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J Ethnopharmacol ; 278: 114238, 2021 Oct 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34048878

RESUMO

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw (V. fordii) is also known as the tung tree and its leaves and fruit are used as an oriental treatment for dyspepsia, edema, and skin diseases, which are known as diabetic complications. AIM OF THE STUDY: In this study, we aimed to investigate the methanolic extract (VF5) of the leaves of V. fordii as an insulin secretagogue and its probable mechanism and verify the effect in HFD-fed mice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The insulin secretagogue activity of different doses of VF5 (0.1, 0.3 and 1.0 µg/ml) was assessed using in vitro insulin secretion assay and confirmed the anti-diabetic effect in mice fed HFD for 4 weeks with different doses of VF5 (10, 20 and 50 mg/kg oral) for another 6 weeks. Glbenclamide (30 mg/kg, oral) was used as positive control drug. The possible mechanisms were evaluated by using Gö6983 (10 µM), U73122 (10 µM) and nifedipine (10 µM). The major constituents of VF5 were analyzed by UPLC-QToF-MS and 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. RESULTS: UPLC-QToF-MS and NMR spectroscopy analysis indicated that one of the main active components of VF5 was tigliane-diterpene esters. VF5 functioned as an insulin secretagogue and enhanced mitochondria respiration and insulin homeostasis. We confirmed that VF5 preserved the ß-cell and reduced the ß-cell expansion which caused by metabolic stress under HFD. The antidiabetic role of VF5 in HFD fed mice was assessed by glucose tolerance test (GTT) and insulin tolerance test (ITT), fasting plasma insulin level, fasting blood glucose level, AKT signal in peripheral tissue in the absence of toxic effects. Mechanistically, insulinotropic effect of VF5 was mediated by activation of PKCα via intracellular Ca2+ influx and enhanced mitochondria function. CONCLUSION: VF5 exhibits potent insulin secretagogue function and improves insulin sensitivity and protection of pancreatic ß-cells from metabolic stress without toxicity. Taken together, our study suggests that VF5 could be potentially used for treating diabetes and metabolic diseases through improving ß-cell function.


Assuntos
Aleurites/química , Diabetes Mellitus Experimental/tratamento farmacológico , Secreção de Insulina/efeitos dos fármacos , Extratos Vegetais/farmacologia , Animais , Diabetes Mellitus Experimental/fisiopatologia , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Teste de Tolerância a Glucose , Hipoglicemiantes/administração & dosagem , Hipoglicemiantes/isolamento & purificação , Hipoglicemiantes/farmacologia , Resistência à Insulina , Células Secretoras de Insulina/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Secretoras de Insulina/metabolismo , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Extratos Vegetais/administração & dosagem , Extratos Vegetais/efeitos adversos , Estresse Fisiológico/efeitos dos fármacos
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 49(1): 269-284, 2021 01 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33313823

RESUMO

R-loops are three-stranded, RNA-DNA hybrid, nucleic acid structures produced due to inappropriate processing of newly transcribed RNA or transcription-replication collision (TRC). Although R-loops are important for many cellular processes, their accumulation causes genomic instability and malignant diseases, so these structures are tightly regulated. It was recently reported that R-loop accumulation is resolved by methyltransferase-like 3 (METTL3)-mediated m6A RNA methylation under physiological conditions. However, it remains unclear how R-loops in the genome are recognized and induce resolution signals. Here, we demonstrate that tonicity-responsive enhancer binding protein (TonEBP) recognizes R-loops generated by DNA damaging agents such as ultraviolet (UV) or camptothecin (CPT). Single-molecule imaging and biochemical assays reveal that TonEBP preferentially binds a R-loop via both 3D collision and 1D diffusion along DNA in vitro. In addition, we find that TonEBP recruits METTL3 to R-loops through the Rel homology domain (RHD) for m6A RNA methylation. We also show that TonEBP recruits RNaseH1 to R-loops through a METTL3 interaction. Consistent with this, TonEBP or METTL3 depletion increases R-loops and reduces cell survival in the presence of UV or CPT. Collectively, our results reveal an R-loop resolution pathway by TonEBP and m6A RNA methylation by METTL3 and provide new insights into R-loop resolution processes.


