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Insects exhibit complex systems of communication with chemical signalling being the most important mode. Although there are many studies on chemical communication in insects, the evolution of chemical signals is not well understood. Due to the conflict of interests between individuals, different selective pressures might act on sender and receiver. In this thesis I investigate different types of communication where either the sender, the receiver or both parties yield benefits. These studies were conducted with one digger wasp species, honeybees, one chrysidid wasp, and three ant species. Senders might benefit by exploiting existing preferences of receivers. Such sensory exploitation might influence the evolution of male signals that are designed to attract females. The sex pheromone of male European beewolves Philanthus triangulum (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) might have evolved according to the sensory exploitation hypothesis. A three-step scenario is supported by our studies. First, a major component of the honeybee alarm pheromone, (Z)-11-eicosen-1-ol, is also found on the cuticles and in the air surrounding foraging honeybees. Second, it could be shown, that (Z)-11- eicosen-1-ol plays a crucial role as kairomone for prey identification of honeybees by beewolf females. Third, a reanalysis of the beewolf male sex pheromone shows a remarkable similarity of compounds between the pheromone and the honeybee cuticle, besides the co-occurrence of (Z)-11-eisosen-ol. The majority of the cuticular hydrocarbons of honeybees occur also in the headspace of foraging workers. These results strongly support the hypothesis that beewolf males evolved a pheromone that exploits the females’ pre-existing sensory sensitivity. In addition, the male sex pheromone shows a significantly higher similarity among brothers than among non-related individuals, which might enable beewolf females to discriminate against brothers and avoid detrimental effects of breeding. Together with the studies on the possible sensory exploitation this result shows that both, male and female beewolves probably gain more benefits than costs from the pheromone communication and, thus, the communication system as a whole can be regarded as cooperative. To maintain the reproductive division of labour in eusocial colonies, queens have to signal their presence and fecundity. In the ant Camponotus floridanus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) queens mark their own eggs with a distinctive pattern of cuticular hydrocarbons. Two different hypotheses have been developed. One suggests a form of worker manipulation by the queen. The alternative hypothesis assumes a cooperative signal that provides information on the condition of the queen. The results of our investigation clearly favour the latter hypothesis. Chemical mimicry is a form of non-cooperative communication that benefits predominantly the sender. We provided conclusive evidence that the cockoo wasp, Hedychrum rutilans (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), the primary brood parasitoid of Philanthus triangulum, evades recognition by beewolf females most probably by chemical mimicry of the odour of its host. Furthermore, the adaptation of the chemical signature in the social ant parasite Protomognathus americanus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) to its Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) hosts was investigated. Although this parasite is principally adapted to its hosts’ cuticular hydrocarbon profile, there are still pronounced differences between the profiles of parasites and hosts. This might be explained by the trade-off, which the parasites faces when confronted locally with two host species with different cuticular hydrocarbon profiles. Non-cooperative communication in the sense that only receivers benefit was discovered in the exploitation of honeybees volatile cuticular hydrocarbons by beewolf females. By using emitted (Z)-11-eicosen-1-ol as a kairomone, the receiver, the beewolf female, yields the benefits and the sender, the honeybee prey, bears all the costs. The results of these studies contribute to the understanding of the evolution of cooperative and non-cooperative communication with chemical signals taking into account differential benefits for sender and/or receiver.
The gram-positive, facultative intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is the causal agent of listeriosis. Most of well-known virulence genes are controlled by PrfA that belongs to the Crp-Fnr family of transcriptional activators. A PrfA-mediated transcription initiating at a virulence gene promoter, inlC promoter (PinlC) that regulates the expression of the small, secreted internalin C, was in-depth characterized by an in vitro transcription system to unravel the essential features of a PrfA-dependent promoter in this study. The obtained results indicate a dual promoter for inlC that leads to PrfA-dependent and -independent transcription in vitro and in vivo. The PrfA-dependent transcription requires, as expected, the PrfA-box, a conserved 14 bp sequence of dyad symmetry located about 40 bp upstream of the transcriptional start site of each PrfA-regulated gene. Another important structural feature for this PrfA-dependent promoter is the distance between the 3´-end of the PrfA-box and the 5´-end of the SigA-recognized –10 box fixed to 22 or 23 bp, which is observed in the interspace regions of the other known PrfA-dependent promoters, e.g. PactA, PplcA, Phly and Pmpl. The –35 box of PinlC is not necessary for PrfA-dependent transcription. The –10 box of PinlC and also that of the other PrfA-dependent promoters of L. monocytogenes closely resemble SigA-recognized –10 promoter sequences of the well-characterized gram-positive bacterium B. subtilis. Even the extended –10 motif (5´-TRTG-3´) considered to be a basic element for many SigA-recognized promoters in B. subtilis is present in PinlC. Primer extension studies reveal that both the PrfA-dependent and the independent promoter share the same –10 box. The PrfA-independent transcription of inlC depends on a –35 box located directly downstream of the PrfA-box, and the close proximity of the two sites inhibits strongly the transcription activity of the PrfA-independent promoter when the PrfA-RNA polymerase complex binds to the PrfA-box. Deletion of the PrfA-box results in PrfA-independent transcription from PinlC, which is no longer inhibited by PrfA. High concentration of GTP appears to be necessary for PrfA-dependent transcription initiated at the inlC promoter and at other PrfA-dependent promoters. Based on transcriptome analysis, Milohanic and his co-workers identified three groups of genes that were regulated differently by PrfA. Some of these genes containing putative PrfA-boxes in their 5´-upstream regulatory regions were selected for analysis of their transcriptional dependency on PrfA using again the in vitro transcription system. The data show that among these “PrfA-regulated” promoters tested, only the promoter of the hpt gene belonging to group I is clearly activated by PrfA. This promoter is also the only one that exhibited all essential features of a typical PrfA-dependent promoter as described above. In vitro transcription starting at most of the other promoters was neither positively nor negatively affected by PrfA. Transcription initiated at some of the promoters of group III genes (lmo0596 and lmo2067) is rather inefficient with SigA-loaded RNA polymerase, but is highly activated with RNA polymerase loaded with purified SigB. Addition of purified PrfA protein has no effect on the SigB-dependent transcription. These in vitro transcription results indicate that the in vivo observed PrfA effect on the expression of most of the new genes is either indirect or PrfA-mediated transcription of these genes requires - in contrast to the PrfA-dependent transcription of the known virulence genes (including hpt) - additional factors not present in the in vitro transcription assay. In addition to these new genes described by Milohanic, the promoters of two genes (lmo2420 and lmo2840) that contain putative PrfA-boxes with only a single mismatch in their upstream regulatory regions were analyzed in this study. However, transcription of none of these genes is regulated by PrfA, suggesting that these genes are either not truly regulated by PrfA or regulated by other global transcription activators that interact with PrfA by yet unknown mechanisms. By exchanging corresponding sequences between a functionally inactive promoter ParoAP2 and a typical PrfA-dependent promoter PplcA, it is found that PrfA-dependent in vitro transcription can be initiated from the hybrid promoter containing the putative PrfA-box and the SigA-recognized –10 box (TTTAAT) from the putative PrfA-dependent aroAP2 promoter, but it is inhibited strongly by the interspace sequence between these two sites apparently due to an additional RNA polymerase binding site [the –10 box (TAATAT) for the PrfA-independent transcription of ParoAP1)] within this region. Furthermore, a symmetric sequence downstream of the –10 box (TTTAAT) is also shown to be a strongly inhibitory for PrfA-dependent transcription from the putative PrfA-dependent aroAP2 promoter.
The studies inventoried the species of the families Dytiscidae and Noteridae (Coleoptera) in Comoé National Park in northern Ivory Coast, West Africa and investigated the ecological role of temporary and permanent water bodies for the aestivation of these aquatic beetles. The ecological studies focused on the question how the beetles cope with the temporary loss of their aquatic habitats during dry season. The climate in the study area is characterised by a pronounced dry season from about November to March/April, in which the temporary ponds and creeks in the savannah entirely desiccate. The only available water bodies during dry season in Comoé National Park are the Comoé River, pools in some of its tributaries, and a few of the large savannah ponds. The taxonomic and faunistic analysis revealed a high species richness in the study area and yielded a total of twelve species of Noteridae in four genera and 95 species of Dytiscidae in 22 genera. Thirty of these species had not yet been reported from the Ivory Coast. A description of a new species in the genus Laccophilus is given, named L. comoensis in honour of the National Park. Strong incidences exist that the material includes more species yet unknown to science. Concerning the mode of aestivation, observations in pilot studies led to the working hypothesis that the beetles pass the dry season as adults in aquatic habitats. Consequently, presence of adults in aquatic habitats throughout the dry season and cyclic migration of adults between temporary and permanent water bodies was expected. Regular sampling of water bodies throughout the dry season and beginning rainy season yielded 33,705 individuals in 72 species and 26 genera. In all the sample periods Noteridae and / or Dytiscidae were recorded. The number of species per period was between 36 and 58. It is concluded that in Comoé National Park a) at least parts of the populations of the recorded species pass the dry season as adults and b) aquatic habitats serve as a refuge for aestivation of these adult beetles. In a rocky area in the riverbed of the permanent Comoé River four sets of studies were performed during dry and beginning rainy season. According to the working hypothesis beetles should be searching for adequate aquatic habitats as long as temporary savannah waters are becoming inhospitable and are falling dry. Seven rock pools in the riverbed of the Comoé River were artificially filled and thus offered for colonization at the peak of the dry season (end of January). After five days the rock pools were quantitatively sampled by completely emptying them. All the rock pools were colonized by Dytiscidae and / or Noteridae and with a total of 1,507 individuals in 26 species abundance and diversity were high. Habitats for aestivation are needed most, when the majority of the savannah waters are fallen dry. Little precipitation on February 18th 1999 had filled rock pools in the riverbed of the Comoé River but no pools in the savannah, where the rain was immediately absorbed by the very dry soil. An inventory of beetles was performed in 21 naturally filled rock pools five to 20 days after this precipitation. The sampling yielded 8,456 individuals in 41 species. Except the smallest, all rock pools contained beetles. The result showed that Dytiscidae and Noteridae utilise the rock pools as aquatic habitat during dry season. Beetles adapted to a highly seasonal environment like the aquatic system in the study area should be good colonizers. Sampling of four, respectively five rock pools at two occasions within 24 hours after the start of precipitation examined the potential of colonizers at that period (March). Prior to these precipitations the pools had been completely dry. Dytiscidae were already present in all rock pools and a total of 434 Dytiscidae in 14 species was found. The working hypothesis of cyclic migration suggests that the beetles should leave the rock pools at the onset of the rainy season when precipitation had filled temporary water bodies in the savannah. After several precipitation events an inventory of 13 rock pools of the Comoé River in May controlled for adult beetles. Only four species with 126 individuals were still found, of which Yolina chopardi contributed 81.7%. This species seems to differ from the other recorded species in the use of habitats, since it was never recorded in the savannah. In general, however, diversity and abundance of Dytiscidae and Noteridae in the rock pools, as expected, was low after the onset of the rainy season. During the entire study of the rock pools in the riverbed of the Comoé River 10,523 individuals in 44 species and 18 genera were collected. Thus, more than half of the species recorded in Comoé National Park were found in the rock pools. The results suggest that the Comoé River and the rock pools in the riverbed serve as aquatic retreat for adult Dytiscidae and Noteridae during dry season when temporary water bodies in the savannah are desiccated. The suggested cyclic migration between water bodies predicts that newly formed savannah waters are recolonized by the beetles at the onset of the rainy season. This colonization should be a) by adults and b) airborne. Two artificial ponds in the open savannah were offered only for aerial colonization at the beginning of the rainy season. The ponds were controlled for adult Noteridae and Dytiscidae daily during one continuous phase of eleven and a second one of 16 days (end of March to end of April). On every sampling date Noteridae or Dytiscidae were recorded. In the entire study 2,744 individuals in 44 species and 16 genera were collected. After precipitation, abundance and species richness increased. Thirty-five of the encountered species had been recorded in rock pools of the Comoé River before. The principal species in the artificial savannah ponds had been principal species in samplings of the rock pools as well. The results support the hypothesis of cyclic migration: most species of Dytiscidae and Noteridae of the Comoé National Park fly from desiccating savannah waters to permanent water bodies or water bodies holding water for extended times during dry season. They pass the dry season in these waters and fly back into the savannah after precipitation at the onset of the rainy season. Exceptions from this general rule are discussed.
The exploitation of landscapes increases fragmentation of valuable areas with high biodiversity. Consequently, many populations nowadays exist as metapopulations. In such cases, the balance between extinction and colonisation of patches determines the regional survival of species. To determine long term survival of species and to assess the impact of different management regimes proper knowledge of species habitat requirements as well as information on their dispersal behaviour is needed. The aim of this thesis was to develop methods and measures for the identification of suitable areas for grasshoppers and bush crickets, as well as to quantify the reachability of single patches by individuals. The first part of my work focuses on the quantification of habitat suitability for grasshoppers and bush crickets. Based on presence/absence data, I developed statistical habitat suitability models using logistic regression analyses. The resulting models are evaluated and validated in space and time. It turned out that habitat selection of the species mainly took place on an intermediate spatial scale. The relevant scale falls into the same range as the species’ mean dispersal distances. Besides the rather coarse grained factor ‘type of habitat’ structural factors as well as abiotic factors are correlated with the occurrence of the species. The model of S. lineatus, including the parameters ‘type of biotope’ and ‘vegetation height’ was most successful in predicting the occurrences of the bush cricket species. To further test whether the occurrence of species of different insect groups can be predicted with a common model, I tested the usefulness of the orthoptera models for the prediction of butterflies in the same region and vice versa. While transferability of the orthoptera models was poor, the model of the moth Z. carniolica performed quite successful. It included the proportion of suitable habitat as well as the occurrence of the two sucking plants C. jacea and S. columbaria as relevant factors. Z. carniolica is classified as stenoecious and thus represents other species typically found on fringes and mesoxerophytic grasslands. The high mobility of Z. carniolica simultaneously guarantees the reachability of regional suitable areas and thus ensures that the influence of the random effects of colonisation on the model are marginal. Unfortunately, the factors predicting habitat quality for a species are normally not available at the landscape level. Thus, they cannot be used for the prediction of occurrences without extensive censuses in the field. Nevertheless, my results show that the sole use of the variable ‘type of habitat’, which often is available landscape wide, will be sufficient for the classification of habitat suitability in a landscape. I conclude that for practical use in conservation biology the type of biotope can be used to predict occurrence of the studied species. Besides quality/quantity of suitable habitat, dispersal of individuals between patches is a key factor influencing the survival of populations. Thus, the second part of my work concentrates on theoretical as well as empirical studies on the dispersal behaviour of bush crickets. In field experiments I could show that the assumption of a dichotomous movement behaviour does not apply for bush crickets. Instead, movement pattern changes continuously with structural resistance, temperature, mortality risk and resource availability. This result is confirmed in my experiments on the behaviour of bush crickets at habitat borders. For different borders I could demonstrate different edge permeabilities. Additionally, I observed that grasshoppers could detect suitable habitat from a certain distance. Because the dispersal behaviour plays an important role in theoretical models, my empirical data can be used to parameterise such models. In addition to the influence of movement pattern on the reachability of suitable habitats, I could demonstrate, with simulation models, that the influence of the landscape context in which dispersal takes place has a critical impact on the exchange of individuals between patches. This effect is enhanced if mortality risk during dispersal is accounted for. The results from my studies on habitat suitability can be used to identify suitable habitat for grasshoppers and bush crickets in a landscape. Consequently, the potential suitability of an area as habitat, based on predictions on changes in the type of biotope by management regime, can be predicted. But this information alone is not sufficient to determine regional survival probability of a species. My investigations concerning the dispersal behaviour clearly show, that the reachability of suitable areas is dependent on the spatial configuration of patches and the structure of areas between habitats. Additionally, factors specific for individuals, like motivation and physiological factors play a crucial role for the reachability of suitable habitats.
In a variety of established tumour cell lines, but also in primary mammary epithelial cells metalloprotease-dependent transactivation of the EGFR, and EGFR characteristic downstream signalling events were observed in response to stimulation with physiological concentrations of GPCR agonists such as the mitogens LPA and S1P as well as therapeutically relevant concentrations of cannabinoids. Moreover, this study reveals ADAM17 and HB-EGF as the main effectors of this mechanism in most of the cancer cell lines investigated. However, depending on the cellular context and GPCR agonist, various different members of the ADAM family are selectively recruited for specific ectodomain shedding of proAR and/or proHB-EGF and subsequent EGFR activation. Furthermore, biological responses induced by LPA or S1P such as migration in breast cancer and HNSCC cells, depend on ADAM17 and proHB-EGF/proAR function, respectively, suggesting that highly abundant GPCR ligands may play a role in tumour development and progression. Moreover, EGFR signal transactivation could be identified as the mechanistic link between cannabinoid receptors and the activation of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPK) ERK1/2 as well as pro-survival Akt/PKB signalling. Depending on the cellular context, cannabinoid-induced signal cross-communication was mediated by shedding of proAmphiregulin and/or proHB-EGF by ADAM17. Most importantly, our data show that concentrations of THC comparable to those detected in the serum of patients after THC administration accelerate proliferation of cancer cells instead of apoptosis and thereby may contribute to cancer progression in patients.
The aim of current work was contribution to the long-term ongoing project on developing human IL-5 agonists/antagonists that intervene with or inhibit IL-5 numerous functions in cell culture and/or in animal disease models. To facilitate design of an IL-5 antagonist variant or low-molecular weight mimetics only capable of binding to the specific receptor alpha chain, but would lack the ability to attract the receptor common β-chain and thus initiate receptor complex activation it is necessary to gain the information on minimal structural and functional epitopes. Such a strategy was successfully adopted in our group on example of Interleukin 4. To precisely localize minimal structural epitope it is essential to have structure of the ligand in its bound form and especially informative would be structure of complex of the ligand and its specific receptor alpha chain. For this purpose large quantities (tens of milligrams), retaining full biological activity IL-5 and extracellular domain of IL-5 specific receptor α-chain were expressed in a bacterial expression system (E.coli). After successful refolding proteins were purified to 95-99% Stable and soluble receptor:ligand complex was prepared. Each established purification and refolding procedures were subjected to optimization targeting maximal yields and purity. Produced receptor:ligand complex was applied to crystallization experiments. Microcrystals were initially obtained with a flexible sparse matrix screening methodology. Crystal quality was subsequently improved by fine-tuning of the crystallization conditions. At this stage crystals of about 800x150x30µm in size can be obtained. They possess desirable visible characteristics of crystals including optical clarity, smooth facecs and sharp edges. Crystals rotate plane polarized light reflecting their well internal organization. Unfortunately relative slimness and sometimes cluster nature of the produced crystals complicates acquisition of high-resolution dataset and resolution of the structure. With some of obtained crystals diffraction to a resolution up to 4Å was observed.
In the last years it became evident that many cytokines do not only bind to their specific cell surface receptors but also interact with components of the extracellular matrix. Mainly in Drosophila, several enzymes were identified, that are involved in glycosaminoglycan synthesis. Mutations in these enzymes mostly result in disturbances of several signaling pathways like hedgehog, wingless, FGF or dpp. In most cases it was, due to these pleiotropic effects, not possible to examine the relevance of matrix interactions for single pathways. The aim of this work was to examine the relevance of matrix interactions for the TGF-ß superfamily member DPP. Based on the fact that DPP is highly homologous to human BMP-2, the basic N-terminus of mature DPP was mutated, which has been shown to contain a heparin-binding site in BMP-2. Thus, a wildtype variant (D-MYC), a deletion variant (D-DEL), which lacked the whole basic part of the N-terminus and a duplication variant (D-DUP), which contained a second copy of the basic core moitiv, were generated. In order to characterise the variants biochemically, they were expressed in E.coli and refolded in a bioactive form. In chicken limbbud assay, the deletion variant was much more active than the wildtype variant, comparable to data of BMP-2. By means of biacore mesurements with the immobilised ectodomain of the high affinity type I receptor thick veins, it could be demonstrated, that the variants differ only in matrix binding and not in their receptor affinity. Different matrix binding was shown by Heparin FPLC. The biological relevance of the matrix interaction of DPP was examined in transgenic flies. To allow expression of the different variants under the control of various Gal4 driver lines, they were cloned behind an UAS-promoter site. In early tracheal development, a strong dependence of DPP signaling on matrix binding was observed. While ectopic expression of the deletion variant caused only minor defects, the branching pattern was strongly disturbed by overexpression of wildtype and duplication variant. Ubiquitous expression of the variants in the wing imaginal disc caused overproliferation of the disc and expansion of the omb target gene expression. The extent of phenotypes correlated with the matrix binding ability of the variants. Corresponding disturbances of the wing vein pattern was observed in adult flies. By the crossing of different dpp allels, transheterozygous animals were created, that lack dpp only in imaginal discs. Expression of the variants under the control of a suitable dpp-Gal4 driver line revealed insights into the biological relevance of matrix binding on DPP gradient formation and specific target gene activation in wing imaginal discs. It was shown, that all variants were able to generate a functional DPP gradient with correct expression of the target genes omb and spalt. Again a correlation between extent of target gene domains and matrix binding ability of the corresponding variants was found. Thus by mutating the N-terminus of DPP, it could be shown that this is responsible for DPP`s matrix interaction. Also the relevance of matrix binding of DPP in different tissues was examined. It turned out, that the reorganisation of tracheal branching by DPP strongly depends on matrix interactions wheras the establishing of a gradient in wing imaginal discs depends only gradually on matrix interactions. Based on these data a model for the action of DPP/TGFßs as morphogens was established. While a deletion of matrix binding leads to a decrease in specific bioactivity of the cytokine, the latter is increased by additional matrix binding sites.
Density arrested AKR-2B cells die rapidly in response to serum starvation or treatment by Anisomycin. Cell death is associated with typical hallmarks of apoptosis including membrane blebbing and chromatin condensation but lacks energy dissipation in mitochondria and intranucleosomal fragmentation. During apoptosis a considerable DEVDase activity has been detected which seemed to be represented by a single enzyme. This enzyme had typical effector caspase characteristics, like caspase-3, but exhibited an unusual high KM values of ~100 µM and its large subunit exhibited a molecular weight of 19 kDa, instead of expected 17 kDa. In the present study, this enzyme was identified to be caspase-3 with the help of the generation of recombinant mcaspase-3 protein. N-terminal sequencing of the recombinant mcaspase-3 protein revealed that its prodomain cleavage site differs from that in the human homologue (Asp-9 instead of Asp-28). Thus the large subunit of active caspase-3 was found to be 19 kDa. Furthermore the KM value of recombinant mcaspase-3 was ~100 µM in perfect agreement with that found in cell extracts. Affinity labeling in combination with 2D-GE confirmed that indeed caspase-3 is activated as the main executioner in AKR-2B cells during apoptosis. Since the receptor mediated pathway has already been excluded previously [129], a possible involvement of mitochondria mediated pathway in the activation of caspase-3 was examined. Gel filtration experiments revealed that caspase-3 is mainly eluted as free enzyme and in lower levels within the differently sized high molecular weight complexes of ~600 kDa and 250 kDa in response to serum starvation or Anisomycin treatment. Though the apparent molecular weight of the complexes containing caspase-3 are in accordance with recently published data, they were devoid of Apaf-1 and caspase-9. Apparently, mitochondria mediated pathway is also not involved since neither formation of high molecular weight complexes of Apaf-1 nor cleavage of caspase-9 was observed. Thus, the activation of caspase-3 is caused by a noncanonical pathway during apoptosis. In addition a new 450 kDa complex containing activated caspase-6 was found in response to serum starvation which is clearly separated from caspase-3 containing complexes. Generally caspase-3 has been found to be responsible for most of the morphological changes during apoptosis. One of those is intranucleosomal fragmentation. Although caspase-3 was found to be the main executioner caspase in AKR-2B cells the lack of the intranucleosomal fragmentation led to examine its localization. As detected by overexpression of the Caspase-3-GFP fusion construct in AKR-2B, procaspase-3 was localized in the cytoplasm, wheras the active caspase-3 was mainly found in the membrane blebs and partially in the cytoplasm. Clearly no nuclear localization of active caspase-3 was detected. These data gave first hints on the mechanism of degradation of AKR-2B cells demonstrating that cytoplasmic membrane is the primary site of activation of caspase-3. The possible role of caspase-12 and ER stress mediated pathway of apoptosis was also examined in AKR-2B cells. Kinetic studies showed that caspase-12 is activated at the same time together with caspase-3 in response to serum starvation or Anisomycin treatment resulting in two cleavage products of 47 kDa and 35 kDa, respectively. It was therefore examined whether these two caspases were eluted in the same complexes. Gel filtration experiments revealed that caspase-12 is released as free enzyme during apoptosis. To date all the studies have identified that caspase-12 is specifically activated in response to ER stress. After serum starvation or Anisomycin addition there was no increase of the protein expression level of the chaperone protein Grp 78 which is known to be higly elevated in response to ER stress indicating that both treatments did not lead to ER stress. In contrast treatment with ER stressor substances i.e. Thapsigargin, A23187 (ionophore) induced an ER stress in AKR-2B which lead to unspecifically degradation of caspase-12. Thus it is unlikely that caspase-12 is activated in response to ER stress in AKR-2B cells. However, after the in vitro addition of recombinant caspase-3 to cytosolic extracts caspase-12 is cleaved into 47 kDa and 35 kDa fragments similiar to those observed in vivo. In conclusion the present data demostrated that caspase-12 is activated in AKR-2B cells during apoptosis triggered through pathways that do not involve (the) ER stress and provided evidence that caspase-3 might be involved in activation of caspase-12. Thus the present study in AKR-2B cells gives hints for the existence of additional pathways for apoptosis other than the classical ones.
Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of visual impairment in the elderly and the major cause of blindness in the developed world. To date, the molecular mechanisms underlying the disease are not well understood although in recent years a primary involvement of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) has become evident. The aim of the present study is to systematically analyse genes which are differentially expressed in the RPE, and to assess their possible association with mechanisms and pathways likely to be related to retinal disease, in particular AMD. Towards this goal, 2379 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were established from an inhouse generated RPE cDNA library. This library was constructed by using the suppression subtraction hybridization (SSH) technique which normalises redundant sequences and ensures enrichment of rare transcripts. In a first phase, 1002 ESTs were sequenced and subjected to comprehensive alignment with public nucleotide and protein databases. A search of the 1002 ESTs against the human genome draft sequence yielded 168 known genes, 51 predicted genes, 15 unknown transcripts and 41 clones with no significant similarity. Reverse Northern blot hybridization was performed for 318 EST clusters to identify abundantly expressed genes in the RPE and to prioritize subsequent analyses. Representative clones were spotted onto a nylon membrane and hybridized with cDNA probes of driver (heart and liver) and tester (RPE) used in the cDNA library construction. Subsequently, 107 EST clusters were subjected to Northern blot hybridizations. These analyses identified 7 RPE-specific, 3 retina-specific, 7 RPE/retina-specific, and 7 tissue restricted transcripts, while 29 EST clusters were ubiquitously expressed, and evaluation was not possible for another 54 EST clusters. Of the 24 transcripts with specific or restricted expression, 16 clones were selected for further characterization. The predicted gene MGC2477 and 2 novel isoforms of the human transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily M, member 3 (TRPM3) were cloned and further described in detail. In addition, polymorphic variations for these 2 genes as well as for the human MT-Protocadherin gene were determined. For MGC2477, 15 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified, with 13 having a frequency of the minor allele greater than 20%. 10 of the 15 SNPs have not been reported in so far in public SNP repertoires. Partial assessment of the TRPM3 gene yielded 35 SNPs. Of these, 30 (85.7%) were highly frequent (0.17-0.5%), and 14 (40%) were novel. The MT-Protocadherin gene revealed 35 SNPs, including 28 (80%) with high frequency of the minor allele. 23 (65.7%) were novel SNPs. These SNPs will be used to construct the most common haplotypes. These will be used in case/control association studies in 400 AMD patients and 200 ethnically and aged matched controls to assess a possible contribution of these genes in the etiology of AMD.
Soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) is the best established receptor for nitric oxide (NO) and regulates a great number of important physiological functions. Surprisingly, despite the wellappreciated roles of this enzyme in regulation of vascular tone, smooth muscle cell proliferation, platelet aggregation, renal sodium secretion, synaptic plasticity, and other functions, extremely little is known about the regulation of sGC activity and protein levels. To date, the only well-proven physiologically relevant sGC regulator is NO. In the present study, some additional possibilities for sGC regulation were shown. Firstly, we evaluated the ability of different NO donors to stimulate sGC. Significant differences in the sGC stimulation by SNP and DEA/NO were found. DEA/NO stimulated sGC much stronger than did SNP. Interestingly, no correlation between the sGC protein and maximal activity distribution was found in rat brain regions tested, suggesting the existence of some additional regulatory mechanisms for sGC. The failure of SNP to stimulate sGC maximally might be one of the reasons why the lack of correlation between the distribution of sGC activity and proteins in brain was not detected earlier. Prolonged exposure of endothelial cells to NO donors produced desensitization of the cGMP response. This desensitization cannot be explained by increased PDE activity, since PDE inhibitors were not able to prevent the NO donor-induced decrease of the maximal cGMP response in endothelial cells. The failure of SH-reducing agents to improve the cGMP response after its desensitization by NO suggests that a SH-independent mechanism mediates NO effects. Demonstration that the potency of the recently described activator of oxidized (heme-free) sGC, BAY58-2667, to stimulate sGC increases after prolonged exposure of the cells to an NO donor, DETA/NO, suggests that oxidation of heme may be a reason for NOinduced desensitization of sGC and decrease in sGC protein level. Indeed, the well-known heme-oxidizing agent ODQ produces a dramatic decrease in sGC protein levels in endothelial cells and BAY58-2667 prevents this effect. Although the mechanism of sGC activation and stabilization by BAY58-2667 is unknown, this substance is an interesting candidate to modulate sGC under conditions where sGC heme iron is oxidized. Very little is known about regulation of sGC by intracellular localization or translocation between different intracellular compartments. In the present study, an increase in sGC sensitivity to NO under membrane association was demonstrated. Treatment of isolated lung with VEGF markedly increased sGC in membrane fractions of endothelial cells. Failure of VEGF to stimulate sGC membrane association in cultured endothelial cells allows us to propose a complex mechanism of regulation of sGC membrane association and/or a transient character of sGC membrane attachment. A very likely mechanism for the attachment of sGC to membranes is via sGCinteracting proteins. These proteins may participate also in other aspects of sGC regulation. The role of the recently described sGC interaction partner, Hsp90, was investigated. Shortterm treatment of endothelial cells with an Hsp90 inhibitor does not affect NO donor or calcium ionophore-stimulated cGMP accumulation in the cells. However, inhibition of Hsp90 results in a rapid and dramatic decrease in sGC protein levels in endothelial cells. These effects were unrelated to changes in sGC transcription, since inhibition of transcription had much slower effect on sGC protein levels. In contrast, inhibitors of proteasomes abolished the reduction in sGC protein levels produced by an Hsp90 inhibitor, suggesting involvement of proteolytic degradation of sGC proteins during inhibition of Hsp90. All these data together suggest that Hsp90 is required to maintain mature sGC proteins. In conclusion, in the present study it was demonstrated that multiple mechanisms are involved in the regulation of sGC activity and its sensitivity to NO. Oxidation of sGC heme by NO seems to be one of the mechanisms for negative regulation of sGC in the presence of high or prolonged stimulation with NO. Another possible means of regulating sGC sensitivity to NO is via the intracellular translocation of the enzyme. It has been also demonstrated here that attachment of sGC to the membrane fraction results in an apparent increase in the enzyme sensitivity to NO. Additionally, Hsp90 was required to maintain sGC protein in endothelial and other cell types. However, we could not find any acute affect of Hsp90 on sGC activity, as reported recently. All these findings demonstrate that the regulation of sGC activity and protein level is a much more complex process than had been assumed earlier.
There is substantial interest in the identification of genes underlying susceptibility to complex human diseases because of the potential utility of such genes in disease prediction and therapy. The complex age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a prevalent cause of legal blindness in industrialized countries and predominantly affects the elderly population over 75 years of age. Although vision loss in AMD results from photoreceptor cell death in the central retina, the initial pathogenesis likely involves processes in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) (Liang and Godley, 2003). The goal of the current study was to identify and characterize genes specifically or abundantly expressed in the RPE in order to determine more comprehensively the transcriptome of the RPE. In addition, our aim was to assess the role of these genes in AMD pathogenesis. Towards this end, a bovine cDNA library enriched for RPE transcripts was constructed in-house using a PCR-based suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) technique (Diatchenko et al., 1996, 1999), which normalizes for sequence abundance and achieves high enrichment for differentially expressed genes. CAP3 (Huang and Madan, 1999) was used to assemble the high quality sequences of all the 2379 ESTs into clusters or singletons. 1.2% of the 2379 RPE-ESTs contains vector sequences and was excluded from further analysis. 5% of the RPE-ESTs showed homology to multipe chromosomes and were not included in further assembly process. The rest of the ESTs (2245) were assembled into 175 contigs and 509 singletons, which revealed approximately 684 unique genes in the dataset. Out of the 684, 343 bovine RPE transcripts did not align to their human orthologues. A large fraction of clones were shown to include a considerable 3´untranslated regions of the gene that are not conserved between bovine and human. It is the coding regions that can be conserved between bovine and human and not the 3’ UTR (Sharma et al., 2002). Therefore, more sequencing from the cDNA library with reclustering of those 343 ESTs together with continuous blasting might reveal their human orthologoues. To handle the large volume of data that the RPE cDNA library project has generated a highly efficient and user-friendly RDBMS was designed. Using RDBMS data storage can be managed efficiently and flexibly. The RDBMS allows displaying the results in query-based form and report format with additional annotations, links and search functions. Out of the 341 known and predicted genes identified in this study, 2 were further analyzed. The RPE or/and retina specificity of these two clones were further confirmed by RT-PCR analysis in adult human tissues. Construction of a single nucleotide polymphism (SNP) map was initiated as a first step in future case/control association studies. SNP genotyping was carried out for one of these two clones (RPE01-D2, now known as RDH12). 12 SNPs were identified from direct sequencing of the 23.4-kb region, of which 5 are of high frequency. In a next step, comparison of allele frequencies between AMD patients and healthy controls is required. Completion of the expression analysis for other predicted genes identified during this study is in progress using real time RT-PCR and will provide additional candidate genes for further analyses. This study is expected to contribute to our understanding of the genetic basis of RPE function and to clarify the role of the RPE-expressed genes in the predisposition to AMD. It may also help reveal the mechanisms and pathways that are involved in the development of AMD or other retinal dystrophies.
In the work here presented four distinctly different problems were investigated. The first problem was an investigation into the degradation of Dichloroethylene (DCE) and 1,1-bis (p-Chlorophenyl)-2-dichloroethylene (DDE) utilising pure bacterial cultures. The second investigation dealt with the degradation of DDE and polychlorinated Biphenyl’s (PCB’s) utilising anaerobic sediments and soils from New Zealand. The third investigation worked on the Granulation of anaerobic River-sediments in Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Reactors. The last investigation describes the commissioning of an industrial aerobic Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Implementation of biological Nitrogen- and Phosphate removal in this Wastewater Treatment Plant. Since the chemical Structure of DCE and DDE have certain similarities, Bacteria that were capable of degrading DCE, were tested here, whether they would also be able to degrade DDE utilising a co-metabolic pathway. In the experiments the aerobic bacteria Methylosinus trichosporium and Mycobacterium vaccae and the anaerobic bacteria Acetobacterium woodii and Clostridium butyricum were used. Approximately 60% of the added DCE was degraded by M. vaccae, while M. trichosporium degraded approximately 50%. A. woodii and C. butyricum degraded 40% and 30% respectively of the added DCE. Further experiments with these cultures and DDE lead to a microbial degradation of DDE to an extent of 34.6% for M. vaccae, 14.1% for C. butyricum, 2.2% for A. woodii and 10.5% for M. trichosporium. Additional experiments, utilising [14C]-DDE, showed that the DDE had not been degraded but were attached to the bacterial cells. The second investigation utilised anaerobic soils and sediments from New Zealand to study the anaerobic co-metabolic degradation of DDE and PCB’s. The soils and sediments originated from the River Waikato, from Wastewater Ponds in Kinleith, Marine-Sediments from Mapua, and a variety of soils comtaminated with Pentachlorophenyl (PCP). The cultures from these soils and sediments were raised on a variety of Carbon- and Energy-sources. Beside DDE, Aroclor 1260, and a mix of four pure PCB-Congeneres (one Tetra-, one Hexa, one Hepta- and one Deca-Chlorobiphenyl) were used to test for the reductive dechlorination. The cultivation process of the baceria lasted six months. Samples of the cultures were taken after zero, three and six months. These samples were tested for the increase of cell-protein, the degradation of carbon- and energy-sources, and the removal of the added polychlorinated chemicals. The organochlorines were analysed using reversed phase HPLC and FID-GC. When a change in the Chromatogram was detected the respective cultures were further analysed using ECD-GC and GC-MS. The results showed that the culutres grew under these conditions, but no degradation of DDE and the PCB-Mix could be detected, and only small changes in the composition/chromatograms of Aroclor 1260 were found. The third investigation worked on the Granulation of River-Sediments in UASB-Reactors. Sediments from the River Waikato in New Zealand and the River Saale in Germany were used. In both cases the Granulation process was successful, which was demonstrated by microscopic comparisons of the Sediments and the resulting Granules. The two main bacterial cultures detected were Methanosarcina- and Methanothrix-like cultures. The main carbon- and energy-source was Lactic Acid, which was used at a concentration of 21,8 g COD/L. The Granulation-Process was a combination of using high a COD-Concentration combined with a low Volumetric Loading-Rate. Comparisons of the specific degradation-rates of a variety of carbon- and energy-sources between the Sediments and the Granules, showed no increased degradation rates in regard to the same cell-mass, but the increased bio-mass in the Granules allowed for higher degradation-rates within the UASB-reactors. The fourth investigation describes the commissioning of an industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant for a Dairy-Site in Edendale, Southland, New Zealand. This Plant consists of a DAF-Unit (Dissolved Air Flotation), two Extended Aeration Lagoons with Activated Sludge and two Clarifiers, one for the Activated Sludge and the second for the dosing of Aluminium-Sulphate and the removal of Phosphat-Sulphate. Biological processes for the removal of carbon- and energy-sources were optimised and biological processes for the reduction of Nitrogen- and Phosphate-Concentrations within the wastewater were implemented and optimised. Bilogical removal rates for COD of 95% and above, for Nitrogen of 85-92% and Phosphate of 64-83% were achieved.
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically and phenotypically heterogenous autoso- mal recessive disease associated with chromosomal instability, progressive bone marrow failure, typical birth defects and predisposition to neoplasia. The clinical phenotype is similar in all known complementation groups (FA-A, FA-B, FA-C,FA-D1, FA-D2, FA-E, FA-F and FA-G). The cellular phenotype is characterized by hypersensitivity to DNA crosslinking agents (MMC,DEB), which is exploited as a diagnostic tool. Alltogether, the FA proteins constitute a multiprotein pathway whose precise biochemical function(s) remain unknown. FANCA, FANCC, FANCE, FANCF and FANCG interact in a nuclear complex upstream of FANCD2. Complementation group FA-D1 was recently shown to be due to biallelic mutations in the human breast cancer gene 2 (BRCA2). After DNA damage, the nuclear complex regulates monoubiquitylation of FANCD2, result- ing in targeting of this protein into nuclear foci together with BRCA1 and other DNA damage response proteins. The close connection resp. identity of the FA genes and known players of the DSB repair pathways (BRCA1, BRCA2, Rad51) firmly establishs an important role of the FA gene family in the maintenance of genome integrity. The chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the thesis describing the current knowledge and unsolved problems of Fanconi anemia. The following chapters represent papers submitted or published in scientific literature. They are succeeded by a short general discussion (chapter 7). Mutation analysis in the Fanconi anemia genes revealed gene specific mutation spectra as well as different distributions throughout the genes. These results are described in chapter 1 and chapter 2 with main attention to the first genes identified, namely FANCC, FANCA and FANCG. In chapter 2 we provide general background on mutation analysis and we report all mutations published for FANCA, FANCC and FANCG as well as our own unpublished mutations until the year 2000. In chapter 3 we report a shift of the mutation spectrum previously reported for FANCC after examining ten FA-patients belonging to complementation group C. Seven of those patients carried at least one previously unknown mutation, whereas the other three patients carried five alleles with the Dutch founder mu- tation 65delG and one allele with the Ashkenazi founder mutation IVS4+4A>T, albeit without any known Ashkenazi ancestry. We also describe the first large deletion in FANCC. The newly detected alterations include two missense mu- tations (L423P and T529P) in the 3´-area of the FANCC gene. Since the only previously described missense mutation L554P is also located in this area, a case can be made for the existence of functional domain(s) in that region of the gene. In chapter 4 we report the spectrum of mutations found in the FANCG gene com- piled by several laboratories working on FA. As with other FA genes, most muta- tions have been found only once, however, the truncating mutation, E105X, was identified as a German founder mutation after haplotype analysis. Direct compar- ison of the murine and the human protein sequences revealed two leucine zipper motifs. In one of these the only identified missense mutation was located at a conserved residue, suggesting the leucine zipper providing an essential protein-protein interaction required for FANCG function. With regard to genotype-phenotype correlations, two patients carrying a homozygous E105X mutation were seen to have an early onset of the hematological disorder, whereas the missense mutation seems to lead to a disease with later onset and milder clinical course. In chapter 5 we explore the phenomenon of revertant mosaicism which emerges quite frequently in peripheral blood cells of patients suffering from FA. We de- scribe the types of reversion found in five mosaic FA-patients belonging to com- plementation groups FA-A and FA-C. For our single FA-C-patient intragenic crossover could be proven as the mechanism of self-correction. In the remaining four patients (all of them being compound heterozygous in FANCA), either the paternal or maternal allele has reverted back to WT sequence. We also describe a first example of in vitro phenotypic reversion via the emergence of a compensat- ing missense mutation 15 amino acids downstream of the constitutional mutation explaining the MMC-resistance of the lymphoblastoid cell line of this patient. In chapter 6 we report two FA-A mosaic patients where it could be shown that the spontaneous reversion had taken place in a single hematopoietic stem cell. This has been done by separating blood cells from both patients and searching for the reverted mutation in their granulocytes, monocytes, T- and B-lymphocytes as well as in skin fibroblasts. In both patients, all hematopoietic lineages, but not the fibroblasts, carried the reversion, and comparison to their increase in erythrocyte and platelet counts over time demonstrated that reversion must have taken place in a single hematopoietic stem cell. This corrected stem cell then has been able to undergo self-renewal and also to create a corrected progeny, which over time repopulated all hematopoietic lineages. The pancytopenia of these patients has been cured due to the strong selective growth advantage of the corrected cells in vivo and the increased apoptosis of the mutant hematopoietic cells.
This study investigated patterns of arthropod community organisation and the processes structuring these communities on a range of different tree species in a natural West African savannah (Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire). It described and analysed patterns of arthropod distribution on the level of whole communities, on the level of multiple-species interactions, and on the level of individual insect species. Community samples were obtained by applying (i) canopy fogging for mature individuals of three tree species (Anogeissus leiocarpa, Burkea africana, Crossopteryx febrifuga) and (ii) a modified beating technique allowing to sample the complete arthropod communities of the respective study plants for medium-sized (up to 3 m) individuals of two other species (Combretum fragrans, Pseudocedrela kotschyi). General information on ant-plant interactions was retrieved from ant community comparisons of the mature savannah trees. In addition, ant-ant, ant-plant and ant-herbivore interactions were studied in more detail considering the ant assemblages on the myrmecophilic tree Pseudocedrela kotschyi. Herbivore-plant interactions were investigated on a multiple-species level (interrelationships between herbivores and Pseudocedrela trees) and on a species level (detailed studies of interrelationships between herbivorous beetles and caterpillars and the host tree Combretum fragrans). The studies on individual herbivore species were complemented by a study on an abundant ant species, clarifying not only the relationship between host plant and associated animal but allowing also to look at interactive (competitive) aspects of community organisation. The study demonstrated for the first time that (i) the structure of beetle communities on tropical trees can be strongly dependent on the host tree species, (ii) individual trees can host specific arthropod communities whose characteristic structure is stable over years and is strongly determined by the individual tree's attributes, (iii) ants can express a pronounced fidelity to single leaves as foraging area and can thereby determine distribution patterns of other ants, (iv) intraspecifically variable palatability of plants for insect herbivores can be stable over years and can influence the distribution of herbivores that can distinguish between individual hosts according to palatability and (v) intraspecific host plant change can positively affect fitness of herbivores if host plant quality is variable. In general, the present study contributes to our knowledge of anthropogenically unaltered processes affecting community assembly in a natural environment. The fundamental understanding of these processes is crucial for the identification of anthropogenic alterations and the establishment of sustainable management measures. The study points out the important role local factors can play for the distribution of organisms and thereby for community organisation. It emphasises the relevance of small scale heterogeneity of the abiotic and biotic environment to biodiversity and the need to consider these factors for development of effective conservation and restoration strategies.
Summary Myelin protein zero (P0) is a key myelin component in maintaining the integrity and functionality of the peripheral nervous system. Mutated variants are the cause for several disabilitating peripheral neuropathies such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease or Dejerine –Sotas syndrome. Using P0 knockout mice - a mouse model for these diseases - together with their wt counterparts on C57BL/6 background we studied the shaping of the T-cell repertoire specific for P0 in the presence and in the absence of this protein during the ontogeny of T-cells. Our approach was to use a series of overlapping 20-mer peptides covering the entire amino acid sequence of P0. This series of P0 peptides was employed for epitope mapping of the H2-Ab restricted T cell response. Thus, P0 peptide 5 (P0 41-60) in the extracellular domain of P0 was identified as the main immunogenic peptide. The immunogenic peptide containing the core immunodominant determinant in the P0 sequence was employed in studies of tolerance, revealing a highly reactive P0 specific T-cell repertoire in P0 ko mice while in wt mice the high avidity repertoire was inactivated in order to ensure self tolerance. In wild type and heterozygous P0 mice tolerance is not dependent on gene dosage. P0 is a tissue specific antigen whose expression is limited to myelinating Schwann cells. The classical view on tolerance to tissue specific antigens attributed this role to peripheral mechanisms. Driven by the finding that intrathymic expression of tissue-specific antigens is a common occurrence, we confirmed that “promiscuous” expression on thymic stroma holds true also for myelin P0. In addition, using bone marrow chimeras we investigated the capacity of bone marrow derived cells versus nonhematopoietic cells to induce tolerance towards P0. Our findings show that bone marrow derived cells although tolerogenic to some degree are not sufficient to mediate complete tolerance. P0 expression on cells with origin other than bone marrow showed to be sufficient and necessary to induce sound tolerance. We identified one cryptic (P0 peptide 8) and two subdominant epitopes (P0 petides 1, and 3). P0 peptide 8 was reactive in both wt and P0 ko mice. Peptides 1 and 3 were immunogenic in P0 ko but not in wt mice. Several P0 peptides including the immunogenic peptide 5 were involved in direct and adoptive transfer EAN studies. None of them induced clinical signs of EAN. Immunization with P0 peptide 3 did induce inflammation of the peripheral nerves reflected by the infiltration of macrophages and CD3 positive cells. More studies involving highly P0 specific T-cell lines are needed to characterize the P0 induced EAN. Our findings may have direct implications for secondary autoimmunity and inflammation in peripheral nerves developing after correcting the P0 genetic defect by gene therapy in aforementioned diseases.
