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The detrimental impacts of climate variability on water, agriculture, and food resources in East Africa underscore the importance of reliable seasonal climate prediction. To overcome this difficulty RARIMAE method were evolved. Applications RARIMAE in the literature shows that amalgamating different methods can be an efficient and effective way to improve the forecasts of time series under consideration. With these motivations, attempt have been made to develop a multiple linear regression model (MLR) and a RARIMAE models for forecasting seasonal rainfall in east Africa under the following objectives:
1. To develop MLR model for seasonal rainfall prediction in East Africa.
2. To develop a RARIMAE model for seasonal rainfall prediction in East Africa.
3. Comparison of model's efficiency under consideration
In order to achieve the above objectives, the monthly precipitation data covering the period from 1949 to 2000 was obtained from Climate Research Unit (CRU). Next to that, the first differenced climate indices were used as predictors.
In the first part of this study, the analyses of the rainfall fluctuation in whole Central- East Africa region which span over a longitude of 15 degrees East to 55 degrees East and a latitude of 15 degrees South to 15 degrees North was done by the help of maps. For models’ comparison, the R-squared values for the MLR model are subtracted from the R-squared values of RARIMAE model. The results show positive values which indicates that R-squared is improved by RARIMAE model. On the other side, the root mean square errors (RMSE) values of the RARIMAE model are subtracted from the RMSE values of the MLR model and the results show negative value which indicates that RMSE is reduced by RARIMAE model for training and testing datasets.
For the second part of this study, the area which is considered covers a longitude of 31.5 degrees East to 41 degrees East and a latitude of 3.5 degrees South to 0.5 degrees South. This region covers Central-East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), north of Burundi, south of Uganda, Rwanda, north of Tanzania and south of Kenya. Considering a model constructed based on the average rainfall time series in this region, the long rainfall season counts the nine months lead of the first principal component of Indian sea level pressure (SLP_PC19) and the nine months lead of Dipole Mode Index (DMI_LR9) as selected predictors for both statistical and predictive model. On the other side, the short rainfall season counts the three months lead of the first principal component of Indian sea surface temperature (SST_PC13) and the three months lead of Southern Oscillation Index (SOI_SR3) as predictors for predictive model. For short rainfall season statistical model SAOD current time series (SAOD_SR0) was added on the two predictors in predictive model. By applying a MLR model it is shown that the forecast can explain 27.4% of the total variation and has a RMSE of 74.2mm/season for long rainfall season while for the RARIMAE the forecast explains 53.6% of the total variation and has a RMSE of 59.4mm/season. By applying a MLR model it is shown that the forecast can explain 22.8% of the total variation and has a RMSE of 106.1 mm/season for short rainfall season predictive model while for the RARIMAE the forecast explains 55.1% of the total variation and has a RMSE of 81.1 mm/season.
From such comparison, a significant rise in R-squared, a decrease of RMSE values were observed in RARIMAE models for both short rainfall and long rainfall season averaged time series. In terms of reliability, RARIMAE outperformed its MLR counterparts with better efficiency and accuracy. Therefore, whenever the data suffer from autocorrelation, we can go for MLR with ARIMA error, the ARIMA error part is more to correct the autocorrelation thereby improving the variance and productiveness of the model.
Ubiquitination is a posttranslational modification with immense impact on a wide range of cellular processes, including proteasomal degradation, membrane dynamics, transcription, translation, cell cycle, apoptosis, DNA repair and immunity. These diverse functions stem from the various ubiquitin chain types, topologies, and attachment sites on substrate proteins. Substrate recruitment and modification on lysine, serine or threonine residues is catalyzed by ubiquitin ligases (E3s). An important E3 that decides about the fate of numerous substrates is the HECT-type ubiquitin ligase HUWE1. Depending on the substrate, HUWE1 is involved in different processes, such as cell proliferation and differentiation, DNA repair, and transcription. One of the transcription factors that is ubiquitinated by HUWE1 is the MYC interacting zinc finger protein 1 (MIZ1). MIZ1 is a BTB/POZ (Bric-à-brac, Tramtrack and Broad-Complex/Pox virus and zinc finger) zinc finger (ZF) protein that binds to DNA through its 13 C2H2-type zinc fingers and either activates or represses the transcription of target genes, including genes involved in cell cycle arrest, such as P21CIP1 (CDKN1A). The precise functions of MIZ1 depend on its interactions with the MYC-MAX heterodimer, but also its heterodimerization with other BTB-ZF proteins, such as BCL6 or NAC1. How MIZ1 interacts with HUWE1 has not been studied and, as a consequence, it has not been possible to rationally develop tools to manipulate this interaction with specificity in order to better understand the effects of the interaction on the transcriptional function of MIZ1 on target genes or processes downstream. One aspect of my research, therefore, aimed at characterizing the MIZ1-HUWE1 interaction at a structural level. I determined a crystal structure of the MIZ1-BTB-domain in complex with a peptide, referred to as ASC, derived from a C terminal region of HUWE1, previously named ‘activation segment’. The binding mode observed in this crystal structure could be validated by binding and activity assays in vitro and by cell-based co-IP experiments in the context of N-terminally truncated HUWE1 constructs. I was not able to provide unambiguous evidence for the identified binding mode in the context of full-length HUWE1, indicating that MIZ1 recognition by HUWE1 requires yet unknown regions in the cell. While the structural details of the MIZ1-HUWE1 interaction remains to be elucidated in the context of the full-length proteins, the binding mode between MIZ1BTB and ASC revealed an interesting, atypical structural feature of the BTB domain of MIZ1 that, to my knowledge, has not been described for other BTB-ZF proteins: The B3 region in MIZ1BTB is conformationally malleable, which allows for a HUWE1-ASC-peptide-mediated β-sheet extension of the upper B1/B2-strands, resulting in a mixed, 3 stranded β-sheet. Such β-sheet extension does not appear to occur in other homo- or heterodimeric BTB-ZF proteins, including MIZ1-heterodimers, since these proteins typically possess a pre-formed B3-strand in at least one subunit. Instead, BCL6 co repressor-derived peptides (SMRT and BCOR) were found to extend the lower β-sheet in BCL6BTB by binding to an adjacent ‘lateral groove’. This interaction follows a 1:1 stoichiometry, whereas the MIZ1BTB-ASC-complex shows a 2:1 stoichiometry. The crystal structure of the MIZ1BTB-ASC-complex I determined, along with comparative binding studies of ASC with monomeric, homodimeric, and heterodimeric MIZ1BTB variants, respectively, suggests that ASC selects for MIZ1BTB homodimers. The structural data I generated may serve as an entry point for the prediction of additional interaction partners of MIZ1 that also have the ability to extend the upper β-sheet of MIZ1BTB. If successful, such interaction partners and structures thereof might aid the design of peptidomimetics or small-molecule inhibitors of MIZ1 signaling. Proof-of-principle for such a structure-guided approach targeting BTB domains has been provided by small-molecule inhibitors of BCL6BTB co-repressors interactions. If a similar approach led to molecules that interfere with specific interactions of MIZ1, they would provide intriguing probes to study MIZ1 biology and may eventually allow for the development of MIZ1-directed cancer therapeutics.
