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Chemical neurotransmission is a complex process of central importance for nervous system function. It is thought to be mediated by the orchestration of hundreds of proteins for its successful execution. Several synaptic proteins have been shown to be relevant for neurotransmission and many of them are highly conserved during evolution- suggesting a universal mechanism for neurotransmission. This process has checkpoints at various places like, neurotransmitter uptake into the vesicles, relocation of the vesicles to the vicinity of calcium channels in order to facilitate Ca2+ induced release thereby modulating the fusion probability, formation of a fusion pore to release the neurotransmitter and finally reuptake of the vesicles by endocytosis. Each of these checkpoints has now become a special area of study and maintains its own importance for the understanding of the overall process. Ca2+ induced release occurs at specialized membrane structures at the synapse known as the active zones. These are highly ordered electron dense grids and are composed of several proteins which assist the synaptic vesicles in relocating in the vicinity of Ca2+ channels thereby increasing their fusion probability and then bringing about the vesicular fusion itself. All the protein modules needed for these processes are thought to be held in tight arrays at the active zones, and the functions of a few have been characterized so far at the vertebrate active zones. Our group is primarily interested in characterizing the molecular architecture of the Drosophila synapse. Due to its powerful genetics and well-established behavioural assays Drosophila is an excellent system to investigate neuronal functioning. Monoclonal antibodies (MABs) from a hybridoma library against Drosophila brain are routinely used to detect novel proteins in the brain in a reverse genetic approach. Upon identification of the protein its encoding genetic locus is characterized and a detailed investigation of its function is initiated. This approach has been particularly useful to detect synaptic proteins, which may go undetected in a forward genetic approach due to lack of an observable phenotype. Proteins like CSP, Synapsin and Sap47 have been identified and characterized using this approach so far. MAB nc82 has been one of the shortlisted antibodies from the same library and is widely used as a general neuropil marker due to the relative transparency of immunohistochemical whole mount staining obtained with this antibody. A careful observation of double stainings at the larval neuromuscular junctions with MAB nc82 and other pre and post-synaptic markers strongly suggested an active zone localization of the nc82 antigen. Synaptic architecture is well characterized in Drosophila at the ultrastructural level. However, molecular details for many synaptic components and especially for the active zone are almost entirely unknown. A possible localization at the active zone for the nc82 antigen served as the motivation to initiate its biochemical characterization and the identification of the encoding gene. In the present thesis it is shown by 2-D gel analysis and mass spectrometry that the nc82 antigen is a novel active zone protein encoded by a complex genetic locus on chromosome 2R. By RT-PCR exons from three open reading frames previously annotated as separate genes are demonstrated to give rise to a transcript of at least 5.5 kb. Northern blots produce a prominent signal of 11 kb and a weak signal of 2 kb. The protein encoded by the 5.5 kb transcript is highly conserved amongst insects and has at its N-terminus significant homology to the previously described vertebrate active zone protein ELKS/ERC/CAST. Bioinformatic analysis predicts coiled-coil domains spread all over the sequence and strongly suggest a function involved in organizing or maintaining the structure of the active zone. The large C-terminal region is highly conserved amongst the insects but has no clear homologues in veretebrates. For a functional analysis of this protein transgenic flies expressing RNAi constructs under the control of the Gal4 regulated enhancer UAS were kindly provided by the collaborating group of S.Sigrist (Gِttingen). A strong pan-neuronal knockdown of the nc82 antigen by transgenic RNAi expression leads to embryonic lethality. A relatively weaker RNAi expression results in behavioural deficits in adult flies including unstable flight and impaired walking behavior. Due to this peculiar phenotype as observed in the first knockdown studies the gene was named “bruchpilot” (brp) encoding the protein “Bruchpilot (BRP)” (German for crash pilot). A pan-neuronal as well as retina specific downregulation of this protein results in loss of ON and OFF transients in ERG recordings indicating dysfunctional synapses. Retina specific downregulation also shows severely impaired optomotor behaviour. Finally, at an ultrastructural level BRP downregulation seems to impair the formation of the characteristic T-shaped synaptic ribbons at the active zones without significantly altering the overall synaptic architecture (in collaboration with E.Asan). Vertebrate active zone protein Bassoon is known to be involved in attaching the synaptic ribbons to the active zones as an adapter between active zone proteins RIBEYE and ERC/CAST. A mutation in Bassoon results in a floating synaptic ribbon phenotype. No protein homologous to Bassoon has been observed in Drosophila. BRP downregulation also results in absence of attached synaptic ribbons at the active zones. This invites the speculation of an adapter like function for BRP in Drosophila. However, while Bassoon mutant mice are viable, BRP deficit in addition to the structural phenotype also results in severe behavioural and physiological anomalies and even stronger downregulation causes embryonic lethality. This therefore suggests an additional and even more important role for BRP in development and normal functioning of synapses in Drosophila and also in other insects. However, how BRP regulates synaptic transmission and which other proteins are involved in this BRP dependant pathway remains to be investigated. Such studies certainly will attract prominent attention in the future.
Summary
Bees, like many other organisms, evolved an endogenous circadian clock, which enables them to foresee daily environmental changes and exactly time foraging flights to periods of floral resource availability. The social lifestyle of a honey bee colony has been shown to influence circadian behavior in nurse bees, which do not exhibit rhythmic behavior when they are nursing. On the other hand, forager bees display strong circadian rhythms. Solitary bees, like the mason bee, do not nurse their offspring and do not live in hive communities, but face the same daily environmental changes as honey bees. Besides their lifestyle mason and honey bees differ in their development and life history, because mason bees overwinter after eclosion as adults in their cocoons until they emerge in spring. Honey bees do not undergo diapause and have a relatively short development of a few weeks until they emerge. In my thesis, I present a comparison of the circadian clock of social honey bees (Apis mellifera) and solitary mason bees (Osmia bicornis and Osmia cornuta) on the neuroanatomical level and behavioral output level.
I firstly characterized in detail the localization of the circadian clock in the bee brain via the expression pattern of two clock components, namely the clock protein PERIOD (PER) and the neuropeptide Pigment Dispersing Factor (PDF), in the brain of honey bee and mason bee. PER is localized in lateral neuron clusters (which we called lateral neurons 1 and 2: LN1 and LN2) and dorsal neuron clusters (we called dorsal lateral neurons and dorsal neurons: DLN, DN), many glia cells and photoreceptor cells. This expression pattern is similar to the one in other insect species and indicates a common ground plan of clock cells among insects. In the LN2 neuron cluster with cell bodies located in the lateral brain, PER is co-expressed with PDF. These cells build a complex arborization network throughout the brain and provide the perfect structure to convey time information to brain centers, where complex behavior, e.g. sun-compass orientation and time memory, is controlled. The PDF arborizations centralize in a dense network (we named it anterio-lobular PDF hub: ALO) which is located in front of the lobula. In other insects, this fiber center is associated with the medulla (accessory medulla: AME). Few PDF cells build the ALO already in very early larval development and the cell number and complexity of the network grows throughout honey bee development. Thereby, dorsal regions are innervated first by PDF fibers and, in late larval development, the fibers grow laterally to the optic lobe and central brain. The overall expression pattern of PER and PDF are similar in adult social and solitary bees, but I found a few differences in the PDF network density in the posterior protocerebrum and the lamina, which may be associated with evolution of sociality in bees.
Secondly, I monitored activity rhythms, for which I developed and established a device to monitor locomotor activity rhythms of individual honey bees with contact to a mini colony in the laboratory. This revealed new aspects of social synchronization and survival of young bees with indirect social contact to the mini colony (no trophalaxis was possible). For mason bees, I established a method to monitor emergence and locomotor activity rhythms and I could show that circadian emergence rhythms are entrainable by daily temperature cycles. Furthermore, I present the first locomotor activity rhythms of solitary bees, which show strong circadian rhythms in their behavior right after emergence. Honey bees needed several days to develop circadian locomotor rhythms in my experiments. I hypothesized that honey bees do not emerge with a fully matured circadian system in the hive, while solitary bees, without the protection of a colony, would need a fully matured circadian clock right away after emergence. Several indices in published work and preliminary studies support my hypothesis and future studies on PDF expression in different developmental stages in solitary bees may provide hard evidence.
The Venus flytrap, \textit{Dionaea muscipula}, with its carnivorous life-style and its highly
specialized snap-traps has fascinated biologist since the days of Charles Darwin. The
goal of the \textit{D. muscipula} genome project is to gain comprehensive insights into the
genomic landscape of this remarkable plant.
The genome of the diploid Venus flytrap with an estimated size between 2.6 Gbp to
3.0 Gbp is comparatively large and comprises more than 70 % of repetitive regions.
Sequencing and assembly of genomes of this scale are even with state-of-the-art
technology and software challenging. Initial sequencing and assembly of the genome
was performed by the BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) in 2011 resulting in a 3.7 Gbp
draft assembly. I started my work with thorough assessment of the delivered assembly
and data. My analysis showed that the BGI assembly is highly fragmented and
at the same time artificially inflated due to overassembly of repetitive sequences.
Furthermore, it only comprises about on third of the expected genes in full-length,
rendering it inadequate for downstream analysis.
In the following I sought to optimize the sequencing and assembly strategy to obtain
an assembly of higher completeness and contiguity by improving data quality and
assembly procedure and by developing tailored bioinformatics tools. Issues with
technical biases and high levels of heterogeneity in the original data set were solved
by sequencing additional short read libraries from high quality non-polymorphic DNA
samples. To address contiguity and heterozygosity I examined numerous alternative
assembly software packages and strategies and eventually identified ALLPATHS-LG
as the most suited program for assembling the data at hand. Moreover, by utilizing
digital normalization to reduce repetitive reads, I was able to substantially reduce
computational demands while at the same time significantly increasing contiguity of
the assembly.
To improve repeat resolution and scaffolding, I started to explore the novel PacBio
long read sequencing technology. Raw PacBio reads exhibit high error rates of 15 %
impeding their use for assembly. To overcome this issue, I developed the PacBio
hybrid correction pipeline proovread (Hackl et al., 2014). proovread uses high
coverage Illumina read data in an iterative mapping-based consensus procedure to
identify and remove errors present in raw PacBio reads. In terms of sensitivity and
accuracy, proovread outperforms existing software. In contrast to other correction
programs, which are incapable of handling data sets of the size of D. muscipula
project, proovread’s flexible design allows for the efficient distribution of work load on high-performance computing clusters, thus enabling the correction of the Venus
flytrap PacBio data set.
Next to the assembly process itself, also the assessment of the large de novo draft
assemblies, particularly with respect to coverage by available sequencing data, is
difficult. While typical evaluation procedures rely on computationally extensive
mapping approaches, I developed and implemented a set of tools that utilize k-mer
coverage and derived values to efficiently compute coverage landscapes of large-scale
assemblies and in addition allow for automated visualization of the of the obtained
information in comprehensive plots.
Using the developed tools to analyze preliminary assemblies and by combining my
findings regarding optimizations of the assembly process, I was ultimately able to
generate a high quality draft assembly for D. muscipula. I further refined the assembly
by removal of redundant contigs resulting from separate assembly of heterozygous
regions and additional scaffolding and gapclosing using corrected PacBio data. The
final draft assembly comprises 86 × 10 3 scaffolds and has a total size of 1.45 Gbp.
The difference to the estimated genomes size is well explained by collapsed repeats.
At the same time, the assembly exhibits high fractions full-length gene models,
corroborating the interpretation that the obtained draft assembly provides a complete
and comprehensive reference for further exploration of the fascinating biology of the
Venus flytrap.
Somites are repeated epithelial segments that are generated in a rhythmic manner from the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) in the embryonic tailbud. Later, they differentiate into skeletal muscle, cartilage and dermis. Somitogenesis is regulated by a complex interplay of different pathways. Notch/Delta signaling is one of the pathways well characterized in zebrafish through mutants affected in its different components. Previous work in mouse, chicken and zebrafish has shown that also additional components are required during somitogenesis, most importantly through an FGF and Retinoic acid (RA) gradient, as well as Wnt signaling. However, no zebrafish mutants with defects in these pathways showing specific somite malformations are described. This was explained by functional redundancies among related genes that have resulted from a whole genome duplication which occurred in a teleost fish ancestor 350 million years ago. As distinct duplicates exist in different teleost species, a large scale mutagenesis screen in the medaka (Oryzias latipes) has been performed successfully in Kyoto, Japan. I analyzed nine of the isolated medaka mutants that show variable aspects of somitic phenotypes. This includes a complete or partial loss of somite boundaries (e.g. bms and sne), somites with irregular sizes and shapes (e.g. krz and fsl) or partially fused and enlarged somites (e.g. dpk). Although some of these medaka mutants share characteristics with previously described zebrafish somite mutants, most of the mutants represent unique phenotypes, not obtained in the zebrafish screens. In-situ hybridization analyses with marker genes implicated in the segmentation clock (e.g. her7), establishment of anterior-posterior (A-P) polarity (e.g. mesp) and differentiation of somites (e.g. myf5, lfng) revealed that the medaka mutants can be separated into two classes. Class I shows defects in tailbud formation and PSM prepatterning, and lateron somite boundary formation was impaired in these mutants. A unique member of this class with a novel phenotype is the doppelkorn (dpk) mutant that has single fused or enlarged somites. This phenotype has not been reported till now in zebrafish somite mutants. In-situ analyses on dpk showed that stabilization of the cyclically expressed somitogenesis clock genes must be affected in this mutant. This is accompanied by a disrupted regulation of A-P polarity genes like mesp. This suggests that dpk is a mutant deficient in the wave front, which is necessary for the down-regulation of oscillating genes in the anterior PSM. Furthermore, as the initiation of oscillation of all three cyclic her genes was unaffected in dpk embryos, I could exclude that this mutant in affected in the Notch/Delta pathway. Another mutant that belongs to this class is the samidare (sam) mutant. Morphologically, sam mutants are similar to zebrafish after eight (aei). In both cases, the first 7-9 somites are formed properly, but after this somite formation ceases. Different to the situation in aei, sam mutant embryos presented an additional defect in the mid-hindbrain boundary (MHB) region. Similar MHB defects were described in the zebrafish fgf8 mutant acerebellar (ace). In ace zebrafish mutant, somites were only slightly defective, although FGF signaling has been shown to be important for somite formation in chicken, mouse and zebrafish. This was explained by functional redundancy between fgf8 and fgf24 ligands in the tailbud of zebrafish. Thus, it is interesting to suggest that the sam mutant, based on the parallel defects in somites and MHB, is a potential member of the FGF signaling pathway muatnts. It was shown that FGF plays a crucial role during MHB formation in medaka. In addition, I showed that fgf8 acts non-redundantly during tailbud formation and somitogenesis in medaka. Furthermore, I showed that FGF signaling regulates somite size also in medaka and that fgfr1 is the only FGF receptor expressed in the tailbud and somites. In class II medaka somite mutants, PSM prepatterning appears normal, whereas A-P polarity, boundary formation, epithelialization or the later differentiation of somites appears to be affected. Such mutants have not been isolated so far in zebrafish, mice or chicken. Therefore, medaka class II somite mutants seem to be a novel group of mutants that opens new perspectives to analyze A-P polarity regulation, determination and boundary formation in the presence of a normally functioning clock in the PSM. Identifying the encoding genes for all analyzed medaka somite mutants will contribute to the understanding of the molecular interactions of different signaling pathways involved during somitogenesis, and is expected to result in the identification of new components.
In contrast to c-Myc, a deregulated expression of the MYCN gene is restricted to human neuroendocrine tumours. In most cases, the excessive activity of N-Myc results from a MYCN amplification. In neuroblastoma, amplification of MYCN is a predictor of poor prognosis and resistance to therapy. The inability to target the N-Myc protein directly necessitates the search for alternative targets. This project aimed at identifying genes specifically required for growth and survival of cells that express high levels of N-Myc using high-throughput shRNA screening combined with next generation sequencing. The identification and analysis of these genes will shed light on functional interaction partners of N-Myc.
We screened a shRNA library containing 18,327 shRNAs and identified 148 shRNAs, which were selectively depleted in the presence of active N-Myc. In addition, shRNAs targeting genes that are involved in p53 and ARF turnover and apoptosis were depleted in the cell population during the screen. These processes are known to affect N-Myc-mediated apoptosis. Consequently, these results biologically validated the screen. The 148 shRNAs that showed a significant synthetic lethal interaction with high levels of N-Myc expression were further analysed using the bioinformatics program DAVID. We found an enrichment of shRNAs that target genes involved in specific biological processes. For example, we validated synthetic lethal interactions for genes such as, THOC1, NUP153 and LARP7, which play an important role in the process of RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription elongation. We also validated genes that are involved in the neddylation pathway.
In the screen we identified Cullin 3, which is a component of the BTB-CUL3-Rbx1 ubiquitin ligase that is involved in the turnover of Cyclin E. Depletion of cullin 3 and activation of N-Myc was found to synergistically increase Cyclin E expression to supraphysiological levels, inducing S-phase arrest and a strong DNA damage response.
Together with results from a proteomics analysis of N-Myc associated proteins, our results lead us to the following hypothesis: In a neuroblastoma cell, the high levels of N-Myc result in a conflict between RNA polymerase II and the replication machinery during S-phase. The newly identified interaction partners of N- Myc are required to solve this conflict. Consequently, loss of the interaction leads to a massive DNA damage and the induction of apoptosis. In addition, inhibition or depletion of the essential components of the neddylation pathway also results in an unresolvable problem during S-phase.
In this work models for molecular networks consisting of ordinary differential equations are extended by terms that include the interaction of the corresponding molecular network with the environment that the molecular network is embedded in. These terms model the effects of the external stimuli on the molecular network. The usability of this extension is demonstrated with a model of a circadian clock that is extended with certain terms and reproduces data from several experiments at the same time.
Once the model including external stimuli is set up, a framework is developed in order to calculate external stimuli that have a predefined desired effect on the molecular network. For this purpose the task of finding appropriate external stimuli is formulated as a mathematical optimal control problem for which in order to solve it a lot of mathematical methods are available. Several methods are discussed and worked out in order to calculate a solution for the corresponding optimal control problem. The application of the framework to find pharmacological intervention points or effective drug combinations is pointed out and discussed. Furthermore the framework is related to existing network analysis tools and their combination for network analysis in order to find dedicated external stimuli is discussed.
The total framework is verified with biological examples by comparing the calculated results with data from literature. For this purpose platelet aggregation is investigated based on a corresponding gene regulatory network and associated receptors are detected. Furthermore a transition from one to another type of T-helper cell is analyzed in a tumor setting where missing agents are calculated to induce the corresponding switch in vitro. Next a gene regulatory network of a myocardiocyte is investigated where it is shown how the presented framework can be used to compare different treatment strategies with respect to their beneficial effects and side effects quantitatively. Moreover a constitutively activated signaling pathway, which thus causes maleficent effects, is modeled and intervention points with corresponding treatment strategies are determined that steer the gene regulatory network from a pathological expression pattern to physiological one again.
A novel USP11-TCEAL1-mediated mechanism protects transcriptional elongation by RNA Polymerase II
(2024)
Deregulated expression of MYC oncoproteins is a driving event in many human cancers. Therefore, understanding and targeting MYC protein-driven mechanisms in tumor biology remain a major challenge.
Oncogenic transcription in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma leads to the formation of the MYCN-BRCA1-USP11 complex that terminates transcription by evicting stalling RNAPII from chromatin. This reduces cellular stress and allows reinitiation of new rounds of transcription. Basically, tumors with amplified MYC genes have a high demand on well orchestration of transcriptional processes-dependent and independent from MYC proteins functions in gene regulation. To date, the cooperation between promoter-proximal termination and transcriptional elongation in cancer cells remains still incomplete in its understanding.
In this study the putative role of the dubiquitinase Ubiquitin Specific Protease 11 (USP11) in transcription regulation was further investigated. First, several USP11 interaction partners involved in transcriptional regulation in neuroblastoma cancer cells were identified. In particular, the transcription elongation factor A like 1 (TCEAL1) protein, which assists USP11 to engage protein-protein interactions in a MYCN-dependent manner, was characterized. The data clearly show that TCEAL1 acts as a pro-transcriptional factor for RNA polymerase II (RNAPII)-medi- ated transcription. In detail, TCEAL1 controls the transcription factor S-II (TFIIS), a factor that assists RNAPII to escape from paused sites. The findings claim that TCEAL1 outcompetes the transcription elongation factor TFIIS in a non-catalytic manner on chromatin of highly expressed genes. This is reasoned by the need regulating TFIIS function in transcription. TCEAL1 equili- brates excessive backtracking and premature termination of transcription caused by TFIIS.
Collectively, the work shed light on the stoichiometric control of TFIIS demand in transcriptional regulation via the USP11-TCEAL1-USP7 complex. This complex protects RNAPII from TFIIS-mediated termination helping to regulate productive transcription of highly active genes in neuroblastoma.
