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Data Brief ; 38: 107402, 2021 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34621931

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Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi) is an opportunistic pathogen and a major causative agent of equine strangles, a contagious respiratory infection in horses and other equines. In this study, we provide the dataset associated with our research publication "Streptococcus equi-derived extracellular vesicles as a vaccine candidate against Streptococcus equi infections" [1]. We describe the genomic differences between S. equi 4047 and S. equi ATCC 39506 and outline the comprehensive proteome information of various fractions, including the whole cell lysate, membrane proteome, secretory proteome, and extracellular vesicle proteome. In addition, we included a dataset of highly immunoreactive proteins identified through immunoprecipitation. The specifications table provides a detailed summary of the gene annotation and quantitative information obtained for each proteome. The proteomics data were analyzed using shotgun proteomics with LTQ Velos and Q Exactive mass spectrometry in the data-dependent acquisition mode. We have deposited the acquired data, including the mass spectrometry raw files and exported MASCOT search results, in the PRIDE public repository under the accession numbers PXD025152 and PXD025527.

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Vet Microbiol ; 259: 109165, 2021 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34225054

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Streptococcus equi subspecies equi is a pathogenic bacterium that causes strangles, a highly contagious respiratory infection in horses and other equines. The limitations of current vaccines against S. equi infection warrants the development of an affordable, safe, and effective vaccine. Because gram-positive extracellular vesicles (EVs) transport various immunogenic antigens, they are attractive vaccine candidates. Here, we purified the EVs of S. equi ATCC 39506 and evaluated them as a vaccine candidate against S. equi infection in mice. As an initial step, comparative proteomic analysis was performed to characterize the functional features of the EVs. Reverse vaccinology and knowledge-based annotations were then used to screen potential vaccine candidates (PVCs) for S. equi ATCC 39506. Finally, 32 PVCs were found to be enriched in the EV fraction, suggesting the usefulness of this fraction as a vaccine. Importantly, a significantly higher survival rate after S. equi infection was detected in mice immunized with S. equi-derived EVs via the intraperitoneal route than in mice immunized with heat-killed bacteria. Of note, immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry results validated various immunogenic antigens within the EV proteome. In conclusion, our results suggest that S. equi-derived EVs can serve as a vaccine candidate against S. equi infection.


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Antígenos de Bactérias/imunologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/imunologia , Vesículas Extracelulares/imunologia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/prevenção & controle , Vacinas Estreptocócicas/imunologia , Streptococcus equi/imunologia , Animais , Antígenos de Bactérias/administração & dosagem , Antígenos de Bactérias/análise , Proteínas de Bactérias/administração & dosagem , Proteínas de Bactérias/análise , Vesículas Extracelulares/química , Feminino , Doenças dos Cavalos/microbiologia , Doenças dos Cavalos/prevenção & controle , Cavalos , Imunoprecipitação , Espectrometria de Massas/métodos , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Proteômica , Infecções Estreptocócicas/imunologia , Vacinas Estreptocócicas/administração & dosagem , Vacinação
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Medicina (Kaunas) ; 56(12)2020 Dec 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33321982

