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  • Wieloch, Thomas, 1979-, et al. (författare)
  • Intramolecular carbon isotope signals reflect metabolite allocation in plants
  • 2022
  • Ingår i: Journal of Experimental Botany. - : Oxford University Press. - 0022-0957 .- 1460-2431. ; 73:8, s. 2558-2575
  • Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Stable isotopes at natural abundance are key tools to study physiological processes occurring outside the temporal scope of manipulation and monitoring experiments. Whole-molecule carbon isotope ratios (13C/12C) enable assessments of plant carbon uptake yet conceal information about carbon allocation. Here, we identify an intramolecular 13C/12C signal at tree-ring glucose C-5 and C-6 and develop experimentally testable theories on its origin. More specifically, we assess the potential of processes within C3 metabolism for signal introduction based (inter alia) on constraints on signal propagation posed by metabolic networks. We propose that the intramolecular signal reports carbon allocation into major metabolic pathways in actively photosynthesizing leaf cells including the anaplerotic, shikimate, and non-mevalonate pathway. We support our theoretical framework by linking it to previously reported whole-molecule 13C/12C increases in cellulose of ozone-treated Betula pendula and a highly significant relationship between the intramolecular signal and tropospheric ozone concentration. Our theory postulates a pronounced preference for leaf cytosolic triose-phosphate isomerase to catalyse the forward reaction in vivo (dihydroxyacetone phosphate to glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate). In conclusion, intramolecular 13C/12C analysis resolves information about carbon uptake and allocation enabling more comprehensive assessments of carbon metabolism than whole-molecule 13C/12C analysis.
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  • Ohrvik, Helena, et al. (författare)
  • Identification of New Potential Interaction Partners for Human Cytoplasmic Copper Chaperone Atox1: Roles in Gene Regulation?
  • 2015
  • Ingår i: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 1661-6596 .- 1422-0067. ; 16:8, s. 16728-39
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The human copper (Cu) chaperone Atox1 delivers Cu to P1B type ATPases in the Golgi network, for incorporation into essential Cu-dependent enzymes. Atox1 homologs are found in most organisms; it is a 68-residue ferredoxin-fold protein that binds Cu in a conserved surface-exposed Cys-X-X-Cys (CXXC) motif. In addition to its well-documented cytoplasmic chaperone function, in 2008 Atox1 was suggested to have functionality in the nucleus. To identify new interactions partners of Atox1, we performed a yeast two-hybrid screen with a large human placenta library of cDNA fragments using Atox1 as bait. Among 98 million fragments investigated, 25 proteins were found to be confident interaction partners. Nine of these were uncharacterized proteins, and the remaining 16 proteins were analyzed by bioinformatics with respect to cell localization, tissue distribution, function, sequence motifs, three-dimensional structures and interaction networks. Several of the hits were eukaryotic-specific proteins interacting with DNA or RNA implying that Atox1 may act as a modulator of gene regulation. Notably, because many of the identified proteins contain CXXC motifs, similarly to the Cu transport reactions, interactions between these and Atox1 may be mediated by Cu.
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  • Tapani, Sofia, 1982 (författare)
  • Stochastic modelling and analysis of early mouse development
  • 2011
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • The aim of this thesis is to model and describe dynamical events for biological cells using statistical and mathematical tools. The thesis includes five papers that all relate to stochastic modelling of cells. In order to understand the development and patterning of the early mammalian embryo, stochastic modelling has become a more important tool than ever. It allows for studying the processes that mediate the transition from pluripotency of the embryonic cells to their differentiation. It is still unclear whether the positions of cells determine their future fates. One alternative possibility is that cells are pre-specified at random positions and then sort according to a already set fate. Mouse embryonic cells are thought to be equivalent in their developmental properties until approaching the eight-cell stage. Some biological studies show, in comparison, that patterning can be present already at sperm entry and in the pronuclei migration. We investigate in Paper I the dynamics of the pronuclei migration by analysing their trajectories and find that not only do the pronuclei follow a noise corrupted path towards the centre of the egg but they also have some attraction to each other which affects their dynamics. Continuing in Paper II and III, we use these results to model this behaviour with a coupled stochastic differential equation model. This enables us to simulate distributions that describe the meeting plane between pronuclei which in turn can be related to the orientation of the first cleavage of the egg. Our results show that adding randomness in sperm entry point is different from the randomness added through the environment of the egg. We are also able to show that data sets with normal eggs and eggs treated with an actin growth inhibitor give rise to considerably different model dynamics, suggesting that the treatment is affecting the migration in an invasive way. Altering the pronuclei dynamics can alter the polarity of the egg and may transfer into the later axis-formation process. Invasiveness of experimental procedures is a difficult issue to handle. The alternative to invasive procedures is not appealing since it means that important developmental features may not be discovered because of individual variability and noise, leading to guesswork of the underlying mechanisms. The embryonic cells are easily affected by treatments performed to make the measuring, made by hand, easier or by the light exposure of the microscope. Treatments as such are used for example for producing flourescent proteins in membranes or slowing processes down. Paper IV and Paper V serve to analyse how light induced stress affects yeast cells and we employ a method for analysing the noisy non-stationary time series, which are a result of the yeast experiments, using wavelet decomposition.
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  • Gerlee, Philip, 1980, et al. (författare)
  • Scientific Models : Red Atoms, White Lies and Black Boxes in a Yellow Book
  • 2016
  • Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • A zebrafish, the hull of a miniature ship, a mathematical equation and a food chain - what do these things have in common? They are examples of models used by scientists to isolate and study particular aspects of the world around us. This book begins by introducing the concept of a scientific model from an intuitive perspective, drawing parallels to mental models and artistic representations. It then recounts the history of modelling from the 16th century up until the present day. The iterative process of model building is described and discussed in the context of complex models with high predictive accuracy versus simpler models that provide more of a conceptual understanding. To illustrate the diversity of opinions within the scientific community, we also present the results of an interview study, in which ten scientists from different disciplines describe their views on modelling and how models feature in their work. Lastly, it includes a number of worked examples that span different modelling approaches and techniques. It provides a comprehensive introduction to scientific models and shows how models are constructed and used in modern science. It also addresses the approach to, and the culture surrounding modelling in different scientific disciplines. It serves as an inspiration for model building and also facilitates interdisciplinary collaborations by showing how models are used in different scientific fields. The book is aimed primarily at students in the sciences and engineering, as well as students at teacher training colleges but will also appeal to interested readers wanting to get an overview of scientific modelling in general and different modelling approaches in particular.
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  • Gerlee, Philip, 1980, et al. (författare)
  • Scientific Models
  • 2016
  • Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • A zebrafish, the hull of a miniature ship, a mathematical equation and a food chain - what do these things have in common? They are examples of models used by scientists to isolate and study particular aspects of the world around us. This book begins by introducing the concept of a scientific model from an intuitive perspective, drawing parallels to mental models and artistic representations. It then recounts the history of modelling from the 16th century up until the present day. The iterative process of model building is described and discussed in the context of complex models with high predictive accuracy versus simpler models that provide more of a conceptual understanding. To illustrate the diversity of opinions within the scientific community, we also present the results of an interview study, in which ten scientists from different disciplines describe their views on modelling and how models feature in their work. Lastly, it includes a number of worked examples that span different modelling approaches and techniques. It provides a comprehensive introduction to scientific models and shows how models are constructed and used in modern science. It also addresses the approach to, and the culture surrounding modelling in different scientific disciplines. It serves as an inspiration for model building and also facilitates interdisciplinary collaborations by showing how models are used in different scientific fields. The book is aimed primarily at students in the sciences and engineering, as well as students at teacher training colleges but will also appeal to interested readers wanting to get an overview of scientific modelling in general and different modelling approaches in particular.
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  • Mamontov, Eugen, 1955 (författare)
  • Homeorhesis and evolutionary properties of living systems: From ordinary differential equations to the active-particle generalized kinetics theory
  • 2006
  • Ingår i: 10th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles, 20-22 September 2006, Marseilles, France.
  • Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Advanced generalized-kinetic-theory (GKT) models for biological systems are developed for populations of active (or living) particles [1]-[5]. These particles are described with both the stochastic variables common in kinetic theory (such as time, the particle random location and velocity) and the stochastic variables related to the internal states of an active particle. Evolution of these states represents biological, ecological, or social properties of the particle behavior. Paper [6] analyzes a number of the well-known statistical-mechanics approaches and shows that the active-particle GKT (APGKT) is the only treatment capable of modelling living systems. Work [2] summarizes the significance of the notion of an active particle in kinetic models. This notion draws attention to the features distinguishing living matter from nonliving matter. They are discussed by many authors (e.g., [7]-[15], [1]-[3], [6], [16]-[18]). Work [11] considers a lot of differences between living and nonliving matters, and the limitations of the modelling approaches developed for nonliving matter. Work [6] mainly focuses on the comparison of a few theoretical mechanics treatments in terms of the key living-matter properties formulated in [15]. One of the necessary properties of the evolution of living systems is homeorhesis. It is, loosely speaking, a peculiar qualitative and quantitative insensitivity of a living system to the exogenous signals acting on it. The earlier notion, homeostasis, was introduced by W. B. Cannon in 1926 who discussed the phenomenon in detail later [7]. Homeorhesis introduced by C. H. Waddington [8, p. 32] generalizes homeostasis and is well known in biology [8], [9], [12]. It is an inherent part of mathematical models for oncogeny (e.g., [16]-[18], [6, Appendix]). Homeorhesis is also discussed in [3, Section 4] in connection with APGKT. Homeorhesis is documented in ecology (e.g., [11], [13, the left column on p. 675]) where it is one of the key notions of the strong Gaia theory, a version of the Gaia theory (e.g., [14, Chapter 8]). The strong Gaia theory “states that the planet with its life, a single living system, is regulated in certain aspects by that life” [14, p. 124]. The very origin of the name “Gaia” is related to homeorhesis or homeostasis [14, p. 118]. These notions are also used in psychology and sociology. If evolution of a system is not homeorhetic, the system can not be living. Work [6, Appendix] derives a preliminary mathematical formulation of homeorhesis in terms of the simplest dynamical systems, i.e. ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The present work complements, extended, and further specify the approach of [6, Appendix]. The work comprises the two main parts. The first part develops the sufficient conditions for ODE systems to describe homeorhesis, and suggests a fairly general structure of the ODE model. It regards homeorhesis as piecewise homeostasis. The model can be specified in different ways depending on specific systems and specific purposes of the analysis. An example of the specification is also noted (the PhasTraM nonlinear reaction-diffusion model for hyperplastic oncogeny [16]-[18]). The second part of the work discusses implementation of the above homeorhesis ODE model in terms of a special version [3] of APGKT (see above). The key feature of this version is that the components of a living population need not be discrete: the subdivision into the components is described with a general, continuous-discrete probability distribution (see also [6]). This enables certain properties of living matter noted in [15]. Moreover, the corresponding APGKT model presents a system of, firstly, a generalized kinetic equation for the conditional distribution function conditioned by the internal states of the population and, secondly, Ito's stochastic differential equations for these states. This treatement employs the results on nonstationary invariant diffusion stochastic processes [19]. The second part of the work also stresses that APGKT is substantially more important for the living-matter analysis than in the case of nonliving matter. One of the reasons is certain limitations in experimental sampling of the living-system modes presented with stochastic processes. A few directions for future research are suggested as well. REFERENCES: [1] Bellomo, N., Bellouquid, A. and Delitala, M., 2004, Mathematical topics on the modelling complex multicellular systems and tumor immune cells competition, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 14, 1683-1733. [2] Bellomo, N., 2006, New hot Paper Comments, Essential Science Indicators, http://www.esi-topics.com/nhp/2006 /may- 06-NicolaBellomo.html. [3] Willander, M., Mamontov, E. and Chiragwandi, Z., 2004, Modelling living fluids with the subdivision into the components in terms of probability distributions, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 14, 1495-1520. [4] Bellomo, N. and Maini, P.K., 2005, Preface and the Special Issue “Multiscale Cancer Modelling-A New Frontier in Applied Mathematics”, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 15, iii-viii. [5] De Angelis, E. and Delitala, M., 2006, Modelling complex systems in applied sciences: Methods and tools of the mathematical kinetic theory for active particles. Mathl Comput. Modelling, 43, 1310-1328. [6] Mamontov, E., Psiuk-Maksymowicz, K. and Koptioug, A., 2006, Stochastic mechanics in the context of the properties of living systems, Mathl Comput. Modelling, Article in Press, 13 pp. [7] Cannon, W.B., 1932, The Wisdom of the Body (New York: Norton). [8] Waddington, C.H., 1957, The Strategy of the Genes. A Discussion of Some Aspects of Theoretical Biology (London, George Allen and Unwin). [9] Waddington, C.H., 1968, Towards a theoretical biology, Nature, 218, 525-527. [10] Cotnoir, P.-A., 1981, La compétence environnementale: Une affaire d’adaptation. Séminaire en écologie behaviorale, Univeristé du Québec, Montralé. Available online at: http://pac.cam.org/culture.doc . [11] O’Neill, R.V., DeAngelis, D.L., Waide, J.B. and Allen, T.F.H., 1986, A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press). [12] Sauvant, D., 1992, La modélisation systémique en nutrition, Reprod. Nutr. Dev., 32, 217-230. [13] Christensen, N.L., Bartuska, A.M., Brown, J.H., Carpenter, S., D'Antonio, C., Francis, R., Franklin, J.F., MacMahon, J.A., Noss, R.F., Parsons, D.J., Peterson, C.H., Turner, M.G. and Woodmansee, R.G., 1996, The Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management, Ecological Applications, 6, 665-691. Available online at: http://www.esa.org/pao/esaPositions/Papers/ReportOfSBEM.php. [14] Margulis, L., 1998, Symbiotic Planet. A New Look at Evolution (Amherst: Sciencewriters). [15] Hartwell, L.H., Hopfield, J.J., Leibler, S. and Murray, A.W., 1999, From molecular to modular cell biology, Nature, 402, C47-C52. [16] Mamontov, E., Koptioug, A.V. and Psiuk-Maksymowicz, K., 2006, The minimal, phase-transition model for the cell- number maintenance by the hyperplasia-extended homeorhesis, Acta Biotheoretica, 54, 44 pp., (no. 2, May-June, accepted). [17] Psiuk-Maksymowicz, K. and Mamontov, E., 2005, The time-slices method for rapid solving the Cauchy problem for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations in the competition of homeorhesis with genotoxically activated hyperplasia, In: European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology - ECMTB05 (July 18-22, 2005) Book of Abstracts, Vol.1 (Dresden: Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Dresden Univ. Technol.), p. 429 (http://www.ecmtb05.org/). [18] Psiuk-Maksymowicz, K. and Mamontov, E., 2006, The homeorhesis-based modelling and fast numerical analysis for oncogenic hyperplasia under radiation therapy, submitted. [19] Mamontov, E., 2005, Nonstationary invariant distributions and the hydrodynamic-style generalization of the Kolmogorov-forward/Fokker-Planck equation, Appl. Math. Lett. 18 (9) 976-982.
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  • Advances in Thermal Imaging
  • 2021
  • Ingår i: Journal of Thermal Biology. - 0306-4565.
  • Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Thermal imaging, or more correctly infrared thermography, has been widely applied to studies of animal and human biology (see Burnay et al. 1988; McCafferty 2007; Soerensen and Pedersen 2015; Fernandez-Cuevas et al., 2015; Tattersall 2016). This technique provides non-contact measurement of surface temperature, allowing real-time recording of the spatial temperature distribution of a body region, physical structure or habitat of interest. Thermal imaging technology has advanced rapidly in the last decade and is now becoming a key tool in thermal biology. Technological advances include greater spatial and temporal resolution, increased capacity to record and store high resolution radiometric video, as well as reduced device size and portability. In addition, high-quality thermal imaging devices are quickly becoming more affordable, meaning thermal imaging is an increasingly common item of the research tool-kit in many pure and applied fields. The aim of this Special Issue was to highlight how advances in thermal imaging can be used to answer important questions in biology, and to demonstrate how the combination of this technology with novel analytical methods can further advance our conceptual understanding of thermal biology.
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  • Mamontov, Eugen, 1955 (författare)
  • Ordinary differential equation system for population of individuals and the corresponding probabilistic model
  • 2008
  • Ingår i: Mathl. Computer Modelling. - : Elsevier BV. - 0895-7177.
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The key model for particle populations in statistical mechanics is the Bogolyubov–Born– Green–Kirkwood–Yvon (BBGKY) equation chain. It is derived mainly from the Hamilton ordinary differential equation (ODE) system for the vectors of the particle states in the particle position-momentum phase space. Many problems beyond physics or chemistry, for instance, in the living-matter sciences (biology, medicine, ecology, and scoiology) make it necessary to extend the notion of a particle to an individual, or active particle. This challenge is met by the generalized kinetic theory. It implements the extension by extending the phase space from the space of the position-momentum vectors to more rich spaces formed by the state vectors with the entries which need not be limited to the entries of the position and momentum: they include other scalar variables (e.g., those associated with modelling homeorhesis or other features inherent to the individuals). One can assume that the dynamics of the state vector in the extended space, i.e. the states of the individuals (rather than common particles) is also described by an ODE system. The latter, however, need not be the Hamilton one. The question is how one can derive the analogue of the BBGKY paradigm for the new settings. The present work proposes an answer to this question. It applies a very limited number of carefully selected tools of probability theory and common statistical mechanics. It in particular uses the well-known feature that the maximum number of the individuals which can mutually interact simultaneously is bounded by a fixed value of a few units. The present approach results in the finite system of equations for the reduced many-individual distribution functions thereby eliminating the so-called closure problem inevitable in the BBGKY theory. The thermodynamic-limit assumption is not needed either. The system includes consistently derived terms of all of the basic types known in kinetic theory, in particular, both the “mean-field” and scattering-integral terms, and admits the kinetic equation of the form allowing a direct chemical-reaction reading. The present approach can deal with Hamilton’s equation systems which are nonmonogenic and not treated in statistical mechanics. The proposed modelling suggests the basis of the generalized kinetic theory and may serve as the stochastic mechanics of population of individuals.
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  • Rineau, F., et al. (författare)
  • Carbon availability triggers the decomposition of plant litter and assimilation of nitrogen by an ectomycorrhizal fungus
  • 2013
  • Ingår i: The ISME Journal. - : nternational Society for Microbial Ecology. - 1751-7362 .- 1751-7370. ; 7:10, s. 2010-2022
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The majority of nitrogen in forest soils is found in organic matter-protein complexes. Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are thought to have a key role in decomposing and mobilizing nitrogen from such complexes. However, little is known about the mechanisms governing these processes, how they are regulated by the carbon in the host plant and the availability of more easily available forms of nitrogen sources. Here we used spectroscopic analyses and transcriptome profiling to examine how the presence or absence of glucose and/or ammonium regulates decomposition of litter material and nitrogen mobilization by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus. We found that the assimilation of nitrogen and the decomposition of the litter material are triggered by the addition of glucose. Glucose addition also resulted in upregulation of the expression of genes encoding enzymes involved in oxidative degradation of polysaccharides and polyphenols, peptidases, nitrogen transporters and enzymes in pathways of the nitrogen and carbon metabolism. In contrast, the addition of ammonium to organic matter had relatively minor effects on the expression of transcripts and the decomposition of litter material, occurring only when glucose was present. On the basis of spectroscopic analyses, three major types of chemical modifications of the litter material were observed, each correlated with the expression of specific sets of genes encoding extracellular enzymes. Our data suggest that the expression of the decomposition and nitrogen assimilation processes of EMF can be tightly regulated by the host carbon supply and that the availability of inorganic nitrogen as such has limited effects on saprotrophic activities.