The mode of action of phloretin and its analogs on the permeability of natural membranes for neutral and charged molecules, such as urea, glucose and chloride has been characterized 25 years ago. In contrast to signal molecules with primary effects on transport systems of natural membranes, phloretin also affects model membranes, i.e., artificial membranes, which do not contain proteins. Since the dipole potential reducing effect of phloretin on mono- and bilayers has been found, it became clear that its primary effect must be a biophysical one: phloretin adsorbs to lipid layers and changes biophysical parameters of these layers. The aim of this work was the characterization of the interaction between the surface-active molecule phloretin and artificial lipid layers. We were able to describe structural and functional parameters of the model systems mono- and bilayer as functions of one or few variables. One of these parameters, the dipole potential, measured as a function of the aqueous phloretin concentration, allowed a critical examination of the Langmuir adsorption model that has been postulated for the interaction between phloretin and lipid layers. Surface pressure versus area per lipid molecule isotherms and surface (dipole) potential change versus area per lipid molecule isotherms, measured at lipid monolayers, allowed a structural description of the phloretin-lipid interaction: phloretin integrates into monolayers dependent on the surface pressure and the phase state of the lipid. Calorimetric measurements confirmed the integration of phloretin into membranes because of the strong decrease of the phase transition temperature, but they also showed that the cooperativity of phase transition is hardly affected, even at very high amounts of phloretin in the membrane. Obviously the interaction between phloretin and lipids is restricted to the head groups, an integration into the hydrocarbon layer is unlikely. 2H NMR measurements with spherical unilamellar vesicles of headgroup-deuterated lipid showed changed quadrupolar splittings indicating the interaction between phloretin and headgroups of the lipids.
Since its first experimental implementation in 2005, single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) emerged as a versatile and powerful imaging tool for biological structures with nanometer resolution. By now, SMLM has compiled an extensive track-record of novel insights in sub- and inter- cellular organization.\\
Moreover, since all SMLM techniques rely on the analysis of emission patterns from isolated fluorophores, they inherently allocate molecular information $per$ $definitionem$.\\
Consequently, SMLM transitioned from its origin as pure high-resolution imaging instrument towards quantitative microscopy, where the key information medium is no longer the highly resolved image itself, but the raw localization data set.\\
The work presented in this thesis is part of the ongoing effort to translate those $per$ $se$ molecular information gained by SMLM imaging to insights into the structural organization of the targeted protein or even beyond. Although largely consistent in their objectives, the general distinction between global or segmentation clustering approaches on one side and particle averaging or meta-analyses techniques on the other is usually made.\\
During the course of my thesis, I designed, implemented and employed numerous quantitative approaches with varying degrees of complexity and fields of application.\\ \\
In my first major project, I analyzed the localization distribution of the integral protein gp210 of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) with an iterative \textit{k}-means algorithm. Relating the distinct localization statistics of separated gp210 domains to isolated fluorescent signals led, among others, to the conclusion that the anchoring ring of the NPC consists of 8 homo-dimers of gp210.\\
This is of particular significance, both because it answered a decades long standing question about the nature of the gp210 ring and it showcased the possibility to gain structural information well beyond the resolution capabilities of SMLM by crafty quantification approaches.\\ \\
The second major project reported comprises an extensive study of the synaptonemal complex (SNC) and linked cohesin complexes. Here, I employed a multi-level meta-analysis of the localization sets of various SNC proteins to facilitate the compilation of a novel model of the molecular organization of the major SNC components with so far unmatched extend and detail with isotropic three-dimensional resolution.\\
In a second venture, the two murine cohesin components SMC3 and STAG3 connected to the SNC were analyzed. Applying an adapted algorithm, considering the disperse nature of cohesins, led to the realization that there is an apparent polarization of those cohesin complexes in the SNC, as well as a possible sub-structure of STAG3 beyond the resolution capabilities of SMLM.\\ \\
Other minor projects connected to localization quantification included the study of plasma membrane glycans regarding their overall localization distribution and particular homogeneity as well as the investigation of two flotillin proteins in the membrane of bacteria, forming clusters of distinct shapes and sizes.\\ \\
Finally, a novel approach to three-dimensional SMLM is presented, employing the precise quantification of single molecule emitter intensities. This method, named TRABI, relies on the principles of aperture photometry which were improved for SMLM.\\
With TRABI it was shown, that widely used Gaussian fitting based localization software underestimates photon counts significantly. This mismatch was utilized as a $z$-dependent parameter, enabling the conversion of 2D SMLM data to a virtual 3D space. Furthermore it was demonstrated, that TRABI can be combined beneficially with a multi-plane detection scheme, resulting in superior performance regarding axial localization precision and resolution.\\
Additionally, TRABI has been subsequently employed to photometrically characterize a novel dye for SMLM, revealing superior photo-physical properties at the single-molecule level.\\
Following the conclusion of this thesis, the TRABI method and its applications remains subject of diverse ongoing research.
Mammalian embryonic development is subject to complex biological relationships that need to be understood. However, before the whole structure of development can be put together, the individual building blocks must first be understood in more detail. One of these building blocks is the second cell fate decision and describes the differentiation of cells of the inner cell mass of the embryo into epiblast and primitive endoderm cells. These cells then spatially segregate and form the subsequent bases for the embryo and yolk sac, respectively. In organoids of the inner cell mass, these two types of progenitor cells are also observed to form, and to some extent to spatially separate. This work has been devoted to these phenomena over the past three years. Plenty of studies already provide some insights into the basic mechanics of this cell differentiation, such that the first signs of epiblast and primitive endoderm differentiation, are the expression levels of transcription factors NANOG and GATA6. Here, cells with low expression of GATA6 and high expression of NANOG adopt the epiblast fate. If the expressions are reversed, a primitive endoderm cell is formed. Regarding the spatial segregation of the two cell types, it is not yet clear what mechanism leads to this. A common hypothesis suggests the differential adhesion of cell as the cause for the spatial rearrangement of cells. In this thesis however, the possibility of a global cell-cell communication is investigated. The approach chosen to study these phenomena follows the motto "mathematics is biology's next microscope". Mathematical modeling is used to transform the central gene regulatory network at the heart of this work into a system of equations that allows us to describe the temporal evolution of NANOG and GATA6 under the influence of an external signal. Special attention is paid to the derivation of new models using methods of statistical mechanics, as well as the comparison with existing models. After a detailed stability analysis the advantages of the derived model become clear by the fact that an exact relationship of the model parameters and the formation of heterogeneous mixtures of two cell types was found. Thus, the model can be easily controlled and the proportions of the resulting cell types can be estimated in advance. This mathematical model is also combined with a mechanism for global cell-cell communication, as well as a model for the growth of an organoid. It is shown that the global cell-cell communication is able to unify the formation of checkerboard patterns as well as engulfing patterns based on differently propagating signals. In addition, the influence of cell division and thus organoid growth on pattern formation is studied in detail. It is shown that this is able to contribute to the formation of clusters and, as a consequence, to breathe some randomness into otherwise perfectly sorted patterns.
Insects are responsible for the major part of the ecosystem services pollination and natural pest control. If insects decline, these ecosystem services can not longer be reliably delivered. Agricultural intensification and the subsequent loss and fragmentation of habitats has among others been identified to cause insect decline. Ecological intensification aims to promote alternative and sustainable management practices in agricultural farming, for example to decrease the use of external inputs such as pesticides. Agri-environment schemes make amends for farmers if they integrate ecologically beneficial measures into their farming regime and can therefore promote ecological intensification. There is a wide variety of agri-environment schemes, but the implementation of sown flower fields on crop fields is often included. Flower fields offer foraging resources as well as nesting sites for many different insect species and should be able to support insect populations as well as to increase ecosystem services to adjacent fields. However, the potential of flower fields to exhibit these effects is depending on many factors. Among others, the age and size of the flower field can influence if and how different insects profit from the measure. Additionally, the complexity of the surrounding landscape and therefore the existing biodiversity is influencing the potential of flower fields to increase ecosystem services locally. The goal of this study is to disentangle to which degree these factors influence the ecosystem services pollination and natural pest control and if these factors interact with each other. Furthermore, it will be examined if and how flower fields and ecosystem services influence crop yield. Additional factors examined in this study are distance decay and pesticide use. The abundance of beneficial insects can decrease strongly with increasing distance to suitable habitats. Pesticide use in turn could abrogate positive effects of flower fields on beneficial insects.
To examine these different aspects and to be able to make recommendations for flower field implementation, field experiments were conducted on differently composed sown flower fields and adjacent oilseed rape fields. Flower fields differed in their age and continuity as well as in their size. Additionally, flower and oilseed rape fields were chosen in landscapes with different amounts of semi-natural habitat. Oilseed rape fields adjacent to calcareous grasslands and conventional crop fields served as controls. Pollinator observations and pollen beetle and parasitism surveys were conducted in the oilseed rape fields. Additionally, different yield parameters of the oilseed rape plants were recorded. Observations were conducted and samples taken in increasing distance to the flower fields to examine distance decay functions. Spray windows were established to inspect the influence of pesticides on ecosystem services and crop yields. Linear mixed models were used for statistical analysis.
The results show, that newly established flower fields with high amounts of flower cover are very attractive for pollinators. If the flower fields reached a certain size (> 1.5ha), the pollinators tended to stay in these fields and did not distribute into the surroundings. High amounts of semi-natural habitat in the surrounding landscape increased the value of small flower fields as starting points for pollinators and their subsequent spillover into crop fields. Additionally, high amounts of semi-natural habitat decreased the decay of pollinators with increasing distance to the flower fields. Based on these results, it can be recommended to establish many small flower fields in landscapes with high amounts of semi-natural habitat and large flower fields in landscapes with low amounts of semi-natural habitat. However, it is mentionable that flower fields are no substitute for perennial semi-natural habitats. These still must be actively conserved to increase pollination to crop fields.
Furthermore, the lowest amount of pollen beetle infestation was found on oilseed rape fields adjacent to continuous flower fields aged older than 6 years. Flower fields and calcareous grasslands in general increased pollen beetle parasitism in adjacent oilseed rape fields compared to conventional crop fields. The threshold for effective natural pest control could only be reached in the pesticide free areas in the oilseed rape fields adjacent to continuous flower fields and calcareous grasslands. Parasitism and superparasitism declined with increasing distance to the adjacent fields in pesticide treated areas of the oilseed rape fields. However, they remained on a similar level in spray windows without pesticides. Large flower fields increased parasitism and superparasitism more than small flower fields. Flower fields generally have the potential to increase pollen beetle parasitism rates, but pesticides can abrogate these positive effects of flower fields on natural pest control.
Last but not least, effects of flower fields and ecosystem services on oilseed rape yield were examined. No positive effects of pollination on oilseed rape yield could be found. Old and continuous flower fields increased natural pest control in oilseed rape fields, which in turn increased seed set and total seed weight of oilseed rape plants. The pesticide treatment had negative effects on natural pest control, but positive effects on crop yield. Pollination and natural pest control decreased with increasing distance to the field edge, but fruit set slightly increased. The quality of the field in terms of soil and climatic conditions did not influence the yield parameters examined in this study. Yield formation in oilseed rape plants is a complex process with many factors involved, and it is difficult to disentangle indirect effects of flower fields on yield. However, perennial flower fields can promote ecological intensification by increasing crop yield via natural pest control. This study contributes to a better understanding of the effects of differently composed flower fields on pollination, natural pest control and oilseed rape yield.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit konnte die essentielle Beteiligung von Caspasen im Zelltodmodell der AKR 2B-Mausfibroblasten nachgewiesen und ihre Aktivitäten charakterisiert werden. AKR 2B-Mausfibroblasten stellen eine subklonierte und gut charakterisierte Zellinie dar, in der durch Entzug des Serums der Zelltod induziert wird. Während des Zelltods sterben innerhalb von 6h etwa 50 Prozent einer dichtearretierten Kultur. Die überlebenden Zellen bleiben von diesem Mangelzustand für mindestens weitere 48h unbeeinflußt, benötigen aber zum Überleben eine Proteinneusynthese. Der Zelltod zeigt für eine Apoptose typische morphologische Veränderungen der Zelle, obwohl apoptotische Charakteristika, wie die oligonukleosomale Fragmentierung der DNA oder die Aufnahme der zerfallenen Zelle durch benachbarte Zellen, ausbleiben. Mittels unterschiedlicher Methoden konnte die Expression von mRNA aller für den apoptotischen Prozeß bekannten relevanten Caspasen in den AKR 2B-Mausfibroblasten nachgewiesen werden. Die Caspasen-1, -2, -3, -6 und -9 liegen in ihrer zymogenen Form konstitutiv in den Zellen vor. Mit Ausnahme der Caspase-9 konnte die durch Serumentzug induzierte Spaltung dieser Caspasen in Untereinheiten und somit ihre Aktivierung nicht detektiert werden. Die wesentliche Beteiligung dieser Cystein-Proteasen wurde jedoch durch den protektiven Effekt spezifischer Inhibitoren und den Nachweis ihrer spezifischen Aktivität bestimmt. Die Charakterisierung dieser enzymatischen Aktivitäten lieferte Hinweise zur Identität der aktivierten Caspasen. Neben einer konstitutiven VEIDase- und IETDase-Aktivität wird 3h nach Entzug des Serums eine DEVDase maximal aktiviert. Das Gemisch an Caspase-Aktivitäten wird durch eine DEVDase dominiert. Diese Aktivität wird zum größten Teil durch nur ein Enzym gestellt, wie durch eine Affinitätsmarkierung und 2D-Gelelektrophorese gezeigt wurde. KM- und Ki-Wert-Bestimmungen der DEVDase deuten darauf hin, daß dieses Enzym typische Effektoreigenschaften, wie die der Caspase-3, besitzt. Daneben werden Lamine während des Zelltods in AKR 2B-Mausfibroblasten abgebaut, was auf eine aktivierte Caspase-6 hinweist. Die enzymatischen Charakteristika dieser Protease weichen aber von den in AKR 2B-Mausfibroblasten festgestellten Werten deutlich ab, so daß man ihr nur eine untergeordnete Rolle im Caspasen-Gemisch zuordnen kann. Eine mehrfach chromatographische Reinigung der Aktivität bietet die beste Grundlage für eine anschließende Sequenzierung der Caspase mit dem Ziel ihrer Identifizierung. Durch die Expression des viralen Caspase-Inhibitors CrmA konnte eine tragende Rolle der Caspase-8 und damit des Rezeptor-vermittelten Weges in der Initiierung des apoptotischen Programms in AKR 2B-Mausfibroblasten ausgeschlossen werden. Gleiches gilt für den mitochondrial-vermittelten Weg, für dessen Beteiligung, bis auf die Spaltung der Caspase-9, keine Hinweise vorliegen. Der Weg, der zur Aktivierung der DEVDase führt, ist Ziel gegenwärtiger Untersuchungen. Substanzen, die Signalwege aktivieren PDGF-BB, TPA, Forskolin und 8Br-cAMP) oder auch Substanzen, deren Verbindung zu Signalwegen noch weitgehend offen ist, schützen die Zellen vor dem Zelltod. Der protektive Effekt dieser Signalwege konzentriert sich in einem Konvergenzpunkt, der auf noch unbekannte Weise die Aktivierung der Effektor-Caspasen blockiert. Die Identität dieses Konvergenzpunktes und von ihm ausgehenden protektiven Weges ist Ziel weiterer Untersuchungen. So ist es möglicherweise dieser Weg, der zum Überleben von 50 Prozent der AKR 2B-Mausfibroblasten während des Serumentzugs wesentlich beiträgt.
Distinct juvenile behaviour differences, changes in adult sizes and reproductive capacity and a long reproductive period triggered the working hypothesis of two alternative life-cycle strategies favouring aestivation or immediate reproduction. The hypothesis for the life-cycles of Hyperolius nitidulus that differed from the commonly assumed reproductive strategy for this species was confirmed by the results of this study. Aestivated juveniles start to mature at the beginning of the rainy season and reproduce subsequently. Their tadpoles grow until metamorphosis and either reproduce in this same season, in which case their offspring aestivates (one year - two generations), or they delay reproduction to the following year and aestivate themselves (one year - one generation). Juveniles trying to reproduce as fast as possible will invest in growth and differentiation and show no costly adaptations to aestivation, while juveniles delaying reproduction to the following rainy season will be well adapted to dry season conditions. Indirect evidence for the existence of a second generation was found in all three investigation years: adult size decreased abruptly towards the end of the rainy season, mainly due to the arrival of very small individuals, and clutch size decreased abruptly. Also at the end of the rainy season juveniles had two behavioural types: one hiding on the ground and clearly avoiding direct sunlight and another sitting freely above ground showing higher tolerance towards dry season conditions (high air temperatures and low humidity). Skin morphology differed between the types showing many more purine crystals in a higher order in the dry-season adapted juveniles. The final proof for the existence of a second generation came with the recapture of individuals marked as juveniles when they left the pond. The 45 recaptured frogs definitely came back to the pond to reproduce during the same season in 1999. Second generation frogs (males and females) were significantly smaller than the rest of all adults and egg diameter was reduced. Clutch size did not differ significantly. It was found that females did not discriminate against second generation males when coming to the ponds to reproduce. Second generation males had a similar chance to be found in amplexus as first generation males. Indirect and direct evidence for a second generation matched very well. The sudden size decrease in adults occurred just at the time when the first marked frogs returned. The observation that freshly metamorphosed froglets were able to sit in the sun directly after leaving the water led to the assumption that the decision whether to aestivate or to reproduce already happens during the frogs' larval period. Water chemistry and the influence of light was investigated to look for the factors triggering the decision, but only contaminated water increased the number of juveniles ready for aestivation. Whether the life history polymorphism observed in Hyperolius nitidulus is due to phenotypic plasticity or genetic polymorphism is still not known. Despite this uncertainty, there is no doubt that the optimal combination of different life histories is profitable and may be a reason for the wide range and high local abundance of Hyperolius nitidulus.
Altersassoziierte und strahleninduzierte Veränderungen des genomweiten DNA-Methylierungs-Profils
(2018)
Der Prozess des Alterns ist ein komplexer multifaktorieller Vorgang, der durch eine sukzessive Verschlechterung der physiologischen Funktionen charakterisiert ist. Ein hohes Alter ist der Hauptrisikofaktor für die meisten Krankheiten, einschließlich Krebs und Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen. Das Verständnis der epigenetischen Mechanismen, die in den Prozess des Alterns involviert sind, könnte zur Entwicklung pharmakologischer Interventionen beitragen, die nicht nur die Lebenserwartung erhöhen, sondern auch den Beginn des altersassoziierten funktionellen Abbaus verzögern könnten. Durch die Langzeit-Kultivierung primärer humaner Fibroblasten wurde ein in vitro Modell für das Altern etabliert, das die Identifizierung altersassoziierter DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen ermöglichte. Die in vitro Alterung konnte mit einer globalen Hypomethylierung und einer erhöhten DNA-Methylierung der ribosomalen DNA assoziiert werden. Darüber hinaus konnten DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen in Genen und Signalwegen, die für das Altern relevant sind, und ein erhöhtes epigenetisches Alter nachgewiesen werden.
Das in vitro Modell für das Altern wurde verwendet, um neben den direkten Effekten ionisierender Strahlung auf die DNA-Methylierung auch deren Langzeit-Effekte zu untersuchen. Die Strahlentherapie ist ein entscheidendes Element der Krebstherapie, hat aber auch negative Auswirkungen und kann unter anderem das Risiko für die Entwicklung eines Zweittumors erhöhen. Bei externer Bestrahlung wird neben dem Tumor auch gesundes Gewebe ionisierender Strahlung ausgesetzt. Daher ist es wichtig zu untersuchen, wie Zellen mit intakten DNA-Reparatur-Mechanismen und funktionierenden Zellzyklus-Checkpoints durch diese beeinflusst werden. In der frühen Phase der DNA-Schadensantwort auf Bestrahlung wurden in normalen Zellen keine wesentlichen DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen beobachtet. Mehrere Populations-Verdoppelungen nach Strahlenexposition konnten dagegen eine globale Hypomethylierung, eine erhöhte DNA-Methylierung der ribosomalen DNA und ein erhöhtes epigenetisches Alter detektiert werden. Des Weiteren zeigten Gene und Signalwege, die mit Krebs in Verbindung gebracht wurden, Veränderungen in der DNA-Methylierung. Als Langzeit-Effekte ionisierender Strahlung traten somit die mit der in vitro Alterung assoziierten DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen verstärkt auf und ein epigenetisches Muster, das stark an das DNA-Methylierungs-Profil von Tumorzellen erinnert, entstand. Man geht davon aus, dass Veränderungen der DNA-Methylierung eine aktive Rolle in der Entwicklung eines Tumors spielen. Die durch ionisierende Strahlung induzierten DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen in normalen Zellen könnten demnach in die Krebsentstehung nach Strahlenexposition involviert sein und zu dem sekundären Krebsrisiko nach Strahlentherapie beitragen. Es ist bekannt, dass Patienten unterschiedlich auf therapeutische Bestrahlung reagieren. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit weisen darauf hin, dass die individuelle Sensitivität gegenüber ionisierender Strahlung auch auf epigenetischer Ebene beobachtet werden kann.
