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The human-pathogenic bacterium Salmonella enterica adjusts and adapts to different environments while attempting colonization. In the course of infection nutrient availabilities change drastically. New techniques, “-omics” data and subsequent integration by systems biology improve our understanding of these changes. We review changes in metabolism focusing on amino acid and carbohydrate metabolism. Furthermore, the adaptation process is associated with the activation of genes of the Salmonella pathogenicity islands (SPIs). Anti-infective strategies have to take these insights into account and include metabolic and other strategies. Salmonella infections will remain a challenge for infection biology.
Background: Telomeres have crucial meiosis-specific roles in the orderly reduction of chromosome numbers and in ensuring the integrity of the genome during meiosis. One such role is the attachment of telomeres to trans-nuclear envelope protein complexes that connect telomeres to motor proteins in the cytoplasm. These trans-nuclear envelope connections between telomeres and cytoplasmic motor proteins permit the active movement of telomeres and chromosomes during the first meiotic prophase. Movements of chromosomes/telomeres facilitate the meiotic recombination process, and allow high fidelity pairing of homologous chromosomes. Pairing of homologous chromosomes is a prerequisite for their correct segregation during the first meiotic division. Although inner-nuclear envelope proteins, such as SUN1 and potentially SUN2, are known to bind and recruit meiotic telomeres, these proteins are not meiosis-specific, therefore cannot solely account for telomere-nuclear envelope attachment and/or for other meiosis-specific characteristics of telomeres in mammals.
Results: We identify CCDC79, alternatively named TERB1, as a meiosis-specific protein that localizes to telomeres from leptotene to diplotene stages of the first meiotic prophase. CCDC79 and SUN1 associate with telomeres almost concurrently at the onset of prophase, indicating a possible role for CCDC79 in telomere-nuclear envelope interactions and/or telomere movements. Consistent with this scenario, CCDC79 is missing from most telomeres that fail to connect to SUN1 protein in spermatocytes lacking the meiosis-specific cohesin SMC1B. SMC1B-deficient spermatocytes display both reduced efficiency in telomere-nuclear envelope attachment and reduced stability of telomeres specifically during meiotic prophase. Importantly, CCDC79 associates with telomeres in SUN1-deficient spermatocytes, which strongly indicates that localization of CCDC79 to telomeres does not require telomere-nuclear envelope attachment.
Conclusion: CCDC79 is a meiosis-specific telomere associated protein. Based on our findings we propose that CCDC79 plays a role in meiosis-specific telomere functions. In particular, we favour the possibility that CCDC79 is involved in telomere-nuclear envelope attachment and/or the stabilization of meiotic telomeres. These conclusions are consistent with the findings of an independently initiated study that analysed CCDC79/TERB1 functions.
Post-translational histone modifications (PTMs) such as methylation of lysine residues influence chromatin structure and function. PTMs are involved in different cellular processes such as DNA replication, transcription and cell differentiation. Deregulations of PTM patterns are responsible for a variety of human diseases including acute leukemia. DOT1 enzymes are highly conserved histone methyltransferases that are responsible for methylation of lysine 79 on histone H3 (H3K79). Most eukaryotes contain one single DOT1 enzyme, whereas African trypanosomes have two homologues, DOT1A and DOT1B, which methylate H3K76 (H3K76 is homologous to H3K79 in other organisms). DOT1A is essential and mediates mono- and di-methylations, whereas DOT1B additionally catalyzes tri-methylation of H3K76. However, a mechanistic understanding how these different enzymatic activities are achieved is lacking. This thesis exploits the fact that trypanosomes possess two DOT1 enzymes with different catalytic properties to understand the molecular basis for the differential product-specificity of DOT1 enzymes. A trypanosomal nucleosome reconstitution system was established to analyze methyltransferase activity under defined in vitro conditions. Homology modeling allowed the identification of critical residues within and outside the catalytic center that modulate product-specificity. Exchange of these residues transferred the product-specificity from one enzyme to the other and revealed regulatory domains adjacent to the catalytic center. This work provides the first evidence that few specific residues in DOT1 enzymes are crucial to catalyze methyl-state-specific reactions. These results have also consequences for the functional understanding of homologous enzymes in other eukaryotes.
Cell Surface Area and Membrane Folding in Glioblastoma Cell Lines Differing in PTEN and p53 Status
(2014)
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is characterized by rapid growth, invasion and resistance to chemo−/radiotherapy. The complex cell surface morphology with abundant membrane folds, microvilli, filopodia and other membrane extensions is believed to contribute to the highly invasive behavior and therapy resistance of GBM cells. The present study addresses the mechanisms leading to the excessive cell membrane area in five GBM lines differing in mutational status for PTEN and p53. In addition to scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the membrane area and folding were quantified by dielectric measurements of membrane capacitance using the single-cell electrorotation (ROT) technique. The osmotic stability and volume regulation of GBM cells were analyzed by video microscopy. The expression of PTEN, p53, mTOR and several other marker proteins involved in cell growth and membrane synthesis were examined by Western blotting. The combined SEM, ROT and osmotic data provided independent lines of evidence for a large variability in membrane area and folding among tested GBM lines. Thus, DK-MG cells (wild type p53 and wild type PTEN) exhibited the lowest degree of membrane folding, probed by the area-specific capacitance Cm = 1.9 µF/cm2. In contrast, cell lines carrying mutations in both p53 and PTEN (U373-MG and SNB19) showed the highest Cm values of 3.7–4.0 µF/cm2, which corroborate well with their heavily villated cell surface revealed by SEM. Since PTEN and p53 are well-known inhibitors of mTOR, the increased membrane area/folding in mutant GBM lines may be related to the enhanced protein and lipid synthesis due to a deregulation of the mTOR-dependent downstream signaling pathway. Given that membrane folds and extensions are implicated in tumor cell motility and metastasis, the dielectric approach presented here provides a rapid and simple tool for screening the biophysical cell properties in studies on targeting chemo- or radiotherapeutically the migration and invasion of GBM and other tumor types.