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  • Vajda, Vivi, et al. (författare)
  • Geochemical Fingerprints of Ginkgoales Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary of Greenland
  • 2021
  • Ingår i: International journal of plant sciences. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press. - 1058-5893 .- 1537-5315. ; 182:7, s. 649-662
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Premise of research. Geochemical fingerprinting of fossil plants is a relatively new research field complementing morphological analyses and providing information for paleoenvironmental interpretations. Ginkgoales contains a single extant species but was diverse through the Mesozoic and is an excellent target for biochemical analyses.Methodology. Cuticles derived from fresh and fallen autumn leaves of extant Ginkgo biloba and seven fossil gink- goalean leaf taxa, one seed fern taxon, and two taxa with bennettitalean affinity were analyzed by infrared (IR) microspec- troscopy at the D7 beamline in the MAX IV synchrotron laboratory, Sweden. The fossil material derives from Triassic and Jurassic successions of Greenland. Spectral data sets were compared and evaluated by hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and principal component analysis performed on vector-normalized, first-derivative IR absorption spectra.Pivotal results. The IR absorption spectra of the fossil leaves all reveal signatures that clearly indicate the pres- ence of organic compounds. Spectra of the extant G. biloba leaves reveal the presence of aliphatic chains, aromatic and ester carbonyl functional groups from polymer cutin and other waxy compounds, and polysaccharides. Inter- estingly, both the extant autumn leaves and the fossil specimens reveal the presence of carboxyl/ketone molecules, suggesting that chemical alterations during the initial stages of decomposition are preserved through fossilization. Two major subclusters were identified through HCA of the fossil spectra.Conclusions. Consistent chemical IR signatures, specific for each fossil taxon are present in cuticles, and suf- ficient molecular content is preserved in key regions to reflect the plants’ original chemical signatures. The alter- ations of the organic compounds are initiated as soon as the leaves are shed, with loss of proteins and increased ester and carboxyl/ketone compound production in the fallen leaves. We further show that the groupings of taxa reflect a combination of phylogeny and environmental conditions related to the end-Triassic event.
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  • Blockhuys, Stephanie, 1983, et al. (författare)
  • Defining the human copper proteome and analysis of its expression variation in cancers.
  • 2017
  • Ingår i: Metallomics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1756-5901 .- 1756-591X. ; 9:2, s. 112-123
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Copper (Cu) is essential for living organisms, and acts as a cofactor in many metabolic enzymes. To avoid the toxicity of free Cu, organisms have specific transport systems that 'chaperone' the metal to targets. Cancer progression is associated with increased cellular Cu concentrations, whereby proliferative immortality, angiogenesis and metastasis are cancer hallmarks with defined requirements for Cu. The aim of this study is to gather all known Cu-binding proteins and reveal their putative involvement in cancers using the available database resources of RNA transcript levels. Using the database along with manual curation, we identified a total of 54 Cu-binding proteins (named the human Cu proteome). Next, we retrieved RNA expression levels in cancer versus normal tissues from the TCGA database for the human Cu proteome in 18 cancer types, and noted an intricate pattern of up- and downregulation of the genes in different cancers. Hierarchical clustering in combination with bioinformatics and functional genomics analyses allowed for the prediction of cancer-related Cu-binding proteins; these were specifically inspected for the breast cancer data. Finally, for the Cu chaperone ATOX1, which is the only Cu-binding protein proposed to have transcription factor activities, we validated its predicted over-expression in patient breast cancer tissue at the protein level. This collection of Cu-binding proteins, with RNA expression patterns in different cancers, will serve as an excellent resource for mechanistic-molecular studies of Cu-dependent processes in cancer.
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  • Bag, Pushan, 1993- (författare)
  • How could Christmas trees remain evergreen? : photosynthetic acclimation of Scots pine and Norway spruce needles during winter
  • 2022
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Plants and other green organisms harvest sunlight by green chlorophyll pigments and covertit to chemical energy (sugars) and oxygen in a process called photosynthesis providing the foundation for life on Earth. Although it is unanimously believed that oceanic phytoplanktons are the main contributors to the global photosynthesis, the contribution of coniferous boreal forests distributed across vast regions of the northern hemisphere cannot be undermined. Hence boreal forests account signifificantly for social, economical and environmental sustainability. Not only do conifers thrive in the tundra regions with extreme climate, but they also maintain their needles green over the boreal winter. A question remains; what makes them so resilient? In this respect, we aimed to understand the remarkable winter adaptation strategies in two dominant boreal coniferous species,i.e., Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies. First, we mapped the transcriptional landscape in Norway spruce (Picea abies) needles over the annual cycle. Transcriptional changes in the nascent needles reflflected a sequence of developmental processes and active vegetative growth during early summer and summer. Later after maturation, transcriptome reflflected activated defense against biotic factors and acclimationin response to abiotic environmental cues such as freezing temperatures during winter. Secondly, by monitoring the photosynthetic performance of Scot pine needles, we found that the trees face extreme stress during the early spring (Feb-Mar) when sub-zero temperatures are accompanied by high solar radiation. At this time, drastic changes occur in the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast that allows the mixing of photosystem I and photosystem II that typically remain laterally segregated. This triggers direct energy transfer from PSII to PSI and thus protects PSII from damage. Furthermore, we found that this loss of lateral segregation may be a consequence of triple phosphorylationof Lhcb1 (Light harvesting complex1 of photosystem II). The structural changes in thylakoid membranes also lead to changes inthe thylakoid macro domain organisationand pigment protein composition. Furthermore, we discovered that while PSII is protected by direct energy transfer, the protection of PSI is provided through photoreduction of oxygen by flavodiiron proteins, which in turn allows P700 to stay in an oxidised state necessary for direct energy transfer. These coordinated cascades of changes concomitantly protect both PSI and PSII to maintain the needles green over the winter.
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  • Wieloch, Thomas, 1979- (författare)
  • Intramolecular isotope analysis reveals plant ecophysiological signals covering multiple timescales
  • 2019
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Our societies' wellbeing relies on stable and healthy environments. However, our current lifestyles, growth-oriented economic policies and the population explosion are leading to potentially catastrophic degradation of ecosystems and progressive disruption of food chains. Hopefully, more clarity about what the future holds in store will trigger stronger efforts to find, and adopt, problem-focused coping strategies and encourage environmentally friendly lifestyles.Forecasting environmental change/destruction is complicated (inter alia) by lack of complete understanding of plant-environment interactions, particularly those involved in slow processes such as plant acclimatisation and adaptation. This stems from deficiencies in tools to analyse such slow processes. The present work aims at developing tools that can provide retrospective ecophysiological information covering timescales from days to millennia.Natural archives, such as tree-rings, preserve plant metabolites over long timescales. Analyses of intramolecular isotope abundances in plant metabolites have the potential to provide retrospective information about metabolic processes and underlying environmental controls. Thus, my colleagues and I (hereafter we) analysed intramolecular isotope patterns in tree rings to develop analytical tools that can convey information about clearly-defined plant metabolic processes over multiple timescales. Such tools might help (inter alia) to constrain plants' capacities to sequester excess amounts of anthropogenic CO2; the so-called CO2 fertilisation effect. This, in turn, might shed light on plants' sink strength for the greenhouse gas CO2, and future plant performance and growth under climate change.In the first of three studies, reported in appended papers, we analysed intramolecular 13C/12C ratios in tree-ring glucose. In six angiosperm and six gymnosperm species we found pronounced intramolecular 13C/12C differences, exceeding 10‰. These differences are transmitted into major global C pools, such as soil organic matter. Taking intramolecular 13C/12C differences into account might improve isotopic characterisation of soil metabolic processes and soil CO2 effluxes. In addition, we analysed intramolecular 13C/12C ratios in a Pinus nigra tree-ring archive spanning the period 1961 to 1995. These data revealed new ecophysiological 13C/12C signals, which can facilitate climate reconstructions and assessments of plant-environment interactions at higher resolution; thus providing higher quality information. We proposed that 13C/12C signals at glucose C-1 to C-2 derive from carbon injection into the Calvin-Benson cycle via the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway. We concluded that intramolecular 13C/12C measurements provide valuable new information about long-term metabolic dynamics for application in biogeochemistry, plant physiology, plant breeding, and paleoclimatology.In the second study, we developed a comprehensive theory on the metabolic and ecophysiological origins of 13C/12C signals at tree-ring glucose C-5 and C-6. According to this theory and theoretical implications of the first study on signals at C-1 to C-3, analysis of such intramolecular signals can provide information about several metabolic processes. At C-3, a well-known signal reflecting CO2 uptake is preserved. The glucose-6-phosphate shunt around the Calvin-Benson cycle affects 13C/12C compositions at C-1 and C-2, while the 13C/12C signals at C-5 and C-6 reflect carbon fluxes into downstream metabolism. This theoretical framework enables further experimental studies to be conducted in a hypothesis-driven manner. In conclusion, the intramolecular approach provides information about carbon allocation in plant leaves. Thus, it gives access to long-term information on key ecophysiological processes, which could not be acquired by previous approaches.The abundance of the hydrogen isotope deuterium, δD, is important for linking the water cycle with plant ecophysiology. The main factors affecting δD in plant organic matter are commonly assumed to be the δD in source water and leaf-level evaporative enrichment. Current δD models incorporate biochemical D fractionations as constants. In the third study we showed that biochemical D fractionations respond strongly to low ambient CO2 levels and low light intensity. Thus, models of δD values in plant organic matter should incorporate biochemical fractionations as variables. In addition, we found pronounced leaf-level δD differences between α-cellulose and wax n-alkanes. We explained this by metabolite-specific contributions of distinct hydrogen sources during biosynthesis.Overall, this work advances our understanding of isotope distributions and isotope fractionations in plants. It reveals the immense potential of intramolecular isotope analyses for retrospective assessment of plant metabolism and associated environmental controls.