In einem zweiten Projekt wurden Gesamtblutproben von Patienten mit Werner-Syndrom, einer segmental progeroiden Erkrankung, und gesunden Kontrollen analysiert, um mit dem vorzeitigen Altern in Verbindung stehende DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen zu identifizieren. Werner-Syndrom konnte nicht mit einer globalen Hypomethylierung, jedoch mit einer erhöhten DNA-Methylierung der ribosomalen DNA und einem erhöhten epigenetischen Alter assoziiert werden. Das vorzeitige Altern geht demzufolge mit spezifischen epigenetischen Veränderungen einher, die eine Beschleunigung der mit dem normalen Altern auftretenden DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen darstellen.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit konnte die Bedeutung epigenetischer Mechanismen im Prozess des Alterns hervorgehoben werden und gezeigt werden, dass sowohl exogene Faktoren, wie ionisierende Strahlung, als auch endogene Faktoren, wie das in Werner-Syndrom-Patienten mutiert vorliegende WRN-Gen, altersassoziierte DNA-Methylierungs-Veränderungen beeinflussen können.
Die postovulatorische Alterung sowie die ovarielle Alterung konnten bei der Anwendung assistierter Reproduktionstechniken (ARTs) als entscheidende Faktoren identifiziert werden, die den Reproduktionserfolg nachhaltig beeinträchtigen. Die postovulatorische Alterung tritt ein, sobald die reife Eizelle nicht mehr innerhalb ihres physiologischen Zeitfensters befruchtet wird. Die ovarielle Alterung beschreibt hingegen die Abnahme des Follikel-Vorrats mit zunehmendem Alter des weiblichen Individuums bzw. des Ovars. Sowohl die postovulatorische Alterung als auch die ovarielle Alterung führen u.a. zu einer reduzierten Oozytenqualität und einer geringeren Blastozystenrate. Die Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit bestand darin, den Einfluss der postovulatorischen Alterung und der ovariellen Alterung im Holstein-Rind (Bos taurus) auf die DNA-Methylierung entwicklungsrelevanter Gene in Eizellen und Embryonen zu untersuchen. Aus Schlachthof-Ovarien wurden Antralfollikeln unterschiedlicher Größe (<2 mm, 3-5 mm und >6 mm) isoliert. Eizellen aus Follikeln der Größe 3-5 mm wurden für 24h (physiologisch) und 48h (gealtert) in vitro gereift (IVM). Die gereiften Oozyten wurden anschließend in vitro fertilisiert und Embryonen im 4-6 Zellstadium generiert. Sowohl in den unreifen Eizellen aus Antralfollikeln unterschiedlicher Größe als auch in den gereiften Oozyten und den Embryonen wurde die Promotormethylierung der Gene bH19, bSNRPN, bZAR1, bDNMT3A, bOCT4, bDNMT3Lo und bDNMT3Ls analysiert. Zur Untersuchung der ovariellen Alterung wurden mittelgroßen Antralfollikel aus Ovarien lebender Rinder (in vivo) unterschiedlichen Alters (9-12 Monate, 3-7 Jahre und 8-11 Jahre) gewonnen. In den daraus isolierten unreifen Eizellen wurde die DNA-Methylierung der Promotorregionen der Gene bTERF2, bREC8, bBCL-XL, bPISD, bBUB1, bDNMT3Lo, bH19 und bSNRPN bestimmt. Als Methode zur Analyse der Promotormethylierung wurde die Limiting Dilution Bisulfit-Sequenzierung angewendet.
In unreifen Eizellen aus Antralfollikeln unterschiedlicher Größe (<2 mm, 3-5 mm und >6 mm) konnte ein erhöhtes Auftreten abnormal methylierter Allele in den geprägten Genen bH19 und bSNRPN von Eizellen kleiner Follikel (<2 mm) identifiziert werden. Dieses Ergebnis könnte eine mögliche Ursache einer bereits bekannten und mehrfach beschriebenen geringeren Entwicklungskompetenz von Eizellen kleiner Follikel (<2 mm) auf epigenetischer Ebene darstellen.
Die verlängerte Reifungsdauer der IVM-Eizellen hatte eine signifikante Hypermethylierung in der Promotorregion des Gens DNMT3Lo von 48h-gereiften Eizellen zur Folge. Beim Übergang von 48h-gereiften Eizellen zum Embryo konnte eine signifikante Hypomethylierung von CpG7 des stammzellspezifischen Transkripts DNMT3Ls beobachtet werden. Diese CpG-Stelle wies ebenfalls einen signifikanten Anstieg von CpGs mit nicht-eindeutigem Methylierungszustand in unreifen Eizellen mit steigender Follikelgröße auf. Da sich die CpG-Position innerhalb eines Sequenz-Motivs einer Bindungsstelle des Transkriptionsfaktors CREB befindet, könnten die Methylierungsdaten auf eine Interaktion zwischen dem Transkriptionsfaktor CREB und der DNA-Methylierung während der Entwicklung und Reifung der Eizelle sowie der Transition von der Eizelle zum Embryo hindeuten.
Die DNA-Methylierungsprofile der untersuchten Gene in unreifen Eizellen aus Kühen unterschiedlichen Alters (9-12 Monate, 3-7 Jahre und 8-11 Jahre) wiesen keine signifikanten Unterschiede zwischen den Altersgruppen auf. Die ovarielle Alterung bei Rindern zwischen 9 Monaten und 11 Jahren zeigte damit keinen Effekt auf die DNA-Methylierung der untersuchten Promotorregionen der Gene bTERF2, bREC8, bBCL-XL, bPISD, bBUB1, bDNMT3Lo, bH19 und bSNRPN.
Nach einer simulierten postovulatorischen Alterung durch eine in vitro Reifung für 48h konnte eine Veränderung der DNA-Methylierung der Oozyten-spezifischen (DNMT3Lo) und Stammzell-spezifischen (DNMT3Ls) Promotoren des katalytisch inaktiven Cofaktors von DNMT3A, DNMT3L, beobachtet werden. Die veränderte DNA-Methylierung von DNMT3Ls tritt dabei erst im frühen Embryo in Erscheinung und interagiert vermutlich mit dem Transkriptionsfaktor CREB. Die Veränderungen von DNMT3Lo in Eizellen und DNMT3Ls in den daraus generierten Embryonen lässt vermuten, dass es sich hierbei um eine dynamische Anpassung des Embryos auf äußere Umweltbedingungen der Eizelle über die Methylierung der DNA handelt.
Amphibian communities of the dry forest of Western Madagascar : taxonomy, ecology and conservation
(2006)
The amphibian fauna of the Kirindy dry forest in western Madagascar Abstracts of chapter 5 and 6 Living apart together – patterns of tadpole communities in a western Madagascan dry forest Whether communities are established in a deterministic or in a stochastic manner depends to a large degree on the spatial scale considered. In this study we use a tadpole community in the dry forest of western Madagascar to show that when within-site habitat diversity is considered, communities may also differ in two community parameters (species composition and species richness) within one geographic scale. Forest ponds and riverbed ponds are two types of breeding habitat that are both used by anurans but that differ generally in their temporal availability, predation pressure, and environmental characteristics. In forest ponds, tadpole communities were very predictable by the physical properties of the ponds and by their vegetation characteristics. In contrast, the riverbed communities were not predictable. We offer two hypotheses to explain this phenomenon. This study clearly demonstrates differing patterns in community organization in two natural habitats within one site, and therefore, highlights the importance of considering local conditions and within-site habitat diversity in community studies. Modeling the habitat use of an endangered dry-forest frog from Western Madagascar A crucial factor for the successful reproduction and thus conservation of an amphibian species is the availability of suitable waters as breeding sites. In this chapter, we examine the use of breeding sites of an endangered, local endemic frog of Western Madagascar, Aglyptodactylus laticeps, over a three year period. Logistic regression was used to model the relationship between the species’ breeding habitat use and environmental variables. This model was aimed to be predictive, rather than explanatory, and only environmental variables were included that are assessable in a time and cost effective manner, and that can therefore be used as an easy-to-use management tool in applied conservation. On the local scale of the Kirindy concession, A. laticeps is restricted to forest with a relatively low degree of disturbance and closed canopy cover. The model identified three environmental variables that suffice to satisfactorily predict the use of respective breeding sites, namely leaf litter, vegetation coverage and surface water plants. Based on these results, we present recommendations for the conservation management of this frog. Furthermore, the presence or absence of this species within its natural range indicates the relative degree of environmental integrity of its habitat, and we therefore consider this species as a suitable indicator species of temporary aquatic habitats within the dry forest that are characterized by a low water permanency and high leaf litter coverage. This study demonstrates that models constructed from basic ecological knowledge of relevant species may serve as valuable management tools in applied conservation.
Most natural learning situations are of a complex nature and consist of a tight conjunction of the animal's behavior (B) with the perceived stimuli. According to the behavior of the animal in response to these stimuli, they are classified as being either biologically neutral (conditioned stimuli, CS) or important (unconditioned stimuli, US or reinforcer). A typical learning situation is thus identified by a three term contingency of B, CS and US. A functional characterization of the single associations during conditioning in such a three term contingency has so far hardly been possible. Therefore, the operational distinction between classical conditioning as a behavior-independent learning process (CS-US associations) and operant conditioning as essentially behavior-dependent learning (B-US associations) has proven very valuable. However, most learning experiments described so far have not been successful in fully separating operant from classical conditioning into single-association tasks. The Drosophila flight simulator in which the relevant behavior is a single motor variable (yaw torque), allows for the first time to completely separate the operant (B-US, B-CS) and the classical (CS-US) components of a complex learning situation and to examine their interactions. In this thesis the contributions of the single associations (CS-US, B-US and B-CS) to memory formation are studied. Moreover, for the first time a particularly prominent single association (CS-US) is characterized extensively in a three term contingency. A yoked control shows that classical (CS-US) pattern learning requires more training than operant pattern learning. Additionally, it can be demonstrated that an operantly trained stimulus can be successfully transferred from the behavior used during training to a new behavior in a subsequent test phase. This result shows unambiguously that during operant conditioning classical (CS-US) associations can be formed. In an extension to this insight, it emerges that such a classical association blocks the formation of an operant association, which would have been formed without the operant control of the learned stimuli. Instead the operant component seems to develop less markedly and is probably merged into a complex three-way association. This three-way association could either be implemented as a sequential B-CS-US or as a hierarchical (B-CS)-US association. The comparison of a simple classical (CS-US) with a composite operant (B, CS and US) learning situation and of a simple operant (B-US) with another composite operant (B, CS and US) learning situation, suggests a hierarchy of predictors of reinforcement. Operant behavior occurring during composite operant conditioning is hardly conditioned at all. The associability of classical stimuli that bear no relation to the behavior of the animal is of an intermediate value, as is operant behavior alone. Stimuli that are controlled by operant behavior accrue associative strength most easily. If several stimuli are available as potential predictors, again the question arises which CS-US associations are formed? A number of different studies in vertebrates yielded amazingly congruent results. These results inspired to examine and compare the properties of the CS-US association in a complex learning situation at the flight simulator with these vertebrate results. It is shown for the first time that Drosophila can learn compound stimuli and recall the individual components independently and in similar proportions. The attempt to obtain second-order conditioning with these stimuli, yielded a relatively small effect. In comparison with vertebrate data, blocking and sensory preconditioning experiments produced conforming as well as dissenting results. While no blocking could be found, a sound sensory preconditioning effect was obtained. Possible reasons for the failure to find blocking are discussed and further experiments are suggested. The sensory preconditioning effect found in this study is revealed using simultaneous stimulus presentation and depends on the amount of preconditioning. It is argued that this effect is a case of 'incidental learning', where two stimuli are associated without the need of reinforcement. Finally, the implications of the results obtained in this study for the general understanding of memory formation in complex learning situations are discussed.
In this thesis, synaptic transmission was studied electrophysiologically at an invertebrate model synapse, the neuromuscular junction of the Drosophila 3rd instar wandering larvae. In the first part, synaptic function is characterized at the neuromuscular junction in fly lines which are null mutants for the synaptic proteins “the synapse associated protein of 47 kDa” (Sap-47156), Synapsin (Syn97), the corresponding double mutant (Sap-47156, Syn97), a null mutant for an as yet uncharacterized Drosophila SR protein kinase, the Serine-Arginine protein kinase 3 (SRPK3), and the Löchrig (Loe) mutant which shows a strong neurodegenerative phenotype. Intracellular voltage recordings from larval body wall muscles 6 and 7 were performed to measure amplitude and frequency of spontaneous single vesicle fusion events (miniature excitatory junction potentials or mEJPs). Evoked excitatory junction potentials (eEJPs) at different frequencies and calcium concentrations were also measured to see if synaptic transmission was altered in mutants which lacked these synaptic proteins. In addition, structure and morphology of presynaptic boutons at the larval neuromuscular junction were examined immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies against different synaptic vesicle proteins (SAP-47, CSP, and Synapsin) as well as the active zone protein Bruchpilot. Synaptic physiology and morphology was found to be similar in all null mutant lines. However, Löchrig mutants displayed an elongated bouton morphology, a significant shift towards larger events in mEJP amplitude frequency histograms, and increased synaptic facilitation during a 10 Hz tetanus. These deficits suggest that Loe mutants may have a defect in some aspect of synaptic vesicle recycling. The second part of this thesis involved the electrophysiological characterization of heterologously expressed light activated proteins at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a light gated ion channel, and a photoactivated adenylate cyclase (PAC) were expressed in larval motor neurons using the UAS-Gal4 system. Single EJPs could be recorded from muscles 15, 16, and 17 when larva expressing ChR2 were illuminated with short (100 ms) light pulses, whereas long light pulses (10 seconds) resulted in trains of EJPs with a frequency of around 25 Hz. Larva expressing PAC in preparations where motor neurons were cut from the ventral ganglion displayed a significant increase in mEJP frequency after a 1 minute exposure to blue light. Evoked responses in low (.2 mM) calcium were also significantly increased when PAC was stimulated with blue light. When motor nerves were left intact, PAC stimulation resulted in light evoked EJPs in muscles 6 and 7 in a manner consistent with RP3 motor neuron activity. ChR2 and PAC are therefore useful and reliable tools for manipulating neuronal activity in vivo.
Systems biology looks for emergent system effects from large scale assemblies of molecules and data, for instance in the human platelets. However, the computational efforts in all steps before such insights are possible can hardly be under estimated. In practice this involves numerous programming tasks, the establishment of new database systems but as well their maintenance, curation and data validation. Furthermore, network insights are only possible if strong algorithms decipher the interactions, decoding the hidden system effects. This thesis and my work are all about these challenges. To answer this requirement, an integrated platelet network, PlateletWeb, was assembled from different sources and further analyzed for signaling in a systems biological manner including multilevel data integration and visualization. PlateletWeb is an integrated network database and was established by combining the data from recent platelet proteome and transcriptome (SAGE) studies. The information on protein-protein interactions and kinase-substrate relationships extracted from bioinformatical databases as well as published literature were added to this resource. Moreover, the mass spectrometry-based platelet phosphoproteome was combined with site-specific phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation information and then enhanced with data from Phosphosite and complemented by bioinformatical sequence analysis for site-specific kinase predictions. The number of catalogued platelet proteins was increased by over 80% as compared to the previous version. The integration of annotations on kinases, protein domains, transmembrane regions, Gene Ontology, disease associations and drug targets provides ample functional tools for platelet signaling analysis. The PlateletWeb resource provides a novel systems biological workbench for the analysis of platelet signaling in the functional context of protein networks. By comprehensive exploration, over 15000 phosphorylation sites were found, out of which 2500 have the corresponding kinase associations. The network motifs were also investigated in this anucleate cell and characterize signaling modules based on integrated information on phosphorylation and protein-protein interactions. Furthermore, many algorithmic approaches have been introduced, including an exact approach (heinz) based on integer linear programming. At the same time, the concept of semantic similarities between two genes using Gene Ontology (GO) annotations has become an important basis for many analytical approaches in bioinformatics. Assuming that a higher number of semantically similar gene functional annotations reflect biologically more relevant interactions, an edge score was devised for functional network analysis. Bringing these two approaches together, the edge score, based on the GO similarity, and the node score, based on the expression of the proteins in the analyzed cell type (e.g. data from proteomic studies), the functional module as a maximum-scoring sub network in large protein-protein interaction networks was identified. This method was applied to various proteome datasets (different types of blood cells, embryonic stem cells) to identify protein modules that functionally characterize the respective cell type. This scalable method allows a smooth integration of data from various sources and retrieves biologically relevant signaling modules.
Die Entwicklung von Ethanoltoleranz ist ein Indikator für eine mögliche Abhängigkeit von Alkohol. Der genaue molekulare Mechanismus der Ethanoltoleranzentwicklung ist jedoch nicht bekannt. Drosophila ermöglicht die molekulare und phänotypische Untersuchung von verschiedenen Mutanten mit veränderter Toleranz und kann so zu einem besseren Verständnis beitragen. Die hangAE10 Mutante entwickelt eine reduzierte Ethanoltoleranz, wobei dieser Phänotyp auf Defekte in der zellulären Stressantwort zurückzuführen ist. Für ein besseres Verständnis, in welchen molekularen Mechanismen bzw. Signalwegen HANG wirkt, wurde die Funktion des Proteins auf zellulärer Ebene analysiert und mögliche Zielgene charakterisiert. Die auffällige Proteinstruktur von HANG spricht für eine Interaktion mit Nukleinsäuren. Immunhistochemische Analysen von ektopisch exprimiertem Hangover Protein ergaben, dass dieses nicht mit der DNA co-lokalisiert und auch nicht an polytänen Chromosomen nachgewiesen werden kann. Die ektopische Expression von HANG in Speicheldrüsenzellen zeigte eine punktförmige Verteilung des Proteins innerhalb des Zellkerns. Dieses punktförmige Expressionsmuster wird häufig in RNA-bindenden Proteinen gefunden. Deshalb wurden Co-Lokalisationsstudien von HANG mit Markern für RNAmodifizierende Proteine durchgeführt. Dabei wurde keine Interaktion mit verschiedenen Markerproteinen des Spleißapparates gefunden. Mithilfe von in vitro Experimenten konnte aber die Bindung von RNA an bestimmten Hangover Proteinbereichen nachgewiesen werden Diese Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass HANG eine RNA-regulierende Funktion hat. In einem cDNA Microarray Experiment wurde das Gen dunce als mögliches Zielgen von Hangover identifiziert. Das Gen dunce kodiert für eine Phosphodiesterase, welche spezifisch cAMP hydrolysiert. Zur Bestätigung der cDNA Microarray Experimente wurden die dnc Transkriptunterschiede in Wildtyp und hangAE10 Mutante mithilfe von semiquantitativer RT-PCR für jede der vier Gruppen untersucht. Dabei konnte eine Reduktion der dncRMRA-Transkriptgruppe in hangAE10 Mutanten nachgewiesen werden. Aufgrund dieser Ergebnisse wurde die dncRMRA -spezifische dncΔ143 Mutante hergestellt und auf Verhaltensebene analysiert. Die Experimente zeigten, dass sowohl dnc1, als auch die dncΔ143 Mutante eine reduzierte Ethanoltoleranz und Defekte in der zellulären Stressantwort aufweisen. Für die Rettung der reduzierten Toleranz von hangAE10 und dncΔ143 in dncRMRA-spezifischen Neuronen wurde die dncRMRA Promotor- GAL4 Linie hergestellt. Die reduzierte Ethanoltoleranz der dncΔ143 Mutanten konnte über die Expression von UAS-dnc mit der dncRMRA-GAL4 Linie auf Wildtyp Level gerettet werden. Die reduzierte Toleranz der hangAE10 Mutante konnte mithilfe derselben GAL4 Linie verbessert werden. Dies beweist, dass in beiden Mutanten dieselben Zellen für die Entwicklung von Ethanoltoleranz benötigt werden und sie wahrscheinlich in der gleichen Signaltransduktionskaskade eine Funktion haben. Aufgrund der Anfälligkeit der UAS/ GAL4 Systems gegenüber Hitze war es außerdem nicht möglich die Defekte der zellulären Stressantwort von dncΔ143 bzw. hangAE10 Fliegen zu retten. Die Rettung der reduzierten Ethanoltoleranz der dcnΔ143 Mutante führte außerdem zu der Vermutung, dass die cAMP Regulation eine wichtige Funktion bei der Ethanoltoleranzentwicklung hat. Über die Expression von cAMP-regulierenden Proteinen in dncRMRA-spezifischen Neuronen wurde der Einfluss von cAMP bei Ethanol-induziertem Verhalten überprüft. Bei der Überexpression von dunce und rutabaga konnte weder eine Veränderung für die Ethanolsensitivität, noch für die Toleranzentwicklung festgestellt werden. Eine Erklärung hierfür wäre, dass Veränderungen in der cAMP Konzentration über Rückkopplungsmechanismen zwischen Dunce und Rutabaga ausgeglichen werden können. Für eine genauere Aussage müsste jedoch die cAMP Konzentration in diesen Fliegen gemessen werden. Die Überexpression von pka- in dncRMRA spezifischen Zellen führt zu einer erhöhten Ethanolresistenz. Das bedeutet, dass die Modulation der cAMP Konzentration durch dunce und rutabaga in dncRMRA spezifischen Zellen keinen Einfluss auf Ethanol-induziertes Verhalten hat, wohingegen die Stärke der cAMP vermittelten Signalverarbeitung über die cAMP-abhängige PKA zu Veränderungen im Verhalten führt. Für Mutanten des cAMP Signalweges ist außerdem bekannt, dass sie Defekte im olfaktorischen Lernen bzw. Gedächtnis aufweisen. Deshalb wurden die dncΔ143, dnc1 und hangAE10 Mutanten in diesem Paradigma getestet. Sowohl dnc1, als auch dncΔ143 Fliegen zeigten einen reduzierten Performance Index für das zwei und 30 Minuten Gedächtnis. Nach 180 Minuten verhielten sich die dncΔ143 Mutanten nicht mehr unterschiedlich zum Wildtyp, die dnc1 Mutante zeigte jedoch immer noch eine Reduktion des Performance Index im Vergleich zur Kontrolle. Demnach ist in dncΔ143 Mutanten nur das Kurzzeitgedächtnis betroffen, wohingegen hangAE10 Mutanten keine Reduktion des Performance Index für das olfaktorische Kurzzeitgedächtnis aufweisen. Die unterschiedlichen Ergebnisse der beiden Mutanten in der Gedächtnisentwicklung deuten außerdem daraufhin, dass Lernen und Gedächtnis in dncΔ143 und hangAE10 Mutanten von der Toleranzentwicklung unabhängig über unterschiedliche cAMP-abhängige Signaltransduktionskaskaden reguliert werden.