The present thesis concerns the molecular imaging of opioid receptors and human butyrylcholinesterase with the aid of tailored probes, which are suitable for the respective applied imaging techniques. The first part focusses on imaging of opioid receptors with selective probes using total internal reflection- and single molecule fluorescence microscopy. Design and synthesis of the ligands are presented and their pharmacological characterization and application in microscopy experiments are shown. The second part of this thesis focused on the development of 18F-labeled, selective radiotracers for imaging of butyrylcholinesterase via positron emission tomography. The design and synthesis of each a reversible and pseudoirreversible 18F-labeled tracer are presented. After evaluation of the binding properties of each tracer, their initial application in ex vivo autoradiography- and preliminary in vivo microPET studies is described and analyzed.
In eukaryotes, the enormously long DNA molecules need to be packaged together with histone proteins into nucleosomes and further into compact chromatin structures to fit it into the nucleus. This nuclear organisation interferes with all phases of transcription that require the polymerase to bind to DNA. During transcription – the process in which the hereditary information stored in DNA is transferred to many transportable RNA molecules - nucleosomes form a physical obstacle for polymerase progression. Thus, transcription is usually accompanied by processes mediating nucleosome destabilisation, including post-translational histone modifications (PTMs) or exchange of canonical histones by their variant forms. To the best of our knowledge, acetylation of histones has the highest capability to induce chromatin opening. The lysine modification can destabilise histone-DNA interactions within a nucleosome and can serve as a binding site for various chromatin remodelers that can modify the nucleosome composition. For example, H4 acetylation can impede chromatin folding and can stimulate the exchange of canonical H2A histone by its variant form H2A.Z at transcription start sites (TSSs) in many eukaryotes, including humans. As histone H4, H2A.Z can be post-translationally acetylated and as acetylated H4, acetylated H2A.Z is enriched at TSSs suggested to be critical for transcription. However, thus far, it has been difficult to study the cause and consequence of H2A.Z acetylation.
Even though, genome-wide chromatin profiling studies such as ChIP-seq have already revealed the genomic localisation of many histone PTMs and variant proteins, they can only be used to study individual chromatin marks and not to identify all factors important for establishing a distinct chromatin structure. This would require a comprehensive understanding of all marks associated to a specific genomic locus. However, thus far, such analyses of locus-specific chromatin have only been successful for repetitive regions, such as telomeres.
In my doctoral thesis, I used the unicellular parasite Trypanosoma brucei as a model system for chromatin biology and took advantage of its chromatin landscape with TSSs comprising already 7% of the total T. brucei genome (humans: 0.00000156%). Atypical for a eukaryote, the protein-coding genes are arranged in long polycistronic transcription units (PTUs). Each PTU is controlled by its own ~10 kb-wide TSS, that lies upstream of the PTU. As observed in other eukaryotes, TSSs are enriched with nucleosomes containing acetylated histones and the histone variant H2A.Z. This is why I used T. brucei to particularly investigate the TSS-specific chromatin structures and to identify factors involved in H2A.Z deposition and transcription regulation in eukaryotes. To this end, I established an approach for locus-specific chromatin isolation that would allow me to identify the TSSs- and non-TSS-specific chromatin marks. Later, combining the approach with a method for quantifying lysine-specific histone acetylation levels, I found H2A.Z and H4 acetylation enriched in TSSs-nucleosomes and mediated by the histone acetyltransferases HAT1 and HAT2. Depletion of HAT2 reduced the levels of TSS-specific H4 acetylation, affected targeted H2A.Z deposition and shifted the sites of transcription initiation. Whereas HAT1 depletion had only a minor effect on H2A.Z deposition, it had a strong effect on H2A.Z acetylation and transcription levels. My findings demonstrate a clear link between histone acetylation, H2A.Z deposition and transcription initiation in the early diverged unicellular parasite T. brucei, which was thus far not possible to determine in other eukaryotes. Overall, my study highlights the usefulness of T. brucei as a model system for studying chromatin biology. My findings allow the conclusion that H2A.Z regardless of its modification state defines sites of transcription initiation, whereas H2A.Z acetylation is essential co-factor for transcription initiation. Altogether, my data suggest that TSS-specific chromatin establishment is one of the earliest developed mechanisms to control transcription initiation in eukaryotes.
Reactive hydrocarbon species are important in a multitude of different scientific areas. In this thesis, the vibrational spectra of hydrocarbon radicals, biradicals and their reaction product have been studied in a gas-phase environment. The specific molecules investigated here, are of particular importance in the field of combustion and astrochemistry. They were produced from suitable precursors in a pyrolytically heated micro-reactor and subsequently seeded in an appropriate carrier gas. As methodology, IR/UV ion dip spectroscopy has been utilized, which delivers massselected gas-phase IR spectra of all ionizable species detectable in the molecular beam. These, with the help of DFT calculations, allow for determination of the fingerprint IR spectra, identification of mass carriers and formulation of potential reaction mechanisms. All studies have been conducted in collaboration with the group of Prof. Dr. Anouk M. Rjis and the necessary potent IR radiation has been provided by the free-electron laser FELIX. Thus, the IR/UV measurements have been executed at the FELIX Laboratory of the Radboud University in Nijmegen. The first study presented in this thesis is the investigation of ortho-benzyne in Chapter 3.1. This molecule is of particular interest due to its uncommon electronic structure and its role in high-temperature reactions. Although, the infrared spectrum of o-C6H4 was not accessible, a number of reaction products were identified via their fingerprint spectra. Masses in the range from 78 - 228 were assigned to their respective carrier. The identified species include typical PAHs like naphthalene, phenanthrene, up to triphenylene. The identified masses further suggest a PAH growth heavily influenced by diradical 1,4-cycloaddition followed by fragmentation, as well as by classical HACA- and PAC-like mechanisms. These results were augmented by threshold photoionization measurements from Engelbert Reusch, who identified lighter reaction products, which have insufficient IR absorption or unsuitable ionization characteristics to be identified in the IR/UV experiment. An interesting observation is the identification of m/z = 152. This carrier has been assigned differently by the IR and TPES experiments. Whereas the IR spectrum clearly identifies the species as 2-ethynylnaphthalene, the TPES evidently is in great agreement with biphenylene. This is a good example how different experimental methodologies can benefit from each other to gain a deeper insight into the actual science of a particular system. Probably, the prime example for an aromatically resonance stabilized radical is benzyl. This radical is of high importance for many combustion studies, as it represents the primary high-temperature decomposition product of toluene. The goal of the study was the identification of the benzyl self reaction products and the results are discussed in Section 3.2. The radical was pyrolytically produced by its respective nitrite precursor. The mass spectrum showed that the benzyl self reaction formed two products with C11 and three with C14 constitution. All mass peaks were evenly spaced by two mass units, respectively, which suggests a close relation in formation. Indeed, the C11 products were identified as diphenylmethane and fluorene, which are simply connected via cyclization. The heaviest product was identified as phenanthrene, which is formed via the cyclization of bibenzyl to 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene and subsequent elimination of hydrogen. This result was quiet interesting as the intermediate of this reaction was often assumed to be stilbene, which was not observed in the study. Hence, the reaction seems to undergo cyclization first before phenanthrene is finally formed via hydrogen elimination. Expanding the molecular frame of benzyl by an additional methyl group leads to the xylyl radicals and its decomposition product the xylylenes. Also important in combustion research, xylyl radicals represent the preferred decomposition products of xylene, a frequently used anti-knock agent in modern gasoline blends. After further hydrogen elimination the xylyl radicals can then form their respective xylylenes. The results of the xylyl experiments are discussed in Section 3.3. Here the gas-phase vibrational spectrum in the fingerprint region for all three isomers has been recorded for the first time in isolation. Although, all isomers have a very similar structure and symmetry, and consequently similar vibrational bands, the resolution of the experimental data was exceedingly sufficient for a clear assignment. Additionally, the dimerization products of meta- and para-xylyl could also be identified. A similar approach was taken to determine the fingerprint spectra for the xylylenes. Here, only para-xylylene could be unambiguously identified as the carrier of mass 104. For both ortho- and meta-xylylene precursors, only isomerization products were observed as the carriers of mass 104; benzocyclobutene and styrene, respectively. A possible explanation is elaborated upon in the troubleshooting Sec- tion 3.4.3.5. In the final experimental section a study on the decomposition of phthalide is presented. The objective of this experiment was mainly focused around the formation of C7 species, particularly the fulvenallenyl radical C7H5. In fact, the first experimental fingerprint spectrum of isolated C7H5 in the gas-phase was measured and is displayed in Fig. 3.45. Furthermore, the experiment demonstrates that the pyrolysis products of phthalide are excellent soot precursors, as many heavier reaction products have been identified. These include typical PAH species like naphthalene and phenanthrene as well as their methylated isomers. A large number of molecules with terminal ethynyl moieties indicate a strong influence of HACA growth in the experimental environment. However, many formation pathways of products have been discussed, which are formed involving experiment specific species, like C5H5 and C7H5, and often include expansion steps from 5- to 6-membered rings.