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  • Sahin, Cagla, et al. (författare)
  • Structural Basis for Dityrosine-Mediated Inhibition of α-Synuclein Fibrillization
  • 2022
  • Ingår i: Journal of the American Chemical Society. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 0002-7863 .- 1520-5126. ; 144:27, s. 11949-11954
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • α-Synuclein (α-Syn) is an intrinsically disordered protein which self-assembles into highly organized β-sheet structures that accumulate in plaques in brains of Parkinson’s disease patients. Oxidative stress influences α-Syn structure and self-assembly; however, the basis for this remains unclear. Here we characterize the chemical and physical effects of mild oxidation on monomeric α-Syn and its aggregation. Using a combination of biophysical methods, small-angle X-ray scattering, and native ion mobility mass spectrometry, we find that oxidation leads to formation of intramolecular dityrosine cross-linkages and a compaction of the α-Syn monomer by a factor of √2. Oxidation-induced compaction is shown to inhibit ordered self-assembly and amyloid formation by steric hindrance, suggesting an important role of mild oxidation in preventing amyloid formation.
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  • Bertaccini, Edward J, et al. (författare)
  • Modeling Anesthetic Binding Sites within the Glycine Alpha One Receptor Based on Prokaryotic Ion Channel Templates : The Problem with TM4
  • 2010
  • Ingår i: Journal of chemical information and modeling. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1549-960X .- 1549-9596. ; 50:12, s. 2248-2255
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) significantly modulate anesthetic effects. Their exact molecular structure remains unknown. This has led to ambiguity regarding the proper amino acid alignment within their 3D structure and, in turn, the location of any anesthetic binding sites. Current controversies suggest that such a site could be located in either an intra- or intersubunit locale within the transmembrane domain of the protein. Here, we built a model of the glycine alpha one receptor (GlyRa1) based on the open-state structures of two new high-resolution ion channel templates from the prokaryote, Gloebacter violaceus (GLIC). Sequence scoring suggests reasonable homology between GlyRa1 and GLIC. Three of the residues notable for modulating anesthetic action are on transmembrane segments 1-3 (TM1-3): (ILE229, SER 267, and ALA 288). They line an intersubunit interface, in contrast to previous models. However, residues from the fourth transmembrane domain (TM4) that are known to modulate a variety of anesthetic effects are quite distant from this putative anesthetic binding site. While this model can account for a large proportion of the physicochemical data regarding such proteins, it cannot readily account for the alterations on anesthetic effects that are due to mutations within TM4.
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  • Sznitko, L., et al. (författare)
  • Low-threshold stimulated emission from lysozyme amyloid fibrils doped with a blue laser dye
  • 2015
  • Ingår i: Applied Physics Letters. - : AIP Publishing. - 0003-6951 .- 1077-3118. ; 106:2
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • © 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. Amyloid fibrils are excellent self-assembling nanotemplates for organic molecules such as dyes. Here, we demonstrate that laser dye-doped lysozyme type fibrils exhibit significantly reduced threshold for stimulated emission compared to that observed in usual matrices. Laser action was studied in slab planar waveguides of the amyloids doped with Stilbene 420 laser dye prepared using a film casting technique. The lowering of the threshold of stimulated emission is analyzed in the context of intrinsic structure of the amyloid nanotemplates, electrostatic interaction of different microstructures with dye molecules, as well as material properties of the cast layers. All these factors are considered to be of importance for introducing gain for random laser operation.
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  • Trigo, João Pedro, 1995, et al. (författare)
  • In vitro digestibility and Caco-2 cell bioavailability of sea lettuce (Ulva fenestrata) proteins extracted using pH-shift processing
  • 2021
  • Ingår i: Food Chemistry. - : Elsevier BV. - 0308-8146 .- 1873-7072. ; 356
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Seaweed is a promising sustainable source of vegan protein as its farming does not require arable land, pesticides/insecticides, nor freshwater supply. However, to be explored as a novel protein source the content and nutritional quality of protein in seaweed need to be improved. We assessed the influence of pH-shift processing on protein degree of hydrolysis (%DH), protein/peptide size distribution, accessibility, and cell bioavailability of Ulva fenestrata proteins after in vitro gastrointestinal digestion. pH-shift processing of Ulva, which concentrated its proteins 3.5-times, significantly improved the %DH from 27.7±2.6% to 35.7±2.1% and the amino acid accessibility from 56.9±4.1% to 72.7±0.6%. Due to the higher amino acid accessibility, the amount of most amino acids transported across the cell monolayers was higher in the protein extracts. Regarding bioavailability, both Ulva and protein extracts were as bioavailable as casein. The protein/peptide molecular size distribution after digestion did not disclose a clear association with bioavailability.
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  • Andersson, John, 1993 (författare)
  • Functional polymer brush coatings for nanoscale devices
  • 2022
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Nanobiotechnology is an interdisciplinary field that has garnered considerable attention for offering exciting new opportunities of studying and manipulating biomolecules at the nanoscale. This prospect bears large potential benefits in the field of medicine and the whole life science sector in general. Fabrication of different nanostructure devices that can handle liquids at the scale of biomolecules, such as nanochannels or nanopores, provide a good basis within nanobiotechnology. However, the materials of nanostructures tend to not interact with complex biomolecules in ways that are sufficiently specific or controlled. This issue can be avoided by functionalising the surface of nanostructures with different organic coatings, and polymer brushes have shown a diverse range of functionality in this regard. This thesis summarises efforts towards designing functional polymer brush coatings for nanoscale devices. Surface sensitive techniques are used to characterise the grafting of dense poly(ethylene glycol) brushes to various noble metals and silicon dioxide. The new functionalisation protocol for polymer brushes on silicon dioxide provides excellent biofunctionality and is demonstrated to be compatible with two different nanostructures. The specific hydrogen-bond mediated interaction between a poly(ethylene glycol) brush and poly(methacrylic acid) in solution at low pH is shown to make the polymer brush reversibly stimuli-responsive. Preliminary results further demonstrate how this interaction can be controlled electrochemically and indicates its suitability as a macromolecular gating mechanism for nanosized openings. Finally, characterisation and fabrication of plasmonic nanopore arrays with separately functionalisable compartments using electron beam lithography techniques is presented.
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  • Ariöz, Candan, 1983- (författare)
  • Exploring the Interplay of Lipids and Membrane Proteins
  • 2014
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • The interplay between lipids and membrane proteins is known to affect membrane protein topology and thus have significant effect (control) on their functions. In this PhD thesis, the influence of lipids on the membrane protein function was studied using three different membrane protein models.A monotopic membrane protein, monoglucosyldiacylglyecerol synthase (MGS) from Acholeplasma laidlawii is known to induce intracellular vesicles when expressed in Escherichia coli. The mechanism leading to this unusual phenomenon was investigated by various biochemical and biophysical techniques. The results indicated a doubling of lipid synthesis in the cell, which was triggered by the selective binding of MGS to anionic lipids. Multivariate data analysis revealed a good correlation with MGS production. Furthermore, preferential anionic lipid sequestering by MGS was shown to induce a different fatty acid modeling of E. coli membranes. The roles of specific lipid binding and the probable mechanism leading to intracellular vesicle formation were also investigated.As a second model, a MGS homolog from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 was selected. MgdA is an integral membrane protein with multiple transmembrane helices and a unique membrane topology. The influence of different type of lipids on MgdA activity was tested with different membrane fractions of Synechocystis. Results indicated a very distinct profile compared to Acholeplasma laidlawii MGS. SQDG, an anionic lipid was found to be the species of the membrane that increased the MgdA activity 7-fold whereas two other lipids (PG and PE) had only minor effects on MgdA. Additionally, a working model of MgdA for the biosynthesis and flow of sugar lipids between Synechocystis membranes was proposed.The last model system was another integral membrane protein with a distinct structure but also a different function. The envelope stress sensor, CpxA and its interaction with E. coli membranes were studied. CpxA autophosphorylation activity was found to be positively regulated by phosphatidylethanolamine and negatively by anionic lipids. In contrast, phosphorylation of CpxR by CpxA revealed to be increased with PG but inhibited by CL. Non-bilayer lipids had a negative impact on CpxA phosphotransfer activity.Taken together, these studies provide a better understanding of the significance of the interplay of lipids and model membrane proteins discussed here.