Die Kernhülle ist eine hoch spezialisierte Membran, die den eukaryotischen Zellkern umgibt. Sie besteht aus der äußeren und der inneren Kernmembran, die über die Kernporenkomplexe miteinander verbunden werden. Die Kernhülle reguliert nicht nur den Transport von Makromolekülen zwischen dem Nukleoplasma und dem Zytoplasma, sie dient auch der Verankerung des Chromatins und des Zytoskeletts. Durch diese Interaktionen hilft die Kernhülle, den Zellkern innerhalb der Zelle und die Chromosomen innerhalb des Zellkerns zu positionieren, und reguliert dadurch die Expression bestimmter Gene. In höheren Eukaryoten durchlaufen sowohl die Kernhülle, als auch die Kernporenkomplexe während der Zellteilung strukturelle Veränderungen. Zu Beginn der Mitose werden sie abgebaut, um sich am Ende der Mitose in den Tochterzellen erneut zu bilden. Die molekularen Mechanismen, die zum Wiederaufbau der Kernhülle führen, sind kaum geklärt. Ein geeignetes System, um bestimmte Ereignisse bei der Kernhüllenbildung zu untersuchen, liefert das zellfreie System aus Xenopus Eiern und Spermienchromatin (Lohka 1998). Es konnte bereits früher gezeigt werden, dass es im Eiextrakt von Xenopus laevis mindestens zwei verschiedene Vesikelpopulationen gibt, die zur Bildung der Kernhülle beitragen. Eine der Vesikelpopulationen bindet an Chromatin, fusioniert dort und bildet eine Doppelmembran. Die andere Vesikelpopulation bindet an die bereits vorhandene Doppelmembran und sorgt für die Ausbildung der Kernporenkomplexe. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, diese beiden Membranfraktionen zu isolieren und zu charakterisieren, wobei das Hauptinteresse in der porenbildenden Membranfraktion lag. Durch Zentrifugation über einen diskontinuierlichen Zuckergradienten konnten die Membranvesikel in zwei verschiedene Vesikelfraktionen aufgetrennt werden. Eine Membranfraktion konnte aus der 40%igen Zuckerfraktion („40% Membranfraktion“) isoliert werden, die andere aus der 30%igen Zuckerfraktion („30% Membranfraktion“). Die verschiedenen Membranfraktionen wurden zu in vitro Kernen gegeben, in denen die Kernporen durch vorausgegangene Bildung von Annulate Lamellae depletiert worden waren. Nach Zugabe der 30% Membranfraktion konnte die Bildung von funktionalen Kernporen beobachtet werden. Im Gegensatz dazu zeigte die 40% Membranfraktion keine porenbildenden Eigenschaften. Unter Verwendung eines vereinfachten Systems, bestehend aus Zytosol, Spermienchromatin und den Membranen, wurde gezeigt, dass die 40% Membranfraktion an Chromatin bindet und ausreichend ist, um eine kontinuierliche Doppelmembran ohne Kernporen zu bilden. Die 30% Membranfraktion besitzt keine Chromatinbindungseigenschaften und wird aktiv entlang von Mikrotubuli zu den porenlosen Kernen transportiert. Dort interagiert sie mit der chromatingebundenen 40% Membranfraktion und induziert die Porenbildung. Nach dem Vergleich der Proteinzusammensetzung der beiden Membranfraktionen, konnte das Major Vault Protein (MVP) nur in der porenbildenden Membranfraktion gefunden werden. MVP ist die Hauptstrukturkomponente der Vault-Komplexe, einem Ribonukleo-proteinpartikel, der in den meisten eukaryotischen Zellen vorhanden ist (Kedersha et al., 1991). Bemerkenswerterweise wird über die Funktion der Vault-Komplexe, trotz ihrer übiquitären Expression und ihrem Vorkommen in fast allen eukaryotischen Zellen, immer noch diskutiert. Um mehr über die Funktion und die Lokalisation der Vaults/MVP zu lernen, wurden die Vaults in Anlehnung an die Methode von Kedersha und Rome (1986) aus Xenopus Eiern isoliert. Zusätzlich wurde rekombinantes Xenopus MVP hergestellt, das unter anderem für die Produktion von Antikörpern in Meerschweinchen verwendet wurde. Um herauszufinden, ob die Anwesenheit von MVP in der 30% Membranfraktion in direktem Zusammenhang mit deren porenbildender Eigenschaft steht, wurden gereinigte Vault-Komplexe oder rekombinantes MVP, das alleine ausreichend ist, um in sich zu den charakteristischen Vault-Strukturen zusammenzulagern, zu porenlosen Kernen gegeben. Sowohl gereinigte Vault-Komplexe, als auch rekombinantes MVP waren in der Lage in den porenlosen Kernen die Bildung von funktionalen Kernporen zu induzieren. Untersuchungen zur Lokalisation von MVP zeigten, dass MVP teilweise an der Kernhülle und den Kernporenkomplexen lokalisiert, während der Großteil an MVP zytoplasmatisch vorliegt. Dies sind die ersten Daten, die Vaults/MVP mit der Kernporenbildung in Verbindung bringen. Deshalb bietet diese Arbeit die Grundlage, um diese unerwartete Rolle der Vaults in Zukunft genauer zu charakterisieren.
Die Isolierung von Phagosomen ermöglicht die biochemische Analyse der Phagosomen-Zusammensetzung sowie der an der Phagosomenreifung beteiligten Moleküle. Deshalb wurde im Rahmen dieser Promotionsarbeit eine Methode entwickelt, die es ermöglicht, Bakterien-enthaltende Phagosomen zu isolieren. Diese Methode erzielt im Vergleich zu anderen in der Literatur beschriebenen Methoden eine gute Ausbeute (fast 40 Prozent) und vor allem eine höhere Reinheit an Bakterien-enthaltenden Phagosomen. So besteht keine Kontamination mit Teilen des Golgi-Apparates und nur eine sehr geringe Kontamination mit endosomalen und lysosomalen Proteinen sowie Plasmamembranbestandteilen. Allerdings wurde eine Kontamination mit Mitochondrien und ER detektiert. Letzteres muss nicht unbedingt eine Kontamination darstellen, sondern könnte ein wichtiger Bestandteil von Phagosomen sein. Afipia felis ist ein Gram-negatives Bakterium, das für einige Fälle der Katzen-Kratz Krankheit verantwortlich ist. Es kann innerhalb von Makrophagen überleben und sich vermehren. Die genaue Kompartimentierung der Afipia felis-enthaltenden Phagosomen in Makrophagen war allerdings unbekannt und sollte deshalb in der vorliegenden Promotionsarbeit analysiert werden. Ovalbumin Texas Red, mit dem Lysosomen vor der Infektion markiert wurden, gelangt nicht in die Afipien-enthaltenden Phagosomen, und die Afipien-enthaltenden Phagosomen sind auch nicht zugänglich für Ovalbumin Texas Red, mit dem das gesamte endozytische System nach der etablierten Infektion markiert wurde. Außerdem sind etablierte, isolierte Afipia felis-enthaltende Phagosomen nur in geringem Umfang positiv für spät endosomale/lysosomale Markerproteine und negativ für früh endosomale Markerproteine. Die Afipien, die ein nicht endozytisches Kompartiment etablieren, werden vom Makrophagen in ein EEA1-negatives Kompartiment aufgenommen, das auch zu späteren Zeitpunkten negativ für LAMP-1 ist. Nur die circa 30 Prozent der Afipien, die sich in einem Kompartiment befinden, das zum endozytischen System gehört, gelangen nach der Aufnahme durch den Makrophagen in ein EEA1-positives Kompartiment, das zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt positiv für LAMP-1 wird. Tötung der Afipien oder Opsonisierung mit Antikörpern vor der Infektion normalisiert die Reifung der Afipia felis-enthaltenden Phagosomen in den J774E-Makrophagen. Somit konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass die Mehrzahl der Phagosomen (70 Prozent), die Afipia felis enthalten, nicht zum endozytischen System gehören. Diese ungewöhnliche Kompartimentierung besteht bereits bei der Aufnahme und kann nur von lebenden Afipien etabliert werden. Rhodococcus equi ist ein Gram-positives Bakterium, das unter anderem Bronchopneumonien beim Fohlen verursacht. Aber auch Menschen und andere Säugetiere sind von Infektionen mit R. equi betroffen. Die Fähigkeit der Rhodokokken, innerhalb der Makrophagen zu überleben und sich zu vermehren, ist mit dem Vorhandensein eines 85 kbp Plasmids assoziiert. Da über die genaue Kompartimentierung von R. equi im Mausmakrophagen wenig bekannt war, und der Frage, ob es einen Unterschied zwischen der Kompartimentierung von R. equi(+)- und R. equi(-)-enthaltenden Phagosomen gibt, noch nicht nachgegangen wurde, war beides Thema dieser Promotionsarbeit. Dabei zeigt sich, dass R. equi(-)-enthaltende Phagosomen wesentlich stärker mit den spät endosomalen/lysosomalen Markerproteinen vATPase und LAMP-1 assoziiert sind sowie eine höhere ß-Galaktosidase-Aktivität aufweisen als die R. equi(+)-enthaltenden Phagosomen. Da sowohl die isolierten R. equi(-)- als auch die R. equi(+)-enthaltenden Phagosomen mit dem früh endosomalen Markerprotein rab5 assoziiert sind, ist anzunehmen, dass Rhodokokken unabhängig vom Vorhandensein des 85 kbp Plasmids in der Lage sind, die Phagosomenreifung zu verzögern. Aber R. equi(-) kann die Reifung zwar verzögern, aber letztendlich nicht verhindern. Wahrscheinlich reifen die Phagosomen, die R. equi(-) enthalten, zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt zu Phagolysosomen, wohingegen R. equi(+) ein ungewöhnliches Kompartiment etabliert und dadurch die Phagosomenreifung endgültig zu verhindern scheint. Somit ist anzunehmen, dass mindestens ein vom 85 kbp Plasmid kodiertes Molekül für die Etablierung dieses ungewöhnlichen, R. equi(+)-enthaltenden Kompartimentes, verantwortlich ist. Da eine Infektion mit Rhodococcus equi zytotoxisch für die infizierte Zelle sein kann, wurde die von den Rhodokokken vermittelte Zytotoxizität näher analysiert. Die in dieser vorliegenden Promotionsarbeit dargestellten Ergebnisse zeigen deutlich, dass nur die Plasmid-enthaltenden Rhodokokken zur Nekrose, aber nicht zur Apoptose ihrer Wirtszellen führen, während R. equi(-) keinen Einfluss auf die Vitalität ihrer Wirtszellen haben. Dieses Phänomen ist allerdings abhängig vom Wirtszelltyp. So sind R. equi(-) als auch R. equi(+) für humane Monozyten nur geringfügig zytotoxisch.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden die Mechanismen der Hochdosis-GC-Pulstherapie im Zusammenhang mit akuten Schüben von MS-Patienten anhand des Tiermodells der MS, der Experimentellen Autoimmunen Enzephalomyelitis (EAE), untersucht. Die EAE wurde in C57Bl/6 Mäusen und diversen GR-defizienten Mäusen durch Immunisierung mit Myelinoligodendrozytenglykoprotein (MOG35-55) induziert. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Gabe von Dexamethason (Dex) den Krankheitsverlauf dosisabhängig verbessert. Die Untersuchung heterozygoter GR Knock-out Mäuse und hämatopoetischer Stammzellchimären verdeutlichte, dass der zytosolische GR (cGR) für die Vermittlung therapeutischer GC-Effekte von sehr großer Bedeutung ist. Der Einsatz zelltyp-spezifischer GR-defizienter Mäuse zeigte auf zellulärer Ebene, dass für die Vermittlung von GC-Wirkungen die Expression des GR vor allem in T-Zellen unabdingbar ist, wohingegen die GR-Expression in myeloiden Zellen in diesem Kontext keine Bedeutung hat. Durch die Analyse des molekularen Mechanismus konnte festgestellt werden, dass diese Effekte durch Apoptoseinduktion und Herunterregulieren von Adhäsionsmolekülen in peripheren, aber nicht ZNS-residenten T-Zellen erzielt wurden. Überdies wurde ersichtlich, dass Dex die T-Zellmigration in das ZNS verhinderte. Diese Beobachtung unterstützt die Hypothese, dass Dex durch Apoptoseinduktion und Immunmodulation hauptsächlich auf periphere T-Zellen wirkt und somit den ständigen Influx neuer Immunzellen in das ZNS verhindert. Ferner konnte in dieser Arbeit gezeigt werden, dass die therapeutische Gabe hochdosierten Methylprednisolons (MP) in diesem EAE-Modell ebenfalls zu einer dosisabhängigen Verbesserung der EAE führte. Diese beruhte auf einer reduzierten Lymphozyteninfiltration in das ZNS, war allerdings im Vergleich zur Dex-Therapie aufgrund geringerer Wirkpotenz weniger stark ausgeprägt. Im Gegensatz dazu führte die präventive MP-Applikation zu einem verstärkten EAE-Verlauf, der nach der Beeinflussung peripherer, hämatopoetischer Immunzellen auf eine verstärkte Proliferation autoreaktiver T-Zellen zurückzuführen ist. Im weiteren Verlauf der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde als möglicher Ersatz für die Hochdosis-GC-Pulstherapie eine nicht-steroidale, antiinflammatorische Substanz im chronischen EAE-Modell der C57Bl/6 Maus etabliert. Erste tierexperimentelle Untersuchungen mit Compound A (CpdA) offenbarten eine lediglich geringe therapeutische Breite dieser Substanz, wobei innerhalb pharmakologischer Dosierungen dennoch therapeutische Wirkungen vermittelt werden konnten. Anhand von in vitro Experimenten konnte eindeutig nachgewiesen werden, dass CpdA GR-unabhängig Apoptose induzierte, wobei Immunzellen und neuronale Zellen gegenüber CpdA besonders empfindlich reagierten. Der Einsatz T-Zell-spezifischer GR-defizienter Mäuse konnte zeigen, dass CpdA für die Vermittlung therapeutischer Wirkungen den cGR benötigt. Ferner wurde offensichtlich, dass CpdA in Abwesenheit des cGR in T-Zellen eine signifikante Verschlechterung der EAE verursachte. Durch die Anwendung physikochemischer Analysenmethoden, wie der Massenspektrometrie und 1H-NMR-Spektroskopie, konnte festgestellt werden, dass CpdA in vitro in gepufferten Medien in eine zyklische, chemisch sehr reaktive Verbindung (Aziridin) metabolisiert wird. Diese kann sehr wahrscheinlich für die Apoptose-Induktion in Zellen und die in Mäusen beobachteten neurotoxischen Ausfallerscheinungen verantwortlich gemacht werden. Durch chemische Analysen konnte in vitro in wässriger CpdA-Lösung ein weiterer Metabolit, das sympathomimetisch wirksame Synephrin, identifiziert werden. Um die Wirksamkeit adrenerger Substanzen in vivo zu testen, wurde das ß1/2-Sympathomimetikum Isoproterenol appliziert. Dieses verbesserte die EAE-Symptomatik, was sehr wahrscheinlich auf eine reduzierte Antigenpräsentation und einer damit verbundenen verminderten T-Zellinfiltration in das ZNS zurückzuführen ist.
Das zentrale Paradigma der Systembiologie zielt auf ein möglichst umfassendes Ver-ständnis der komplexen Zusammenhänge biologischer Systeme. Die in dieser Arbeit angewandten Methoden folgen diesem Grundsatz.
Am Beispiel von drei auf Basis von Datenbanken und aktueller Literatur rekonstruier-ten Netzwerkmodellen konnte in der hier vorliegenden Arbeit die Gültigkeit analyti-scher und prädiktiver Algorithmen nachgewiesen werden, die in Form der Analy-sesoftware Jimena angewandt wurden. Die daraus resultierenden Ergebnisse sowohl für die Berechnung von stabilen Systemzuständen, der dynamischen Simulation, als auch der Identifikation zentraler Kontrollknoten konnten experimentell validiert wer-den. Die Ergebnisse wurden in einem iterativen Prozess verwendet werden um das entsprechende Netzwerkmodell zu optimieren.
Beim Vergleich des Verhaltens des semiquantitativ ausgewerteten regulatorischen Netzwerks zur Kontrolle der Differenzierung humaner mesenchymaler Stammzellen in Chondrozyten (Knorpelbildung), Osteoblasten (Knochenbildung) und Adipozyten (Fett-zellbildung) konnten 12 wichtige Faktoren (darunter: RUNX2, OSX/SP7, SOX9, TP53) mit Hilfe der Berechnung der Bedeutung (Kontrollzentralität der Netzwerkknoten identifi-ziert werden). Der Abgleich des simulierten Verhaltens dieses Netzwerkes ergab eine Übereinstimmung mit experimentellen Daten von 47,2%, bei einem widersprüchlichen Verhalten von ca. 25%, dass unter anderem durch die temporäre Natur experimentel-ler Messungen im Vergleich zu den terminalen Bedingungen des Berechnung der stabilen Systemzustände erklärt werden kann.
Bei der Analyse des Netzwerkmodells der menschlichen Immunantwort auf eine Infek-tion durch A. fumigatus konnten vier Hauptregulatoren identifiziert werden (A. fumi-gatus, Blutplättchen, hier Platelets genannt, und TNF), die im Zusammenspiel mit wei-teren Faktoren mit hohen Zentralitätswerten (CCL5, IL1, IL6, Dectin-1, TLR2 und TLR4) fähig sind das gesamte Netzwerkverhalten zu beeinflussen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich das Aktivitätsverhalten von IL6 in Reaktion auf A. fumigatus und die regulato-rische Wirkung von Blutplättchen mit den entsprechenden experimentellen Resultaten deckt.
Die Simulation, sowie die Berechnung der stabilen Systemzustände der Immunantwort von A. thaliana auf eine Infektion durch Pseudomonas syringae konnte zeigen, dass die in silico Ergebnisse mit den experimentellen Ergebnissen übereinstimmen. Zusätzlich konnten mit Hilfe der Analyse der Zentralitätswerte des Netzwerkmodells fünf Master-regulatoren identifiziert werden: TGA Transkriptionsfaktor, Jasmonsäure, Ent-Kaurenoate-Oxidase, Ent-kaurene-Synthase und Aspartat-Semialdehyd-Dehydrogenase.
Während die ersteren beiden bereits lange als wichtige Regulatoren für die Gib-berellin-Synthese bekannt sind, ist die immunregulatorische Funktion von Aspartat-Semialdehyd-Dehydrogenase bisher weitgehend unbekannt.
