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Kumari A, Sutariya JA, Rathore AP, Rathore MS. The novel chaperonin 10 like protein (SbCPN10L) from Salicornia brachiata (Roxb.) augment the heat stress tolerance in transgenic tobacco. Gene 2024; 900:148139. [PMID: 38185292 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.148139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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The heat stress is a significant environmental challenge and impede the plant growth, development and productivity. The characterization and utilization of novel genes for improving stress tolerance represents a paramount approach in crop breeding. In the present study, we report on cloning of a novel heat-induced chaperonin 10-like gene (SbCPN10L) from Salicornia brachiata and elucidation of its in-planta role in conferring the heat stress endurance. The transgenic tobacco over-expressing SbCPN10L gene exhibited enhanced growth attributes such as higher rate of seed germination, germination and vigor index at elevated (35 ± 1 °C) temperature (eT). The SbCPN10L tobacco exhibited greenish and healthy seedling growth under stress. Compared with control tobacco at eT, the transgenic tobacco had higher water contents, membrane stability index, stress tolerance index and photosynthetic pigments. Lower electrolyte leakage and less accumulation of malondialdehyde, hydrogen peroxide and reactive oxygen species indicated better heat stress tolerance in transgenic tobacco over-expressing SbCPN10L gene. Transgenic tobacco accumulated higher contents of sugars, starch, amino acids and polyphenols at eT. The negative solute potential observed in transgenic tobacco contributed to maintain water content and support improved growth under stress. The up-regulation of NtAPX, NtPOX and NtSOD in transgenic tobacco under stress indicated higher ROS scavenging ability and better physiological conditioning. The results recommend the SbCPN10L gene as a potential candidate gene with an ability to confer heat stress tolerance for climate resilient crops.
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- Anupam Kumari
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, INDIA; Division of Applied Phycology and Biotechnology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364002, INDIA.
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- Division of Applied Phycology and Biotechnology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364002, INDIA.
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, INDIA; Division of Applied Phycology and Biotechnology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364002, INDIA.
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, INDIA; Division of Applied Phycology and Biotechnology, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364002, INDIA.
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Sklifasovskaya AP, Blagonravov ML. Small Heat Shock Proteins HSP10 and HSP27 in the Left Ventricular Myocardium in Rats with Arterial Hypertension and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus. Bull Exp Biol Med 2021; 170:699-705. [PMID: 33893951 DOI: 10.1007/s10517-021-05136-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We studied the expression of small heat shock proteins HSP10 and HSP27 in left ventricular cardiomyocytes in animals with arterial hypertension, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and their combination. The experiment was performed on 38-week-old male Wistar-Kyoto and 38-57-week-old SHR (spontaneously hypertensive) rats. Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus was modeled by single parenteral injection of streptozotocin (65 mg/kg). Expression of HSP10 and HSP27 in left ventricular cardiomyocytes was evaluated by immunohistochemical assay. It was found that the content of HSP10 in the left ventricular cardiomyocytes decreased in comparison with the control in case of isolated diabetes mellitus and, on the contrary, increased in case of arterial hypertension combined with diabetes mellitus. The intensity of HSP27 expression decreased in case of 38-week arterial hypertension and a combination of arterial hypertension with diabetes mellitus. However, in case of 57-week arterial hypertension we observed an increase in the content of HSP27 in cardiomyocytes.
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- A P Sklifasovskaya
- V. A. Frolov Department of General Pathology and Pathological Physiology, Institute of Medicine, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia
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- V. A. Frolov Department of General Pathology and Pathological Physiology, Institute of Medicine, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia.
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Kummari D, Bhatnagar-Mathur P, Sharma KK, Vadez V, Palakolanu SR. Functional characterization of the promoter of pearl millet heat shock protein 10 (PgHsp10) in response to abiotic stresses in transgenic tobacco plants. Int J Biol Macromol 2020; 156:103-110. [PMID: 32294498 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.04.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In the present study, the promoter region of the pearl millet heat shock protein 10 (PgHsp10) gene was cloned and characterized. The PgHsp10 promoter (PgHsp10pro) sequence region has all the cis-motifs required for tissue and abiotic stress inducibility. The complete PgHsp10pro (PgHsp10PC) region and a series of 5' truncations of PgHsp10 (PgHsp10D1 and PgHsp10D2) and an antisense form of PgHsp10pro (PgHsp10AS) were cloned into a plant expression vector (pMDC164) through gateway cloning. All four constructs were separately transformed into tobacco through Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation, and PCR-confirmed transgenic plants progressed to T1 and T2 generations. The T2 transgenic tobacco plants comprising all PgHsp10pro fragments were used for GUS histochemical and qRT-PCR assays in different tissues under control and abiotic stresses. The PgHsp10PC pro expression was specific to stem and seedlings under control conditions. Under different abiotic stresses, particularly heat stress, PgHsp10PCpro had relatively higher activity than PgHsp10D1pro, PgHsp10D2pro and PgHsp10ASpro. PgHsp10pro from a stress resilient crop like pearl millet responds positively to a range of abiotic stresses, in particular heat, when expressed in heterologous plant systems such as tobacco. Hence, PgHsp10pro appears to be a potential promoter candidate for developing heat and drought stress-tolerant crop plants.
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- Divya Kummari
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad 502 324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad 502 324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad 502 324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad 502 324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad 502 324, India.
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Seyed Hosseini Fin NA, Barshan-Tashnizi M, Sajjadi SM, Asgari S, Mohajerani N, Mirzahoseini H. The effects of overexpression of cytoplasmic chaperones on secretory production of hirudin-PA in E. coli. Protein Expr Purif 2019; 157:42-49. [PMID: 30708036 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2019.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The secretory production of heterologous proteins in E. coli has revolutionized biotechnology. Efficient periplasmic production of foreign proteins in E. coli often requires a signal peptide to direct proteins to the periplasm. However, the presence of attached signal peptide does not guarantee periplasmic expression of target proteins. Overproduction of auxiliary proteins, such as chaperones can be a useful approach to enhance protein export. In the current study, three chaperone plasmid sets, including GroEL-GroES (GroELS), Dnak-Dnaj-GrpE (DnaKJE), and trigger factor (TF), were coexpressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3) in a pairwise manner with two pET22-b vectors carrying the recombinant hirudin-PA (Hir) gene and different signal sequences alkaline phosphatase (PhoA) and l-asparaginase II (l-ASP). Overexpression of cytoplasmic combinations of molecular chaperones containing GroELS and DnaKJE with PhoAHir increased the secretory production of PhoAHir by 2.6fold (p < 0.05) and 3.5fold (p < 0.01) compared with their controls, respectively. By contrast, secretory production of PhoAHir significantly reduced in the presence of overexpressed TF (p = 0.02). Further, periplasmic expression of l-ASP was significantly increased only in the presence of DnaKJE (p = 0.04). These findings suggest that using molecular chaperones can be helpful for improving periplasmic expression of Hir. However, tagged signal peptides may affect the physicochemical properties and secondary and tertiary structures of mature Hir, which may alter their interactions with chaperones. Hence, using overexpressed chaperones has various effects on secretory production of PhoAHir and l-ASPHir.
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- Department of Life Science Engineering, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
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- Medical Biotechnology Department, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Biotechnology Department, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Biotechnology Department, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
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Tan Y, Zhang Y, Huo ZJ, Zhou XR, Pang BP. Molecular cloning of heat shock protein 10 (Hsp10) and 60 (Hsp60) cDNAs from Galeruca daurica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and their expression analysis. Bull Entomol Res 2018; 108:510-522. [PMID: 29081303 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485317001079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Galeruca daurica (Joannis) is a new outbreak pest in the Inner Mongolia grasslands in northern China. Heat shock protein 10 and 60 (Hsp10 and Hsp60) genes of G. daurica, designated as GdHsp10 and GdHsp60, were cloned by rapid amplification of cDNA ends techniques. Sequence analysis showed that GdHsp10 and GdHsp60 encoded polypeptides of 104 and 573 amino acids, respectively. Sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis clearly revealed that the amino acids of GdHsp10 and GdHsp60 had high homology and were clustered with other Hsp10 and Hsp60 genes in insects which are highly relative with G. daurica based on morphologic taxonomy. The mRNA expression analysis by real-time PCR revealed that GdHsp10 and GdHsp60 were expressed at all development stages and in all tissues examined, but expressed highest in eggs and in adults' abdomen; both heat and cold stresses could induce mRNA expression of GdHsp10 and GdHsp60 in the 2nd instar larvae; the two Hsp genes were expressed from high to low with the extension of treatment time in G. daurica eggs exposed to freezing point. Overall, our study provides useful information to understand temperature stress responses of Hsp60 and Hsp10 in G. daurica, and provides a basis to further study functions of Hsp60/Hsp10 relative to thermotolerance and cold hardiness mechanism.
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- Y Tan
- Research Center for Grassland Entomology,Inner Mongolian Agricultural University,Hohhot,010019,China
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- Research Center for Grassland Entomology,Inner Mongolian Agricultural University,Hohhot,010019,China
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- Research Center for Grassland Entomology,Inner Mongolian Agricultural University,Hohhot,010019,China
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- Research Center for Grassland Entomology,Inner Mongolian Agricultural University,Hohhot,010019,China
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- Research Center for Grassland Entomology,Inner Mongolian Agricultural University,Hohhot,010019,China
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Recently, several innovative approaches have been developed that allow one to directly screen or select for improved protein folding in the cellular context. These methods have the potential of not just leading to a better understanding of the in vivo folding process, they may also allow for improved production of proteins of biotechnological interest.