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  • Lorentzon, Emma, 1995, et al. (författare)
  • Effects of the toxic metals arsenite and cadmium on α-synuclein aggregation in vitro and in cells
  • 2021
  • Ingår i: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 1661-6596 .- 1422-0067. ; 22:21
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Exposure to heavy metals, including arsenic and cadmium, is associated with neurodegen-erative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. However, the mechanistic details of how these metals contribute to pathogenesis are not well understood. To search for underlying mechanisms involving α-synuclein, the protein that forms amyloids in Parkinson’s disease, we here assessed the effects of arsenic and cadmium on α-synuclein amyloid formation in vitro and in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) cells. Atomic force microscopy experiments with acetylated human α-synuclein demonstrated that amyloid fibers formed in the presence of the metals have a different fiber pitch compared to those formed without metals. Both metal ions become incorporated into the amyloid fibers, and cadmium also accelerated the nucleation step in the amyloid formation process, likely via binding to intermediate species. Fluorescence microscopy analyses of yeast cells expressing fluorescently tagged α-synuclein demonstrated that arsenic and cadmium affected the distribution of α-synuclein aggregates within the cells, reduced aggregate clearance, and aggravated α-synuclein toxicity. Taken together, our in vitro data demonstrate that interactions between these two metals and α-synuclein modulate the resulting amyloid fiber structures, which, in turn, might relate to the observed effects in the yeast cells. Whilst our study advances our understanding of how these metals affect α-synuclein biophysics, further in vitro characterization as well as human cell studies are desired to fully appreciate their role in the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
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  • Wu, Min, 1986, et al. (författare)
  • Proline 411 biases the conformation of the intrinsically disordered plant UVR8 photoreceptor C27 domain altering the functional properties of the peptide
  • 2019
  • Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322. ; 9
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • UVR8 (UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8) is a UV-B photoreceptor responsible for initiating UV-B signalling in plants. UVR8 is a homodimer in its signalling inactive form. Upon absorption of UV radiation, the protein monomerizes into its photoactivated state. In the monomeric form, UVR8 binds the E3 ubiquitin ligase COP1 (CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1), triggering subsequent UV-B-dependent photomorphogenic development in plants. Recent in vivo experiments have shown that the UVR8 C-terminal region (aa 397-423; UVR8(C27)) alone is sufficient to regulate the activity of COP1. In this work, CD spectroscopy and NMR experiments showed that the UVR8(C27) domain was non-structured but gained secondary structure at higher temperatures leading to increased order. Bias-exchange metadynamics simulations were also performed to evaluate the free energy landscape of UVR8(C27). An inverted free energy landscape was revealed, with a disordered structure in the global energy minimum. Flanking the global energy minimum, more structured states were found at higher energies. Furthermore, stabilization of the low energy disordered state was attributed to a proline residue, P411, as evident from P411A mutant data. P411 is also a key residue in UVR8 binding to COP1. UVR8(C27) is therefore structurally competent to function as a molecular switch for interaction of UVR8 with different binding partners since at higher free energies different structural conformations are being induced in this peptide. P411 has a key role for this function.
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  • Ermund, Anna, et al. (författare)
  • The normal trachea is cleaned by MUC5B mucin bundles from the submucosal glands coated with the MUC5AC mucin
  • 2017
  • Ingår i: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-291X .- 1090-2104. ; 492:3, s. 331-337
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • To understand the mucociliary clearance system, mucins were visualized by light, confocal and electron microscopy, and mucus was stained by Alcian blue and tracked by video microscopy on tracheal explants of newborn piglets. We observed long linear mucus bundles that appeared at the submucosal gland openings and were transported cephalically. The mucus bundles were shown by mass spectrometry and immunostaining to have a core made of MUC5B mucin and were coated with MUC5AC mucin produced by surface goblet cells. The transport speed of the bundles was slower than the airway surface liquid flow. We suggest that the goblet cell MUC5AC mucin anchors the mucus bundles and thus controls their transport. Normal clearance of the respiratory tree of pigs and humans, both rich in submucosal glands, is performed by thick and long mucus bundles. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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  • Liebau, Jobst, et al. (författare)
  • Fast-tumbling bicelles constructed from native Escherichia coli lipids
  • 2016
  • Ingår i: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes. - : Elsevier BV. - 1879-2642 .- 0005-2736. ; 1858:9, s. 2097-2105
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Solution-state NMR requires small membrane mimetic systems to allow for acquiring high-resolution data. At the same time these mimetics should faithfully mimic biological membranes. Here we characterized two novel fast-tumbling bicelle systems with lipids from two Escherichia coli strains. While strain 1 (AD93WT) contains a characteristic E. coli lipid composition, strain 2 (AD93-PE) is not capable of synthesizing the most abundant lipid in E. coli, phosphatidylethanolamine. The lipid and acyl chain compositions were characterized by P-31 and C-13 NMR. Depending on growth temperature and phase, the lipid composition varies substantially, which means that the bicelle composition can be tuned by using lipids from cells grown at different temperatures and growth phases. The hydrodynamic radii of the bicelles were determined from translational diffusion coefficients and NMR spin relaxation was measured to investigate lipid properties in the bicelles. We find that the lipid dynamics are unaffected by variations in lipid composition, suggesting that the bilayer is in a fluid phase under all conditions investigated here. Backbone glycerol carbons are the most rigid positions in all lipids, while head-group carbons and the first carbons of the acyl chain are somewhat more flexible. The flexibility increases down the acyl chain to almost unrestricted motion at its end. Carbons in double bonds and cyclopropane moieties are substantially restricted in their motional freedom. The bicelle systems characterized here are thus found to faithfully mimic E. coli inner membranes and are therefore useful for membrane interaction studies of proteins with E. coli inner membranes by solution-state NMR. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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  • Nilsson, Linnéa (författare)
  • Studies on the Role of Apoptosis in Kidney Diseases
  • 2019
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Apoptosis is one of the most common types of cell death. Under physiological conditions, it plays an essential role in removal of damaged and potentially harmful cells. Excessive apoptosis has however been linked to a number of diseases including proteinuric kidney disease and DKD, and is believed to enhance the disease progression. Albuminuria and hyperglycemia are common symptoms of these diseases and albumin and high glucose have been seen to trigger intrinsic apoptosis in renal cells. Ouabain, a cardiotonic steroid, has previously been identified as an antiapoptotic agent that in subsaturating concentrations protect from intrinsic apoptosis. The mechanism of the protective effect of ouabain is still not fully understood and it remains to be concluded whether ouabain can protect from albumin and/or glucotoxic-triggered apoptosis.In study I we investigated the protective effects of ouabain in albumin-exposed primary rat PTC and podocytes and in the proteinuric kidney disease animal model passive Heymann nephritis. By reestablishing the balance between the proapoptotic protein BAX and the antiapoptotic protein BCL-XL, ouabain averted the albumin-triggered apoptosis in vitro and in vivo and protected from podocytes loss and glomerular-tubular disconnection.In study II we investigated the relationship between the glucose transporters renal cells express and their susceptibility of glucotoxic-triggered apoptosis. We identified the SGLT expressing cells, PTC and MC, to be more susceptible to high glucose-induced apoptosis than cells without SGLT. The apoptosis was mediated by BAX and BCL-XL imbalance and mitochondrial dysfunction, and was abolished when treated with ouabain or SGLT inhibitors. Podocytes, which lack SGLT, did not respond to short-term high glucose exposure.In study III we used super-resolution microscopy to investigate at which stage of the apoptotic process ouabain start to intervene. Ouabain interfered early in the apoptotic process, where it prevented activation of the sensitizer protein BAD. This allowed BCL-XL to avert BAX activation and translocation to mitochondria and thereby protected from mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis.In study IV we investigated differentially expressed genes between renal cortex and primary short-term PTC cultures and between PTC exposed to control and high glucose. The mRNA expression level of most genes was significantly up- or downregulated in PTC compared to renal cortex, with the biggest differences in mitochondria and metabolism related genes. Early state glucotoxicity did not significantly alter mRNA expression levels in PTC.
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  • Troussicot, Laura, et al. (författare)
  • Structural determinants of multimerization and dissociation in 2-Cys peroxiredoxin chaperone function
  • 2021
  • Ingår i: Structure. - : Elsevier BV. - 0969-2126 .- 1878-4186. ; 29:7, s. 640-654
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Peroxiredoxins (PRDXs) are abundant peroxidases present in all kingdoms of life. Recently, they have been shown to also carry out additional roles as molecular chaperones. To address this emerging supplementary function, this review focuses on structural studies of 2-Cys PRDX systems exhibiting chaperone activity. We provide a detailed understanding of the current knowledge of structural determinants underlying the chaperone function of PRDXs. Specifically, we describe the mechanisms which may modulate their quaternary structure to facilitate interactions with client proteins and how they are coordinated with the functions of other molecular chaperones. Following an overview of PRDX molecular architecture, we outline structural details of the presently best-characterized peroxiredoxins exhibiting chaperone function and highlight common denominators. Finally, we discuss the remarkable structural similarities between 2-Cys PRDXs, small HSPs, and J-domain-independent Hsp40 holdases in terms of their functions and dynamic equilibria between lowand high-molecular-weight oligomers.
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  • Unnerståle, Sofia (författare)
  • NMR Investigations of Peptide-Membrane Interactions, Modulation of Peptide-Lipid Interaction as a Switch in Signaling across the Lipid Bilayer
  • 2010
  • Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • The complexity of multi cellular organisms demands systems that facilitate communicationbetween cells. The neurons in our brains for instance are specialized in this cell-cellcommunication. The flow of ions, through their different ion channels, across the membrane, isresponsible for almost all of the communication between neurons in the brain by changing theneurons membrane potentials. Voltage-gated ion channels open when a certain thresholdpotential is reached. This change in membrane potential is detected by voltage-sensors in the ionchannels. In this licentiate thesis the Homo sapiens voltage- and calcium-gated BK potassiumchannel (HsapBK) has been studied. The NMR solution structure of the voltage-sensor ofHsapBK was solved to shed light upon the voltage-gating in these channels. Structures of othervoltage-gated potassium channels (Kv) have been determined by other groups, enablingcomparison among different types of Kv channels. Interestingly, the peptide-lipid interactions ofthe voltage-sensor in HsapBK are crucial for its mechanism of action.Uni cellular organisms need to sense their environment too, to be able to move towardsmore favorable areas and from less favorable ones, and to adapt their gene profiles to currentcircumstances. This is accomplished by the two-component system, comprising a sensor proteinand a response regulator. The sensor protein transfers signals across the membrane to thecytoplasm. Many sensor proteins contain a HAMP domain close to the membrane that isinvolved in transmitting the signal. The mechanism of this transfer is not yet revealed. Ourstudies show that HAMP domains can be divided into two groups based on the membraneinteraction of their AS1 segments. Further, these two groups are suggested to work by differentmechanisms; one membrane-dependent and one membrane-independent mechanism.Both the voltage-gating mechanism and the signal transduction carried out by HAMPdomains in the membrane-dependent group, demand peptide-lipid interactions that can be readilymodulated. This modulation enables movement of peptides within membranes or within thelipid-water interface. These conditions make these peptides especially suitable for NMR studies.