The live sciences currently undergo a paradigm shift to computer aided discoveries. Discoveries in the live sciences were historically made by either direct observation or as a result of chemical assays. Today we see a growing shift toward computer aided analysis and visualization. This gradual process happens in microscopy. Multidimensional laser scanning microscopy can acquire very complex multichannel data from fixed or live specimen. New probes such as visible fluorescent proteins let us observe the expression of genes and track protein localization. Ion sensitive dyes change intensity with the concentration of ions in the cell. The laser scanning confocal allows us to record these processes in three dimensions over time. This work demonstrates the application of software analysis to multidimensional microscopy data. We introduce methods for volume investigation, ion flux analysis and molecular modeling. The visualization methods are based on a multidimensional data model to accommodate complex datasets. The software uses vector processing and multiple processors to accelerate volume rendering and achieve interactive rendering. The algorithms are based on human visual perception and allow the observer a wide range of mixed render modes. The software was used to reconstruct the pituitary development in zebrafish and observe the degeneration of neurons after injury in a mouse model. Calicum indicator dyes have long been used to study calcium fluxes. We optimized the imaging method to minimize impact on the cell. Live cells were imaged continuously for 45 minutes and subjected to increasing does of a drug. We correlated the amplitude of calcium oscillations to increasing doses of a drug and obtain single cell dose response curves. Because this method is very sensitive and measures single cell responses it has potential in drug discovery and characterization. Microtubules form a dynamic cytoskeleton, which is responsible for cell shape, intracellular transport and has an integral role in mitosis. A hallmark of microtubule organization is lateral interactions. Microtubules are bundles by proteins into dense structures. To estimate the contribution of this bundling process, we created a fractal model of microtubule organization. This model demonstrates that morphology of complex microtubule arrays can be explained by bundling alone. In summary we showed that advances in software for visualization, data analysis and modeling lead to new discoveries.
Analysis of \(Trypanosoma\) \(brucei\) motility and the infection process in the tsetse fly vector
(2021)
African trypanosomes are protist pathogens that are infective for a wide spectrum of mammalian hosts. Motility has been shown to be essential for their survival and represents an important virulence factor. Trypanosoma brucei is transmitted by the bite of the bloodsucking tsetse fly, the only vector for these parasites. The voyage through the fly is complex and requires several migration, proliferation and differentiation steps, which take place in a defined order and in specific fly tissues.
The first part of this doctoral thesis deals with the establishment of the trypanosome tsetse system as a new model for microswimmer analysis. There is an increasing interdisciplinary interest in microbial motility, but a lack of accessible model systems. Therefore, this work introduces the first enclosed in vivo host parasite system that is suitable for analysis of diverse microswimmer types in specific microenvironments. Several methods were used and adapted to gain unprecedented insights into trypanosome motion, the fly´s interior architecture and the physical interaction between host and parasite. This work provides a detailed overview on trypanosome motile behavior as a function of development in diverse host surroundings. In additional, the potential use of artificial environments is shown. This can be used to partly abstract the complex fly architecture and analyze trypanosome motion in defined nature inspired geometries.
In the second part of the thesis, the infection of the tsetse fly is under investigation. Two different trypanosome forms exist in the blood: proliferative slender cells and cell cycle arrested stumpy cells. Previous literature states that stumpy cells are pre adapted to survive inside the fly, whereas slender cells die shortly after ingestion. However, infection experiments in our laboratory showed that slender cells were also potentially infective. During this work, infections were set up so as to minimize the possibility of stumpy cells being ingested, corroborating the observation that slender cells are able to infect flies. Using live cell microscopy and fluorescent reporter cell lines, a comparative analysis of the early development following infection with either slender or stumpy cells was performed. The experiments showed, for the first time, the survival of slender trypanosomes and their direct differentiation to the procyclic midgut stage, contradicting the current view in the field of research. Therefore, we can shift perspectives in trypanosome biology by proposing a revised life cycle model of T. brucei, where both bloodstream stages are infective for the vector.
Rhodococcus equi is a Gram-positive intracellular pathogen which can cause severe bronchopneumonia in foals. In recent years, the role of this bacterium as human pathogen has been noted, as R.equi infections in humans have increase in frequency. This increase is associated with the rise in immunosupressed individuals, specially AIDS patients, where infection leads to symptoms and pathology similar to those seen in foals with a high mortality rate. Due to its capability to survive and multiply in murine and equine macrophages, R.equi has been classified as a facultative intracellular bacterium. R.equi is found frequently in macrophages in alveolar infiltrate from infected animals. The pathogenicity of R.equi depends on its ability to exist and multiply inside macrophages and has been associated with the presence of virulence plasmids. It has been observed that, inside foal alveolar macrophages, R.equi-containing vacuoles (RCVs) do not mature into phagolysosomes. However, most of the intracellular events during R.equi infection have not been investigated in detail. The aim of this study was to elucidate the intracellular compartmentation of R.equi and the mechanism by which the bacteria avoid destruction in host macrophages. The importance of the virulence-associated plasmids of R.equi for the establishment of RCVs was also evaluated. Furthermore, the intracellular fate of viable and non-viable R.equi was compared in order to study whether viability of R.equi influeciantes the establishment of RCVs. In this study, the RCV was characterized by using a variety of endocytic markers to follow the path of the bacteria trhough murine macropages. Transmission electron microscopy-base analysis showed that R.equi was found equally frequently in phagosomes with loosely or thightly apposed membranes, and RCV often contains numerous membranous vesicles. Laser scanning microscopy of infected macrophages showed that the majority of phagosomes containing R.equi acquired transiently the early endosomal markers Rab5, Ptlns3P, and EEA-1, suggesting initially undisturbed phagosome maturation. Although the RCV acquired some late endosomal markers, such as Rab7, LAMP-1, and Lamp-2, they did not acquired vATPase, did not interact with pre-labeled lysosomes, and failed to acidify. These data clearly suggest that the RCV is a compartment which has left vacuoles that resemble multivesicular body compartments (MVB), which are transport intermediates between early and late endosomes and display internal vesicles very similar to the ones observed within RCVs. Analyisis of several R.equi strains containing either VapA- or VapB-expressing plasmids or neither demonstrated that the possession of the virulence-associated plasmids does not affect phagosome trafficking over a two hour period of infection. The finding that non-viable R.equi was still able to inhibit phagosome maturation (although not to the same extent as viable R.equi did) suggests that heat-insensitive factors, such as cell periphery lipids, may play a major role in inhibition of phagosome maturation, although heat-sensitive factors may also be involved.
The MEK5/ ERK5 kinase module is a relatively new discovered mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling pathway with a poorly defined physiological function. Since ERK5 and its upstream activator MEK5 are abundant in skeletal muscle a function of the cascade during muscle differentiation was examined. ERK5 becomes activated upon induction of differentiation in mouse myoblasts. The selective activation of the pathway results in promoter activation of differentiation-specific genes, such as the cdk-inhibitor p21 gene, the myosin light chain (MLC1A) gene, or an E-box containing promoter element, where myogenic basic-helix-loop-helix proteins such as MyoD or myogenin bind. Moreover, myogenic differentiation is completely blocked, when ERK5 expression is inhibited by antisense RNA. The effect can be detected also on the expression level of myogenic determination and differentiation markers such as p21, MyoD and myogenin. Another new finding is that stable expression of ERK5 in C2C12 leads to differentiation like phenotype and to increased p21 expression levels under growth conditions. These results provide first evidence that the MEK5/ERK5 MAP kinase cascade is critical for early steps of muscle cell differentiation.
Das angeborene Immunsystem von Insekten besteht aus einer humoralen Komponente, einer zellulären Komponente und dem Prophenoloxidase-aktivierenden System. Fast alle Erkenntnisse über das angeborene Immunsystem stammen von Arbeiten mit Modellorganismen wie z.B. Drosophila oder Anopheles gambiae. Wie genau das Immunsystem der Honigbiene (Apis mellifera) funktioniert, ist jedoch noch relativ unbekannt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden die unterschiedlichen Immunreaktionen aller drei Entwicklungsstadien der Honigbiene nach artifizieller Infektion mit Gram-negativen und Gram-positiven Bakterien (Escherichia coli und Micrococcus flavus) und dem Akuten Bienen Paralyse Virus (ABPV) untersucht und verglichen. Eine E. coli-Injektion zeigt bei Larven und adulten Arbeiterinnen nur wenig Auswirkung auf das äußere Erscheinungsbild und die Überlebensrate. In beiden Entwicklungsstadien wird die humorale Immunantwort stark induziert, erkennbar an der Expression der antimikrobiellen Peptide (AMPs) Hymenoptaecin, Defensin1 und Abaecin. Zusätzlich werden allein in Jungbienen nach bakterieller Infektion vier weitere immunspezifische Proteine exprimiert. Unter anderem eine Carboxylesterase (CE1) und das Immune-Responsive Protein 30 (IRp30). Die Expression von CE1 und IRp30 zeigt dabei den gleichen zeitlichen Verlauf wie die der AMPs. In Jungbienen kommt es zudem nach E. coli-Injektion zu einer raschen Abnahme an lebenden Bakterien in der Hämolymphe, was auf eine Aktivierung der zellulären Immunantwort schließen lässt. Ältere Bienen und Winterbienen zeigen eine stärkere Immunkompetenz als Jungbienen. Selbst nicht-infizierte Winterbienen exprimieren geringe Mengen der immunspezifischen Proteine IRp30 und CE1. Die Expression von IRp30 kann dabei durch Verwundung oder Injektion von E. coli noch gesteigert werden. Eine weitere Besonderheit ist die im Vergleich zu Jungbienen raschere Abnahme an lebenden Bakterien in der Hämolymphe bis hin zur vollständigen Eliminierung. Die Reaktion von Puppen auf eine bakterielle Infektion war völlig unerwartet. Nach Injektion von E. coli-Zellen kommt es innerhalb von 24 h p.i. zu einem tödlichen Kollaps, der sich in einer Graufärbung des gesamten Puppenkörpers äußert. Da keine Expression von AMPs nachzuweisen war, wird die humorale Immunantwort offensichtlich nicht induziert. Auch die zelluläre Immunantwort scheint nicht aktiviert zu werden, denn es konnte keine Abnahme an lebenden E. coli-Zellen beobachtet werden. Aufgrund dieser fehlenden Immunreaktionen vermehrt sich E. coli im Hämocoel infizierter Puppen und scheint damit deren Tod herbeizuführen. Nach viraler Infektion wurden in allen drei Entwicklungsstadien der Honigbiene gänzlich andere Reaktionen beobachtet als nach bakterieller Infektion. Bei dem verwendeten Akuten Bienen Paralyse Virus (ABPV) handelt es sich um ein Picorna-ähnliches Virus, dessen Vermehrung in der Hämolymphe über die massive Synthese der Capsidproteine verfolgt werden kann. Eine Injektion von sehr wenigen ABPV-Partikeln ins Hämocoel hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf Larven. Nach Virusinjektion kommt es innerhalb weniger Stunden zu einer raschen Virusvermehrung und schon 24 h p.i. zum Tod, häufig begleitet von einer Schwarzfärbung der gesamten Larve. Kurz vor dem Ableben kommt es neben dem Abbau hochmolekularer Speicherproteine zur Expression zahlreicher Proteine, die u.a. an der Translation oder dem Schutz vor oxidativem Stress beteiligt sind. Auf Jungbienen hat eine ABPV-Infektion keine so dramatischen Auswirkungen wie auf Larven. Sie zeigen lediglich Zeichen von Paralyse, zudem überleben sie länger bei höheren injizierten Partikelzahlen, die Virusvermehrung ist langsamer und es kommt zu keiner starken Veränderung des Hämolymph-Proteinmusters. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass es in ABPV-infizierten Larven oder adulten Bienen zu keiner erkennbaren Aktivierung des humoralen Immunsystems in Form von exprimierten AMPs kommt. Zudem scheint die humorale Immunantwort auch nicht unterdrückt zu werden, denn nach gleichzeitiger Injektion von E. coli und ABPV kommt es neben der Expression viraler Capsidproteine auch zur Expression von AMPs. Zusätzlich konnte in Jungbienen nach Infektion mit ABPV eine zelluläre Immunantwort in Form von Nodulation ausgeschlossen werden. Ältere Bienen scheinen nicht nur mit bakteriellen Infektionen, sondern auch mit einer ABPV-Infektion besser zurechtzukommen. Bei einer Menge an ABPV-Partikeln, die in Jungbienen spätestens 72 h p.i. zum Tod führt, ist in Winterbienen eine Virusvermehrung erst ab 96 h p.i. erkennbar und diese beeinträchtigt die Überlebensrate kaum. Puppen sind einer Virusinfektion genauso schutzlos ausgeliefert wie einer Bakterieninfektion. Es kommt zwar zu keiner starken Änderung des äußeren Erscheinungsbildes, jedoch bleiben Puppen in ihrer Entwicklung komplett stehen. Das Virus muss sich daher stark vermehren, allerdings nicht überwiegend - wie bei Larven und adulten Bienen - in der Hämolymphe.
Millionen Menschen weltweit leiden an den verschiedensten Autoimmunerkrankungen. Diese Krankheiten entstehen, wenn das Immunsystem gesundes körpereigenes Gewebe angreift und zerstört. An der Pathogenese sind sowohl Komponenten des angeborenen Immunsystems als auch Bestandteile des adaptiven Immunsystems, wie Lymphozyten und Antikörper, beteiligt. Da die Ursachen und molekularen Mechanismen der Pathogenese dieser Erkrankungen bis heute weitgehend unbekannt sind, wurden in dieser Arbeit autoaggressive Lymphozyten bei den humanen Autoimmunerkrankungen Polymyositis und Multiple Sklerose näher untersucht. Die Polymyositis ist eine chronisch entzündliche Erkrankung der Skelettmuskulatur. Die Muskelfasern werden dabei von zytotoxischen CD8+ gd-T-Lymphozyten infiltriert, attackiert und schließlich zerstört. In einem seltenen Fall der Polymyositis wurden die Muskelzellen hingegen in ähnlicher Weise von CD8- gd-T-Lymphozyten angegriffen. Die gd-T-Lymphozyten waren monoklonal expandiert und ihr Rezeptor, im Folgenden als M88 bezeichnet, wurde als Vg1.3+Vd2+ identifiziert. Frühere Untersuchungen der Antigenspezifität dieser Zellen zeigten, dass M88 mehrere funktionell und strukturell verschiedene Proteine aus unterschiedlichen Spezies erkennt. Die Bindung erfolgt spezifisch durch die Antigenerkennungsregionen beider Rezeptorketten von M88. In dieser Arbeit wurden verschiedene bakterielle und humane Proteine des Translationsapparates als Antigene von M88 identifiziert. Weitere ausführliche Untersuchungen eines paradigmatischen bakteriellen Antigens, dem Translationsinitiationsfaktor EcIF1, zeigten, dass M88 an Oberflächen-exponierte Konformationsepitope von Proteinen bindet. Interessanterweise erkennt M88 mehrere humane Aminoacyl-tRNA-Synthetasen, Antigene, die in anderen Formen der Myositis von Autoantikörpern angegriffen werden. Diese Beobachtung ergibt eine bemerkenswerte Verbindung zwischen T-Zell- und Antikörper-vermittelten B-Zell-Antworten bei der autoimmunen Myositis. Bei der Multiplen Sklerose ist das zentrale Nervensystem betroffen. Autoaggressive Lymphozyten greifen die Myelinschicht der Nervenzellen im Gehirn und Rückenmark an und zerstören sie. Im Liquor cerebrospinalis von Patienten lassen sich klonal expandierte und affinitätsgereifte B-Zellen sowie „oligoklonale Banden“ (OKB) Antikörper nachweisen. Obwohl diese Merkmale auf eine Antigen-induzierte Immunantwort hindeuten, sind die zugrundeliegenden Antigene und die Rolle der OKB bei der Pathogenese bis heute unbekannt. In dieser Arbeit wurde die Antigenspezifität von fünf IgG OKB-Antikörpern aus drei Patienten untersucht. Durch verschiedene proteinbiochemische Methoden konnten intrazelluläre Kandidatenantigene identifiziert werden. Interessanterweise sind darunter mehrere nukleäre Proteine, die an der Transkriptionsregulation oder der RNA-Prozessierung beteiligt sind. Reaktivitäten gegen intrazelluläre Antigene treten auch bei anderen Autoimmunerkrankungen, wie beispielsweise dem systemischen Lupus erythematodes, auf. Diese Ergebnisse könnten auf einen allgemeinen Mechanismus der Entstehung und Funktion von Autoantikörpern bei diesen humanen Autoimmunerkrankungen hindeuten.
The eukaryotic parasite Trypanosoma brucei has evolved sophisticated strategies to persist within its mammalian host. Trypanosomes evade the hosts' immune system by antigenic variation of their surface coat, consisting of variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs). Out of a repertoire of thousands of VSG genes, only one is expressed at any given time from one of the 15 telomeric expression sites (ES). The VSG is stochastically exchanged either by a transcriptional switch of the active ES (in situ switch) or by a recombinational exchange of the VSG within the active ES. However, for infections to persist, the parasite burden has to be limited. The slender (sl) bloodstream form secretes the stumpy induction factor (SIF), which accumulates with rising parasitemia. SIF induces the irreversible developmental transition from the proliferative sl to the cell cycle-arrested but fly-infective stumpy (st) stage once a concentration threshold is reached. Thus, antigenic variation and st development ensure persistent infections and transmissibility. A previous study in monomorphic cells indicated that the attenuation of the active ES could be relevant for the development of trypanosomes. The present thesis investigated this hypothesis using the inducible overexpression of an ectopic VSG in pleomorphic trypanosomes, which possess full developmental competence. These studies revealed a surprising phenotypic plasticity: while the endogenous VSG was always down-regulated upon induction, the ESactivity determined whether the VSG overexpressors arrested in growth or kept proliferating. Full ES-attenuation induced the differentiation of bona fide st parasites independent of the cell density and thus represents the sole natural SIF-independent differentiation trigger to date. A milder decrease of the ES-activity did not induce phenotypic changes, but appeared to prime the parasites for SIF-induced differentiation. These results demonstrate that antigenic variation and development are linked and indicated that the ES and the VSG are independently regulated. Therefore, I investigated in the second part of my thesis how ES-attenuation and VSG-silencing can be mediated. Integration of reporters with a functional or defective VSG 3'UTR into different genomic loci showed that the maintenance of the active state of the ES depends on a conserved motif within the VSG 3'UTR. In situ switching was only triggered when the telomere-proximal motif was partially deleted, suggesting that it serves as a DNA-binding motif for a telomere-associated protein. The VSG levels seem to be additionally regulated in trans based on the VSG 3'UTR independent of the genomic context, which was reinforced by the regulation of a constitutively expressed reporter with VSG 3' UTR upon ectopic VSG overexpression.
Summary Timber harvesting is currently the most common commercial utilisation activity in tropical forests. Assessing the effects of logging on different aspects of biodiversity and general ecosystem properties is hence of prime importance if the few remaining areas of intact tropical forest are to be protected effectively and efficiently. Tropical amphibian communities are an appropriate model system for studies on the impacts of human-induced environmental changes on the dynamics of complex biological systems. This thesis elaborates on patterns of diversity changes in tropical forest amphibian communities facing habitat alterations associated with selective logging in two globally important eco-regions (Côte d’Ivoire, Upper Guinea, West Africa and Guyana, the Guiana Shield, northern South America). The thesis is organised along two main themes. After a general introduction, a section on general methodology and an introduction to the model systems studied, the first theme moves from general patterns to underlying processes. A second theme running through both chapters carries from undisturbed systems to disturbed systems. A final section integrates findings and addresses implications for conservation management of anthropogenically altered tropical forests. Several case studies at the species- population and community level are being presented and data on the direct and indirect impacts of anthropogenic habitat alteration on respective organizational levels are provided. A key statement that is stressed on throughout the studies is the fact that common measures of diversity, such as species richness and species-diversity only inadequately reflect processes of diversity change following anthropogenic disturbance. They also fail to describe actual impacts on the dynamics of complex biological systems. It is argued that commonly used measures produce an incoherent and insufficient picture of diversity patterns and the underlying processes that shape these patterns. Thus, an understanding of higher levels of diversity, such as β-diversity and functional diversity (and hence compositional patterns) appears to be the key to effectively mitigating the impacts of human-induced disturbance on amphibian communities. It is shown that the predictability of amphibian community composition depends on the respective level of anthropogenic disturbance imposed on a particular habitat. Hence, human activities that lead to changes in the structure of a forest, such as logging, not only alter simple system descriptors, such as the number of species in a given community, but rather alter the dynamics of the entire system. In this context, functional diversity is shown to be an important aspect underlying the actual mechanism that leads to the observed change of predictability patterns. Functional differences between species, rather than number of species per se appear to be the decisive factor in sustaining desirable ecosystem states and thus in maintaining important ecosystem services. Because biological diversity appears to play a substantial role in ecosystem resilience required to safeguard essential ecosystem functions in the face of environmental change, the thesis calls for a critical revision of common diversity assessments approaches. The studies advocate the reconsideration of the uncritical use of widespread measures and descriptors of biodiversity on grounds of inconsistent patterns found throughout numerous studies, including those presented herein.