The use of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) for cell-based therapeutic approaches, in terms of repair and regeneration of various tissues and organs, offers an alternative therapeutic tool in the field of regenerative medicine. The ability of ASCs to differentiate along mesenchymal lineages is not the only property that makes these cells particularly attractive for therapeutic purposes. Their promising functions in promoting angiogenesis, reducing inflammation as well as in functional tissue restoration are largely related to the trophic effects of a broad panel of secreted cytokines and growth factors. However, in cell-based approaches, the cell-loaded construct often is exposed to an ischemic microenvironment characterized by severe oxidative and nutritional stress after transplantation due to the initial lack of vascular connection, resulting in reduced cell viability and altered cell behaviour. Therefore, the effective use of ASCs in regenerative medicine first requires a comprehensive characterization of the cells in terms of their viability, differentiation capacity and especially their secretory capabilities under ischemia-mimicking conditions in order to better understand their beneficial role. Accordingly, in the first part of this work, ASCs were investigated under different ischemic conditions, in which cells were exposed to both glucose and oxygen deprivation, with respect to viability and secretory function. Using mRNA gene expression analysis, significantly higher expression of selected angiogenic, anti-apoptotic and immunomodulatory factors (IL-6, VEGF, STC-1) could be demonstrated under harsh ischemic conditions. These results were reflected at the protein expression level by a significantly increased secretion of these factors. For stanniocalcin-1 (STC-1), a factor not yet described in ASCs, a particularly high expression with significant secreted amounts of the protein could be demonstrated under harsh ischemic conditions. Thus, the first part of this work, in addition to the characterization of the viability, provided first insights into the secretory response of ASCs under ischemic conditions.
The response of ASCs to glucose deficiency in combination with severe hypoxia has been little explored to date. Thus, the focus of the second part of this work was on a more detailed investigation of the secretory response of ASCs under glucose and oxygen deprivation. For a more comprehensive analysis of the secretion profile, a cytokine antibody array was performed, which allowed the detection of a broad panel of secreted angiogenic factors
(IL-8, ANG), matrix-regulating proteins (TIMP-1, TIMP-2), chemokines (MCP-1/CCL2,
IP-10/CXCL 10) and other factors under ischemic conditions. To verify these results, selected factors were examined using ELISA. The analysis revealed that the secretion of individual factors (e.g., STC-1, VEGF) was significantly upregulated by the combination of glucose and oxygen deprivation compared to oxygen deprivation alone.
In order to investigate the impact of the secretome of ischemic ASCs on cell types involved in tissue regeneration, the effect of conditioned medium of ischemia-challenged ASCs on both endothelial cells and fibroblasts was investigated in subsequent experiments. Significantly increased viability and tube formation of endothelial cells as well as activated migration of fibroblasts by the secreted factors of ischemic ASCs could be demonstrated. A direct correlation of these effects to STC-1, which was significantly upregulated under ischemic conditions and has been described as a regulator of key cellular functions, could not be verified.
The particular secretory capacity of ASCs provides a valuable tool for cell-based therapies, such as cell-assisted lipotransfer (CAL), where by enriching fat grafts with isolated ASCs, a significantly improved survival rate of the transplanted construct is achieved with less resorption of the fat tissue as well as a reduction in adverse implications, such as fibrosis and cyst formation. In order to better understand the function of ASCs in CAL, an autologous transwell-based lipograft-ASC co-culture was established in the last part of this work, in which first investigations showed a markedly increased secretion of VEGF compared to lipografts without added ASCs. As the stability rate of the fat tissue and thus the success of CAL is presumably also dependent on the preparation of the tissue before transplantation, the conventional preparation method of fat tissue for vocal fold augmentation in laryngoplasty was additionally evaluated in vitro in a pilot experiment. By analyzing the viability and tissue structure of the clinically prepared injection material, a large number of dead cells and a clearly damaged tissue structure with necrotic areas could be demonstrated. In comparison, the preparation method of the fat tissue established in this work as small tissue fragments was able to provide a clearly intact, vital, and vascularized tissue structure. This type of adipose tissue preparation represents a promising alternative for clinical vocal fold augmentation.
In conclusion, the results of this work contribute to a comprehensive characterization of ASCs under ischemic conditions, such as those prevalent at the transplantation site or in tissue regeneration. The results obtained, especially on the secretory capacity of ASCs, provide new insights into how ASCs mediate regenerative effects in an ischemic milieu and why their use for therapeutic purposes is highly attractive and promising.
After examining suitable parameters for a newly designed system, dynamic SIPGP could be developed. For the first time, SIPGP was performed while applying a constant flow of monomer solution through the reaction system. This added a new parameter: the flow rate (rfl). Accordingly, this parameter was examined, comparing dynamic to static SIPGP. It could be shown, that by applying higher rfl to the system, the contact angle increases, which indicates a slower coating. The flow patterns inside the reactor were then modelled and calculated. These calculations indicated, that, due to higher flow velocities, the contact angle on the coated samples would be lower on the sides of the sample and higher in the middle. This finding was verified by contact angle measurements. The influence of dynamic SIPGP on the temperature inside the reaction chamber during the reaction was examined by temperature sensors inside the reactor. This showed, that the constant flow of monomer solution can be utilized to decrease the warming of the reaction solution during the reaction. Finally it was shown, that dynamic SIPGP can decrease the formation of bulk polymer on the sample, which is forming during the reaction. This enables SIPGP to fabricate more homogeneous coatings by applying a constant monomer flow.