All organisms have to adapt to acute as well as to regularly occurring changes in the environment. To deal with these major challenges organisms evolved two fundamental mechanisms: the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway, a major stress pathway for signaling stressful events, and circadian clocks to prepare for the daily environmental changes. Both systems respond sensitively to light. Recent studies in vertebrates and fungi indicate that p38 is involved in light-signaling to the circadian clock providing an interesting link between stress-induced and regularly rhythmic adaptations of animals to the environment, but the molecular and cellular mechanisms remained largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate by immunocytochemical means that p38 is expressed in Drosophila melanogaster's clock neurons and that it is activated in a clock-dependent manner. Surprisingly, we found that p38 is most active under darkness and, besides its circadian activation, additionally gets inactivated by light. Moreover, locomotor activity recordings revealed that p38 is essential for a wild-type timing of evening activity and for maintaining ∼ 24 h behavioral rhythms under constant darkness: flies with reduced p38 activity in clock neurons, delayed evening activity and lengthened the period of their free-running rhythms. Furthermore, nuclear translocation of the clock protein Period was significantly delayed on the expression of a dominant-negative form of p38b in Drosophila's most important clock neurons. Western Blots revealed that p38 affects the phosphorylation degree of Period, what is likely the reason for its effects on nuclear entry of Period. In vitro kinase assays confirmed our Western Blot results and point to p38 as a potential "clock kinase" phosphorylating Period. Taken together, our findings indicate that the p38 MAP Kinase is an integral component of the core circadian clock of Drosophila in addition to playing a role in stress-input pathways.
GAS2L3 was identified recently as a target gene of the DREAM complex (Reichert et al., 2010; Wolter et al., 2012). It was shown that GAS2L3 is expressed in a cell cycle specific manner and that depletion of the protein leads to defects in cytokinesis and genomic instability (Wolter et al., 2012).
Major aim of this thesis was, to further characterize the biochemical properties and physiological function of GAS2L3.
By in vitro co-sedimentation and bundling assays, GAS2L3 was identified as a cytoskeleton associated protein which bundles, binds and crosslinks F-actin and MTs. GST pulldown assays and co-immunoprecipitation experiments revealed that GAS2L3 interacts in vitro and in vivo with the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC), a very important regulator of mitosis and cytokinesis, and that the interaction is mediated by the GAR domain of GAS2L3 and the C-terminal part of Borealin and the N-terminal part of Survivin. Kinase assays showed that GAS2L3 is not a substrate of the CPC but is strongly phosphorylated by CDK1 in vitro. Depletion of GAS2L3 by shRNA influenced protein stability and activity of the CPC. However pharmacological studies showed that the decreased CPC activity is not responsible for the observed cytokinesis defects upon GAS2L3 depletion. Immunofluorescence experiments revealed that GAS2L3 is localized to the constriction zone by the CPC in a GAR dependent manner and that the GAR domain is important for proper protein function.
New interacting proteins of GAS2L3 were identified by stable isotope labelling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) in combination with tandem affinity purification and subsequent mass spectrometrical analysis. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments further confirmed the obtained mass spectrometrical data.
To address the physiological function of GAS2L3 in vivo, a conditional and a non-conditional knockout mouse strain was established. The non-conditional mouse strain showed a highly increased mortality rate before weaning age probably due to heart failure. The physiological function of GAS2L3 in vivo as well as the exact reason for the observed heart phenotype is not known at the moment.
Die primordialen Keimzellen (PGCs) sind die einzigen Zellen des Embryos, die die genetische Information von einer Generation an die nächste weiter geben können. Es wurde gezeigt, dass in allen bislang untersuchten Knochenfischen die Anzahl der Urgeschlechtszellen während der Embryonalentwicklung der erste sichtbare Unterschied zwischen Männchen und Weibchen ist. Daraus ergibt sich die Frage, ob die Anzahl der primordialen Keimzellen das Geschlecht bestimmt, oder ob die somatischen Zellen je nach sexueller Identität die Urgeschlechtszellen zur Proliferation anregen. Um zu untersuchen, wie die Anzahl der
Urgeschlechtszellen mit der Geschlechtsdetermination zusammenhängt, habe ich in dieser Arbeit die Anzahl der Urgeschlechtszellen manipuliert und deren Schicksal im Verlauf der Embryonalentwicklung verfolgt. Weiterhin untersuchte ich, in wieweit die Temperatur einen Einfluss auf die Geschlechtsbestimmung hat und ob sie Auswirkungen auf die Anzahl
und die Wanderung der Urgeschlechtszellen hat beim Medaka hat.
