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Vasilopoulos G, Moser R, Petersen J, Aktas M, Narberhaus F. Promiscuous phospholipid biosynthesis enzymes in the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2021; 1866:158926. [PMID: 33766680 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2021.158926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bacterial membranes are primarily composed of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and cardiolipin (CL). In the canonical PE biosynthesis pathway, phosphatidylserine (PS) is decarboxylated by the Psd enzyme. CL formation typically depends on CL synthases (Cls) using two PG molecules as substrates. Only few bacteria produce phosphatidylcholine (PC), the hallmark of eukaryotic membranes. Most of these bacteria use phospholipid N-methyltransferases to successively methylate PE to PC and/or a PC synthase (Pcs) to catalyze the condensation of choline and CDP-diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG) to PC. In this study, we show that membranes of Pseudomonas species able to interact with eukaryotes contain PE, PG, CL and PC. More specifically, we report on PC formation and a poorly characterized CL biosynthetic pathway in the plant pathogen P. syringae pv. tomato. It encodes a Pcs enzyme responsible for choline-dependent PC biosynthesis. CL formation is catalyzed by a promiscuous phospholipase D (PLD)-type enzyme (PSPTO_0095) that we characterized in vivo and in vitro. Like typical bacterial CL biosynthesis enzymes, it uses PE and PG for CL production. This enzyme is also able to convert PE and glycerol to PG, which is then combined with another PE molecule to synthesize CL. In addition, the enzyme is capable of converting ethanolamine or methylated derivatives into the corresponding phospholipids such as PE both in P. syringae and in E. coli. It can also hydrolyze CDP-DAG to yield phosphatidic acid (PA). Our study adds an example of a promiscuous Cls enzyme able to synthesize a suite of products according to the available substrates.
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Wu L, Guo X, Wong SY, Lu P, Hartson SD, Medeiros DM, Wang W, Clarke SL, Lucas EA, Smith BJ, Chowanadisai W, Lin D. Deficiency of β-carotene oxygenase 2 induces mitochondrial fragmentation and activates the STING-IRF3 pathway in the mouse hypothalamus. J Nutr Biochem 2021; 88:108542. [PMID: 33129969 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2020.108542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 08/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Hypothalamic inflammation has been linked to various aspects of central metabolic dysfunction and diseases in humans, including hyperphagia, altered energy expenditure, and obesity. We previously reported that loss of β-carotene oxygenase 2 (BCO2), a mitochondrial inner membrane protein, causes the alteration of the hypothalamic metabolome, low-grade inflammation, and an increase in food intake in mice at an early age, e.g., 3-6 weeks. Here, we determined the extent to which the deficiency of BCO2 induces hypothalamic inflammation in BCO2 knockout mice. Mitochondrial proteomics, electron microscopy, and immunoblotting were used to assess the changes in hypothalamic mitochondrial dynamics and mitochondrial DNA sensing and signaling. The results showed that deficiency of BCO2 altered hypothalamic mitochondrial proteome and respiratory supercomplex assembly by enhancing the expression of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit A11 protein and improved cardiolipin synthesis. BCO2 deficiency potentiated mitochondrial fission but suppressed mitophagy and mitochondrial biogenesis. Furthermore, deficiency of BCO2 resulted in inactivation of mitochondrial MnSOD enzyme, excessive production of reactive oxygen species, and elevation of protein levels of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) in the hypothalamus. The data suggest that BCO2 is essential for hypothalamic mitochondrial dynamics. BCO2 deficiency induces mitochondrial fragmentation and mitochondrial oxidative stress, which may lead to mitochondrial DNA release into the cytosol and subsequently sensing by activation of the STING-IRF3 signaling pathway in the mouse hypothalamus.
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Virčíková V, Pokorná L, Tahotná D, Džugasová V, Balážová M, Griač P. Schizosaccharomyces pombe cardiolipin synthase is part of a mitochondrial fusion protein regulated by intron retention. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2018; 1863:1331-1344. [PMID: 29958934 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2018.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cardiolipin (CL) is a unique lipid component of mitochondria in all eukaryotes. It is important for the architecture of mitochondrial membranes and for mitochondrial dynamics. CL also creates a highly specific microenvironment of mitochondrial protein machineries. CL biosynthetic pathway is, however, only partially characterized in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Here we show that CL synthase is an essential protein in S. pombe. It is encoded by the ORF SPAC22A12.08c as a C terminal part of a tandem fusion protein together with a mitochondrial hydrolase of unknown function. Expression of S. pombe CL synthase is able to complement deletion of the CRD1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and, vice versa, S. cerevisiae CRD1 gene complements deletion of S. pombe SPAC22A12.08c. The proper expression of CL synthase and its partner in the tandem protein, the mitochondrial hydrolase, is regulated at the level of alternate intron splicing. The first part of the SPAC22A12.08c fusion protein could be translated from both major SPAC22A12.08c derived mRNAs, with and without intron IV. Functional CL synthase, however, is produced only from the minor SPAC22A12.08c derived mRNA that has intron IV retained. Thus, intron retention is a novel mechanism for the differential expression of two proteins that evolved as a fusion protein and are under the control of the same promoter.