Assuntos
Adenosina/análogos & derivados , Replicação do DNA/genética , Metiltransferases/fisiologia , Estruturas R-Loop/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/fisiologia , Adenosina/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , DNA/genética , DNA/metabolismo , Adutos de DNA/metabolismo , Dano ao DNA , Difusão , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Metilação , Ligação Proteica , Mapeamento de Interação de Proteínas , Estruturas R-Loop/efeitos da radiação , Ribonuclease H/fisiologia , Raios Ultravioleta
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Commun Biol ; 3(1): 174, 2020 04 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32296133

RESUMO

Genes and neural circuits coordinately regulate animal sleep. However, it remains elusive how these endogenous factors shape sleep upon environmental changes. Here, we demonstrate that Shaker (Sh)-expressing GABAergic neurons projecting onto dorsal fan-shaped body (dFSB) regulate temperature-adaptive sleep behaviors in Drosophila. Loss of Sh function suppressed sleep at low temperature whereas light and high temperature cooperatively gated Sh effects on sleep. Sh depletion in GABAergic neurons partially phenocopied Sh mutants. Furthermore, the ionotropic GABA receptor, Resistant to dieldrin (Rdl), in dFSB neurons acted downstream of Sh and antagonized its sleep-promoting effects. In fact, Rdl inhibited the intracellular cAMP signaling of constitutively active dopaminergic synapses onto dFSB at low temperature. High temperature silenced GABAergic synapses onto dFSB, thereby potentiating the wake-promoting dopamine transmission. We propose that temperature-dependent switching between these two synaptic transmission modalities may adaptively tune the neural property of dFSB neurons to temperature shifts and reorganize sleep architecture for animal fitness.


Assuntos
Comportamento Animal , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Drosophila melanogaster/metabolismo , Neurônios GABAérgicos/metabolismo , Superfamília Shaker de Canais de Potássio/metabolismo , Sono , Transmissão Sináptica , Sensação Térmica , Ciclos de Atividade , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados , Ritmo Circadiano , Neurônios Dopaminérgicos/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Drosophila melanogaster/genética , Luz , Receptores de GABA-A/genética , Receptores de GABA-A/metabolismo , Superfamília Shaker de Canais de Potássio/genética , Fatores de Tempo
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Infect Immun ; 87(12)2019 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31548327

RESUMO

Upon microbial infection, host immune cells recognize bacterial cell envelope components through cognate receptors. Although bacterial cell envelope components function as innate immune molecules, the role of the physical state of the bacterial cell envelope (i.e., particulate versus soluble) in host immune activation has not been clearly defined. Here, using two different forms of the staphylococcal cell envelope of Staphylococcus aureus RN4220 and USA300 LAC strains, we provide biochemical and immunological evidence that the particulate state is required for the effective activation of host innate immune responses. In a murine model of peritoneal infection, the particulate form of the staphylococcal cell envelope (PCE) induced the production of chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 1 (CXCL1) and CC chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2), the chemotactic cytokines for neutrophils and monocytes, respectively, resulting in a strong influx of the phagocytes into the peritoneal cavity. In contrast, compared with PCE, the soluble form of cell envelope (SCE), which was derived from PCE by treatment with cell wall-hydrolyzing enzymes, showed minimal activity. PCE also induced the secretion of calprotectin (myeloid-related protein 8/14 [MRP8/14] complex), a phagocyte-derived antimicrobial protein, into the peritoneal cavity at a much higher level than did SCE. The injected PCE particles were phagocytosed by the infiltrated neutrophils and monocytes and then delivered to mediastinal draining lymph nodes. More importantly, intraperitoneally (i.p.) injected PCE efficiently protected mice from S. aureus infection, which was abolished by the depletion of either monocytes/macrophages or neutrophils. This study demonstrated that the physical state of bacterial cells is a critical factor for efficient host immune activation and the protection of hosts from staphylococcal infections.