Best disease (OMIM 153700) is an early-onset, autosomal dominant maculopathy characterized by egg yolk-like lesions in the central retina. The disease gene, the vitelliform macular dystrophy gene type 2 (VMD2), encodes a 585-aa VMD2 transmembrane protein, termed bestrophin. The protein is predominantly expressed on the basolateral side of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and is thought to be involved in the transport of chloride ions. Bestrophin as well as three closely related VMD2-like proteins (VMD2L1-L3) contain multiple putative transmembrane (TM) domains and an invariant tripeptide (RFP) motif in the N-terminal half of the protein. This and the tissue-restricted expression to polarized epithelial cells are typical features of the VMD2 RFP-TM family. Best disease is predominantly caused by missense mutations, clustering in four distinct „hotspots“ in the evolutionary highly conserved N-terminal region of the protein. To further augment the spectrum of mutations and to gain novel insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms, we screened VMD2 in a large cohort of affected patients. In total, nine novel VMD2 mutations were identified, raising the total number of known Best disease-related mutations from 83 to 92. Eight out of nine novel mutations are hotspot-specific missense mutations, underscoring their functional/structural significance and corroborating the dominant-negative nature of the mutations. Of special interest is a one-basepair deletion (Pro260fsX288) encoding a truncated protein with a deletion of an important functional domain (TM domain four) as well as the entire C-terminal half of bestrophin. For the first time, a nonsense mutation leading to a 50 % non-functional protein has been identified suggesting that on rare occassions Best disease may be caused by haploinsufficiency. Molecular diagnostics strongly requires a reliable classification of VMD2 sequence changes into pathogenic and non-pathogenic types. Since the molecular pathomechanism is unclear at present, the pathogenicity of novel sequence changes of VMD2 are currently assessed in light of known mutations. We therefore initiated a publicly accessible VMD2 mutation database (http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/humangenetics/vmd2.html) and are collecting and administrating the growing number of mutations, rare sequence variants and common polymorphisms. Missense mutations may disrupt the function of proteins in numerous ways. To evaluate the functional consequences of VMD2 mutations in respect to intracellular mislocalization and/or protein elimination, a set of molecular tools were generated. These included the establishment of an in vitro COS7 heterologous expression assay, the generation of numerous VMD2 mutations by site-directed mutagenesis as well as the development of bestrophin-specific antibodies. Surprisingly, membrane fractionation/Western blot experiments revealed no significant quantitative differences between intact and mutant bestrophin. Irrelevant of the type or location of mutation, incorporation of mutant bestrophin to the membraneous fraction was observed. Thus, impaired membrane integration may be ruled out as causative pathomechanism of Best disease consistent with a dominant-negative effect of the mutations. In a different approach, efforts were directed towards identifying and characterizing the VMD2 RFP-TM protein family in mouse. While clarification of the genomic organization of murine Vmd2 was required as basis to generate Vmd2-targeted animals (see below), the study of closely related proteins (Vmd2L1, Vmd2L2 and Vmd2L3) may provide further clues as to the function of bestrophin. For this, biocomputational as well as RT PCR analyses were performed. Moreover, the novel genes were analyzed by real time quantitative RT PCR, displaying predominant expression in testis, colon and skeletal muscle of Vmd2, Vmd2L1 and Vmd2L3 transcripts, respectively as well as in eye tissue. Interestingly, neither an ORF was determined for murine Vmd2L2 nor was the transcript present in a panel of 12 mouse tissues, suggesting that murine Vmd2L2 may represent a functionally inactive pseudogene. The murine Vmd2L3 gene, as its human counterpart, is a highly differentially spliced transcript. Finally, generating mouse models of Best disease will provide essential tools to investigate the pathophysiology of bestrophin in vivo. We have initiated the generation of two different mouse lineages, one deficient of Vmd2 (knock-out) and the other carrying a human disease-related mutation (Tyr227Asn) in the orthologous murine gene (knock-in). Genetic engineering of both constructs has been achieved and presently, four ES clones harboring the homologous recombination event (Vmd2+/-) have been isolated and are ready for the subsequent steps to generate chimeric animals. The resulting mouse lineages will represent two key models to elucidate the functional role of bestrophin in Best disease, in RPE development and physiology.
A distinguishing feature of eukaryotic cells is the spatial separation of the site of mRNA synthesis (nucleus) from the site of mRNA function (cytoplasm) by the nuclear envelope. As a consequence, mRNAs need to be actively exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. At the time when this study was initiated, both human TAP and yeast Mex67p had been proposed to play a role in this process. Work presented in this thesis (section 2.1) revealed that TAP and Mex67p belong to an evolutionarily conserved family of proteins which are characterized by a conserved modular domain organization. This family was termed nuclear export factor (NXF) family. While the yeast genome encodes only one NXF protein (Mex67p), the genomes of higher eukaryotes encode several NXF proteins. There are two nxf genes in C. elegans and A. gambiae, four in D. melanogaster, and at least four in H. sapiens and M. musculus. It was unclear whether, apart from TAP and Mex67p, other members of this family would also be involved in mRNA export. In the first part of this thesis (2.1), several human NXF members were tested for a possible function in nuclear mRNA export. They were analyzed for their interaction with RNA, nucleoporins and other known TAP partners in vitro, and tested for their ability to promote nuclear export of a reporter mRNA in vivo. Using these assays, human NXF2, NXF3 and NXF5 were all shown to interact with the known NXF partner p15. NXF2 and NXF5 were also found to bind directly to RNA, but only NXF2 was able to bind directly to nucleoporins and to promote the nuclear export of an (untethered) reporter mRNA. Thus NXF2 possesses many and NXF3 and NXF5 possess some of the features required to serve as an export receptor for cellular mRNAs. As NXF2 and NXF3 transcripts were mainly found in testis, and the closest orthologue of NXF5 in mouse has the highest levels of expression in brain, these NXF members could potentially serve as tissue-specific mRNA export receptors. In the second part of this work (2.2), the role of different Drosophila NXF proteins and other export factors in mRNA export was investigated using double-stranded RNA interference (RNAi) in Drosophila Schneider cells. Three of the four predicted Drosophila NXF members (NXF1-3) were found to be expressed in this cell line and could be targeted by RNAi. Depletion of endogenous NXF1 inhibited growth and resulted in the nuclear accumulation of polyadenylated RNA. Fluorescence in situ hybridization revealed that export of both heat shock and non-heat shock mRNAs, including intron-containing and intronless mRNAs, was inhibited. Depleting endogenous NXF2 or NXF3 had no apparent phenotype. These results suggested that NXF1 (but not NXF2-NXF4) mediates the export of bulk mRNA in Drosophila cells. We and others have shown that human NXF proteins function as heterodimers bound to the small protein p15. Accordingly, silencing of Drosophila p15 resulted in a block of mRNA export which was indistinguishable from the export inhibition seen after targeting NXF1. These observations indicated that neither NXF1 nor p15 can promote export in the absence of the other subunit of the heterodimer. NXF1:p15 heterodimers are implicated in late steps of mRNA export, i.e. in the translocation of mRNP export cargoes across the nuclear pore complex. The mechanism by which NXF1:p15 dimers are recruited to the mRNA is unclear. A protein that is thought to play a role in this process is the putative RNA helicase UAP56. Similar to NXF1 and p15, UAP56 was shown to be essential for mRNA export in Drosophila. UAP56 is recruited cotranscriptionally to nascent transcripts and was suggested to facilitate the interaction of NXF1:p15 with mRNPs. Even though both NXF1:p15 heterodimers and UAP56 had been implicated in general mRNA export, it was unclear whether there are classes of mRNAs that require NXF1:p15, but not UAP56 or vice versa. It was also unclear what fraction of cellular mRNAs is exported by NXF1:p15 dimers and UAP56, and whether mRNAs exist that reach the cytoplasm through alternative routes, i.e. by recruiting other export receptors. To address these issues we performed a genome-wide analysis of nuclear mRNA export pathways using microarray technology (2.2.2). We analyzed the relative abundance of nearly half of the Drosophila transcriptome in the cytoplasm of Drosophila Schneider cells depleted of different export factors by RNAi. We showed that the vast majority of transcripts were underrepresented in the cytoplasm of cells depleted of NXF1, p15 or UAP56 as compared to control cells. Only a small number of mRNAs were apparently not affected by the depletions. These observations, together with the wide and similar effects on mRNA levels caused by the depletion of NXF1, p15 or UAP56, indicate that these proteins define the major mRNA export pathway in these cells. We also identified a small subset of mRNAs which appeared to be exported by NXF1:p15 dimers independently of UAP56. In contrast, no significant changes in mRNA expression profiles were observed in cells depleted of NXF2 or NXF3, suggesting that neither NXF2 nor NXF3 play an essential role in mRNA export in Drosophila Schneider cells. Crm1 is a transport receptor implicated in the export of a variety of non-mRNA and protein cargoes. In addition, human Crm1 has been suggested to be involved in the export of a specific mRNA species, serving as a "specialized" mRNA export receptor. A role of human Crm1 in the export of bulk mRNA is considered unlikely. We analyzed the role of Drosophila Crm1 in mRNA export by inhibiting Crm1 with the drug leptomycin B in Schneider cells. Subsequent microarray analysis demonstrated that the inactivation of Crm1 resulted in decreased cytoplasmic levels of less than 1% of all mRNAs, indicating that Crm1 is indeed not a major mRNA export receptor. The genome-wide analysis also revealed a feedback loop by which a block to mRNA export triggers the upregulation of genes involved in this process. This thesis also includes two sections describing projects in which I participated during my Ph.D., but which were not the main focus of this thesis. In section 2.3, the role of the different TAP/NXF1 domains in nuclear mRNA export is discussed. Section 2.4 describes results that were obtained as part of a collaboration using the RNAi technique in Schneider cells to study the function of Cdc37.
The extracellular matrix within connective tissues represents a structural scaffold as well as a barrier for motile cells, such as invading tumor cells or passenger leukocytes. It remains unclear how different cell types utilize matrix-degrading enzymes for proteolytic migration strategies and, on the other hand, non-proteolytic strategies to overcome 3D fibrillar matrix networks. To monitor cell migration, a 3D collagen model in vitro or the mouse dermis in vivo were used, in combination with time-lapse video-, confocal- or intravital multiphoton-microscopy, and computer-assisted cell tracking. Expression of proteases, including several MMPs, ADAMs, serine proteases and cathepsins, was shown by flow cytometry, Western blot, zymography, and RT-PCR. Protease activity by migrating HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cells resulting in collagenolysis in situ and generation of tube-like matrix defects was detected by three newly developed techniques:(i) quantitative FITC-release from FITC-labelled collagen, (ii) structural alteration of the pyhsical matrix structure (macroscopically and microscopically), and (iii) the visualization of focal in situ cleavage of individual collagen fibers. The results show that highly invasive ollagenolytic cells utilized a spindle-shaped "mesenchymal" migration strategy, which involved beta1 integrindependent interaction with fibers, coclustering of beta1 integrins and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) at fiber bundling sites, and the proteolytic generation of a tube-like matrix-defect by MMPs and additional proteases. In contrast to tumor cells, activated T cells migrated through the collagen fiber network by flexible "amoeboid" crawling including a roundish, elliptoid shape and morphological adaptation along collagen fibers, which was independent of collagenase function and fiber degradation. Abrogation of collagenolysis in tumor cells was achieved by a cocktail of broad-spectrum protease inhibitors at non-toxic conditions blocking collagenolysis by up to 95%. While in T cells protease inhibition induced neither morphodynamic changes nor reduced migration rates, in tumor cells a time-dependent conversion was obtained from proteolytic mesenchymal to non-proteolytic amoeboid migration in collagen lattices in vitro as well as the mouse dermis in vivo monitored by intravital microscopy. Tumor cells vigorously squeezed through matrix gaps and formed constriction rings in regions of narrow space, while the matrix structure remained intact. MMPs were excluded from fiber binding sites and beta1 integrin distribution was non-clustered linear. Besides for fibrosarcoma cells, this mesenchymal-toameboid transition (MAT) was confirmed for epithelial MDA-MB-231 breast carcinoma cells. In conclusion, cells of different origin exhibit significant diversity as well as plasticity of protease function in migration. In tumor cells, MAT could respresent a functionally important cellular and molecular escape pathway in tumor invasion and migration.
Zars and co-workers were able to localize an engram of aversive olfactory memory to the mushroom bodies of Drosophila (Zars et al., 2000). In this thesis, I followed up on this finding in two ways. Inspired by Zars et al. (2000), I first focused on the whether it would also be possible to localize memory extinction.While memory extinction is well established behaviorally, little is known about the underlying circuitry and molecular mechanisms. In extension to the findings by Zars et al (2000), I show that aversive olfactory memories remain localized to a subset of mushroom body Kenyon cells for up to 3 hours. Extinction localizes to the same set of Kenyon cells. This common localization suggests a model in which unreinforced presentations of a previously learned odorant intracellularly antagonizes the signaling cascades underlying memory formation. The second part also targets memory localization, but addresses appetitive memory. I show that memories for the same olfactory cue can be established through either sugar or electric shock reinforcement. Importantly, these memories localize to the same set of neurons within the mushroom body. Thus, the question becomes apparent how the same signal can be associated with different events. It is shown that two different monoamines are specificaly necessary for formation of either of these memories, dopamine in case of electric shock and octopamine in case of sugar memory, respectively. Taking the representation of the olfactory cue within the mushroom bodies into account, the data suggest that the two memory traces are located in the same Kenyon cells, but in separate subcellular domains, one modulated by dopamine, the other by octopamine. Taken together, this study takes two further steps in the search for the engram. (1) The result that in Drosophila olfactory learning several memories are organized within the same set of Kenyon cells is in contrast to the pessimism expressed by Lashley that is might not be possible to localize an engram. (2) Beyond localization, a possibible mechanism how several engrams about the same stimulus can be localized within the same neurons might be suggested by the models of subcellular organisation, as postulated in case of appetitive and aversive memory on the one hand and acquisition and extinction of aversive memory on the other hand.
Living apart together
(2002)
Cohesiveness between members of a social unit is a defining characteristic of animal social organization. Dispersed social organizations, where members of a social unit spend the main part of their activity period apart, have only recently been distinguished from cohesive social organizations and are still poorly understood with respect to their ecological basis and reproductive consequences. The general goal of this dissertation was to study the three components of the social system of fork-marked lemurs (Phaner furcifer), a small nocturnal primate from Madagascar living in dispersed pairs. First, I characterise their social organization, focusing on behavioural mechanisms of cohesion between pair partners. Second, through application of van Schaik's ecological model, I investigate predictions about the ecological basis of female intra-sexual avoidance, male-female social relationships and the determinants of differential female reproductive success. Finally, I analyse behavioural and genetic aspects of the mating system to test a recent hypothesis that proposes high extra-pair paternity in dispersed primate pairs resulting from constraints on male mate guarding. The study was conducted in Kirindy Forest in Madagascar between September 1998 and April 2001 during three field seasons for a total of 20 months. During more than 1400 hours of focal animal protocols, I sampled year-round data on space use, feeding ecology, time budgets, and social behaviour of all adults and three subadults of 8 families, complemented by simultaneous focal follows of both pair partners, year-round information on sleeping site use, measures on food abundance in each territory, morphological measurements, and DNA-microsatellite data for seven newly discovered polymorphic loci. Across eight social units and three breeding seasons, pairs were the prevailing grouping pattern (18 of 21 family years). Most pairs were stable for more than three mating seasons and used well defined stable territories. Although both pair partners used the same territory in a fairly similar fashion, average distance between pair partners was 100m, which was far considering that many territories measure only 200m in diameter. Pair partners spent only about 20% of activity time in less than 25m distance of each other and shared a sleeping site on average only every third day. Females were found to be dominant over their partner as well as over neighbouring males in all behavioural contexts. Most important food resources were exudates of a small number of tree species. Major food resources were distributed in small, defendable patches characterized by fast depletion and rapid renewal. In accordance with the ecological model, this led to strong within-group contest and scramble competition and weak between-group contest competition over food, as indicated by a positive dominance effect and a negative group size effect on female physical condition. Female reproductive success was determined mainly by family size. Paternity likelihood and exclusion analyses revealed that four out of seven offspring were most likely sired by an extra-pair male. Behaviour during the mating season implied that females as well as males take an active part in obtaining extra-pair copulations and that males try to guard their mates. Dispersed social organization in itself, i.e. low cohesion between pair partners, cannot explain high extra-pair paternity. I propose instead that several other factors common to most primates living in dispersed pairs constrain mate guarding and lead to high EPP. The ecological settings determine the mode of food competition and have shaped the social system of fork-marked lemurs in several ways. Intense within-group competition for food may have ultimately led to female intra-sexual avoidance and range exclusivity which represents an evolutionary precursor of pair-living. Although it remains elusive why females ultimately associated with single males, patterns of within-group contest competition for food explain why pair partners avoid each other during nocturnal activity. The limited number of food resources that is used in repetitive fashion and incomplete knowledge about the pair partners position explain why pair partners meet relatively often and why most encounters involve agonistic conflict. Rigid feeding itineraries characteristic of exudate feeders are likely to pose high costs to offspring dispersing to unfamiliar areas. Feeding ecology can, therefore, explain why parents tolerate delayed natal dispersal despite a negative effect on actual female reproductive success. In conclusion, the present study successfully applied existing socio-ecological theory to a new area of research, refined a recent evolutionary model and contributed important comparative data to our understanding of dispersed pairs in particular and primate and animal societies in general.
Originally renowned for their spectacular epigaeic raids, army ants have captured scientific attention for almost two centuries. They now belong to one of the best studied group of ants. However, most of our knowledge about army ants was derived from the study of the minority of specialized, epigaeicly active species. These species evolved probably rather recently from hypogaeic ancestors. The majority of army ant species still leads a hypogaeic life and is almost completely unknown in its entire sociobiology. It thus remained speculative, whether the assumed 'general' characteristics of army ants represent an adaptation to epigaeic activity or apply also to the majority of hypogaeic species. Based on the recent observation that the hypogaeic Asian army ant Dorylus (Dichthadia) laevigatus recruits predictably to palm oil baits, I developed and tested an oil-baiting method for the study of hypogaeic (army)ants. Prior to my study, nothing was known about the sociobiology of the assumed rare D. laevigatus. Throughout my work, I showed D. laevigatus to be very common and abundant in a wide range of habitats in West-Malaysia and on Borneo. Investigating its foraging behavior, I revealed D. laevigatus to differ from epigaeicly active species in several ways. Never demonstrated for any of the epigaeic species, D. laevigatus established stable trunk trail systems. Such a trail system contradicted the perception of army ant foraging, which was believed to be characterized by raids with constantly alternating trail directions. The trunk trail system further enabled a near omnipresence of D. laevigatus within its foraging area, which was also believed to be atypical for an army ant. Raids differed in structure and composition of participating workers from those of epigaeic species. Also, bulky food sources could be exploited over long periods of time. The foraging system of D. laevigatus resembled in several ways that of e.g. leaf-cutter and harvester ants. Likewise contrary to the assumptions, D. laevigatus had a wide food spectrum and showed only little effect on local arthropod communities, even falling itself prey to other ants. Strong aggressive behavior was observed only towards ant species with similar lifestyles, enabling me to provide the first detailed documentation of interspecific fights between two sympatric Dorylus species. Similar to foraging habits or ecological impact, nothing was known about colony size and composition, nesting habits, or worker polymorphism for D. laevigatus or any other hypogaeic Dorylus species prior to my work. By observing and eventually excavating a colony, I showed D. laevigatus to have a much smaller colony size and to lack the large sized workers of epigaeic Dorylus species. Similar to epigaeic Dorylinae, I showed D. laevigatus to have a non-phasic brood production, to emigrate rarely, and to alter its nest form along with habitat conditions. Detailed morphological and geographical descriptions give an impression of the Asian Dorylus species and are expected to aid other researchers in the difficult species identification. The genetic analysis of a male collected at a light trap demonstrated its relation to D. laevigatus. Confirming the male and queen associations, D. laevigatus is now one of five Dorylus species (out of a total of 61), for which all castes are known. In cooperation with D. Kistner, I provide a morphological and taxonomical description of nine Coleopteran beetles associated with D. laevigatus. Behavioral observations indicated the degree of their integration into the colony. The taxonomic position of the beetles further indicated that D. laevigatus emigrated from Africa to Asia, and was accompanied by the majority of associated beetles. The diversity of D. laevigatus guests, which included a number of unidentified mites, was rather low compared to that of epigaeic species. Overall, I demonstrated the developed baiting containers to effectively enable the study of hypogaeic ants. I showed several other hypogaeic ant species to be undersampled by other methods. Furthermore, the method enabled me to documented a second hypogaeic Dorylus species on Borneo. A detailed description of this species' morphology, ecology, and interactions with D. laevigatus is provided. My study indicated D. laevigatus to be an ecologically important species, able to influence soil structure and organisms of tropical regions in many ways. Relating the observed traits of D. laevigatus to epigaeicly active species, I conclude that our assumption of 'general' army ant behavior is erroneous in several aspects and needs to be changed. The oil-baiting method finally provides a tool enabling the location and study of hypogaeic (army)ant species. This opens a broad field for future studies on this cryptic but nonetheless important group of ants.
The number of males in animal groups is an essential determinant of male and female reproductive strategies. Females may benefit from living with several males, whereas males generally strive to monopolize a group of females. Due to male intrasexual competition, the sex ratio of groups of anthropoid primates is generally female-biased. Gregarious Malagasy lemurs deviate from theoretical expectations derived from sexual selection theory and from patterns found among anthropoids because they live in relatively small groups with an even or male-biased adult sex ratio and lack sexual dimorphism. The aim of this thesis was to investigate sex-specific reproductive strategies relating to the unusual group composition of redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus) by combining behavioral, demographic and endocrinological data. In the first of a set of four studies I investigated the applicability of non-invasive endocrine measurements for monitoring ovarian function in wild redfronted lemur females in order to evaluate the degree of estrus synchrony. Further, I tested the prediction that males living in multi-male groups rely on indirect mechanisms of intrasexual competition, such as physiological suppression of testicular function. Several possible benefits gained from living with many males have been proposed and the hypothesis that additional males improve social thermoregulation was tested in the third study. Finally, I examined the proximate determinants of the unusual sex ratio within groups, the variation in the adult sex ratio as well as possible social benefits of the high number of males for both sexes. The study was conducted in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar, between April 1999 and July 2000. I recorded >3000 hours of focal animal data on social and sexual behavior of all adult members of five groups. Additionally, >2200 fecal samples of males and females were collected for subsequent hormone analysis using enzymeimmunoassay (EIA). Further, I analyzed demographic data from seven Eulemur fulvus rufus groups collected between 1996 and 2002. The analyses of fecal estrogen and progestogen excretion in wild and captive females revealed that monitoring ovarian function is principally possible in redfronted lemurs, as demonstrated by the analysis of samples from captive females. Characterization of ovarian cycles in wild females, however, was not possible, because of a high day-to-day variability in excreted hormones. Nevertheless, the study provided reliable information on gestation and cycle length as well as endocrine changes associated with gestation. Additionally, I established a method for prenatal sex determination using maternal fecal samples collected during late gestation. The excretion pattern of androgens in samples of males revealed no differences between dominant and subordinate males, indicating that dominant males did not suppress the endocrine function of subordinate rivals. High frequencies of matings in combination with large testes size suggest that male reproductive competition relies at least partly on sperm competition. Females did not benefit from the high number of males in their groups in terms of improved thermoregulation because surplus males did not participate frequently in huddling groups with females. Analysis of the demographic data revealed that birth and mortality rates were not sex-biased and that males migrated considerably more frequently than females, providing no proximate explanation for the unusual sex ratio. Females in this study may proximately regulate group composition by synchronizing their fertile periods, which were inferred indirectly from the temporal distribution of births within groups. Both males and females benefit from the high number of co-resident males because reduced male group size seemed to be the main predictor of take-over rate, and thus, infanticide risk. The results of these studies suggest that certain life history traits (fast maturation, short inter-birth intervals) may ultimately determine the high number of males and the lack of single-male groups seen in redfronted lemurs. An accelerated male life history may facilitate joint group transfers and take-overs of male coalitions without a transitional time outside bisexual groups. Because males and females both benefit from a high number of males the conflict of interests between the sexes is considerably defused.
The first goal of this study was to develop cell lines with a stable expression of bio-fluorescent topo II and topo I. This was successfully achieved using a bicistronic vector system. Control experiments showed that proteins of expected size were expressed, and that GFP-tagged topos I, IIa, and IIb were active in the cells and fully integrated in the endogenous pools of the enzymes. These cell-lines provided a novel tool for investigating the cell biology of human DNA topoisomerases. Our most important finding was, that both types of mammalian topoisomerases are entirely mobile proteins that are in continuous and rapid flux between all compartments of the nucleus and between the cytososl and the chromosomes of mitotic cells. This was particularly surprising with regard to topo II, which is considered to be a structural component of the nuclear matrix and the chromosome scaffold. We must conclude that if this was the case, then these architectural structures appear to be much more dynamic than believed until now. In this context it should also be mentioned, that the alignment of topo II with the central axes of the chromosome arms, which has until now been considered a hall-mark of the enzyme’s association with the chromosomal scaffold, is not seen in vivo and can be demonstrated to be to some extent an artefact of immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, we show that the two isoforms of topo II (a and b) have a different localisation during mitotic cell division, supporting the general concept that topo II functions at mitosis are exclusively assigned to the a-form, whereas at interphase the two isoenzymes work in concert. Despite unrestricted mobility within the entire nuclear space, topoisomerases I and II impose as mostly nucleolar proteins. We show that this is due to the fact that in the nucleoli they are moving slower than in the nucleoplasm. The decreased nucleolar mobility cannot be due to DNA-interactions, because compounds that fix topoisomerases to the DNA deplete them from the nucleoli. Interestingly, the subnucleolar distribution of topoisomerases I and II was complementary. The type II enzyme filled the entire nucleolar space, but excluded the fibrial centers, whereas topo I accumulated at the fibrial centers, an allocation directed by the enzyme’s N-terminus. During mitosis, it also mediates association with the nucleolar organising regions of the acrocentric chromosomes. Thus, topo I stays associated with the rDNA during the entire cell-cycle and consistently colocalizes there with RNA-polymerase I. Finally, we show that certain cancer drugs believed to act by stabilising covalent catalytic DNA-intermediates of topoisomerases, do indeed immobilize the enzymes in living cells. Interestingly, these drugs do not target topoisomerases in the nucleoli but only in the nucleoplasm.
