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Langmuir ; 39(35): 12452-12466, 2023 Sep 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37615654

RESUMO

Owing to the importance of analytical results for electrokinetics of colloidal entities, we performed a mathematical analysis to determine the closed form analytical results for the diffusiophoretic velocity of a hydrophobic and polarizable fluid droplet. A comprehensive mathematical model is developed for diffusiophoresis, considering the background aqueous medium as general electrolytes (e.g., binary valence-symmetric/asymmetric electrolytes and a mixed solution of binary electrolytes). We performed our analysis under a weak concentration gradient, and the analytical results for diffusiophoretic velocity are calculated within the Debye-Hückel electrostatic framework. The exact form of the diffusiophoretic velocity is further approximated with negligible error, and the approximate form is found to be free from any of the cumbersome exponential integrals and thus very convenient for practical use. The present theory also covers the diffusiophoresis of perfectly dielectric as well as perfectly conducting droplets as its limiting case. In addition, we have further derived a number of closed form expressions for diffusiophoretic velocity pertaining to several particular cases, and we observed that the derived limit correctly recovers the available existing analytical results for diffusiophoretic velocity. Thus, the present analytical theory for diffusiophoresis can be applied to a wide class of fluidic droplets, e.g., hydrophobic and dielectric oil/conducting mercury droplets, air bubbles, nanoemulsions, as well as any polarizable and hydrophobic fluidic droplet suspended in a solution of general electrolytes.

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Nat Commun ; 7: 11612, 2016 05 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27194471

RESUMO

The precise molecular alterations driving castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) are not clearly understood. Using a novel network-based integrative approach, here, we show distinct alterations in the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) to be critical for CRPC. Expression of HBP enzyme glucosamine-phosphate N-acetyltransferase 1 (GNPNAT1) is found to be significantly decreased in CRPC compared with localized prostate cancer (PCa). Genetic loss-of-function of GNPNAT1 in CRPC-like cells increases proliferation and aggressiveness, in vitro and in vivo. This is mediated by either activation of the PI3K-AKT pathway in cells expressing full-length androgen receptor (AR) or by specific protein 1 (SP1)-regulated expression of carbohydrate response element-binding protein (ChREBP) in cells containing AR-V7 variant. Strikingly, addition of the HBP metabolite UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) to CRPC-like cells significantly decreases cell proliferation, both in-vitro and in animal studies, while also demonstrates additive efficacy when combined with enzalutamide in-vitro. These observations demonstrate the therapeutic value of targeting HBP in CRPC.


Assuntos
Hexosaminas/biossíntese , Neoplasias de Próstata Resistentes à Castração/metabolismo , Animais , Fatores de Transcrição de Zíper de Leucina e Hélice-Alça-Hélix Básicos/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos SCID , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases/metabolismo , Neoplasias de Próstata Resistentes à Castração/tratamento farmacológico , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-akt/metabolismo
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J Clin Invest ; 124(1): 398-412, 2014 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24316975

RESUMO

Metabolic profiling of cancer cells has recently been established as a promising tool for the development of therapies and identification of cancer biomarkers. Here we characterized the metabolomic profile of human breast tumors and uncovered intrinsic metabolite signatures in these tumors using an untargeted discovery approach and validation of key metabolites. The oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) accumulated at high levels in a subset of tumors and human breast cancer cell lines. We discovered an association between increased 2HG levels and MYC pathway activation in breast cancer, and further corroborated this relationship using MYC overexpression and knockdown in human mammary epithelial and breast cancer cells. Further analyses revealed globally increased DNA methylation in 2HG-high tumors and identified a tumor subtype with high tissue 2HG and a distinct DNA methylation pattern that was associated with poor prognosis and occurred with higher frequency in African-American patients. Tumors of this subtype had a stem cell-like transcriptional signature and tended to overexpress glutaminase, suggestive of a functional relationship between glutamine and 2HG metabolism in breast cancer. Accordingly, 13C-labeled glutamine was incorporated into 2HG in cells with aberrant 2HG accumulation, whereas pharmacologic and siRNA-mediated glutaminase inhibition reduced 2HG levels. Our findings implicate 2HG as a candidate breast cancer oncometabolite associated with MYC activation and poor prognosis.