Durch meine Experimente, in denen ich die Fische während der Embryonalentwicklung bei verschiedenen Temperaturen hielt, konnte ich zeigen, dass beim Medaka der genetische Geschlechtsbestimmungsmechanismus durch erhöhte Temperatur überschrieben werden kann. Die Temperaturerhöhung in der Embryonalentwicklung führt zu einer Weibchen‐zu‐Männchen
Geschlechtsumkehr. Dabei wird die Anzahl der primordialen Keimzellen im Vergleich zu den Kontrollen reduziert. Zudem wird durch die höhere Temperatur das autosomale dmrt1a viel früher angeschaltet, wa sauf einen alternativenSignalweg deutet, der die männliche Geschlechtsentwicklung in XX geschlechtsumgewandelten Tieren steuert.
Arboreal spiders in deciduous and coniferous trees were investigated on their distribution and diversity. Insecticidal knock-down was used to comprehensively sample spiders from 175 trees from 2001 to 2003 in the Białowieża forest and three remote forests in Poland. We identified 140 species from 9273 adult spiders. Spider communities were distinguished between deciduous and coniferous trees. The richest fauna was collected from Quercus where beta diversity was also highest. A tree-species-specific pattern was clearly observed for Alnus, Carpinus, Picea and Pinus trees and also for those tree species that were fogged in only four or three replicates, namely Betula and Populus. This hitherto unrecognised association was mainly due to the community composition of common species identified in a Dufrene-Legendre indicator species analysis. It was not caused by spatial or temporal autocorrelation. Explaining tree-species specificity for generalist predators like spiders is difficult and has to involve physical and ecological tree parameters like linkage with the abundance of prey species. However, neither did we find a consistent correlation of prey group abundances with spiders nor could differences in spider guild composition explain the observed pattern. Our results hint towards the importance of deterministic mechanisms structuring communities of generalist canopy spiders although the casual relationship is not yet understood.
The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a highly conserved structure in sexually reproducing organism. It has a tripartite, ladder-like organization and mediates the stable pairing, called synapsis, of the homologous chromosomes during prophase of meiosis I. Failure in homolog synapsis result in aneuploidy and/or apoptosis of the developing germ cells.
Since 1956, the SC is subject of intense research and its presence was described in various species from yeast to human. Its structure was maintained during millions of years of evolution consist-ing of two parallel lateral elements (LEs), joined by numerous transverse filaments (TFs) which run perpendicular to the LEs and an electron dense central element (CE) in the middle of the SC. Individual protein components, however, were characterized only in few available model organ-isms, as for example Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Arabidopsis thaliana, Drosophila melanogaster, Ceanorhabditis elegans and Mus musculus. Rather unexpectedly, these characterizations failed to detect an evolutionary homology between the protein components of the different SCs. This fact challenged the general idea of a single origin of the SC in the evolution of meiosis and sexual reproduction.
This thesis now addressed itself to the task to unravel the discrepancy between the high conser-vation of the SC structure and its diverse and apparently non-homologous protein composition, focusing on the animal kingdom. It is the first study dealing with the evolution of the SC in Meta-zoa and demonstrates the monophyly of the mammalian SC components in metazoan species. The thesis demonstrates that at least four out of seven murine SC proteins emerged in Eumeta-zoa at the latest and have been likewise part of an ancient SC as it can be found in the present-day cnidarian species Hydra. This SC displays the common organization and already possesses the minimal protein kit corresponding to the three different structural domains: LEs, TFs and the CE. Additionally, the individual phylogenies of the murine SC proteins revealed the dynamic evolu-tionary history of the ancient SC. Further components were added during the diversification of Bilateria and vertebrates while ancestral proteins likely duplicated in the vertebrate lineage and diversified or got lost in the branch leading to ecdysozoan species. It is hypothesized that the apparently non-homologous SC proteins in D. melanogaster and C. elegans actually do derive from the ancient SC proteins but diversified beyond recognition during the fast evolution of Ar-thropoda and Nematoda.
The study proposes Hydra as an alternative invertebrate model system for meiosis and SC re-search to the standard organisms D. melanogaster and C. elegans. Recent results about the cni-darian SC as well as the possible application of standard methods is discussed and summarized in the concluding section.
Assessing allele-specific gene expression (ASE) on a large scale continues to be a technically challenging problem. Certain biological phenomena, such as X chromosome inactivation and parental imprinting, affect ASE most drastically by completely shutting down the expression of a whole set of alleles. Other more subtle effects on ASE are likely to be much more complex and dependent on the genetic environment and are perhaps more important to understand since they may be responsible for a significant amount of biological diversity. Tools to assess ASE in a diploid biological system are becoming more reliable. Non-diploid systems are, however, not uncommon. In humans full or partial polyploid states are regularly found in both healthy (meiotic cells, polynucleated cell types) and diseased tissues (trisomies, non-disjunction events, cancerous tissues). In this work we have studied ASE in the medaka fish model system. We have developed a method for determining ASE in polyploid organisms from RNAseq data and we have implemented this method in a software tool set. As a biological model system we have used nuclear transplantation to experimentally produce artificial triploid medaka composed of three different haplomes. We measured ASE in RNA isolated from the livers of two adult, triploid medaka fish that showed a high degree of similarity. The majority of genes examined (82%) shared expression more or less evenly among the three alleles in both triploids. The rest of the genes (18%) displayed a wide range of ASE levels. Interestingly the majority of genes (78%) displayed generally consistent ASE levels in both triploid individuals. A large contingent of these genes had the same allele entirely suppressed in both triploids. When viewed in a chromosomal context, it is revealed that these genes are from large sections of 4 chromosomes and may be indicative of some broad scale suppression of gene expression.
