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- Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (2)
- Institut für Klinische Biochemie und Pathobiochemie (2)
Die Regulation des Tonus glatter Muskelzellen wird entscheidend von den beiden antagonistisch wirkenden second messengern cAMP und Ca2+ beeinflusst. Ein Ziel dieser Arbeit war herauszufinden, ob diese beiden Botenstoffe auch direkten Einfluss aufeinander haben können und welche Enzyme in diesem Fall an den Prozessen beteiligt sind. cAMP-Signale in intakten Zellen konnten wir in Echtzeit mit Hilfe des FRET-basierten cAMP-Sensors Epac1-camps beobachten; Ca2+-Signale durch Markieren der Zellen mit Fura-2. Anstiege der intrazellulären Ca2+-Konzentration in VSMCs wurden durch Aktivierung von endogen exprimierten, Gq-gekoppelten P2Y6-Rezeptoren mit Uridindiphosphat (UDP) ausgelöst. Durch eine zusätzliche in-vitro Kalibrierung des Epac1-camps konnten darüber hinaus absolute cAMP-Konzentrationen in einzelnen lebenden Zellen berechnet werden. Während ein Anstieg der Ca2+-Konzentration auf nicht vorstimulierte VSMCs keinen signifikante Einfluss auf die intrazellulären cAMP-Konzentrationen hatte, bewirkte die Aktivierung der purinergen Rezeptoren einen deutlichen Rückgang der intrazellulären cAMP-Konzentration in mit Isoproterenol vorstimulierten VSMCs. Dieser Effekt konnte sowohl durch die Komplexierung von Ca2+ mit BAPTA-AM als auch durch die Überexpression der Ca2+-insensitiven AC4 antagonisiert werden. Adenylatcyclase-Aktivitäts-Assays in VSMC-Membranen zeigten ebenfalls einen Rückgang der Cyclaseaktivität nach Zugabe von 2 und 5 μM freiem Ca2+. Die Hemmung der einzigen Ca2+-regulierbaren PDE1 mit dem selektiven PDE1-Inhibitor 8-Methoxymethyl-IBMX (8-MM-IBMX) hatte im Gegensatz dazu keinen Einfluss auf die durch UDP verursachte Änderung der cAMP-Konzentration in vorstimulierten VSMCs. Schließlich bewirkte die Herunterregulation der Ca2+-inhibierbaren AC5 und 6 mit siRNA einen signifikante Hemmung des durch UDP verursachten Effekts. Fasst man alle diese Ergebnisse zusammen, so lässt sich folgende Schlussfolgerung ziehen: Der durch purinerge Stimulation verursachte Rückgang der cAMP-Konzentration in mit Isoproterenol vorstimulierten VSMCs wird durch eine Hemmung der Ca2+-hemmbaren AC5 und 6 vermittelt. Dadurch sind zwei für die Regulation des Tonus wichtige Signalwege in VSMCs miteinander verbunden, die sich somit gegenseitig entscheidend beeinflussen können. Ein weiterer Bestandteil dieser Arbeit war die Entwicklung eines transgenen Mausmodells, das glattmuskelspezifisch den cAMP-Sensor Epac1-camps exprimiert. Mit Hilfe eines solchen Tiermodells könnten in Zukunft cAMP-Änderungen in intakten Geweben und vielleicht sogar in lebenden Tieren beobachtet werden. Durch Anwendung des Cre-loxP-Rekombinationssystems gelang es eine glatt¬muskelspezifische, für den Epac1-camps transgene Mauslinie zu generieren. Mit isolierten VSMCs dieser Tiere konnten bereits erste FRET-Messungen durchgeführt und agonistinduzierte cAMP-Änderungen beobachtet werden.
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.
