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Sci Rep ; 8(1): 12538, 2018 08 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30135446

RESUMO

Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) offer great potential to deliver therapeutic molecules to previously inaccessible intracellular targets. However, many CPPs are inefficient and often leave their attached cargo stranded in the cell's endosome. We report a versatile platform for the isolation of peptides delivering a wide range of cargos into the cytoplasm of cells. We used this screening platform to identify multiple "Phylomer" CPPs, derived from bacterial and viral genomes. These peptides are amenable to conventional sequence optimization and engineering approaches for cell targeting and half-life extension. We demonstrate potent, functional delivery of protein, peptide, and nucleic acid analog cargos into cells using Phylomer CPPs. We validate in vivo activity in the cytoplasm, through successful transport of an oligonucleotide therapeutic fused to a Phylomer CPP in a disease model for Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. This report thus establishes a discovery platform for identifying novel, functional CPPs to expand the delivery landscape of druggable intracellular targets for biological therapeutics.


Assuntos
Peptídeos Penetradores de Células/farmacologia , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos/métodos , Avaliação Pré-Clínica de Medicamentos/métodos , Animais , Bacteriófago T7 , Biotinilação , Células CHO , Carbono-Nitrogênio Ligases/genética , Carbono-Nitrogênio Ligases/metabolismo , Peptídeos Penetradores de Células/genética , Peptídeos Penetradores de Células/toxicidade , Dicroísmo Circular , Cricetulus , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/genética , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Microscopia de Fluorescência , Distrofia Muscular de Duchenne/tratamento farmacológico , Biblioteca de Peptídeos , Proteínas Repressoras/genética , Proteínas Repressoras/metabolismo
2.
PLoS One ; 11(2): e0147221, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26840125

RESUMO

Parastagonospora nodorum, the causal agent of Septoria nodorum blotch (SNB), is an economically important pathogen of wheat (Triticum spp.), and a model for the study of necrotrophic pathology and genome evolution. The reference P. nodorum strain SN15 was the first Dothideomycete with a published genome sequence, and has been used as the basis for comparison within and between species. Here we present an updated reference genome assembly with corrections of SNP and indel errors in the underlying genome assembly from deep resequencing data as well as extensive manual annotation of gene models using transcriptomic and proteomic sources of evidence (https://github.com/robsyme/Parastagonospora_nodorum_SN15). The updated assembly and annotation includes 8,366 genes with modified protein sequence and 866 new genes. This study shows the benefits of using a wide variety of experimental methods allied to expert curation to generate a reliable set of gene models.


Assuntos
Ascomicetos/genética , Ascomicetos/metabolismo , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Genoma Fúngico , Genômica , Proteômica , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Genômica/métodos , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Anotação de Sequência Molecular , Proteoma , Proteômica/métodos , Transcriptoma
3.
Sci Rep ; 5: 18329, 2015 Dec 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26671759

RESUMO

Efficient cargo uptake is essential for cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) therapeutics, which deliver widely diverse cargoes by exploiting natural cell processes to penetrate the cell's membranes. Yet most current CPP activity assays are hampered by limitations in assessing uptake, including confounding effects of conjugated fluorophores or ligands, indirect read-outs requiring secondary processing, and difficulty in discriminating internalization from endosomally trapped cargo. Split-complementation Endosomal Escape (SEE) provides the first direct assay visualizing true cytoplasmic-delivery of proteins at biologically relevant concentrations. The SEE assay has minimal background, is amenable to high-throughput processes, and adaptable to different transient and stable cell lines. This split-GFP-based platform can be useful to study transduction mechanisms, cellular imaging, and characterizing novel CPPs as pharmaceutical delivery agents in the treatment of disease.


Assuntos
Peptídeos Penetradores de Células , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos/métodos , Endossomos/metabolismo , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Animais , Células CHO , Peptídeos Penetradores de Células/química , Peptídeos Penetradores de Células/farmacocinética , Peptídeos Penetradores de Células/farmacologia , Cricetinae , Cricetulus , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/química , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/farmacocinética , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/farmacologia , Células HEK293 , Humanos
4.
Evol Dev ; 16(2): 101-9, 2014 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24617989

