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Koritzinsky M, Koch CA, Riley B, Beauchemin N, Johnston G, Johnston M, Koropatnick J, Loiselle CG, Maslowska M, McCormick C, Miller WH, Mulligan L, Tsao MS. From Solo in the Silo to Strategic Training Programs. CBE Life Sci Educ 2016; 15:le1. [PMID: 27290740 PMCID: PMC4803099 DOI: 10.1187/cbe.15-03-0076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- Marianne Koritzinsky
- Terry Fox Foundation Strategic Training Initiative for Excellence in Radiation Research for the 21st Century at CIHR, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Campbell Family Cancer Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada
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- Terry Fox Foundation Strategic Training Initiative for Excellence in Radiation Research for the 21st Century at CIHR, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Campbell Family Cancer Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada
- Radiation Medicine Program, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada
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- CIHR Training Program in Population Intervention for Chronic Disease Prevention: A Pan-Canadian Program and Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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- McGill Integrated Cancer Research Training Program, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, and
- Departments of Biochemistry, Medicine, and Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Terry Fox Cancer Research Training Program for Atlantic Canada, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Terry Fox Cancer Research Training Program for Atlantic Canada, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
- Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Lawson Health Research Institute CIHR Strategic Training Program in Cancer Research and Technology Transfer and Western University, London, ON N6A 4L6, Canada
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- Psychosocial Oncology Research Training and Ingram School of Nursing and Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Segal Cancer Centre and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- McGill Integrated Cancer Research Training Program, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, and
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- Terry Fox Cancer Research Training Program for Atlantic Canada, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Lawson Health Research Institute CIHR Strategic Training Program in Cancer Research and Technology Transfer and Western University, London, ON N6A 4L6, Canada
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- Terry Fox Foundation Training Program in Transdisciplinary Cancer Research in Partnership with CIHR and Division of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Cancer Research Institute at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Campbell Family Cancer Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada
- Department of Pathology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada
- Terry Fox Foundation Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research for Clinician Scientists in Molecular Oncologic Pathology at CIHR, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada
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Cianflone K, Cui W, Lapointe M, Kalant D, Maslowska M. Characterization of C3adesArg/acylation stimulating protein (ASP) binding to C5L2 transfected cells and 3T3-L1 preadipocytes (94.17). The Journal of Immunology 2007. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.supp.94.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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C5L2 is a recently identified receptor for C5a and C3a/C3adesArg (ASP). C5a/C5adesArg binds C5L2 with high affinity with no functional activation. By contrast, some studies demonstrate C3a/ASP binding/activation of C5L2; others do not. We evaluated the influence of diverse ASP-C5L2 binding methods used.
Orphan receptors (n>30) were screened with 125I-ASP (20oC & 4oC) or fluorescently labeled ASP (Fl-ASP, 37oC). Only C5L2 transfected cells were positive. Cell-associated Fl-ASP increased markedly from transiently-transfected < stably transfected < Fl-ASP sorted HEK-C5L2 for both hC5L2 and mC5L2. Similar results were obtained with transfected C5L2-CHO and C5L2-SW872 cells. Non-transfected cells ± Fl-ASP demonstrated background fluorescence only.
Recombinant ASP prepared under non-denaturing conditions demonstrated 10X greater bioactivity vs. proteolytically-derived plasma ASP (maximal TG synthetic activity 100–300 nM vs. 5 uM).
In adherent HEK-C5L2 (F-ASP sorted) and 3T3-L1 cells, blocking with 10% FCS, protamine sulfate or ovalbumin prevented 125I-ASP non-specific binding (NSB), while BSA blocking increased it. Optimal specific binding (Kd 66±14 nM) was obtained at 20oC (vs.4oC) in PBS or HAG-CM buffer. By contrast, cells in suspension demonstrated only non-specific binding. ASP-C5L2 binding has distinct characteristics that lead to phosphorylation, internalization and increased TG.