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Background and objectives: Chrysanthemum zawadskii var. latilobum (CZ), which has traditionally been used as a oriental tea in Asia, is known to have anti-inflammatory effects in osteoarthritis (OA). But the mechanism of these effects has not been made clear and it needs to be elucidated specifically for the clinical use of CZE in OA. Materials and Methods: To reveal this mechanism, we first identified which biomarkers were expressed in the joints of rats in which OA had been induced with monosodium iodoacetate and determined whether CZ extract (CZE) could normalize these biomarkers in the progression of OA. The anti-osteoarthritis effect of CZE was evaluated for its capability to inhibit levels of extracellular matrix (ECM)-degrading enzymes and enhance ECM synthesis. We also sought to identify whether the marker compound of CZE, linarin, has anti-osteoarthritic effects in the human chondrosarcoma cell line SW1353. Results: The changes in matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) were remarkable: among them, MMP-1, MMP-3, MMP-9 and MMP-13 were most strongly induced, whereas their expressions were inhibited by CZE dose dependently. The expressions of the ECM synthetic genes, COL2A1 and ACAN, and the transcription factor SOX9 of these genes were reduced by OA induction and significantly normalized by CZE dose dependently. SOX9 is also a repressor of ECM-degrading aggrecanases, ADAMTS-4 and ADAMTS-5, and CZE significantly reduced the levels of these enzymes dose dependently. Similar results were obtained using the human chondrosarcoma cell line SW1353 with linarin, the biologically active compound of CZE. Conclusions: These anti-osteoarthritic effects suggest that CZE has mechanisms for activating ECM synthesis with SOX9 as well as inhibiting articular ECM-degrading enzymes.


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Chrysanthemum , Osteoartrite , Animais , Condrócitos , Humanos , Interleucina-1beta , Osteoartrite/tratamento farmacológico , Extratos Vegetais/farmacologia , Extratos Vegetais/uso terapêutico , Ratos
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Pharmacol Res ; 152: 104600, 2020 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31838081

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Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the most common cause of end-stage renal disease in the world. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of DN via multifactorial mechanisms including the generation of oxidative stress and overproduction of various growth factors and cytokines. AGEs are heterogeneous cross-linked sugar-derived proteins, and Nε-(carboxymethyl)-lysine (CML)-conjugated BSA is a major component of AGEs. However, the proteins involved in DN induction by CML have never been reported. Herein, we investigated specific protein regulators of AGE-mediated DN via proteomic analysis of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mice kidneys. We identified 937, 976, and 870 proteins in control, STZ, and STZ + CML-BSA samples, respectively. Bioinformatics analysis identified several CML-mediated proteins potentially involved in kidney damage, activation of fatty acid oxidation (FAO), and mitochondrial dysfunction. Furthermore, we identified the CML-specific differential protein carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2 (CPT2), related to FAO. To confirm the effect of CPT2 and the CML-mediated mechanism, human renal tubular HK-2 cells were treated with CML-BSA and cpt2 siRNA, and examined for FAO-mediated fibrosis and mitochondrial dysfunction. CML-BSA and CPT2 knockdown induced fibrosis-related gene expression and damage to mitochondrial membrane potential. Moreover, CPT2 overexpression recovered CML-induced fibrosis-related gene expression. Based on these results, a decrease in CML-induced CPT2 expression causes mitochondrial FAO damage, leading to renal fibrosis and DN.


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Carnitina O-Palmitoiltransferase/genética , Diabetes Mellitus Experimental/genética , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/genética , Nefropatias Diabéticas/genética , Lisina/análogos & derivados , Mitocôndrias/enzimologia , Animais , Glicemia/análise , Linhagem Celular , Diabetes Mellitus Experimental/induzido quimicamente , Diabetes Mellitus Experimental/metabolismo , Diabetes Mellitus Experimental/patologia , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/induzido quimicamente , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/metabolismo , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/patologia , Nefropatias Diabéticas/induzido quimicamente , Nefropatias Diabéticas/metabolismo , Nefropatias Diabéticas/patologia , Hemoglobinas Glicadas/análise , Humanos , Rim/metabolismo , Rim/patologia , Masculino , Potencial da Membrana Mitocondrial , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Mitocôndrias/fisiologia
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Clin Proteomics ; 15: 28, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30186054