RESUMO

The ejaculates of most internally fertilizing species consists of both sperm and seminal fluid proteins. Seminal fluid proteins have been studied largely in relation to their post-mating effects on female reproductive physiology, and predominantly in genomically well-characterized species. Seminal fluids can also play important roles in sperm maturation and performance. In the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus the viability of ejaculated sperm increases as males age, as does their competitive fertilization success. Here, using quantitative proteomics and quantitative real-time PCR, we document ontogenetic changes in seminal fluid protein abundance and in seminal fluid gene expression. We identified at least nine proteins that changed in abundance in the seminal fluid of crickets as they aged. Gene expression was quantified for five seminal fluid protein genes, and in four of these gene expression changed as males aged. These ontogenetic changes were associated with a general increase in the size of the male accessory glands. Several of the seminal fluid proteins that we have identified are novel, and some have BLAST matches to proteins implicated in sperm function. Our data suggest that age related changes in competitive fertilization success may be dependent on seminal fluid chemistry.


Assuntos
Gryllidae/genética , Proteínas de Insetos/genética , Proteínas de Plasma Seminal/genética , Animais , Expressão Gênica , Gryllidae/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Masculino , Proteoma/análise , Espermatozoides/química , Espermatozoides/metabolismo
5.
G3 (Bethesda) ; 3(2): 225-30, 2013 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23390599

RESUMO

Field crickets (family Gryllidae) frequently are used in studies of behavioral genetics, sexual selection, and sexual conflict, but there have been no studies of transcriptomic differences among different tissue types. We evaluated transcriptome variation among testis, accessory gland, and the remaining whole-body preparations from males of the field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus. Non-normalized cDNA libraries from each tissue were sequenced on the Roche 454 platform, and a master assembly was constructed using testis, accessory gland, and whole-body preparations. A total of 940,200 reads were assembled into 41,962 contigs, to which 36,856 singletons (reads not assembled into a contig) were added to provide a total of 78,818 sequences used in annotation analysis. A total of 59,072 sequences (75%) were unique to one of the three tissues. Testis tissue had the greatest proportion of tissue-specific sequences (62.6%), followed by general body (56.43%) and accessory gland tissue (44.16%). We tested the hypothesis that tissues expressing gene products expected to evolve rapidly as a result of sexual selection--testis and accessory gland--would yield a smaller proportion of BLASTx matches to homologous genes in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster compared with whole-body tissue. Uniquely expressed sequences in both testis and accessory gland showed a significantly lower rate of matching to annotated D. melanogaster genes compared with those from general body tissue. These results correspond with empirical evidence that genes expressed in testis and accessory gland tissue are rapidly evolving targets of selection.


Assuntos
Genoma de Inseto , Gryllidae/genética , Transcriptoma , Animais , Mapeamento de Sequências Contíguas , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Drosophila melanogaster/genética , Biblioteca Gênica , Masculino , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Testículo/metabolismo
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J Proteome Res ; 11(7): 3860-79, 2012 Jul 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22574745

RESUMO

Plant mitochondria are highly responsive organelles that vary their metabolism in response to a wide range of chemical and environmental conditions. Quantitative proteomics studies have begun to allow the analysis of these large-scale protein changes in mitochondria. However studies of the integral membrane proteome of plant mitochondria, arguably the site responsible for the most fundamental mitochondrial processes of oxidative phosphorylation, protein import and metabolite transport, remain a technical challenge. Here we have investigated the changes in protein abundance in response to a number of chemical stresses and cold. In addition to refining the subcellular localization of 66 proteins, we have been able to characterize 596 protein × treatment combinations following a range of stresses. To date it has been assumed that the main mitochondrial response to stress involved the induction of alternative respiratory proteins such as AOX, UCPs, and alternative NAD(P)H dehydrogenases; we now provide evidence for a number of very specific protein abundance changes that have not been highlighted previously by transcript studies. This includes both previously characterized stress responsive proteins as well as major components of oxidative phosphorylation, protein import/export, and metabolite transport.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Fosforilação Oxidativa , Estresse Fisiológico , Antimicina A/farmacologia , Arabidopsis/efeitos dos fármacos , Arabidopsis/fisiologia , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/genética , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Células Cultivadas , Análise por Conglomerados , Temperatura Baixa , Cobre/farmacologia , Complexo III da Cadeia de Transporte de Elétrons/antagonistas & inibidores , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Peróxido de Hidrogênio/farmacologia , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/efeitos dos fármacos , Membranas Mitocondriais/metabolismo , Anotação de Sequência Molecular , Oxidantes/farmacologia , Proteoma/genética , Proteoma/metabolismo , Vitamina K 3/farmacologia
7.
Plant Physiol ; 152(2): 747-61, 2010 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20018591