Funding: CIHR
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- Katherine Cianflone
- 1Centre de Recherche Hopital Laval, Laval University, 2725 ch Ste Foy, Y2186, Quebec, Quebec, G1V 4G5, Canada,
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- 1Centre de Recherche Hopital Laval, Laval University, 2725 ch Ste Foy, Y2186, Quebec, Quebec, G1V 4G5, Canada,
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- 1Centre de Recherche Hopital Laval, Laval University, 2725 ch Ste Foy, Y2186, Quebec, Quebec, G1V 4G5, Canada,
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- 2McGill University, 845 Sherbrooke, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A1, Canada
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Acylation stimulating protein (ASP; C3adesArg) stimulates triglyceride synthesis (TGS) and glucose transport in preadipocytes/adipocytes through C5L2, a G-protein-coupled receptor. Here, ASP signaling is compared with insulin in 3T3-L1 cells. ASP stimulation is not Galpha(s) or Galpha(i) mediated (pertussis and cholera toxin insensitive), suggesting G(alphaq) as a candidate. Phospholipase C (PLC) is required, because the Ca(2+) chelator 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy) ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid tetra(acetoxymethyl) ester and the PLC inhibitor U73122 decreased ASP stimulation of TGS by 93.1% (P < 0.0.001) and 86.1% (P < 0.004), respectively. Wortmannin and LY294002 blocked ASP effect by 69% (P < 0.001) and 116.1% (P < 0.003), respectively, supporting phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) involvement. ASP induced rapid, transient Akt phosphorylation (maximal, 5 min; basal, 45 min), which was blocked by Akt inhibition, resembling treatment by insulin. Downstream of PI3K, mamalian target of rapaycin (mTOR) is required for insulin but not ASP action. By contrast, both ASP and insulin activate the mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK(1/2)) pathway, with rapid, pronounced increases in ERK(1/2) phosphorylation, effects partially blocked by PD98059 (64.7% and 65.9% inhibition, respectively; P < 0.001). Time-dependent (maximal, 30 min) transient calcium-dependent phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2))(-Ser505) phosphorylation (by MAPK/ERK(1/2)) was demonstrated by Western blot analysis. ASP signaling involves sequential activation of PI3K and PLC, with downstream activation of protein kinase C, Akt, MAPK/ERK(1/2), and cPLA(2), all of which leads to an effective and prolonged stimulation of TGS.
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- Magdalena Maslowska
- Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Maslowska M, Wang HW, Cianflone K. Novel roles for acylation stimulating protein/C3adesArg: a review of recent in vitro and in vivo evidence. Vitam Horm 2005; 70:309-32. [PMID: 15727809 DOI: 10.1016/s0083-6729(05)70010-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Recent experimental evidence is shedding more light on the physiological actions of acylation-stimulating protein (ASP)/C3adesArg. The role of ASP in regulating lipid metabolism has primarily focused on its participation in the stimulation of triglyceride synthesis (TGS) and glucose transport. Although there is no doubt that ASP, an adipocyte-produced hormone, plays a key physiological role, accumulating evidence suggests that the effects of ASP go beyond its acute effects on lipid metabolism. In this review, we present novel findings of ASP/C3adesArg effects on preadipocyte differentiation. In 3T3-L1 and 3T3-F442A cells, ASP can substitute for insulin and enhance differentiation as measured by intracellular lipid droplet accumulation, clonal expansion, and increased expression of differentiation markers. Specifically, ASP increased basal TGS by 250% after 9 days differentiation, with similar effects induced by insulin. With ASP treatment, expression of C/EBPdelta was up-regulated early in differentiation (day 2) and decreased thereafter. Expression of PPARgamma and late markers of differentiation, such as adipsin and diacylglycerol acyltransferase-1, were also increased. Effects on clonal expansion were indicated by a twofold increase in [(3)H] thymidine incorporation in 3T3-L1 cells compared to treatment with IBMX + DX alone. Further, the effects of ASP extended beyond adipose tissue to endocrine effects on hormone secretion of insulin (pancreatic cells); cytokines TNFalpha, IL-1beta, and IL-6 (myeloid cells); prolactin, growth hormone, and adrenocorticotropin (pituitary cells). Finally, the potential implication of C5L2, the newly discovered ASP receptor, and its expression profile in various tissues are discussed relative to ASP function.