Articular cartilage damage caused by sports accidents, trauma or gradual wear and tear can lead to degeneration and the development of osteoarthritis because cartilage tissue has only limited capacity for intrinsic healing. Osteoarthritis causes reduction of mobility and chronic pain and is one of the leading causes of disability in the elderly population. Current clinical treatment options can reduce pain and restore mobility for some time, but the formed repair tissue has mostly inferior functionality compared to healthy articular cartilage and does not last long-term. Articular cartilage tissue engineering is a promising approach for the improvement of the quality of cartilage repair tissue and regeneration. In this thesis, a promising new cell type for articular cartilage tissue engineering, the so-called articular cartilage progenitor cell (ACPC), was investigated for the first time in the two different hydrogels agarose and HA-SH/P(AGE-co-G) in comparison to mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs). In agarose, ACPCs´ and MSCs´ chondrogenic capacity was investigated under normoxic (21 % oxygen) and hypoxic (2 % oxygen) conditions in monoculture constructs and in zonally layered co-culture constructs with ACPCs in the upper layer and MSCs in the lower layer. In the newly developed hyaluronic acid (HA)-based hydrogel HA-SH/P(AGE-co-G), chondrogenesis of ACPCs and MSCs was also evaluated in monoculture constructs and in zonally layered co-culture constructs like in agarose hydrogel. Additionally, the contribution of the bioactive molecule hyaluronic acid to chondrogenic gene expression of MSCs was investigated in 2D monolayer, 3D pellet and HA-SH hydrogel culture. It was shown that both ACPCs and MSCs could chondrogenically differentiate in agarose and HA-SH/P(AGE-co-G) hydrogels. In agarose hydrogel, ACPCs produced a more articular cartilage-like tissue than MSCs that contained more glycosaminoglycan (GAG), less type I collagen and only little alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity. Hypoxic conditions did not increase extracellular matrix (ECM) production of ACPCs and MSCs significantly but improved the quality of the neo-cartilage tissue produced by MSCs. The creation of zonal agarose constructs with ACPCs in the upper layer and MSCs in the lower layer led to an ECM production in zonal hydrogels that lay in general in between the ECM production of non-zonal ACPC and MSC hydrogels. Even though zonal co-culture of ACPCs and MSCs did not increase ECM production, the two cell types influenced each other and, for example, modulated the staining intensities of type II and type I collagen in comparison to non-zonal constructs under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. In HA-SH/P(AGE-co-G) hydrogel, MSCs produced more ECM than ACPCs, but the ECM was limited to the pericellular region for both cell types. Zonal HASH/P(AGE-co-G) hydrogels resulted in a native-like zonal distribution of ECM as MSCs in the lower zone produced more ECM than ACPCs in the upper zone. It appeared that chondrogenesis of ACPCs was supported by hydrogels without biological attachment sites such as agarose, and that chondrogenesis of MSCs benefited from hydrogels with biological cues like HA. As HA is an attractive material for cartilage tissue engineering, and the HA-based hydrogel HA-SH/P(AGE-co-G) appeared to be beneficial for MSC chondrogenic differentiation, the contribution of HA to chondrogenic gene expression of MSCs was investigated. An upregulation of chondrogenic gene expression was found in 2D monolayer and 3D pellet culture of MSCs in response to HA supplementation, while gene expression of osteogenic and adipogenic transcription factors was not upregulated. MSCs, encapsulated in a HA-based hydrogel, showed upregulation of gene expression for chondrogenic, osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation markers as well as for stemness markers. In a 3D bioprinting process, using the HA-based hydrogel, gene expression levels of MSCs mostly did not change. Nevertheless, expression of three tested genes (COL2A1, SOX2, CD168) was downregulated in printed in comparison to cast constructs, underscoring the importance of closely monitoring cellular behaviour during and after the printing process. In summary, it was confirmed that ACPCs are a promising cell source for articular cartilage engineering with advantages over MSCs when they were cultured in a suitable hydrogel like agarose. The performance of the cells was strongly dependent on the hydrogel environment they were cultured in. The different chondrogenic performance of ACPCs and MSCs in agarose and HA-SH/P(AGE-co-G) hydrogels highlighted the importance of choosing suitable hydrogels for the different cell types used in articular cartilage tissue engineering. Hydrogels with high polymer content, such as the investigated HA-SH/P(AGE-co-G) hydrogels, can limit ECM distribution to the pericellular area and should be developed further towards less polymer content, leading to more homogenous ECM distribution of the cultured cells. The influence of HA on chondrogenic gene expression and on the balance between differentiation and maintenance of stemness in MSCs was demonstrated. More studies should be performed in the future to further elucidate the signalling functions of HA and the effects of 3D bioprinting in HA-based hydrogels. Taken together, the results of this thesis expand the knowledge in the area of articular cartilage engineering with regard to the rational combination of cell types and hydrogel materials and open up new possible approaches to the regeneration of articular cartilage tissue.
Remote sensing time series is the collection or acquisition of remote sensing data in a
fixed equally spaced time period over a particular area or for the whole world. Near
daily high spatial resolution data is very much needed for remote sensing applications
such as agriculture monitoring, phenology change detection, environmental
monitoring and so on. Remote sensing applications can produce better and accurate
results if they are provided with dense and accurate time series of data. The current
remote sensing satellite architecture is still not capable of providing near daily
or daily high spatial resolution images to fulfill the needs of the above mentioned
remote sensing applications. Limitations in sensors, high development, operational
costs of satellites and presence of clouds blocking the area of observation are some
of the reasons that makes near daily or daily high spatial resolution optical remote
sensing data highly challenging to achieve. With developments in the optical sensor
systems and well planned remote sensing satellite constellations, this condition
can be improved but it comes at a cost. Even then the issue will not be completely
resolved and thus the growing need for high temporal and high spatial resolution
data cannot be fulfilled entirely. Because the data collection process relies on satellites
which are physical system, these can fail unpredictably due to various reasons
and cause a complete loss of observation for a given period of time making a gap
in the time series. Moreover, to observe the long term trend in phenology change
due to rapidly changing environmental conditions, the remote sensing data from
the present is not just sufficient, the data from the past is also important. A better
alternative solution for this issue can be the generation of remote sensing time series
by fusing data from multiple remote sensing satellite which has different spatial and
temporal resolutions. This approach will be effective and efficient. In this method
a high temporal low spatial resolution image from a satellite such as Sentinel-2 can
be fused with a low temporal and high spatial resolution image from a satellite such
as the Sentinel-3 to generate a synthetic high temporal high spatial resolution data.
Remote sensing time series generation by data fusion methods can be applied to
the satellite images captured currently as well as the images captured by the satellites
in the past. This will provide the much needed high temporal and high spatial
resolution images for remote sensing applications. This approach with its simplistic
nature is cost effective and provides the researchers the means to generate the
data needed for their application on their own from the limited source of data available
to them. An efficient data fusion approach in combination with a well planned
satellite constellation can offer a solution which will ensure near daily time series of
remote sensing data with out any gap. The aim of this research work is to develop
an efficient data fusion approaches to achieve dense remote sensing time series.