The cytokine Interleukin-4 (IL-4) plays a crucial role in the pathophysiology and progression of asthma and other atopic diseases. Its activities are signaled into the cells upon binding to and signaling through a shared receptor complex composed of the subunits IL-4Rα and common γc. Another cytokine, Interleukin-13 shares many functions with IL-4. This can be explained by the fact that both, IL-4 and IL-13, can signal via a shared receptor complex comprising the IL-4R and the IL-13R1 subunit.
Therefore, the IL-4Rα receptor subunit has become a highly promising drug target, since it mediates IL-4 and IL-13 responses and blocking IL-4Rα will abrogate IL-4 as well as IL-13 effector functions. Currently, an IL-4 based mutein (Pitrakinra), acting as a dual IL-4/IL-13 receptor antagonist is in clinical development.
This work describes the generation and production of biologically active IL-4 muteins, which contain a single additional engineered cysteine. The introduction of a free thiol group allows site-specific chemical modification. The muteins were expressed in E. coli in insoluble form, refolded and purified. The thiol group of the mutein was protected as mixed disulfide with the tripeptide glutathione.
A first attempt to chemically reduce the engineered cysteine residue failed, because the three native disulfide bonds of IL-4 exhibit a similar reactivity and chemical reduction of the native disulfide resulted in full deactivation and precipitation of the IL-4 protein. Therefore, an enzymatic approach was developed which specifically reduces the mixed disulfide bonds with an attached glutathion moiety and thus leaves the native structurally essential disulfide bonds unaltered. For optimization, four different IL-4 cysteine muteins with four cysteine residues introduced at positions close to the IL-4Rα binding site were tested and their reduction rates by glutaredoxin was determined. The enzymatic reduction occured at different rates for all four muteins indicating that accessibility is an important influence and must be determined individually for each mutant protein. After optimization of the pH value and particularly the reaction time, all muteins could be prepared with the engineered thiol group being released in reasonable yield. The proteins exhibiting the free thiol group were then modified by
N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) or maleimido-PEG. The effects of these modifications at different positions on binding to IL-4R were measured employing SPR biosensor technology.
In the second project of this study, foldamers, which represent a new class of stable, compactly folded biomolecules and can specifically interact with proteins and nucleic acids, were examined to identify their potential as new drugs to interfere with IL-4 activities.
Fragment-based drug discovery offers great promise for providing new starting points for drug discovery and facilitates the lead optimization. As foldamers equipped with a thiol-group for tethering could not to be produced; only the effect of foldamers present in a synthesized foldamer library on the binding to IL-4R could be tested. Two libraries containing different foldamers based on aromatic amide were synthesized by Michael Grotz and Dr. Michael Deligny and tested in our lab for their capability to disrupt the ligand-receptor interaction of IL-4 and its receptor IL-4Rα [ECD] using surface plasmon resonance technology. None of the studied foldamers could specifically inhibit the IL-4/IL-4Rα interaction. Some foldamers showed non-specific binding.
The study presented here shows the design and production of a potentially new type of IL-4 antagonists, which employ site-specific chemical modification to exert their antagonistic function.
Quantitation of Glucocorticoid Receptor DNA-Binding Dynamics by Single-Molecule Microscopy and FRAP
(2014)
Recent advances in live cell imaging have provided a wealth of data on the dynamics of transcription factors. However, a consistent quantitative description of these dynamics, explaining how transcription factors find their target sequences in the vast amount of DNA inside the nucleus, is still lacking. In the present study, we have combined two quantitative imaging methods, single-molecule microscopy and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, to determine the mobility pattern of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), two ligand-activated transcription factors. For dexamethasone-activated GR, both techniques showed that approximately half of the population is freely diffusing, while the remaining population is bound to DNA. Of this DNA-bound population about half the GRs appeared to be bound for short periods of time (similar to 0.7 s) and the other half for longer time periods (similar to 2.3 s). A similar pattern of mobility was seen for the MR activated by aldosterone. Inactive receptors (mutant or antagonist-bound receptors) show a decreased DNA binding frequency and duration, but also a higher mobility for the diffusing population. Likely, very brief (<= 1 ms) interactions with DNA induced by the agonists underlie this difference in diffusion behavior. Surprisingly, different agonists also induce different mobilities of both receptors, presumably due to differences in ligand-induced conformational changes and receptor complex formation. In summary, our data provide a consistent quantitative model of the dynamics of GR and MR, indicating three types of interactions with DNA, which fit into a model in which frequent low-affinity DNA binding facilitates the search for high-affinity target sequences.
In order to understand adaptation processes and population dynamics, it is central to know how environmental parameters influence performance of organisms within populations, including their phenotypes. The impact of single or few particular parameters in concert was often assessed in laboratory and mesocosm experiments. However, under natural conditions, with many biotic and abiotic factors potentially interacting, outcomes on phenotypic changes may be different. To study the potential environmental impact on realized phenotypic plasticity within a natural population, we assessed metamorphic traits (developmental time, size and body mass) in an amphibian species, the European common frog Rana temporaria, since a) larval amphibians are known to exhibit high levels of phenotypic plasticity of these traits in response to habitat parameters and, b) the traits' features may strongly influence individuals' future performance and fitness. In 2007 we studied these metamorphic traits in 18 ponds spread over an area of 28 km 2. A subset of six ponds was reinvestigated in 2009 and 2010. This study revealed locally high variances in metamorphic traits in this presumed generalist species. We detected profound differences between metamorphing froglets (up to factor ten); both between and within ponds, on a very small geographic scale. Parameters such as predation and competition as well as many other pond characteristics, generally expected to have high impact on development, could not be related to the trait differences. We observed high divergence of patterns of mass at metamorphosis between ponds, but no detectable pattern when metamorphic traits were compared between ponds and years. Our results indicate that environment alone, i.e. as experienced by tadpoles sharing the same breeding pond, can only partly explain the variability of metamorphic traits observed. This emphasizes the importance to assess variability of reaction norms on the individual level to explain within-population variability.