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BACKGROUND: Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) of Acinetobacter baumannii are cytotoxic and elicit a potent innate immune response. OMVs were first identified in A. baumannii DU202, an extensively drug-resistant clinical strain. Herein, we investigated protein components of A. baumannii DU202 OMVs following antibiotic treatment by proteogenomic analysis. METHODS: Purified OMVs from A. baumannii DU202 grown in different antibiotic culture conditions were screened for pathogenic and immunogenic effects, and subjected to quantitative proteomic analysis by one-dimensional electrophoresis and liquid chromatography combined with tandem mass spectrometry (1DE-LC-MS/MS). Protein components modulated by imipenem were identified and discussed. RESULTS: OMV secretion was increased > twofold following imipenem treatment, and cytotoxicity toward A549 human lung carcinoma cells was elevated. A total of 277 proteins were identified as components of OMVs by imipenem treatment, among which ß-lactamase OXA-23, various proteases, outer membrane proteins, ß-barrel assembly machine proteins, peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerases and inherent prophage head subunit proteins were significantly upregulated. CONCLUSION: In vitro stress such as antibiotic treatment can modulate proteome components in A. baumannii OMVs and thereby influence pathogenicity.

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Infect Genet Evol ; 65: 150-158, 2018 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30053642

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Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Acinetobacter baumannii strains have emerged rapidly worldwide. The antibiotic resistance characteristics of XDR A. baumannii strains show regional differences; therefore, it is necessary to analyze both genomic and proteomic characteristics of emerging XDR A. baumannii clinical strains isolated in Korea to elucidate their multidrug resistance. Here, we isolated new sequence type of XDR A. baumannii clinical strain (KAB03) from Korean hospitals and performed comprehensive genome analyses. The strain belongs to new sequence type, ST451. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis with other types of A. baumannii strains revealed that KAB03 has unique SNP pattern in the regions of gyrB and gpi of MLST profiles. A. baumannii KAB03 harbours three antibiotic resistance islands (AbGRI1, 2, and 3). AbGRI1 harbours two copies of Tn2006 containing blaOXA-23, which play an important role in antibiotic resistance. AbGRI2 possesses aminoglycoside resistant gene aph(3')-Ic and class A ß-lactamase blaTEM. AbGIR3 has macrolide resistant genes and aminoglycoside resistant gene armA. A. baumannii KAB03 harbours mutations in pmrB and pmrC, which are believed to confer colistin resistance. In addition, proteomic and transcriptional analysis of KAB03 confirmed that ß-lactamases (ADC-73 and OXA-23), Ade efflux pumps (AdeIJK), outer membrane proteins (OmpA and OmpW), and colistin resistance genes (PmrCAB) were major proteins responsible for antibiotic resistance. Our proteogenomic results provide valuable information for multi-drug resistance in emerging XDR A. baumannii strains belonging to ST451.


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Acinetobacter baumannii/efeitos dos fármacos , Acinetobacter baumannii/genética , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana Múltipla/genética , Infecções por Acinetobacter/microbiologia , Acinetobacter baumannii/isolamento & purificação , Aminoglicosídeos/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/genética , Carbapenêmicos/farmacologia , Colistina/farmacologia , DNA Girase/genética , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana Múltipla/efeitos dos fármacos , Genoma Bacteriano , Humanos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Tipagem de Sequências Multilocus , Filogenia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , República da Coreia , beta-Lactamases/genética
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Clin Proteomics ; 15: 6, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29449793

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BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is an acute and febrile infectious disease caused by the Gram-negative α-proteobacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi from the family Rickettsiaceae that is widely distributed in Northern, Southern and Eastern Asia. In the present study, we analysed the serum proteome of scrub typhus patients to investigate specific clinical protein patterns in an attempt to explain pathophysiology and discover potential biomarkers of infection. METHODS: Serum samples were collected from three patients (before and after treatment with antibiotics) and three healthy subjects. One-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was performed to identify differentially abundant proteins using quantitative proteomic approaches. Bioinformatic analysis was then performed using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. RESULTS: Proteomic analysis identified 236 serum proteins, of which 32 were differentially expressed in normal subjects, naive scrub typhus patients and patients treated with antibiotics. Comparative bioinformatic analysis of the identified proteins revealed up-regulation of proteins involved in immune responses, especially complement system, following infection with O. tsutsugamushi, and normal expression was largely rescued by antibiotic treatment. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first proteomic study of clinical serum samples from scrub typhus patients. Proteomic analysis identified changes in protein expression upon infection with O. tsutsugamushi and following antibiotic treatment. Our results provide valuable information for further investigation of scrub typhus therapy and diagnosis.

