1080/15287390903084389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The N-terminal region of the native human prion protein encompasses four highly conserved octarepeats that each contain a single His, Pro, Gln, and Trp residue as well as several Gly residues. At neutral pH these repeats are capable of individually binding copper (Cu(2+)) ions, involving the His side chain and the backbone amide of the Gly residues. In addition, the two His residues at positions 96 and 111 are also capable of binding Cu(2+). At low concentrations of the metal ion or at low pH, one Cu(2+) may be bound by multiple His residues of the four octarepeats. This complex is known to be redox active, while none of the other Cu(2+)-bound complexes are. Using density functional theory and molecular dynamics calculations data demonstrated how this form of the protein could reduce Cu(2+), through a process involving electron transfer from the Trp side chain. The reduced Cu gives rise to reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can lead to beta-cleavage of the prion protein chain at any of the Gly residues around position 90. Protein fragments of lengths similar to those arising from beta-cleavage are predominantly found in both healthy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)-affected brains. Models of Cu binding to the His96 and His111 residues also indicate that different modes of Cu(2+) binding result in formation of stable beta-hairpin structures in this region of the protein. It is postulated that through interactions with the C-terminal part of the protein these hairpins may initiate misfolding and yield more stable beta-sheet structures that might associate in the same fashion with additional prion proteins.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Structural Biology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Pushie MJ, Vogel HJ. Molecular dynamics simulations of two tandem octarepeats from the mammalian prion protein: fully Cu2+-bound and metal-free forms. Biophys J 2007; 93:3762-74. [PMID: 17704169 PMCID: PMC2084230 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.109512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [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: 11/18/2022] Open
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Molecular dynamics simulations have been conducted on a model fragment (Ac-PHGGGWGQPHGGGW-NH(2)) of the prion protein octarepeat domain, both in the Cu(2+)-bound and metal-free forms. The copper-bound models are based on the consensus structure of the core Cu(2+)-binding site of an individual octarepeat, relevant to the fully Cu(2+)-occupied prion protein octarepeat region. The model peptides contain Cu(2+) bound through a His imidazole ring and two deprotonated amide N-atoms in the peptide backbone supplied by the following two Gly residues. Both the copper-bound and metal-free models have been simulated with the OPLS all-atom force field with the GROMACS molecular dynamics package. These simulations, with two tandem copper-binding sites, represent the minimum model necessary to observe potential structuring between the copper-binding sites in the octarepeat region. The GWGQ residues constitute a flexible linker region that predominantly adopts a turn, serving to bring adjacent His residues into close proximity. The consequent formation of stable structures demonstrates that the copper-bound octarepeat region allows the copper-coordinating sites to come into van der Waals contact, packing into particular orientations to further stabilize the bend in the GWGQ linker region.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Structural Biology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Pushie MJ, Ross ARS, Vogel HJ. Mass spectrometric determination of the coordination geometry of potential copper(II) surrogates for the mammalian prion protein octarepeat region. Anal Chem 2007; 79:5659-67. [PMID: 17608450 DOI: 10.1021/ac070312l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [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: 11/30/2022]
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The N-terminal domain of mammalian prion proteins contains several tandem repeats of the octapeptide PHGGGWGQ, each one capable of selectively binding up to 1 equiv of Cu2+. Under saturating conditions Cu2+ is known to coordinate the HGG portion of the repeat sequence via the histidine imidazole side chain, two deprotonated amide N-atoms, and a backbone carbonyl O-atom. Using appropriate selection criteria, we have generated a short list of candidate metal ions (Co3+, Ni2+, Pd2+, Pt2+) that can serve as potential surrogates for Cu2+. The selected metal ions were screened for binding interactions with the OR-derived peptide fragment AcHGGGWNH2 (Ac = acetyl, amino acid residues in italics) using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. The coordination geometries of these metal ions with the synthetic OR peptide were subsequently determined from fragment analysis using collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry. Our results indicate that, although Co3+, Pd2+, and Pt2+ all bind to the OR fragment via the peptide backbone to varying extents, each of these metal ions appears to associate with the peptide in a unique manner, which is distinct from the way in which Cu2+ is coordinated. This work illustrates the extremely strong selectivity for Cu2+ of this highly conserved region of the mammalian prion protein.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Structural Biology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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Pushie MJ, Rauk A. Computational studies of Cu(II)[peptide] binding motifs: Cu[HGGG] and Cu[HG] as models for Cu(II) binding to the prion protein octarepeat region. J Biol Inorg Chem 2003; 8:53-65. [PMID: 12459899 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-002-0386-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2002] [Accepted: 06/03/2002] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The binding of Cu(II) to the prion protein is investigated by computations at the B3LYP level of theory on models of the octarepeat domain of the prion protein. The models incorporate the functionality of the glycine (G) and histidine (H) residues which occur in the octarepeat domain, PHGGGWGQ. The copper complexes are designated Cu[HG] and Cu[HGGG]. Coordination to the metal via the imidazole ring of the histidine, the amide carbonyl groups, and the backbone nitrogen atom of the amide groups were examined, as well as several protonation/deprotonation states of each structure. EPR and CD titration experiments suggest that the octarepeat segments of the unstructured N-terminal domain of prion protein can bind Cu(II) in a 1:1 Cu-to-octarepeat ratio. The results identify the extent to which the Cu(II) facilitates peptide backbone deprotonation, and the propensity of binding in the forward (toward the C-terminus) direction from the anchoring histidine residue. A plausible mechanism is suggested for changing from amide O-atom to deprotonated amide N-atom coordination, and for assembly of the observed species in solutions of Cu[PrP] and truncated models of it. A structure is proposed which has the N2O2 coordination pattern for the minor component observed experimentally by EPR spectroscopy for the Cu[HGGG] model. The most stable neutral Cu[HGGG] structure found, with coordination environment N3O1, corresponds to that observed for Cu[HGGGW] and Cu[HGGG] both in the solid state and as the major component in solution at neutral pH.
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- M Jake Pushie
- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2K 1N6, Canada
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