In deafness, which is caused by the malfunctioning of the inner ear, an implantation of a cochlear implant (CI) is able to restore hearing. The CI is a neural prosthesis that is located within the cochlea. It replaces the function of the inner hair cells by direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve fibers. The CI enables many deaf or severe hearing-impaired people to achieve a good speech perception. Nevertheless, there is a lot of potential for further improvements. Compared to normal-hearing listeners rate pitch discrimination is much worse. Rate pitch discrimination is the ability to distinguish the pitch of two stimuli with two different pulse rates. This ability is important for enjoying music as well as speech perception (in noise). Further, the small dynamic range in electrical hearing (compared to normal-hearing listeners) and therefore the small intensity resolution limits the performance of CI users. Both, rate pitch coding and dynamic range were investigated in this doctoral thesis.
For the first issue, a pitch discrimination task was designed to determine the just-noticeable-difference (JND) in pitch with 200 and 400 pps as reference. Additionally to the default biphasic pulse (single pulse) the experiment was performed with double pulses. The double pulse consists out of two biphasic pulses directly after each other and a small interpulse interval (IPI) in between. Three different IPIs (15, 50, and 150 µs) were tested. The statistical analysis of JNDs revealed no significant effects between stimulation with single-pulse or double-pulse trains.
A follow-up study investigated an alternating pulse train consisting of single and double pulses. To investigate if the 400 pps alternating pulse train is comparable in pitch with the 400 pps single-pulse train, a pairwise pitch comparison test was conducted. The alternating pulse train was compared with single-pulse trains at 200, 300 and 400 pps. The results showed that the alternating pulse train is for most subjects similar in pitch with the 200 pps single-pulse train. Therefore, pitch perception seemed to be dominated by the double pulses within the pulse train.
Accordingly, double pulses with different amplitudes were tested. Based on the facilitation effect, a larger neuronal response was expected by stimulating with two pulses with a short IPI within the temporal facilitation range. In other studies, this effect was shown to be maximal in CIs of the manufacturer Cochlear, with first pulse amplitudes set at or slightly below the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) threshold. The second pulse amplitude did not influence the facilitation effect and therefore could be choose at will. Similarly, this effect was tested in this thesis with CIs of the manufacturer MED-EL. Nevertheless, to achieve a proper signal-to-noise ratio, technical issues had to be addressed like a high noise floor, resulting in incorrect determination of the ECAP threshold. After solving this issues, the maximum facilitation effect was around the ECAP threshold as in the previous study with Cochlear. For future studies this effect could be used in a modified double pulse rate pitch experiment with the first pulse amplitude at ECAP threshold and the second pulse amplitude variable to set the most comfortable loudness level (MCL).
The last study within this thesis investigated the loudness perception at two different loudness levels and the resulting dynamic range for different interphase-gaps (IPG). A larger IPG can reduce the amplitude at same loudness level to save battery power. However, it was unknown if the IPG has an influence on the dynamic range. Different IPGs (10 and 30 µs) were compared with the default IPG (2.1 µs) in a loudness matching experiment. The experiment was performed at the most comfortable loudness level (MCL) of the subject and the amplitude of half the dynamic range (50%-ADR). An upper dynamic range was calculated from the results of MCL and 50%-ADR (therefore not the whole dynamic range was covered). As expected from previous studies a larger IPG resulted in smaller amplitudes. However, the observed effect was larger at MCL than at 50%-ADR which resulted in a smaller upper dynamic range. This is the first time a decrease of this dynamic range was shown.
Design of novel IL-4 antagonists employing site-specific chemical and biosynthetic glycosylation
(2021)
The cytokines interleukin 4 (IL-4) and IL-13 are important mediators in the humoral immune response and play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, allergies, and atopic dermatitis. Hence, IL-4 and IL-13 are key targets for treatment of such atopic diseases.
For cell signalling IL-4 can use two transmembrane receptor assemblies, the type I receptor consisting of receptors IL-4R and γc, and type II receptor consisting of receptors IL-4R and IL-13R1. The type II receptor is also the functional receptor of IL-13, receptor sharing being the molecular basis for the partially overlapping effects of IL-4 and IL-13. Since both cytokines require the IL-4R receptor for signal transduction, this allows the dual inhibition of both IL-4 and IL-13 by specifically blocking the receptor IL-4R.
This study describes the design and synthesis of novel antagonistic variants of human IL-4. Chemical modification was used to target positions localized in IL-4 binding sites for γc and IL-13R1 but outside of the binding epitope for IL-4R. In contrast to existing studies, which used synthetic chemical compounds like polyethylene glycol for modification of IL-4, we employed glycan molecules as a natural alternative. Since glycosylation can improve important pharmacological parameters of protein therapeutics, such as immunogenicity and serum half-life, the introduced glycan molecules thus would not only confer a steric hindrance based inhibitory effect but simultaneously might improve the pharmacokinetic profile of the IL-4 antagonist.
For chemical conjugation of glycan molecules, IL-4 variants containing additional cysteine residues were produced employing prokaryotic, as well as eukaryotic expression systems. The thiol-groups of the engineered cysteines thereby allow highly specific modification. Different strategies were developed enabling site-directed coupling of amine- or thiol- functionalized monosaccharides to introduced cysteine residues in IL-4. A linker-based coupling procedure and an approach requiring phenylselenyl bromide activation of IL-4 thiol-groups were hampered by several drawbacks, limiting their feasibility. Surprisingly, a third strategy, which involved refolding of IL-4 cysteine variants in the presence of thiol- glycans, readily allowed synthesis of IL-4 glycoconjugates in form of mixed disulphides in milligram amount. This approach, therefore, has the potential for large-scale synthesis of IL-4 antagonists with highly defined glycosylation. Obtaining a homogenous glycoconjugate with exactly defined glycan pattern would allow using the attached glycan structures for fine-tuning of pharmacokinetic properties of the IL-4 antagonist, such as absorption and metabolic stability.
The IL-4 glycoconjugates generated in this work proved to be highly effective antagonists inhibiting IL-4 and/or IL-13 dependent responses in cell-based experiments and in in vitro binding studies. Glycoengineered IL-4 antagonists thus present valuable alternatives to IL-4 inhibitors used for treatment of atopic diseases such as the neutralizing anti-IL-4R antibody Dupilumab.
The incidence of cancer cases is rising steadily, while improved early detection and new cancer-specific therapies are reducing the mortality rate. In addition to curing cancer or prolonging life, increasing the quality of life is thus an important goal of oncology, which is why the burdens of cancer and treatment are becoming more important. A common side effect of cancer and its therapy is cancer-related fatigue, a tiredness that manifests itself on physical, emotional and cognitive levels and is not in proportion to previous physical efforts. Since the etiology of fatigue has not yet been fully clarified, symptom-oriented therapy is preferable to cause-specific therapy. In addition to activity management, sleep hygiene, and cognitive behavioral therapy, mind-body interventions such as yoga are recommended for reducing fatigue.
Previous studies with small sample sizes were able to examine the efficacy of yoga regarding fatigue predominantly in patients with breast cancer. Long-term effects of yoga have rarely been studied and there have been no attempts to increase long-term effects through interventions such as reminder e-mails. This dissertation takes a closer look at these mentioned aspects of the study sample and long-term effects. An 8-week randomized controlled yoga intervention was conducted, including patients with different cancer types reporting mild to severe fatigue. Following the 8-week yoga therapy, a randomized group of participants received weekly reminder e-mails for 6 months for regular yoga practice, whereas the control group did not receive reminder e-mails.