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Mol Cell Proteomics ; 17(5): 948-960, 2018 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29414759

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Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome is a condition that has four symptoms: urgency, urinary frequency, nocturia, and urge incontinence and negatively affects a patient's life. Recently, it is considered that the urinary bladder urothelium is closely linked to pathogenesis of OAB. However, the mechanisms of pathogenesis of OAB at the molecular level remain poorly understood, mainly because of lack of modern molecular analysis. The goal of this study is to identify a potential target protein that could act as a predictive factor for effective diagnosis and aid in the development of therapeutic strategies for the treatment of OAB syndrome. We produced OAB in a rat model and performed the first proteomic analysis on the mucosal layer (urothelium) of the bladders of sham control and OAB rats. The resulting data revealed the differential expression of 355 proteins in the bladder urothelium of OAB rats compared with sham subjects. Signaling pathway analysis revealed that the differentially expressed proteins were mainly involved in the inflammatory response and apoptosis. Our findings suggest a new target for accurate diagnosis of OAB that can provide essential information for the development of drug treatment strategies as well as establish criteria for screening patients in the clinical environment.


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Proteômica/métodos , Obstrução do Colo da Bexiga Urinária/complicações , Obstrução do Colo da Bexiga Urinária/metabolismo , Bexiga Urinária Hiperativa/etiologia , Bexiga Urinária Hiperativa/metabolismo , Urotélio/metabolismo , Animais , Biomarcadores/metabolismo , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Anotação de Sequência Molecular , Tamanho do Órgão , Mapas de Interação de Proteínas , Proteoma/metabolismo , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Transdução de Sinais , Regulação para Cima , Bexiga Urinária/metabolismo , Bexiga Urinária/patologia , Urotélio/patologia
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Microb Pathog ; 115: 272-279, 2018 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29294369

RESUMO

Our previous study has suggested that Listeria monocytogenes produces extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs) and its general stress transcription factor sigma B (σB) affects the production of MVs under energy stress. The objective of this study was to evaluate the production of MVs and perform global protein profiling for MVs with or without salt stress to understand the function of MVs in the pathogenesis of L. monocytogenes. When cells of L. monocytogenes were grown under 0.5 M salt stress, protein concentrations of MVs derived from wild-type strain and its isogenic ΔsigB mutant were approximately doubled compared to those of MVs derived from cells without salt stress. Proteomic analyses showed that the number of MV proteins expressed in wild-type strain was similar to that in ΔsigB mutant under salt stress. However, global protein expression profiles were dramatically changed under salt stress compared to those without salt stress. Fifteen σB dependent proteins were expressed in MVs of wild-type strain under salt stress, including osmolyte transporter OpuCABCD. In addition, MVs produced by salt stressed wild-type and ΔsigB mutant inhibited biofilm formation abilities of both strains. Taken together, our results suggest that salt stress can promote the production of MVs involved in carnitine transporter proteins, with σB playing a pivotal role in biological event.


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Biofilmes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Vesículas Extracelulares/metabolismo , Listeria monocytogenes/metabolismo , Cloreto de Sódio/toxicidade , Estresse Fisiológico/fisiologia , Transportadores de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP/biossíntese , Proteínas de Bactérias/biossíntese , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Proteínas de Transporte de Cátions Orgânicos/biossíntese , Fator sigma/biossíntese , Fator sigma/genética , Fator sigma/metabolismo
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Microb Pathog ; 107: 6-11, 2017 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28284851