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  • Allison, Timothy M., et al. (författare)
  • Complementing machine learning‐based structure predictions with native mass spectrometry
  • 2022
  • Ingår i: Protein Science. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0961-8368 .- 1469-896X. ; 31:6
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The advent of machine learning-based structure prediction algorithms such as AlphaFold2 (AF2) and RoseTTa Fold have moved the generation of accurate structural models for the entire cellular protein machinery into the reach of the scientific community. However, structure predictions of protein complexes are based on user-provided input and may require experimental validation. Mass spectrometry (MS) is a versatile, time-effective tool that provides information on post-translational modifications, ligand interactions, conformational changes, and higher-order oligomerization. Using three protein systems, we show that native MS experiments can uncover structural features of ligand interactions, homology models, and point mutations that are undetectable by AF2 alone. We conclude that machine learning can be complemented with MS to yield more accurate structural models on a small and large scale.
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  • Reymer, Anna, 1983 (författare)
  • Unveiling Mechanistic Details of Macromolecular Interactions: Structural Design and Molecular Modelling of DNA-Protein Systems in Their Active State
  • 2012
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Molecular structure is fundamental for understanding mechanisms of molecular interactions. This applies not least to understanding biological function: every biological cell, whether bacterial or human, is an immensely complex system of thousands of molecules that exist in constant motion and interaction with each other. Structural properties of the two main classes of biological macromolecules, nucleic acids and proteins, have been studied in this Thesis focusing on functional interactions of both DNA and the DNA-binding enzyme human recombinase Rad51. DNA is a highly polymorphic molecule and its plasticity may be important for its function. Conformational mechanics of the DNA helix was addressed to understand interactions with dumbbell-shaped ruthenium(II) polypyridyl compounds, known for their remarkable ability to slowly thread one of their bulky centres through a tightly packed DNA stack, probably invoking large transient conformational rearrangements of the helix. Thread-intercalation rate is accelerated by several orders of magnitude if the DNA target sequence is a stretch of at least ten base pairs of AT, as well as by the hydrophobicity of the auxiliary “dumbbell” ligands: counterintuitively, a smaller and less hydrophobic compound takes longer times to thread. It is hypothesized that thread-intercalation might be facilitated by an A-like DNA conformation, induced by the outside binding of the Ru(II) compounds. An NMR study, aiming to solve a thread-intercalated structure of the binuclear Ru(II)-DNA complex, resulted in a groove-binding geometry, probably representing an initial binding mode preceding intercalation, a result emphasizing the elusiveness and immense complexity of the threading process. Turning back to simpler monomeric propeller-shaped Ru(II) compounds it was deduced that, despite acting as classic intercalators, they can “read out” the chirality of the DNA helix by enantiospecifically kinking it, in a fashion analogous to several families of operatory DNA binding proteins.Another operatory protein, human recombinase Rad51, that facilitates homologous recombination, the process of exchanging near identical-sequence DNA strands, is also mechanically acting on DNA, by stretching it. A 3-D high-resolution model structure of human Rad51 filament was solved by a combination of polarized-light spectroscopic data and molecular modelling. Highlighted by the model some interesting structural features could be addressed: strategic locations of two putative DNA binding loops inside the protein filament; as well as location of a putative ATP binding site at the interface between two protein subunits and in direct proximity to a supposed location of DNA – could hint about DNA docking mechanism and potential role of ATP in the protein function.The Rad51-DNA model has proven itself useful also in a follow-up study on the stimulatory role of Ca2+ in the strand exchange reaction by human Rad51. A mechanism is proposed involving a high affinity DNA binding state of the Rad51 filament induced by Ca2+, regulatorily crucial for the search of homology and subsequent DNA strands exchange.
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  • Dvirnas, Albertas, et al. (författare)
  • Detection of structural variations in densely-labelled optical DNA barcodes: A hidden Markov model approach
  • 2021
  • Ingår i: PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 16:11
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Large-scale genomic alterations play an important role in disease, gene expression, and chromosome evolution. Optical DNA mapping (ODM), commonly categorized into sparsely-labelled ODM and densely-labelled ODM, provides sequence-specific continuous intensity profiles (DNA barcodes) along single DNA molecules and is a technique well-suited for detecting such alterations. For sparsely-labelled barcodes, the possibility to detect large genomic alterations has been investigated extensively, while densely-labelled barcodes have not received as much attention. In this work, we introduce HMMSV, a hidden Markov model (HMM) based algorithm for detecting structural variations (SVs) directly in densely-labelled barcodes without access to sequence information. We evaluate our approach using simulated data-sets with 5 different types of SVs, and combinations thereof, and demonstrate that the method reaches a true positive rate greater than 80% for randomly generated barcodes with single variations of size 25 kilobases (kb). Increasing the length of the SV further leads to larger true positive rates. For a real data-set with experimental barcodes on bacterial plasmids, we successfully detect matching barcode pairs and SVs without any particular assumption of the types of SVs present. Instead, our method effectively goes through all possible combinations of SVs. Since ODM works on length scales typically not reachable with other techniques, our methodology is a promising tool for identifying arbitrary combinations of genomic alterations.
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  • Larsson, Daniel, 1981- (författare)
  • Exploring the Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Viruses
  • 2012
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Knowledge about structure and dynamics of the important biological macromolecules — proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and sugars — helps to understand their function. Atomic-resolution structures of macromolecules are routinely captured with X-ray crystallography and other techniques. In this thesis, simulations are used to explore the dynamics of the molecules beyond the static structures.Viruses are machines constructed from macromolecules. Crystal structures of them reveal little to no information about their genomes. In simulations of empty capsids, we observed a correlation between the spatial distribution of chloride ions in the solution and the position of RNA in crystals of satellite tobacco necrosis virus (STNV) and satellite tobacco mosaic virus (STMV). In this manner, structural features of the non-symmetric RNA could also be inferred.The capsid of STNV binds calcium ions on the icosahedral symmetry axes. The release of these ions controls the activation of the virus particle upon infection. Our simulations reproduced the swelling of the capsid upon removal of the ions and we quantified the water permeability of the capsid. The structure and dynamics of the expanded capsid suggest that the disassembly is initiated at the 3-fold symmetry axis.Several experimental methods require biomolecular samples to be injected into vacuum, such as mass-spectrometry and diffractive imaging of single particles. It is therefore important to understand how proteins and molecule-complexes respond to being aerosolized. In simulations we mimicked the dehydration process upon going from solution into the gas phase. We find that two important factors for structural stability of proteins are the temperature and the level of residual hydration. The simulations support experimental claims that membrane proteins can be protected by a lipid micelle and that a non-membrane protein could be stabilized in a reverse micelle in the gas phase. A water-layer around virus particles would impede the signal in diffractive experiments, but our calculations estimate that it should be possible to determine the orientation of the particle in individual images, which is a prerequisite for three-dimensional reconstruction.
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33.
  • Mamontov, Eugen, 1955, et al. (författare)
  • Managing panic-stricken crowds: The need in quantitative models for social dynamics
  • 2007
  • Ingår i: Abstract Booklet, The 8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association.
  • Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Panics typically occur during disaster or social crisis. Panics in crowds in public sites (airports, hospitals, supermarkets, office buildings, air- or sea-liners, trains, stadiums, downtown areas, etc.) often cause stampedes leading to injuries or deaths. How can we best organize public events at existing sites in order to prevent the tragic outcomes? How can one design new public sites to avoid the consequences of panic? What methods and tools can be applied? These questions determine the focus of the present work. Obviously, experimental approaches are inapplicable. Intuitive problem solving does not assure specific and consistent solutions. Therefore, the work concentrates on the non-intuitive, model-based approaches. Evaluation of the model-based solutions involves quantitative characteristics, e.g., the time of the evacuation, the probability for individuals to get injured, the concentration of oxygen, etc. Subsequently, any suitable model must be quantitative. Moreover, the behaviour of crowds develops continuously in both space and time. Thus, the models must also be space-time continuous. The work analyzes these and other features of the models for social dynamics and emphasizes the key differences from the dynamical models in the natural sciences studying nonliving matter. The related application aspects and directions for future research are also discussed.
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34.
  • Bjelkmar, Pär, et al. (författare)
  • Conformational changes and slow dynamics through microsecond polarized atomistic molecular simulation of an integral Kv1.2 ion channel.
  • 2009
  • Ingår i: PLoS computational biology. - : Public Library of Science. - 1553-7358 .- 1553-734X. ; 5:2, s. e1000289-
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Structure and dynamics of voltage-gated ion channels, in particular the motion of the S4 helix, is a highly interesting and hotly debated topic in current membrane protein research. It has critical implications for insertion and stabilization of membrane proteins as well as for finding how transitions occur in membrane proteins-not to mention numerous applications in drug design. Here, we present a full 1 micros atomic-detail molecular dynamics simulation of an integral Kv1.2 ion channel, comprising 120,000 atoms. By applying 0.052 V/nm of hyperpolarization, we observe structural rearrangements, including up to 120 degrees rotation of the S4 segment, changes in hydrogen-bonding patterns, but only low amounts of translation. A smaller rotation ( approximately 35 degrees ) of the extracellular end of all S4 segments is present also in a reference 0.5 micros simulation without applied field, which indicates that the crystal structure might be slightly different from the natural state of the voltage sensor. The conformation change upon hyperpolarization is closely coupled to an increase in 3(10) helix contents in S4, starting from the intracellular side. This could support a model for transition from the crystal structure where the hyperpolarization destabilizes S4-lipid hydrogen bonds, which leads to the helix rotating to keep the arginine side chains away from the hydrophobic phase, and the driving force for final relaxation by downward translation is partly entropic, which would explain the slow process. The coordinates of the transmembrane part of the simulated channel actually stay closer to the recently determined higher-resolution Kv1.2 chimera channel than the starting structure for the entire second half of the simulation (0.5-1 micros). Together with lipids binding in matching positions and significant thinning of the membrane also observed in experiments, this provides additional support for the predictive power of microsecond-scale membrane protein simulations.