Neoplasms of the skin represent the most frequent tumors worldwide; fortunately, most of them are benign or semi-malignant and well treatable. However, the two most aggressive and deadly forms of malignant skin-neoplasms are melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), being responsible for more than 90% of skin-cancer related deaths. The last decade has yielded enormous progress in melanoma therapy with the advent of targeted therapies, like BRAF or MEK inhibitors, and immune-stimulating therapies, using checkpoint antibodies targeting CTLA- 4, PD-1 or PD-L1. Very recent studies suggest that also MCC patients benefit from a treatment with checkpoint antibodies. Nevertheless, in an advanced metastatic stage, a cure for both of these aggressive malignancies is still hard to achieve: while only a subset of patients experience durable benefit from the immune-based therapies, the widely applicable targeted therapies struggle with development of resistances that inevitably occur in most patients, and finally lead to their death. The four articles included in this thesis addressed current questions concerning therapy and carcinogenesis of melanoma and MCC. Moreover, they are discussed in the light of the up-to-date research regarding targeted and immune-based therapies. In article I we demonstrated that besides apoptosis, MAPK pathway inhibition in BRAF-mutated melanoma cells also induces senescence, a permanent cell cycle arrest. These cells may provide a source for relapse, as even permanently arrested cancer cells can contribute to a pro-tumorigenic milieu. To identify molecular factors determining the differential response, we established M14 melanoma cell line derived single cell clones that either undergo cell death or arrest when treated with BRAF/MEK inhibitors. Using these single cell clones, we demonstrated in article IV that downregulation of the pro-apoptotic BH3-only protein BIK via epigenetic silencing is involved in apoptosis deficiency, which can be overcome by HDAC inhibitors. These observations provide a possible explanation for the lack of a complete and durable response to MAPK inhibitor treatment in melanoma patients, and suggest the application of HDAC inhibitors as a complimentary therapy to MAPK pathway inhibition. Concerning MCC, we scrutinized the interactions between the Merkel cell polyomavirus’ (MCV) T antigens (TA) and the tumor suppressors p53 and Rb in article II and III, respectively. In article III, we demonstrated that the cell cycle master regulator Rb is the crucial target of MCV large T (LT), while it - in contrast to other polyomavirus LTs - exhibits much lower affinity to the related proteins p107 and p130. Knockdown of MCV LT led to proliferation arrest in MCC cells, which can be rescued by knockdown of Rb, but not by knockdown of p107 and p130. Contrary to Rb, restriction of p53 in MCC seems to be independent of the MCV TAs, as we demonstrated in article II. In conclusion, the presented thesis has revealed new molecular details, regarding the response of melanoma cells towards an important treatment modality and the mechanisms of viral carcinogenesis in MCC.
In the work here presented four distinctly different problems were investigated. The first problem was an investigation into the degradation of Dichloroethylene (DCE) and 1,1-bis (p-Chlorophenyl)-2-dichloroethylene (DDE) utilising pure bacterial cultures. The second investigation dealt with the degradation of DDE and polychlorinated Biphenyl’s (PCB’s) utilising anaerobic sediments and soils from New Zealand. The third investigation worked on the Granulation of anaerobic River-sediments in Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Reactors. The last investigation describes the commissioning of an industrial aerobic Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Implementation of biological Nitrogen- and Phosphate removal in this Wastewater Treatment Plant. Since the chemical Structure of DCE and DDE have certain similarities, Bacteria that were capable of degrading DCE, were tested here, whether they would also be able to degrade DDE utilising a co-metabolic pathway. In the experiments the aerobic bacteria Methylosinus trichosporium and Mycobacterium vaccae and the anaerobic bacteria Acetobacterium woodii and Clostridium butyricum were used. Approximately 60% of the added DCE was degraded by M. vaccae, while M. trichosporium degraded approximately 50%. A. woodii and C. butyricum degraded 40% and 30% respectively of the added DCE. Further experiments with these cultures and DDE lead to a microbial degradation of DDE to an extent of 34.6% for M. vaccae, 14.1% for C. butyricum, 2.2% for A. woodii and 10.5% for M. trichosporium. Additional experiments, utilising [14C]-DDE, showed that the DDE had not been degraded but were attached to the bacterial cells. The second investigation utilised anaerobic soils and sediments from New Zealand to study the anaerobic co-metabolic degradation of DDE and PCB’s. The soils and sediments originated from the River Waikato, from Wastewater Ponds in Kinleith, Marine-Sediments from Mapua, and a variety of soils comtaminated with Pentachlorophenyl (PCP). The cultures from these soils and sediments were raised on a variety of Carbon- and Energy-sources. Beside DDE, Aroclor 1260, and a mix of four pure PCB-Congeneres (one Tetra-, one Hexa, one Hepta- and one Deca-Chlorobiphenyl) were used to test for the reductive dechlorination. The cultivation process of the baceria lasted six months. Samples of the cultures were taken after zero, three and six months. These samples were tested for the increase of cell-protein, the degradation of carbon- and energy-sources, and the removal of the added polychlorinated chemicals. The organochlorines were analysed using reversed phase HPLC and FID-GC. When a change in the Chromatogram was detected the respective cultures were further analysed using ECD-GC and GC-MS. The results showed that the culutres grew under these conditions, but no degradation of DDE and the PCB-Mix could be detected, and only small changes in the composition/chromatograms of Aroclor 1260 were found. The third investigation worked on the Granulation of River-Sediments in UASB-Reactors. Sediments from the River Waikato in New Zealand and the River Saale in Germany were used. In both cases the Granulation process was successful, which was demonstrated by microscopic comparisons of the Sediments and the resulting Granules. The two main bacterial cultures detected were Methanosarcina- and Methanothrix-like cultures. The main carbon- and energy-source was Lactic Acid, which was used at a concentration of 21,8 g COD/L. The Granulation-Process was a combination of using high a COD-Concentration combined with a low Volumetric Loading-Rate. Comparisons of the specific degradation-rates of a variety of carbon- and energy-sources between the Sediments and the Granules, showed no increased degradation rates in regard to the same cell-mass, but the increased bio-mass in the Granules allowed for higher degradation-rates within the UASB-reactors. The fourth investigation describes the commissioning of an industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant for a Dairy-Site in Edendale, Southland, New Zealand. This Plant consists of a DAF-Unit (Dissolved Air Flotation), two Extended Aeration Lagoons with Activated Sludge and two Clarifiers, one for the Activated Sludge and the second for the dosing of Aluminium-Sulphate and the removal of Phosphat-Sulphate. Biological processes for the removal of carbon- and energy-sources were optimised and biological processes for the reduction of Nitrogen- and Phosphate-Concentrations within the wastewater were implemented and optimised. Bilogical removal rates for COD of 95% and above, for Nitrogen of 85-92% and Phosphate of 64-83% were achieved.
Applying microarray‐based techniques to study gene expression patterns: a bio‐computational approach
(2010)
The regulation and maintenance of iron homeostasis is critical to human health. As a constituent of hemoglobin, iron is essential for oxygen transport and significant iron deficiency leads to anemia. Eukaryotic cells require iron for survival and proliferation. Iron is part of hemoproteins, iron-sulfur (Fe-S) proteins, and other proteins with functional groups that require iron as a cofactor. At the cellular level, iron uptake, utilization, storage, and export are regulated at different molecular levels (transcriptional, mRNA stability, translational, and posttranslational). Iron regulatory proteins (IRPs) 1 and 2 post-transcriptionally control mammalian iron homeostasis by binding to iron-responsive elements (IREs), conserved RNA stem-loop structures located in the 5’- or 3‘- untranslated regions of genes involved in iron metabolism (e.g. FTH1, FTL, and TFRC). To identify novel IRE-containing mRNAs, we integrated biochemical, biocomputational, and microarray-based experimental approaches. Gene expression studies greatly contribute to our understanding of complex relationships in gene regulatory networks. However, the complexity of array design, production and manipulations are limiting factors, affecting data quality. The use of customized DNA microarrays improves overall data quality in many situations, however, only if for these specifically designed microarrays analysis tools are available. Methods In this project response to the iron treatment was examined under different conditions using bioinformatical methods. This would improve our understanding of an iron regulatory network. For these purposes we used microarray gene expression data. To identify novel IRE-containing mRNAs biochemical, biocomputational, and microarray-based experimental approaches were integrated. IRP/IRE messenger ribonucleoproteins were immunoselected and their mRNA composition was analysed using an IronChip microarray enriched for genes predicted computationally to contain IRE-like motifs. Analysis of IronChip microarray data requires specialized tool which can use all advantages of a customized microarray platform. Novel decision-tree based algorithm was implemented using Perl in IronChip Evaluation Package (ICEP). Results IRE-like motifs were identified from genomic nucleic acid databases by an algorithm combining primary nucleic acid sequence and RNA structural criteria. Depending on the choice of constraining criteria, such computational screens tend to generate a large number of false positives. To refine the search and reduce the number of false positive hits, additional constraints were introduced. The refined screen yielded 15 IRE-like motifs. A second approach made use of a reported list of 230 IRE-like sequences obtained from screening UTR databases. We selected 6 out of these 230 entries based on the ability of the lower IRE stem to form at least 6 out of 7 bp. Corresponding ESTs were spotted onto the human or mouse versions of the IronChip and the results were analysed using ICEP. Our data show that the immunoselection/microarray strategy is a feasible approach for screening bioinformatically predicted IRE genes and the detection of novel IRE-containing mRNAs. In addition, we identified a novel IRE-containing gene CDC14A (Sanchez M, et al. 2006). The IronChip Evaluation Package (ICEP) is a collection of Perl utilities and an easy to use data evaluation pipeline for the analysis of microarray data with a focus on data quality of custom-designed microarrays. The package has been developed for the statistical and bioinformatical analysis of the custom cDNA microarray IronChip, but can be easily adapted for other cDNA or oligonucleotide-based designed microarray platforms. ICEP uses decision tree-based algorithms to assign quality flags and performs robust analysis based on chip design properties regarding multiple repetitions, ratio cut-off, background and negative controls (Vainshtein Y, et al., 2010).
Die Meiose ist eine besondere Art der Zellteilung, die während der Keimzellreifung stattfindet. Sie umfasst zwei aufeinander folgende Zellteilungen mit nur einer DNA-Repli-kationsrunde, wodurch aus einer diploiden Ausgangszelle vier haploide Gameten entstehen. In der ersten meiotischen Teilung werden die homologen Chromosomen miteinander rekombiniert und voneinander getrennt, in der Meiose II findet die Trennung der Schwesterchromatiden statt. Für den korrekten Ablauf dieser Prozesse musste sich eine spezielle molekulare Architektur des meiotischen Chromosoms entwickeln welche die Synapse der homologen Chromosomen durch den Synaptonemalkomplex (SC) beinhaltet. SCs sind evolutionär hochkonservierte, meiosespezifische Proteinkomplexe, die eine zentrale Bedeutung für Synapse, Rekombination und Segregation der homologen Chromosomen haben. Ein SC besteht aus zwei lateralen Elementen (LEs), die den Achsen der homologen Chromosomen aufgelagert sind, einer zentralen Region (CR) und einem zentralen Element (CE). Eine Hauptstrukturkomponente der LEs in Vertebraten ist das Synaptonemalkomplexprotein, SYCP3. Um die molekulare Architektur des SC besser zu verstehen und die Bedeutung von SYCP3 für die Zusammenlagerung der LE aufzudecken, wurden die Polymerisationseigenschaften von SYCP3, exprimiert in somatischen Zellen, erforscht. In diesem experimentellen Ansatz polymerisierte SYCP3 autonom zu stabilen, höher geordneten, filamentösen Strukturen. Die „Coiled-Coil“-Domäne und die flankierenden, evolutionär konservierten Motive sind dabei notwenig, und nach Deletion des weniger konservierten N-terminalen Bereichs auch ausreichend für die Bildung der höher geordneten Strukturen. Der N-Terminus hingegen spielt eine Rolle in der Stabilität der Polymärstrukturen, welche durch Phosphorylierung zweier Serinreste im N-terminalen Bereich beeinflusst werden könnte. Obwohl die Struktur des SC in der Evolution hochkonserviert ist, sind die Protein-komponenten auf Aminosäuresequenzebene sehr unterschiedlich und weisen wenn überhaupt eine strukturelle Homologie in ihrer Domänenorganisation auf. Um den SC-Aufbau und dessen Funktion besser verstehen zu können, wurden die orthologen SC-Proteine zwischen taxonomisch entfernten Spezies Ratte und Medaka verglichen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass trotz der Unterschiede in den Aminosäuresequenzen die sich in den letzen 450 Millionen Jahren zwischen Fisch- und Säugern-SYCP3 akkumuliert haben, die Eigenschaften der Proteine vergleichbar sind, und das sie unter experimentellen Bedingungen miteinander interagieren und zu höher geordneten Strukturen kopolymerisieren können.
Cognition refers to the ability to of animals to acquire, process, store and use vital information from the environment. Cognitive processes are necessary to predict the future and reduce the uncertainty of the ever-changing environment. Classically, research on animal cognition focuses on decisive cognitive tests to determine the capacity of a species by the testing the ability of a few individuals. This approach views variability between these tested key individuals as unwanted noise and is thus often neglected. However, inter-individual variability provides important insights to behavioral plasticity, cognitive specialization and brain modularity. Honey bees Apis mellifera are a robust and traditional model for the study of learning, memory and cognition due to their impressive capabilities and rich behavioral repertoire. In this thesis I have applied a novel view on the learning abilities of honey bees by looking explicitly at individual differences in a variety of learning tasks. Are some individual bees consistently smarter than some of her sisters? If so, will a smart individual always perform good independent of the time, the context and the cognitive requirements or do bees show distinct isolated ‘cognitive modules’?
My thesis presents the first comprehensive investigation of consistent individual differences in the cognitive abilities of honey bees. To speak of an individual as behaving consistently, a crucial step is to test the individual multiple times to examine the repeatability of a behavior. I show that free-flying bees remain consistent in a visual discrimination task for three consecutive days. Successively, I explored individual consistency in cognitive proficiency across tasks involving different sensory modalities, contexts and cognitive requirements. I found that free-flying bees show a cognitive specialization between visual and olfactory learning but remained consistent across a simple discrimination task and a complex concept learning task. I wished to further explore individual consistency with respect to tasks of different cognitive complexity, a question that has never been tackled before in an insect. I thus performed a series of four experiments using either visual or olfactory stimuli and a different training context (free-flying and restrained) and tested bees in a discrimination task, reversal learning and negative patterning. Intriguingly, across all these experiments I evidenced the same results: The bees’ performances were consistent across the discrimination task and reversal learning and negative patterning respectively. No association was evidenced between reversal learning and negative patterning. After establishing the existence of consistent individual differences in the cognitive proficiency of honey bees I wished to determine factors which could underlie these differences. Since genetic components are known to underlie inter-individual variability in learning abilities, I studied the effects of genetics on consistency in cognitive proficiency by contrasting bees originating from either from a hive with a single patriline (low genetic diversity) or with multiple patrilines (high genetic diversity). These two groups of bees showed differences in the patterns of individually correlated performances, indicating a genetic component accounts for consistent cognitive individuality. Another major factor underlying variability in learning performances is the individual responsiveness to sucrose solution and to visual stimuli, as evidenced by many studies on restrained bees showing a positive correlation between responsiveness to task relevant stimuli and learning performances. I thus tested whether these relationships between sucrose/visual responsiveness and learning performances are applicable for free-flying bees. Free-flying bees were again subjected to reversal learning and negative patterning and subsequently tested in the laboratory for their responsiveness to sucrose and to light. There was no evidence of a positive relationship between sucrose/visual responsiveness and neither performances of free-flying bees in an elemental discrimination, reversal learning and negative patterning. These findings indicate that relationships established between responsiveness to task relevant stimuli and learning proficiency established in the laboratory with restrained bees might not hold true for a completely different behavioral context i.e. for free-flying bees in their natural environment.
These results show that the honey bee is an excellent insect model to study consistency in cognitive proficiency and to identify the underlying factors. I mainly discuss the results with respect to the question of brain modularity in insects and the adaptive significance of individuality in cognitive abilities for honey bee colonies. I also provide a proposition of research questions which tie in this theme of consistent cognitive proficiency and could provide fruitful areas for future research.
Division of labor represents a major advantage of social insect communities that accounts for their enormous ecological success. In colonies of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, division of labor comprises different tasks of fertile queens and drones (males) and, in general, sterile female workers. Division of labor also occurs among workers in form of an age-related polyethism. This helps them to deal with the great variety of tasks within the colony. After adult eclosion, workers spend around three weeks with various duties inside the hive such as tending the brood or cleaning and building cells. After this period workers switch to outdoor tasks and become foragers collecting nectar, pollen and water. With this behavioral transition, workers face tremendous changes in their sensory environment. In particular, visual sensory stimuli become important, but also the olfactory world changes. Foragers have to perform a completely new behavioral repertoire ranging from long distance navigation based on landmark orientation and polarized-skylight information to learning and memory tasks associated with finding profitable food sources. However, behavioral maturation is not a purely age-related internal program associated with a change, for example, in juvenile hormone titers. External factors such as primer pheromones like the brood pheromone or queen mandibular pheromone can modulate the timing of this transition. In this way colonies are able to flexibly adjust their work force distribution between indoor and outdoor tasks depending on the actual needs of the colony. Besides certain physiological changes, mainly affecting glandular tissue, the transition from indoor to outdoor tasks requires significant adaptations in sensory and higher-order integration centers of the brain.
The mushroom bodies integrate olfactory, visual, gustatory and mechanosensory information. Furthermore, they play important roles in learning and memory processes. It is therefore not surprising that the mushroom bodies, in particular their main input region, the calyx, undergo volumetric neuronal plasticity. Similar to behavioral maturation, plastic changes of the mushroom bodies are associated with age, but are also to be affected by modulating factors such as task and experience.
In my thesis, I analyzed in detail the neuronal processes underlying volumetric plasticity in the mushroom body. Immunohistochemical labeling of synaptic proteins combined with quantitative 3D confocal imaging revealed that the volume increase of the mushroom body calyx is largely caused by the growth of the Kenyon cell dendritic network. This outgrowth is accompanied by changes in the synaptic architecture of the mushroom body calyx, which is organized in a distinct pattern of synaptic complexes, so called microglomeruli. During the first week of natural adult maturation microglomeruli remain constant in total number. With subsequent behavioral transition from indoor duties to foraging, microglomeruli are pruned while the Kenyon cell dendritic network is still growing. As a result of these processes, the mushroom body calyx neuropil volume enlarges while the total number of microgloumeruli becomes reduced in foragers compared to indoor workers. In the visual subcompartments (calyx collar) this process is induced by visual sensory stimuli as the beginning of pruning correlates with the time window when workers start their first orientation flights. The high level of analysis of cellular and subcellular process underlying structural plasticity of the mushroom body calyx during natural maturation will serve as a framework for future investigations of behavioral plasticity in the honeybee.
The transition to foraging is not purely age-dependent, but gets modulated, for example, by the presence of foragers. Ethyl oleate, a primer pheromone that is present only in foragers, was shown to delay the onset of foraging in nurse bees. Using artificial application of additional ethyl oleate in triple cohort colonies, I tested whether it directly affects adult neuronal plasticity in the visual input region of the mushroom body calyx. As the pheromonal treatment failed to induce a clear behavioral phenotype (delayed onset of foraging) it was not possible to show a direct link between the exposure to additional ethyl oleate and neuronal plasticity in mushroom body calyx. However, the general results on synaptic maturation confirmed my data of natural maturation processes in the mushroom body calyx.
Given the result that dendritic plasticity is a major contributor to neuronal plasticity in the mushroom body calyx associated with division of labor, the question arose which proteins could be involved in mediating these effects. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) especially in mammals, but also in insects (Drosophila, Cockroach), was shown to be involved in facilitating learning and memory processes like long-term synaptic potentiation. In addition to presynaptic effects, the protein was also revealed to directly interact with cytoskeleton elements in the postsynapse. It therefore is a likely candidate to mediate structural synaptic plasticity. As part of my thesis, the presence and distribution of CaMKII was analyzed, and the results showed that the protein is highly concentrated in a distinct subpopulation of the mushroom body intrinsic neurons, the noncompact Kenyon cells. The dendritic network of this population arborizes in two calyx subregions: one receiving mainly olfactory input – the lip – and the collar receiving visual input. This distribution pattern did not change with age or task. The high concentration of CaMKII in dendritic spines and its overlap with f-actin indicates that CaMKII could be a key player inducing structural neuronal plasticity associated with learning and memory formation and/or behavioral transitions related to division of labor. Interestingly CaMKII immunoreactivity was absent in the basal ring, another subregion of the mushroom body calyx formed almost exclusively by the inner compact Kenyon cells and known to receive combined visual and olfactory input. This indicates differences of this mushroom body subregion regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling plastic changes in corresponding Kenyon cells.