Transforming-Growth-Factor-beta1 (TGF-b1) is a multifunctional cytokine that regulates cell growth and differentiation in many types of cells. TGF-b1 is especially known to exert a variety of regulatory functions in the immune system, such as T cell differentiation and T cell function. Signal transduction of TGF-b1 is mediated by phosphorylation of receptorassociated Smad proteins (R-Smads). R-Smads are phosphorylated by the activated type I receptor, which is itself phosphorylated by the high affinity type II receptor upon ligand binding. The phosphorylated R-Smads then associate with Co-Smads. Heterooligomers of R- and Co-Smads translocate into the nucleus where they regulate transcription of target genes in concert with other transcription factors such as CBP/p300 or AP-1. Recent findings suggest that the pleiotropic effects of TGF-b1 are conferred by crosstalks to other signal transduction pathways such as the MAP-kinases or the STAT-pathway. Here we describe the effect of long-term exposure to TGF-b1 on the effector function of differentially stimulated primary murine splenocytes and purified primary murine CD8+ cytotoxic T cells. Long-term exposure to TGF-b1 results in non-responsiveness to TGF-b1- induced Smad2 phosphorylation. This is seen either by no phosphorylation or sustained phosphorylation of Smad2. Furthermore, we observed a strong correlation between sustained Smad2 phosphorylation and resistance to TGF-b1 mediated growth inhibition. In contrast, splenocyte cultures strongly growth inhibited by TGF-b1 showed no Smad2 phosphorylation. Lytic activity of these cultures, however, was found to be suppressed regardless of proliferation properties and Smad2 phosphorylation pattern. We also describe that a functional MEK-1 pathway is a prerequisite for rendering murine splenocytes unresponsive to TGF-b1 mediated growth inhibition, and that inhibition of the MEK-1 cascade alters the Smad2 phosphorylation pattern. In addition, we show that resistance to TGF-b1 mediated growth inhibition correlates with the activation of the JNK pathway. However, the resistant phenotype was found unable to be reverted upon administration of exogeneous IFNg and/or aCD28 antibody. In human or mouse T cell lines, however, the described correlation between the type of stimulation and TGF-b growth resistance or growth sensitivity is not present. Thus, this correlation is specific for primary T cells. We also cloned a chimeric dominantnegative TGF-b receptor which is coupled to a suicide gene, in order to render T cells resistant to TGF-b mediated effects.These findings shed light on how TGF-b1 mediates its immunosuppressive role, and may help to gain knowledge of averting these TGF-b1 effects in the course of tumor therapy.
Transforming growth factor-ß (TGF-ß) is a multifunctional cytokine that is engaged in regulating versatile cellular processes that are pivotal for development and homeostasis of most tissues in multicellular organisms. TGF-ß signal transduction is initially propagated by binding of TGF-ß to transmembrane serine/threonine kinase receptors, designated TßRI and TßRII. Upon activation, the receptors phosphorylate Smad proteins which serve as downstream mediators that enter the nucleus and finally trigger transcriptional responses of specific genes. During the past years, it became evident that signaling cascades do not proceed in a linear fashion but rather represent a complex network of numerous pathways that mutually influence each other. Along these lines, members of the TGF-ß superfamily are attributed to synergize with neurotrophins. Together, they mediate neurotrophic effects in different populations of the nervous system, suggesting that an interdependence exists between TGF-ßs on the one hand and neurotrophins on the other. In the present work, the crosstalk of NGF and TGF-ß/Smad signaling pathways is characterized in rat pheochromocytoma cells (PC12) which are frequently used as a model system for neuronal differentiation. PC12 cells were found to be unresponsive to TGF-ß due to limiting levels of TßRII. However, stimulation with NGF results in initiation of Smad-mediated transcription independent of TGF-ß. Binding of NGF to functional TrkA receptors triggers activation of Smad3. This NGF-dependent Smad activation occurs by a mechanism which is different from being induced by TGF-ß receptors in that it provokes a different phosphorylation pattern of R-Smads. Together with an inferior role of TßRI, Smad3 is proposed to serve as a substrate for cellular kinases other than TßRI. Based on the presented involvement of components of both, the MAPK/Erk and the TAK1/MKK6 cascade, signal mediators of these pathways rank as candidates to mediate direct activation of Smad3. Smad3 is subsequently translocated to the nucleus and activates transcription in a Smad4-dependent manner. Negative regulation is provided by Smad7 which was found to act as a potent inhibitor of Smad signaling not only in TGF-ß- but also in NGF-mediated cascades. The potential of NGF to activate the Smad pathway independent of TGF-ß might be of special importance in regulating expression of genes that are essential for the development and function of neuronal cells or of other NGF-sensitive cells, in particular those which are TGF-ß-resistant.
Characterization of memories and ignorant (S6KII) mutants in operant conditioning in the heat-box
(2002)
Learning and memory processes of operant conditioning in the heat-box were analysed. Age, sex, and larval desity were not critical parameters influencing memory, while low or high activity levels of flies were negatively correlated with their performance. In a search for conditioning parameters leading to high retention scores, intermittent training was shown to give better results than continuous training. As the memory test is the immediate continuation of the conditioning phase just omitting reinforcement, we obtain a memory which consists of two components: a spatial preference for one side of the chamber and a stay-where-you-are effect in which the side preference is contaminated by the persistence of heat avoidance. Intermittent training strengthens the latter. In the next part, memory retention was investigated. Flies were trained in one chamber and tested in a second one after a brief reminder training. With this direct transfer, memory scores reflect an associative learning process in the first chamber. To investigate memory retention after extended time periods, indirect transfer experiments were performed. The fly was transferred to a different environment between training and test phases. With this procedure an after-effect of the training was still observed two hours later. Surprisingly, exposure to the chamber without conditioning also lead to a memory effect in the indirect transfer experiment. This exposure effect revealed a dispositional change that facilitates operant learning during the reminder training. The various memory effects are independent of the mushroom bodies. The transfer experiments and yoked controls proved that the heat-box records an associative memory. Even two hours after the operant conditioning procedure, the fly remembers that its position in the chamber controls temperature. The cAMP signaling cascade is involved in heat-box learning. Thus, amnesiac, rutabaga, and dunce mutants have an impaired learning / memory. Searching for, yet unknown, genes and signaling cascades involved in operant conditioning, a Drosophila melanogaster mutant screen with 1221 viable X-chromosome P-element lines was performed. 29 lines with consistently reduced heat avoidance/ learning or memory scores were isolated. Among those, three lines have the p[lacW] located in the amnesiac ORF, confirming that with the chosen candidate criteria the heat-box is a useful tool to screen for learning and /or memory mutants. The mutant line ignP1 (8522), which is defective in the gene encoding p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (S6KII), was investigated. The P-insertion of line ignP1 is the first Drosophila mutation in the ignorant (S6KII) gene. It has the transposon inserted in the first exon. Mutant males are characterized by low training performance, while females perform well in the standard experiment. Several deletion mutants of the ignorant gene have been generated. In precise jumpouts the phenotype was reverted. Imprecise jumpouts with a partial loss of the coding region were defective in operant conditioning. Surprisingly, null mutants showed wild-type behavior. This might indicate an indirect effect of the mutated ignorant gene on learning processes. In classical odor avoidance conditioning, ignorant null mutants showed a defect in the 3-min, 30-min, and 3-hr memory, while the precise jumpout of the transposon resulted in a reversion of the behavioral phenotype. Deviating results from operant and classical conditioning indicate different roles for S6KII in the two types of learning.
The hematopoietic-specific Rho-family GTP exchange factor (GEF) Vav-1 is a regulator of lymphocyte antigen receptor signaling and mediates normal maturation and activation of B and T cells. Recent findings suggest that Vav-1 also forms part of signaling pathways required for natural and antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) of human NK cells. In this study, I show that Vav-1 is also expressed in murine NK cells. Vav-1-/- mice had normal numbers of splenic NK cells, and these displayed a similar expression profile of NK cell receptors as cells from wild type mice. Unexpectedly, IL-2-activated Vav-1-/- NK cells retained normal ADCC. Fc-receptor mediated activation of ERK, JNK, and p38 was also normal. In contrast, Vav-1-/- NK cells exhibited reduced natural cytotoxicity against EL4, C4.4.25, RMA and RMA/S. Together, these results demonstrate that Vav-1 is dispensable for mainstream NK cell development, but is required for NK cell natural cytotoxicity. Vav-2, a protein homologous to Vav-1 has also been implicated in NK cell functions. However, NK cells from Vav-2-/- mice have normal cytotoxic activities and NK cells that lack both Vav-1 and Vav-2 exhibit similar defect as Vav-1-/- cells. Thus Vav-2 has no apparent function in the development and the activation of NK cells. Although NK cell development is normal in Vav-1-/- mice, their numbers of NKT cells were dramatically diminished. Furthermore, NKT cells from Vav-1 mutant mice failed to produce IL-4 and IFNg following in vivo CD3 stimulation. A similar loss of NKT cells was observed in Vav-1-/-Vav-2-/- mice, but not in Vav-2-/- mice, suggesting that only Vav-1, and not Vav-2, is an essential regulator of NKT cell development and NK cell cytotoxicity. Similar to Vav-1, Lsc is a Rho GEF that is expressed specifically in the hematopoietic system. It contains a regulator of G-protein signaling (RGS) domain which negatively regulates the Ga12 and Ga13 subunits of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). This study shows that NK and NKT cell development are normal in Lsc-/- mice. However, NK cells from mutant mice display enhanced cytotoxic responses towards a panel of tumor cells. These data implicate for the first time a RGS-containing Rho GEF in cytotoxic responses and suggest that Lsc down-modulate NK cell activation.
OMB and ORG-1
(2002)
Members of the T-box gene family encode transcription factors that play key roles during embryonic development and organogenesis of invertebrates and vertebrates. The defining feature of T-box proteins is an about 200 aa large, conserved DNA binding motif, the T domain. Their importance for proper development is highlighted by the dramatic phenotypes of T-box mutant animals. My thesis was mainly focused on two Drosophila T-box genes, optomotor-blind (omb) and optomotor-blind related 1 (org-1), and included (i) a genetic analysis of org-1 and (ii) the identification of molecular determinants within OMB and ORG-1 that confer functional specificity. (i) Genetic analysis of org-1 initially based on a behavioral Drosophila mutant, C31. C31 is a X-linked, recessive mutant and was mapped to 7E-F, the cytological region of org-1. This pleiotropic mutant is manifested in walking defects, structural aberrations in the central brain, and "held-out" wings. Molecular analysis revealed that C31 contains an insertion of a 5' truncated I retrotransposon within the 3' untranslated transcript of org-1, suggesting that C31 might represent the first org-1 mutant. Based on this hypothesis, we screened 44.500 F1 female offspring of EMS mutagenized males and C31 females for the "held-out" phenotype, but failed to isolate any C31 or org-1 mutant, although this mutagenesis was functional per se. Since we could not exclude the possibility that our failure is due to an idiosyncracy of C31, we intended not to rely on C31 in further genetic experiments and followed a reverse genetic strategy . All P element lines cytologically mapping to 7E-7F were characterized for their precise insertion sites. 13 of the 19 analyzed lines had P element insertions within a hot-spot 37 kb downstream of org-1. No P element insertions within org-1 could be identified, but several P element insertions were determined on either side of org-1. The org-1 nearest insertions were used for local-hop experiments, in which we associated 6 new genes with P insertions, but failed to target org-1. The closest P elements are still 10 kb away from org-1. Subsequently, we employed org-1 flanking P elements to induce precise deletions in 7E-F spanning org-1. Two org-1 flanking P elements were brought together on a recombinant chromosome. Remobilization of P elements in cis configuration frequently results in deletions with the P element insertion sites as deficiency endpoints. In a first attempt, we expected to identify deficiencies by screening for C31 alleles. 8 new C31 alleles could be isolated. The new C31 chromosomes, however, did not carry the desired deletion. Molecular analysis indicated that C31 is not caused by aberrations in org-1, but by mutations in a distal locus. We repeated the P element remobilization and screened for the absence of P element markers. 4 lethal chromosomes could be isolated with a deletion of the org-1 locus. (ii) The consequences of ectopic org-1 were analyzed using UAS-org-1 transgenic flies and a number of different Gal4 driver lines. Misexpression of org-1 during imaginal development interfered with the normal development of many organs and resulted in flies with a plethora of phenotypes. These include a homeotic transformation of distal antenna (flagellum) into distal leg structures, a strong size reduction of the legs along their proximo-distal axis, and stunted wings. Like ectopic org-1, ectopic omb leads to dramatic changes of normal developmental pathways in Drosophila as well. dpp-Gal4/ UAS-omb flies are late pupal lethal and show an ectopic pair of wings and largely reduced eyes. GMR-Gal4 driven ectopic omb expression in the developing eye causes a degeneration of the photoreceptor cells, while GMR-Gal4/ UAS-org-1 flies have intact eyes. Hence, ectopic org-1 and omb induce profound phenotypes that are qualitatively different for these homologous genes. To begin to address the question where within OMB and ORG-1 the specificity determinants reside, we conceptionally subdivided both proteins into three domains and tested the relevance ofthese domains for functional specificity in vivo. The single domains were cloned and used as modules to assemble all possible omb-org-1 chimeric trans- genes. A method was developed to determine the relative expression strength of different UAS-transgenes, allowing to compare the various transgenic constructs for qualitative differences only, excluding different transgene quantities. Analysis of chimeric omb-org-1 transgenes with the GMR-Gal4 driver revealed that all three OMB domains contribute to functional specificity.
In this thesis, I examined honey bee nectar foraging with emphasis on the communication system. To document how a honey bee colony adjusts its daily nectar foraging effort, I observed a random sample of individually marked workers during the entire day, and then estimated the number and activity of all nectar foragers in the colony. The total number of active nectar foragers in a colony changed frequently between days. Foraging activity did not usually change between days. A honey bee colony adjusts its daily foraging effort by changing the number of its nectar foragers rather than their activity. I tested whether volatiles produced by a foraging colony activated nectar foragers of a non-foraging colony by connecting with a glass tube two colonies. Each colony had access to a different green house. In 50% of all experiments, volatile substances from the foraging colony stimulated nectar foragers of the non-foraging colony to fly to an empty feeder. The results of this study show that honey bees can produce a chemical signal or cue that activates nectar foragers. However, more experiments are needed to establish the significance of the activating volatiles for the foraging communication system. The brief piping signal of nectar foragers inhibits forager recruitment by stopping waggle dances (Nieh 1993, Kirchner 1993). However, I observed that many piping signals (approximately 43%) were produced off the dance floor, a restricted area in the hive where most waggle dances are performed. If the inhibition of waggle dances would be the only function of the brief piping signal, tremble dancers should produce piping signals mainly on the dance floor, where the probability to encounter waggle dancers is highest. To therefore investigate the piping signal in more detail, I experimentally established the foraging context of the brief piping signal, characterized its acoustic properties, and documented for the first time the unique behavior of piping nectar foragers by observing foragers throughout their entire stay in the hive. Piping nectar foragers usually began to tremble dance immediately upon their return into the hive, spent more time in the hive, more time dancing, had longer unloading latencies, and were the only foragers that sometimes unloaded their nectar directly into cells instead of giving it to a nectar receiver bee. Most of the brief piping signals (approximately 99%) were produced by tremble dancers, yet not all tremble dancers (approximately 48%) piped. This suggests that piping and tremble dancing have related, but not identical functions in the foraging system. Thus, the brief piping signals may not only inhibit forager recruitment, but have an additional function both on and off the dance floor. In particular, the piping signal might function 1. to stop the recruitment of additional nectar foragers, and 2. as a modulatory signal to alter the response threshold of signal receivers to the tremble dance. The observation that piping tremble dancers often did not experience long unloading delays before they started to dance gave rise to a question. A forager’s unloading delay provides reliable information about the relative work capacities of nectar foragers and nectar receivers, because each returning forager unloads her nectar to a nectar receiver before she takes off for the next foraging trip. Queuing delays for either foragers or receivers lower foraging efficiency and can be eliminated by recruiting workers to the group in shortage. Short unloading delays indicate to the nectar forager a shortage of foragers and stimulate waggle dancing which recruits nectar foragers. Long unloading delays indicate a shortage of nectar receivers and stimulate tremble dancing which recruits nectar receivers (Seeley 1992, Seeley et al. 1996). Because the short unloading delays of piping tremble dancers indicated that tremble dancing can be elicited by other factors than long unloading delays, I tested whether a hive-external stimulus, the density of foragers at the food source, stimulated tremble dancing directly. The experiments show that tremble dancing can be caused directly by a high density of foragers at the food source and suggest that tremble dancing can be elicited by a decrease of foraging efficiency either inside (e.g. shortage of receiver bees) or outside (e.g. difficulty of loading nectar) the hive. Tremble dancing as a reaction to hive-external stimuli seems to occur under natural conditions and can thus be expected to have some adaptive significance. The results imply that if the hive-external factors that elicit tremble dancing do not indicate a shortage of nectar receiver bees in the hive, the function of the tremble dance may not be restricted to the recruitment of additional nectar receivers, but might be the inhibition or re-organization of nectar foraging.
In the various groups of social bees, different systems of communication about food sources occur. These communication systems are different solutions to a common problem of social insects: efficiently allocating the necessary number of workers first to the task of foraging and second to the most profitable food sources. The solution chosen by each species depends on the particular ecological circumstances as well as the evolutionary history of that species. For example, the outstanding difference between the bumble bee and the honey bee system is that honey bees can communicate the location of profitable food sources to nestmates, which bumble bees cannot. To identify possible selection pressures that could explain this difference, I have quantified the benefits of communicating location in honey bees. I show that these strongly depend on the habitat, and that communicating location might not benefit bees in temperate habitats. This could be due to the differing spatial distributions of resources in different habitats, in particular between temperate and tropical regions. These distributions may be the reason why the mostly temperate-living bumble bees have never evolved a communication system that allows them to transfer information on location of food sources, whereas most tropical social bees (all honey bees and many stingless bees) are able to recruit nestmates to specific points in their foraging range. Nevertheless, I show that in bumble bees the allocation of workers to foraging is also regulated by communication. Successful foragers distribute in the nest a pheromone which alerts other bees to the presence of food. This pheromone stems from a tergite gland, the function of which had not been identified previously. Usage of a pheromone in the nest to alert other individuals to forage has not been described in other social insects, and might constitute a new mode of communicating about food sources. The signal might be modulated depending on the quality of the food source. Bees in the nest sample the nectar that has been brought into the nest. Their decision whether to go out and forage depends not only on the pheromone signal, but also on the quality of the nectar they have sampled. In this way, foraging activity of a bumble bee colony is adjusted to foraging conditions, which means most bees are allocated to foraging only if high-quality food sources are available. In addition, foraging activity is adjusted to the amount of food already stored. In a colony with full honeypots, no new bees are allocated to foraging. These results help us understand how the allocation of workers to the task of food collection is regulated according to external and internal nest conditions in bumble bees.
Clinical evaluation of novel methods to determine dialysis parameters using conductivity cells
(2002)
Eine die letzten beiden Jahrzehnte anhaltende Diskussion über die erforderliche Dosis Dialyse, die ein Patient benötigt, ergab, daß der Harnstoff-basierte Kt/V-Wert signifikant mit der Morbidität von ‚end stage renal deasease' (ESRD)- Patienten korreliert. Wenn auch nicht vollständig akzeptiert, so scheint es doch zunehmende Übereinkunft zwischen Nephrologen, daß eine angemessene Dialysebehandlung von Patienten ohne Restdiurese im Rahmen eines 3x4 Stunden pro Woche- Schemas mindestens einen Kt/V-Wert von 1.2 bis 1.3 ergeben sollte, um auf lange Sicht die Lebensqualität zu sichern und die Morbidität und Mortalität niedrig zu halten. K ist die vom Dialysesystem erbrachte Clearance, t die Behandlungszeit und V das Harnstoff-Verteilungsvolumen, welches dem Gesamt-Körperwasser nahezu gleicht. Kt/V wird in der Dosiseinheit (ml Medikament pro ml Körperwasser) ausgedrückt und daher auch häufig als Dialyse-‚Dosis' bezeichnet, auch wenn darüber wegen der Zusammenfassung in nur einer Harnstoff-korrelierten Zahl konträr diskutiert wird. Diese Arbeit besitzt eine eher technische Prämisse und möchte sich nicht an dieser Diskussion beteiligen. Sie möchte dem interessierten Nephrologen lediglich eine patientenfreundliche, präzise, kostenneutrale und leicht zu handhabende technische Lösung an die Hand geben, um kontinuierlich die in Kt/V ausgedrückte Dialysedosis zu überwachen. Natürlich ist damit auch die Hoffnung verbunden, daß die Langzeit-Sterblichkeit verringert werden kann, wenn eine flächendeckende, zeitnahe Erfolgskontrolle der Dialyse ermöglicht wird. Die gewählte technische Lösung basiert auf der Äquivalenz der Diffusionskoeffizienten von gelöstem Harnstoff und Natriumchlorid. Es ist das zentrale Anliegen dieser Studie, festzustellen, ob das Diffusionsverhalten von NaCl und Harnstoff beim Durchtritt durch die Membran des Dialysefilters gleich ist. Der entscheidende Vorteil, der das Verfahren so leicht handhabbar macht, besteht darin, daß NaCl-Konzentrationen sehr genau durch die ohnehin in großer Zahl in Dialysegeräten verwendeten Leitfähigkeitsmeßzellen bestimmt werden können. Um die NaCl-Massenbilanz über den Dialysefilter zu bestimmen, benötigt man lediglich eine weitere Meßzelle, die stromab des Filters zu installieren ist. Die Messung von Harnstoff, die indirekt über die enzymatische Zerlegung in Ammonium-Ionen und das anschließende Erzeugen eines hoch zu verstärkenden elektrischen Potentials an einer Membran geschieht, ist komplizierter. Zudem ist eine geschlossene Kühlkette für das Enzym sicher zu stellen. Um eine leitfähigkeitsbasierte technische Lösung abzusichern, wurden zwei klinische Studien durchgeführt. In der ersten Studie wurde die Leitfähigkeit in Form von konstanten Stufenprofilen variiert. Sie wurde ausgehend von der Grundlinie für 7 min erhöht und anschließend für 7 min erniedrigt. Das Prinzip einer solchen Messung wurde erstmals 1982 in einer Patentschrift beschrieben. In einer Sequenz von 494 solchen Messungen in 206 automatisch aufgezeichneten Dialysesitzungen an 22 Patienten wurde gefunden, daß sich die Harnstoff- Clearance elektrolytisch mit einer Genauigkeit von -1.46+/-4.75% (Fehler+/-Standardabweichung) messen ließ. Die Messung von Kt/V gemäß dem Ein-Kompartment-Modell ergab eine ähnliche Genauigkeit von 2.88+/-4.15%. Obgleich diese Ergebnisse in Übereinstimmung mit anderen Studien stehen, wurde ein Effekt bemerkt, der nicht in Einklang mit der zunächst bestehenden Theorie zu bringen war. Dieser Effekt besteht darin, daß die Genauigkeit der elektrolytischen Clearancemessung vom beim Patienten vorhandenen Harnstoff-Verteilungsvolumen abhängig war. Weiter war es nicht bedeutungslos, welchen Teil des dreiteiligen Stufenprofils man zur Auswertung heranzog: Den Grundlinie-Hoch- Übergang, den von der Grundlinie zum Niedrig-Nieveau oder den Hoch-Niedrig- Übergang. Dies deutete auf einen Mangel an theoretischem Verständnis hin. Eine genaue weitere Untersuchung führte zu dem Ergebnis, daß unerwünschter NaCl-Transfer vom und zum Patienten die Ursache für die Abhängigkeit vom Verteilungsvolumen war. Es wurde daraufhin die Theorie dahingehend erweitert, daß dieser Effekt korrekt und plausibel beschrieben werden konnte. Aus dieser Erweiterung ergab sich die neue Forderung, den NaCl-Transfer bei der Messung weitestgehend zu minimieren. Die Benutzung von Stufenprofilen stellte hier jedoch an sich eine Limitierung dar, da in der zum Einnehmen eines stabilen Zustandes erforderlichen Zeit zuviel NaCl über die Membran transferiert wurde. Die Konsequenz war, von den Stufenprofilen auf kurze, dynamische Leitfähigkeitsboli überzugehen, die erlaubten, die NaCl-Gabe auf das Maß zu verringern, welches aufgrund der technischen Auflösung erforderlich war. Hierzu mußten jedoch die notwendigen mathematischen Algorithmen neu zugeschnitten werden. Nach diesem Schritt wurde eine weitere klinische Studie gestartet, die den Zweck verfolgte, das neue Verfahren am Patienten zu verifizieren. In dieser Studie mit 10 Patienten und 93 Dialysesitzungen, 264 Stufenprofil- und 173 Bolus-Dialysancemesssungen wurde gefunden, daß die Bolus-Messungen ihre zugehörigen blutseitigen Referenzmessungen mit außergewöhnlicher Genauigkeit von 0.06+/-4.76% trafen. Student's t-Test für gepaarte Daten ergab, daß sich die Datensätze nicht signifikant unterschieden (p=0.87). Die blutseitige Kt/V-Referenz auf der Basis des equilibrierten Einkompartment-Modells mit variablem Volumen wurde mit 5.32+/-3.9% getroffen, wobei eine Korrelation von 0.98 erzielt wurde. Die verbleibende Differenz von 5.32% wird der Vernachlässigung der Harnstoff-Erzeugung während der Messung zugeschrieben. Auch das Stufenprofil zeigte trotz seiner Abhängigkeit vom Verteilungsvolumen gegenüber dem gleichen Modell einen mittleren Fehler von 0.05+/-5% bei einer Korrelation von 0.96. Jedoch konnte es die Vernachlässigung der Harnstoff-Erzeugung nicht korrekt abbilden. Die kontinuierlich aufgenommenen Daten wurden auch nach dem 2-pool Modell untersucht, welches auch die Harnstoff-Erzeugung enthält sowie eine innere Kompartimentierung des Patienten annimmt und damit die tatsächlichen Verhältnisse besser beschreibt. Danach weicht das Bolus-Meßprinzip -3.04+/-14.3% von der Referenz ab (n.s.,p=0.13). Die relativ hohe Standardabweichung wird mit der Komplexität des Modells erklärt. Weiter ist aus der Theorie zum Na-Transfer eine vereinfachende Methode zur Messung des Na-Verteilungsvolumens abgeleitet worden. Diese Methode wurde in-vitro gegen ein Behältnis mit einer bekannten Menge an Dialysat geprüft. Es wurde ein mittlerer Fehler von -19.9+/-34% gefunden. Die Korrelation war 0.92 (n.s., p=0.916). Die gleiche Prüfung fand in-vivo gegen das Harnstoff-Verteilungsvolumen statt und ergab einen mittleren Fehler von -7.4+/-23.2% (r=0.71, n.s., p=0.39). Es hat den Anschein, als würden sich gemäß der Theorie der Dilution die Verteilungsvolumina für Natrium und für Harnstoff scheinbar nur wenig unterscheiden, obwohl sie sich absolut natürlich deutlich unterscheiden. In Anbetracht der erheblichen Vereinfachungen, die bei der Ableitung dieses Ansatzes gemacht wurden, scheint es ausgesprochen ermutigend, auf diesem Weg möglicherweise ein Verfahren entwickeln zu können, welches auf rein elektrolytischem Wege nun nicht mehr nur K, sondern auch V und damit alle zur Quantifizierung gesuchten Größen analytisch ermitteln kann. Weiter wurde im Rahmen dieser Arbeit anhand der analytisch ermittelten Volumina verglichen, ob man mit Hilfe anthropometrischer Formeln zur Ermittlung des Harnstoff-Verteilungsvolumens zu einer guten Abschätzung kommen kann. Es wurde gefunden, daß man das Ergebnis der Watson-Formel um ca. 13% vermindern kann und dann zu einem recht guten Wert für das tatsächliche Harnstoff-Verteilungsvolumen gelangt. Dies ist jedoch mit Vorsicht und Erfahrung zu tun, da sich damit Kt/V rechnerisch zum Nachteil des Patienten verändert. Auch ein elektrolytisches Verfahren mit empirischen Komponenten zur Ermittlung des Plasma-Natriums des Patienten wurde erprobt und konnte mit einer Genauigkeit von 4.3+/-1.2% den Laborwert vorhersagen. Zusammenfassend kann gesagt werden, daß sich im Rahmen dieser Arbeit die leitfähigkeitsbasierten Methoden zur Messung von einigen wichtigen Dialyseparametern als sehr nützlich für die klinische Praxis erwiesen haben und zudem mit keinem Zusatzaufwand für die Beteiligten verbunden sind. Das Ergebnis dieser Arbeit ist mittlerweile in größeren Stückzahlen in frei erhältliche Dialysegeräte implementiert worden. Die Erfahrung der ersten Zeit zeigt, daß das verwendete Prinzip von den Klinikern gut angenommen wird.