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35.
  • Eriksson, Leif A., 1964-, et al. (författare)
  • Tetrazole derivatives as cytochrome p450 inhibitors
  • 2019
  • Patent (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
    • According to the invention there is provided a compound of formula I, wherein R1 and R2 have meanings given in the description, which compounds are useful in the treatment of skin disorders and other diseases.
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36.
  • Friedman, Ran, et al. (författare)
  • Surfactant Effects on Amyloid Aggregation Kinetics
  • 2011
  • Ingår i: Journal of Molecular Biology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-2836 .- 1089-8638. ; 414, s. 303-312
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • There is strong experimental evidence of the influence of surfactants (e.g., fatty acids) on the kinetics of amyloid fibril formation. However, the structures of mixed assemblies and interactions between surfactants and fibril-forming peptides are still not clear. Here, coarse-grained simulations are employed to study the aggregation kinetics of amyloidogenic peptides in the presence of amphiphilic lipids. The simulations show that the lower the fibril formation propensity of the peptides, the higher the influence of the surfactants on the peptide self-assembly kinetics. In particular, the lag phase of weakly aggregating peptides increases because of the formation of mixed oligomers, which are promoted by hydrophobic interactions and favorable entropy of mixing. A transient peak in the number of surfactants attached to the growing fibril is observed before reaching the mature fibril in some of the simulations. This peak originates from transient fibrillar defects consisting of exposed hydrophobic patches on the fibril surface, which provide a possible explanation for the temporary maximum of fluorescence observed sometimes in kinetic traces of the binding of small-molecule dyes to amyloid fibrils.
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37.
  • Kasson, Peter M., et al. (författare)
  • Water Ordering at Membrane Interfaces Controls Fusion Dynamics
  • 2011
  • Ingår i: Journal of the American Chemical Society. - : American Chemical Society. - 0002-7863 .- 1520-5126. ; 133:11, s. 3812-3815
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Membrane interfaces are critical to many cellular functions, yet the vast array of molecular components involved make the fundamental physics of interaction difficult to define. Water has been shown to play an important role in the dynamics of small biological systems, for example when trapped in hydrophobic regions, but the molecular details of water have generally been thought dispensable when considering large membrane interfaces. Nevertheless, spectroscopic data indicate that water has distinct, ordered behavior near membrane surfaces. While coarse-grained simulations have achieved success recently in aiding understanding the dynamics of membrane assemblies, it is natural to ask, does the missing chemical nature of water play an important role? We have therefore performed atomic-resolution simulations of vesicle fusion to understand the role of chemical detail, particularly the molecular structure of water, in membrane fusion and at membrane interfaces more generally. These membrane interfaces present a form of hydrophilic confinement, yielding surprising, non-bulk-like water behavior.
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38.
  • Wedenberg, Mina, et al. (författare)
  • Analytical description of the LET dependence of cell survival using the repairable-conditionally repairable damage model
  • 2010
  • Ingår i: Radiation Research. - 0033-7587 .- 1938-5404. ; 96, s. S534-S534
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • In light-ion radiation therapy, both the dose and the local energy spectrum, which is often characterized with the linear energy transfer (LET), must be considered. In treatment optimization, it is advantageous to use a radiobiological model that analytically accounts for both dose and LET for the ion type of interest. With such a model the biological effect can also be estimated for dose and LET combinations for which there are no observations in the underlying experimental data. In this study, the repairable-conditionally repairable (RCR) damage model was extended by expressing its parameters as functions of LET to provide a radiobiological model that accounts for both the dose and the LET for a given ion type and cell line. This LET-parameterized RCR model was fitted to published cell survival data for HSG and V79 cells irradiated with carbon ions and for T1 cells irradiated with helium ions. To test the robustness of the model, fittings to only a subset of the data were performed. Good agreement with the cell survival data was obtained, including survival data for LET values not used for model fitting, opening up the possibility of using the model in treatment planning for light ions.
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39.
  • Zeng, Jiao, et al. (författare)
  • High-resolution structure of a fish aquaporin reveals a novel extracellular fold
  • 2022
  • Ingår i: Life Science Alliance. - : Life Science Alliance, LLC. - 2575-1077. ; 5:12
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Aquaporins are protein channels embedded in the lipid bilayer in cells from all organisms on earth that are crucial for water homeostasis. In fish, aquaporins are believed to be important for osmoregulation; however, the molecular mechanism behind this is poorly understood. Here, we present the first structural and functional characterization of a fish aquaporin; cpAQP1aa from the fresh water fish climbing perch (Anabas testudineus), a species that is of high osmoregulatory interest because of its ability to spend time in seawater and on land. These studies show that cpAQP1aa is a water-specific aquaporin with a unique fold on the extracellular side that results in a constriction region. Functional analysis combined with molecular dynamic simulations suggests that phosphorylation at two sites causes structural perturbations in this region that may have implications for channel gating from the extracellular side.
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40.
  • Aurell, Erik, 1961-, et al. (författare)
  • The bulk and the tail of minimal absent words in genome sequences
  • 2016
  • Ingår i: Physical Biology. - : Institute of Physics (IOP). - 1478-3967 .- 1478-3975. ; 13:2
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Minimal absent words (MAW) of a genomic sequence are subsequences that are absent themselves but the subwords of which are all present in the sequence. The characteristic distribution of genomic MAWs as a function of their length has been observed to be qualitatively similar for all living organisms, the bulk being rather short, and only relatively few being long. It has been an open issue whether the reason behind this phenomenon is statistical or reflects a biological mechanism, and what biological information is contained in absent words. % In this work we demonstrate that the bulk can be described by a probabilistic model of sampling words from random sequences, while the tail of long MAWs is of biological origin. We introduce the novel concept of a core of a minimal absent word, which are sequences present in the genome and closest to a given MAW. We show that in bacteria and yeast the cores of the longest MAWs, which exist in two or more copies, are located in highly conserved regions the most prominent example being ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs). We also show that while the distribution of the cores of long MAWs is roughly uniform over these genomes on a coarse-grained level, on a more detailed level it is strongly enhanced in 3' untranslated regions (UTRs) and, to a lesser extent, also in 5' UTRs. This indicates that MAWs and associated MAW cores correspond to fine-tuned evolutionary relationships, and suggest that they can be more widely used as markers for genomic complexity.
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41.
  • Alizadehheidari, Mohammadreza, 1987, et al. (författare)
  • Nanoconfined Circular and Linear DNA: Equilibrium Conformations and Unfolding Kinetics
  • 2015
  • Ingår i: Macromolecules. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 0024-9297 .- 1520-5835. ; 48:3, s. 871-878
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Studies of circular DNA confined to nanofluidic channels are relevant both from a fundamental polymer-physics perspective and due to the importance of circular DNA molecules in vivo. We here observe the unfolding of confined DNA from the circular to linear configuration as a light-induced double-strand break occurs, characterize the dynamics, and compare the equilibrium conformational statistics of linear and circular configurations. This is important because it allows us to determine to what extent existing statistical theories describe the extension of confined circular DNA. We find that the ratio of the extensions of confined linear and circular DNA configurations increases as the buffer concentration decreases. The experimental results fall between theoretical predictions for the extended de Gennes regime at weaker confinement and the Odijk regime at stronger confinement. We show that it is possible to directly distinguish between circular and linear DNA molecules by measuring the emission intensity from the DNA. Finally, we determine the rate of unfolding and show that this rate is larger for more confined DNA, possibly reflecting the corresponding larger difference in entropy between the circular and linear configurations.
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42.
  • Dvirnas, Albertas, et al. (författare)
  • Facilitated sequence assembly using densely labeled optical DNA barcodes: A combinatorial auction approach
  • 2018
  • Ingår i: Plos One. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 13:3
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The output from whole genome sequencing is a set of contigs, i.e. short non-overlapping DNA sequences (sizes 1-100 kilobasepairs). Piecing the contigs together is an especially difficult task for previously unsequenced DNA, and may not be feasible due to factors such as the lack of sufficient coverage or larger repetitive regions which generate gaps in the final sequence. Here we propose a new method for scaffolding such contigs. The proposed method uses densely labeled optical DNA barcodes from competitive binding experiments as scaffolds. On these scaffolds we position theoretical barcodes which are calculated from the contig sequences. This allows us to construct longer DNA sequences from the contig sequences. This proof-of-principle study extends previous studies which use sparsely labeled DNA barcodes for scaffolding purposes. Our method applies a probabilistic approach that allows us to discard "foreign" contigs from mixed samples with contigs from different types of DNA. We satisfy the contig non-overlap constraint by formulating the contig placement challenge as a combinatorial auction problem. Our exact algorithm for solving this problem reduces computational costs compared to previous methods in the combinatorial auction field. We demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed scaffolding method both for synthetic contigs and for contigs obtained using Illumina sequencing for a mixed sample with plasmid and chromosomal DNA.
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43.
  • Czegeny, G., et al. (författare)
  • Hydrogen peroxide contributes to the ultraviolet-B (280-315 nm) induced oxidative stress of plant leaves through multiple pathways
  • 2014
  • Ingår i: Febs Letters. - : Wiley. - 0014-5793 .- 1873-3468. ; 588:14, s. 2255-2261
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Solar UV-B (280-315 nm) radiation is a developmental signal in plants but may also cause oxidative stress when combined with other environmental factors. Using computer modeling and in solution experiments we show that UV-B is capable of photosensitizing hydroxyl radical production from hydrogen peroxide. We present evidence that the oxidative effect of UV-B in leaves is at least twofold: (i) it increases cellular hydrogen peroxide concentrations, to a larger extent in pyridoxine antioxidant mutant pdx1.3-1 Arabidopsis and; (ii) is capable of a partial photo-conversion of both 'natural' and 'extra' hydrogen peroxide to hydroxyl radicals. As stress conditions other than UV can increase cellular hydrogen peroxide levels, synergistic deleterious effects of various stresses may be expected already under ambient solar UV-B. (C) 2014 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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44.