How is timing of behavioral and neuronal plasticity regulated? The primer pheromone ethyl oleate was found in high concentrations on foragers and was shown to influence behavioral maturation by delaying the onset of foraging when artificially applied in elevated concentrations. But how is ethyl oleate transferred and how does it shift the work force distribution between indoor and outdoor tasks? Previous work showed that ethyl oleate concentrations are highest in the honeycrop of foragers and suggested that it is transferred and communicated inside the colony via trophallaxis. The results of this thesis however clearly show, that ethyl oleate was not present inside the honey crop or the regurgitate, but rather in the surrounding tissue of the honey crop. As additionally the second highest concentration of ethyl oleate was measured on the surface of the cuticle of forgers, trophallaxis was ruled out as a mode of transmission. Neurophysiological measurements at the level of the antennae (electroantennogram recordings) and the first olfactory neuropil (calcium imaging of activity in the antennal lobe) revealed that the primer pheromone ethyl oleate is received and processed as an olfactory stimulus. Appetitive olfactory conditioning using the proboscis extension response as a behavioral paradigm showed that ethyl oleate can be associated with a sugar reward. This indicates that workers are able to perceive, learn and memorize the presence of this pheromone. As ethyl oleate had to be presented by a heated stimulation device at close range, it can be concluded that this primer pheromone acts via close range/contact chemoreception through the olfactory system. This is also supported by previous behavioral observations.
Taken together, the findings presented in this thesis revealed structural changes in the synaptic architecture of the mushroom body calyx associated with division of labor. For the primer pheromone ethyl oleate, which modulates the transition from nursing to foraging, the results clearly showed that it is received via the olfactory system and presumably acts via this pathway. However, manipulation experiments did not indicate a direct effect of ethyl oleate on synaptic plasticity. At the molecular level, CaMKII is a prime candidate to mediate structural synaptic plasticity in the mushroom body calyx. Future combined structural and functional experiments are needed to finally link the activity of primer pheromones like ethyl oleate to the molecular pathways mediating behavioral and synaptic plasticity associated with division of labor in Apis mellifera. The here identified underlying processes will serve as excellent models for a general understanding of fundamental mechanisms promoting behavioral plasticity.
Past experience contributes to behavioural organization mainly via learning: Animals learn otherwise ordinary cues as predictors for biologically significant events. This thesis studies such predictive, associative learning, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. I ask two main questions, which complement each other: One deals with the processing of those cues that are to be learned as predictors for an important event; the other one deals with the processing of the important event itself, which is to be predicted. Do fruit flies learn about combinations of olfactory and visual cues? I probe larval as well as adult fruit flies for the learning about combinations of olfactory and visual cues, using a so called ‘biconditional discrimination’ task: During training, one odour is paired with reinforcement only in light, but not in darkness; the other odour in turn is reinforced only in darkness, but not in light. Thus, neither the odours nor the visual conditions alone predict reinforcement, only combinations of both do. I find no evidence that either larval or adult fruit flies were to solve such task, speaking against a cross-talk between olfactory and visual modalities. Previous studies however suggest such cross-talk. To reconcile these results, I suggest classifying different kinds of interaction between sensory modalities, according to their site along the sensory-motor continuum: I consider an interaction ‘truly’ cross-modal, if it is between the specific features of the stimuli. I consider an interaction ’amodal’ if it instead engages the behavioural tendencies or ‘values’ elicited by each stimulus. Such reasoning brings me to conclude that different behavioural tasks require different kinds of interaction between sensory modalities; whether a given kind of interaction will be found depends on the neuronal infrastructure, which is a function of the species and the developmental stage. Predictive learning of pain-relief in fruit flies Fruit flies build two opposing kinds of memory, based on an experience with electric shock: Those odours that precede shock during training are learned as predictors for punishment and are subsequently avoided; those odours that follow shock during training on the other hand are learned as signals for relief and are subsequently approached. I focus on such relief learning. I start with a detailed parametric analysis of relief learning, testing for reproducibility as well as effects of gender, repetition of training, odour identity, odour concentration and shock intensity. I also characterize how relief memories, once formed, decay. In addition, concerning the psychological mechanisms of relief learning, first, I show that relief learning establishes genuinely associative conditioned approach behaviour and second, I report that it is most likely not mediated by context associations. These results enable the following neurobiological analysis of relief learning; further, they will form in the future the basis for a mathematical model; finally, they will guide the researchers aiming at uncovering relief learning in other experimental systems. Next, I embark upon neurogenetic analysis of relief learning. First, I report that fruit flies mutant for the so called white gene build overall more ‘negative’ memories about an experience with electric shock. That is, in the white mutants, learning about the painful onset of shock is enhanced, whereas learning about the relieving offset of shock is diminished. As they are coherently affected, these two kinds of learning should be in a balance. The molecular mechanism of the effect of white on this balance remains unresolved. Finally, as a first step towards a neuronal circuit analysis of relief learning, I compare it to reward learning and punishment learning. I find that relief learning is distinct from both in terms of the requirement for biogenic amine signaling: Reward and punishment are respectively signalled by octopamine and dopamine, for relief learning, either of these seem dispensible. Further, I find no evidence for roles for two other biogenic amines, tyramine and serotonin in relief learning. Based on these findings I give directions for further research.
Bispecific T cell engager (BiTE) display a novel design among the class of bispecific antibodies and hold great promise to fight diverse cancers. BiTE molecules consist of two different binding entities derived from two human IgG antibodies connected by a short peptide linker. Their binding arms are directed against the CD3e chain of the T cell receptor on T cells and against an antigen that is specific for (e.g., CD19 for lymphoma in MT103) or over-expressed on (e.g., EpCAM for epithelial cancer in MT110) tumor cells. Without requirement for pre- or co-stimulation, BiTE molecules efficiently redirect CD3+ T cells towards tumor cells expressing the relevant target antigen. Only a BiTE molecule simultaneously bound to both tumor cell and T cell activates the T cell to exert its cytolytic function resulting in tumor cell death. In T cells stimulated with both BiTE and target cells, elevated levels of caspase activation and increased expression of cytotoxic and signaling proteins are observed. These include cytolytic proteins granzyme B and perforin, activation markers CD69 and CD25 and adhesion molecules CD2 and LFA-1. Activated T cells secrete the usual mix of cytokines, among them pro-inflammatory cytokines IFN-g and TNF-a. The membrane of tumor cells expressing the relevant target antigen is perforated during the attack of BiTE-stimulated effector cells as can be concluded from adenylate kinase release from the cytosol of tumor cells. Ca2+-chelator EGTA completely blocked BiTE-mediated activation of caspases and tumor cell lysis. As perforin is strictly Ca2+-dependent, a major role for this pore-forming protein is assumed for the elimination of tumor cells via BiTE-stimulated T cells. Granzyme B and caspases are main players in BiTE-mediated elimination of tumor cells. Inhibitors of granzyme B or caspases reduce or block, respectively the activation of caspases. However, other signals of apoptosis (cleavage of PARP and fragmentation of DNA) were only reduced by granzyme B inhibitor or caspase inhibitor. Most interestingly, the lytic capacity of BiTE molecules was not impaired by granzyme B inhibitor or caspase inhibitor. It seems that there is no requirement for granzyme B and caspases to be present simultaneously. Instead the data presented provide evidence that they can be replaced one at a time by related proteins. Pre-incubation of effector cells with the glucocorticoids dexamethasone or methylprednisolone resulted in markedly decreased secretion of cytokines by T cells yet only a small reduction in the expression of activation markers and adhesion molecules on T cells and specific lysis of tumor cells upon BiTE stimulation. Soluble factors secreted in an undirected manner by BiTE-stimulated T cells do not mediate tumor cell death by themselves. Bystander cells negative for the antigen that is recognized by the BiTE molecule will not be compromised by BiTE activity. The cytokine TGF-b reduced proliferation as well as granzyme B and perforin expression of BiTE-stimulated T cells. Redirected lysis by BiTE-activated T cells was also decreased under the influence of TGF-b, however lysis was still performed at a reasonable rate (72 % of target cells). TGF-b does not exert a deleterious effect on lytic potential of BiTE-stimulated T cells. The minimal anticipated biological effect level for the BiTE MT110 was determined for the entry of MT110 into phase I clinical studies. Experiments analyzing redirected lysis of tumor cells, expression of activation marker CD25 and cytokine release by T cells revealed a MABEL value of 50 pg/ml for MT110.
Cellular responses to outer stimuli are the basis for all biological processes. Signal integration is achieved by protein cascades, recognizing and processing molecules from the environment. Factors released by pathogens or inflammation usually induce an inflammatory response, a signal often transduced by Tumour Necrosis Factor alpha (TNF). TNFα receptors TNF-R1 and TNF-R2 can in turn lead to apoptosis or proliferation via NF-B. These processes are closely regulated by membrane compartimentalization, protein interactions and trafficking. Fluorescence microscopy offers a reliable and non-invasive method to probe these cellular events. However, some processes on a native membrane are not resolvable, as they are well below the diffraction limit of microscopy. The recent development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods enables the observation of these cellular players well below this limit: by localizing, tracking and counting molecules with high spatial and temporal resolution, these new fluorescence microscopy methods offer a previously unknown insight into protein interactions at the near-molecular level. Direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM) utilizes the reversible, stochastic blinking events of small commercially available fluorescent dyes, while photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) utilizes phototransformation of genetically encoded fluorescent proteins. By photoactivating only a small fraction of the present fluorophores in each observation interval, single emitters can be localized with high precision and a super-resolved image can be reconstructed. Quantum Dot Triexciton imaging (QDTI) utilizes the three-photon absorption (triexcitonic) properties of quantum dots (QD) and to achieve a twofold resolution increase using conventional confocal microscopes. In this thesis, experimental approaches were implemented to achieve super-resolution microscopy in fixed and live-cells to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of TNF and other cellular signaling events. We introduce QDTI to study the three-dimensional cellular distribution of biological targets, offering an easy method to achieve resolution enhancement in combination with optical sectioning, allowing the preliminary quantification of labeled proteins. As QDs are electron dense, QDTI can be used for correlative fluorescence and transmission electron microscopy, proving the versatility of QD probes. Utilizing the phototransformation properties of fluorescent proteins, single-receptor tracking on live cells was achieved, applying the concept of single particle tracking PALM (sptPALM) to track the dynamics of a TNF-R1-tdEos chimera on the membrane. Lateral receptor dynamics can be tracked with high precision and the influences of ligand addition or lipid disruption on TNF-R1 mobility was observed. The results reveal complex receptor dynamics, implying internalization processes in response to TNFα stimulation and a role for membrane domains with reduced fluidity, so-called lipid raft domains, in TNF-R1 compartimentalization prior or post ligand induction. Comparisons with previously published FCS data show a good accordance, but stressing the increased data depth available in sptPALM experiments. Additionally, the active transport of NF-κB-tdEos fusions was observed in live neurons under chemical stimulation and/or inhibition. Contrary to phototransformable proteins that need no special buffers to exhibit photoconversion or photoactivation, dSTORM has previously been unsuitable for in vivo applications, as organic dyes relied on introducing the probes via immunostaining in concert with a reductive, oxygen-free medium for proper photoswitching behaviour. ATTO655 had been previously shown to be suitable for live-cell applications, as its switching behavior can be catalyzed by the reductive environment of the cytoplasm. By introducing the cell-permeant organic dye via a chemical tag system, a high specificity and low background was achieved. Here, the labeled histone H2B complex and thus single nucleosome movements in a live cell can be observed over long time periods and with ~20 nm resolution. Implementing these new approaches for imaging biological processes with high temporal and spatial resolution provides new insights into the dynamics and spatial heterogeneities of proteins, further elucidating their function in the organism and revealing properties that are usually only detectable in vitro.
Aufklärung der molekularen Struktur und Funktion des R-Typ Anionenkanals QUAC1 in Schließzellen
(2016)
Zum Gasaustausch mit Ihrer Umgebung besitzen höhere Pflanzen stomatäre Komplexe. Die Turgor-getrieben Atmungsöffnungen in der Epidermis der Blätter werden von zwei Schließzellen umsäumt. Um bei Trockenheit einen exzessiven Verlust von Wasser zu verhindern, synthetisieren/importieren Schließzellen das Stresshormon ABA (Abszisinsäure), das über eine schnelle ABA-Signalkaskade plasmamembrangebundene Ionenkanäle steuert. Dabei wird der Stomaschluss durch die Aktivität von R-(rapid) und S-(slow)Typ Anionenkanälen initiiert. Obwohl die R- und S-Typ Anionenströme in Schließzellen seit Jahrzehnten bekannt waren, konnte erst kürzlich das Gen identifiziert werden, das für den S-Typ Anionenkanal (SLAC1, Slow activating Anion Channel 1) kodiert. Daraufhin wurde schnell der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Stresshormon ABA, der ABA-Signalkette und der Aktivität des SLAC1 Anionenkanals im heterologen Expressionssystem der X. laevis Oozyten als auch in Schließzellprotoplasten aufgeklärt. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass ABA durch einen zytosolischen Rezeptor/Phosphatasekomplex (RCAR1/ABI1) erkannt wird und die Aktivität von kalziumabhängigen Kinasen (CPK-Familie) sowie kalziumunabhängigen Kinasen der SnRK2-Familie (OST1) steuert. In Anwesenheit von ABA phosphorylieren diese Kinasen SLAC1 und sorgen so für die Aktivierung von Anionenströmen und damit für die Initiierung des Stomaschlusses.
Die genetische Herkunft der ABA-induzierten R-Typ Ströme in Schließzellen war zu Beginn der vorliegenden Arbeit noch nicht bekannt. R-Typ Ströme zeichnen sich durch eine strikte Spannungsabhängigkeit und sehr schnellen Aktivierungs- sowie Deaktivierungskinetiken aus. Die Charakterisierung von Verlustmutanten des Schließzell-exprimierten Gens ALMT12 (Aluminium-aktivierter Malattransporter 12) konnte in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsgruppe Martinoia (Zürich) erste Hinweise auf die Beteiligung dieses Gens an der Stomabewegung demonstrieren. Anschließende Patch-Clamp Untersuchungen an Schließzellprotoplasten aus Wildtyppflanzen und ALMT12-Verlustmutanten zeigten, dass ALMT12 für die Malat-aktivierte R-Typ Anionenstromkomponente verantwortlich ist. Deshalb wurde der Anionenkanal QUAC1 (Quickly activating Anion Channel 1) benannt - in Anlehnung an die Benennung des Anionenkanals SLAC1. Mit der Identifizierung von QUAC1 in planta war es nun meine Aufgabe, die elektrischen Eigenschaften von ALMT12/QUAC1 und dessen Aktivitätskontrolle durch die ABA-Signalkaskade im heterologen Expressionssystem der Xenopus Oozyten zu untersuchen.
Protein-Protein Interaktionsstudien mit der Hilfe der Bimolekularen Fluoreszenz-Technik, sowie die Beobachtung von markant erhöhten QUAC1 Anionenströmen in Anwesenheit der SnRK2 Kinase OST1 und den Calcium-abhängigen Kinasen CPK2 und CPK20, ließen den Schluss zu, dass QUAC1, ebenso wie SLAC1, unter der Kontrolle des schnellen ABA-Signalwegs steht. Eine zusätzliche Expression des negativen Regulators ABI1 unterdrückte die aktivierenden Eigenschaften der QUAC1-aktivierenden Kinasen, was die Hypothese der Koregulation von S- und R-Typ Anionenkanälen durch die gleiche ABA-Signalkaskade weiter unterstützt.
Zur weiteren Aufklärung der elektrischen Eigenschaften von QUAC1 wurden tiefgreifende elektrophysiologische Untersuchungen mit der Zwei-Elektroden-Spannungsklemmen Technik durchgeführt. Durch die Wahl von geschickten Spannungsprotokollen konnte sowohl die schnelle Aktivierungskinetik als auch die schnelle Deaktivierungskinetik von QUAC1 bestimmt und quantifiziert werden. Diese Stromantworten waren sehr ähnlich zu den R-Typ Strömen, die man von Patch-Clamp Untersuchungen an Schließzellprotoplasten kannte, was ein weiteres Indiz dafür war, dass es sich bei QUAC1 tatsächlich um eine Komponente des R-Typ Kanals aus Schließzellen handelt. Weiterführende Untersuchungen bezüglich der Spannungsabhängigkeit und der Selektivität von QUAC1 charakterisierten das Protein als einen Depolarisations-aktivierten Anionenkanal mit einer starken Präferenz für Dicarbonsäuren wie Malat und Fumarat. Zudem konnte auch eine Leitfähigkeit für Sulfat und Chlorid nachgewiesen werden. Interessanterweise erwies sich Malat nicht nur als ein permeierendes Ion, sondern auch als ein regulierendes Ion, welches das spannungsabhängige Schalten von QUAC1 maßgeblich beeinflusst. Extrazelluläres Malat verschob die Offenwahrscheinlichkeit von QUAC1 sehr stark zu negativeren Membranspannungen, so dass der Anionenkanal bereits bei typischen Ruhespannungen von Schließzellen (ca. -150 mV) aktiviert werden konnte. Eine Beladung von QUAC1-exprimierender Oozyten mit Malat bewirkte zum einen höhere Anioneneffluxströme, aber auch eine Verschiebung der spannungsabhängigen Offenwahrscheinlichkeit zu negativeren Membranpotentialen.
Struktur-Funktionsanalysen sollten die umstrittene Topologie von ALMT-ähnlichen Proteinen beleuchten und die molekulare Herkunft der Phosphorylierungsaktivierung aufzeigen, sowie die Malatabhängigkeit und die starke Spannungsabhängigkeit von QUAC1 aufklären. Es zeigte sich jedoch schnell, dass Punktmutationen und Deletionen im C-Terminus von QUAC1 sehr häufig zu nicht-funktionellen Mutanten führten. Diese Tatsache weist darauf hin, dass es sich um einen hoch-strukturierten und funktionell sehr wichtigen Bereich des Anionenkanals handelt. Auch die Topologie des Anionenkanalproteins wird in der Literatur kontrovers diskutiert. Sowohl die Lage des N- und C-Terminus (extrazellulär oder intrazellulär), als auch die Anzahl der membrandurchspannenden Domänen war nicht abschließend geklärt. Deshalb wurde in einem Fluoreszenz-basiertem Ansatz die Lage der Termini bestimmt. Im Rahmen meiner Arbeit konnte somit eindeutig gezeigt werden, dass sich beide Termini im Zytosol der Zelle befinden. Auf Grundlage von Modellen aus der Literatur und meiner Topologiebestimmungen konnte schließlich ein erweitertes Modell zur Struktur von QUAC1 entwickelt werden. Dieses Modell kann in Zukunft als Ausgangspunkt für weiterführende Struktur-Funktionsanalysen dienen.
Diese Arbeit hat somit gezeigt, dass das Gen QUAC1 tatsächlich eine Komponente der R-Typ Ströme in Schließzellen kodiert. Ebenso wie SLAC1 steht der Malat-induzierte Anionenkanal QUAC1 unter der Kontrolle der schnellen ABA-Signalkaskade. In Zukunft bleibt zu klären, welche weiteren Gene für die R-Typ Kanalproteine in Schließzellen kodieren und welche strukturelle Grundlage für die besonderen Eigenschaften von QUAC1 hinsichtlich seiner schnellen Kinetiken, seiner Selektivität und Aktivierbarkeit durch Malat.