Assuntos
Neoplasias da Mama/metabolismo , Glutaratos/metabolismo , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-myc/fisiologia , Oxirredutases do Álcool/genética , Oxirredutases do Álcool/metabolismo , Apoptose , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Neoplasias da Mama/mortalidade , Metilação de DNA , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Técnicas de Silenciamento de Genes , Glutamina/metabolismo , Humanos , Isocitrato Desidrogenase/genética , Isocitrato Desidrogenase/metabolismo , Células MCF-7 , Metaboloma , Mitocôndrias/enzimologia , Proteínas Mitocondriais/genética , Proteínas Mitocondriais/metabolismo , Prognóstico , RNA Interferente Pequeno/genética , Receptores de Estrogênio/metabolismo , Análise de Sobrevida , Transcriptoma , Via de Sinalização Wnt
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PLoS One ; 7(8): e42417, 2012.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22879973

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Sequence variation in the human 12/15 lipoxygenase (ALOX15) has been associated with atherosclerotic disease. We functionally characterized an ALOX15 promoter polymorphism, rs2255888, previously associated with carotid plaque burden. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We demonstrate specific in vitro and in vivo binding of the cytoskeletal protein, vimentin, to the ALOX15 promoter. We show that the two promoter haplotypes carrying alternate alleles at rs2255888 exhibit significant differences in promoter activity by luciferase reporter assay in two cell lines. Differences in in-vitro vimentin-binding to and formation of DNA secondary structures in the polymorphic promoter sequence are also detected by electrophoretic mobility shift assay and biophysical analysis, respectively. We show regulation of ALOX15 protein by vimentin. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: This study suggests that vimentin binds the ALOX15 promoter and regulates its promoter activity and protein expression. Sequence variation that results in changes in DNA conformation and vimentin binding to the promoter may be relevant to ALOX15 gene regulation.


Assuntos
Araquidonato 15-Lipoxigenase/genética , Aterosclerose/enzimologia , Aterosclerose/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Vimentina/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Sequência de Bases , DNA Complementar/genética , Haplótipos/genética , Humanos , Luciferases/metabolismo , Células MCF-7 , Camundongos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Células NIH 3T3 , Conformação de Ácido Nucleico , Oligonucleotídeos/genética , Ligação Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Ligação Proteica/genética , Sais/farmacologia , Transfecção
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 104(34): 13732-7, 2007 Aug 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17702869

RESUMO

We used human bladder cancer as a model system and the whole-organ histologic and genetic mapping strategy to identify clonal genetic hits associated with growth advantage, tracking the evolution of bladder cancer from intraurothelial precursor lesions. Six putative chromosomal regions critical for clonal expansion of intraurothelial neoplasia and development of bladder cancer were identified by using this approach. Focusing on one of the regions, which includes the model tumor suppressor RB1, we performed allelotyping of single-nucleotide polymorphic sites and identified a 1.34-Mb segment around RB1 characterized by a loss of polymorphism associated with the initial expansion of in situ neoplasia. This segment contains several positional candidate genes referred to by us as forerunner genes that may contribute to such expansion. We subsequently concentrated our efforts on the two neighbor genes flanking RB1, namely ITM2B and CHC1L, as well as P2RY5, which is located inside RB1. Here, we report that ITM2B and P2RY5 modulated cell survival and were silenced by methylation or point mutations, respectively, and thus by functional loss may contribute to the growth advantage of neoplasia. We also show that homozygous inactivation of P2RY5 was antecedent to the loss of RB1 during tumor development, and that nucleotide substitutions in P2RY5 represent a cancer predisposing factor.