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- Magdalena Maslowska
- Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1, Canada
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Kalant D, Cain SA, Maslowska M, Sniderman AD, Cianflone K, Monk PN. The chemoattractant receptor-like protein C5L2 binds the C3a des-Arg77/acylation-stimulating protein. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:11123-9. [PMID: 12540846 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m206169200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The orphan receptor C5L2 has recently been described as a high affinity binding protein for complement fragments C5a and C3a that, unlike the previously described C5a receptor (CD88), couples only weakly to G(i)-like G proteins (Cain, S. A., and Monk, P. N. (2002) J. Biol. Chem. 277, 7165-7169). Here we demonstrate that C5L2 binds the metabolites of C4a and C3a, C4a des-Arg(77), and C3a des-Arg(77) (also known as the acylation-stimulating protein or ASP) at a site distinct from the C5a binding site. The binding of these metabolites to C5L2 does not stimulate the degranulation of transfected rat basophilic leukemia cells either through endogenous rat G proteins or when co-transfected with human G(alpha 16). C3a des-Arg(77)/ASP and C3a can potently stimulate triglyceride synthesis in human skin fibroblasts and 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. Here we show that both cell types and human adipose tissue express C5L2 mRNA and that the human fibroblasts express C5L2 protein at the cell surface. This is the first demonstration of the expression of C5L2 in cells that bind and respond to C3a des-Arg(77)/ASP and C3a. Thus C5L2, a promiscuous complement fragment-binding protein with a high affinity site that binds C3a des-Arg(77)/ASP, may mediate the acylation-stimulating properties of this peptide.
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- David Kalant
- Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, Division of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1, Canada
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The storage and release of energy by adipocytes is of fundamental biologic importance. Not surprisingly, therefore, the rate at which these processes occur can be modulated by a variety of physiologic molecules. A newly recognized participant is produced by adipocytes themselves: acylation-stimulating protein (ASP). This article focuses on the most recent in-vivo evidence regarding how the ASP pathway may influence energy storage and release. In brief, the rate at which triglycerides are cleared from plasma (i.e. the rate at which they are hydrolysed) is determined by lipoprotein lipase and insulin, which is the principal hormone that regulates lipoprotein lipase. By contrast, the ASP pathway modulates the rate at which fatty acids are taken up and converted to triglycerides by adipocytes. Under certain circumstances, however, reduction of activity of the ASP pathway may negatively impact on the first step of the process. ASP also influences the rate at which fatty acids are released by adipocytes, and it is clear that insulin and ASP interact in a variety of ways that involve energy storage and release. Accordingly, to understand the impact of any intervention on energy storage and release by adipocytes, the effects of both insulin and ASP must be taken into account.
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- A D Sniderman
- Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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BACKGROUND Acylation stimulating protein (ASP) is a potent stimulator of TG synthesis in human adipocytes. DESIGN In the present study, we have analysed plasma ASP and adipsin levels and their relationships to plasma lipids in non-obese and obese groups. RESULTS The results show that the frequency distribution of ASP is skewed but that of adipsin is normal in both groups. In the non-obese population, the mean levels of plasma ASP and adipsin were 20.2 nmol L-1 (median) and 66.6 +/- 19 nmol L-1 (mean) respectively. No difference was observed between men and women for each of the parameters. In the obese population, the median plasma ASP was increased by 246% (69.9 nmol L-1) and adipsin by 31% (87.0 +/- 22.7 nmol L-1) above that of the control group. Although the levels for men and women were not statistically different for adipsin, the median ASP plasma concentration was 1.9-fold higher in obese women than in obese men (71.8 nmol L-1 vs. 37.6 nmol L-1, P < 0.05). Best subset regression analysis provided a model with variables that best predict plasma ASP [r2 = 0.160, P < 0.008 for body mass index (BMI), P < 0.05 for triacylglycerol (TG), P < 0.03 for free fatty acid (FFA)] and plasma adipsin (r2 = 0.057, P < 0.017 for BMI) in a non-obese population. In obese subjects, the model was different for plasma ASP (P = NS for any of the variables) and plasma adipsin (r2 = 0.356, P < 0.008 for FFA, P < 0.0002 for BMI, P < 0.02 for age). There was no correlation between ASP and adipsin in either the non-obese or the obese group. CONCLUSION The present data suggest involvement of the ASP/adipsin pathway in the pathogenesis of obesity.