Implications of Advanced Glycation Endproducts in Oxidative Stress and Neurodegenerative Disorders
(2001)
The reactions of reducing sugars with primary amino groups are the most common nonenzymatic modifications of proteins. Subsequent rearrangements, oxidations, and dehydrations yield a heterogeneous group of mostly colored and fluorescent compounds, termed "Maillard products" or advanced glycation end products (AGEs). AGE formation has been observed on long-lived proteins such as collagen, eye lens crystalline, and in pathological protein deposits in Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) and dialysis-related amyloidosis. AGE-modified proteins are also involved in the complications of diabetes. AGEs accumulate in the the ß-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) associated with AD and in the Lewy bodies characteristic of PD. Increasing evidence supports a role for oxidative stress in neurodegenerative disorders such as AD and PD. AGEs have been shown to contribute towards oxidative damage and chronic inflammation, whereby activated microglia secrete cytokines and free radicals, including nitric oxide (NO). Roles proposed for NO in the pathophysiology of the central nervous system are increasingly diverse and range from intercellular signaling, through necrosis of cells and invading pathogens, to the involvement of NO in apoptosis. Using in vitro experiments, it was shown that AGE-modified bovine serum albumin (BSA-AGE) and AGE-modified ß-amyloid, but not their unmodified proteins, induce NO production in N-11 murine microglia cells. This was mediated by the receptor for AGEs (RAGE) and upregulation of the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). AGE-induced enzyme activation and NO production could be blocked by intracellular-acting antioxidants: Ginkgo biloba special extract EGb 761, the estrogen derivative, 17ß-estradiol, R-(+)-thioctic acid, and a nitrone-based free radical trap, N-tert.-butyl-*-phenylnitrone (PBN). Methylglyoxal (MG) and 3-deoxyglucosone (3-DG), common precursors in the Maillard reaction, were also tested for their ability to induce the production of NO in N-11 microglia. However, no significant changes in nitrite levels were detected in the cell culture medium. The significance of these findings was supported by in vivo immunostaining of AD brains. Single and double immunostaining of cryostat sections of normal aged and AD brains was performed with polyclonal antibodies to AGEs and iNOS and monoclonal antibodies to Aß and PHF-1 (marker for NFT) and reactive microglia. In aged normal individuals as well as early stage AD brains (i.e. no pathological findings in isocortical areas), a few astrocytes showed co-localisation of AGE and iNOS in the upper neuronal layers of the temporal (Area 22) and entorhinal (Area 28, 34) cortices compared with no astrocytes detected in young controls. In late AD brains, there was a much denser accumulation of astrocytes co-localised with AGE and iNOS in the deeper and particularly upper neuronal layers. Also, numerous neurons with diffuse AGE but not iNOS reactivity and some AGE and iNOS-positive microglia were demonstrated, compared with only a few AGE-reactive neurons and no microglia in controls. Finally, astrocytes co-localised with AGE and iNOS as well as AGE and ß-amyloid were found surrounding mature but not diffuse ß-amyloid plaques in the AD brain. Parts of NFT were AGE-immunoreactive. Immunohistochemical staining of cryostat sections of normal aged and PD brains was performed with polyclonal antibodies to AGEs. The sections were counterstained with monoclonal antibodies to neurofilament components and a-synuclein. AGEs and a-synuclein were colocalized in very early Lewy bodies in the substantia nigra of cases with incidental Lewy body disease. These results support an AGE-induced oxidative damage due to the action of free radicals, such as NO, occurring in the AD and PD brains. Furthermore, the involvement of astrocytes and microglia in this pathological process was confirmed immunohistochemically in the AD brain. It is suggested that oxidative stress and AGEs participate in the very early steps of Lewy body formation and resulting cell death in PD. Since the iNOS gene can be regulated by redox-sensitive transcription factors, the use of membrane permeable antioxidants could be a promising strategy for the treatment and prevention of chronic inflammation in neurodegenerative disorders.
The social organization of insect colonies has long fascinated naturalists. One of the main features of colony organization is division of labor, whereby each member of the colony specializes in a subset of all tasks required for successful group functioning. The most striking aspect of division of labor is its plasticity: workers switch between tasks in response to external challenges and internal perturbations. The mechanisms underlying flexible division of labor are far from being understood. In order to comprehend how the behavior of individuals gives rise to flexible collective behavior, several questions need to be addressed: We need to know how individuals acquire information about their colony's current demand situation; how they then adjust their behavior according; and which mechanisms integrate dozens or thousands of insect into a higher-order unit. With these questions in mind I have examined two examples of collective and flexible behavior in social bees. First, I addressed the question how a honey bee colony controls its pollen collection. Pollen foraging in honey bees is precisely organized and carefully regulated according to the colony's needs. How this is achieved is unclear. I investigated how foragers acquire information about their colony's pollen need and how they then adjust their behavior. A detailed documentation of pollen foragers in the hive under different pollen need conditions revealed that individual foragers modulate their in-hive working tempo according to the actual pollen need of the colony: Pollen foragers slowed down and stayed in the hive longer when pollen need was low and spent less time in the hive between foraging trips when pollen need of their colony was high. The number of cells inspected before foragers unloaded their pollen load did not change and thus presumably did not serve as cue to pollen need. In contrast, the trophallactic experience of pollen foragers changed with pollen need conditions: trophallactic contacts were shorter when pollen need was high and the number and probability of having short trophallactic contacts increased when pollen need increased. Thus, my results have provided support for the hypothesis that trophallactic experience is one of the various information pathways used by pollen foragers to assess their colony's pollen need. The second example of collective behavior I have examined in this thesis is the control of nest climate in bumble bee colonies, a system differing from pollen collection in honey bees in that information about task need (nest climate parameters) is directly available to all workers. I have shown that an increase in CO2 concentration and temperature level elicits a fanning response whereas an increase in relative humidity does not. The fanning response to temperature and CO2 was graded; the number of fanning bees increased with stimulus intensity. Thus, my study has evidenced flexible colony level control of temperature and CO2. Further, I have shown that the proportion of total work force a colony invests into nest ventilation does not change with colony size. However, the dynamic of the colony response changes: larger colonies show a faster response to perturbations of their colony environment than smaller colonies. Thus, my study has revealed a size-dependent change in the flexible colony behavior underlying homeostasis. I have shown that the colony response to perturbations in nest climate is constituted by workers who differ in responsiveness. Following a brief review of current ideas and models of self-organization and response thresholds in insect colonies, I have presented the first detailed investigation of interindividual variability in the responsiveness of all workers involved in a collective behavior. My study has revealed that bumble bee workers evidence consistent responses to certain stimulus levels and differ in their response thresholds. Some consistently respond to low stimulus intensities, others consistently respond to high stimulus intensities. Workers are stimulus specialists rather than task specialists. Further, I have demonstrated that workers of a colony differ in two other parameters of responsiveness: response probability and fanning activity. Response threshold, response probability and fanning activity are independent parameters of individual behavior. Besides demonstrating and quantifying interindividual variability, my study has provided empirical support for the idea of specialization through reinforcement. Response thresholds of fanning bees decreased over successive trials. I have discussed the importance of interindividual variability for specialization and the collective control of nest climate and present a general discussion of self-organization and selection. This study contributes to our understanding of individual behavior and collective structure in social insects. A fascinating picture of social organization is beginning to emerge. In place of centralized systems of communication and information transmission, insect societies frequently employ mechanisms based upon self-organization. Self-organization promises to be an important and unifying principle in physical, chemical and biological systems.
The Gram-negative, spiral-shaped, microaerophilic bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the causative agent of various disorders of the upper gastrointestinal tract, such as chronic superficial gastritis, chronic active gastritis, peptic ulceration and adenocarcinoma. Although many of the bacterial factors associated with disease development have been analysed in some detail in the recent years, very few studies have focused so far on the mechanisms that regulate expression of these factors at the molecular level. In an attempt to obtain an overview of the basic mechanisms of virulence gene expression in H. pylori, three important virulence factors of this pathogen, representative of different pathogenic mechanisms and different phases of the infectious process, are investigated in detail in the present thesis regarding their transcriptional regulation. As an essential factor for the early phase of infection, including the colonisation of the gastric mucosa, the flagella are analysed; the chaperones including the putative adhesion factors GroEL and DnaK are investigated as representatives of the phase of adherence to the gastric epithelium and persistence in the mucus layer; and finally the cytotoxin associated antigen CagA is analysed as representative of the cag pathogenicity island, which is supposed to account for the phenomena of chronic inflammation and tissue damage observed in the later phases of infection. RNA analyses and in vitro transcription demonstrate that a single promoter regulates expression of cagA, while two promoters are responsible for expression of the upstream divergently transcribed cagB gene. All three promoters are shown to be recognised by RNA polymerase containing the vegetative sigma factor sigma 80. Promoter deletion analyses establish that full activation of the cagA promoter requires sequences up to -70 and binding of the C-terminal portion of the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase to an UP-like element located between -40 and -60, while full activation of the major cagB promoter requires sequences upstream of -96 which overlap with the cagA promoter. These data suggest that the promoters of the pathogenicity island represent a class of minimum promoters, that ensure a basic level of transcription, while full activation requires regulatory elements or structural DNA binding proteins that provide a suitable DNA context. Regarding flagellar biosynthesis, a master transcriptional factor is identified that regulates expression of a series of flagellar basal body and hook genes in concert with the alternative sigma factor sigma 54. Evidence is provided that this regulator, designated FlgR (for flagellar regulatory protein), is necessary for motility and transcription of five promoters for seven basal body and hook genes. In addition, FlgR is shown to act as a repressor of transcription of the sigma 28-regulated promoter of the flaA gene, while changes in DNA topology are shown to affect transcription of the sigma 54-regulated flaB promoter. These data indicate that the regulatory network that governs flagellar gene expression in H. pylori shows similarities to the systems of both Salmonella spp. and Caulobacter crescentus. In contrast to the flagellar genes which are regulated by three different sigma factors, the three operons encoding the major chaperones of H. pylori are shown to be transcribed by RNA polymerase containing the vegetative sigma factor sigma 80. Expression of these operons is shown to be regulated negatively by the transcriptional repressor HspR, a homologue of a repressor protein of Streptomyces spp., known to be involved in negative regulation of heat shock genes. In vitro studies with purified recombinant HspR establish that the protein represses transcription by binding to large DNA regions centered around the transcription initiation site in the case of one promoter, and around -85 and -120 in the case of the the other two promoters. In contrast to the situation in Streptomyces, where transcription of HspR-regulated genes is induced in response to heat shock, transcription of the HspR-dependent genes in H. pylori is not inducible with thermal stimuli. Transcription of two of the three chaperone encoding operons is induced by osmotic shock, while transcription of the third operon, although HspR-dependent, is not affected by salt treatment. Taken together, the analyses carried out indicate that H. pylori has reduced its repertoire of specific regulatory proteins to a basic level that may ensure coordinate regulation of those factors that are necessary during the initial phase of infection including the passage through the gastric lumen and the colonisation of the gastric mucosa. The importance of DNA topology and/or context for transcription of many virulence gene promoters may on the other hand indicate, that a sophisticated global regulatory network is present in H. pylori, which influences transcription of specific subsets of virulence genes in response to changes in the microenvironment.
Pollinating insects exhibit a complex behavior while foraging for nectar and pollen. Many studies have focused on ultimate mechanisms of this behavior, however, the sensory-perceptual processes that constrain such behavior have rarely been considered. In the present study I used bumblebees (Bombus terrestris), an important pollinating insect, to investigate possible sensory constraints on foraging behavior. Additionally, I survey inter-individual variation in the sensory capabilities and behavior of bumblebees caused by the pronounced size polymorphism among members of a single colony. In the first chapter I have focused on the sensory-perceptual processes that constrain the search for flowers. I measured search time for artificial flowers of various sizes and colors, a key variable defining the value of a prey type in optimal foraging theory. When flowers were large, search times correlate well with the color contrast of the targets with their green foliage-type background, as predicted by a model of color opponent coding using inputs from the bee's UV, blue, and green receptors. Targets which made poor color contrast with their backdrop, such as white, UV-reflecting ones, or red flowers, take longest to detect, even though brightness contrast with the background is pronounced. When searching for small targets, bumblebees change their strategy in several ways. They fly significantly slower and closer to the ground, so increasing the minimum detectable area subtended by an object on the ground. In addition they use a different neuronal channel for flower detection: instead of color contrast, they now employ only the green receptor signal for detection. I related these findings to temporal and spatial limitations of different neuronal channels involved in stimulus detection and recognition. Bumblebees do not only possess species-specific sensory capacities but they also exhibit inter-individual differences due to size. Therefore, in the next two chapters I have examined size-related effects on the visual and olfactory system of Bombus terrestris. Chapter two deals with the effect of scaling on eye architecture and spatial resolving power of workers. Foraging efficiency in bees is strongly affected by proficiency of detecting flowers. Both floral display size and bee spatial vision limit flower detection. In chapter one I have shown that search times for flowers strongly increases with decreasing floral display size. The second factor, bee spatial vision, is mainly limited by two properties of compound eyes: (a) the interommatidial angle Çå and (b) the ommatidial acceptance angle Çá. When a pollinator strives to increase the resolving power of its eyes, it is forced to increase both features simultaneously. Bumblebees show a large variation in body size. I found that larger workers with larger eyes possess more ommatidia and larger facet diameters. Large workers with twice the size of small workers (thorax width) have about 50 per cent more ommatidia, and a 1.5 fold enlarged facet diameter. In a behavioral test, large and small workers were trained to detect the presence of a colored stimulus in a Y-maze apparatus. The stimulus was associated with a sucrose reward and was presented in one arm, the other arm contained neither stimulus nor reward. The minimum visual angle a bee is able to detect was estimated by testing the bee at different stimuli sizes subtending angles between 30° and 3° on the bee’s eye. Minimum visual detection angles range from 3.4° to 7.0° among tested workers. Larger bumblebees are able to detect objects subtending smaller visual angles, i.e. they are able to detect smaller objects than their small conspecifics. Thus morphological and behavioral findings indicate an improved visual system in larger bees. Beside vision, olfaction is the most important sensory modality while foraging in bees. Bumblebees utilize species-specific odors for detecting and identifying nectar and pollen rich flowers. In chapter three I have investigated the olfactory system of Bombus terrestris and the effect of scaling on antennal olfactory sensilla and the first olfactory neuropil in the bumblebee brain, the antennal lobes. I found that the pronounced size polymorphism exhibited by bumblebees also effects their olfactory system. Sensilla number (I measured the most common olfactory sensilla type, s. placodea), sensilla density, volume of antennal lobe neuropil and volume of single identified glomeruli correlate significantly with worker’s size. The enlarged volume of the first olfactory neuropil in large individuals is caused by an increase in glomeruli volume and coarse neuropil volume. Additionally, beside an overall increase of brain volume with scaling I found that the olfactory neuropil increases disproportionately compared to a higher order neuropil, the central body. The data predict a higher odor sensitivity in larger bumblebee workers. In the last chapter I have addressed the question if scaling alters foraging behavior and rate in freely foraging bumblebees. I observed two freely foraging B. terrestris colonies and measured i) trip number, ii) trip time, iii) proportion of nectar trips, and iv) nectar foraging rate of different sized foragers. In all observation periods large foragers exhibit a significantly higher foraging rate than small foragers. None of the other three foraging parameters is affected by workers’ size. Thus, large foragers contribute disproportionately more to the current nectar influx of their colony. To summarize, this study shows that understanding the mechanisms of visual information processing and additionally comprising inter-individual differences of sensory capabilities is crucial to interpret foraging behavior of bees.
This study investigates the foraging behaviour of grass-cutting ants, Atta vollenweideri, with specific consideration of the following issues: (a) cutting behaviour and the determination of fragment size, (b) the effect of load size on transport economics, (c) division of labour and task-partitioning. Grass-cutting ants, Atta vollenweideri, harvest grass fragments that serve as substrate for the cultivation of a symbiotic fungus. Foragers were observed to cut grass fragments across the blade, thus resulting in longish, rectangular-shaped fragments in contrast to the semicircular fragments of leaf-cutting ants. Cutting was very time-consuming: In tough grasses like the typical grassland species Paspallum intermedium and Cyperus entrerrianus, cutting times lasted up to more than 20 minutes per fragment and roughly half of all initiated cutting attempts were given up by the ants. Foragers harvesting the softer grass Leersia hexandra were smaller than those foraging on the hard grasses. Fragment size determination and the extent of size-matching between ant body size and fragment size was investigated regarding possible effects of tissue toughness on decision-making and as a function of the distance from the nest. Tissue toughness affected decision-making such that fragment width correlated with ant body mass for the hard grass but not for the soft one, suggesting that when cutting is difficult, larger ants tend to select wider grasses to initiate cutting. The length of the fragments cut out of the two grass species differed statistically, but showed a large overlap in their distribution. Distance from the nest affected load size as well as the extent of size-matching: Fragments collected directly after cutting were significantly larger than those carried on the trail. This indicates that fragments were cut once again on their way to the nest. Size-matching depended on the trail sector considered, and was stronger in ants sampled closer to the nest, suggesting that carriers either cut fragments in sizes corresponding to their body mass prior transport, or transferred them to nestmates of different size after a short carrying distance. During transport, a worker takes a fragment with its mandibles at one end and carries it in a more or less vertical position. Thus, load length might particularly affect maneuverability, because of the marked displacement of the gravitational center. Conversely, based on the energetic of cutting, workers might maximise their individual harvesting rate by cutting long grass fragments, since the longer a grass fragment, the larger is the amount of material harvested per unit cutting effort. I therefore investigated the economics of load transport by focusing on the effects of load size (mass and length) on gross material transport rate to the nest. When controlling for fragment mass, both running speed of foragers and gross material transport rate was observed to be higher for short fragments. In contrast, if fragment mass was doubled and length maintained, running speed differed according to the mass of the loads, with the heavier fragments being transported at the lower pace. For the sizes tested, heavy fragments yielded a higher transport rate in spite of the lower speed of transport, as they did not slow down foragers so much that it counterbalanced the positive effects of fragment mass on material transport rate. The sizes of the fragments cut by grass-cutting ants under natural conditions therefore may represent the outcome of an evolutionary trade-off between maximising harvesting rate at the cutting site and minimising the effects of fragment size on material transport rates. I investigated division of labour and task partitioning during foraging by recording the behaviour of marked ants while cutting, and by monitoring the transport of fragments from the cutting until they reached the nest. A. vollenweideri foragers showed division of labour between cutting and carrying, with larger workers cutting the fragments, and smaller ones transporting them. This division was absent for food sources very close to the nest, when no physical trail was present. Along the trail, the transport of fragment was a partitioned task, i.e., workers formed bucket brigades composed of 2 to 5 carriers. This sequential load transport occurred more often on long than on short trails. The first carriers of a bucket brigade covered only short distances before dropping their fragments, turned back and continued foraging at the same food source. The last carriers covered the longest distance. There was no particular location on the trail for load dropping , i.e., fragments were not cached. I tested the predictions of two hypotheses about the causes of bucket brigades: First, bucket brigades might occur because of load-carriage effects: A load that is too big for an ant to be carried is dropped and carried further by nestmates. Second, fragments carried by bucket brigades might reach the nest quicker than if they are transported by a single carrier. Third, bucket brigades might enhance information flow among foragers: By transferring the load a worker may return earlier back to the foraging site and be able to reinforce the chemical trail, thus recruitment. In addition, the dropped fragment itself may contain information for unladen foragers about currently harvested sources and may enable them to choose between sources of different quality. I investigated load-carriage effects and possible time-saving by presenting ants with fragments of different but defined sizes. Load size did not affect frequency of load dropping nor the distance the first carrier covered before dropping, and transport time by bucket brigades was significantly longer than by single carriers. In order to study the information transfer hypothesis, I presented ants with fragments of different attractivity but constant size. Ants carrying high-quality fragments would be expected to drop them more often than workers transporting low-quality fragments, thus increasing the frequency of bucket brigades. My results show that increasing load quality increased the frequency of bucket brigades as well as it decreased the carrying distance of the first carrier. In other words, more attractive loads were dropped more frequently and after a shorter distance than less attractive ones with the first carriers returning to the foraging site to continue foraging. Summing up, neither load-carriage effects nor time-saving caused the occurrence of bucket brigades. Rather, the benefit might be found at colony level in an enhanced information flow.
