Effects of N-Oleoylglycine and Oleate on Mitochondrial UCP1-independent Thermogenesis / 中国生物化学与分子生物学报

Besides UCP1-dependent thermogenesis pathways, UCP1-independent thermogenesis pathways also could increase heat production in adipose tissue to combat obesity. N-Acyl amino acids (NAAs) have been suggested as novel endogenous uncouplers to induce mitochondria UCP1-independent thermogenesis in adipose tissue. Here, we use mouse skeletal muscle C2C12 cells which lack of UCP1 as UCP1 negative cell models. Comparing with its corresponding common fatty acid—oleate, one of the NAAs—N-Oleoylglycine (NOGly), which is highly expressed in the plasma of HFD mice, is selected to study their effects and mechanisms on mitochondrial thermogenesis. We found that 60 μmol / L oleate could induce mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation protein levels, as well as increase mitochondria thermogenesis-related genes (COX8b, DIO2, UCP3) expression (P < 0. 05) . However, 60 μmol / L NOGly damaged the production and oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria, significantly down-regulated expression of thermogenic genes (PGC1a, COX8b, COX2, DIO2, UQCRFS1and UCP3) (P< 0. 01), induced the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the mitochondria, and enhanced the oxidative stress in cells. Our study found that oleate can induce UCP1-independent thermogenesis under 60 μmol / L addition dose, whereas NOGly does not due to the induction of oxidative stress in cells.

Conservative epitope of human papillomavirus type 31 L2 can induce broad-spectrum neutralizing antibodies / 基础医学与临床

Objective To detect the immunogenicity of conservative neutralizing epitope from human papilloma-virus type 31 ( HPV31) minor capsid protein L2, and analyze the neutralizing antibody spectrum of its immune sera.Methods Synthesize HPV31 L2 aa.17-40 peptide and conjugate with KLH by EDC.Immunize New Zeal-and white rabbits with HPV31 L2-KLH and Freud's Adjuvant.Analyze the neutralizing antibody titers of immune sera against HPVs from α4,α7,α9,α10 and β1 species by pseudovirus neutralization assay.Results In rabbits, HPV31 L2-KLH induced broad-spectrum neutralizing antibodies against at least 17 types of HPV, among which the neutralizing antibody titers against HPV31 are the highest, followed by that of HPV5/45/57. Conclusions The broad-spectrum neutralizing activity of the immune sera of HPV31 L2 is stimulated by conser-vative neutralizing epitope.The results lay the foundation of the development of broad-spectrum HPV vaccines based on HPV31 L2 neutralizing epitope.