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- M Maslowska
- Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Acylation stimulating protein (ASP) is an adipocyte-derived protein which has potent anabolic effects on human adipose tissue for both glucose and free fatty acid (FFA) storage. Our hypothesis is that: (i) ASP is produced by adipocytes in specific response to stimuli that initiate efficient fat storage; (ii) ASP interacts with a specific adipocyte receptor triggering an intracellular signalling pathway which activates triglyceride synthesis and fat storage; and (iii) that absence (ASP knockout mouse) or excess (in normal or obese mice) of ASP will result in physiological changes of plasma fat clearance and adipose tissue metabolism. The present review focuses on advances in ASP within the last 2 years with particular emphasis on these three aspects of ASP.
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- K Cianflone
- Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Scantlebury T, Maslowska M, Cianflone K. Chylomicron-specific enhancement of acylation stimulating protein and precursor protein C3 production in differentiated human adipocytes. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:20903-9. [PMID: 9694837 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.33.20903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Acylation stimulating protein (ASP) is a potent stimulator of adipocyte triacylglycerol storage. In vivo studies have shown that ASP production by adipocytes increases locally after a fat meal. Initial in vitro studies demonstrated increased production of ASP in the presence of chylomicrons (CHYLO). The present aim was to define the CHYLO component responsible. None of the apoproteins tested (AI, AII, AIV, CI, CII, CIII, and E) were capable of stimulating C3 (the precursor protein) or ASP production. Rather, the active component is a nonlipid, loosely associated, trypsin-sensitive molecule. High pressure liquid chromatography fractionation of the CHYLO infranate proteins identified the critical protein as transthyretin (TTR), which binds retinol-binding protein and complexes thyroxine and retinol. Addition of TTR alone, with lipid emulsion, or with respun CHYLO to human differentiated adipocytes had little effect on C3 and ASP production. By contrast, when transthyretin was added to CHYLO, C3 and ASP production were substantially enhanced up to 75- and 7. 5-fold respectively, compared with the effect of native CHYLO alone. Finally, a polyclonal antibody against TTR could inhibit stimulation of C3 and ASP production by CHYLO (by 98 and 100%, respectively) and by CHYLO infranate proteins (by 99 and 94%, respectively). We hypothesize that TTR mediates the transfer of the active components from CHYLO to adipocytes, which then stimulates increased C3 and ASP production. Thus the CHYLO provides the physiologic trigger of the ASP pathway.
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- T Scantlebury
- Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, McGill University Health Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1, Canada
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of Acylation Stimulating Protein (ASP) on glucose transport in cultured subcutaneous adipocytes. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS Subcutaneous adipose tissue was obtained from non-obese, healthy females (18-32 y old) undergoing mammoplasty reduction. Preadipocytes were isolated and differentiated into adipocytes. MEASUREMENTS Following the exposure of preadipocytes and adipocytes to ASP or insulin, glucose transport was assessed as [3H] 2-deoxy glucose uptake. The measurements were normalised per total cell protein. RESULTS ASP increases specific membrane glucose transport in both preadipocytes and adipocytes in a time and concentration dependent manner. Stimulation in both cell types is rapid (within minutes), reaching a maximal effect between 1 and 4 h. However, after 24 h exposure to ASP, there is a downregulation in the response. The ASP response is greater following differentiation of preadipocytes to adipocytes and is compared to that of insulin. Dose response studies demonstrated a five-fold greater sensitivity of adipocytes (half-maximal concentration of ASP on adipocytes = 0.5 microM, preadipocytes = 2.3 microM). CONCLUSION These results demonstrate that ASP not only stimulates triglyceride synthesis, but also glucose transport in differentiated human adipocytes and is consistent with a physiologically important role for ASP in postprandial energy storage.