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- Veronika Sachsenhauser
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Clauss-Lendzian E, Vaishampayan A, de Jong A, Landau U, Meyer C, Kok J, Grohmann E. Stress response of a clinical Enterococcus faecalis isolate subjected to a novel antimicrobial surface coating. Microbiol Res 2017; 207:53-64. [PMID: 29458868 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2017.11.006] [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] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2016] [Revised: 04/21/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Emerging antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria, paired with their ability to form biofilms on medical and technical devices, represents a serious problem for effective and long-term decontamination in health-care environments and gives rise to an urgent need for new antimicrobial materials. Here we present the impact of AGXX®, a novel broad-spectrum antimicrobial surface coating consisting of micro-galvanic elements formed by silver and ruthenium, on the transcriptome of Enterococcus faecalis. A clinical E. faecalis isolate was subjected to metal stress by growing it for different periods in presence of the antimicrobial coating or silver-coated steel meshes. Subsequently, total RNA was isolated and next-generation RNA sequencing was performed to analyze variations in gene expression in presence of the antimicrobial materials with focus on known stress genes. Exposure to the antimicrobial coating had a large impact on the transcriptome of E. faecalis. After 24min almost 1/5 of the E. faecalis genome displayed differential expression. At each time-point the cop operon was strongly up-regulated, providing indirect evidence for the presence of free Ag+-ions. Moreover, exposure to the antimicrobial coating induced a broad general stress response in E. faecalis. Genes coding for the chaperones GroEL and GroES and the Clp proteases, ClpE and ClpB, were among the top up-regulated heat shock genes. Differential expression of thioredoxin, superoxide dismutase and glutathione synthetase genes indicates a high level of oxidative stress. We postulate a mechanism of action where the combination of Ag+-ions and reactive oxygen species generated by AGXX® results in a synergistic antimicrobial effect, superior to that of conventional silver coatings.
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- Emanuel Clauss-Lendzian
- Division of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Seestrasse 64, 13347 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Largentec GmbH, Am Waldhaus 32, 14129 Berlin, Germany
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- Largentec GmbH, Am Waldhaus 32, 14129 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; School of Life Sciences and Technology, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Seestrasse 64, 13347 Berlin, Germany.
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Horowitz S, Koldewey P, Stull F, Bardwell JC. Folding while bound to chaperones. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2017; 48:1-5. [PMID: 28734135 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2017.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Chaperones are important in preventing protein aggregation and aiding protein folding. How chaperones aid protein folding remains a key question in understanding their mechanism. The possibility of proteins folding while bound to chaperones was reintroduced recently with the chaperone Spy, many years after the phenomenon was first reported with the chaperones GroEL and SecB. In this review, we discuss the salient features of folding while bound in the cases for which it has been observed and speculate about its biological importance and possible occurrence in other chaperones.
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- Scott Horowitz
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging, University of Denver, 2155 E. Wesley Avenue, Denver, CO 80208, USA.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, 830 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Tiwari A, Singh P, Asthana RK. Role of calcium in the mitigation of heat stress in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120. J Plant Physiol 2016; 199:67-75. [PMID: 27302007 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The effects of exogenously added CaCl2 (0.25mM) on photopigments, photosynthetic O2-evolution, antioxidative enzyme activity, membrane damage, expression of two heat shock genes (groEL and groES) and apoptotic features in Anabaena 7120 under heat stress (45°C) for up to 24h were investigated. Heat stress lowered the level of photopigments; however, Ca2+--supplemented cultures showed a low level reduction in Chl a but induced accumulation of carotenoids and phycocyanin under heat stress. Photosynthetic O2-evolving capacity was maintained at a higher level in cells from Ca2+-supplemented medium. Among the antioxidative enzymes, superoxide dismutase activity was unaffected by the presence or absence of Ca2+ in contrast to increases in catalase, ascorbate peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities in cells grown in Ca2+-supplemented medium. Lower levels of lipid peroxidation were recorded in Anabaena cells grown in Ca2+-supplemented medium in comparison to cells from Ca2+--deprived medium. Target cells grown in Ca2+-deprived medium developed apoptotic features in the early stages of heat shock, while Ca2+ application seemed to interfere with apoptosis because only a few cells showed such features after 24 h of heat exposure, indicating a role for Ca2+ in maintaining cell viability under heat stress. There was also continuous up regulation of two important heat shock genes (groEL and groES) in Ca2+-supplemented cultures, exposed to heat shock, again indicating a role for Ca2+ in stress management.
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- Anupam Tiwari
- R.N. Singh Memorial Lab, Centre of Advanced study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- R.N. Singh Memorial Lab, Centre of Advanced study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- R.N. Singh Memorial Lab, Centre of Advanced study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India.
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Shi J, Fu M, Zhao C, Zhou F, Yang Q, Qiu L. Characterization and function analysis of Hsp60 and Hsp10 under different acute stresses in black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon. Cell Stress Chaperones 2016; 21:295-312. [PMID: 26637414 PMCID: PMC4786529 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-015-0660-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2015] [Revised: 11/05/2015] [Accepted: 11/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are a class of highly conserved proteins produced in virtually all living organisms from bacteria to humans. Hsp60 and Hsp10, the most important mitochondrial chaperones, participate in environmental stress responses. In this study, the full-length complementary DNAs (cDNAs) of Hsp60 (PmHsp60) and Hsp10 (PmHsp10) were cloned from Penaeus monodon. Sequence analysis showed that PmHsp60 and PmHsp10 encoded polypeptides of 578 and 102 amino acids, respectively. The expression profiles of PmHsp60 and PmHsp10 were detected in the gills and hepatopancreas of the shrimps under pH challenge, osmotic stress, and heavy metal exposure, and results suggested that PmHsp60 and PmHsp10 were involved in the responses to these stimuli. ATPase and chaperone activity assay indicated that PmHsp60 could slow down protein denaturation and that Hsp60/Hsp10 may be combined to produce a chaperone complex with effective chaperone and ATPase activities. Overall, this study provides useful information to help further understand the functional mechanisms of the environmental stress responses of Hsp60 and Hsp10 in shrimp.
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- Jinxuan Shi
- South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, China
- College of Aqua-life Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, China
- Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510300, China
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- South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, China
- Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510300, China
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- South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, China
- Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510300, China
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- South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, China
- Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510300, China
- Tropical Aquaculture Research and Development Center of South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Sanya, 572000, China
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- South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, China.
- Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510300, China.
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Illingworth M, Salisbury J, Li W, Lin D, Chen L. Effective ATPase activity and moderate chaperonin-cochaperonin interaction are important for the functional single-ring chaperonin system. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2015; 466:15-20. [PMID: 26271593 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.08.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 08/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Escherichia coli chaperonin GroEL and its cochaperonin GroES are essential for cell growth as they assist folding of cellular proteins. The double-ring assembly of GroEL is required for the chaperone function, and a single-ring variant GroEL(SR) is inactive with GroES. Mutations in GroEL(SR) (A92T, D115N, E191G, and A399T) have been shown to render GroEL(SR)-GroES functional, but the molecular mechanism of activation is unclear. Here we examined various biochemical properties of these functional GroEL(SR)-GroES variants, including ATP hydrolysis rate, chaperonin-cochaperonin interaction, and in vitro protein folding activity. We found that, unlike the diminished ATPase activity of the inactive GroEL(SR)-GroES, all four single-ring variants hydrolyzed ATP at a level comparable to that of the double-ring GroEL-GroES. The chaperonin-cochaperonin interaction in these single-ring systems was weaker, by at least a 50-fold reduction, than the highly stable inactive GroEL(SR)-GroES. Strikingly, only GroEL(SR)D115N-GroES and GroEL(SR)A399T-GroES assisted folding of malate dehydrogenase (MDH), a commonly used folding substrate. These in vitro results are interesting considering that all four of the single-ring systems were able to substitute GroEL-GroES to support cell growth, suggesting that the precise action of chaperonin on MDH folding may not represent that on the intrinsic cellular substrates. Our findings that both effective ATP hydrolysis rate and moderate chaperonin-cochaperonin interaction are important factors for functional single-ring GroEL(SR)-GroES are reminiscent of the naturally occurring single-ring human mitochondrial chaperonin mtHsp60-mtHsp10. Differences in biochemical properties between the single- and double-ring chaperonin systems may be exploited in designing molecules for selective targeting.
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- Melissa Illingworth
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 212 S. Hawthorne Dr., Simon Hall 305B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 212 S. Hawthorne Dr., Simon Hall 305B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 212 S. Hawthorne Dr., Simon Hall 305B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
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Park SJ, Jo DS, Shin JH, Kim ES, Jo YK, Choi ES, Seo HM, Kim SH, Hwang JJ, Jo DG, Koh JY, Cho DH. Suppression of Cpn10 increases mitochondrial fission and dysfunction in neuroblastoma cells. PLoS One 2014; 9:e112130. [PMID: 25390895 PMCID: PMC4229138 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 10/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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To date, several regulatory proteins involved in mitochondrial dynamics have been identified. However, the precise mechanism coordinating these complex processes remains unclear. Mitochondrial chaperones regulate mitochondrial function and structure. Chaperonin 10 (Cpn10) interacts with heat shock protein 60 (HSP60) and functions as a co-chaperone. In this study, we found that down-regulation of Cpn10 highly promoted mitochondrial fragmentation in SK-N-MC and SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. Both genetic and chemical inhibition of Drp1 suppressed the mitochondrial fragmentation induced by Cpn10 reduction. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in 3-NP-treated cells was markedly enhanced by Cpn10 knock down. Depletion of Cpn10 synergistically increased cell death in response to 3-NP treatment. Furthermore, inhibition of Drp1 recovered Cpn10-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction in 3-NP-treated cells. Moreover, an ROS scavenger suppressed cell death mediated by Cpn10 knockdown in 3-NP-treated cells. Taken together, these results showed that down-regulation of Cpn10 increased mitochondrial fragmentation and potentiated 3-NP-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction in neuroblastoma cells.