Die Knochenhomöostase erfolgt durch das Zusammenspiel mehrerer Zelltypen. Während die Osteoblasten für den Knochenaufbau verantwortlich sind, resorbieren die Osteoklasten Knochengewebe. Beide Vorgänge werden durch die Osteozyten streng reguliert. Eine Störung im strikt regulierten Gleichgewicht zwischen Knochenabbau und Knochenaufbau kann daher zu Knochenkrankheiten wie Osteoporose führen. Auf molekularer Ebene erfolgt die Kommunikation zwischen den einzelnen Zelltypen über zwei wichtige Signalwege, den der „Bone Morphogenetic Protein“-Superfamilie (BMPs) und den der Wnt-Proteine. Die Signalübertragung wird hierbei durch sekretierte Faktoren induziert, die an Rezeptoren auf der Zelloberfläche binden. Deren Aktivierung führt zu einem intrazellulären Signal, welches letztlich die Expression von Zielgenen reguliert. Beide Signalwege werden auf mehreren Ebenen, extrazellulär, membranständig und intrazellulär reguliert. Das 2003 identifizierte Sclerostin ist ein Vertreter der extrazellulären Regulatorproteine und wurde aufgrund seiner Zugehörigkeit zur DAN-Familie zunächst fälschlicherweise als direkter Inhibitor des BMP-Signalwegs eingestuft. Mittlerweile wird allerdings davon ausgegangen, dass Sclerostin den Wnt-Signalweg negativ reguliert, indem es die Wnt Ko-Rezeptoren LRP5 und LRP6 bindet, die beide zu der Familie der „Low-density lipoprotein receptors“ gehören. Über den molekularen Inhibitionsmechanismus von Sclerostin war jedoch zum Startpunkt dieser Dissertationsarbeit wenig bekannt. Daher wurde Sclerostin im Rahmen dieser Arbeit biophysikalisch und biochemisch charakterisiert. Die Aufklärung mittels NMR-Spektroskopie ergab für Sclerostin eine Struktur, die sich in drei Regionen gliedert: den Cystinknoten, sowie einen „Loop“-Bereich und die Fingerregion. Vom zentralen Cystinknoten gehen drei Peptid-Schleifen in zwei entgegengesetzte Richtungen aus. Schleife eins und drei bilden eine definierte ß-Faltblattstruktur und ähneln zwei Fingern einer Hand. Die zweite Schleife, welche vom Cystinknoten isoliert in die entgegengesetzte Richtung verläuft („Loop“), ist wie die beiden langen N- und C-Termini flexibel und unstrukturiert. Die in Zusammenarbeit mit der Firma AbD-Serotec entstandenen Fab-Fragmente ermöglichten die Bestimmung des Bindeepitops der Sclerostin/LRP5-Interaktion im Bereich der unstrukturierten dritten Schleife von Sclerostin. Die Struktur von Sclerostin und die Identifikation des Bindeepitops auf Sclerostinseite geben nun erste Einblicke in den molekularen Mechanismus der Sclerostin/LRP5-Interaktion. Diese Kenntnis kann für die Entwicklung von Kleinmolekülinhibitoren mittels rationalem Drugdesign genutzt werden, welche, wie auch der in Kooperation entwickelte die Sclerostinaktivität neutralisierende Antikörper AbD09097, hochinteressante Ansätze für neuartige anabole Therapien von Krankheiten mit Knochenschwund darstellen.
This study focuses on phosphoantigen specific Vg9Vd2 T cells which only exist in human and non-human primates. This population accounts for 1%-5% of peripheral blood T-lymphocytes but their frequency can rise to 50% of total blood T cells upon infection. Vg9Vd2 T cells can be activated by nonpeptide compounds with critical phosphate moieties which are termed as phosphoantigens. These include isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP), a key compound of isoprenoid synthesis in all organisms, and (E)-4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl pyrophosphate (HMBPP), a direct precursor of IPP in DOXP pathway which only exist in eubacteria, plants, apicomplexaen parasites. Its activity as phosphoantigen is at least 1000 fold higher than that of IPP. However, direct structural evidence of phosphoantigen binding to the TCR is missing so far. Moreover, Vg9Vd2 T cells have potent anti-tumor activity e.g. against the B-cell lymphoma Daudi, whose Vg9Vd2 T cell activating properties have been suggested to result from sensing of abnormal intracellular IPP levels by the Vg9Vd2 TCR or Vg9Vd2 TCR binding to other postulated ligands such as an ectopically expressed F1-ATPase or UL-16 binding protein 4 (ULBP4). Aminobisphosphonates and alkymines were hypothesized to activate Vg9Vd2 T cells indirectly by inhibiting the IPP consuming enzyme farnysyl pyrophosphates synthesis (FPPS) although off target effects of these drugs or a direct interaction with the Vg9Vd2 TCR could not be excluded. This thesis presents new approaches for the mechanistic analysis of Vg9Vd2 T cell activation. By employing retroviral transduction of FPPS