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Clostridium difficile is the most common etiological agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients. This study investigated the secretion of membrane vesicles (MVs) from C. difficile and determined the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokine genes and cytotoxicity of C. difficile MVs in epithelial cells in vitro. C. difficile ATCC 43255 and two clinical isolates secreted spherical MVs during in vitro culture. Proteomic analysis revealed that MVs of C. difficile ATCC 43255 contained a total of 262 proteins. Translation-associated proteins were the most commonly identified in C. difficile MVs, whereas TcdA and TcdB toxins were not detected. C. difficile ATCC 43255-derived MVs stimulated the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokine genes, including interleukin (IL)-1ß, IL-6, IL-8, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in human colorectal epithelial Caco-2 cells. Moreover, these extracellular vesicles induced cytotoxicity in Caco-2 cells. In conclusion, C. difficile MVs are important nanocomplexes that elicit a pro-inflammatory response and induce cytotoxicity in colonic epithelial cells, which may contribute, along with toxins, to intestinal mucosal injury during C. difficile infection.


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Proteínas de Bactérias/toxicidade , Toxinas Bacterianas/toxicidade , Clostridioides difficile/metabolismo , Colo/patologia , Citocinas/efeitos dos fármacos , Citocinas/genética , Enterotoxinas/toxicidade , Células Epiteliais/efeitos dos fármacos , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Células CACO-2/efeitos dos fármacos , Técnicas de Cultura de Células , Quimiocina CCL2/efeitos dos fármacos , Quimiocina CCL2/genética , Clostridioides difficile/genética , Enterocolite Pseudomembranosa/metabolismo , Enterotoxinas/genética , Enterotoxinas/metabolismo , Citometria de Fluxo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Hep G2/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Interleucina-1beta/efeitos dos fármacos , Interleucina-1beta/genética , Interleucina-6/genética , Interleucina-8/efeitos dos fármacos , Interleucina-8/genética , Mucosa Intestinal/efeitos dos fármacos , Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão , Proteômica
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J Immunol Res ; 2017: 7931982, 2017.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28210633

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The secretion of extracellular membrane vesicles (EMVs) is a common phenomenon that occurs in archaea, bacteria, and mammalian cells. The EMVs of bacteria play important roles in their virulence, biogenesis mechanisms, and host cell interactions. Bacterial EMVs have recently become the focus of attention because of their potential as highly effective vaccines that cause few side effects. Here, we isolated the EMVs of Streptococcus pneumoniae and examined their potential as new vaccine candidates. Although the S. pneumoniae bacteria were highly pathogenic in a mouse model, the EMVs purified from these bacteria showed low pathological activity both in cell culture and in mice. When mice were injected intraperitoneally with S. pneumoniae EMVs and then challenged, they were protected from both the homologous strain and another pathogenic serotype of S. pneumoniae. We also identified a number of proteins that may have immunogenic activity and may be responsible for the immune responses by the hosts. These results suggest that S. pneumoniae EMVs or their individual immunogenic antigens may be useful as new vaccine agents.


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Antígenos de Bactérias/imunologia , Vesículas Extracelulares/imunologia , Infecções Pneumocócicas/prevenção & controle , Vacinas Pneumocócicas/química , Streptococcus pneumoniae/citologia , Células A549 , Animais , Anticorpos Antibacterianos/sangue , Antígenos de Bactérias/administração & dosagem , Descoberta de Drogas , Vesículas Extracelulares/química , Vesículas Extracelulares/ultraestrutura , Humanos , Injeções Intraperitoneais , Camundongos , Infecções Pneumocócicas/microbiologia , Vacinas Pneumocócicas/administração & dosagem , Vacinas Pneumocócicas/efeitos adversos , Vacinação , Virulência
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J Microbiol ; 55(1): 56-62, 2017 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28035602

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Novosphingobium pentaromativorans US6-1 is a Gram-negative halophilic marine bacterium able to utilize several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as phenanthrene, pyrene, and benzo[a]pyrene. In this study, using transmission electron microscopy, we confirmed that N. pentaromativorans US6-1 produces outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). N. pentaromativorans OMVs (hereafter OMVNovo) are spherical in shape, and the average diameter of OMVNovo is 25-70 nm. Proteomic analysis revealed that outer membrane proteins and periplasmic proteins of N. pentaromativorans are the major protein components of OMVNovo. Comparative proteomic analysis with the membrane-associated protein fraction and correlation analysis demonstrated that the outer membrane proteins of OMVNovo originated from the membrane- associated protein fraction. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to characterize OMV purified from halophilic marine bacteria.