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- So Jung Park
- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
- Department of Genetic Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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- School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Asan Institute for Life Science, Institute for Innovative Cancer Research, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
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- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of East-West Medical Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea
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Rappa F, Sciume C, Lo Bello M, Bavisotto CC, Marino Gammazza A, Barone R, Campanella C, David S, Carini F, Zarcone F, Rizzuto S, Lena A, Tomasello G, Uzzo ML, Spatola GF, Bonaventura G, Leone A, Gerbino A, Cappello F, Bucchieri F, Zummo G, Farina F. Comparative analysis of Hsp10 and Hsp90 expression in healthy mucosa and adenocarcinoma of the large bowel. Anticancer Res 2014; 34:4153-4159. [PMID: 25075042] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Heat shock proteins (Hsps) assist other proteins in their folding and drive the degradation of defective proteins. During evolution, these proteins have also acquired other roles. Hsp10 is involved in immunomodulation and tumor progression. Hsp90 stabilizes a range of "client" proteins involved in cell signaling. The present study evaluated the expression levels of Hsp10 and Hsp90 in normal mucosa and adenocarcinoma samples of human large bowel. MATERIALS AND METHODS Samples of normal mucosa and adenocarcinoma were collected and Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction RT-PCR, western blotting (WB) analyses, as well as immunohistochemistry were performed to evaluate the expression levels of Hsp10 and Hsp90. RESULTS RT-PCR showed a higher gene expression of Hsp10 and Hsp90 in adenocarcinoma samples compared to healthy mucosa. WB results confirmed these findings. Immunohistochemistry revealed higher levels of Hsp10 in adenocarcinoma in both the epithelium and the lamina propria, while Hsp90 expression was higher in the adenocarcinoma samples only in the lamina propria. CONCLUSION Hsp10 and Hsp90 may be involved in large bowel carcinogenesis.
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- Francesca Rappa
- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Oncological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Oncological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Oncological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Oncological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy Department of Surgical and Oncological Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Histology and Embryology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Histology and Embryology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Histology and Embryology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Histology and Embryology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Histology and Embryology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Porowińska D, Czarnecka J, Komoszyński M. Chaperones are necessary for the expression of catalytically active potato apyrases in prokaryotic cells. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2014; 173:1349-59. [PMID: 24801402 PMCID: PMC4082312 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-014-0858-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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NTPDases (nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases) (also called in plants apyrases) hydrolyze nucleoside 5'-tri- and/or diphosphate bonds producing nucleosides di or monophosphate and inorganic phosphate. For years, studies have been carried out to use both plant and animal enzymes for medicine. Therefore, there is a need to develop an efficient method for the quick production of large amounts of homogeneous proteins with high catalytic activity. Expression of proteins in prokaryotic cells is the most common way for the protein production. The aim of our study was to develop a method of expression of potato apyrase (StAPY4, 5, and 6) genes in bacterial cells under conditions that allowed the production of catalytically active form of these enzymes. Apyrase 4 and 6 were overexpressed in BL21-CodonPlus (DE3) bacteria strain but they were accumulated in inclusion bodies, regardless of the culture conditions and induction method. Co-expression of potato apyrases with molecular chaperones allowed the expression of catalytically active apyrase 5. However, its high nucleotidase activity could be toxic for bacteria and is therefore synthesized in small amounts in cells. Our studies show that each protein requires other conditions for maturation and even small differences in amino acid sequence can essentially affect protein folding regardless of presence of chaperones.
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- Dorota Porowińska
- Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Biology and Environment Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Torun, Poland,
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Shang J, Wang Z, Li J. [Changes of protein expression in HepG2 cells with CDK2 RNA interference]. Xi Bao Yu Fen Zi Mian Yi Xue Za Zhi 2013; 29:359-363. [PMID: 23643165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of stable transfection of CDK2 siRNA on biological activities and nuclear proteins of human hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 cells. METHODS HepG2 cells were transfected with the eukaryotic expression vector of P(Genesil-1-CDK2); via RNA interference and selected for the ones with stable transfection. We observed the changes in the cell growth curve and cell cycle. The mRNA contents of CDK2 and differentially expressed nucleoproteins were detected and analyzed by RT-PCR and two-dimensional (2D) electrophoresis-mass spectrum (MS)-database, respectively. Western blotting were used to confirm the differential protein expressions. RESULTS Compared with P(HK-siRNA);-HepG2 and untransfected groups, the proliferation of HepG2 cells in P(CDK2-siRNA);-HepG2 group was significantly inhibited (P<0.01), and the expression of CDK2 mRNA significantly decreased in P(CDK2-siRNA);-HepG2 group. Four proteins not expressed in P(CDK2-siRNA);-HepG2 cells were detected by 2D electrophoresis-MS, and they were further confirmed by Western blotting. CONCLUSION CDK2 siRNA significantly suppressed CDK2 mRNA expression and the proliferation of HepG2 cells, four proteins not expressed in p(CDK2-siRNA);-HepG2 cells are similar to ribosomal protein S12, β-actin, zine finger 276 and chaperonin 10 related protein.
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- Jin Shang
- Department of Dermatology, Frist Affiliated Hospital, Baotou Medical College, Baotou Public Security Bureau, China.
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Anraku I, Rajasuriar R, Dobbin C, Brown R, Lewin SR, Suhrbier A. Circulating heat shock protein 60 levels are elevated in HIV patients and are reduced by anti-retroviral therapy. PLoS One 2012; 7:e45291. [PMID: 23028910 PMCID: PMC3460931 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2012] [Accepted: 08/15/2012] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Circulating heat shock protein 60 (Hsp60) and heat shock protein 10 (Hsp10) have been associated with pro- and anti-inflammatory activity, respectively. To determine whether these heat shock proteins might be associated with the immune activation seen in HIV-infected patients, the plasma levels of Hsp60 and Hsp10 were determined in a cohort of 20 HIV-infected patients before and after effective combination anti-retroviral therapy (cART). We show for the first time that circulating Hsp60 levels are elevated in HIV-infected patients, with levels significantly reduced after cART, but still higher than those in HIV-negative individuals. Hsp60 levels correlated significantly with viral load, CD4 counts, and circulating soluble CD14 and lipopolysaccharide levels. No differences or correlations were seen for Hsp10 levels. Elevated circulating Hsp60 may contribute to the immune dysfunction and non-AIDS clinical events seen in HIV-infected patients.
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- Itaru Anraku
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Sedláček I, Krejčí E, Andělová A, Sedláčková M, Porazilová I, Holochová P. Aeromonas hydrophila subsp. dhakensis--a causative agent of gastroenteritis imported into the Czech Republic. Ann Agric Environ Med 2012; 19:409-413. [PMID: 23020031] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Out of the twenty-one A. hydrophila complex isolates obtained during a routine examination of human diarrhoeal faeces, two A. hydrophila subsp. dhakensis isolates (P1097 = CCM 7329 and P1165) were successfully identified by ribotyping. The correct taxonomic position of the A. hydrophila subsp. dhakensis CCM 7329 was verified by cpn60 sequencing (GeneBank accession number HM536193). The remaining A. hydrophila complex isolates were identified as A. hydrophila subsp. hydrophila. The ability of biochemical tests and fatty acid methyl ester analysis to reliably discern both A. hydrophila subsp. dhakensis and A. hydrophila subsp. hydrophila was limited. In contrast to the A. hydrophila subsp. hydrophila, the faecal isolates of A. hydrophila subsp. dhakensis did not produce acid from arbutin. When compared in a two-dimensional plot, the A. hydrophila subsp. dhakensis faecal isolates contained higher amounts of the two minor fatty acids C(13:0) and C(17:1) ω8c than the A. hydrophila subsp. hydrophila reference strain. This is the first detected occurrence of the less frequent A. hydrophila subsp. dhakensis in our region and ribotyping was proved as a suitable method for the identification of A. hydrophila subsp. dhakensis.
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- Ivo Sedláček
- Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Department of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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OBJECTIVES To study the roles of heat shock proteins10 (HSP10) in the regulation of mouse ovarian granulose cell (GC) apoptosis, and to further define the possible roles of HSP10 in the development of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). METHODS Mouse HSP10 small interfering RNA (siRNA) and recombinant adenoviruses overexpressing HSP10 were constructed and subsequently transfected into cultured mouse ovarian GCs. After an infection period of 48 h, the expression levels of the HSP10 gene in mouse GCs were confirmed by Western blot. The GCs were also assessed for apoptosis using flow cytometry and the TUNEL assay. Apoptosis of GCs overexpressing HSP10 was assessed by flow cytometry after cisplatin treatment. RESULTS Compared with control group, the expression of HSP10 was decreased in mouse GCs infected with AdCMV-siRNA/HSP10, whereas mouse GCs infected with AdCMV-HSP10 showed increased HSP10 expression p < 0.05. Knock-down of HSP10 in mouse GCs significantly increased apoptosis (p < 0.05), whereas overexpression of HSP10 significantly suppressed apoptosis induced by cisplatin (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION In the present primary study, we have successfully employed recombinant adenovirus technologies to modulate HSP10 gene expression in mouse GCs, and examined the effects on apoptosis. Our experiments have demonstrated that knock-down of HSP10 induces apoptosis of mouse ovarian GCs, whereas overexpression of HSP10 suppresses apoptosis. These findings suggested that HSP10 may play a role in the regulation of apoptosis of mouse ovarian GCs.