The first paper is a protocol article, which addresses the design and planned implementation of the research project this dissertation is based upon. This serves to ensure better replicability and comparability with other yoga studies. Due to a very low consent rate of patients in the pilot phase, it was necessary to deviate from the protocol article in the actual implementation and the planned inclusion criterion of fatigue >5 was reduced to fatigue >1.
The second paper examines the efficacy of the eight-week yoga intervention. Patients in the intervention group who participated in the yoga classes seven times or more showed a significantly greater reduction in general and physical fatigue than those who participated less often. The efficacy of yoga was related to the number of attended yoga sessions. Women with breast cancer who participated in yoga reported greater reductions in fatigue than women with other cancer types. There was also an improvement for depression and quality of life after eight weeks of yoga therapy compared to no yoga therapy. These results imply that yoga is helpful in reducing depression and cancer-related fatigue, especially in terms of physical aspects and improving quality of life.
The third paper focuses on the efficacy of reminder e-mails in terms of fatigue and practice frequency. Patients who received reminder e-mails reported greater reductions in general and emotional fatigue, as well as significant increases in practice frequency, compared to patients who did not receive reminder e-mails. Compared to fatigue scores before yoga, significantly lower fatigue and depression scores and higher quality of life were reported after yoga therapy and at follow-up six months later. Weekly e-mail reminders after yoga therapy may have positive effects on general and emotional fatigue and help cancer patients with fatigue establish a regular yoga practice at home. However, higher practice frequency did not lead to higher improvement in physical fatigue as found in Paper 2. This may indicate other factors that influence the efficacy of yoga practice on physical fatigue, such as mindfulness or side effects of therapy.
This research project provides insight into the efficacy of yoga therapy for oncology patients with fatigue. It is important that such interventions be offered early, while fatigue symptoms are not too severe. Regular guided yoga practice can reduce physical fatigue, but subsequent yoga practice at home does not further reduce physical fatigue. Reminder emails after completed yoga therapy could only reduce patients' emotional fatigue. It may be that physical fatigue was reduced as much as possible by the previous yoga therapy and that there was a floor effect, or it may be that reminder emails are not suitable as an intervention to reduce physical fatigue at all. Further research is needed to examine the mechanisms of the different interventions in more detail and to find appropriate interventions that reduce all levels of fatigue equally.
Corfu is a framework for satellite software, not only for the onboard part but also for the ground. Developing software with Corfu follows an iterative model-driven approach. The basis of the process is an engineering model. Engineers formally describe the basic structure of the onboard software in configuration files, which build the engineering model. In the first step, Corfu verifies the model at different levels. Not only syntactically and semantically but also on a higher level such as the scheduling.
Based on the model, Corfu generates a software scaffold, which follows an application-centric approach. Software images onboard consist of a list of applications connected through communication channels called topics. Corfu’s generic and generated code covers this fundamental communication, telecommand, and telemetry handling. All users have to do is inheriting from a generated class and implement the behavior in overridden methods. For each application, the generator creates an abstract class with pure virtual methods. Those methods are callback functions, e.g., for handling telecommands or executing code in threads.
However, from the model, one can not foresee the software implementation by users. Therefore, as an innovation compared to other frameworks, Corfu introduces feedback from the user code back to the model. In this way, we extend the engineering model with information about functions/methods, their invocations, their stack usage, and information about events and telemetry emission. Indeed, it would be possible to add further information extraction for additional use cases. We extract the information in two ways: assembly and source code analysis. The assembly analysis collects information about the stack usage of functions and methods.
On the one side, Corfu uses the gathered information to accomplished additional verification steps, e.g., checking if stack usages exceed stack sizes of threads. On the other side, we use the gathered information to improve the performance of onboard software. In a use case, we show how the compiled binary and bandwidth towards the ground is reducible by exploiting source code information at run-time.
G-protein- coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of membrane confined receptors and they transduce ligand binding to downstream effects. Almost 40% of the drugs in the world target GPCRs due to their function, albeit knowing less about their activation. Understanding their dynamic behaviour in basal and activated state could prove key to drug development in the future. GPCRs are known to exhibit complex molecular mobility patterns. A plethora of studies have been and are being conducted to understand the mobility of GPCRs. Due to limitations of imaging and spectroscopic techniques commonly used, the relevant timescales are hard to access. The most commonly used techniques are electron paramagnetic resonance or double electronelectron resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance, time-resolved fluorescence, single particle tracking and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. Among these techniques only fluorescence has the potential to probe live cells. In this thesis, I use different time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic techniques to quantify diffusion dynamics / molecular mobility of β2-adrenergic receptor (β2-AR) in live cells. The thesis shows that β2-AR exhibits mobility over an exceptionally broad temporal range (nanosecond to second) that can be linked to its respective physiological scenario. I explain how β2-AR possesses surprisingly fast lateral mobility (~10 μm²/s) associated with vesicular transport in contrast to the prior reports of it originating from fluorophore photophysics and free fluorophores in the cytosol. In addition, β2-AR has rotational mobility (~100 μs) that makes it conform to the Saffman-Delbrück model of membrane diffusion unlike earlier studies. These contrasts are due to the limitations of the methodologies used. The limitations are overcome in this thesis by using different time-resolved fluorescence techniques of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), time-resolved anisotropy (TRA) and polarisation resolved fullFCS (fullFCS). FCS is limited to microsecond to the second range and TRA is limited to the nanosecond range. fullFCS complements the two techniques by covering the blind spot of FCS and TRA in the microsecond range. Finally, I show how ligand stimulation causes a decrease in lateral mobility which could be a hint at cluster formation due to internalisation and how β2-AR possesses a basal oligomerisation that does not change on activation. Thus, through this thesis, I show how different complementary fluorescence techniques are necessary to overcome limitations of each technique and to thereby elucidate functional dynamics of GPCR activation and how it orchestrates downstream signalling.
Our research group focusses on the isolation, structural elucidation, and synthesis of bioactive natural products, among others, the naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids from tropical lianas. This intriguing class of compounds comprises representatives with activities against, e.g. P. falciparum, the cause of Malaria tropica, against the neglected disease leishmaniasis, and, as discovered more recently, against different types of cancer cells. Based on the high potency of theses extraordinary secondary metabolites, this thesis was devoted to the total synthesis of bioactive natural products and closely related analogs.
Over the last two decades, accompanied by their prediction and ensuing realization, topological non-trivial materials like topological insulators, Dirac semimetals, and Weyl semimetals have been in the focus of mesoscopic condensed matter research. While hosting a plethora of intriguing physical phenomena all on their own, even more fascinating features emerge when superconducting order is included. Their intrinsically pronounced spin-orbit coupling leads to peculiar, time-reversal symmetry protected surface states, unconventional superconductivity, and even to the emergence of exotic bound states in appropriate setups.
This Thesis explores various junctions built from - or incorporating - topological materials in contact with superconducting order, placing particular emphasis on the transport properties and the proximity effect.