Assuntos
Parede Celular/imunologia , Monócitos/imunologia , Neutrófilos/imunologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/imunologia , Staphylococcus aureus/imunologia , Animais , Quimiocina CCL2/metabolismo , Quimiocina CXCL1/metabolismo , Feminino , Imunidade Inata/imunologia , Complexo Antígeno L1 Leucocitário/metabolismo , Macrófagos/imunologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Fagocitose/imunologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/microbiologia
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iScience ; 19: 177-190, 2019 Sep 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31376680

RESUMO

Polyubiquitination of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) regulates the error-free template-switching mechanism for the bypass of DNA lesions during DNA replication. PCNA polyubiquitination is critical for the maintenance of genomic integrity; however, the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that tonicity-responsive enhancer-binding protein (TonEBP) regulates PCNA polyubiquitination in response to DNA damage. TonEBP was recruited to DNA damage sites with bulky adducts and sequentially recruited E3 ubiquitin ligase SHPRH, followed by deubiquitinase USP1, to DNA damage sites, in correlation with the dynamics of PCNA polyubiquitination. Similarly, TonEBP was found to be required for replication fork protection in response to DNA damage. The Rel-homology domain of TonEBP, which encircles DNA, was essential for the interaction with SHPRH and USP1, PCNA polyubiquitination, and cell survival after DNA damage. The present findings suggest that TonEBP is an upstream regulator of PCNA polyubiquitination and of the DNA damage bypass pathway.

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 115(20): E4623-E4632, 2018 05 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29712850

RESUMO

Store-operated calcium entry (SOCE), an important mechanism of Ca2+ signaling in a wide range of cell types, is mediated by stromal interaction molecule (STIM), which senses the depletion of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ stores and binds and activates Orai channels in the plasma membrane. This inside-out mechanism of Ca2+ signaling raises an interesting question about the evolution of SOCE: How did these two proteins existing in different cellular compartments evolve to interact with each other? We investigated the gating mechanism of Caenorhabditis elegans Orai channels. Our analysis revealed a mechanism of Orai gating by STIM binding to the intracellular 2-3 loop of Orai in C. elegans that is radically different from Orai gating by STIM binding to the N and C termini of Orai in mammals. In addition, we found that the conserved hydrophobic amino acids in the 2-3 loop of Orai1 are important for the oligomerization and gating of channels and are regulated via an intramolecular interaction mechanism mediated by the N and C termini of Orai1. This study identifies a previously unknown SOCE mechanism in C. elegans and suggests that, while the STIM-Orai interaction is conserved between invertebrates and mammals, the gating mechanism for Orai channels differs considerably.


Assuntos
Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Canais de Cálcio/metabolismo , Cálcio/metabolismo , Ativação do Canal Iônico , Proteína ORAI1/metabolismo , Molécula 1 de Interação Estromal/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Canais de Cálcio/química , Canais de Cálcio/genética , Sinalização do Cálcio , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplasmático/metabolismo , Evolução Molecular , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Proteína ORAI1/química , Proteína ORAI1/genética , Homologia de Sequência , Molécula 1 de Interação Estromal/química , Molécula 1 de Interação Estromal/genética
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Sci Rep ; 7: 44921, 2017 04 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28368052

RESUMO

O-GlcNAcylated proteins are abundant in the brain and are associated with neuronal functions and neurodegenerative diseases. Although several studies have reported the effects of aberrant regulation of O-GlcNAcylation on brain function, the roles of O-GlcNAcylation in synaptic function remain unclear. To understand the effect of aberrant O-GlcNAcylation on the brain, we used Oga+/- mice which have an increased level of O-GlcNAcylation, and found that Oga+/- mice exhibited impaired spatial learning and memory. Consistent with this result, Oga+/- mice showed a defect in hippocampal synaptic plasticity. Oga heterozygosity causes impairment of both long-term potentiation and long-term depression due to dysregulation of AMPA receptor phosphorylation. These results demonstrate a role for hyper-O-GlcNAcylation in learning and memory.