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- Jing Ling
- Center of Clinical Reproductive Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Prakash JSS, Krishna PS, Sirisha K, Kanesaki Y, Suzuki I, Shivaji S, Murata N. An RNA helicase, CrhR, regulates the low-temperature-inducible expression of heat-shock genes groES, groEL1 and groEL2 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Microbiology (Reading) 2009; 156:442-451. [PMID: 19926653 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.031823-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The crhR gene for RNA helicase, CrhR, was one of the most highly induced genes when the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was exposed to a downward shift in ambient temperature. Although CrhR may be involved in the acclimatization of cyanobacterial cells to low-temperature environments, its functional role during the acclimatization is not known. In the present study, we mutated the crhR gene by replacement with a spectinomycin-resistance gene cassette. The resultant DeltacrhR mutant exhibited a phenotype of slow growth at low temperatures. DNA microarray analysis of the genome-wide expression of genes, and Northern and Western blotting analyses indicated that mutation of the crhR gene repressed the low-temperature-inducible expression of heat-shock genes groEL1 and groEL2, at the transcript and protein levels. The kinetics of the groESL co-transcript and the groEL2 transcript after addition of rifampicin suggested that CrhR stabilized these transcripts at an early phase, namely 5-60 min, during acclimatization to low temperatures, and enhanced the transcription of these genes at a later time, namely 3-5 h. Our results suggest that CrhR regulates the low-temperature-inducible expression of these heat-shock proteins, which, in turn, may be essential for acclimatization of Synechocystis cells to low temperatures.
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- Jogadhenu S S Prakash
- National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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Corrao S, Campanella C, Anzalone R, Farina F, Zummo G, Conway de Macario E, Macario AJL, Cappello F, La Rocca G. Human Hsp10 and Early Pregnancy Factor (EPF) and their relationship and involvement in cancer and immunity: current knowledge and perspectives. Life Sci 2009; 86:145-52. [PMID: 19913561 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2009.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2009] [Revised: 10/29/2009] [Accepted: 11/05/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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This article is about Hsp10 and its intracellular and extracellular forms focusing on the relationship of the latter with Early Pregnancy Factor and on their roles in cancer and immunity. Cellular physiology and survival are finely regulated and depend on the correct functioning of the entire set of proteins. Misfolded or unfolded proteins can cause deleterious effects and even cell death. The chaperonins Hsp10 and Hsp60 act together inside the mitochondria to assist protein folding. Recent studies demonstrated that these proteins have other roles inside and outside the cell, either together or independently of each other. For example, Hsp10 was found increased in the cytosol of different tumors (although in other tumors it was found decreased). Moreover, Hsp10 localizes extracellularly during pregnancy and is often indicated as Early Pregnancy Factor (EPF), which is released during the first stages of gestation and is involved in the establishment of pregnancy. Various reports show that extracellular Hsp10 and EPF modulate certain aspects of the immune response with anti-inflammatory effects in patients with autoimmune conditions improving clinically after treatment with recombinant Hsp10. Moreover, Hsp10 and EPF are involved in embryonic development, acting as a growth factor, and in cell proliferation/differentiation mechanisms. Therefore, it becomes evident that Hsp10 is not only a co-chaperonin, but an active player in its own right in various cellular functions. In this article, we present an overview of various aspects of Hsp10 and EPF as they participate in physiological and pathological processes such as the antitumor response and autoimmune diseases.
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- Simona Corrao
- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127, Palermo, Italy.
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Liu H, Kovács E, Lund PA. Characterisation of mutations in GroES that allow GroEL to function as a single ring. FEBS Lett 2009; 583:2365-71. [PMID: 19545569 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2009] [Revised: 06/05/2009] [Accepted: 06/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Han Liu
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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We previously reported a strategy for expression and purification of human Vasostatin120-180 (VAS), a potent angiogenesis inhibitor in a GST fusion form; however, the yield of 7.2 mg per liter of culture was relatively low. The aim of this study was to develop a more efficient system to improve and facilitate the production of VAS protein in a soluble and native form in Escherichia coli. The VAS gene with optimized condons was cloned into pET28a and overexpressed as a N-terminal His-tagged fusion protein. Between His-tag and VAS, an enterokinase recognition site was introduced to release the intact VAS. Optimal expression of soluble His-VAS was achieved by examining the contribution of chaperone coexpression and lower temperature fermentation. Ammonium sulfate precipitation was first employed to remove nucleic acid and partial host proteins. When further purified by Ni2+ affinity chromatography, 40 mg of His-VAS was isolated with purity over 85% from 1 L of culture. After desalting with Sephadex G15 and digestion with His-EK, followed by the removal of the His-tag and His-EK with Ni(2+)-NTA resin, 21 mg of intact VAS was finally obtained from 1 L of bacterial culture, which was approximately 3-fold the yield we previously obtained via GST fusion expression strategy. The identity of His-VAS and VAS was confirmed by Western blot. Purified VAS displayed distinct anti-angiogenic activity, which was shown by the endothelial cell proliferation inhibition assay and chicken chorioallantoic membrane assay. In sum, we greatly improved the yield of intact and bioactive VAS protein, and using this successful example, we propose a more efficient system for the high-level production of intact functional proteins, especially for low molecule weight peptides.
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- Qi-Ming Sun
- The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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We considered, on a global scale, the relationship between the predicted fraction of protein disorder and the RNA and protein expression in Escherichia coli. Fraction of protein disorder correlated positively with both measured RNA expression levels of E. coli genes in three different growth media and with predicted abundance levels of E. coli proteins. Though weak, the correlation was highly significant. Correlation of protein disorder with RNA expression did not depend on the growth rate of E. coli cultures and was not caused by a small subset of genes showing exceptionally high concordance in their disorder and expression levels. Global analysis was complemented by detailed consideration of several groups of proteins.
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- Oleg Paliy
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA.
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Chiang YC, Pai WY, Chen CY, Tsen HY. Use of primers based on the heat shock protein genes hsp70, hsp40, and hsp10, for the detection of bovine mastitis pathogens Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus uberis and Streptococcus bovis. Mol Cell Probes 2008; 22:262-6. [PMID: 18602244 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2008.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2008] [Revised: 05/15/2008] [Accepted: 05/15/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus uberis, and Streptococcus bovis are three of the major pathogens which cause mastitis in dairy herds. Since conventional methods for the detection of these mastitis pathogens are laborious and time-consuming, rapid methods are needed. With an attempt to know if heat shock protein (HSP) genes other than HSP60 gene, could be used for PCR primer designing, in this study, we tried to design PCR primers based on the heat shock protein genes hsp70, hsp40, and hsp10 for the specific detection of S. agalactiae, S. uberis, and S. bovis, respectively. Using these primers, all the randomly selected target strains could be specifically detected. Bacterial species other than the target organisms, including strains of other Streptococcus spp., and strains of non-Streptococcus spp., would not generate any false positive results. As these PCR primers were used for direct detection of mastitis pathogens, the detection limit was N (N=1-9) x 10(3)CFU/ml of cell dilutions. If a 10h pre-enrichment step was performed, the detection limit was N x 10(0)CFU/ml. Thus, these primers could be used for the specific and sensitive detection of bovine mastitis bacteria.
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- Yu-Cheng Chiang
- Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Hung Kuang University, Shalu, Taichung County 433, Taiwan, ROC
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Yagi H, Sato A, Yoshida A, Hattori Y, Hara M, Shimamura J, Sakane I, Hongo K, Mizobata T, Kawata Y. Fibril formation of hsp10 homologue proteins and determination of fibril core regions: differences in fibril core regions dependent on subtle differences in amino acid sequence. J Mol Biol 2008; 377:1593-606. [PMID: 18329043 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2007] [Revised: 01/10/2008] [Accepted: 02/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Heat shock protein 10 (hsp10) is a member of the molecular chaperones and works with hsp60 in mediating various protein folding reactions. GroES is a representative protein of hsp10 from Escherichia coli. Recently, we found that GroES formed a typical amyloid fibril from a guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn-HCl) unfolded state at neutral pH. Here, we report that other hsp10 homologues, such as human hsp10 (Hhsp10), rat mitochondrial hsp10 (Rhsp10), Gp31 from T4 phage, and hsp10 from the hyperthermophilic bacteria Thermotoga maritima, also form amyloid fibrils from an unfolded state. Interestingly, whereas GroES formed fibrils from either the Gdn-HCl unfolded state (at neutral pH) or the acidic unfolded state (at pH 2.0-3.0), Hhsp10, Rhsp10, and Gp31 formed fibrils from only the acidic unfolded state. Core peptide regions of these protein fibrils were determined by proteolysis treatment followed by a combination of Edman degradation and mass spectroscopy analyses of the protease-resistant peptides. The core peptides of GroES fibrils were identical for fibrils formed from the Gdn-HCl unfolded state and those formed from the acidic unfolded state. However, a peptide with a different sequence was isolated from fibrils of Hhsp10 and Rhsp10. With the use of synthesized peptides of the determined core regions, it was also confirmed that the identified regions were capable of fibril formation. These findings suggested that GroES homologues formed typical amyloid fibrils under acidic unfolding conditions but that the fibril core structures were different, perhaps owing to differences in local amino acid sequences.
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- Hisashi Yagi
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University, Koyama-Minami, Tottori 680-8552, Japan
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Huang Y, Choi MY, Au SWN, Au DMY, Lam VMS, Engel PC. Purification and detailed study of two clinically different human glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase variants, G6PD(Plymouth) and G6PD(Mahidol): Evidence for defective protein folding as the basis of disease. Mol Genet Metab 2008; 93:44-53. [PMID: 17959407 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2007.08.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2007] [Revised: 08/17/2007] [Accepted: 08/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In an attempt to investigate the molecular mechanism underlying human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency caused by two mutations, G6PD(Plymouth) (G163D) and G6PD(Mahidol) (G163S), the two variants were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis and expressed in G6PD-deficient E. coli DF 213 cells. A first indication of impaired folding came from problems in expressing these clinical mutants, which were only overcome by lowering the growth temperature or co-expressing with molecular chaperones (GroEL and GroES). Both strategies significantly increased soluble expression of recombinant G6PD(Plymouth) and G6PD(Mahidol), judged by both G6PD activity in extracts and the amount of immunoreactive protein. Using a modified 3-step protocol, the two mutant enzymes were successfully purified for the first time. Steady-state kinetic parameters (K(m) for NADP(+), K(m) for G6P and k(cat)) of the two mutants are very similar to the wild-type values, indicating that the catalytic efficiency of the two mutants remains unchanged. The two mutants are, however, markedly less stable than wild-type G6PD in both thermostability and urea-induced inactivation tests. In a typical experiment at 37 degrees C and pH 7.2 after 24h G6PD WT, G6PD(Mahidol) and G6PD(Plymouth) retained 58.3%, 27.0% and 3.9%, respectively, of their corresponding initial activity. The stability of all three enzymes is enhanced by addition of NADP(+). According to unfolding and refolding experiments, the two mutants are impaired in their folding properties. Thus structural instability appears to be the molecular basis of the clinical phenotype in G6PD(Plymouth) and G6PD(Mahidol) and in particular of the differing clinical severity of the two mutations. The 3-D structure solved for G6PD(Canton) allows an interpretation of these effects in terms of steric hindrance.