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Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/química , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/metabolismo , Vesículas Extracelulares/fisiologia , Proteômica , Sphingomonadaceae/metabolismo , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/genética , Vesículas Extracelulares/química , Vesículas Extracelulares/ultraestrutura , Proteínas Periplásmicas/metabolismo , Transporte Proteico , Proteoma , Água do Mar/microbiologia , Sphingomonadaceae/ultraestrutura
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J Proteome Res ; 15(12): 4146-4164, 2016 12 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27760464

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Glycoprotein conformations are complex and heterogeneous. Currently, site-specific characterization of glycopeptides is a challenge. We sought to establish an efficient method of N-glycoprotein characterization using mass spectrometry (MS). Using alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) as a model N-glycoprotein, we identified its tryptic N-glycopeptides and examined the data reproducibility in seven laboratories running different LC-MS/MS platforms. We used three test samples and one blind sample to evaluate instrument performance with entire sample preparation workflow. 165 site-specific N-glycopeptides representative of all N-glycosylation sites were identified from AGP 1 and AGP 2 isoforms. The glycopeptide fragmentations by collision-induced dissociation or higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) varied based on the MS analyzer. Orbitrap Elite identified the greatest number of AGP N-glycopeptides, followed by Triple TOF and Q-Exactive Plus. Reproducible generation of oxonium ions, glycan-cleaved glycopeptide fragment ions, and peptide backbone fragment ions was essential for successful identification. Laboratory proficiency affected the number of identified N-glycopeptides. The relative quantities of the 10 major N-glycopeptide isoforms of AGP detected in four laboratories were compared to assess reproducibility. Quantitative analysis showed that the coefficient of variation was <25% for all test samples. Our analytical protocol yielded identification and quantification of site-specific N-glycopeptide isoforms of AGP from control and disease plasma sample.


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Glicopeptídeos/química , Orosomucoide/química , Isoformas de Proteínas/análise , Sítios de Ligação , Coleta de Amostras Sanguíneas , Cromatografia Líquida , Glicosilação , Humanos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Espectrometria de Massas em Tandem
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Mol Med Rep ; 14(4): 3719-24, 2016 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27572900

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Autogenous microfat grafting is widely used to augment depressed deformities or for other cosmetic purposes. Since the microfat survival rate is unpredictable due to absorption and calcification, previously cryopreserved fat is widely used for secondary procedures. Sphingosylphosphorylcholine (SPC) is a lysophospholipid, which has a role in several cellular responses, and is known to stimulate DNA synthesis and proliferation. Since endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are known to enhance the survival rate of transplanted fat tissue, the present study assessed the effects of SPC on EPCs, in order to verify its positive effects on proliferation. Cryopreserved human fat tissues mixed with various concentrations of SPC were grafted into the nude mouse model. After grafting, the viability of each SPC mixed group was determined and compared with that of the non­SPC group. SPC exhibited a positive effect on EPC proliferation and angiogenic potential over 3 days when used at specific concentrations. The fat grafts of the 3 µM SPC­treated group weighed significantly more and the volume was markedly increased, as compared with the control group. A reverse transcription­quantitative polymerase chain reaction was conducted on the total RNA extracted from SPC­treated fat tissues, which detected increased mRNA expression levels of matrix metallopeptidase­9 and tumor necrosis factor­α compared with in the control group. These results indicate that specific concentrations of SPC may exert favorable effects on grafted cryopreserved human fat tissue, which may be due to the increased mRNA expression levels of genes associated with angiogenesis.