Das atriale natriuretische Peptid (ANP) wird infolge einer Zunahme des atrialen Drucks aus den Myozyten des Atriums sezerniert. Es spielt lokal eine bedeutende, protektive Rolle und wirkt der Entstehung von Herzhypertrophie und Fibrose entgegen. Darüber hinaus kommt ANP vor allem eine wichtige Rolle als endokrines Hormon zu, das den arteriellen Blutdruck und das Blutvolumen regelt. Diese physiologischen Effekte vermittelt das Herzhormon durch seinen Rezeptor, das Transmembranprotein Guanylatzyklase A (GC-A). Durch Bindung von ANP an die extrazelluläre Domäne der GC-A wird intrazellulär, durch die katalytische Domäne des Rezeptors, der sekundäre Botenstoff cGMP gebildet. Patienten mit einer, durch Bluthochdruck verursachten Herzhypertrophie und Herzinsuffizienz weisen erhöhte ANP-Konzentrationen im Plasma auf. Die durch ANP vermittelten, protektiven Effekte sind allerdings vermindert. Zahlreiche Studien haben in vitro gezeigt, dass die chronische Inkubation der GC-A mit ihrem Liganden, sowie die Behandlung von GC-A exprimierenden Zellen mit Hormonen wie Angiotensin II, zur Desensitisierung des Rezeptors führen. Der Verlust der Funktionsfähigkeit geht einher mit der Dephosphorylierung des Rezeptors an spezifischen, intrazellulär lokalisierten Aminosäuren. Durch die Erforschung dieses Mechanismus und Identifizierung möglicher Interaktionspartner in vivo könnte der Grundstein für neue oder verbesserte Therapieformen gelegt werden.
Im ersten Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde eine kürzlich identifizierte Isoform des GC-A-Rezeptors identifiziert, die durch alternatives Spleißen des Exons 4 entsteht und in einer Vielzahl untersuchter Gewebe der Maus vorkommt. Die Deletion umfasst 51 Basenpaare und resultiert in einem um 17 Aminosäuren verkürzten GC-A-Rezeptor (GC-AΔLys314-Gln330). Molekulare Modellierungen der extrazellulären Domänen des wildtypischen GC-A-Rezeptors und der Isoform zeigten, dass sich die Deletion im membrannahen Bereich der extrazellulären Domäne und damit deutlich entfernt von der ANP-Bindungsdomäne befindet. Oberflächenbiotinylierungs- und Zellfraktionierungsversuche zeigten, dass die Isoform des GC-A-Rezeptors an der Oberfläche von Zellmembranen transient transfizierter HEK 293-Zellen präsentiert wird. Jedoch zeigten die ANP-Stimulationsexperimente unter Anwendung von cGMP-Radioimmunassay (cGMP-RIA) und Förster-Resonanzenergietransfer (FRET)-Messungen, dass die Isoform nicht zur ANP-vermittelten intrazellulären cGMP-Bildung stimuliert werden kann. Im Rahmen von ANP-Bindungsstudien mit 125I-ANP wurde gezeigt, dass GC-AΔLys314-Gln330 die Fähigkeit zur Bindung des Liganden ANP verloren hat. Jedoch zeigten die Koimmunpräzipitationsversuche, dass die Isoform des GC-A-Rezeptors Heterodimere mit dem wildtypischen GC-A-Rezeptor bilden und dadurch die ligandeninduzierte Bildung von cGMP reduzieren kann. In vivo konnte gezeigt werden, dass unter Angiotensin II-induzierter Hypertonie die mRNA-Expression für GC-AΔLys314-Gln330 in der Lunge gesteigert, und gleichzeitig die ANP-vermittelte cGMP-Bildung deutlich reduziert ist. Daher kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass das alternative Spleißen ein regulierender Mechanismus ist, der auf den ANP/GC-A-Signalweg Einfluss nimmt. Angiotensin II-induziertes alternatives Spleißen des GC-A-Gens kann daher einen neuen Mechanismus für die Verringerung der Sensitivität des GC-A-Rezeptors gegenüber ANP darstellen.