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- Yuxiang Huang
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Aravindhan V, Sulochana S, Narayanan S, Paramasivam CN, Narayanan PR. Identification & differentiation of Mycobacterium avium & M. intracellulare by PCR- RFLP assay using the groES gene. Indian J Med Res 2007; 126:575-579. [PMID: 18219086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE We report a new polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assay using mycobacterial groES as a target to identify Mycobacterium avium and M. intracellulare in clinical samples. METHODS The assay was standardized using M. avium and M. intracellulare standard strains obtained from ATCC and was tested with 45 M. avium-M. intracellulare complex (MAC) clinical isolates (Of which 31 were from HIV(+) individuals). The standard and clinical strains were typed with HPLC based mycolic acid fingerprinting. RESULTS Three polymorphisms (BamHI, BstNI and HgaI) were identified for inter-species differentiation among standard strains; of which, only HgaI was found to be useful in clinical isolates. Of the 45 isolates, 25 were M. avium and 20 were M. intracelluare. MAC isolates, which could not be differentiated by HPLC analysis, were also typed by this method. INTERPRETATION & CONCLUSION The use of mycobacterial groES as a PCR-RFLP target for M. avium and M. intracellulare is a simple and rapid method that can complement HPLC in their differentiation.
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Shih CJ, Lai MC. Analysis of the AAA+ chaperone clpB gene and stress-response expression in the halophilic methanogenic archaeon Methanohalophilus portucalensis. Microbiology (Reading) 2007; 153:2572-2583. [PMID: 17660421 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/007633-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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ClpB is a member of the protein-disaggregating chaperone machinery belonging to the AAA+ superfamily. This paper describes a new clpB gene from the halophilic methanoarchaeon Methanohalophilus portucalensis, which has not been reported previously in Archaea. The partial sequence of clpB was identified from the investigation of the salt-stress response of Meh. portucalensis by differential-display RT-PCR (DDRT-PCR). Furthermore, the complete clpB sequence (2610 nt) and its upstream genes encoding the type I chaperonin GroEL/ES were obtained through inverse PCR, Southern hybridization and sequencing. The G+C ratio of clpB is 49.6 mol%. The predicted ClpB polypeptide contains 869 aa and possesses a long central domain and a predicted distinctly discontinuous coiled-coil motif separating two nucleotide-binding domains (NBD1 and NBD2). NBD1 has a single Walker A and two Walker B motifs and NBD2 has only one of each Walker motif, a characteristic of HSP100 proteins. Two repeated Clp amino-terminal domain motifs (ClpN) were identified in ClpB. The putative amino acid sequence shared 75.6 % identity with the predicted clpB homologue annotated as ATPase AAA-2 of Methanococcoides burtonii DSM 6242. Preliminary phylogenetic analysis clustered Meh. portucalensis ClpB (MpClpB) with the low G+C Gram-positive bacteria. Stress response analysis of clpB by Northern blotting showed up to 1.5-fold increased transcription levels in response to both salt up-shock (from 2.1 to 3.1 M NaCl) and down-shock (from 2.1 to 0.9 M NaCl). Both clpB and groEL/ES transcript levels increased when the temperature was shifted from 37 degrees C to 55 degrees C. Under heat stress clpB transcription was repressed by the addition of the osmolyte betaine (1 mM). In conclusion, a novel AAA+ chaperone clpB gene from a halophilic methanogen that responded to the fluctuations in temperature, salt concentration and betaine has been identified and analysed for the first time.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Physiological/genetics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases/genetics
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Archaeal Proteins/biosynthesis
- Archaeal Proteins/genetics
- Base Composition
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Chaperonin 10/genetics
- Chaperonin 60/genetics
- Chaperonins/biosynthesis
- Chaperonins/genetics
- DNA, Archaeal/chemistry
- DNA, Archaeal/genetics
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Archaeal
- Heat-Shock Proteins/biosynthesis
- Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics
- Hot Temperature
- Methanosarcinaceae/genetics
- Methanosarcinaceae/metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sodium Chloride/metabolism
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- Chao-Jen Shih
- Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Greene D, Whitney S, Matsumura I. Artificially evolved Synechococcus PCC6301 Rubisco variants exhibit improvements in folding and catalytic efficiency. Biochem J 2007; 404:517-24. [PMID: 17391103 PMCID: PMC1896282 DOI: 10.1042/bj20070071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The photosynthetic CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase), is responsible for most of the world's biomass, but is a slow non-specific catalyst. We seek to identify and overcome the chemical and biological constraints that limit the evolutionary potential of Rubisco in Nature. Recently, the horizontal transfer of Calvin cycle genes (rbcL, rbcS and prkA) from cyanobacteria (Synechococcus PCC6301) to gamma-proteobacteria (Escherichia coli) was emulated in the laboratory. Three unique Rubisco variants containing single (M259T) and double (M259T/A8S, M259T/F342S) amino acid substitutions in the L (large) subunit were identified after three rounds of random mutagenesis and selection in E. coli. Here we show that the M259T mutation did not increase steady-state levels of rbcL mRNA or L protein. It instead improved the yield of properly folded L subunit in E. coli 4-9-fold by decreasing its natural propensity to misfold in vivo and/or by enhancing its interaction with the GroES-GroEL chaperonins. The addition of osmolites to the growth media enhanced productive folding of the M259T L subunit relative to the wild-type L subunit, while overexpression of the trigger factor and DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE chaperones impeded Rubisco assembly. The evolved enzymes showed improvement in their kinetic properties with the M259T variant showing a 12% increase in carboxylation turnover rate (k(c)cat), a 15% improvement in its K(M) for CO2 and no change in its K(M) for ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate or its CO2/O2 selectivity. The results of the present study show that the directed evolution of the Synechococcus Rubisco in E. coli can elicit improvements in folding and catalytic efficiency.
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- Dina N. Greene
- *Department of Biochemistry, Center for Fundamental and Applied Molecular Evolution, Emory University School of Medicine, Rollins Research Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, U.S.A
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- †Molecular Plant Physiology, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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- *Department of Biochemistry, Center for Fundamental and Applied Molecular Evolution, Emory University School of Medicine, Rollins Research Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, U.S.A
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Shahnawaz M, Thapa A, Park IS. Stable activity of a deubiquitylating enzyme (Usp2-cc) in the presence of high concentrations of urea and its application to purify aggregation-prone peptides. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 359:801-5. [PMID: 17560941 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.05.186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2007] [Accepted: 05/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chemical synthesis of long or aggregation-prone peptide has been problematic. Its biological production has an advantage in that point, but it often forms inclusion body which creates difficulties in recovery of targets. As a deubiquitylating enzyme (Usp2-cc) was shown in this study to maintain its activity even in the presence of up to 4M urea, target peptide was purified by a single step of chromatography after overexpression as inclusion body, solubilization in urea and cleavage by the enzyme from the fusion protein consisting of GroES (used for high expression and easy to handle), ubiquitin (as a cleavage site) and target peptide. This system is a convenient tool for production of peptides that are difficult to be chemically synthesized and biologically purified.
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- Mohammad Shahnawaz
- Research Center for Proteineous Materials, Department of Bio-materials Engineering, Chosun University, Gwanju 501-759, Republic of Korea
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Rezzonico E, Lariani S, Barretto C, Cuanoud G, Giliberti G, Delley M, Arigoni F, Pessi G. Global transcriptome analysis of the heat shock response of Bifidobacterium longum. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2007; 271:136-45. [PMID: 17419761 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00704.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Bifidobacteria are natural inhabitants of the human gastrointestinal tract and have been widely used as functional foods in different products. During industrial processing, bacterial cells undergo several stresses that can limit large-scale production and stability of the final product. To better understand the stress-response mechanisms of bifidobacteria, microarrays were used to obtain a global transcriptome profile of Bifidobacterium longum NCC2705 exposed to a heat shock treatment at 50 degrees C for 3, 7 and 12 min. Gene expression data highlighted a profound modification of gene expression, with 46% of the genes being altered. This analysis revealed a slow-down of Bi. longum general metabolic activity during stress with a simultaneous activation of the classical heat shock stimulon. Moreover, the expression of several genes with unknown function was highly induced under stress conditions. Three of these were conserved in other bacteria species where they were also previously shown to be induced by high temperature, suggesting their widespread role in the heat stress response. Finally, the implication of the trans-translation machinery in the response of Bi. longum cells to heat shock was suggested by the induction of the gene encoding the tmRNA-associated small protein B (SmpB) with concomitant high constitutive expression of the tmRNA gene.
