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- Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften (52) (remove)
Cysteines play important roles in the biochemistry of many proteins. The high reactivity, redox properties, and ability of the free thiol group to coordinate metal ions designate cysteines as the amino acids of choice to form key catalytic components of many enzymes. Also, cysteines readily react with reactive oxygen and nitrogen species to form reversible oxidative thiol modifications. Over the last few years, an increasing number of proteins have been identified that use redox-mediated thiol modifications to modulate their function, activity, or localization. These redox-regulated proteins are central players in numerous important cellular processes. First aim of this study was to discover nitric oxide (NO) sensitive proteins in E. coli, whose redox-mediated functional changes might explain the physiological alterations observed in E. coli cells suffering from NO-stress. To identify E. coli proteins that undergo reversible thiol modifications upon NO-treatment in vivo, I applied a differential thiol trapping technique combined with two-dimensional gel analysis. 10 proteins were found to contain thiol groups sensitive to NO-treatment. Subsequent genetic studies revealed that the oxidative modifications of AceF & IlvC are, in part, responsible for the observed NO-induced growth inhibition. Noteworthy, the majority of identified protein targets turned out to be specifically sensitive towards reactive nitrogen species. This oxidant specificity was tested on one NO-sensitive protein, the small subunit of glutamate synthase. In vivo and in vitro activity studies demonstrated that glutamate synthase rapidly inactivates upon nitric oxide treatment but is resistant towards other oxidative stressors. These results imply that reactive oxygen and nitrogen species affect distinct physiological processes in bacteria. The second aim of my study was to identify redox-sensitive proteins in S. cerevisiae and to use their redox state as in vivo read-out to assess the role of oxidative stress during the eukaryotic aging process. I first determined the precise in vivo thiol status of almost 300 yeast proteins located in the cytosol and sub-cellular compartments of yeast cells using a highly quantitative mass spectrometry based thiol trapping technique, called OxICAT. The identified proteins can be clustered in four groups: 1) proteins, whose cysteine residues are oxidation resistant; 2) proteins with structurally or functionally important cysteine modifications 3) proteins with highly oxidation-sensitive active site cysteines, which are partially oxidized in exponentially growing yeast cells due to their exquisite sensitivity towards low amounts of ROS; 4) proteins that are reduced in exponentially growing cells but harbor redox-sensitive cysteine(s) that affect the catalytic function of the protein during oxidative stress. These oxidative stress sensitive proteins were identified by exposure of yeast cells to sublethal concentrations of H2O2 or superoxide. It was shown that the major targets of peroxide- and superoxide-mediated stress in the cell are proteins involved in translation, glycolysis, TCA cycle and amino acid biosynthesis. These targets indicate that cells rapidly redirect the metabolic flux and energy towards the pentose phosphate pathway in an attempt to ensure the production of the reducing equivalent NADPH to counterattack oxidative stress. These results reveal that the quantitative assessment of a protein’s oxidation state is a valuable tool to identify catalytically active and redox-sensitive cysteine residues. The OxICAT technology was then used to precisely determine extent and onset of oxidative stress in chronologically aging S. cerevisiae cells by utilizing the redox status of proteins as physiological read-out. I found that chronological aging yeast cells undergo a global collapse of the cellular redox homeostasis, which precedes cell death. The onset of this collapse appears to correlate with the yeast life span, as caloric restriction increases the life span and delays the redox collapse. These results suggest that maintenance of the redox balance might contribute to the life expanding benefits of regulating the caloric intake of yeast. Clustering analysis of all oxidatively modified proteins in chronological aging yeast revealed a subset of proteins whose oxidative thiol modifications significantly precede the general redox collapse. Oxidation of these early target proteins, which most likely results in a loss of their activity, might contribute to or even cause the observed loss of redox homeostasis (i.e., thioredoxin reductase) in chronologically aging yeast. These studies in aging yeast expand our understanding how changes in redox homeostasis affect the life span of yeast cells and confirm the importance of oxidative thiol modifications as key posttranslational modifications in pro- and eukaryotic organisms.
Aim of this thesis was to study the contribution of the hosts immune system during tumor regression. A wild-type rejection model was studied in which tumor regression is mediated through an adaptive, T cell host response (Research article 1). Additionally, the relationship between VACV infection and cancer rejection was assessed by applying organism-specific microarray platforms to infected and non-infected xenografts. It could be shown that tumor rejection in this nude mouse model was orchestrated solely by the hosts innate immune system without help of the adaptive immunity. In a third study the inflammatory baseline status of 75 human cancer cell lines was tested in vitro which was correlated with the susceptibility to VACV and Adenovirus 5 (Ad5) replication of the respective cell line (Manuscript for Research article 3). Although xenografts by themselves lack the ability to signal danger and do not provide sufficient proinflammatory signals to induce acute inflammation, the presence of viral replication in the oncolytic xenograft model provides the "tissue-specific trigger" that activates the immune response and in concordance with the hypothesis, the ICR is activated when chronic inflammation is switched into an acute one. Thus, in conditions in which a switch from a chronic to an acute inflammatory process can be induced by other factors like the immune-stimulation induced by the presence of a virus in the target tissue, adaptive immune responses may not be necessary and immune-mediated rejection can occur without the assistance of T or B cells. However, in the regression study using neu expressing MMC in absence of a stimulus such as a virus and infected cancer cells thereafter, adaptive immunity is needed to provoke the switch into an acute inflammation and initiate tissue rejection. Taken together, this work is supportive of the hypothesis that the mechanisms prompting TSD differ among immune pathologies but the effect phase converges and central molecules can be detected over and over every time TSD occurs. It could be shown that in presence of a trigger such as infection with VACV and functional danger signaling pathways of the infected tumor cells, innate immunity is sufficient to orchestrate rejection of manifested tumors.