Im zweiten Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden transgene Tiere mit kardiomyozytenspezifischer Überexpression eines Epitop-getaggten GC-A-Rezeptors generiert. Durch dieses Modell sollte es ermöglicht werden, den Rezeptor aus murinem Gewebe anreichern und aufreinigen zu können um danach Analysen zu posttranslationalen Veränderungen und möglichen Interaktionspartnern durchzuführen. Zunächst wurde in eine FLAG-Epitop-getaggte GC-A zusätzlich ein HA-tag, sowie eine Erkennungssequenz für die Protease des tobacco etch virus (TEV) eingefügt. Die Expression und Funktionsfähigkeit des modifizierten Rezeptors wurde durch ANP-Stimulationsexperimente unter Anwendung von cGMP-RIA und FRET-Messungen verifiziert. Die Funktionsfähigkeit der TEV-Erkennungssequenz wurde durch die Elution mittels TEV-Protease nach Immunpräzipitation (IP) nachgewiesen. In vivo wurde an Mäusen die Expression und Lokalisation der GC-A auf Proteinebene, unter Anwendung von Zellfraktionierungsexperimenten und Immunpräzipitationen, überprüft. Die entstandenen transgenen Tiere zeigten eine deutliche, in den Zellmembranen von Kardiomyozyten lokalisierte, Überexpression des Rezeptors. Dieser konnte über das HA-tag angereichert und aufgereinigt werden. Um die Funktionsfähigkeit des modifizierten Rezeptors in vivo nachzuweisen, wurde in zwei Versuchsreihen kardiale Hypertrophie durch chronische Applikation von Angiotensin II induziert. Es wurde postuliert, dass die Überexpression funktionsfähiger GC-A im Herzen die Tiere vor Herzhypertrophie schützt. Die Ergebnisse der Studien zeigen allerdings, dass die generierten transgene Tiere trotz kardiomyozytenspezifischer Überexpression des Rezeptors nicht den erwarteten Schutz vor Herzhypertrophie aufwiesen, sondern ähnlich wie ihre wildtypischen Geschwistertiere reagieren. Jedoch gelang es mit Hilfe des Überexpressionsmodells zusammen mit anderen Mitarbeitern der AG Kuhn eine zuvor in vitro beschriebene Interaktion des GC-A-Rezeptors mit den Kationenkanälen TRPC3 und TRPC6 in vivo nachzuweisen. Somit besteht die Möglichkeit die Epitope und das murine Überexpressionsmodell auch zukünftig zu nutzen, um Interaktionspartner der GC-A zu identifizieren.
Inhibition of RAF/MEK/ERK signaling is beneficial for many patients with BRAFV600E–mutated melanoma. However, primary and secondary resistances restrict long-lasting therapy success. Combination therapies are therefore urgently needed. Here, we evaluate the cellular effect of combining a MEK inhibitor with a genotoxic apoptosis inducer. Strikingly, we observed that an activated MAPK pathway promotes in several melanoma cell lines the pro-apoptotic response to genotoxic stress, and MEK inhibition reduces intrinsic apoptosis. This goes along with MEK inhibitor induced increased RAS and P-AKT levels. The protective effect of the MEK inhibitor depends on PI3K signaling, which prevents the induction of pro-apoptotic PUMA that mediates apoptosis after DNA damage. We could show that the MEK inhibitor dependent feedback loop is enabled by several factors, including EGF receptor and members of the SPRED family. The simultaneous knockdown of SPRED1 and SPRED2 mimicked the effects of MEK inhibitor such as PUMA repression and protection from apoptosis. Our data demonstrate that MEK inhibition of BRAFV600E-positive melanoma cells can protect from genotoxic stress, thereby achieving the opposite of the intended anti-tumorigenic effect of the combination of MEK inhibitor with inducers of intrinsic apoptosis.
Insects of the order Orthoptera are well-known for their acoustic communication. The structures used for this purpose show a high diversity which obviously relates to differences in song parameters and to the physics of sound production. Here we describe song and morphology of the sound producing organs of a tropical bush-cricket, Ectomoptera nepicauda, from East Africa. It has a very unusual calling song consisting of frequency-modulated, pure-tone sounds in the high ultrasonic range of 80 to 120 kHz and produced by extremely fast wing movements. Concerning morphology, it represents the most extreme state in the degree of left-right fore-wing differentiation found among Orthoptera: the acoustic parts of the left fore-wing consist exclusively of the stridulatory file, comparable in function to the bow of a violin, while the right wing carries only the plectrum (= string) and mirror (= soundbox).
Zytotoxische CD8+ T-Lymphozyten spielen in vielen inflammatorischen, aber auch primär neurodegenerativen Erkrankungen eine wichtige Rolle. Daher besitzt die Fragestellung inwiefern CD8+ ZTL Neurone direkt schädigen und ggf. welche mechanistischen Aspekte dieser Schädigung zugrunde liegen, eine hohe Relevanz. Um diese Fragestellung eingehender zu beleuchten, wurde mit dem OT-I-System gearbeitet. Dieses gut vorcharakterisierte CD8+ T-Zell-Modell besitzt den Vorteil, dass diese transgenen Zellen nur eine Peptidsequenz des Ovalbumin (OVA) Protein als spezifisches Antigen erkennen.
Zunächst wurden in der vorliegenden Arbeit Co-Kultivierungs-Experimente durchgeführt. Hierzu wurden akut isolierte murine Hippokampus-Neurone unter verschiedenen Bedingungen mit OT-I Lymphozyten co-kultiviert. Hierbei konnte gezeigt werden, dass unter Antigenpräsentation der Neurone signifikant mehr Neurone in die Apoptose/Nekrose geführt werden, als unter Kontroll-Bedingungen, in denen entweder kein Antigen oder ein Antigen, das nicht von OT-I Lymphozyten erkannt wird, präsentiert wird.