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- Enea Rezzonico
- Nestlé Research Center, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Pérez-Rodríguez R, Fisher AC, Perlmutter JD, Hicks MG, Chanal A, Santini CL, Wu LF, Palmer T, DeLisa MP. An essential role for the DnaK molecular chaperone in stabilizing over-expressed substrate proteins of the bacterial twin-arginine translocation pathway. J Mol Biol 2007; 367:715-30. [PMID: 17280684 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2006] [Revised: 01/09/2007] [Accepted: 01/09/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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All secreted proteins in Escherichia coli must be maintained in an export-competent state before translocation across the inner membrane. In the case of the Sec pathway, this function is carried out by the dedicated SecB chaperone and the general chaperones DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE and GroEL-GroES, whose job collectively is to render substrate proteins partially or entirely unfolded before engagement of the translocon. To determine whether these or other general molecular chaperones are similarly involved in the translocation of folded proteins through the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system, we screened a collection of E. coli mutant strains for their ability to transport a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter through the Tat pathway. We found that the molecular chaperone DnaK was essential for cytoplasmic stability of GFP bearing an N-terminal Tat signal peptide, as well as for numerous other recombinantly expressed endogenous and heterologous Tat substrates. Interestingly, the stability conferred by DnaK did not require a fully functional Tat signal as substrates bearing translocation defective twin lysine substitutions in the consensus Tat motif were equally unstable in the absence of DnaK. These findings were corroborated by crosslinking experiments that revealed an in vivo association between DnaK and a truncated version of the Tat substrate trimethylamine N-oxide reductase (TorA502) bearing an RR or a KK signal peptide. Since TorA502 lacks nine molybdo-cofactor ligands essential for cofactor attachment, the involvement of DnaK is apparently independent of cofactor acquisition. Finally, we show that the stabilizing effects of DnaK can be exploited to increase the expression and translocation of Tat substrates under conditions where the substrate production level exceeds the capacity of the Tat translocase. This latter observation is expected to have important consequences for the use of the Tat system in biotechnology applications where high levels of periplasmic expression are desirable.
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Martins-de-Souza D, Martins D, Astua-Monge G, Coletta-Filho HD, Winck FV, Baldasso PA, de Oliveira BM, Marangoni S, Machado MA, Novello JC, Smolka MB. Absence of Classical Heat Shock Response in the Citrus Pathogen Xylella fastidiosa. Curr Microbiol 2007; 54:119-23. [PMID: 17211542 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0215-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2006] [Accepted: 07/24/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The fastidious bacterium Xylella fastidiosa is associated with important crop diseases worldwide. We have recently shown that X. fastidiosa is a peculiar organism having unusually low values of gene codon bias throughout its genome and, unexpectedly, in the group of the most abundant proteins. Here, we hypothesized that the lack of codon usage optimization in X. fastidiosa would incapacitate this organism to undergo quick and massive changes in protein expression as occurs in a classical stress response. Proteomic analysis of the response to heat stress in X. fastidiosa revealed that no changes in protein expression can be detected. Moreover, stress-inducible proteins identified in the closely related citrus pathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv citri were found to be constitutively expressed in X. fastidiosa. These proteins have extremely high codon bias values in the X. citri and other well-studied organisms, but low values in X. fastidiosa. Because biased codon usage is well known to correlate to the rate of protein synthesis, we speculate that the peculiar codon bias distribution in X. fastidiosa is related to the absence of a classical stress response, and, probably, alternative strategies for survival of X. fastidiosa under stressfull conditions.
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Heat shock protein 60 (HSP60) and HSP10 are mitochondrial chaperonin proteins and are responsible for the folding of newly imported proteins and 13 polypeptides encoded by mitochondrial DNA. The expressions of HSP60 and HSP10 are regulated simultaneously because these genes are localized head to head on chromosome, separated by a bidirectional promoter, which harbors heat shock element (HSE), CHOP, STAT3, and SP1 binding sites. In the present study, we show that the expressions of HSP60 and HSP10 in the brain after middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) are induced significantly. Interestingly, the expressions of HSP60 and HSP10 were further upregulated by the administration of aminoguanidine (AG), an inhibitor of the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), which is known to reduce ischemic damage in an animal model after MCAO. The results obtained in the present study suggest that HSP10 and HSP60 are induced in the postischemic brain, yet are downregulated by NO generated from 12 hr after MCAO/reperfusion. The downregulation of HSP60 and HSP10 by NO were confirmed in vitro, wherein HSP10 and SHP60 expressions were increased by treatment of LPS and IFN gamma (LPS/INF gamma) in C6 astroglioma cells and further upregulated by NMMA, another iNOS inhibitor. Reporter gene analysis combined with deletion and mutation studies showed that STAT3 binding site in the bidirectional promoter is responsible for LPS/INF gamma-induced upregulation and for downregulation by NO. Our results indicated that NO suppresses HSP60 and HSP10 inductions in the postischemic brain by suppressing STAT3 binding to its recognition site.
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- Seung-Woo Kim
- Department of Anatomy and Center for Advanced Medical Education (BK21 project), Inha University School of Medicine, Inchon, Korea
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Bonshtien AL, Weiss C, Vitlin A, Niv A, Lorimer GH, Azem A. Significance of the N-terminal domain for the function of chloroplast cpn20 chaperonin. J Biol Chem 2006; 282:4463-4469. [PMID: 17178727 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m606433200] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Chaperonins cpn60 and cpn10 are essential proteins involved in cellular protein folding. Plant chloroplasts contain a unique version of the cpn10 co-chaperonin, cpn20, which consists of two homologous cpn10-like domains (N-cpn20 and C-cpn20) that are connected by a short linker region. Although cpn20 seems to function like other single domain cpn10 oligomers, the structure and specific functions of the domains are not understood. We mutated amino acids in the "mobile loop" regions of N-cpn20, C-cpn20 or both: a highly conserved glycine, which was shown to be important for flexibility of the mobile loop, and a leucine residue shown to be involved in binding of co-chaperonin to chaperonin. The mutant proteins were purified and their oligomeric structure validated by gel filtration, native gel electrophoresis, and circular dichroism. Functional assays of protein refolding and inhibition of GroEL ATPase both showed (i) mutation of the conserved glycine reduced the activity of cpn20, whether in N-cpn20 (G32A) or C-cpn20 (G130A). The same mutation in the bacterial cpn10 (GroES G24A) had no effect on activity. (ii) Mutations in the highly conserved leucine of N-cpn20 (L35A) and in the corresponding L27A of GroES resulted in inactive protein. (iii) In contrast, mutant L133A, in which the conserved leucine of C-cpn20 was altered, retained 55% activity. We conclude that the structure of cpn20 is much more sensitive to alterations in the mobile loop than is the structure of GroES. Moreover, only N-cpn20 is necessary for activity of cpn20. However, full and efficient functioning requires both domains.
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- Anat L Bonshtien
- Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and the
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- Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and the.
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- Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and the
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- Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and the
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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- Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and the.
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Schlieper A, Anwar M, Heger J, Piper HM, Euler G. Repression of anti-apoptotic genes via AP-1 as a mechanism of apoptosis induction in ventricular cardiomyocytes. Pflugers Arch 2006; 454:53-61. [PMID: 17115225 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-006-0180-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2006] [Accepted: 10/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is increased under several pathophysiological, mainly inflammatory processes in the heart and has been characterized as an inducer of apoptosis in cardiomyocytes. The transcription factor activating protein-1 (AP-1) has been identified as a mediator of NO-induced apoptosis. Genes that are regulated by AP-1 under apoptotic conditions have not been identified yet. Therefore, we performed a microarray analysis with subsequent real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to identify genes regulated by AP-1 in NO-induced ventricular cardiomyocytes of rats and tested the functional role of these genes in apoptosis. Cardiomyocytes were transformed with AP-1 decoy oligonucleotides for inhibition of AP-1 activity. These, as well as non-transformed control cells, were stimulated with the NO donor (+/-)-S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP, 100 microM) for 2 h. Some of the genes with differential gene expression on microarrays were further analysed by real-time PCR. Genes that are induced by SNAP were not identified. However, four genes, pyridoxal kinase, heat shock protein 10 (Hsp10), antigen identified by monoclonal antibodies 4F2 (4F2) and myosin light chain 2, were downregulated by SNAP in presence of AP-1. Pyridoxal kinase, Hsp10 and 4F2 have anti-apoptotic effects in unstimulated cells because downregulation of their expression by antisense oligos induced apoptosis in cardiomyocytes. An involvement of these genes in NO-induced apoptosis could only be proven for pyridoxal kinase. In conclusion, using microarray technology, we identified three anti-apoptotic genes (Hsp10, 4F2 and pyridoxal kinase) in ventricular cardiomyocytes, which may help the cells to resist some apoptotic stimuli. The downregulation of these genes results in cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Prevention of their downregulation may protect cardiomyocytes against apoptotic stimuli, and this may be of therapeutic benefit.
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- A Schlieper
- Institute of Physiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Aulweg 129, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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Goyal K, Qamra R, Mande SC. Multiple gene duplication and rapid evolution in the groEL gene: functional implications. J Mol Evol 2006; 63:781-7. [PMID: 17103057 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-006-0037-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2006] [Accepted: 08/16/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The chaperonins, GroEL and GroES, are present ubiquitously and provide a paradigm in the understanding of assisted protein folding. Due to its essentiality of function, GroEL exhibits high sequence conservation across species. Complete genome sequencing has shown the occurrence of duplicate or multiple copies of groEL genes in bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Corynebacterium glutamicum. Monophyly of each bacterial clade in the phylogenetic tree generated for the GroEL protein suggests a lineage-specific duplication. The duplicated groEL gene in Actinobacteria is not accompanied by the operonic groES despite the presence of upstream regulatory elements. Our analysis suggests that in these bacteria the duplicated groEL genes have undergone rapid evolution and divergence to function in a GroES-independent manner. Evaluation of multiple sequence alignment demonstrates that the duplicated genes have acquired mutations at functionally significant positions including those involved in substrate binding, ATP binding, and GroES binding and those involved in inter-ring and intra-ring interactions. We propose that the duplicate groEL genes in different bacterial clades have evolved independently to meet specific requirements of each clade. We also propose that the groEL gene, although essential and conserved, accumulates nonconservative substitutions to exhibit structural and functional variations.