We begin with the analysis of Josephson junctions where planar samples of mercury telluride are sandwiched between conventional superconducting contacts. The surprising observation of pronounced excess currents in experiments, which can be well described by the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory, has long been an ambiguous issue in this field, since the necessary presumptions are seemingly not met. We propose a resolution to this predicament by demonstrating that the interface properties in hybrid nanostructures of distinctly different materials yet corroborate these assumptions and explain the outcome. An experimental realization is feasible by gating the contacts. We then proceed with NSN junctions based on time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetals and including superconducting order. Due to the anisotropy of the electron band structure, both the transport properties as well as the proximity effect depend substantially on the orientation of the interfaces between the materials. Moreover, an imbalance can be induced in the electron population between Weyl nodes of opposite chirality, resulting in a non-vanishing spin polarization of the Cooper pairs leaking into the normal contacts. We show that such a system features a tunable dipole character with possible applications in spintronics. Finally, we consider partially superconducting surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators. Tuning such a system into the so-called bipolar setup, this results in the formation of equal-spin Cooper pairs inside the superconductor, while simultaneously acting as a filter for non-local singlet pairing. The creation and manipulation of these spin-polarized Cooper pairs can be achieved by mere electronic switching processes and in the absence of any magnetic order, rendering such a nanostructure an interesting system for superconducting spintronics. The inherent spin-orbit coupling of the surface state is crucial for this observation, as is the bipolar setup which strongly promotes non-local Andreev processes.
The small protein modifier ubiquitin is at the heart of an immensely versatile posttranslational modification system that orchestrates countless physiological and disease-associated cellular processes. Key to this versatility are the manifold modifications that can be assembled from ubiquitin “building blocks” and are associated with specific functional outcomes for the modified substrates. In particular, ubiquitin molecules can form polymeric chains of distinct lengths and linkage types that give rise to distinct chain conformations, thereby providing recognition sites for specific signaling receptors/effectors. The class of E3 enzymes (ubiquitin ligases) provides critical specificity determinants in ubiquitin linkage formation; it is therefore crucial to unravel precisely how E3 enzymes operate in order to understand the structural basis of ubiquitin signaling and exploit these insights for therapeutic benefit.
Overexpression and deregulation of the HECT-type ubiquitin ligase HUWE1 is implicated in several different cancer types and neurodegenerative disorders. It is largely unknown which factors control the ubiquitin modifications formed by HUWE1, how the catalytic HECT domain interacts with functionally distinct ubiquitin molecules (donor, acceptor and regulatory ubiquitin molecules) and which conformational transitions enable these interactions during ubiquitin chain formation.
One aim of this study was to structurally elucidate the recognition of donor ubiquitin by the HECT domain of HUWE1. To this end I utilized a ubiquitin activity-based probe to reconstitute a proxy for a donor ubiquitin-linked conjugate of the HECT domain of HUWE1 and determined its structure by X-ray crystallography. This structure reveals that the donor ubiquitin binds to the C-lobe of HUWE1 in the same way as NEDD4-type ligases, corroborating the idea that HECT ligases utilize a conserved mode of donor ubiquitin recognition. independent of their linkage and substrate specificities. With the help of biochemical analyses, I also validated specific features of the structure, in particular the positioning of the C-terminal tail of the ligase, which was known to be critical for activity. In the newly determined structure, which reflects an “L-shaped”, active state of the HECT domain, this tail is fully resolved and coordinated at the N-lobe-C-lobe interface. I defined residues that are critical for this coordination and showed that they are also essential for the activity of HUWE1, including auto-ubiquitination, free ubiquitin chain formation, and substrate ubiquitination.
Furthermore, I discovered that the N-lobe of HUWE1 harbors a ubiquitin-binding exosite similar to NEDD4-type ligases and E6AP. My in-vitro activity and binding assays show that HUWE1 uses the exosite for isopeptide bond formation, but that it is dispensable for thioester bond formation. The binding assays further show that the donor ubiquitin loaded HECT domain binds an additional ubiquitin molecule at the exosite more tightly than the apo HECT domain, which possibly suggests allosteric communication between the two sites.
Finally, I showed that the ubiquitin activity-based probe (ubiquitin-propargylamine) can label the catalytic cysteine of HUWE1 and NEDD4-type with close to quantitative turn- over, while it does not react with the HECT domain of the evolutionarily more divergent E6AP. The determinants underlying these differential reactivities remain to be explored.
Taken, together my results significantly enhance our mechanistic understanding of the catalytic domain of HUWE1 and pinpoint linchpins for therapeutic interventions with the activity of this disease-relevant enzyme.
Plasma membrane receptors are the most crucial and most commonly studied components of cells, since they not only ensure communication between the extracellular space and cells, but are also responsible for the regulation of cell cycle and cell division. The composition of the surface receptors, the so-called "Receptome", differs and is characteristic for certain cell types. Due to their significance, receptors have been important target structures for diagnostic and therapy in cancer medicine and often show aberrant expression patterns in various cancers compared to healthy cells. However, these aberrations can also be exploited and targeted by different medical approaches, as in the case of personalized immunotherapy. In addition, advances in modern fluorescence microscopy by so-called single molecule techniques allow for unprecedented sensitive visualization and quantification of molecules with an attainable spatial resolution of 10-20 nm, allowing for the detection of both stoichiometric and expression density differences.
In this work, the single molecule sensitive method dSTORM was applied to quantify the receptor composition of various cell lines as well as in primary samples obtained from patients with hematologic malignancies. The focus of this work lies on artefact free quantification, stoichiometric analyses of oligomerization states and co localization analyses of membrane receptors.
Basic requirements for the quantification of receptors are dyes with good photoswitching properties and labels that specifically mark the target structure without generating background through non-specific binding. To ensure this, antibodies with a predefined DOL (degree of labeling) were used, which are also standard in flow cytometry. First background reduction protocols were established on cell lines prior analyses in primary patient samples. Quantitative analyses showed clear expression differences between the cell lines and the patient cells, but also between individual patients.
An important component of this work is the ability to detect the oligomerization states of receptors, which enables a more accurate quantification of membrane receptor densities compared to standard flow cytometry. It also provides information about the activation of a certain receptor, for example of FLT3, a tyrosine kinase, dimerizing upon activation. For this purpose, different well-known monomers and dimers were compared to distinguish the typical localization statistics of single bound antibodies from two or more antibodies that are in proximity. Further experiments as well as co localization analyses proved that antibodies can bind to closely adjacent epitopes despite their size.
These analytical methods were subsequently applied for quantification and visualization of receptors in two clinically relevant examples. Firstly, various therapeutically relevant receptors such as CD38, BCMA and SLAMF7 for multiple myeloma, a malignant disease of plasma cells, were analyzed and quantified on patient cells. Furthermore, the influence of TP53 and KRAS mutations on receptor expression levels was investigated using the multiple myeloma cell lines OPM2 and AMO1, showing clear differences in certain receptor quantities.
Secondly, FLT3 which is a therapeutic target receptor for acute myeloid leukemia, was quantified and stoichiometrically analyzed on both cell lines and patient cells. In addition, cells that have developed resistance against midostaurin were compared with cells that still respond to this type I tyrosine-kinase-inhibitor for their FLT3 receptor expression and oligomerization state.
Flowering plants or angiosperms have developed a fertilization mechanism that involves a female egg and central cell, as well as two male sperm cells. A male gametophyte carries the two non-mobile sperm cells, as they need to be delivered to the female gametophyte, the embryo sac. This transport is initiated by a pollen grain that is transmitted onto the stigma of the angiosperm flower. Here it hydrates, germinates, and forms a pollen tube, which navigates through the female plant tissue towards the ovary. The pollen tube grows into an ovule through the funiculus and into one of the two synergid cells. There, growth arrests and the pollen tube bursts, releasing the two sperm cells. One of the sperm cells fuses with the egg cell, giving rise to the embryo, the other one fuses with the central cell, developing into the endosperm, which nourishes the embryo during its development. After a successful fertilization, each ovule develops into a seed and a fruit is formed. This usually consists of several fertilized ovules.