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- Veronika Virčíková
- Centre of Biosciences, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Centre of Biosciences, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Centre of Biosciences, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Centre of Biosciences, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Centre of Biosciences, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Kato S, Tobe H, Matsubara H, Sawada M, Sasaki Y, Fukiya S, Morita N, Yokota A. The membrane phospholipid cardiolipin plays a pivotal role in bile acid adaptation by Lactobacillus gasseri JCM1131 T. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2018; 1864:403-412. [PMID: 29883797 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2018.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 06/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Bile acids exhibit strong antimicrobial activity as natural detergents, and are involved in lipid digestion and absorption. We investigated the mechanism of bile acid adaptation in Lactobacillus gasseri JCM1131T. Exposure to sublethal concentrations of cholic acid (CA), a major bile acid in humans, resulted in development of resistance to otherwise-lethal concentrations of CA by this intestinal lactic acid bacterium. As this adaptation was accompanied by decreased cell-membrane damage, we analyzed the membrane lipid composition of L. gasseri. Although there was no difference in the proportions of glycolipids (~70%) and phospholipids (~20%), adaptation resulted in an increased abundance of long-sugar-chain glycolipids and a 100% increase in cardiolipin (CL) content (to ~50% of phospholipids) at the expense of phosphatidylglycerol (PG). In model vesicles, the resistance of PG vesicles to solubilization by CA increased with increasing CL/PG ratio. Deletion of the two putative CL synthase genes, the products of which are responsible for CL synthesis from PG, decreased the CL content of the mutants, but did not affect their ability to adapt to CA. Exposure to CA restored the CL content of the two single-deletion mutants, likely due to the activities of the remaining CL synthase. In contrast, the CL content of the double-deletion mutant was not restored, and the lipid composition was modified such that PG predominated (~45% of total lipids) at the expense of glycolipids. Therefore, CL plays important roles in bile acid resistance and maintenance of the membrane lipid composition in L. gasseri.
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- Shinji Kato
- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8589, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8589, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8589, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8589, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Fermented Foods, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8589, Japan.
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Hokkaido 062-8517, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8589, Japan.
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Wood JM. Perspective: challenges and opportunities for the study of cardiolipin, a key player in bacterial cell structure and function. Curr Genet 2018; 64:795-8. [PMID: 29427078 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-018-0811-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Revised: 02/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/07/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cardiolipin (CL) is a key player in bacterial cell biology. CL accumulates at the poles of rod-shaped cells; the polar localization and function of diverse bacterial proteins are CL-dependent. Cardiolipin (CL) is an unusual phospholipid comprised of a glycerol headgroup coupled with two phosphatidate moieties. CL-rich membrane domains are often visualized with the fluorescent indicator 10-N-nonyl-acridine orange (NAO). Recent data show that NAO can also indicate phosphatidylglycerol localization under different experimental conditions, in the absence of CL. The formation of CL-rich membrane domains at bacterial cell poles was predicted to occur spontaneously, by lipid microphase separation arising from the conical CL shape. New data reveal that membrane-anchored cardiolipin synthase A is targeted to the cytoplasmic membrane surface at bacterial cell poles. Thus, localized CL synthesis, interaction of CL with ClsA, and membrane curvature could all contribute to retention of CL at cell poles. These observations provide new insight regarding the mechanism for assembly of CL-rich membrane domains in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
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Peyta L, Jarnouen K, Pinault M, Guimaraes C, Pais de Barros JP, Chevalier S, Dumas JF, Maillot F, Hatch GM, Loyer P, Servais S. Reduced cardiolipin content decreases respiratory chain capacities and increases ATP synthesis yield in the human HepaRG cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 2016; 1857:443-53. [PMID: 26768115 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Revised: 12/14/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cardiolipin (CL) is a unique mitochondrial phospholipid potentially affecting many aspects of mitochondrial function/processes, i.e. energy production through oxidative phosphorylation. Most data focusing on implication of CL content and mitochondrial bioenergetics were performed in yeast or in cellular models of Barth syndrome. Previous work reported that increase in CL content leads to decrease in liver mitochondrial ATP synthesis yield. Therefore the aim of this study was to determine the effects of moderate decrease in CL content on mitochondrial bioenergetics in human hepatocytes. For this purpose, we generated a cardiolipin synthase knockdown (shCLS) in HepaRG hepatoma cells showing bioenergetics features similar to primary human hepatocytes. shCLS cells exhibited a 55% reduction in CLS gene and a 40% decrease in protein expression resulting in a 45% lower content in CL compared to control (shCTL) cells. Oxygen consumption was significantly reduced in shCLS cells compared to shCTL regardless of substrate used and energy state analyzed. Mitochondrial low molecular weight supercomplex content was higher in shCLS cells (+60%) compared to shCTL. Significant fragmentation of the mitochondrial network was observed in shCLS cells compared to shCTL cells. Surprisingly, mitochondrial ATP synthesis was unchanged in shCLS compared to shCTL cells but exhibited a higher ATP:O ratio (+46%) in shCLS cells. Our results suggest that lowered respiratory chain activity induced by moderate reduction in CL content may be due to both destabilization of supercomplexes and mitochondrial network fragmentation. In addition, CL content may regulate mitochondrial ATP synthesis yield.