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- Kshama Goyal
- Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, ECIL Road, Nacharam, Hyderabad, 500 076, India
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Bross P, Li Z, Hansen J, Hansen JJ, Nielsen MN, Corydon TJ, Georgopoulos C, Ang D, Lundemose JB, Niezen-Koning K, Eiberg H, Yang H, Kølvraa S, Bolund L, Gregersen N. Single-nucleotide variations in the genes encoding the mitochondrial Hsp60/Hsp10 chaperone system and their disease-causing potential. J Hum Genet 2006; 52:56-65. [PMID: 17072495 DOI: 10.1007/s10038-006-0080-7] [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] [Received: 07/27/2006] [Accepted: 09/29/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Molecular chaperones assist protein folding, and variations in their encoding genes may be disease-causing in themselves or influence the phenotypic expression of disease-associated or susceptibility-conferring variations in many different genes. We have screened three candidate patient groups for variations in the HSPD1 and HSPE1 genes encoding the mitochondrial Hsp60/Hsp10 chaperone complex: two patients with multiple mitochondrial enzyme deficiency, 61 sudden infant death syndrome cases (MIM: #272120), and 60 patients presenting with ethylmalonic aciduria carrying non-synonymous susceptibility variations in the ACADS gene (MIM: *606885 and #201470). Besides previously reported variations we detected six novel variations: two in the bidirectional promoter region, and one synonymous and three non-synonymous variations in the HSPD1 coding region. One of the non-synonymous variations was polymorphic in patient and control samples, and the rare variations were each only found in single patients and absent in 100 control chromosomes. Functional investigation of the effects of the variations in the promoter region and the non-synonymous variations in the coding region indicated that none of them had a significant impact. Taken together, our data argue against the notion that the chaperonin genes play a major role in the investigated diseases. However, the described variations may represent genetic modifiers with subtle effects.
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- Peter Bross
- Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Brendstrupgaardsvej 100, 8200, Århus N, Denmark.
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- Bejing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Brendstrupgaardsvej 100, 8200, Århus N, Denmark
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- Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Brendstrupgaardsvej 100, 8200, Århus N, Denmark
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Brendstrupgaardsvej 100, 8200, Århus N, Denmark
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Centre Médical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Centre Médical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Drug Exploration (GUIDE), University Hospital Groningen and Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bejing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Vejle Hospital, 7100, Vejle, Denmark
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- Bejing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Brendstrupgaardsvej 100, 8200, Århus N, Denmark
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Luke K, Perham M, Wittung-Stafshede P. Kinetic Folding and Assembly Mechanisms Differ for Two Homologous Heptamers. J Mol Biol 2006; 363:729-42. [PMID: 16979655 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.08.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2006] [Revised: 08/15/2006] [Accepted: 08/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Here we investigate the time-resolved folding and assembly mechanism of the heptameric co-chaperonin protein 10 (cpn10) in vitro. The structure of cpn10 is conserved throughout nature: seven beta-barrel subunits are non-covalently assembled through beta-strand pairings in an overall doughnut-like shape. Kinetic folding/assembly experiments of chemically denatured cpn10 from Homo sapiens (hmcpn10) and Aquifex aeolicus (Aacpn10) were monitored by far-UV circular dichroism and fluorescence. We find the processes to be complex, involving several kinetic steps, and to differ between the mesophilic and hyper-thermophilic proteins. The hmcpn10 molecules partition into two parallel pathways, one involving polypeptide folding before protein-protein assembly and another in which inter-protein interactions take place prior to folding. In contrast, the Aacpn10 molecules follow a single sequential path that includes initial monomer misfolding, relaxation to productive intermediates and, subsequently, final folding and heptamer assembly. An A. aeolicus variant lacking the unique C-terminal extension of Aacpn10 displays the same kinetic mechanism as Aacpn10, signifying that the tail is not responsible for the rapid misfolding step. This study demonstrates that molecular details can overrule similarity of native-state topology in defining apparent protein-biophysical properties.
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- Kathryn Luke
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77251, USA
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Amadori M, Ritelli M, Tagliabue S, Pacciarini ML. Macrophage cell cultures for rapid isolation of intracellular bacteria: the Mycobacterium bovis model. Methods Mol Biol 2006; 345:203-17. [PMID: 16957358 DOI: 10.1385/1-59745-143-6:203] [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] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Isolation of Mycobacterium bovis from suspected cases of bovine tuberculosis demands laborious and time-consuming procedures. Also, direct PCR procedures on tissue samples show poor sensitivity, whereas radiometric and fluorescence-based identification procedures demand high running costs and do not reduce the time needed for isolation to less than 10 to 15 d. Owing to the aforementioned obstacles, the human macrophage cell line THP-1 and other macrophage cell lines were investigated in experiments of M. bovis propagation and isolation from organ samples. Macrophage cells can support a high-titered propagation within 48 h of minute amounts of both BCG and fully pathogenic M. bovis strains from organ samples. A proper antibiotic mixture prevents contamination of cell cultures. A seminested PCR for tuberculosis complex-specific insertion sequence IS6110 revealed M. bovis infection in infected cells. The same result can be obtained by a flow cytometry assay for expression of M. bovis chaperonin 10. The reduced time for isolation and identification of M. bovis (48-72 h) and the consistency of the test results make the use of macrophage cell lines attractive and cost-effective for veterinary laboratories involved in surveillance of bovine tuberculosis.
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- Massimo Amadori
- Department of Immunopropylaxis and Animal Welfare, Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy
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Nishida N, Motojima F, Idota M, Fujikawa H, Yoshida M, Shimada I, Kato K. Probing dynamics and conformational change of the GroEL-GroES complex by 13C NMR spectroscopy. J Biochem 2006; 140:591-8. [PMID: 16963786 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bacterial chaperonin GroEL with a molecular mass of 800 kDa was studied by (13)C NMR spectroscopy. Carbonyl carbons of GroEL were labeled with (13)C in an amino acid specific manner in order to reduce the number of signals to be observed in the spectrum. Combination of selective labeling and site-directed mutagenesis enabled us to establish the sequence specific assignment of the (13)C resonances from GroEL. ADP-binding induced a chemical shift change of Tyr478 in the equatorial domain and His401 in the intermediate domain, but little of Tyr203 in the apical domain. Upon complex formation with co-chaperonin GroES in the presence of ADP, Tyr478 exhibits two peaks that would originate from the cis and trans rings of the asymmetric GroEL-GroES complex. Comparison between the line width of the GroEL resonances and those from GroES in complex with GroEL revealed broadening disproportionate to the size of GroEL, implying the existence of conformational fluctuations which may be pertinent to the chaperone activity. Based on these results, we concluded that (13)C NMR observation in combination with selective labeling and site-directed mutagenesis can be utilized for probing the conformational change and dynamics of the extremely large molecules that are inaccessible with current NMR methods.
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- Noritaka Nishida
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan
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Kim SY, Semyonov AN, Twieg RJ, Horwich AL, Frydman J, Moerner WE. Probing the sequence of conformationally induced polarity changes in the molecular chaperonin GroEL with fluorescence spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2006; 109:24517-25. [PMID: 16375456 PMCID: PMC1414071 DOI: 10.1021/jp0534232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydrophobic interactions play a major role in binding non-native substrate proteins in the central cavity of the bacterial chaperonin GroEL. The sequence of local conformational changes by which GroEL and its cofactor GroES assist protein folding can be explored using the polarity-sensitive fluorescence probe Nile Red. A specific single-cysteine mutant of GroEL (Cys261), whose cysteine is located inside the central cavity at the apical region of the protein, was covalently labeled with synthetically prepared Nile Red maleimide (NR). Bulk fluorescence spectra of Cys261-NR were measured to examine the effects of binding of the stringent substrate, malate dehydrogenase (MDH), GroES, and nucleotide on the local environment of the probe. After binding denatured substrate, the fluorescence intensity increased by 32 +/- 7%, suggesting enhanced hydrophobicity at the position of the label. On the other hand, in the presence of ATP, the fluorescence intensity decreased by 13 +/- 3%, implying increased local polarity. To explore the sequence of local polarity changes, substrate, GroES, and various nucleotides were added in different orders; the resulting changes in emission intensity provide insight into the sequence of conformational changes occurring during GroEL-mediated protein folding.
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- So Yeon Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Tang YC, Chang HC, Roeben A, Wischnewski D, Wischnewski N, Kerner MJ, Hartl FU, Hayer-Hartl M. Structural features of the GroEL-GroES nano-cage required for rapid folding of encapsulated protein. Cell 2006; 125:903-14. [PMID: 16751100 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2006] [Revised: 03/29/2006] [Accepted: 04/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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GroEL and GroES form a chaperonin nano-cage for proteins up to approximately 60 kDa to fold in isolation. Here we explored the structural features of the chaperonin cage critical for rapid folding of encapsulated substrates. Modulating the volume of the GroEL central cavity affected folding speed in accordance with confinement theory. Small proteins (approximately 30 kDa) folded more rapidly as the size of the cage was gradually reduced to a point where restriction in space slowed folding dramatically. For larger proteins (approximately 40-50 kDa), either expanding or reducing cage volume decelerated folding. Additionally, interactions with the C-terminal, mildly hydrophobic Gly-Gly-Met repeat sequences of GroEL protruding into the cavity, and repulsion effects from the negatively charged cavity wall were required for rapid folding of some proteins. We suggest that by combining these features, the chaperonin cage provides a physical environment optimized to catalyze the structural annealing of proteins with kinetically complex folding pathways.