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- M Maslowska
- McGill Unit for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Maslowska M, Scantlebury T, Germinario R, Cianflone K. Acute in vitro production of acylation stimulating protein in differentiated human adipocytes. J Lipid Res 1997; 38:1-11. [PMID: 9034195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We have previously shown that in normolipidemic healthy adults, plasma acylation stimulating protein (ASP) increases postprandially and is produced in vitro by cultured differentiated human adipocytes. The present studies were undertaken to examine the influence of specific plasma components on endogenous ASP production in cultured human adipocytes. The results demonstrate that neither glucose nor fatty acids (over a wide range of concentrations) had any substantial effect on ASP production. Insulin increased ASP production up to 2-fold (208% +/- 18%, P < 0.01). However, the most profound increase in ASP was generated by the addition of chylomicrons to the cell culture medium. Chylomicrons (CHYLO) obtained from postprandial plasma increased ASP production in a time- and concentration-dependent manner, producing up to a 150-fold increase in ASP at the highest concentration of CHYLO tested (500 microg triacylglycerol/mL medium (P < 0.001)). By contrast, very low (VLDL), high (HDL), and low density lipoproteins (LDI) had only marginal effects. The effects on ASP parallelled the changes in adipocyte C3 secretion (the precursor protein of ASP). As with ASP, glucose, oleate, insulin, and hepatic lipoproteins (VLDL, LDL, and HDL) had little or no effect on C3 secretion. In contrast, CHYLO had an even greater effect on C3 secretion than on ASP generation. Finally, the effects of CHYLO on generation of ASP and C3 were not dependent on lipolysis of CHYLO by lipoprotein lipase (LPL). These results are consistent with the changes in plasma ASP seen postprandially, and suggests a role of ASP as a positive feedback regulator of triacylglycerol synthesis in adipose tissue.
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- M Maslowska
- McGill Unit for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Acylation Stimulating Protein (ASP) is a human plasma protein that stimulates both triacylglycerol synthesis and glucose transport. ASP is identical to C3adesArg and is generated by the interaction of factor B, complement C3 and adipsin. We have demonstrated that mature fat cells express messages for factors B, complement C3 and adipsin; that human pre-adipocytes, when cultured under differentiating conditions to produce adipocytes, generate ASP in the culture medium; and that human adipocytes also become more responsive to ASP as they differentiate. The aim of this study, therefore, was to examine the temporal production of ASP during adipocyte differentiation in relation to other adipose specific factors involved in lipogenesis. The results demonstrate that (i) there was little ASP production by differentiating adipocytes over the first 7 days, with a marked increase in ASP thereafter (up to sixfold); (ii) this increase was paralleled by large increases in the message level of factor B and complement C3 and moderate increases in adipsin message; (iii) increases in lipoprotein lipase (LPL) message and glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) activity (both key enzymes for substrate supply for triacylglycerol synthesis) occurred earlier than the increase in ASP; and (iv) in spite of the increase in LPL and GPDH, triacylglycerol synthetic capacity only markedly increases following the increase in ASP production in adipocytes. Although the present study cannot be interpreted as showing causality with respect to triacylglycerol synthesis, it does point to an important role for ASP in human adipose tissue physiology.
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- K Cianflone
- McGill Unit for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Cianflone K, Maslowska M, Sniderman A. The acylation stimulating protein-adipsin system. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1995; 19 Suppl 1:S34-8. [PMID: 7550536] [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: 01/25/2023]
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Considerable evidence indicates that obesity, and in particular abdominal obesity, is a risk factor for both heart disease and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. In spite of this, little is known of the regulation of triacylglycerol synthesis in adipose tissue other than by insulin. Acylation stimulating protein (ASP), a human plasma protein, stimulates triacylglycerol synthesis in adipose tissue and is also produced by human adipocytes. ASP may play a physiological role in the regulation of efficiency of adipose tissue fat storage and affect clearance of triglycerides from plasma.