Division of reproductive labour in societies represents a topic of interest in evolutionary biology at least since Darwin. The puzzle of how helpers can be selected for, in spite of their reduced fertility has found an explanation in the kin selection theory: workers can overcome the cost of helping and of forgiving direct reproduction by rearing sufficiently related individuals. However, in the Hymenoptera, little is known on the proximate mechanisms that regulate the division of labour in colonies. Our knowledge is based on several "primitive" ants from the subfamily Ponerinae and two highly eusocial Hymenoptera species. In the former, the dominance hierarchies allowing for the establishment of individuals as reproductives are well understood. In contrast, the pheromonal mechanisms that help maintain their reproductive status are not understood. Similarly in "higher" ants, pheromonal regulation mechanisms of worker reproduction by queens remain largely unknown. The aim of this study is to determine the modalities of production, distribution and action, as well as the identity of the queen pheromones affecting worker reproduction in the ant Myrmecia gulosa. This species belongs to the poorly studied subfamily Myrmeciinae, which is endemic to the Australian region. The subfamily represents, together with the Ponerinae, the most "primitive" ants: their morphology is close to that of the hypothetical ancestor of ants, and the specialisation of queens is weaker than that of "higher" ants. Simple regulation mechanisms were therefore expected to facilitate the investigation. The first step in this study was to characterise the morphological specialisation of queens and workers, and to determine the differences in reproductive potential associated with this specialisation. This study contributes to our understanding of the link between regulation of division of reproductive labour and social complexity. Furthermore, it will help shed light on the reproductive biology in the poorly known subfamily Myrmeciinae. Queens were recognised by workers on the basis of cuticular as well as gland extracts or products. What is the exact function of the multiple pheromones identified and how they interact remains to be determined. This could help understand why queen "signal" in a "primitive" ant with weakly specialised queens such as M. gulosa appears to be as complex as in highly eusocial species. Primer pheromones act on workers? physiology and have long-term effect. Whether workers of M. gulosa reproduce or not is determined by the detection of a queen pheromone of this type. Direct physical contact with the queen is necessary for workers to detect this pheromone. Thus, the colony size of M. gulosa is compatible with a simple system of pheromone perception by workers based on direct physical contact with the queen. When prevented from establishing physical contact with their queen, some workers start to reproduce and are policed by nestmates. The low volatility of the cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs), their repartition over the entire cuticle and the existence of queen and worker specific CHC profiles suggest that these chemicals constitute a queen pheromone. Importance of HC versus non-HC compounds was confirmed by bioassaying purified fraction of both classes of chemicals. This study demonstrates for the first time that purified HCs indeed are at the basis of the recognition of reproductive status. This supports the idea that they are also at the basis of the recognition of queens by their workers. As CHCs profiles of workers and queens become similar with acquisition of reproductive status, they represent honest fertility markers. These markers could be used as signals of the presence of reproductives in the colonies, and represent the basis of the regulation of division of reproductive labour.
A significant relatedness is of fundamental importance for the evolution and maintenance of social life (kin selection theory, Hamilton 1964a,b). Not only kin selection itself, but also more complex evolutionary theories make predictions on the occurrence of conflict and co-operation in animal societies. They all depend on the genetic relationships among individuals. Therefore, the study of unrelated, co-operating individuals provides a unique opportunity to critically test predictions based on these evolutionary theories. Using allozyme electrophoresis, the study species Pachycondyla villosa was found to represent three different species. Young queens in one of these species, provisionally called Pachycondyla cf. inversa, may co-operate during colony founding (pleometrosis). Approximately 50 per cent of all founding colonies collected near Itabuna, Brazil, consisted of two to five founding queens. Queens of P. cf. inversa have to forage for food (semi-claustral founding), and in founding associations only one queen specialised for this risky task. A microsatellite study showed that nestmate queens were typically not related. How can a division of labour be achieved, where one individual performs risky tasks to the favour of another individual to which it is not related? In contrast to the predictions made by group selectionists, this study provided clear evidence that the division of labour among co-foundresses of P. cf. inversa results from social competition: Co-foundresses displayed aggressive interactions and formed dominance hierarchies which predominantly served to force subordinates to forage. The frequency of queen antagonism increased with the duration since food was last added to the foraging arena. The social status was not, or only weakly associated with the reproductive status: As predicted by the reproductive skew theory, all foundresses laid eggs at similar rates, though the subordinate may be harassed during egg laying and occasionally, some of her eggs may be eaten by the dominant. The differential oophagy presumably was also reflected in a microsatellite study of foundress associations, which was conducted shortly after the first workers emerged: Here, the co-foundresses occasionally contributed unequally to the colony’s workers. Conflicts among workers or between workers and queens, e.g. over the division of labour or sex ratio, strongly depend on the genetic relationships among members of a colony. The number of two to five co-founding queens in polygynous colonies of P. cf. inversa, and the lack of relatedness among them, should lead to a decrease in the relatedness of workers. However, nestmate workers were closely related. Furthermore, worker relatedness may decrease as several queens were found to be multiply inseminated. Inbreeding coefficients were significantly different from zero in both queens and workers. No evidence for a geographical substructuring of the population was found. The deviation from random mating presumably was probably due to small, localised nuptial flights. Virgin queens do not mate near their natal nest and disperse before founding colonies. The analysis of cuticular hydrocarbons obtained from live queens revealed consistent differences between the patterns of cuticular hydrocarbons of queens with high vs. low rank: only high-ranking queens showed considerable amounts of cuticular pentadecane (n-C15) and heptadecene (n-C17:1). The presence of the two substances apparently was not associated with reproductive status. It is not yet known, if the two substances indeed serve to communicate high social status in P. cf. inversa. In experimentally assembled associations of two founding queens, queens engaged in aggressive interactions which already within one to twenty minutes resulted in stable dominance hierarchies. The queens attacking first usually won the contest and became dominant. Nest ownership at least for a couple of days did not influence the outcome of dominance interactions in the laboratory experiments, whereas queen body size apparently played an important role: In all eight trials, the larger queen became dominant. However, dominant queens from natural foundress associations were on average not larger than subordinates, suggesting that in the field, resident asymmetries might override size asymmetries only after a more prolonged period of nest ownership. Sequencing of the COI/COII region of mitochondrial DNA displayed sufficient variability for the study of the sociogenetic structure of the secondarily polygynous ant Pachycondyla obscuricornis: Six different haplotypes could be distinguished among six workers of different colonies from one study population in Costa Rica. The variability of other methods which were established (RFLPs, microsatellites, allozymes, and multilocus DNA fingerprinting) was too low for a further study on the genetic structure in P. obscuricornis.
In the present study, a new gene cluster of Listeria monocytogenes EGD containing three internalin genes was identified and characterized. These genes, termed inlG, inlH and inlE, encode proteins of 490, 548 and 499 amino acids, respectively, which belong to the class of large, surface-bound internalins. Each of these proteins contains a signal peptide, two regions of repeats (Leucine-rich repeats and B repeats), an inter-repeat region and a putative cell wall anchor sequence containing the sorting motiv LPXTG. PCR analysis revealed the presence of the inlGHE gene cluster in most L. monocytogenes serotypes. A similar gene cluster termed inlC2DE localised to the same position on the chromosome was described in a different L. monocytogenes EGD isolate. Sequence comparison of the two clusters indicates that inlG is a new internalin gene, while inlH was generated by a site-specific recombination leading to an in-frame deletion which removed the 3'-terminal end of inlC2 and a 5'-portion of inlD. The genes inlG, inlH and inlE seem to be transcribed extracellularly and independent of PrfA. To study the function of the inlGHE gene cluster several in-frame deletion mutants were constructed which lack the genes of the inlGHE cluster individually or in combination with other inl genes. When tested in the mouse model, the inlGHE mutant showed a significant reduction of bacterial counts in liver and spleen in comparison to the wild type strain, indicating that the inlGHE gene cluster plays an important role in virulence of L. monocytogenes. The ability of this mutant to invade non-phagocytic cells in vitro was however two- to three-fold higher than that of the parental strain. To examine whether deletion of the single genes from the cluster has the same stimulatory effect on invasiveness as deletion of the complete gene cluster, the single in-frame deletion mutants inlG, inlH and inlE were constructed. These mutants were subsequently reverted to the wild type by introducing a copy of the corresponding intact gene into the chromosome by homologous recombination using knock-in plasmids. To determine a putative contribution of InlG, InlH and InlE in combination with other internalins to the entry of L. monocytogenes into mammalian cells, the combination mutants inlA/GHE, inlB/GHE, inlC/GHE, inlA/B/GHE, inlB/C/GHE, inlA/C and inlA/C/GHE were constructed. Transcription of the genes inlA, inlB and inlC in these mutants was studied by RT-PCR. Deletion of inlGHE enhances transcription of inlA and inlB, but not of inlC. This enhancement is not transient but can be observed at different time-points of the bacterial growth curve. Deletion of inlA also increases transcription of inlB and vice-versa. In contrast, the amounts of inlA and inlB transcripts in the single deletion mutants inlG, inlH and inlE were similar to those from the wild type.
Safer without Sex?
(1999)
Highly eusocial insect societies, such as all known ants, are typically characterized by a reproductive division of labor between queens, who are inseminated and reproduce, and virgin workers, who engage in foraging, nest maintenance and brood care. In most species workers have little reproductive options left: They usually produce haploid males by arrhenotokous parthenogenesis, both in the queenright and queenless condition. In the phylogenetically primitive subfamily Ponerinae reproductive caste dimorphism is much less pronounced: Ovarian morphology is rather similar in queens and workers, which additionally retain a spermatheca. In many ponerine species workers mate and may have completely replaced the queen caste. This similarity in reproductive potential provides for the evolution of diverse reproductive systems. In addition, it increases the opportunity for reproductive conflicts among nestmates substantially. Only in a handful of ant species, including Platythyrea punctata, workers are also able to rear diploid female offspring from unfertilized eggs by thelytokous parthenogenesis. The small ponerine ant P. punctata (Smith) is the only New World member of the genus reaching as far north as the southern USA, with its center of distribution in Central America and the West Indies. P. punctata occurs in a range of forest habitats including subtropical hardwood forests as well as tropical rain forests. In addition to queens, gamergates and thelytokous workers co-occur in the same species. This remarkable complexity of reproductive strategies makes P. punctata unique within ants and provides an ideal model system for the investigation of reproductive conflicts within the female caste. Colonies are usually found in rotten branches on the forest floor but may also be present in higher strata. Colonies contained on average 60 workers, with a maximum colony size of 148 workers. Queens were present in only ten percent of the colonies collected from Florida, but completely absent both from the populations studied in Barbados and Puerto Rico. Males were generally rare. In addition, morphological intermediates between workers and queens (so-called intercastes) were found in 16 colonies collected in Florida. Their thorax morphology varied from an almost worker-like to an almost queen-like thorax structure. Queen and intercaste size, however, did not differ from those of workers. Although workers taken from colonies directly after collection from the field engaged in aggressive interactions, nestmate discrimination ceased in the laboratory suggesting that recognition cues used are derived from the environment. Only one of six queens dissected was found to be inseminated but not fertile. Instead, in most queenless colonies, a single uninseminated worker monopolized reproduction by means of thelytokous parthenogenesis. A single mated, reproductive worker (gamergate) was found dominating reproduction in the presence of an inseminated alate queen only in one of the Florida colonies. The regulation of reproduction was closely examined in ten experimental groups of virgin laboratory-reared workers, in which one worker typically dominated reproduction by thelytoky despite the presence of several individuals with elongated, developing ovaries. In each group only one worker was observed to oviposit. Conflict over reproduction was intense consisting of ritualized physical aggression between some nestmates including antennal boxing, biting, dragging, leap and immobilization behaviors. The average frequency of interactions was low. Aggressive interactions allowed to construct non-linear matrices of social rank. On average, only five workers were responsible for 90 percent of total agonistic interactions. In 80 percent of the groups the rate of agonistic interactions increased after the experimental removal of the reproductive worker. While antennal boxing and biting were the most frequent forms of agonistic behaviors both before and after the removal, biting and dragging increased significantly after the removal indicating that agonistic interactions increased in intensity. Once a worker obtains a high social status it is maintained without the need for physical aggression. The replacement of reproductives by another worker did however not closely correlate with the new reproductive's prior social status. Age, however, had a profound influence on the individual rate of agonistic interactions that workers initiated. Especially younger adults (up to two month of age) and callows were responsible for the increase in observed aggression after the supersedure of the old reproductive. These individuals have a higher chance to become reproductive since older, foraging workers may not be able to develop their ovaries. Aggressions among older workers ceased with increasing age. Workers that already started to develop their ovaries should pose the greatest threat to any reproductive individual. Indeed, dissection of all experimental group revealed that aggression was significantly more often directed towards both individuals with undeveloped and developing ovaries as compared to workers that had degenerated ovaries. In all experimental groups reproductive dominance was achieved by callows or younger workers not older than four month. Age is a better predictor of reproductive dominance than social status as inferred from physical interactions. Since no overt conflict between genetical identical individuals is expected, in P. punctata the function of agonistic interactions in all-worker colonies, given the predominance of thelytokous parthenogenesis, remains unclear. Physical aggression could alternatively function to facilitate a smooth division of non-reproductive labor thereby increasing overall colony efficiency. Asexuality is often thought to constitute an evolutionary dead end as compared with sexual reproduction because genetic recombination is limited or nonexistent in parthenogenetic populations. Microsatellite markers were developed to investigate the consequences of thelytokous reproduction on the genetic structure of four natural populations of P. punctata. In the analysis of 314 workers taken from 51 colonies, low intraspecific levels of variation at all loci, expressed both as the number of alleles detected and heterozygosities observed, was detected. Surprisingly, there was almost no differentiation within populations. Populations rather had a clonal structure, with all individuals from all colonies usually sharing the same genotype. This low level of genotypic diversity reflects the predominance of thelytoky under natural conditions in four populations of P. punctata. In addition, the specificity of ten dinucleotide microsatellite loci developed for P. punctata was investigated in 29 ant species comprising four different subfamilies by cross-species amplification. Positive amplification was only obtained in a limited number of species indicating that sequences flanking the hypervariable region are often not sufficiently conserved to allow amplification, even within the same genus. The karyotype of P. punctata (2n = 84) is one of the highest chromosome numbers reported in ants so far. A first investigation did not show any indication of polyploidy, a phenomenon which has been reported to be associated with the occurrence of parthenogenesis. Thelytokous parthenogenesis does not appear to be a very common phenomenon in the Hymenoptera. It is patchily distributed and restricted to taxa at the distant tips of phylogenies. Within the Formicidae, thelytoky has been demonstrated only in four phylogenetically very distant species, including P. punctata. Despite its advantages, severe costs and constraints may have restricted its rapid evolution and persistence over time. The mechanisms of thelytokous parthenogenesis and its ecological correlates are reviewed for the known cases in the Hymenoptera. Investigating the occurrence of sexual reproduction in asexual lineages indicates that thelytokous parthenogenesis may not be irreversible. In P. punctata the occasional production of sexuals in some of the colonies may provide opportunity for outbreeding and genetic recombination. Thelytoky can thus function as a conditional reproductive strategy. Thelytoky in P. punctata possibly evolved as an adaptation to the risk of colony orphanage or the foundation of new colonies by fission. The current adaptive value of physical aggression and the production of sexuals in clonal populations, where relatedness asymmetries are virtually absent, however is less clear. Quite contrary, thelytoky could thereby serve as the stepping stone for the subsequent loss of the queen caste in P. punctata. Although P. punctata clearly fulfills all three conditions of eusociality, the evolution of thelytoky is interpreted as a first step in a secondary reverse social evolution towards a social system more primitive than eusociality.
Many polymorphisms are linked to alternative reproductive strategies. In animals, this is particularly common in males. Ant queens are an important exception. The case of ant queen size dimorphisms has not been studied in sufficient detail, and thus this thesis aimed at elucidating causes and consequences of the different size of small (microgynous) and large (macrogynous)ant queens using the North American ant species Leptothorax rugatulus as a model system. Employing neutral genetic markers, no evidence for a taxonomically relevant separation of the gene pools of macrogynes and microgynes was found. Queens in polygynous colonies were highly related to each other, supporting the hypothesis that colonies with more than one queen commonly arise by secondary polygyny, i.e. by the adoption of daughter queens into their natal colonies. These results and conclusions are also true for the newly discovered queen size polymorphism in Leptothorax cf. andrei. Several lines of evidence favor the view that macrogynes predominantly found their colonies independently, while microgynes are specialized for dependent colony founding by readoption. Under natural conditions, mother and daughter size are highly correlated and this is also true for laboratory colonies. However, the size of developing queens is influenced by queens present in the colony. Comparing populations across the distribution range, it turns out that queen morphology (head width and ovariole number) is more differentiated among populations than worker morphology (coloration, multivariate size and shape), colony characteristics (queen and worker number per colony) or neutral genetic variation. Northern and southern populations differed consistently which indicates the possibility of two different species. The queen size dimorphism in L. rugatulus did neither influence the sex ratio produced by a colony, nor its ratio of workers to gynes. However, the sex ratio covaried strongly across populations with the average number of queens per colony in accordance with sex ratio theory. At the colony level, sex ratio could not be explained by current theory and a hypothesis at the colony-level was suggested. Furthermore, queen body size has no significant influence on the amount of reproductive skew among queens. Generally, the skew in L. rugatulus is low, and supports incomplete control models, rather than the classic skew models. In eight of fourteen mixed or microgynous colonies, the relative contributions of individual queens to workers, gynes and males were significantly different. This was mainly due to the fact that relative body size was negatively correlated with the ratio of gynes to workers produced. This supports the kin conflict over caste determination hypothesis which views microgyny as a selfish reproductive tactic.
Biofilm production is an important step in the pathogenesis of S. epidermidis polymer-associated infections and depends on the expression of the icaADBC operon leading to the synthesis of a polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA). The PIA represents a sugar polymer consisting of ß-1,6 linked N-acetyl glucosaminoglycans and mediates the intercellular adherence of the bacteria to each other and the accumulation of a multilayered biofilm. Epidemiological and experimental studies strongly suggest that PIA-production and subsequently biofilm formation contributes significantly to the virulence of specific S. epidermidis strains. This work aimed on the investigation of external factors regulating the ica expression in S. epidermidis. For this purpose, a reporter gene fusion between the ica promoter and the beta-galactosidase gene lacZ from E. coli was constructed and integrated into the chromosome of an ica positive S. epidermidis clinical isolate. The reporter gene fusion was used to investigate the influence of external factors and of sub-MICs of different antibiotics on the ica expression. It was shown that the S. epidermidis biofilm formation is growth phase dependent with a maximum expression in the late logarithmic and early stationary growth phase. The optimal expression was recorded at 42 °C at a neutral pH ranging from 7.0 to 7.5. The glucose content of the medium was found to be essential for biofilm formation, since concentrations of 1.5 to 2 per cent glucose induced the ica expression. In addition, external stress factors as high osmolarity (mediated by 3 to 5 per cent sodium chloride), and sub-lethal concentrations of detergents, ethanol, hydrogene peroxide, and urea significantly enhanced the biofilm production. Subinhibitory concentrations of tetracyline, the semisynthetic streptogramin quinupristin/dalfopristin and the streptogramin growth promoter virginiamycin were found to enhance the ica expression 8 to 11-fold, respectively, whereas penicillin, oxacillin, gentamicin, clindamycin, vancomycin, teicoplanin, ofloxacin, and chloramphenicol had no effects. A weak induction was recorded for sub-MICs of erythromycin. Both quinupristin/ dalfopristin and tetracyline exhibited a strong postexposure effect on the S. epidermidis ica expression, respectively, even when the substances were immediately removed from the growth medium. The results were confirmed by Northern blot analysis of the ica transcription and quantitative analysis of biofilm formation in a colorimetric assay. Expression of the icaprom::lacZ reporter gene plasmid in Bacillus subtilis and S. epidermidis revealed that the ica induction by sub-MICs of streptogramins and tetracycline might depend on unidentified regulatory elements which are specific for the staphylococcal cell. In contrast, the activation by external stress signals seems to be mediated by factors which are present both in Staphylococci and in Bacillus subtilis. Construction and analysis of an agr-mutant in a biofilm-forming S. epidermidis strain excluded the possibility that the Agr-quorum-sensing system significantly contributes to the ica expression in the stationary growth phase. However, clear evidence was provided that in S. aureus the ica transcription depends on the expression of the alternative transcription factor sigmaB, which represents a global regulator of the stress response in S. aureus as well as in B. subtilis. For this purpose, a sigB knockout mutant had been constructed in a biofilm-forming S. aureus. This mutant showed a markedly decrease of the ica transcription and biofilm-production, whereas a complement strain carrying the sigB gene on an expression vector completely restored the biofilm-forming phenotype of the S. aureus wild type. Southern blot analysis indicated that the the sigB gene is also present in S. epidermidis and Northern analyses of the sigB and the ica transcription revealed that both genes are activated under identical conditions (i. e. in the stationary growth phase and by external stress factors) suggesting a similar regulatory pathway as in S. aureus. However, since neither in S. aureus nor in S. epidermidis the ica promoter has obvious similiarities to known SigB-dependent promotoer sequences it is tempting to speculate that the ica activation is not directely mediated by SigB, but might be indirectely controlled by other SigB-dependent regulatory elements which remain to be elucidated.
The transmission of proliferative and developmental signals from activated cell-surface receptors to initiation of cellular responses in the nucleus is synergically controlled by the coordinated action of a diverse set of intracellular signalling proteins. The Ras/Raf/MEK/MAPK signalling pathway has been shown to control the expression of genes which are crucial for the physiological regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. Within this signalling cascade, the Raf protein family of serine/threonine kinases serves as a central intermediate which connects to many of other signal transduction pathways. To elucidate the signalling functions of the different Raf kinases in motoneurons during development, the expression, distribution and subcellular localization of Rafs in the spinal cord and the facial nucleus in brainstem of mice at various embryonic and postnatal stages were investigated. Moreover, we have investigated the intracellular redistribution of Raf molecules in isolated motoneurons from 13 or 14 day old mouse embryos, after addition or withdrawal of neurotrophic factors to induce Raf kinases activation in vitro. Furthermore, in order to investigate the potential anti-apoptotic function of Raf kinases on motoneurons, we isolated motoneurons from B-raf-/- and c-raf-1-/- mouse embryos and analysed the survival and differentiation effects of neurotrophic factors in motoneurons lacking B-Raf and c-Raf-1. We provide evidence here that all three Raf kinases are expressed in mouse spinal motoneurons. Their expression increases during the period of naturally occurring cell death of motoneurons. In sections of embryonic and postnatal spinal cord, motoneurons express exclusively B-Raf and c-Raf-1, but not A-Raf, and subcellularly Raf kinases are obviously colocalized with mitochondria. In isolated motoneurons, most of the B-Raf or c-Raf-1 immunoreactivity is located in the perinuclear space but also in the nucleus, especially after activation by addition of CNTF and BDNF in vitro. We found that c-Raf-1 translocation from the cytosol into the nucleus of motoneurons after its activation by neurotrophic factors is a distinct event. As a central finding of our study, we observed that the viability of isolated motoneurons from B-raf but not c-raf-1 knockout mice is lost even in the presence of CNTF and other neurotrophic factors. This indicates that B-Raf but not c-Raf-1, which is still present in B-raf deficient motoneurons, plays a crucial role in mediating the survival effect of neurotrophic factors during development. In order to prove that B-Raf is an essential player in this scenario, we have re-expressed B-Raf in mutant sensory and motor neurons by transfection. The motoneurons and the sensory neurons from B-raf knockout mouse which were transfected with exogenous B-raf gene revealed the same viability in the presence of neurotrophic factors as primary neurons from wild-type mice. Our results suggest that Raf kinases have important signalling functions in motoneurons in mouse CNS. In vitro, activation causes redistribution of Raf protein kinases, particularly for c-Raf-1, from motoneuronal cytoplasm into the nucleus. This redistribution of c-Raf-1, however, is not necessary for the survival effect of neurotrophic factors, given that B-raf-/- motor and sensory neurons can not survive despite the presence of c-Raf-1. We hypothesize that c-Raf-1 nuclear translocation may play a direct role in transcriptional regulation as a consequence of neurotrophic factor induced phosphorylation and activation of c-Raf-1 in motoneurons. Moreover, the identification of target genes for nuclear translocated c-Raf-1 and of specific cellular functions initiated by this mechanism awaits its characterization.