The directional growth of the pollen tube through the maternal tissues towards the ovule, as well as sperm cell release, requires a complex communication between the male and the female gametophyte to achieve reproductive success. Over the last years many studies have been performed, contributing to the understanding of cell-cell communication events between the two gametophytes, nevertheless still many aspects remain to be elucidated.
This work focused on two topics: i.) Analysis of biological processes affected by pollination and fertilization in the Nicotiana tabacum flower and identification of cysteine rich proteins (CRPs) expressed via isolating and sequencing RNA from the tissue and analyzing the resulting data. ii.) Identification of the defensin-like protein (DEFL) responsible for pollen tube attraction towards the ovule in tobacco.
First, tissue samples of pollen tubes and mature ovules were taken at different stages of the fertilization process (unpollinated ovules, after pollination, and after fertilization of the flower). RNA was then isolated and a transcriptome was created. The resulting reads were assembled and transcriptome data analysis was performed. Results showed that pollen tubes and mature ovules differ severely from each other, only sharing about 23 % of the transcripts, indicating that different biological processes are dominant in the two gametophytes. A MapMan analysis revealed that in the pollen tube the most relevant biological processes are related to the cell wall, signaling, and transport, which supports the fact that the pollen tube grows fast to reach the ovule. On the other hand, in the ovule the values of highest significance were obtained for processes related to protein synthesis and regulation. Upon comparing the transcripts in the ovule before and after pollination, as well as after fertilization, it showed that pollination of the flower causes a bigger alteration in the ovule on the transcriptomic level compared to the step from pollination to fertilization.
A total of 953 CRPs were identified in Nicotiana tabacum, including 116 DEFLs. Among those, the peptide responsible for pollen tube attraction towards the ovule should be found. Based on in-silico analysis four candidate peptides were chosen for further analysis, two of which had increased expression levels upon pollination and fertilization and the other two displayed an opposite expression. Quantitative real time PCR experiments were performed for the candidates, confirming the in-silico data in vivo.
The candidate transcripts were then expressed in a cell free system and applied to pollen tubes in order to test their effect on the growing cells. Positive controls were used, where pollen tubes grew towards freshly dissected ovules. The four candidates did not provoke a pollen tube attraction towards the peptide, leaving open the chance to work on the 112 remaining DEFLs in the future.
An adequate task allocation among colony members is of particular importance in large insect societies. Some species exhibit distinct polymorphic worker classes which are responsible for a specific range of tasks. However, much more often the behavior of the workers is related to the age of the individual. Ants of the genus Cataglyphis (Foerster 1850) undergo a marked age-related polyethism with three distinct behavioral stages. Newly emerged ants (callows) remain more or less motionless in the nest for the first day. The ants subsequently fulfill different tasks inside the darkness of the nest for up to four weeks (interior workers) before they finally leave the nest to collect food for the colony (foragers).
This thesis focuses on the neuronal substrate underlying the temporal polyethism in Cataglyphis nodus ants by addressing following major objectives:
(1) Investigating the structures and neuronal circuitries of the Cataglyphis brain to understand potential effects of neuromodulators in specific brain neuropils.
(2) Identification and localization of neuropeptides in the Cataglyphis brain.
(3) Examining the expression of suitable neuropeptide candidates during behavioral maturation of Cataglyphis workers.
The brain provides the fundament for the control of the behavioral output of an insect. Although the importance of the central nervous system is known beyond doubt, the functional significance of large areas of the insect brain are not completely understood. In Cataglyphis ants, previous studies focused almost exclusively on major neuropils while large proportions of the central protocerebrum have been often disregarded due to the lack of clear boundaries. Therefore, I reconstructed a three-dimensional Cataglyphis brain employing confocal laser scanning microscopy. To visualize synapsin-rich neuropils and fiber tracts, a combination of fluorescently labeled antibodies, phalloidin (a cyclic peptide binding to filamentous actin) and anterograde tracers was used. Based on the unified nomenclature for insect brains, I defined traceable criteria for the demarcation of individual neuropils. The resulting three-dimensional brain atlas provides information about 33 distinct synapse-rich neuropils and 30 fiber tracts, including a comprehensive description of the olfactory and visual tracts in the Cataglyphis brain. This three-dimensional brain atlas further allows to assign present neuromodulators to individual brain neuropils.
Neuropeptides represent the largest group of neuromodulators in the central nervous system of insects. They regulate important physiological and behavioral processes and have therefore recently been associated with the regulation of the temporal polyethism in social insects. To date, the knowledge of neuropeptides in Cataglyphis ants has been mainly derived from neuropeptidomic data of Camponotus floridanus ants and only a few neuropeptides have been characterized in Cataglyphis. Therefore, I performed a comprehensive transcriptome analysis in Cataglyphis nodus ants and identified peptides by using Q-Exactive Orbitrap mass spectrometry (MS) and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) MS. This resulted in the characterization of 71 peptides encoded on 49 prepropeptide genes, including a novel neuropeptide-like gene (fliktin). In addition, high-resolution MALDI-TOF MS imaging (MALDI-MSI) was applied for the first time in an ant brain to localize peptides on thin brain cryosections. Employing MALDI-MSI, I was able to visualize the spatial distribution of 35 peptides encoded on 16 genes.
To investigate the role of neuropeptides during behavioral maturation, I selected suitable neuropeptide candidates and analyzed their spatial distributions and expression levels following major behavioral transitions. Based on recent studies, I suggested the neuropeptides allatostatin-A (Ast-A), corazonin (Crz) and tachykinin (TK) as potential regulators of the temporal polyethism. The peptidergic neurons were visualized in the brain of C. nodus ants using immunohistochemistry. Independent of the behavioral stages, numerous Ast-A- and TK-immunoreactive (-ir) neurons innervate important high-order integration centers and sensory input regions with cell bodies dispersed all across the cell body rind. In contrast, only four corazonergic neurons per hemisphere were found in the Cataglyphis brain. Their somata are localized in the pars lateralis with axons projecting to the medial protocerebrum and the retrocerebral complex. Number and branching patterns of the Crz-ir neurons were similar across behavioral stages, however, the volume of the cell bodies was significantly larger in foragers than in the preceding behavioral stages. In addition, quantitative PCR analyses displayed increased Crz and Ast-A mRNA levels in foragers, suggesting a concomitant increase of the peptide levels. The task-specific expression of Crz and Ast-A along with the presence in important sensory input regions, high-order integration center, and the neurohormonal organs indicate a sustaining role of the neuropeptides during behavioral maturation of Cataglyphis workers.
The present thesis contains a comprehensive reference work for the brain anatomy and the neuropeptidome of Cataglyphis ants. I further demonstrated that neuropeptides are suitable modulators for the temporal polyethism of Cataglyphis workers. The complete dataset provides a solid framework for future neuroethological studies in Cataglyphis ants as well as for comparative studies on insects. This may help to improve our understanding of the functionality of individual brain neuropils and the role of neuropeptides, particularly during behavioral maturation in social insects.