Nachdem die Antigen-abhängigen zytotoxischen Effekte auf Neurone gezeigt werden konnten, wurde mithilfe elektrophysiologischer Techniken die mechanistischen und funktionellen Konsequenzen des direkten neuronalen/OT-I-vermittelten Zellkontakts untersucht. Bei diesem experimentellen Ansatz wurde durch elektrisches Auslenken eines Neurons nach Kontakt mit einem OT-I Lymphozyt die passiven elektrischen Parameter der Neuronenmembran gemessen. In diesen Messungen konnte gezeigt werden, dass nach unmittelbarem Kontakt eines Neurons mit einem OT-I Lymphozyt der neuronale Membranwiderstand reduziert wird bzw. die Leitfähigkeit der Zellmembran erhöht wird. Diese Änderung der neuronalen Membran-Leitfähigkeit findet in einem Zeitraum von 10 min nach dem Zell-Zell-Kontakt statt. Auch hier konnte gezeigt werden, dass dieser Einfluss von OT-I Lymphozyten auf Neurone strikt Antigen-abhängig ist. Zur Untersuchung des Mechanismus der OT-I T-Lymphozyten auf Neurone wurde das Augenmerk auf verschiedene T-Zell-induzierte Apoptosewegegelegt. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass durch Blockieren der Fas/FasL-Interaktion mittels eines Antikörpers kein Unterschied, weder in der neuronalen Apoptoserate nach Co-Kultivierung, noch eine Änderung der passiven neuronalen Membran-Leitfähigkeit auftritt. Weiterhin wurde die Rolle der von T-Zellen sezernierten Granula Perforin und Granzym B untersucht. Um den Einfluss dieser Granula aufzuklären, wurden OT-I Lymphozyten verwendet, die entweder defizient für Perforin oder Granzym B waren. In diesem experimentellen Ansatz wurde gezeigt, dass ausschließlich Perforin für die Erniedrigung des passiven neuronalen Membran-Widerstandes verantwortlich ist.
Diese Erhöhung der neuronalen Membranleitfähigkeit führte aber nicht direkt zum neuronalen Zelltod. Vielmehr wurde durch die einhergehende Depolarisation des Neurons die elektrische Aktivität der Zelle vermindert, sodass es zu einem sogenannten „electrical silencing“ kommt. Dieser Umstand konnte auch in der Betrachtung der spontanen Netzwerkaktivität von Neuronenkulturen gezeigt werden. Hierfür wurden hoch dichte Neuronenkulturen auf MEA-Chips kultiviert. Mit Hilfe dieser MEA konnten die Summenfeldpotentiale der Neuronenkulturen detektiert werden. Hierbei wurde beobachtet, dass nach Beladung der Neuronen mit dem spezifischen OT-I-Antigen und OT-I Zellen eine Verringerung der spontanen Netzwerkaktivität einhergeht. Auch in diesem Effekt konnte eine Antigen-Spezifität nachgewiesen werden.
Da der Prozess der zellulären Apoptose mit einem Anstieg der intrazellulären Ca2+-Konzentration einhergeht, und Perforin als Ca2+-durchlässiger unselektiver Porenbildner fungiert, wurden zur Überprüfung der Hypothese calcium imaging-Experimente durchgeführt. Analog zu den elektrophysiologischen Messungen wurde gezeigt, dass nach direktem Zell-Zell-Kontakt zwischen Neuron und OT-I Lymphozyt eine Erhöhung der intrazellulären Ca2+-Konzentration zu messen ist. Dass diese Änderung des neuronalen Ca2+-Einstroms durch Perforin-abhängige Membranporen hervorgerufen wird, konnte durch die Verwendung von Perforin-defizienten OT-I Lymphozyten bewiesen werden. Unter Verwendung von Perforin-defizienten OT-I Lymphozyten wurde keine Änderung der neuronalen Ca2+-Konzentration ermittelt. Weiterhin wurde in diesem experimentellen Ansatz gezeigt, dass auch der OT-I-vermittelte neuronale Ca2+-Anstieg strikt Antigen-abhängig ist.Zusammengefasst konnte in dieser Arbeit gezeigt werden, dass MHC-I/Antigen-vermittelte CD8+ Lymphozyten-Interaktion mit einem Neuron zu „electrical silencing“ des Neurons führt. Dieser Prozess ist klar Perforin-abhängig, führt jedoch nicht zum unmittelbaren Zelltod des Neurons.
Stem cells are defined by their capacity to self-renew and their potential to differentiate into multiple cell lineages. Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells can renew indefinitely while keeping the potential to differentiate into any of the three germ layers (ectoderm, endoderm or mesoderm). For decades, ES cells are in the focus of research because of these unique features. When ES cells differentiate they form spheroid aggregates termed “embryoid bodies” (EBs). These EBs mimic post- implantation embryonic development and therefore facilitate the understanding of developmented mechanisms.
During ES cell differentiation, de-repression or repression of genes accompanies the changes in chromatin structure. In ES cells, several mechanisms are involved in the regulation of the chromatin architecture, including post-translational modifications of histones. Post-translational histone methylation marks became one of the best- investigated epigenetic modifications, and they are essential for maintaining pluripotency. Until the first histone demethylase KDM1A was discovered in 2004 histone modifications were considered to be irreversible. Since then, a great number of histone demethylases have been identified. Their activity is linked to gene regulation as well as to stem cell self-renewal and differentiation.
KDM6A and KDM6B are H3K27me3/2-specific histone demethylases, which are known to play a central role in the regulation of posterior development by regulating HOX gene expression. So far less is known about the molecular function of KDM6A or KDM6B in undifferentiated and differentiating ES cells. In order to completely abrogate KDM6A and KDM6B demethylase activity in undifferentiated and differentiating ES cells, a specific inhibitor (GSK-J4) was employed. Treatment with GSK-J4 had no effect on the viability or proliferation on ES cells. However, in the presence of GSK-J4 ES cell differentiation was completely abrogated with cells arrested in G1-phase and an increased rate of apoptosis. Global transcriptome analyses in early-differentiating ES cells revealed that only a limited set of genes were differentially regulated in response to GSK-J4 treatment with more genes up- regulated than down-regulated. Many of the up-regulated genes are linked to DNA damage response (DDR). In agreement with this, DNA damage was found in EBs incubated with GSK-J4. A co-localization of H3K27me3 or KDM6B with γH2AX foci, marking DNA breaks, could be excluded. However, differentiating Eed knockout (KO) ES cells, which are devoid of the H3K27me3 mark, showed an attenuated GSK-J4- induced DDR. Finally, hematopoietic differentiation in the presence of GSK-J4 resulted in a reduced colony-forming potential. This leads to the conclusion that differentiation in the presence of GSK-J4 is also restricted to hematopoietic differentiation.