  • Lindholm, Ljubica, et al. (författare)
  • Effect of lipid bilayer properties on the photocycle of green proteorhodopsin
  • 2015
  • Ingår i: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0005-2728 .- 1879-2650. ; 1847:8, s. 698-708
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The significance of specific lipids for proton pumping by the bacterial rhodopsin proteorhodopsin (pR) was studied. To this end, it was examined whether pR preferentially binds certain lipids and whether molecular properties of the lipid environment affect the photocycle. pR's photocyde was followed by microsecond flash-photolysis in the visible spectral range. It was fastest in phosphatidylcholine liposomes (soy bean lipid), intermediate in 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl) dimethylammonio] propanesulfonate (CHAPS): 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) bicelles and in Triton X-100, and slowest when pR was solubilized in CHAPS. In bicelles with different lipid compositions, the nature of the head groups, the unsaturation level and the fatty acid chain length had small effects on the photocycle. The specific affinity of pR for lipids of the expression host Eschetichia coil was investigated by an optimized method of lipid isolation from purified membrane protein using two different concentrations of the detergent N-dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside (DDM). We found that 11 lipids were copurified per pR molecule at 0.1% DDM, whereas essentially all lipids were stripped off from pR by 1% DDM. The relative amounts of copurifled phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, and cardiolipin did not correlate with the molar percentages normally present in E. coil cells. The results indicate a predominance of phosphatidylethanolamine species in the lipid annulus around recombinant pR that are less polar than the dominant species in the cell membrane of the expression host E. coli.
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45.
  • Matson Dzebo, Maria, 1985, et al. (författare)
  • Extended functional repertoire for human copper chaperones
  • 2016
  • Ingår i: Biomolecular Concepts. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1868-5021 .- 1868-503X. ; 7:1, s. 29-39
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Copper (Cu) ions are cofactors in many essential enzymes. As free Cu ions are toxic, most organisms have highly specialized Cu transport systems involving dedicated proteins. The human cytoplasmic Cu chaperone Atox1 delivers Cu to P1B-type ATPases in the Golgi network, for incorporation into Cu-dependent enzymes following the secretory path. Atox1 homologs are found in most organisms; it is a 68-residue ferredoxin-fold protein that binds Cu in a conserved surface-exposed CXXC motif. In addition to Atox1, the human cytoplasm also contains Cu chaperones for loading of superoxide dismutase 1 (i.e. CCS) and cytochrome c oxidase in mitochondria (i.e. Cox17). Many mechanistic aspects have been resolved with respect to how Cu ions are moved between these proteins. In addition to the primary cytoplasmic Cu chaperone function, all three cytoplasmic chaperones have been reported to have other interaction partners that are involved in signaling pathways that modulate cell growth and development. These new discoveries imply that humans have evolved a highly sophisticated network of control mechanisms that connect Cu transport with cell regulatory processes. This knowledge may eventually be exploited for future drug developments towards diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
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46.
  • Mehmedovic, Majda, et al. (författare)
  • Disease causing mutation (P178L) in mitochondrial transcription factor A results in impaired mitochondrial transcription initiation
  • 2022
  • Ingår i: Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-4439 .- 1879-260X. ; 1868:10
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) is essential for the maintenance, expression, and packaging of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Recently, a pathogenic homozygous variant in TFAM (P178L) has been associated with a severe mtDNA depletion syndrome leading to neonatal liver failure and early death. We have performed a biochemical characterization of the TFAM variant P178L in order to understand the molecular basis for the pathogenicity of this mutation. We observe no effects on DNA binding, and compaction of DNA is only mildly affected by the P178L amino acid change. Instead, the mutation severely impairs mtDNA transcription initiation at the mitochondrial heavy and light strand promoters. Molecular modeling suggests that the P178L mutation affects promoter sequence recognition and the interaction between TFAM and the tether helix of POLRMT, thus explaining transcription initiation deficiency.
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47.
  • Reddy, Hemanth K.N., et al. (författare)
  • Electron cryo-microscopy of bacteriophage PR772 reveals the elusive vertex complex and the capsid architecture
  • 2019
  • Ingår i: eLIFE. - : ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 2050-084X. ; 8
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Bacteriophage PR772, a member of the Tectiviridae family, has a 70 nm diameter icosahedral protein capsid that encapsulates a lipid membrane, dsDNA, and various internal proteins. An icosahedrally averaged CryoEM reconstruction of the wild-type virion and a localized reconstruction of the vertex region reveal the composition and the structure of the vertex complex along with new protein conformations that play a vital role in maintaining the capsid architecture of the virion. The overall resolution of the virion is 2.75 angstrom, while the resolution of the protein capsid is 2.3 angstrom. The conventional penta-symmetron formed by the capsomeres is replaced by a large vertex complex in the pseudo T = 25 capsid. All the vertices contain the host-recognition protein, P5; two of these vertices show the presence of the receptor-binding protein, P2. The 3D structure of the vertex complex shows interactions with the viral membrane, indicating a possible mechanism for viral infection.
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  • Rozman Grinberg, Inna, et al. (författare)
  • Class Id ribonucleotide reductase utilizes a Mn-2(IV,III) cofactor and undergoes large conformational changes on metal loading
  • 2019
  • Ingår i: Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0949-8257 .- 1432-1327. ; 24:6, s. 863-877
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Outside of the photosynthetic machinery, high-valent manganese cofactors are rare in biology. It was proposed that a recently discovered subclass of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), class Id, is dependent on a Mn-2(IV,III) cofactor for catalysis. Class I RNRs consist of a substrate-binding component (NrdA) and a metal-containing radical-generating component (NrdB). Herein we utilize a combination of EPR spectroscopy and enzyme assays to underscore the enzymatic relevance of the Mn-2(IV,III) cofactor in class Id NrdB from Facklamia ignava. Once formed, the Mn-2(IV,III) cofactor confers enzyme activity that correlates well with cofactor quantity. Moreover, we present the X-ray structure of the apo- and aerobically Mn-loaded forms of the homologous class Id NrdB from Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis, revealing a dimanganese centre typical of the subclass, with a tyrosine residue maintained at distance from the metal centre and a lysine residue projected towards the metals. Structural comparison of the apo- and metal-loaded forms of the protein reveals a refolding of the loop containing the conserved lysine and an unusual shift in the orientation of helices within a monomer, leading to the opening of a channel towards the metal site. Such major conformational changes have not been observed in NrdB proteins before. Finally, in vitro reconstitution experiments reveal that the high-valent manganese cofactor is not formed spontaneously from oxygen, but can be generated from at least two different reduced oxygen species, i.e. H2O2 and superoxide (O2 center dot-). Considering the observed differences in the efficiency of these two activating reagents, we propose that the physiologically relevant mechanism involves superoxide.
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  • Singh, Vivek, 1988- (författare)
  • Structural investigation of human mitochondrial translation and off-target antibiotic binding
  • 2023
  • Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Human mitochondrial translation machinery has evolved to translate 13 mitochondrial mRNAs encoding components of the oxidative phosphorylation pathway responsible for ATP production. The structural basis of human mitochondrial translation is distinct from the canonical bacterial and cytosolic translation systems. Further, mutations affecting mitochondrial protein synthesis disrupt ATP production resulting in myopathies and neurodegenerative diseases. Structural studies have identified the core components of the human mitoribosome and some of its associated translation factors but several important aspects such as the role of mito-specific proteins in translation, rRNA modifications, composition of its ultrastructure including ions, small molecule co-factors, and solvent content, remain poorly understood. Importantly, several important antibiotics that target bacterial translation also affect mitochondrial translation, thereby causing adverse effects in patients. Understanding the mechanism of off-target antibiotic binding to the mitoribosome could help in designing better antibiotics. In this work, we use electron cryo-microscopy to determine the structures of the human mitoribosome in complex with ligands: mRNA/tRNA and translation activators such as LRPPRC-SLIRP. This allows us to explore the structural basis of mitochondrial translation, identifying the roles of mito-specific protein elements in tRNA and mRNA binding and recruitment (Papers 1 and 2). We determine a 2.2 Å resolution structure of the human mitoribosome and a 2.4 Å resolution structure of the mitoribosomal small subunit in complex with the tuberculosis drug, streptomycin. Together, the structures represent the most detailed and complete models for the human mitoribosome, revealing rRNA and protein modifications; several novel small molecule cofactors: 2Fe-2S clusters, polyamines and nucleotides and mechanisms of antibiotic binding (Papers 3 and 4).
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  • Tryggvesson, Anders, 1975, et al. (författare)
  • Characterization of ClpS2, an essential adaptor protein for the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus
  • 2015
  • Ingår i: Febs Letters. - : Wiley. - 0014-5793. ; 589:24, s. 4039-4046
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The adaptor protein ClpS associates to the Clp protease and promotes degradation of N-end rule substrates in eubacteria and in algal/plant chloroplasts. Cyanobacteria are unusual in having two distinct ClpS paralogs. Although ClpS1 is typical of bacterial ClpS, ClpS2 differs in crucial ways. ClpS2 in Synechococcus elongatus is a relatively low- abundant, soluble protein essential for phototrophic growth. Like ClpS1, ClpS2 binds to the ClpCP3/R protease to block alpha-casein degradation and promote that of N-end rule substrates in vitro. However, their substrate specificity differs, with ClpS1 recognizing destabilizing Phe and Tyr residues at the substrate N-terminus whereas ClpS2 recognizes Leu. Overall, ClpS2 appears to have independently evolved in cyanobacteria to degrade a particular group of proteins, whose turnover is vital for cell viability. (C) 2015 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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