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Tecido Adiposo/transplante , Indutores da Angiogênese/farmacologia , Sobrevivência de Enxerto/efeitos dos fármacos , Fosforilcolina/análogos & derivados , Esfingosina/análogos & derivados , Tecido Adiposo/irrigação sanguínea , Tecido Adiposo/efeitos dos fármacos , Animais , Proliferação de Células , Criopreservação , Células Progenitoras Endoteliais/citologia , Células Progenitoras Endoteliais/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Nus , Fosforilcolina/farmacologia , Esfingosina/farmacologia
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PLoS One ; 11(4): e0154233, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27124467

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Burkholderia sp. K24, formerly known as Acinetobacter lwoffii K24, is a soil bacterium capable of utilizing aniline as its sole carbon and nitrogen source. Genomic sequence analysis revealed that this bacterium possesses putative gene clusters for biodegradation of various monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (MAHs), including benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX), as well as aniline. We verified the proposed MAH biodegradation pathways by dioxygenase activity assays, RT-PCR, and LC/MS-based quantitative proteomic analyses. This proteogenomic approach revealed four independent degradation pathways, all converging into the citric acid cycle. Aniline and p-hydroxybenzoate degradation pathways converged into the ß-ketoadipate pathway. Benzoate and toluene were degraded through the benzoyl-CoA degradation pathway. The xylene isomers, i.e., o-, m-, and p-xylene, were degraded via the extradiol cleavage pathways. Salicylate was degraded through the gentisate degradation pathway. Our results show that Burkholderia sp. K24 possesses versatile biodegradation pathways, which may be employed for efficient bioremediation of aniline and BTX.


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Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Burkholderia/metabolismo , Dioxigenases/metabolismo , Microbiologia do Solo , Poluentes do Solo/metabolismo , Acil Coenzima A/metabolismo , Adipatos/metabolismo , Compostos de Anilina/metabolismo , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Benzeno/metabolismo , Biodegradação Ambiental , Burkholderia/genética , Ciclo do Ácido Cítrico/genética , Dioxigenases/genética , Expressão Gênica , Ontologia Genética , Gentisatos/metabolismo , Anotação de Sequência Molecular , Ácido Salicílico/metabolismo , Tolueno/metabolismo , Xilenos/metabolismo
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Microb Pathog ; 93: 185-93, 2016 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26924795

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Staphylococcus aureus secretes membrane-derived vesicles (MVs), which can deliver virulence factors to host cells and induce cytopathology. However, the cytopathology of host cells induced by MVs derived from different S. aureus strains has not yet been characterized. In the present study, the cytotoxic activity of MVs from different S. aureus isolates on host cells was compared and the proteomes of S. aureus MVs were analyzed. The MVs purified from S. aureus M060 isolated from a patient with staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome showed higher cytotoxic activity toward host cells than that shown by MVs from three other clinical S. aureus isolates. S. aureus M060 MVs induced HEp-2 cell apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner, but the cytotoxic activity of MVs was completely abolished by treatment with proteinase K. In a proteomic analysis, the MVs from three S. aureus isolates not only carry 25 common proteins, but also carry ≥60 strain-specific proteins. All S. aureus MVs contained δ-hemolysin (Hld), γ-hemolysin, leukocidin D, and exfoliative toxin C, but exfoliative toxin A (ETA) was specifically identified in S. aureus M060 MVs. ETA was delivered to HEp-2 cells via S. aureus MVs. Both rETA and rHld induced cytotoxicity in HEp-2 cells. In conclusion, MVs from clinical S. aureus isolates differ with respect to cytotoxic activity in host cells, and these differences may result from differences in the MV proteomes. Further proteogenomic analysis or mutagenesis of specific genes is necessary to identify cytotoxic factors in S. aureus MVs.