In conclusion, my results show that the enzymatic activity of KDM6A and KDM6B is not essential for maintaining the pluripotent state of ES cells. In contrast, the enzymatic activity of both proteins is indispensable for ES cell and hematopoietic differentiation. Additionally KDM6A and KDM6B enzymatic inhibition in differentiating ES cells leads to increased DNA damage with an activated DDR. Therefore, KDM6A and KDM6B are associated with DNA damage and in DDR in differentiating ES cells.
WISP3 is a member of the CCN family which comprises six members found in the 1990’s: Cysteine-rich,angiogenic inducer 61 (CYR61, CCN1), Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF, CCN2), Nephroblastoma overexpressed (NOV, CNN3) and the Wnt1 inducible signalling pathway protein 1-3 (WISP1-3, CCN4-6).They are involved in the adhesion, migration, mitogenesis, chemotaxis, proliferation, cell survival, angiogenesis, tumorigenesis, and wound healing by the interaction with different integrins and heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Until now the only member correlated to the musculoskeletal autosomal disease Progressive Pseudorheumatoid Dysplasia (PPD) is WISP3. PPD is characterised by normal embryonic development followed by cartilage degradation over time starting around the age of three to eight years. Animal studies in mice exhibited no differences between knock out or overexpression compared to wild type litter mates, thus were not able to reproduce the symptoms observed in PPD patients. Studies in vitro and in vivo revealed a role for WISP3 in antagonising BMP, IGF and Wnt signalling pathways. Since most of the knowledge of WISP3 was gained in epithelial cells, cancer cells or chondrocyte cell lines, we investigated the roll of WISP3 in primary human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) as well as primary chondrocytes.
WISP3 knock down was efficiently established with three short hairpin RNAs in both cell types, displaying a change of morphology followed by a reduction in cell number. Simultaneous treatment with recombinant WISP3 was not enough to rescue the observed phenotype nor increase the endogenous expression of WISP3. We concluded that WISP3 acts as an essential survival factor, where the loss resulted in the passing of cell cycle control points followed by apoptosis. Nevertheless, Annexin V-Cy3 staining and detection of active caspases by Western blot and immunofluorescence staining detected no clear evidence for apoptosis. Furthermore, the gene expression of the death receptors TRAILR1 and TRAILR2,important for the extrinsic activation of apoptosis, remained unchanged during WISP3 mRNA reduction. Autophagy as cause of cell death was also excluded, given that the autophagy marker LC3 A/B demonstrated to be uncleaved in WISP3-deficient hMSCs. To reveal correlated signalling pathways to WISP3 a whole genome expression analyses of WISP3-deficient hMSCs compared to a control (scramble) was performed. Microarray analyses exhibited differentially regulated genes involved in cell cycle control, adhesion, cytoskeleton and cell death. Cell death observed by WISP3 knock down in hMSCs and chondrocytes might be explained by the induction of necroptosis through the BMP/TAK1/RIPK1 signalling axis. Loss of WISP3 allows BMP to bind its receptor activating the Smad 2/3/4 complex which in turn can activate TAK1 as previously demonstrated in epithelial cells. TAK1 is able to block
caspase-dependent apoptosis thereby triggering the assembly of the necrosome resulting in cell death by necroptosis.
Together with its role in cell cycle control and extracellular matrix adhesion, as demonstrated in human mammary epithelial cells, the data supports the role of WISP3 as tumor suppressor and survival factor in cells of the musculoskeletal system as well as epithelial cells.
Land-use intensification and loss of semi-natural habitats have induced a severe decline of bee diversity in agricultural landscapes. Semi-natural habitats like calcareous grasslands are among the most important bee habitats in central Europe, but they are threatened by decreasing habitat area and quality, and by homogenization of the surrounding landscape affecting both landscape composition and configuration. In this study we tested the importance of habitat area, quality and connectivity as well as landscape composition and configuration on wild bees in calcareous grasslands. We made detailed trait-specific analyses as bees with different traits might differ in their response to the tested factors. Species richness and abundance of wild bees were surveyed on 23 calcareous grassland patches in Southern Germany with independent gradients in local and landscape factors. Total wild bee richness was positively affected by complex landscape configuration, large habitat area and high habitat quality (i.e. steep slopes). Cuckoo bee richness was positively affected by complex landscape configuration and large habitat area whereas habitat specialists were only affected by the local factors habitat area and habitat quality. Small social generalists were positively influenced by habitat area whereas large social generalists (bumblebees) were positively affected by landscape composition (high percentage of semi-natural habitats). Our results emphasize a strong dependence of habitat specialists on local habitat characteristics, whereas cuckoo bees and bumblebees are more likely affected by the surrounding landscape. We conclude that a combination of large high-quality patches and heterogeneous landscapes maintains high bee species richness and communities with diverse trait composition. Such diverse communities might stabilize pollination services provided to crops and wild plants on local and landscape scales.