The Mouthparts of Ants
(2001)
Ant mandible movements cover a wide range of forces, velocities and precision. The key to the versatility of mandible functions is the mandible closer muscle. In ants, this muscle is generally composed of distinct muscle fiber types that differ in morphology and contractile properties. Volume proportions of the fiber types are species-specific and correlate with feeding habits. Two biomechanical models explain how the attachment angles are optimized with respect to force and velocity output and how filament-attached fibers help to generate the largest force output from the available head capsule volume. In general, the entire mandible closer muscle is controlled by 10-12 motor neurons, some of which exclusively supply specific muscle fiber groups. Simultaneous recordings of muscle activity and mandible movement reveal that fast movements require rapid contractions of fast muscle fibers. Slow and accurate movements result from the activation of slow muscle fibers. Forceful movements are generated by simultaneous co-activation of all muscle fiber types. For fine control, distinct fiber bundles can be activated independently of each other. Retrograde tracing shows that most dendritic arborizations of the different sets of motor neurons share the same neuropil in the suboesophageal ganglion. In addition, some motor neurons invade specific parts of the neuropil. The labiomaxillary complex of ants is essential for food intake. I investigated the anatomical design of the labiomaxillary complex in various ant species focusing on movement mechanisms. The protraction of the glossa is a non muscular movement. Upon relaxation of the glossa retractor muscles, the glossa protracts elastically. I compared the design of the labiomaxillary complex of ants with that of the honey bee, and suggest an elastic mechanism for glossa protraction in honey bees as well. Ants employ two different techniques for liquid food intake, in which the glossa works either as a passive duct (sucking), or as an up- and downwards moving shovel (licking). For collecting fluids at ad libitum food sources, workers of a given species always use only one of both techniques. The species-specific feeding technique depends on the existence of a well developed crop and on the resulting mode of transporting the fluid food. In order to evaluate the performance of collecting liquids during foraging, I measured fluid intake rates of four ant species adapted to different ecological niches. Fluid intake rate depends on sugar concentration and the associated fluid viscosity, on the species-specific feeding technique, and on the extent of specialization on collecting liquid food. Furthermore, I compared the four ant species in terms of glossa surface characteristics and relative volumes of the muscles that control licking and sucking. Both probably reflect adaptations to the species-specific ecological niche and determine the physiological performance of liquid feeding. Despite species-specific differences, single components of the whole system are closely adjusted to each other according to a general rule.
Tropical rain forests and coral reefs are usually regarded as the epitome of complexity and diversity. The mechanisms, however, that allow so many species to coexist continuously, still need to be unraveled. Earlier equilibrium models explain community organization with a strict niche separation and specialization of the single species, achieved mainly by interspecific competition and consecutive resource partitioning. Recent non-equilibrium or stochastic models see stochastic factors ("intermediate disturbances") as more important. Such systems are characterized by broad niche overlaps and an unpredictable species composition. Mechanisms of coexistence are most interesting where species interactions are strongest and species packing is highest. This is the case within a functional group or guild where species use similar resources. In this project a community of seven closely related leaf beetle species (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) was investigated which coexist on a common host plant system (fam. Convovulaceae) in a tropical moist savanna (Ivory Coast, Comoé-Nationalpark). A broad overlap in the seasonal phenology of the leaf beetle species stood in contrast to a distinct spatial niche differentiation. The beetle community could be separated in a savanna-group (host plant: Ipomoea) and in a river side group (host plant: Merremia). According to a correspondence analysis the five species at the river side, using a common host plant, Merremia hederacea, proved to be predictable in their species composition. They showed a small scale niche differentiation along the light gradient (microhabitats). Laboratory studies confirmed differences in the tolerance towards high temperatures (up to 50°C in the field). Physiological trade-offs between phenology, microclimate and food quality seem best to describe patterns of resource use of the beetle species. Further a phylogeny based on mt-DNA sequencing of the beetle community was compared to its ecological resource use and the evolution of host plant use was reconstructed
Listeriae are Gram positive, facultative, saprophytic bacteria capable of causing opportunistic infections in humans and animals. This thesis presents three separate lines of inquiries that can lead to the eventual convergence of a global view of Listeria as pathogen in the light of evolution, genomics, and function. First, we undertook to resolve the phylogeny of the genus Listeria with the goal of ascertaining insights into the evolution of pathogenic capability of its members. The phylogeny of Listeriae had not yet been clearly resolved due to a scarcity of phylogenetically informative characters within the 16S and 23S rRNA molecules. The genus Listeria contains six species: L. monocytogenes, L. ivanovii, L. innocua, L. seeligeri, L. welshimeri, and L. grayi; of these, L. monocytogenes and L. ivanovii are pathogenic. Pathogenicity is enabled by a 10-15Kb virulence gene cluster found in L. seeligeri, L. monocytogenes and L. ivanovii. The genetic contents of the virulence gene cluster loci, as well as some virulence-associated internalin loci were compared among the six species. Phylogenetic analysis based on a data set of nucleic acid sequences from prs, ldh, vclA, vclB, iap, 16S and 23S rRNA genes identified L. grayi as the ancestral branch of the genus. This is consistent with previous 16S and 23S rRNA findings. The remainder 5 species formed two groupings. One lineage represents L. monocytogenes and L. innocua, while the other contains L. welshimeri, L. ivanovii and L. seeligeri, with L. welshimeri forming the deepest branch within this group. Deletion breakpoints of the virulence gene cluster within L. innocua and L. welshimeri support the proposed tree. This implies that the virulence gene cluster was present in the common ancestor of L. monocytogenes, L. innocua, L. ivanovii, L. seeligeri and L. welshimeri; and that pathogenic capability has been lost in two separate events represented by L. innocua and L. welshimeri. Second, we attempted to reconstitute L. innocua of its deleted virulence gene cluster, in its original chromosomal location, from the L. monocytogenes 12 Kb virulence gene cluster. This turned out particularly difficult because of the limits of genetic tools presently available for the organism. The reconstitution was partially successful. The methods and approaches are presented, and all the components necessary to complete the constructs are at hand for both L. innocua and the parallel, positive control of L. monocytogenes mutant deleted of its virulence gene cluster. Third, the sequencing of the entire genome of L. monocytogenes EGDe was undertaken as part of an EU Consortium. Our lab was responsible for 10 per cent of the labor intensive gap-closure and annotation efforts, which I helped coordinate. General information and comparisons with sister species L. innocua and a close Gram positive relative Bacillus subtilis are presented in context. The areas I personally investigated, namely, sigma factors and stationary phase functions, are also presented. L. monocytogenes and L. innocua both possess surprisingly few sigma factors: SigA, SigB, SigH, SigL, and an extra-cytoplasmic function type sigma factor (SigECF). The stationary phase genes of L. monocytogenes is compared to the well-studied, complex, stationary phase networks of B. subtilis. This showed that while genetic competence functions may be operative in unknown circumstances, non-sporulating Listeria opted for very different approaches of regulation from B. subtilis. There is virtually no overlap of known, stationary phase genes between Listeria and Gram negative model organism E. coli.
Cofilin
(1999)
This study has identified cofilin, an actin binding protein, as a control element in the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton which is highly relevant for T lymphocyte activation. Cofilin is regulated in its activity by reversible phosphorylation which is inducible by stimulation through accessory receptors such as CD2 and CD28. First it could be demonstrated that accessory receptor triggering induces the transient association of cofilin with the actin cytoskeleton and that only the dephosphorylated form of cofilin possesses the capacity to bind cytoskeletal actin in vivo. PI3-kinase inhibitors block both the dephosphorylation of cofilin and its association with the actin cytoskeleton. Importantly, cofilin, actin, PI3-kinase and one of its substrates, namely phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P2) which can bind to cofilin, co-localize within CD2-receptor caps. The cofilin/F-actin interaction has been identified as a crucial regulatory element for receptor cap formation and the strength of signal transduction. To this end, appropriately designed cell permeable non-toxic peptides that are homologous to actin binding motifs of the human cofilin sequence were introduced into untransformed human peripheral blood T lymphocytes. These peptides competitively and dose dependently inhibit the activation induced interaction of cofilin with the actin cytoskeleton in vivo. By this approach it was possible to study, for the first time, the functional consequences of this interaction in immunocompetent T cells. The present data demonstrate that inhibition of the actin/cofilin interaction in human T lymphocytes by means of these cofilin derived peptides abolishes receptor cap formation and strongly modulates functional T cell responses such as T cell proliferation, interleukin-2 production, cell surface expression of CD69, gIFN production, and CD95L expression. Importantly, receptor independent activation by PMA and calcium ionophore circumvents these peptide produced inhibitory effects on lymphocyte stimulation and places the cofilin/actin interaction to a proximal step in the cascade of signaling events following T cell activation via surface signals. The present results are novel since as yet no information existed regarding the molecular elements which link cell surface receptor stimulation directly to the resulting reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton.
Distinct juvenile behaviour differences, changes in adult sizes and reproductive capacity and a long reproductive period triggered the working hypothesis of two alternative life-cycle strategies favouring aestivation or immediate reproduction. The hypothesis for the life-cycles of Hyperolius nitidulus that differed from the commonly assumed reproductive strategy for this species was confirmed by the results of this study. Aestivated juveniles start to mature at the beginning of the rainy season and reproduce subsequently. Their tadpoles grow until metamorphosis and either reproduce in this same season, in which case their offspring aestivates (one year - two generations), or they delay reproduction to the following year and aestivate themselves (one year - one generation). Juveniles trying to reproduce as fast as possible will invest in growth and differentiation and show no costly adaptations to aestivation, while juveniles delaying reproduction to the following rainy season will be well adapted to dry season conditions. Indirect evidence for the existence of a second generation was found in all three investigation years: adult size decreased abruptly towards the end of the rainy season, mainly due to the arrival of very small individuals, and clutch size decreased abruptly. Also at the end of the rainy season juveniles had two behavioural types: one hiding on the ground and clearly avoiding direct sunlight and another sitting freely above ground showing higher tolerance towards dry season conditions (high air temperatures and low humidity). Skin morphology differed between the types showing many more purine crystals in a higher order in the dry-season adapted juveniles. The final proof for the existence of a second generation came with the recapture of individuals marked as juveniles when they left the pond. The 45 recaptured frogs definitely came back to the pond to reproduce during the same season in 1999. Second generation frogs (males and females) were significantly smaller than the rest of all adults and egg diameter was reduced. Clutch size did not differ significantly. It was found that females did not discriminate against second generation males when coming to the ponds to reproduce. Second generation males had a similar chance to be found in amplexus as first generation males. Indirect and direct evidence for a second generation matched very well. The sudden size decrease in adults occurred just at the time when the first marked frogs returned. The observation that freshly metamorphosed froglets were able to sit in the sun directly after leaving the water led to the assumption that the decision whether to aestivate or to reproduce already happens during the frogs' larval period. Water chemistry and the influence of light was investigated to look for the factors triggering the decision, but only contaminated water increased the number of juveniles ready for aestivation. Whether the life history polymorphism observed in Hyperolius nitidulus is due to phenotypic plasticity or genetic polymorphism is still not known. Despite this uncertainty, there is no doubt that the optimal combination of different life histories is profitable and may be a reason for the wide range and high local abundance of Hyperolius nitidulus.
The study examines the sensory ecology of CO2 perception in leaf-cutting ants. It begins with the ecological role of CO2 for leaf-cutting ants. Inside the subterranean nests of Atta vollenweideri large amounts of CO2 are produced by the ants and their symbiotic fungus. Measurements in field nest at different depths revealed that CO2 concentrations do not exceed 2 per cent in mature nests. These findings indicate effective ventilation even at depths of 2 m. Small colonies often face the situation of reduced ventilation when they close their nest openings as a measure against flooding. A simulation of this situation in the field as well as in the laboratory revealed increasing CO2 concentrations causing reduced colony respiration which ultimately might limit colony success. Wind-induced ventilation is the predominant ventilation mechanism of the nests of Atta vollenweideri, shown by an analysis of external wind and airflow in the channels. The mound architecture promotes nest ventilation. Outflow channels have their openings in the upper, central region and inflow channels had their openings in the lower, peripheral region of the nest mound. Air is sucked out through the central channels, followed by a delayed inflow of air through the peripheral channels. The findings support the idea that the nest ventilation mechanism used by Atta vollenweideri resembles the use of Bernoulli’s principle in Venturi Tubes and Viscous Entrainment. CO2 is important in a second context besides microclimatic control. A laboratory experiment with Atta sexdens demonstrated that leaf-cutting ants are able to orientate in a CO2 gradient. Foragers chose places with higher CO2 concentration when returning to the nest. This effect was found in all homing foragers, but it was pronounced for workers carrying leaf fragments compared to workers without leaf fragments. The findings support the hypothesis that CO2 gradients are used as orientation cue inside the (dark) nest to find suited fungus chambers for unloading of the leaf fragments. After the importance of CO2 in the natural history of the ants has thus been demonstrated, the study identifies for the first time in Hymenoptera type and location of the sensory organ for CO2 perception. In Atta sexdens a single neuron associated with the sensilla ampullacea was found to respond to CO2. Since it is the only neuron of this sensillum, the sensillum characters can be assumed to be adapted for CO2 perception. A detailed description of the morphology and the ultrastructure allows a comparison with sensilla for CO2 perception found in other insects and provides more information about sensillum characters and their functional relevance. The CO2 receptor cells respond to increased CO2 with increased neural activity. The frequency of action potentials generated by the receptor cell shows a phasic-tonic time course during CO2 stimulation and a reduced activity after stimulation. Phasic response accomplished with a reduced activity after stimulation results in contrast enhancement and the ability to track fast fluctuations in CO2 concentration. The neurons have a working range of 0 to 10 per cent CO2 and thus are able to respond to the highest concentrations the ants might encounter in their natural environment. The most exciting finding concerning the receptor cells is that the CO2 neurons of the leaf-cutting ants do not adapt to continuous stimulation. This enables the ants to continuously monitor the actual CO2 concentration of their surroundings. Thus, the sensilla ampullacea provide the ants with the information necessary to orientate in a CO2 gradient (tracking of fluctuations) as well as with the necessary information for microclimatic control (measuring of absolute concentrations).
The identification of NRAGE
(2001)
The inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) have been shown to interact with a growing number of intracellular proteins and signalling pathways in order to fulfil their anti-apoptotic role. In order to investigate in detail how the avian homologue ITA interfered with both TNF induced apoptosis and the NGF mediated differentiation in PC12 cells, a two hybrid screen was performed with a PC12 library using ITA as a bait. The screen resulted in the identification of several overlapping fragments of a previously unknown gene. The complete cDNA for this gene was isolated, the analysis of which revealed a high homology with a large family of tumour antigens known as MAGE (melanoma associated antigens). This newly identified member of the MAGE family, which was later named NRAGE, exhibited some unique characteristics that suggested for the first time a role in normal cellular physiology for this protein family. MAGE proteins are usually restricted in their expression to malignant or tumour cells, however NRAGE was also expressed in terminally differentiated adult tissue. NRAGE also interacted with the human XIAP in direct two-hybrid tests. The interactions observed in yeast cells were confirmed in mammalian cell culture, employing both coimmunoprecipitation and mammalian two-hybrid methods. Moreover, the results of the coimmunoprecipitation experiments indicated that this interaction requires the RING domain. The widely studied 32D cell system was chosen to investigate the effect of NRAGE on apoptosis. NRAGE was stably transduced in 32D cells, and found to augment cell death induced by the withdrawal of Interleukin-3. One reason for this reduced cell viability in NRAGE expressing cells could be the binding of endogenous XIAP, which occurred inducibly after growth factor withdrawal. Interestingly, NRAGE was able to overcome the protection afforded to 32D cells by the exogenous expression of human Bcl-2. Thus NRAGE was identified during this research doctorate as a novel pro-apoptotic, IAP-interacting protein, able to accelerate apoptosis in a pathway independent of Bcl-2 cell protection.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in both men and women in the Western world. Earlier observations have pointed out that pre-menopausal women have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease than age-matched men, with an increase in risk after the onset of menopause. This observation has directed the attention to estrogen as a potential protective factor in the heart. So far the focus of research and clinical studies has been the vascular system, leaving the current knowledge on the role of estrogen in the myocardium itself rather scarce. Functional estrogen receptor-alpha as well as -beta have recently been identified in the myocardium, making the myocardium an estrogen target organ. The focus of this thesis was 1) to investigate the role of estrogen and estrogen receptors in modulating myocardial gene expression both in vivo in an animal model for cardiac hypertrophy (spontaneously hypertensive rats; SHR), as well as in vitro in isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes, 2) to investigate the mechanisms of the rapid induction of an estrogen target gene, the early growth response gene-1 (Egr-1) and 3) to initiate the search for novel estrogen target genes in the myocardium. 1) The effects of estrogen on the expression of one of the major myocardial specific contractile proteins, the alpha-myosin heavy chain (alpha-MHC) have been investigated. In ovarectomised animals treated either with 17beta-estradiol alone or in combination with a specific estrogen receptor antagonist, ICI 182780, it was shown that both alpha-MHC mRNA and protein were upregulated by estrogen in an estrogen receptor specific manner. The in vivo results were confirmed in vitro in isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes which showed that estrogen has a direct action on the myocardium potent enough to upregulate the expression of alpha-MHC. Furthermore it was shown that the alpha-MHC promoter is induced by estrogen in an estrogen receptor-dependent manner and first investigations into the mechanisms involved in this upregulation identified Egr-1 as a potential transcription factor which, upon induction by estrogen, drives the expression of the alpha-MHC promoter. 2) Previously it was shown that Egr-1 is rapidly induced by estrogen in an estrogen receptor-dependent manner which was mediated via 5 serum response elements (SREs) in the promoter region and surprisingly not via the estrogen response elements (EREs). In this study it was shown that estrogen-treatment of cardiomyocytes resulted in the recruitment of serum response factor (SRF), or an antigenically related protein, to the SREs in the Egr-1 promoter, which was specifically inhibited by the estrogen receptor antagonist ICI 182780. Transfection experiments showed that estrogen induced a heterologous promoter consisting only of 5 tandem repeats of the c-fos SRE in an ER-dependent manner, which identified SREs as promoter elements able to confer an estrogen response to target genes. 3) Potentially new target genes regulated by estrogen in vivo were analysed using hearts of ovarectomised animals as well as ovarectomised animals treated with estrogen. Analyses of cDNA microarray filters containing 1250 known genes identified 24 genes that were modified by estrogen in vivo. Among these genes, some might have potentially important functions in the heart and further analyses of these genes will create a more global picture of the role and function of estrogen in the myocardium. Taken together, the results showed that estrogen does have a direct action on the myocardium both by regulating the expression of myocardial specific genes in vivo, as well as exerting rapid non-nuclear effects in cardiac myocytes. It was shown that SREs in the promoter region of genes can confer an estrogen response to genes identifying SREs as important elements in regulation of genes by estrogen. Furthermore, 24 potentially new estrogen targets were identified in the myocardium, contributing to the general understanding of estrogen action in the myocardium.
Unique functions of DNA topoisomerase IIalpha and IIbeta have been suggested. A human cell line which carries a homozygeous mutation of the nuclear localization sequence of the topoisomerase IIalpha gene expresses the isoform outside the nucleus at the onset of mitosis. At mitosis topoisomerase IIbeta diffused away from the chromatin despite the nuclear lack of the IIalpha-form. Chromosome condensation and disjunction was performed with the aid of cytosolic topoisomerase IIalpha which bound to the mitotic chromatin with low affinity. Consequently an increased rate of nondisjunction is observed in these cells. It is concluded that high affinity chromatin binding of topoisomerase IIalpha is essential for chromosome condensation/disjunction and that topoisomerase IIbeta does not adopt these functions. A centrosomal protein was recognized by topoisomerase IIalpha. This topoisomerase IIalpha-like protein resembles a modified form of topoisomerase IIalpha with an apparent size of 205 kDa compared to 170 kDa. The expression of the protein is constant in all stages of the cell cycle and it appears in proliferating as well as in resting cells. If there is not sufficient topoisomerase IIalpha present at mitosis the centrosomal proteins might adopt the function and a mitotic catastrophe in the cells could therefore be prevented.
Monolayer or suspension cell cultures are of only limited value as experimental models for human cancer. Therefore, more sophisticated, three-dimensional culture systems like spheroid cultures or histocultures are used, which more closely mimic the tumor in individual patients compared to monolayer or suspension cultures. As tissue culture or tissue engineering requires more sophisticated culture, specialized in vitro techniques may also improve experimental tumor models. In the present work, a new miniaturized hollow-fiber bioreactor system for mammalian cell culture in small volumes (up to 3 ml) is characterized with regard to transport characteristics and growth of leukemic cell lines (chapter 2). Cell and medium compartment are separated by dialysis membranes and oxygenation is accomplished using oxygenation membranes. Due to a transparent housing, cells can be observed by microscopy during culture. The leukemic cell lines CCRF-CEM, HL-60 and REH were cultivated up to densities of 3.5 x 107/ml without medium change or manipulation of the cells. Growth and viability of the cells in the bioreactor were the same or better, and the viable cell count was always higher compared to culture in Transwellâ plates. As shown using CCRF-CEM cells, growth in the bioreactor was strongly influenced and could be controlled by the medium flow rate. As a consequence, consumption of glucose and generation of lactate varied with the flow rate. Influx of low molecular weight substances in the cell compartment could be regulated by variation of the concentration in the medium compartment. Thus, time dependent concentration profiles (e.g. pharmacokinetic profiles of drugs) can be realized as illustrated using glucose as a model compound. Depending on the molecular size cut-off of the membranes used, added growth factors like GM-CSF and IL-3 as well as factors secreted from the cells are retained in the cell compartment for up to one week. Second, a method for monitoring cell proliferation the hollow-fiber bioreactor by use of the Alamar BlueTM dye was developed (chapter 3). Alamar BlueTM is a non-fluorescent compound which yields a fluorescent product after reduction e.g. by living cells. In contrast to the MTT-assay, the Alamar BlueTM-assay does not lead to cell death. However, when not removed from the cells, the Alamar BlueTM dye shows a reversible, time- and concentration-dependent growth inhibition as observed for leukemic cell lines. When applied in the medium compartment of a hollow-fiber bioreactor system, the dye is delivered to the cells across the hollow-fiber membrane, reduced by the cells and released from the cell into the medium compartment back again. Thus, fluorescence intensity can be measured in medium samples reflecting growth of the cells in the cell compartment. This procedure offers several advantages. First, exposure of the cells to the dye can be reduced compared to conventional culture in plates. Second, handling steps are minimized since no sample of the cells needs to be taken for readout. Moreover, for the exchange of medium, a centrifugation step can be avoided and the cells can be cultivated further. Third, the method allows to discriminate between cell densities of 105, 106 and 107 of proliferating HL-60 cells cultivated in the cell compartment of the bioreactor. Measurement of fluorescence in the medium compartment is more sensitive compared to glucose or lactate measurement for cell counts below 106 cells/ml, in particular. In conclusion, the Alamar BlueTM-assay combined with the hollow-fiber bioreactor offers distinct advantages for the non-invasive monitoring of cell viability and proliferation in a closed system. In chapter 4 the use of the hollow-fiber bioreactor as a tool for toxicity testing was investigated, as current models for toxicity as well as efficacy testing of drugs in vitro allow only limited conclusions with regard to the in vivo situation. Examples of the drawbacks of current test systems are the lack of realistic in vitro tumor models and difficulties to model drug pharmacokinetics. The bioreactor proved to be pyrogen free and is steam-sterilizable. Leukemic cell lines like HL-60 and primary cells such as PHA-stimulated lymphocytes can be grown up to high densities of 1-3 x 107 and analyzed during growth in the bioreactor by light-microscopy. The cytostatic drug Ara-C shows a dose-dependent growth inhibition of HL-60 cells and a dose-response curve similar to controls in culture plates. The bioreactor system is highly flexible since several systems can be run in parallel, soluble drugs can be delivered continuously via a perfusion membrane and gaseous compounds via an oxygenation membrane which also allows to control pO2 and pH (via pCO2) during culture in the cell compartment. The modular concept of the bioreactor system allows realization of a variety of different design properties, which may lead to an improved in vitro system for toxicity testing by more closely resembling the in vivo situation. Whereas several distinct advantages of the new system have been demonstrated, more work has to be done to promote in vitro systems in toxicity testing and drug development further and to reduce the need for animal tests.