specific shRNA, it shows that specific shRNA reduces expression of FPPS and is sufficient to convert hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic tumor cell lines into Vg9Vd2 T cell activators. FPPS knockdown cells activated Vg9Vd2 T cells as measured by increased levels of CD69 and CD107a, kill of FPPS knockdown cells and induction of IFN-γ secretion. The IPP-synthesis-inhibiting drug mevastatin reduced Vg9Vd2 T cell activation by FPPS knockdown cells or aminobisphosphonate treated cells but not activation by the phosphoantigen bromohydrin pyrophosphate (BrHPP). A reduced growth of the FPPS knockdown cells has not been observed which is different to what has been reported for aminobisphosphonate treated cells. Finally, the human B-cell lymphoma RAJI has been transduced with Tetracyclin-inducible FPPS specific shRNA and proven to gain and loose the capacity to activate Vg9Vd2 TCR transductants upon doxycylin provision or removal. Another approach for the analysis of Vg9Vd2 T cell activation is Vg9Vd2 TCR transduced mouse cell lines with specificity for phosphoantigens. In contrast to the previously used Vg9Vd2 TCR transduced Jurkat cells, these cells do not present phosphoantigens, and are therefore specially suited for analysis of phosphoantigen presentation. The response of the new TCR transductants to presumed Vg9Vd2 TCR ligands/activators such as phosphoantigens, aminobisphosphonates or FPPS knockdown cells, depended strongly on the expression of a rat/mouse CD28 molecule by the transductants and its ligation by the (CD80) counter receptor on the ligand-presenting cell. The response is likely to reflect recognition of cognate Vg9Vd2 TCR antigens since mutations in the TCR-δ chain CDR2 and 3 abolished this response but activation by TCR or CD3 specific antibodies. A major difference between TCR transductants and primary gd T cells, was the lacking response of TCR transductants to Daudi or IPP. In addition their sensitivity to other soluble phosphoantigens was about 100 fold weaker than that of primary cells, stimulation of both cell type to CD80 expressing FPPS knock down or aminobisphosphonates was similar. Finally, the transductants have also been used to analyze effects of over-expression or knockdown of enzymes of isoprenoid synthesis such as 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA reductase (HMG-CoA reductase or HMGR), mevalonate-5-pyrophosphate decarboxylase (MVD), isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerase (IDI), geranyl-geranyl pyrophosphate synthase (GGPPS) but no clear effects have been found. In conclusion, this thesis supports the concept of Vg9Vd2 T cells being sensors of a dysregulated isoprenoid metabolism and established new tools to study ligand recognition and TCR mediated activation of this T cell population. These tools will be most useful to address following questions: 1) How does the dysregulation of isoprenoid metabolism affect tumor growth? 2) What is the correlation between the modulation of IPP levels and the Vg9Vd2 TCR binding or expression of other postulated ligands? 3) Are there any mevalonate pathway enzymes other than FPPS and HMGR, which play an important role in Vg9Vd2 T cells activation? 4) What is/are the putative phosphoantigen-presenting molecule(s)?
Platelets play a central role in thrombosis, hemostasis, and inflammation. Here, we show that activated platelets release inorganic polyphosphate (polyP), a polymer of 60- 100 phosphate residues that directly bound to and activated the plasma protease factor XII. PolyP-driven factor XII-activation triggered release of the inflammatory mediator bradykinin by plasma kallikrein-mediated kininogen processing. PolyP increased vascular permeability and induced fluid extravasation in skin microvessels of mice. Mice deficient in factor XII or bradykinin receptors were resistant to polyP-induced leakage. PolyP initiated clotting of plasma via the contact pathway. Ablation of intrinsic coagulation pathway proteases factor XII and factor XI protected mice from polyPtriggered lethal pulmonary embolism. Targeting polyP with phosphatases interfered with procoagulant activity of activated platelets and blocked platelet-induced thrombosis in mice. Infusion of polyP restored defective plasma clotting of Hermansky- Pudlak Syndrome patients, which lack platelet polyP. The data identify polyP as a new class of mediator having fundamental roles in platelet-driven proinflammatory and procoagulant disorders.
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.