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- Laure Peyta
- Inserm UMR1069, Nutrition, Croissance et Cancer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, 10, bd Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, Cedex, France.
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- Inserm UMR S-991, Foie, Métabolismes et Cancer, CHU Pontchaillou, 2 rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes, France; Université de Rennes 1, 2 rue du Thabor CS46510, 35065 Rennes, Cedex, France.
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- Inserm UMR1069, Nutrition, Croissance et Cancer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, 10, bd Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, Cedex, France.
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- Inserm UMR1069, Nutrition, Croissance et Cancer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, 10, bd Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, Cedex, France.
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- Plateforme de Lipidomique, INSERM UMR866/LabEx LipSTIC, 15 Bd Mal de Lattre de Tassigny, 21000 Dijon, France.
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- Inserm UMR1069, Nutrition, Croissance et Cancer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, 10, bd Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, Cedex, France.
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- Inserm UMR1069, Nutrition, Croissance et Cancer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, 10, bd Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, Cedex, France.
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- Inserm UMR1069, Nutrition, Croissance et Cancer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, 10, bd Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, Cedex, France; CHRU de Tours, Département de Médecine Interne, 2, boulevard Tonnellé, 37044 Tours, Cedex 9, France.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Center for Research and Treatment of Atherosclerosis, DREAM Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, University of Manitoba, 513-715 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg MB R3E 3P4, Manitoba, Canada.
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- Inserm UMR S-991, Foie, Métabolismes et Cancer, CHU Pontchaillou, 2 rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes, France; Université de Rennes 1, 2 rue du Thabor CS46510, 35065 Rennes, Cedex, France.
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- Inserm UMR1069, Nutrition, Croissance et Cancer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, 10, bd Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, Cedex, France.
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Sarma PVGK, Srikanth L, Venkatesh K, Murthy PS, Sarma PU. Isolation, purification and characterization of Cardiolipin synthase from Mycobacterium phlei {PRIVATE}. Bioinformation 2013; 9:690-5. [PMID: 23930021 PMCID: PMC3732442 DOI: 10.6026/97320630009690] [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] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 07/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
It has been observed that mycobacterial species has high content of cardiolipin (CL) in their cell membranes more so pathogenic
mycobacteria and in bacteria CL activates polymerases, gyrases by removing the bound ADP. Therefore, in the present study
cardiolipin synthase (cls) which catalyses the formation of CL was isolated purified and characterized from the cell membrane of
Mycobacterium phlei. The purified cls obtained from C-18 RP-HPLC column had a molecular weight of 58 kDa with an isoelectric
point of 4.5. The enzyme activity (11.5+0.15 µM of CL phosphorous. ml-1 minute-1 for PG as substrate and 14+0.35µM of CL
phosphorous. ml-1 minute-1 for CDP-DG as substrate) was optimal at pH 4.8 and showed KM values of 55+0.05µM and 2.56+0.04µM
for phosphatidyl glycerol and CDP-diacylglycerol, respectively, with an absolute requirement of Mg2+ and Mn2+ ions for its activity
however, Ca2+ ions inhibited the activity of the cls. The partial amino acid sequence of cls showed significant homology with pgsA3
gene of M. tuberculosis and in this organism the CL biosynthesis is very high having three genes coding for PLs biosynthesis
therefore, enzymes involved in CL biosynthesis may be an attractive drug target in the development of new antimycobacterial
drugs.
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