This study investigates mechanisms and consequences of sexual selection in a polygynous population of dusky warblers Phylloscopus fuscatus, breeding near Magadan in the Russian Far East. In particular, the study focuses on individual variation in the reproductive behaviours of both females and males. The mating system of this population is characterised by facultative polygyny (17 per cent of the males mated with more than one female), and by an outstandingly high rate of extra-pair paternity (45 per cent of the offspring was not sired by the social partner of the female). The occurrence of polygyny is best explained by the ‘polygyny-threshold model’ (PTM). A novel finding of this study is that female mating decisions follow a conditional strategy. First-year females that have no prior breeding experience prefer monogamy over territory quality, while older females more often mate polygynously. I argue that the costs of receiving no male help may be higher for inexperienced females, while the benefits of having a free choice between territories may be higher for individuals that know which territories had the highest breeding success in previous years. Furthermore, I find support for the existence of two female mating strategies. The ‘emancipated’ female which is not dependent on male help, is free to choose the best territory and the best copulation partners. The ‘help-dependent’ female, in contrast, is bound to find a partner who is willing to assist her with brood care, thus she will have to accept territories and genetic fathers of lesser quality. The most unexpected finding on female mating behaviours is that this dichotomy between emancipated and help-dependent females is accompanied by morphological specialisation, which indicates that there is genetic variation underlying these female mating strategies. Male mating behaviours are characterised by competition for ownership of the best territories and by advertisement of male quality to females, as these are the factors which largely determine male reproductive success. Male success in obtaining copulations depended on the quality of their song, a fact that explains why males spend most of the daytime singing during the period when females are fertile. Individuals that were able to maintain a relatively high sound amplitude during rapid frequency modulations were consistently preferred by females as copulation partners. Studies of physiological limitations on sound production suggest that such subtle differences in male singing performance can provide an honest reflection of male quality. The present study is the first to indicate that females may judge the quality of a male’s song by his performance in sound production. Quality of song was also related to winter survival, which suggests that females can enhance the viability of their offspring by seeking extra-pair fertilisations from good singers (good-genes hypothesis). In general, the present study demonstrates that a complete understanding of avian mating systems is not possible without a detailed analysis of alternative behavioural strategies and of how individuals adjust their reproductive tactics according to their individual needs and abilities.
T cell activation is supposed to require two signals via engagement of the TCR and a costimulatory molecule. However, the signaling cascade of costimulatory molecules has remained elusive. Here, I provide evidence that CD44 supports proliferation as well as apoptosis mainly, if not exclusively, by enhancing signal transduction via the TCR/CD3 complex. Blockade of CD44 interferes with mounting of an immune response. This has been demonstrated by the significantly decreased IL-2 production of a T helper line, when stimulated in the presence of a competing CD44 receptor globulin. To evaluate the underlying mechanism, CD44 was cross-linked by an immobilized antibody (IM7). Cross-linking of CD44 induces proliferation of peripheral T cells and apoptosis of thymocytes and a T helper line in the presence of subthreshold levels of anti-CD3. CD44-induced proliferation was accompanied by an upregulation of the activation markers CD25 and CD69 and an increased cytokine production. TCR-mediated apoptosis was accompanied by an upregulation of CD95 ligand and CD95 receptor, which could be greatly enhanced by costimulation via CD44. On the level of signal transduction, coligation of CD44 with CD3 resulted in a strong and sustained increase of early tyrosine phosphorylation events and upregulated downstream signal transduction pathways, such as the ras/ERK and the JNK signaling cascades. These pleiotropic effects of CD44 are due to its involvement in the most proximal events in TCR signaling, as demonstrated by a strong increase in the phosphorylation of the TCR z-chain and ZAP-70. Notably, cross-linking of CD44 was binding-site dependent and was only effective when supporting colocalization of the TCR/CD3 complex and CD44. Cross-linking of CD44 via immobilized IM7 also induced profound changes in cell morphology, characterized by strong adhesion, spreading and development of surface extensions, which were dependent on a functional tubulin and actin cytoskeleton. These cytoskeletal rearrangements were mediated by rac1, a small GTPase of the rho subfamily, and src-family kinases, two of which, fyn and lck, were found to be associated with CD44. By cross-linkage of CD44 these kinases were redistributed into so called lipid rafts. It is supposed that for T cell activation a relocation of the TCR/CD3 complex into the same membrane microdomains is required. The data are interpreted in the sense that the costimulatory function of CD44 relies on its cooperativity with the TCR. Most likely by recruitment of phosphokinases CD44 significantly lowers the threshold for the initiation of signaling via the TCR. The requirement for immobilized anti-CD44, the necessity for neighbouring anti-CD3 and the dependence on the binding site of CD44 strongly suggest that the costimulatory mechanism involves cytoskeletal rearrangements, which facilitate recruitment and redirection of src-family protein kinases in glycolipid enriched membrane microdomains.
The present thesis reports on four years of field research on stingless bee ecology in Sabah, Malaysia. Hereby, it was the main focus to evaluate the effect of selective logging for timber extraction on communities of bees, and to elucidate causative relationships involved in regulating bee populations. Included were background studies on resource use (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) and nesting biology (3.4) as well as comparative studies on stingless bee diversity and abundance in logged and unlogged lowland rainforest sites (4.1, 4.2). Stingless bees proved to be generalist foragers that used a large range of plant species as pollen sources. Nevertheless, different species of bees had rather distinct pollen diets, a findind that was independent of fluctuations in flowering activity in the habitat. At one particular point in time colonies of one species (Trigona collina)collected mold spores (Rhizopus sp.) as a pollen surrogate. In order to obtain low-effort estimates of meliponine pollen sources a new method was developed: Trapping of bee garbage (with funnel traps) and the quantitative analysis of pollen in garbage samples. Pollen in bee garbage reflected pollen import with a certain time lag and could therefore be used for an assessment of long-term pollen foraging (see below). The majority of stingless bee nests (275 nests of 12 species) were found in cavities in trunks or under the bases of large, living canopy trees. Nest trees mostly belonged to commercial species and were of the correct size and (partly) timber quality to warrant harvesting. It was estimated that roughly one third of stingless bee nests in an given forest area would be killed during a selective logging operation. Besides causing direct mortality, logging may also indirectly affect bee populations by reducing the availability of potential nest sites (trees). However, in a comparison of primary and differentially logged forest sites (10 to 30 years after logging) no effect of the degree of disturbance on meliponine nest density was found. Instead, the variation in nest density (0 to 16.2 nest/ha) was best explained by differences in the available floral resources (assessed by analysis of pollen in bee garbage). Bee populations in forest edge situations were favored: there was a positive correlation between nest density and the proportion of external non-forest pollen (e.g. from crop plants, road edge vegetation, mangroves) in the bees’ diet. The highest nest density was found in a site bordering the mangroves in Sandakan Bay. Here, the mangrove tree Rhizophora apiculata represented a extraordinary large fraction of the pollen volume. Presumably, external pollen sources effectively supplement bee diets at times when little flowering occurs inside the forest, thus increasing overall bee carrying-capacity. The idea of differential pollen limitation was strengthened by direct measurements of pollen import and foraging activity over a period of five months. Both were elevated in colonies in a site with high bee density. It is concluded that the abundance of stingless bees in forests in Sabah is chiefly dependent on the local availability of food resources. Hereby, bee populations strongly benefit from edge effects and increased habitat diversity. Although direct negative effects of selective logging are strongly indicated by a close association of bee nests with commercial trees, no clear effects were detected in regenerating forests ten to 30 years after logging.
The MEK5/ ERK5 kinase module is a relatively new discovered mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling pathway with a poorly defined physiological function. Since ERK5 and its upstream activator MEK5 are abundant in skeletal muscle a function of the cascade during muscle differentiation was examined. ERK5 becomes activated upon induction of differentiation in mouse myoblasts. The selective activation of the pathway results in promoter activation of differentiation-specific genes, such as the cdk-inhibitor p21 gene, the myosin light chain (MLC1A) gene, or an E-box containing promoter element, where myogenic basic-helix-loop-helix proteins such as MyoD or myogenin bind. Moreover, myogenic differentiation is completely blocked, when ERK5 expression is inhibited by antisense RNA. The effect can be detected also on the expression level of myogenic determination and differentiation markers such as p21, MyoD and myogenin. Another new finding is that stable expression of ERK5 in C2C12 leads to differentiation like phenotype and to increased p21 expression levels under growth conditions. These results provide first evidence that the MEK5/ERK5 MAP kinase cascade is critical for early steps of muscle cell differentiation.
Food borne pathogens that cause systemic disease must cross the intestinal barrier. Many of these pathogens, eg Salmonella typhimurium and Shigella flexneri, use M cells, found only within the follicle associated epithelium (FAE) that overlies Peyer’s patches and other lymphoid follicles, to enter the host. This study is primarily an investigation into the interaction of S. typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes with the intestinal epithelium, representing the early stage of an infection.
The mode of action of phloretin and its analogs on the permeability of natural membranes for neutral and charged molecules, such as urea, glucose and chloride has been characterized 25 years ago. In contrast to signal molecules with primary effects on transport systems of natural membranes, phloretin also affects model membranes, i.e., artificial membranes, which do not contain proteins. Since the dipole potential reducing effect of phloretin on mono- and bilayers has been found, it became clear that its primary effect must be a biophysical one: phloretin adsorbs to lipid layers and changes biophysical parameters of these layers. The aim of this work was the characterization of the interaction between the surface-active molecule phloretin and artificial lipid layers. We were able to describe structural and functional parameters of the model systems mono- and bilayer as functions of one or few variables. One of these parameters, the dipole potential, measured as a function of the aqueous phloretin concentration, allowed a critical examination of the Langmuir adsorption model that has been postulated for the interaction between phloretin and lipid layers. Surface pressure versus area per lipid molecule isotherms and surface (dipole) potential change versus area per lipid molecule isotherms, measured at lipid monolayers, allowed a structural description of the phloretin-lipid interaction: phloretin integrates into monolayers dependent on the surface pressure and the phase state of the lipid. Calorimetric measurements confirmed the integration of phloretin into membranes because of the strong decrease of the phase transition temperature, but they also showed that the cooperativity of phase transition is hardly affected, even at very high amounts of phloretin in the membrane. Obviously the interaction between phloretin and lipids is restricted to the head groups, an integration into the hydrocarbon layer is unlikely. 2H NMR measurements with spherical unilamellar vesicles of headgroup-deuterated lipid showed changed quadrupolar splittings indicating the interaction between phloretin and headgroups of the lipids.
Large parts of the tropical lowland rain forests of Sabah (Malaysia) were transformed into secondary forests due to heavy logging. Additionally the remaining forest remnants are isolated from each other by large scale oil palm plantations. Biodiversity patterns and responses of the community of leaf litter ants were studied in anthropogenically disturbed habitats and primary forests of different size. In logged over forests, only 70 per cent of the species of a primary forest were present even 25 years after timber extraction. The ant communities were thinned and could be described by a lower species density producing lower species numbers and a different community composition. The similarity in species number and community composition between logged over forests of different degrees of disturbance was explained by source-sink dynamics within a heterogeneous forest matrix. Rain forest fragments displayed even higher reductions in species density, numbers and diversity due to a more pronounced thinning effect. Even forest isolates exceeding 4 000 ha in size did not support more than 50 per cent of the species of the leaf litter ant community of a contiguous primary rain forest. Additionally, an increase in tramp species was recorded with decreasing size of the forest fragments, leading to a very different community composition. Regarding the leaf litter ant community, the remaining rain forest fragments of Sabah are effectively isolated by a barrier of oil palm plantation, now stretching all over the lowlands of the east coast. Only 13 species, which belonged to the forest ant community in highly disturbed areas were collected in these plantations. Some of the 10 other species of the highly reduced ground-dwelling ant community in the plantations are known as invasive tramp species, forming large exclusive territories. Correlative evidence and a field experiment implied, that leaf litter humidity, volume and temperature affect the distribution and community composition of forest leaf litter ant species. The smaller primary forests and the most disturbed logged over forests in this study revealed higher temperatures and lower humidity levels and a reduction in leaf litter volume compared to a large primary forest or forests affected by a lower impact of timber harvesting. If the pattern for leaf litter ants is confirmed for other taxa, the implications for any efficient management design aiming to preserve the majority of the biodiversity of the country are tremendous and current concepts need rethinking.
Most natural learning situations are of a complex nature and consist of a tight conjunction of the animal's behavior (B) with the perceived stimuli. According to the behavior of the animal in response to these stimuli, they are classified as being either biologically neutral (conditioned stimuli, CS) or important (unconditioned stimuli, US or reinforcer). A typical learning situation is thus identified by a three term contingency of B, CS and US. A functional characterization of the single associations during conditioning in such a three term contingency has so far hardly been possible. Therefore, the operational distinction between classical conditioning as a behavior-independent learning process (CS-US associations) and operant conditioning as essentially behavior-dependent learning (B-US associations) has proven very valuable. However, most learning experiments described so far have not been successful in fully separating operant from classical conditioning into single-association tasks. The Drosophila flight simulator in which the relevant behavior is a single motor variable (yaw torque), allows for the first time to completely separate the operant (B-US, B-CS) and the classical (CS-US) components of a complex learning situation and to examine their interactions. In this thesis the contributions of the single associations (CS-US, B-US and B-CS) to memory formation are studied. Moreover, for the first time a particularly prominent single association (CS-US) is characterized extensively in a three term contingency. A yoked control shows that classical (CS-US) pattern learning requires more training than operant pattern learning. Additionally, it can be demonstrated that an operantly trained stimulus can be successfully transferred from the behavior used during training to a new behavior in a subsequent test phase. This result shows unambiguously that during operant conditioning classical (CS-US) associations can be formed. In an extension to this insight, it emerges that such a classical association blocks the formation of an operant association, which would have been formed without the operant control of the learned stimuli. Instead the operant component seems to develop less markedly and is probably merged into a complex three-way association. This three-way association could either be implemented as a sequential B-CS-US or as a hierarchical (B-CS)-US association. The comparison of a simple classical (CS-US) with a composite operant (B, CS and US) learning situation and of a simple operant (B-US) with another composite operant (B, CS and US) learning situation, suggests a hierarchy of predictors of reinforcement. Operant behavior occurring during composite operant conditioning is hardly conditioned at all. The associability of classical stimuli that bear no relation to the behavior of the animal is of an intermediate value, as is operant behavior alone. Stimuli that are controlled by operant behavior accrue associative strength most easily. If several stimuli are available as potential predictors, again the question arises which CS-US associations are formed? A number of different studies in vertebrates yielded amazingly congruent results. These results inspired to examine and compare the properties of the CS-US association in a complex learning situation at the flight simulator with these vertebrate results. It is shown for the first time that Drosophila can learn compound stimuli and recall the individual components independently and in similar proportions. The attempt to obtain second-order conditioning with these stimuli, yielded a relatively small effect. In comparison with vertebrate data, blocking and sensory preconditioning experiments produced conforming as well as dissenting results. While no blocking could be found, a sound sensory preconditioning effect was obtained. Possible reasons for the failure to find blocking are discussed and further experiments are suggested. The sensory preconditioning effect found in this study is revealed using simultaneous stimulus presentation and depends on the amount of preconditioning. It is argued that this effect is a case of 'incidental learning', where two stimuli are associated without the need of reinforcement. Finally, the implications of the results obtained in this study for the general understanding of memory formation in complex learning situations are discussed.
The proventriculus regulates the food passage from crop to midgut. As the haemolymph provides a constantly updated indication of an insect’s nutritional state, it is assumed that the factor controlling the proventri-culus activity is to be found in the haemolymph. The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to investigate how output (metabolic rate), input (food quality and food quantity) and internal state variables (haemolymph osmolarity and haemolymph sugar titer) affect each other and which of these factors controls the activity of the proventriculus in the honeybee. Therefore free-flying foragers were trained to collect con-trolled amounts of different sugar solutions. Immediately after feeding, metabolic rates were measured over different periods of time, then crop-emptying rates and haemolymph sugar titers were measured for the same individual bees. Under all investigated conditions, both the sugar transport rates through the proventriculus and the haemolyph sugar titers depended mainly on the metabolism. For bees collecting controlled amounts of 15 per cent, 30 per cent or 50 per cent sucrose solution haemolymph trehalose, glucose and fructose titers were constant for metabolic rates from 0 to 4.5 mlCO2/h. At higher metabolic rates, trehalose concentration decreased while that of glucose and fructose increased with the exception of bees fed 15 per cent sucrose solution. As the supply of sugar from the crop via the proventriculus was sufficient to support even the highest metabolic rates, the observed pattern must result from an upper limit in the capacity of the fat body to synthesise trehalose. The maximal rate of conversion of glucose to trehalose in the fat body was therefore calculated to average 92.4 µg glucose/min. However, for bees fed 15 per cent sucrose solution both the rate of conversion of glucose to trehalose and the rate of sugar transport from the crop to the midgut were limited, causing an overall decrease in total haemolymph sugar titers for metabolic rates higher than 5 mlCO2/h. Haemolymph sucrose titers were generally low but increased with increasing metabolic rates, even though sucrose was not always detected in bees with high metabolic rates. Though foragers were able to adjust their sugar transport rates precisely to their metabolic rates, a fixed surplus of sugars was transported through the proventriculus under specific feed-ing conditions. This fixed amount of sugars increased with increasing concentration and in-creasing quantity of fed sugar solution, but decreased with progressing time after feeding. This fixed amount of sugars was independent of the metabolic rates of the bees and of the molarity and viscosity of the fed sugar solution. As long as the bees did not exhaust their crop content, the haemolymph sugar titers were unaffected by the sugar surplus, by the time after feeding, by the concentration and by the viscosity of fed sugar solution. When bees were fed pure glucose (or fructose) solutions, un-usually little fructose (or glucose) was found in the haemolymph, leading to lower total haemolymph sugar titers, while the trehalose titer remained unaffected. In order to investigate the mechanisms underlying the regulation of the honeybee proven-triculus, foraging bees were injected either with metabolisable (glucose, fructose, trehalose), or non-metabolisable sugars (sorbose). Bees reacted to injections of metabolisable sugars with reduced crop-emptying rates, but injection of non-metabolisable sugars had no influence on crop emptying. Therefore it is concluded that the proventriculus regulation is controlled by the concentration of metabolisable compounds in the haemolymph, and not by the haemo-lymph osmolarity. A period of 10min was enough to observe reduced crop emptying rates after injections. It is suggested that glucose and fructose have an effect on the proventriculus activity only via their transformation to trehalose. However, when the bees were already in-jected 5min after feeding, no response was detectable. In addition it was investigated whether the overregulation is the result of feed-forward regulation for the imminent take-off and flight. In a first experiment, we investigated whether the bees release an extra amount of sugar solution very shortly before leaving for the hive. In a second experiment, it was tested whether the distance covered by the bees might have an influence on the surplus amount released prior to the take-off. In a third experiment, it was investigated if walking bees fail to release this extra amount of sugars, as they do not have to fly. Though we were not able to demonstrate that the overregulation is the result of feed-forward regulation for the imminent take-off and flight, it is conceivable that this phenome-non is a fixed reaction in foragers that can not be modulated. To investigate whether regulated haemolymph sugar titers are also observed in honeybee foragers returning from natural food sources, their crop contents and haemolymph sugar titers were investigated. While the quantity of the collected nectar was without influence on the haemolymph sugar titers, foragers showed increasing haemolymph sugar titers of glucose, fructose and sucrose with increasing sugar concentration of the carried nectar. In contrast no relationship between crop nectar concentrations and haemolymph trehalose titers was observed. We are sure that the regulation of food passage from crop to midgut is controlled by the trehalose titer. However, under some conditions the balance between consumption and income is not numerically exact. This imprecision depends on the factors which have an impact on the foraging energetics of the bees but are independent of those without influence on the foraging energetics. Therefore we would assume that the proventriculus activity is modulated by the motivational state of the bees.
Different transgenes that can be expressed in neurons to kill or block them were compared. Tetanus neurotoxin blocked chemical synapses very efficiently. Synapses consisting of a chemical and an electrical component were blocked more reliably by expressing a human inwardly rectifying potassium channel. To gain temporal control over neuronal function, three genetic tools have been investigated. None of the systems is without drawbacks, however, the recombination induced tetanus neurotoxin expression is a promising approach. The knowledge gained from the comparative methodological study was used to investigate the role of neurons in sensory systems in processing different sensory informations. Receptor neurons sensitive for chemical or mechanical stimuli were correlated to specific olfactory behaviors or locomotor tasks. The main topic of this thesis is the much discussed question of which neurons are involved in motion processing in the visual system of flies. Neither L2 nor L4 neurons in the first visual neuropil are essential for motion-detection. The results indicate that maybe motion is detected by the network of amacrine cells (a). The vertical motion-sensitive VS cells in the lobula plate are not necessary for behavioral responses to vertical motion. This finding implies that the lack of VS cells in the structural mutant optomotor blind is not causally related to the altered responses to motion stimuli. Other abnormalities in optomotor blind are responsible for this behavioral phenotype. This work shows the potential of the described methods in studying information processing in the Drosophila brain. Groups of neurons were correlated to complex behavioral responses and theories about information processing were tested by behavioral experiments with transgenic flies. The refinement of the genetic tools to interfere with neuronal function will make the Drosophila brain an even better model to study information processing in nervous systems.
Recent advances in the development of immunoassays and nucleic acid assays have improved the performance and increased the sensitivity of sensors that are based on biochemical recognition. The new approaches taken by researchers include detecting pathogens by detecting their nucleic acids, using new nontoxic reporter entities for generating signals, and downscaling and miniaturizing sensors to micromigration and microfluidic formats. This dissertation connects some of these successful approaches, thereby leading to the development of novel nucleic acid sensors for rapid and easy detection of pathogens. The author's goal was to develop diagnostic tools that enable investigators to detect pathogens rapidly and on site. While the sensors can be used to detect any pathogen, the author first customized them for detecting particularly Cryptosporidium parvum, a pathogen whose detection is important, yet presents many challenges. Chapter 2 of this thesis presents a novel test-strip for the detection of C. parvum. The test-strip is designed to detect nucleic acids rather than proteins or other epitopes. While test strips are commonly used for sensors based on immunological recognition, this format is very new in applications in which nucleic acids are detected. Further, to indicate the presence or absence of a specific target on the test strip, dye-entrapped, oligonucleotide-tagged liposomes are employed. Using liposomes as reporter particles has advantages over using other reporter labels, because the cavity that the phospholipidic membranes of the liposomes form can be filled with up to 106 dye molecules. By using heterobifunctional linkers liposomes can be tagged with oligonucleotides, thereby enabling their use in nucleic acid hybridization assays. The developed test-strip provides an internal control. The limit of detection is 2.7 fmol/mL with a sample volume of 30 mL. In chapter 3 the detection of nucleic acids by means of oligonucleotide-tagged liposomes is scaled down to a microfluidic assay format. Because the application of biosensors to microfluidic formats is very new in the field of analytical chemistry, the first part of this chapter is devoted to developing the design and the method to fabricate the microchip devices. The performance of the microchips is then optimized by investigating the interactions of nucleic acids and liposomes with the material the chips consist of and by passivating the surface of the chips with blocking reagents. The developed microfluidic chip enabled us to reduce the sample volume needed for one assay to 12.5 mL. The limit of detection of this assay was determined to be 0.4 fmol/mL. Chapters 4 and 5 expand on the development of the microfluidic assay. A prototype microfluidic array that is able to detect multiple analytes in a single sample simultaneously is developed. Using such an array will enable investigators to detect pathogens that occur in the same environment, for example, C. parvum and Giardia duodenalis by conducting a single test. The array's ability to perform multiple sample analysis is shown by detecting different concentrations of target nucleic acids. Further, the author developed a microfluidic chip in which interdigitated microelectrode arrays (IDAs) that consist of closely spaced microelectrodes are integrated. The IDAs facilitate electrochemical detection of cryptosporidial RNA. Electrochemical detection schemes offer benefits of technical simplicity, speed, and sensitivity. In this project liposomes are filled with electrochemically active molecules and are then utilized to generate electrochemical signals. Chapter 6 explores the feasibility of liposomes for enhancing signals derived from nucleic acid hybridization in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy. SPR spectroscopy offers advantages because nucleic acid hybridization can be monitored in real time and under homogeneous conditions because no washing steps are required. SPR spectroscopy is very sensitive and it can be expected that, in the future, SPR will be integrated into microfluidic nucleic acid sensors.