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- Yun-Chi Tang
- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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Gupta P, Aggarwal N, Batra P, Mishra S, Chaudhuri TK. Co-expression of chaperonin GroEL/GroES enhances in vivo folding of yeast mitochondrial aconitase and alters the growth characteristics of Escherichia coli. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2006; 38:1975-85. [PMID: 16822698 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2006.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2006] [Revised: 05/19/2006] [Accepted: 05/23/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Over last two decades many researchers have demonstrated the mechanisms of how the Escherichia coli chaperonin GroEL and GroES work in the binding and folding of different aggregation prone substrate proteins both in vivo and in vitro. However, preliminary aspects, such as influence of co-expressing GroEL and GroES on the over expression of other recombinant proteins in E. coli cells and subsequent growth aspects, as well as the conditions for optimum production of recombinant proteins in presence of recombinant chaperones have not been properly investigated. In the present study we have demonstrated the temperature dependent growth characteristics of E. coli cells, which are over expressing recombinant aconitase and how the co-expression of E. coli chaperonin GroEL and GroES influence the growth rate of the cells and in vivo folding of recombinant aconitase. Presence of co-expressed GroEL reduces the aconitase over-expression drastically; however, exogenous GroEL & GroES together compensate this reduction. For the aconitase over-expressing cells the growth rate decreases by 30% at 25 degrees C when compared with the M15 E. coli cells, however, there is an increase of 20% at 37 degrees C indicating the participation of endogenous chaperonin in the folding of a fraction of over expressed aconitase. However, in presence of co-expressed GroEL and GroES the growth rate of aconitase producing cells was enhanced by 30% at 37 degrees C confirming the assistance of exogenous chaperone system for the folding of recombinant aconitase. Optimum in vivo folding of aconitase requires co-production of complete E. coli chaperonin machinery GroEL and GroES together.
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- Parul Gupta
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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Aravindhan V, Narayanan S, Gautham N, Prasad V, Kannan P, Jacobs WR, Narayanan P. T-h-2 immunity and CD3+CD45RBlow-activated T cells in mice immunized with recombinant bacillus CalmetteâGuérin expressing HIV-1 principal neutralizing determinant epitope. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 47:45-55. [PMID: 16706787 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.2006.00061.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The genetic engineering of Mycobacterium bovis-bacillus Calmette-Guérin to express foreign epitopes is an attractive strategy in the field of epitope vaccines. We constructed an 'epitope-trap vector' with Mycobacterium tuberculosis chaperonin-10 as a carrier antigen and used it to express the HIV-1 principal neutralizing determinant epitope. We also identified a new chaperonin-10 promoter that was hyperexpressive compared with the heat shock protein-65 promoter. Splenocytes from recombinant bacillus Calmette-Guérin-immunized mice showed enhanced lymphocyte proliferation and interleukin-4 (but not interferon-gamma) secretion. The recombinant bacillus Calmette-Guérin-immunized group also exhibited mild delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction and a high frequency of CD3+CD45RBlow-activated T cells, together with high titer of antiprincipal neutralizing determinant immunoglobulin G antibodies. Thus, this epitope delivery system induced strong epitope-specific T-h-2 polarization.
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Manukhov IV, Kotova VI, Zavil'genskiĭ GB. [Role of GroEL/GroES chaperonin system and Lon protease in regulation of expression Vibrio fischeri lux genes in Escherichia coli cells]. Mol Biol (Mosk) 2006; 40:277-83. [PMID: 16637268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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It was shown that the chaperonin GroEL/GroES and protease Lon influence the expression of the Vibrio fischeri lux regulon in Escherichia coli cells: E. coli groE mutants bearing hybrid plasmid with the lux regulon were weakly luminescent; cells of the E. coli lon- comprising the entire lux regulon display very intense bioluminescence, with no lag period in the induction curve characteristic of lon+ strains. The luxR gene was cloned from the Vibrio fischeri genome in the pGEX-KG vector. It was shown that the active fusion protein GST-LuxR by affinity chromatography on glutathione-sucrose colony is purified only with proteins GroEL and Lon. The present results showed that the LuxR, transcriptional activator of the V. fischeri lux operon, really complexes with GroEL chaperonin and Lon protease. We suppose, that the GroEL/GroES chaperonin systems is required for the folding of LuxR into an active protein, and the LuxR is the target for the ATP-dependent serine Lon protease of E. coli.
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All known cochaperonin protein 10 (cpn10) molecules are heptamers of seven identical subunits noncovalently linked by beta-strand interactions. Cpn10 from the deep-branching, hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus (Aacpn10) shows high homology with mesophilic and other thermophilic cpn10 sequences, except for a 25-residue C-terminal extension not found in any other cpn10. Prior to atomic structure information, we here address the role of the tail by biophysical means. A tail-lacking variant (Aacpn10-del25) also adopts a heptameric structure in solution and exhibits nativelike substrate-refolding activity. Thermal and chemical perturbations of both Aacpn10 and Aacpn10-del25, probed by far-UV circular dichroism, demonstrate that both proteins have high thermodynamic stability. Heptamer-monomer dissociation midpoints were defined by isothermal titration calorimetry; at 25 degrees C, the values for Aacpn10 and Aacpn10-del25 are within 2-fold of each other and close to reported midpoints for mesophilic cpn10 proteins. In contrast, the monomer stabilities for the A. aeolicus proteins are significantly higher than those of mesophilic homologues at 30 degrees C; thus, heptamer thermophily is a result of more stable monomers. Electron microscopy data reveals that Aacpn10-del25 heptamers are prone to stack on top of each other forming chainlike molecules; the electrostatic surface pattern of a structural model can explain this behavior. Taken together, the unique tail in Aacpn10 is not required for heptamer structure, stability, or function; instead, it appears to be an ancient strategy to avoid cochaperonin aggregation at extreme temperatures.
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- Kathryn Luke
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
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Ranson NA, Clare DK, Farr GW, Houldershaw D, Horwich AL, Saibil HR. Allosteric signaling of ATP hydrolysis in GroEL-GroES complexes. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2006; 13:147-52. [PMID: 16429154 PMCID: PMC2871290 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2005] [Accepted: 12/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The double-ring chaperonin GroEL and its lid-like cochaperonin GroES form asymmetric complexes that, in the ATP-bound state, mediate productive folding in a hydrophilic, GroES-encapsulated chamber, the so-called cis cavity. Upon ATP hydrolysis within the cis ring, the asymmetric complex becomes able to accept non-native polypeptides and ATP in the open, trans ring. Here we have examined the structural basis for this allosteric switch in activity by cryo-EM and single-particle image processing. ATP hydrolysis does not change the conformation of the cis ring, but its effects are transmitted through an inter-ring contact and cause domain rotations in the mobile trans ring. These rigid-body movements in the trans ring lead to disruption of its intra-ring contacts, expansion of the entire ring and opening of both the nucleotide pocket and the substrate-binding domains, admitting ATP and new substrate protein.
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- Neil A. Ranson
- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. UK
- School of Crystallography and Institute for Structural Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College London, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HX, UK
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- School of Crystallography and Institute for Structural Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College London, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, CT 06510, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, CT 06510, USA
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- School of Crystallography and Institute for Structural Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College London, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, CT 06510, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, CT 06510, USA
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- School of Crystallography and Institute for Structural Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College London, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HX, UK
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Ciervo A, Petrucca A, Villano U, Fioroni G, Cassone A. Low prevalence of antibodies against heat shock protein 10 of Chlamydophila pneumoniae in patients with coronary heart disease. J Microbiol Methods 2006; 63:248-53. [PMID: 15893396 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2005.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2004] [Revised: 03/18/2005] [Accepted: 03/25/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In this study the prevalence of antibodies against the heat shock protein 10 (HSP10) of Chamydophila pneumoniae (CP) (as assessed by ELISA) in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and seropositive or seronegative to CP, as assessed by microimmunofluorescence (MIF), was investigated. The controls were age- and sex-matched healthy subjects. The HSP10 preparation used throughout this study was a 6-his-tagged recombinant protein preliminarily shown to be immunogenic in mice. Low level IgG reactivity against CP-HSP10 was detected in 19 out of 200 and 5 out of 100 CHD patients and controls, respectively. No IgM or IgA isotypes were found. Furthermore, there was no difference in the frequency or level of anti-HSP10 IgG between CP-positive and CP-negative sera either in patients (11/140=7.9% vs. 8/60=13%) or in healthy subjects (3/40=7.5% vs. 2/60=3.3%). Overall, our data indicate that CP-HSP10, at variance with CP-HSP60, to which it is genetically and physiologically linked, should not be regarded as a major expressed immunogen or a marker of infection by CP in CHD patients.
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- Alessandra Ciervo
- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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Vijayakrishnan S, Qamra R, Verma CS, Sen R, Mande SC. Cation-mediated interplay of loops in chaperonin-10. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2005; 23:365-76. [PMID: 16363873 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2006.10531232] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The ubiquitously occurring chaperonins consist of a large tetradecameric Chaperonin-60, forming a cylindrical assembly, and a smaller heptameric Chaperonin-10. For a functional protein folding cycle, Chaperonin-10 caps the cylindrical Chaperonin-60 from one end forming an asymmetric complex. The oligomeric assembly of Chaperonin-10 is known to be highly plastic in nature. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the plasticity has been shown to be modulated by reversible binding of divalent cations. Binding of cations confers rigidity to the metal binding loop, and also promotes stability of the oligomeric structure. We have probed the conformational effects of cation binding on the Chaperonin-10 structure through fluorescence studies and molecular dynamics simulations. Fluorescence studies show that cation binding induces reduced exposure and flexibility of the dome loop. The simulations corroborate these results and further indicate a complex landscape of correlated motions between different parts of the molecule. They also show a fascinating interplay between two distantly spaced loops, the metal binding "dome loop" and the GroEL-binding "mobile loop", suggesting an important cation-mediated role in the recognition of Chaperonin-60. In the presence of cations the mobile loop appears poised to dock onto the Chaperonin-60 structure. The divalent metal ions may thus act as key elements in the protein folding cycle, and trigger a conformational switch for molecular recognition.
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- Swetha Vijayakrishnan
- Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, ECIL Road, Nacharam, Hyderabad 500 076 India.
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