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Proteoma/metabolismo , Infecções Estafilocócicas/microbiologia , Staphylococcus aureus/metabolismo , Vesículas Transportadoras/metabolismo , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Humanos , Transporte Proteico , Proteoma/genética , Proteômica , Staphylococcus aureus/genética , Staphylococcus aureus/patogenicidade , Vesículas Transportadoras/genética , Virulência
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Microb Pathog ; 81: 39-45, 2015 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25778390

RESUMO

Acinetobacter nosocomialis is an important nosocomial pathogen that causes a variety of opportunistic infections; however, pathogenesis of this microorganism has not yet been characterized. The aim of this study was to investigate the secretion of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from A. nosocomialis and to determine their cytotoxic effects and their ability to induce inflammatory responses both in vitro and in vivo by using human epithelial HEp-2 cells and a mouse model, respectively. A. nosocomialis ATCC 17903(T) secreted spherical OMVs when cultured in vitro. Proteomic analysis revealed that 147 different proteins were associated with A. nosocomialis OMVs and virulence-associated proteins, such as outer membrane protein A (OmpA), CsuA, CsuC, CsuD, PilW, hemolysin, and serine protease, were identified. A. nosocomialis OMVs were cytotoxic to HEp-2 cells. These vesicles also induced the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokine genes in the HEp-2 cells. Early inflammatory responses, such as congestion and focal neutrophilic infiltration, were observed in the lungs of mice injected with A. nosocomialis OMVs. In conclusion, A. nosocomialis OMVs are important secretory nanocomplexes that induce cytotoxicity of epithelial cells and host inflammatory responses, which may contribute to the pathogenesis of A. nosocomialis.


Assuntos
Acinetobacter/imunologia , Acinetobacter/metabolismo , Morte Celular , Células Epiteliais/imunologia , Células Epiteliais/metabolismo , Inflamação , Vesículas Secretórias/metabolismo , Infecções por Acinetobacter/imunologia , Infecções por Acinetobacter/patologia , Animais , Proteínas de Bactérias/análise , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Células Hep G2 , Humanos , Pulmão/patologia , Camundongos , Vesículas Secretórias/química , Fatores de Virulência/análise
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Genome Announc ; 2(6)2014 Dec 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25477408

RESUMO

Burkholderia sp. K24 is an aniline-degrading soil bacterium that utilizes aniline and its analogues as sole carbon and nitrogen sources. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this strain that consists of 8,344,181 bp, with a G+C content of 61.7%.

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J Proteome Res ; 13(10): 4298-309, 2014 Oct 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25198519

RESUMO

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are produced by various pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter baumannii. In this study, we isolated OMVs from a representative soil bacterium, Pseudomonas putida KT2440, which has a biodegradative activity toward various aromatic compounds. Proteomic analysis identified the outer membrane proteins (OMPs) OprC, OprD, OprE, OprF, OprH, OprG, and OprW as major components of the OMV of P. putida KT2440. The production of OMVs was dependent on the nutrient availability in the culture media, and the up- or down-regulation of specific OMPs was observed according to the culture conditions. In particular, porins (e.g., benzoate-specific porin, BenF-like porin) and enzymes (e.g., catechol 1,2-dioxygenase, benzoate dioxygenase) for benzoate degradation were uniquely found in OMVs prepared from P. putida KT2440 that were cultured in media containing benzoate as the energy source. OMVs of P. putida KT2440 showed low pathological activity toward cultured cells that originated from human lung cells, which suggests their potential as adjuvants or OMV vaccine carriers. Our results suggest that the protein composition of the OMVs of P. putida KT2440 reflects the characteristics of the total proteome of P. putida KT2440.


Assuntos
Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/metabolismo , Proteômica , Pseudomonas putida/metabolismo , Apoptose , Linhagem Celular , Cromatografia Líquida , Humanos , Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão , Frações Subcelulares/metabolismo , Espectrometria de Massas em Tandem
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