Assuntos
Proteína do Retinoblastoma/genética , Neoplasias da Bexiga Urinária/genética , Sequência de Bases , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Perda de Heterozigosidade/genética , Modelos Moleculares , Polimorfismo Genético/genética , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , Receptores Purinérgicos P2/química , Receptores Purinérgicos P2/genética , Receptores Purinérgicos P2/metabolismo
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Oncogene ; 24(16): 2625-34, 2005 Apr 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15782145

RESUMO

Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is the most common leukemia in adults with clonal proliferation of myeloid stem cells. Two or more cooperating mechanisms, namely block in differentiation, enhanced proliferation and resistance to programmed cell death, underlie this neoplastic transformation. Nonrandom, complete and partial deletions of chromosome 5 are common anomalies in AML. Using positional cloning strategies, we characterized an evolutionarily conserved candidate myeloid leukemia suppressor gene encoding sequence-specific single-stranded DNA binding protein 2 (SSBP2) from chromosome 5q13.3, a locus that is frequently deleted in AML. Recent studies in Drosophila and Xenopus demonstrate a pivotal role for SSBPs in embryonic differentiation. In mammals, SSBP2 is one of three highly related and ubiquitously expressed genes. Here, we identify frequent loss of SSBP2 protein expression in human AML cell lines using highly specific antibodies. Furthermore, inducible expression of SSBP2 in the AML cell line U937 leads to loss of clonogenicity, G1 arrest and partial differentiation. Remarkably, inducible expression of SSBP2 is accompanied by downregulation of C-MYC expression. Our findings are consistent with human SSBP2 being a novel regulator of hematopoietic growth and differentiation, whose loss confers a block in differentiation advantage to myeloid leukemic cells.


Assuntos
Diferenciação Celular , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/genética , Animais , Células COS , Proliferação de Células , Chlorocebus aethiops , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Regulação para Baixo , Fase G1/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Genes Supressores de Tumor , Genes myc/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/metabolismo , Transfecção , Células U937
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J Biol Chem ; 278(37): 35265-71, 2003 Sep 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12813052

RESUMO

Understanding the structure and function of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters is very important because defects in ABC transporters lie at the root of several serious diseases including cystic fibrosis. MalK, the ATP-binding cassette of the maltose transporter of Escherichia coli, is distinct from most other ATP-binding cassettes in that it contains an additional C-terminal regulatory domain. The published structure of a MalK dimer is elongated with C-terminal domains at opposite poles (Diederichs, K., Diez, J., Greller, G., Muller, C., Breed, J., Schnell, C., Vonrhein, C., Boos, W., and Welte, W. (2000) EMBO J. 19, 5951-5961). Some uncertainty exists as to whether the orientation of MalK in the dimer structure is correct. Superpositioning of the N-terminal domains of MalK onto the ATP-binding domains of an alternate ABC dimer, in which ATP is bound along the dimer interface between Walker A and LSGGQ motifs, places both N- and C-terminal domains of MalK along the dimer interface. Consistent with this model, a cysteine substitution at position 313 in the C-terminal domain of an otherwise cysteine-free MalK triggered disulfide bond formation between two MalK subunits in an intact maltose transporter. Disulfide bond formation did not inhibit the function of the transporter, suggesting that the C-terminal domains of MalK remain in close proximity throughout the transport cycle. Enzyme IIAglc still inhibited the ATPase activity of the disulfide-linked transporter indicating that the mechanism of inducer exclusion was unaffected. These data support a model for ATP hydrolysis in which the C-terminal domains of MalK remain in contact whereas the N-terminal domains of MalK open and close to allow nucleotide binding and dissociation.


Assuntos
Transportadores de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP/química , Transportadores de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP/metabolismo , Proteínas de Bactérias/química , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Dissulfetos/metabolismo , Maltose/metabolismo , Transportadores de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP/genética , Adenosina Trifosfatases/química , Adenosina Trifosfatases/genética , Adenosina Trifosfatases/metabolismo , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Sequência de Bases , Primers do DNA , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/química , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/genética , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Proteínas de Transporte de Monossacarídeos/química , Proteínas de Transporte de Monossacarídeos/genética , Proteínas de Transporte de Monossacarídeos/metabolismo , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Plasmídeos , Conformação Proteica , Estrutura Secundária de Proteína , Subunidades Proteicas/química , Subunidades Proteicas/metabolismo
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