Assuntos
Hipocampo/metabolismo , Hipocampo/fisiopatologia , Memória , Plasticidade Neuronal , Animais , Espinhas Dendríticas/metabolismo , Neurônios GABAérgicos/metabolismo , Glicosilação , Hipocampo/patologia , Camundongos , N-Acetilglucosaminiltransferases/genética , N-Acetilglucosaminiltransferases/metabolismo , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/genética , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/metabolismo , Aprendizagem Espacial , Memória Espacial , Transmissão Sináptica , beta-N-Acetil-Hexosaminidases/genética , beta-N-Acetil-Hexosaminidases/metabolismo
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Mol Cell ; 66(1): 129-140.e7, 2017 Apr 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28388438

RESUMO

ATAXIN-2 (ATX2) has been implicated in human neurodegenerative diseases, yet it remains elusive how ATX2 assembles specific protein complexes to execute its physiological roles. Here we employ the posttranscriptional co-activator function of Drosophila ATX2 to demonstrate that LSM12 and ME31B/DDX6 are two ATX2-associating factors crucial for sustaining circadian rhythms. LSM12 acts as a molecular adaptor for the recruitment of TWENTY-FOUR (TYF) to ATX2. The ATX2-LSM12-TYF complex thereby stimulates TYF-dependent translation of the rate-limiting clock gene period (per) to maintain 24 hr periodicity in circadian behaviors. In contrast, ATX2 contributes to NOT1-mediated gene silencing and associates with NOT1 in a ME31B/DDX6-dependent manner. The ME31B/DDX6-NOT1 complex does not affect PER translation but supports high-amplitude behavioral rhythms along with ATX2, indicating a PER-independent clock function of ATX2. Taken together, these data suggest that the ATX2 complex may switch distinct modes of posttranscriptional regulation through its associating factors to control circadian clocks and ATX2-related physiology.


Assuntos
Ataxina-2/metabolismo , Comportamento Animal , Relógios Circadianos , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização do Ritmo Circadiano/metabolismo , Ritmo Circadiano , RNA Helicases DEAD-box/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Drosophila melanogaster/enzimologia , Locomoção , Neurônios/enzimologia , Interferência de RNA , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados , Ataxina-2/genética , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização do Ritmo Circadiano/genética , RNA Helicases DEAD-box/genética , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Drosophila melanogaster/citologia , Drosophila melanogaster/genética , Genótipo , Complexos Multiproteicos , Mutação , Proteínas Circadianas Period/genética , Proteínas Circadianas Period/metabolismo , Fenótipo , Proteínas de Ligação a RNA , Transdução de Sinais , Fatores de Tempo , Transfecção
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Sci Rep ; 6: 32113, 2016 08 31.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27577611

RESUMO

Light is one of the strongest environmental time cues for entraining endogenous circadian rhythms. Emerging evidence indicates that CREB-regulated transcription co-activator 1 (CRTC1) is a key player in this pathway, stimulating light-induced Period1 (Per1) transcription in mammalian clocks. Here, we demonstrate a light-independent role of Drosophila CRTC in sustaining circadian behaviors. Genomic deletion of the crtc locus causes long but poor locomotor rhythms in constant darkness. Overexpression or RNA interference-mediated depletion of CRTC in circadian pacemaker neurons similarly impairs the free-running behavioral rhythms, implying that Drosophila clocks are sensitive to the dosage of CRTC. The crtc null mutation delays the overall phase of circadian gene expression yet it remarkably dampens light-independent oscillations of TIMELESS (TIM) proteins in the clock neurons. In fact, CRTC overexpression enhances CLOCK/CYCLE (CLK/CYC)-activated transcription from tim but not per promoter in clock-less S2 cells whereas CRTC depletion suppresses it. Consistently, TIM overexpression partially but significantly rescues the behavioral rhythms in crtc mutants. Taken together, our data suggest that CRTC is a novel co-activator for the CLK/CYC-activated tim transcription to coordinate molecular rhythms with circadian behaviors over a 24-hour time-scale. We thus propose that CRTC-dependent clock mechanisms have co-evolved with selective clock genes among different species.