RESUMO

Understanding the metal ion content of plant mitochondria and metal ion interactions with the proteome are vital for insights into both normal respiratory function and the process of protein damage during oxidative stress. We have analyzed the metal content of isolated Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) mitochondria, revealing a 26:8:6:1 molar ratio for iron:zinc:copper:manganese and trace amounts of cobalt and molybdenum. We show that selective changes occur in mitochondrial copper and iron content following in vivo and in vitro oxidative stresses. Immobilized metal affinity chromatography charged with Cu(2+), Zn(2+), and Co(2+) was used to identify over 100 mitochondrial proteins with metal-binding properties. There were strong correlations between the sets of immobilized metal affinity chromatography-interacting proteins, proteins predicted to contain metal-binding motifs, and protein sets known to be oxidized or degraded during abiotic stress. Mitochondrial respiratory chain pathways and matrix enzymes varied widely in their susceptibility to metal-induced loss of function, showing the selectivity of the process. A detailed study of oxidized residues and predicted metal interaction sites in the tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme aconitase identified selective oxidation of residues in the active site and showed an approach for broader screening of functionally significant oxidation events in the mitochondrial proteome.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/química , Metais Pesados/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Proteínas Mitocondriais/metabolismo , Estresse Oxidativo , Cátions Bivalentes/metabolismo , Cromatografia de Afinidade , Homeostase , Oxirredução , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo
8.
J Proteomics ; 72(3): 367-78, 2009 Apr 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19061979

RESUMO

Exposure to adverse abiotic environmental conditions causes oxidative stress in plants, leading to debilitation and death or to response and tolerance. The subcellular energy organelles (chloroplast, mitochondria and peroxisomes) in plants are responsible for major metabolic processes including photosynthesis, photorespiration, oxidative phosphorylation, beta-oxidation and the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Here we analyze data and review a collection of both whole tissue and organellar proteomic studies that have investigated the effects of environmental stress in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We assess these data from an organellar perspective to begin to build an understanding of the changes in protein abundance within these organelles during environmental stresses. We found 279 claims of proteins that change in abundance that could be assigned to protein components of the energy organelles. These could be placed into eight different functional categories and nearly 80% of the specific protein isoforms detected were only reported to change in a single environmental stress. We propose primary and secondary mechanisms in organelles by which the protein changes observed could be mediated in order to begin developing an integrated and mechanistic understanding of environmental stress response.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Cloroplastos/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Peroxissomos/metabolismo , Proteoma/metabolismo , Estresse Fisiológico , Animais
9.
Plant Physiol ; 147(2): 595-610, 2008 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18424626

RESUMO

Treatment of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) alternative oxidase1a (aox1a) mutant plants with moderate light under drought conditions resulted in a phenotypic difference compared with ecotype Columbia (Col-0), as evidenced by a 10-fold increase in the accumulation of anthocyanins in leaves, alterations in photosynthetic efficiency, and increased superoxide radical and reduced root growth at the early stages of seedling growth. Analysis of metabolite profiles revealed significant changes upon treatment in aox1a plants typical of combined stress treatments, and these were less pronounced or absent in Col-0 plants. These changes were accompanied by alteration in the abundance of a variety of transcripts during the stress treatment, providing a molecular fingerprint for the stress-induced phenotype of aox1a plants. Transcripts encoding proteins involved in the synthesis of anthocyanins, transcription factors, chloroplastic and mitochondrial components, cell wall synthesis, and sucrose and starch metabolism changed, indicating that effects were not confined to mitochondria, where the AOX1a protein is located. Microarray and quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed that transcripts typically induced upon stress treatment or involved in antioxidant defense systems, especially chloroplast-located antioxidant defense components, had altered basal levels in untreated aox1a plants, suggesting a significant change in the basal equilibrium of signaling pathways that regulate these components. Taken together, these results indicate that aox1a plants have a greatly altered stress response even when mitochondria or the mitochondrial electron transport chain are not the primary target of the stress and that AOX1a plays a broad role in determining the normal redox balance in the cell.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Desastres , Luz , Oxirredutases/metabolismo , Arabidopsis/genética , Cromatografia Gasosa-Espectrometria de Massas , Proteínas Mitocondriais , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Oxirredutases/genética , Fotossíntese , Proteínas de Plantas , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Espécies Reativas de Oxigênio/metabolismo , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa
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