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- K Cianflone
- McGill Unit for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Cianflone K, Roncari DA, Maslowska M, Baldo A, Forden J, Sniderman AD. Adipsin/acylation stimulating protein system in human adipocytes: regulation of triacylglycerol synthesis. Biochemistry 1994; 33:9489-95. [PMID: 8068623 DOI: 10.1021/bi00198a014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Through their capacity to store fatty acids as triacylglycerol molecules, adipocytes serve a vital physiologic role. This study presents further evidence that this process can be modulated in human adipocytes by the adipsin/acylation stimulating protein (ASP) pathway and suggests a novel function for the product of this system--ASP. The data demonstrate the following: (1) ASP stimulates triacylglycerol synthesis within adipocytes, and this occurs to a greater extent in differentiating than undifferentiated cells (242% +/- 32% vs 168% +/- 11%, p < 0.01, respectively, at an ASP concentration of 88 ng/mL; (2) ASP does not affect the Km for triacylglycerol synthesis but does substantially increase Vmax; (3) when ASP is generated in vitro through incubation of its precursor proteins under appropriate conditions, triacylglycerol synthesis increases to the same extent as when plasma-purified ASP is added to the medium; (4) human adipocytes contain mRNA for the specific serine protease adipsin and the two precursor proteins C3 and factor B required to interact for the production of ASP; and (5) the extent to which cultured differentiating adipocytes produce ASP is proportional to the degree to which they have accumulated triacylglycerol mass during differentiation (r2 = 0.7523, p < 0.0005). These findings provide the first evidence for the existence of the adipsin/ASP pathway in human adipocytes, and this may markedly enhance our understanding of the processes which regulate triacylglycerol clearance from plasma.
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- K Cianflone
- McGill Unit for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Baldo A, Sniderman AD, St-Luce S, Avramoglu RK, Maslowska M, Hoang B, Monge JC, Bell A, Mulay S, Cianflone K. The adipsin-acylation stimulating protein system and regulation of intracellular triglyceride synthesis. J Clin Invest 1993; 92:1543-7. [PMID: 8376604 PMCID: PMC288301 DOI: 10.1172/jci116733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We have previously characterized an activity from human plasma that markedly stimulates triglyceride synthesis in cultured human skin fibroblasts and human adipocytes. Based on its in vitro activity we named the active component acylation stimulating protein (ASP). The molecular identity of the active serum component has now been determined. NH2-terminal sequence analysis, ion spray ionization mass spectroscopy, and amino acid composition analysis all indicate that the active purified protein is a fragment of the third component of plasma complement, C3a-desArg. As well, reconstitution experiments with complement factors B, D, and complement C3, the components necessary to generate C3a, have confirmed the identity of ASP as C3a. ASP appears to be the final effector molecule generated by a novel regulatory system that modulates the rate of triglyceride synthesis in adipocytes.
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- A Baldo
- McGill Unit for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Lenz A, Heinemann U, Maslowska M, Saenger W. X-ray analysis of cubic crystals of the complex formed between ribonuclease T1 and guanosine-3',5'-bisphosphate. Acta Crystallogr B 1991; 47 ( Pt 4):521-7. [PMID: 1930833 DOI: 10.1107/s0108768191001684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [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: 12/29/2022]
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The complex formed between ribonuclease T1 (RNase T1) and guanosine-3',5'-bisphosphate (3',5'-pGp) crystallizes in the cubic space group I23 with alpha = 86.47 (4) A. X-ray data were collected on a four-circle diffractometer to 3.2 A resolution and the structure was determined by molecular-replacement methods [ULTIMA; Rabinovich & Shakked (1984). Acta Cryst. A40, 195-200] based on the RNase T1 coordinates taken from the complex with guanosine-2'-phosphate. Refinement converged at 16.6% for 1540 data with Fo greater than 1 sigma (Fo) with acceptable stereochemistry. The RNase T1 conformation is comparable to that in other complexes which crystallize preferentially in space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) except for side chains that interact intermolecularly. The guanine of 3',5'-pGp is bound to the recognition site in the same way as in other guanine-containing complexes except for its interaction with Glu46. The side-chain carboxylate of this amino acid does not form hydrogen bonds to N1H and N2H of guanine but is rotated so as to permit insertion of two water molecules which replace its acceptor functions. In contrast to other guanosine derivatives which are bound to RNase T1 in the syn form, 3',5'-pGp is anti. This conformation positions the two phosphate groups 'outside' the protein, with hydrogen-bonding contacts only to water molecules; the active site is filled by water. The RNase T1-3',5'-pGp complex probably has biological significance as it may represent the enzyme-product complex before dissociation.