Assuntos
Ritmo Circadiano/fisiologia , Proteínas de Drosophila/biossíntese , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Luz , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Transcrição Gênica/fisiologia , Animais , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Drosophila melanogaster , Mutação , Proteínas Circadianas Period/genética , Proteínas Circadianas Period/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/genética
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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces ; 7(50): 27743-8, 2015 Dec 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26575093

RESUMO

We demonstrated visible color tunable three-dimensional (3D) pyramidal light emitting diodes by depositing the MgO on and near the tip of the pyramid as an insulating layer. Here, we show that the degradation of the materials (i.e., p-GaN) crystallinity and the built-in electric field due to the nanoscale geometry of the tip region is responsible for the large leakage current observed in LEDs. Confocal scanning electroluminescence microscopy images clearly showed that the intensity of the light emitted out of the side facet of the pyramid is much higher than that of the light extracted out of the tip surface, indicating that the MgO layer prohibited the carrier injection to the MQWs layer, suppressing the leakage occurring at or near the tip region of the pyramids. The color range of the LEDs can be also tuned by using the MgO layer, a blue-shift by 10.3 nm in the wavelength. This technique is simple and scalable, providing a promising solution for developing 3D pyramidal LEDs with low leakage current and controllable light emission.

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Chemistry ; 21(46): 16349-53, 2015 Nov 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26418848

RESUMO

Pyrene-based turn-on ratiometric fluorescent probe 1 demonstrates high sensitivity and exceptional selectivity toward Cr(3+) in the presence of other metals, including Fe(3+) in aqueous media. Interaction of Cr(3+) with probe 1 brings pyrene moieties close enough to have better aligned π-π stacking, thus enhancing the excimer peak many fold. On the other hand, the interaction of Fe(3+) with probe 1 brings forth a negligible difference in stacking, resulting in an insignificant change in fluorescence intensity. Exceptional selectivity of probe 1 with Cr(3+) over Fe(3+) and other metals has been confirmed by theoretical studies in addition to experimental results. Imaging of HeLa cells observed by confocal fluorescence microscopy reveals that probe 1 can be used to monitor Cr(3+) in live cells to map its subcellular distribution.


Assuntos
Cromo/química , Compostos Férricos/química , Corantes Fluorescentes/administração & dosagem , Corantes Fluorescentes/química , Ferro/química , Pirenos/química , Células HeLa , Humanos , Microscopia Confocal , Estrutura Molecular
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Sci Rep ; 4: 3811, 2014 Jan 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24448451

RESUMO

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100 is a predatory bacterium that attacks many Gram-negative human pathogens. A serious drawback of this strain, however, is its ineffectiveness against Gram-positive strains, such as the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Here we demonstrate that the extracellular proteases produced by a host-independent B. bacteriovorus (HIB) effectively degrade/inhibit the formation of S. aureus biofilms and reduce its virulence. A 10% addition of HIB supernatant caused a 75% or greater reduction in S. aureus biofilm formation as well as 75% dispersal of pre-formed biofilms. LC-MS-MS analyses identified various B. bacteriovorus proteases within the supernatant, including the serine proteases Bd2269 and Bd2321. Tests with AEBSF confirmed that serine proteases were active in the supernatant and that they impacted S. aureus biofilm formation. The supernatant also possessed a slight DNAse activity. Furthermore, treatment of planktonic S. aureus with the supernatant diminished its ability to invade MCF-10a epithelial cells by 5-fold but did not affect the MCF-10a viability. In conclusion, this study illustrates the hitherto unknown ability of B. bacteriovorus to disperse Gram-positive pathogenic biofilms and mitigate their virulence.


Assuntos
Bdellovibrio/fisiologia , Biofilmes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Células Epiteliais/microbiologia , Serina Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Infecções Estafilocócicas/prevenção & controle , Staphylococcus aureus/patogenicidade , Virulência , Biofilmes/efeitos dos fármacos , Mama/metabolismo , Proliferação de Células , Células Cultivadas , Cromatografia Líquida , Células Epiteliais/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Epiteliais/metabolismo , Feminino , Humanos , Inibidores de Proteases/farmacologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/microbiologia , Espectrometria de Massas em Tandem
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