Aufklärung der Struktur und Charakterisierung des ternären Komplexes aus BMP-2, BMPR-IA und ActR-IIB
(2006)
„Bone Morphogenetic Proteins“ (BMPs) kontrollieren eine Vielzahl unterschiedlichster Prozesse bei der Embryonalentwicklung und der postnatalen Gewebehomöostase. Wie TGF-betas, Activine und andere Mitglieder der TGF-beta Superfamilie vermitteln BMPs ihr Signal durch die Bildung eines aus dem Liganden und zwei Rezeptorsubtypen bestehenden Signalkomplexes. Für die Rezeptoraktivierung ist ein Zwei-Schritt Mechanismus allgemein akzeptiert. Bisher wurde nur der erste Schritt, die Bindung des Liganden an seinen hochaffinen Rezeptor, strukturell untersucht. Der molekulare Mechanismus der anschließenden Rekrutierung des niederaffinen Rezeptortyps war bisher nicht bekannt. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt die Präparation, Kristallisation und Strukturaufklärung des ternären Komplexes aus BMP-2 und den extrazellulären Domänen von BMPR-IA und ActR-IIB. Mit der Kristallstruktur dieses ternären Komplexes kann erstmals der Mechanismus der BMP Rezeptoraktivierung von der Bindung des Liganden bis hin zur Transaktivierung untersucht werden. Der Ligand BMP-2 präsentiert sich hier, im Gegensatz zu anderen Mitgliedern der TGF-beta Superfamilie, als nahezu starre Komponente, um welche die beiden Rezeptortypen symmetrisch angelagert werden. Zwischen den extrazellulären Domänen der Rezeptoren können keine direkten Kontakte beobachtet werden. Die in Zellen beobachtete Kooperativität bei der Rekrutierung des niederaffinen Rezeptors im BMP-2 System ist folglich weder durch allosterische Effekte, noch durch direkte Rezeptor-Rezeptor-Kontakte erklärbar. Vielmehr repräsentiert die Bindung des niederaffinen Rezeptors von BMP-2 einen Minimalmechanismus, bei dem Kooperativität über die Verringerung der Freiheitsgrade durch Lokalisation des Liganden in der Zellmembran erzeugt wird. Die durchgeführten Mutations-/Interaktionsanalysen erlauben vertiefende Einblicke wie Affinität und Spezifität im BMP/Activin-System generiert werden. Es zeigt sich, dass sowohl bei der niederaffinen Interaktion von ActR-IIBecd mit BMP-2 bzw. BMP-7 als auch bei der hochaffinen Bindung von ActA mit ActR-IIBecd ein Großteil der freien Bindungsenergie von denselben hydrophoben Interaktionen getragen wird. Während polare Interaktionen bei der niederaffinen Bindung der BMPs an ActR-IIBecd kaum eine Rolle spielen, stellt die zentrale Wasserstoffbrücke zwischen ActA Ser90(OG) und ActR-IIB Leu61(N) bei der Bildung des Komplexes ActA/ActR-IIBecd eine entscheidende Determinante der hochaffinen Bindung dar. BMP-2 bindet an die Typ II Rezeptoren BMPR-II, ActR-II und ActR-IIB mit nahezu identischer Affinität, daher wird eine promiske Verwendung dieser Rezeptoren angenommen. In dieser Arbeit konnte gezeigt werden, dass die spezifische Erkennung und Bindung der Typ II Rezeptoren durch den Austausch einzelner Aminosäuren modulierbar ist. Mit den hier gewonnenen Kenntnissen über den molekularen Mechanismus der Typ II Rezeptorerkennung ist nun eine Generierung von BMPs mit definierter Typ II Rezeptorspezifität möglich. Diese BMP-2 Varianten können als Werkzeuge zur Aufklärung von Typ II Rezeptor-spezifischen Signalwegen verwendet werden. Ebenso wäre es denkbar, BMP-2 Varianten mit ausgeprägter Typ II Rezeptor Spezifität in vivo zur Modulation TypII Rezeptor spezifischer Signalwege zu benutzen. Beispielsweise könnte ein auf BMP-2 basierendes ActR-IIB-spezifisches Protein als Myostatin-Antagonist zur Behandlung von Muskeldystrophie eingesetzt werden.
Neuroblastoma is the most abundant, solid, extracranial tumor in early childhood and the leading cause of cancer-related childhood deaths worldwide. Patients with high-risk neuroblastoma often show MYCN-amplification and elevated levels of Aurora-A. They have a low overall survival and despite multimodal therapy options a poor therapeutic prognosis. MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma cells depend on Aurora-A functionality. Aurora-A stabilizes MYCN and prevents it from proteasomal degradation by competing with the E3 ligase SCFFBXW7. Interaction between Aurora-A and MYCN can be observed only in S phase of the cell cycle and activation of Aurora-A can be induced by MYCN in vitro. These findings suggest the existence of a profound interconnection between Aurora-A and MYCN in S phase. Nevertheless, the details remain elusive and were investigated in this study.
Fractionation experiments show that Aurora-A is recruited to chromatin in S phase in a MYCN-dependent manner. Albeit being unphosphorylated on the activating T288 residue, Aurora-A kinase activity was still present in S phase and several putative, novel targets were identified by phosphoproteomic analysis. Particularly, eight phosphosites dependent on MYCN-activated Aurora-A were identified. Additionally, phosphorylation of serine 10 on histone 3 was verified as a target of this complex in S phase. ChIP-sequencing experiments reveal that Aurora-A regulates transcription elongation as well as histone H3.3 variant incorporation in S phase. 4sU-sequencing as well as immunoblotting demonstrated that Aurora-A activity impacts splicing. PLA measurements between the transcription and replication machinery revealed that Aurora-A prevents the formation of transcription-replication conflicts, which activate of kinase ATR.
Aurora-A inhibitors are already used to treat neuroblastoma but display dose-limiting toxicity. To further improve Aurora-A based therapies, we investigated whether low doses of Aurora-A inhibitor combined with ATR inhibitor could increase the efficacy of the treatment albeit reducing toxicity. The study shows that the combination of both drugs leads to a reduction in cell growth as well as an increase in apoptosis in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma cells, which is not observable in MYCN non-amplified neuroblastoma cells. This new approach was also tested by a collaboration partner in vivo resulting in a decrease in tumor burden, an increase in overall survival and a cure of 25% of TH-MYCN mice. These findings indicate indeed a therapeutic window for targeting MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma.
The FDA approval of targeted therapy with BRAFV600E inhibitors like vemurafenib and dabrafenib in 2011 has been the first major breakthrough in the treatment of metastatic melanoma since almost three decades. Despite increased progression free survival and elevated overall survival rates, complete responses are scarce due to resistance development approximately six months after the initial drug treatment. It was previously shown in our group that melanoma cells under vemurafenib pressure in vitro and in vivo exhibit features of drug-induced senescence. It is known that some cell types, which undergo this cell cycle arrest, develop a so-called senescence associated secretome and it has been reported that melanoma cell lines also upregulate the expression of different factors after senescence induction. This work describes the effect of the vemurafenib-induced secretome on cells. Conditioned supernatants of vemurafenib-treated cells increased the viability of naive fibroblast and melanoma cell lines. RNA analysis of donor melanoma cells revealed elevated transcriptional levels of FGF1, MMP2 and CCL2 in the majority of tested cell lines under vemurafenib pressure, and I could confirm the secretion of functional proteins. Similar observations were also done after MEK inhibition as well as in a combined BRAF and MEK inhibitor treatment situation. Interestingly, the transcription of other FGF ligands (FGF7, FGF17) was also elevated after MEK/ERK1/2 inhibition. As FGF receptors are therapeutically relevant, I focused on the analysis of FGFR-dependent processes in response to BRAF inhibition. Recombinant FGF1 increased the survival rate of melanoma cells under vemurafenib pressure, while inhibition of the FGFR pathway diminished the viability of melanoma cells in combination with vemurafenib and blocked the stimulatory effect of vemurafenib conditioned medium. The BRAF inhibitor induced secretome is regulated by active PI3K/AKT signaling, and the joint inhibition of mTor and BRAFV600E led to decreased senescence induction and to a diminished induction of the secretome-associated genes. In parallel, combined inhibition of MEK and PI3K also drastically decreased mRNA levels of the relevant secretome components back to basal levels.
In summary, I could demonstrate that BRAF inhibitor treated melanoma cell lines acquire a specific PI3K/AKT dependent secretome, which is characterized by FGF1, CCL2 and MMP2. This secretome is able to stimulate other cells such as naive melanoma cells and fibroblasts and contributes to a better survival under drug pressure. These data are therapeutically highly relevant, as they imply the usage of novel drug combinations, especially specific FGFR inhibitors, with BRAF inhibitors in the clinic.
Das hohe invasive Potential und die starke Resistenz gegen Radio-/Chemotherapie von Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) Zellen machen sie zu dem tödlichsten Tumor ihrer Art. Es ist deshalb von großem Interesse die Grundlagen, welche der Migrationsfähigkeit und DNA Reparatur zu Grunde liegen, besser zu verstehen.
Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit wurden zwei Algorithmen zur automatischen Analyse der Migration in der Einzelzellverfolgung und im Wundheilungsassay modifiziert. Die Auswertung der Daten konnte automatisch und somit schnell, effektiv und mit geringerem Arbeitsaufwand durchgeführt werden. Mit Hilfe dieser automatischen Algorithmen wurde die Migrationsfähigkeit von zwei GBM-Zelllinien (DK-MG und SNB19) untersucht. Zusätzlich wurde die konfokale Laserscanning- sowie die hochauflösende dSTORM-Fluoreszenzmikroskopie verwendet um die, der Zellbewegung zu Grunde liegende, Struktur des F Aktin und der fokalen Adhäsionskinase (FAK) aufzulösen und darzustellen. Unter Anwendung dieser genannten Methoden sind die Effekte des dualen PI3K/mTOR Inhibitors PI-103 alleine und in Kombination mit dem Hsp90 Inhibitor NVP AUY922 mit und ohne Bestrahlung auf die Bewegung untersucht worden. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass sich beide Zelllinien deutlich in ihrem migratorischem Potential in vitro unterscheiden und zudem auch markante Unterschiede in ihrer Morphologie aufweisen. Die weniger invasiven DK MG-Zellen besitzen eine polarisierte Zellstruktur, wohingegen SNB19-Zellen sich durch multipolare ungerichtete Bewegung auszeichneten. Zudem wurde die Migration, durch PI3K/mTOR Inhibition mit PI-103 bei den DK-MG-Zellen (p53 wt, PTEN wt), sehr effektiv unterdrückt. Wohingegen sich die SNB19-Zellen (p53 mut, PTEN mut) resistent gegen diesen Inhibitor zeigten. Hsp90 Inhibition offenbarte in beiden Zelllinien einen starken inhibitorischen Effekt auf die Migration der Zellen sowie die Reorganisierung des F Aktinskelettes.
In der zweiten Hälfte dieser Arbeit wurde ein Augenmerk auf die DNA-DSB-Reparatur der GBM Zellen nach ionisierender Strahlung gelegt. Zunächst wurde eine automatische Analysesoftware „FocAn-3D“ entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe die DNA Doppelstrangbruchreparaturkinetik untersucht werden sollte. Diese Software ermöglicht es die gesamten Zellkerne mit ihren γH2AX-Foci in 3D-cLSM-Aufnahmen zu untersuchen. Es konnte somit eine Verbesserung der Genauigkeit in der Auszählung der γH2AX-Foci erreicht werden, welche 2D beschränkter Software verwehrt bleibt. Mit FocAn-3D konnte der gesamte Verlauf der Induktions- und Abbauphase der γH2AX-Foci in DK MG- und SNB19-Zellen mit einem mathematischen Modell ausgewertet und dargestellt werden. Des Weiteren wurde die Nanometerstruktur von γH2AX- und pDNA-PKcs-Foci mittels hochauflösender dSTORM-Mikroskopie untersucht. Konventionelle Mikroskopiemethoden, begrenzt durch das Beugungslimit und einer Auflösung von ~200 nm, konnten die Nanometerstruktur (<100 nm) der Reparaturfoci bisher nicht darstellen. Mit Hilfe der beugungsunbegrenzten dSTORM-Mikroskopie war es möglich in DK MG- und SNB19-Zellen die Nanometerstruktur genannten Reparaturproteine in den Foci mit einer Auflösung von bis zu ~20 nm darzustellen. γH2AX-Foci zeigten sich als eine Verteilung aus einzelnen Untereinheiten („Nanofoci“) mit einem Durchmesser von ~45 nm. Dies lässt die Vermutung zu, dass es sich hier um die elementare Substruktur der Foci und somit der γH2AX enthaltenen Nukleosome handelt. DNA-PK-Foci wiesen hingegen eine diffusere Verteilung auf.
Die in dieser Arbeit ermittelten Unterschiede im Migrationsverhalten der Zellen rechtfertigen eine weitere präklinische Untersuchung der verwendeten Inhibitoren als potentielle Zelltherapeutika für die Behandlung von GBM. Zudem konnte sich dSTORM als machtvolles Hilfsmittel, sowohl zur Analyse der Migration zugrundeliegenden Zytoskelettstruktur und der Effekte der Hsp90 Inhibierung, als auch, der Nanostruktur der DNA-DSB-Reparaturfoci herausstellen. Es ist anzunehmen, dass beugungsunbegrenzte Mikroskopiemethoden sich als bedeutende Werkzeuge in der medizinischen und biologischen Erforschung der DNA-Reparaturmechanismen herausstellen werden. Das in dieser Arbeit entwickelte ImageJ Plugin „FocAn-3D“ bewies sich ebenfalls als ein vielversprechendes Werkzeug für die Analyse der Reparaturkinetik. Mit Hilfe von „FocAn-3D“ sollte es somit möglich sein u.a. den Einfluss gezielter Inhibition auf den zeitlichen Verlauf der Induktion und des Abbaus der DNA-Reparaturmaschinerie genauer zu studieren.
Zentrales Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, Methoden der Mikroskopie, Bildverarbeitung und Bilderkennung für die Charakterisierungen verschiedener Phyotplankter zu nutzen, um deren Analyse zu verbessern und zu vereinfachen.
Der erste Schwerpunkt der Arbeit lag auf der Analyse von Phytoplanktongemeinschaften, die im Rahmen der Überprüfung der Süßwasserqualität als Marker dienen. Die konventionelle Analyse ist dabei sehr aufwendig, da diese noch immer vollständig von Hand durchgeführt wird und hierfür speziell ausgebildetes Personal eingesetzt werden muss. Ziel war es, ein System zur automatischen Erkennung aufzubauen, um die Analyse vereinfachen zu können. Mit Hilfe von automatischer Mikroskopie war es möglich Plankter unterschiedlicher Ausdehnung durch die Integration mehrerer Schärfeebenen besser in einem Bild aufzunehmen. Weiterhin wurden verschiedene Fluoreszenzeigenschaften in die Analyse integriert. Mit einem für ImageJ erstellten Plugin können Organismen vom Hintergrund der Aufnahmen abgetrennt und eine Vielzahl von Merkmalen berechnet werden. Über das Training von neuralen Netzen wird die Unterscheidung von verschieden Gruppen von Planktontaxa möglich. Zudem können weitere Taxa einfach in die Analyse integriert und die Erkennung erweitert werden. Die erste Analyse von Mischproben, bestehend aus 10 verschiedenen Taxa, zeigte dabei eine durchschnittliche Erkennungsrate von 94.7% und eine durchschnittliche Falsch-Positiv Rate von 5.5%. Im Vergleich mit bestehenden Systemen konnte die Erkennungsrate verbessert und die Falsch Positiv Rate deutlich gesenkt werde. Bei einer Erweiterung des Datensatzes auf 22 Taxa wurde darauf geachtet, Arten zu verwenden, die verschiedene Stadien in ihrem Wachstum durchlaufen oder höhere Ähnlichkeiten zu den bereits vorhandenen Arten aufweisen, um evtl. Schwachstellen des Systemes erkennen zu können. Hier ergab sich eine gute Erkennungsrate (86.8%), bei der der Ausschluss von nicht-planktonischen Partikeln (11.9%) weiterhin verbessert war. Der Vergleich mit weiteren Klassifikationsverfahren zeigte, dass neuronale Netze anderen Verfahren bei dieser Problemstellung überlegen sind. Ähnlich gute Klassifikationsraten konnten durch Support Vektor Maschinen erzielt werden. Allerdings waren diese bei der Unterscheidung von unbekannten Partikeln dem neuralen Netz deutlich unterlegen.
Der zweite Abschnitt stellt die Entwicklung einer einfachen Methode zur Viabilitätsanalyse von Cyanobakterien, bei der keine weitere Behandlung der Proben notwendig ist, dar. Dabei wird die rote Chlorophyll - Autofluoreszenz als Marker für lebende Zellen und eine grüne unspezifische Fluoreszenz als Marker für tote Zellen genutzt. Der Assay wurde mit dem Modellorganismus Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 etabliert und validiert. Die Auswahl eines geeigeneten Filtersets ermöglicht es beide Signale gleichzeitig anzuregen und zu beobachten und somit direkt zwischen lebendenden und toten Zellen zu unterscheiden. Die Ergebnisse zur Etablierung des Assays konnten durch Ausplattieren, Chlorophyllbestimmung und Bestimmung des Absorbtionsspektrums bestätigt werden. Durch den Einsatz von automatisierter Mikroskopie und einem neu erstellten ImageJ Plugin wurde eine sehr genaue und schnelle Analyse der Proben möglich. Der Einsatz beim Monitoring einer mutagenisierten Kultur zur Erhöhung der Temperaturtoleranz ermöglichte genaue und zeitnahe Einblicke in den Zustand der Kultur. Weitere Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass die Kombination mit Absorptionsspektren es ermöglichen können bessere Einblicke in die Vitalität der Kultur zu erhalten.
Bedeutung der NO-sensitiven Guanylyl Cyclase bei der Angiogenese und der Arteriogenese in der Maus
(2014)
Stickstoffmonoxid (NO) spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei Gefäßremodelling-Prozessen wie Angiogenese und Arteriogenese. Die NO-Synthese im Gefäßsystem wird hauptsächlich durch die endotheliale NO-Synthase (eNOS) gewährleistet. Sie kann durch verschiedene Faktoren wie Scherkräfte und Zytokine wie der vaskuläre endotheliale Wachstumsfaktor (VEGF) reguliert werden. VEGF ist ein wichtiger Stimulator der Angiogenese und wird während dieses Prozesses hochreguliert. Die meisten physiologischen Effekte von NO werden durch die NO-sensitive Guanylyl-Cyclase (NO-GC) vermittelt. Als Hauptrezeptor für NO produziert die NO-GC den sekundären Botenstoff cyklisches Guanosinmonophosphat (cGMP) und führt dadurch zur Stimulation der verschiedenen Effektoren wie z.B. der PKG. Ob die Wirkung von NO in Angiogenese und Arteriogenese ebenfalls durch NO-GC vermittelt wird, war bis zum Beginn dieser Arbeit noch unklar.
Die NO-GC besteht aus zwei Untereinheiten (α und ß). Die Deletion der ß1-Untereinheit in Mäusen resultiert in einer vollständigen Knockout Maus (GCKO). Mithilfe des Cre-LoxP-Systems wurden zusätzlich zellspezifische Knockout-Mäuse für glatte Muskelzellen (SMC-GCKO) und Endothelzellen (EC-GCKO) generiert. Um die Rolle der NO-GC in der Angiogenese und Arteriogenese zu untersuchen, wurden drei gut etablierte Methoden benutzt.
Im ersten Teil des Projekts sollte die Expression der NO-GC in Endothelzellen untersucht werden. Zu diesem Zweck wurde die reverse Transkriptase-Polymerase-Kettenreaktion (RT-PCR) benutzt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die NO-GC in Endothelzellen der Lunge nur äußerst gering wenig exprimiert ist. Durch den Aortenring-Assay wurde eine Rolle der NO-GC bei der VEGF-vermittelten Angiogenese festgestellt. Dabei zeigte sich eine stärkere Angiogeneserate bei globaler Abwesenheit der NO-GC. Bei Fehlen der NO-GC ausschließlich in Endothelzellen zeigte sich kein Unterschied in den aussprossenden Aorten im Vergleich zu den Kontroll-Tieren. Dies zeigt, dass die NO-GC in Endothelzellen sehr wahrscheinlich keine Rolle bei der VEGF-vermittelten Angiogenese spielt.
Im zweiten Teil wurde die Rolle der NO-GC bei der Angiogenese in einem in vivo-Modell untersucht. In dem Modell der Sauerstoff-induzierten-Retinopathie zeigten die GCKO-Mäuse eine verringerte Vaso-Obliteration, eine verlangsamte Angiogenese und eine erhöhte Tuft-Bildung. Ähnliche Ergebnisse wurden bei den SMC-GCKO-Tieren beobachtet. EC-GCKO-Mäuse zeigten eine gegenüber den Kontroll-Tieren unveränderte Vaso-Obliteration, Angiogeneserate und Tuft-Bildung. Diese Ergebnisse lassen darauf schließen, dass die NO-GC in Endothelzellen keine Rolle spielt. Immunfluoreszenz-Aufnahmen zeigten die Expression von NO-GC in Perizyten der Gefäßkapillaren der Mausretina. Daher könnte die NO-GC in diesem Zelltyp letztendlich für die Effekte bei den GCKO- und SMC-GCKO-Tieren verantwortlich sein.
Im letzten Teil dieser Arbeit wurde eine Versuchsreihe unter Anwendung des Hinterlauf-Ischämie-Modells durchgeführt. Hierbei entwickelten die Pfoten aller GCKO- und teilweise der SMC-GCKO-Tiere nach der Ligation der Femoralarterie eine Nekrose. Die Regeneration der Hinterläufe der EC-GCKO-Tiere nach der Operation verlief normal. Diese Ergebnisse schließen eine bedeutende Rolle der NO-GC in Endothelzellen aus, zeigen allerdings, dass die NO-GC in den glatten Muskelzellen essentiell für den Arteriogenese-Prozess ist.
Zusammengefasst führt die Deletion der NO-GC in glatten Muskelzellen und wahrscheinlich auch in Perizyten zur einer verlangsamten Angiogenese und Inhibierung der Arteriogenese.