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- A Lenz
- Institut für Kristallographie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Koepke J, Maslowska M, Heinemann U, Saenger W. Three-dimensional structure of ribonuclease T1 complexed with guanylyl-2',5'-guanosine at 1.8 A resolution. J Mol Biol 1989; 206:475-88. [PMID: 2541256 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(89)90495-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The enzyme ribonuclease T1 (RNase T1) isolated from Aspergillus oryzae was cocrystallized with the specific inhibitor guanylyl-2',5'-guanosine (2',5'-GpG) and the structure refined by the stereochemically restrained least-squares refinement method to a crystallographic R-factor of 14.9% for X-ray data above 3 sigma in the resolution range 6 to 1.8 A. The refined model consists of 781 protein atoms, 43 inhibitor atoms in a major site and 29 inhibitor atoms in a minor site, 107 water oxygen atoms, and a metal site assigned as Ca. At the end of the refinement, the orientation of His, Asn and Gln side-chains was reinterpreted on the basis of two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance data. The crystal packing and enzyme conformation of the RNase T1/2',5'-GpG complex and of the near-isomorphous RNase T1/2'-GMP complex are comparable. The root-mean-square deviation is 0.73 A between equivalent protein atoms. Differences in the unit cell dimensions are mainly due to the bound inhibitor. The 5'-terminal guanine of 2',5'-GpG binds to RNase T1 in much the same way as in the 2'-GMP complex. In contrast, the hydrogen bonds between the catalytic center and the phosphate group are different and the 3'-terminal guanine forms no hydrogen bonds with the enzyme. This poor binding is reflected in a 2-fold disorder of 2',5'-GpG (except the 5'-terminal guanine), which originates from differences in the pucker of the 5'-terminal ribose. The pucker is C2'-exo for the major site (2/3 occupancy) and C1'-endo for the minor site (1/3 occupancy). The orientation of the major site is stabilized through stacking interactions between the 3'-terminal guanine and His92, an amino acid necessary for catalysis. This might explain the high inhibition rate observed for 2',5'-GpG, which exceeds that of all other inhibitors of type 2',5'-GpN. On the basis of distance criteria, one solvent peak in the electron density was identified as metal ion, probably Ca2+. The ion is co-ordinated by the two Asp15 carboxylate oxygen atoms and by six water molecules. The co-ordination polyhedron displays approximate 4m2 symmetry.
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- J Koepke
- Institut für Kristallographie, Freie Universität Berlin, F.R.G
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Arni R, Heinemann U, Maslowska M, Tokuoka R, Saenger W. Restrained least-squares refinement of the crystal structure of the ribonuclease T1*2'-guanylic acid complex at 1·9 Å resolution. Acta Crystallogr B Struct Sci 1987. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108768187097337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Pähler A, Maslowska M, Parge HE, Schneider M, Steifa M, Saenger W, Keuper HJ, Spener F. X-ray studies on triclinic crystals of fatty acid binding protein. Examples of an extremely X-ray-resistant protein. FEBS Lett 1985; 184:185-7. [PMID: 3996583 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80603-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Fatty acid binding protein (pI 7.0) from bovine liver cytosol was crystallized using polyethylene glycol 4000 and 6000 as precipitating agents. The crystals are triclinic, space group P1. One molecule of 14 kDa occupies the unit cell with constants a = 33.5 A, b = 39.4 A, c = 30.6 A, alpha = 113.6 degrees, beta = 113.8 degrees, gamma = 88.8 degrees. Crystal diffraction extends to at least 2.25 A resolution and the crystals are stable in the X-ray beam for more than 450 h. One native data set to 2.5 A resolution has been collected.
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