Anita Waltho, Oliver Popp, Christopher Lenz, Lukas Pluska, Mahil Lambert, Volker Dötsch, Phillip Mertins, Thomas Sommer
{"title":"K48- and K63-linked ubiquitin chain interactome reveals branch- and length-specific ubiquitin interactors","authors":"Anita Waltho, Oliver Popp, Christopher Lenz, Lukas Pluska, Mahil Lambert, Volker Dötsch, Phillip Mertins, Thomas Sommer","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202402740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202402740","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitin interactor pulldown coupled with mass spectrometry elucidates K48- and K63-linked interactomes including novel heterotypic branch- and chain length–specific binders. This screen lays the foundations for our understanding of how complex Ub architectures are read.","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141117066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emilie Doz-Deblauwe, Badreddine Bounab, F. Carreras, J. Fahel, Sergio C. Oliveira, Mohamed Lamkanfi, Y. Le Vern, P. Germon, Julien Pichon, Florent Kempf, Christophe Paget, Aude Rémot, Nathalie Winter
{"title":"Dual neutrophil subsets exacerbate or suppress inflammation in tuberculosis via IL-1β or PD-L1","authors":"Emilie Doz-Deblauwe, Badreddine Bounab, F. Carreras, J. Fahel, Sergio C. Oliveira, Mohamed Lamkanfi, Y. Le Vern, P. Germon, Julien Pichon, Florent Kempf, Christophe Paget, Aude Rémot, Nathalie Winter","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202402623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202402623","url":null,"abstract":"Neutrophils, key cells in tuberculosis, reach the lungs as two distinct subsets playing opposite roles in inflammation: either exacerbating via IL-1b or dampening via PD-L1.","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141118164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha G. Fernandez, Lucas Ferguson, Nicholas T. Ingolia
{"title":"Ribosome rescue factor PELOTA modulates translation start site choice for C/EBPα protein isoforms","authors":"Samantha G. Fernandez, Lucas Ferguson, Nicholas T. Ingolia","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202302501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202302501","url":null,"abstract":"Alternative translation initiation on a single mRNA can generate distinct protein isoforms. This work finds that the ribosome rescue factor, PELOTA, influences start site choice on the developmental transcription factor, C/EBPα.","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141117990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Adapa, Gregory A Hunter, Narmin E. Amin, Christopher Marinescu, Andrew Borsky, Elizabeth M Sagatys, Said M. Sebti, Gary W. Reuther, Gloria C Ferreira, R. H. Jiang
{"title":"Correction: Porphyrin overdrive rewires cancer cell metabolism","authors":"S. Adapa, Gregory A Hunter, Narmin E. Amin, Christopher Marinescu, Andrew Borsky, Elizabeth M Sagatys, Said M. Sebti, Gary W. Reuther, Gloria C Ferreira, R. H. Jiang","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202402816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202402816","url":null,"abstract":"Cancer cells exhibit a metabolic phenotype termed “porphyrin overdrive,” characterized by dysregulated heme metabolic pathways for intermediate accumulation. This rewiring is cancer-essential and cancer-specific. Targeting this vulnerability with a “bait-and-kill” strategy shows promise in eradicating malignant cells.","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141121291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Rosenkranz, I. Nkumama, Rodney Ogwang, Sara Kraker, Marie Blickling, K. Mwai, Dennis O. Odera, J. Tuju, Kristin Fürle, R. Frank, Emily Chepsat, M. Kapulu, CHMI-SIKA Study Team, F. Osier
{"title":"Full-length MSP1 is a major target of protective immunity after controlled human malaria infection","authors":"M. Rosenkranz, I. Nkumama, Rodney Ogwang, Sara Kraker, Marie Blickling, K. Mwai, Dennis O. Odera, J. Tuju, Kristin Fürle, R. Frank, Emily Chepsat, M. Kapulu, CHMI-SIKA Study Team, F. Osier","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202301910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202301910","url":null,"abstract":"Full-length merozoite surface protein 1 is an important target of functional antibodies that play an important role in clinical immunity against invasive asexual Plasmodium falciparum parasites.","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141118870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DNA-binding site II is required for RAD51 recombinogenic activity in Arabidopsis thaliana","authors":"Valentine Petiot, Charles White, O. Da Ines","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202402701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202402701","url":null,"abstract":"The activity promoted by RAD51 DNA-binding site II is not required for nucleofilament formation but is essential for subsequent invasion and strand exchange activity of RAD51 in Arabidopsis thaliana.","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141120513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life Science AlliancePub Date : 2024-05-17Print Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202302535
Arun Pal, Dajana Grossmann, Hannes Glaß, Vitaly Zimyanin, René Günther, Marica Catinozzi, Tobias M Boeckers, Jared Sterneckert, Erik Storkebaum, Susanne Petri, Florian Wegner, Stephan W Grill, Francisco Pan-Montojo, Andreas Hermann
{"title":"Glycolic acid and D-lactate-putative products of DJ-1-restore neurodegeneration in FUS - and SOD1-ALS.","authors":"Arun Pal, Dajana Grossmann, Hannes Glaß, Vitaly Zimyanin, René Günther, Marica Catinozzi, Tobias M Boeckers, Jared Sterneckert, Erik Storkebaum, Susanne Petri, Florian Wegner, Stephan W Grill, Francisco Pan-Montojo, Andreas Hermann","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202302535","DOIUrl":"10.26508/lsa.202302535","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) leads to death within 2-5 yr. Currently, available drugs only slightly prolong survival. We present novel insights into the pathophysiology of <i>Superoxide Dismutase 1</i> (SOD1)- and in particular <i>Fused In Sarcoma</i> (FUS)-ALS by revealing a supposedly central role of glycolic acid (GA) and D-lactic acid (DL)-both putative products of the Parkinson's disease associated glyoxylase DJ-1. Combined, not single, treatment with GA/DL restored axonal organelle phenotypes of mitochondria and lysosomes in FUS- and SOD1-ALS patient-derived motoneurons (MNs). This was not only accompanied by restoration of mitochondrial membrane potential but even dependent on it. Despite presenting an axonal transport deficiency as well, TDP43 patient-derived MNs did not share mitochondrial depolarization and did not respond to GA/DL treatment. GA and DL also restored cytoplasmic mislocalization of FUS and FUS recruitment to DNA damage sites, recently reported being upstream of the mitochondrial phenotypes in FUS-ALS. Whereas these data point towards the necessity of individualized (gene-) specific therapy stratification, it also suggests common therapeutic targets across different neurodegenerative diseases characterized by mitochondrial depolarization.</p>","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11101837/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140958253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life Science AlliancePub Date : 2024-05-17Print Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202302307
Chao-Yuan Chang, Glen Pearce, Viktoria Betaneli, Tatsiana Kapustsenka, Kamran Hosseini, Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, Denis Corbeil, Jana Karbanová, Anna Taubenberger, Björn Dahncke, Martina Rauner, Giulia Furesi, Sven Perner, Fabian Rost, Rolf Jessberger
{"title":"The F-actin bundler SWAP-70 promotes tumor metastasis.","authors":"Chao-Yuan Chang, Glen Pearce, Viktoria Betaneli, Tatsiana Kapustsenka, Kamran Hosseini, Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, Denis Corbeil, Jana Karbanová, Anna Taubenberger, Björn Dahncke, Martina Rauner, Giulia Furesi, Sven Perner, Fabian Rost, Rolf Jessberger","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202302307","DOIUrl":"10.26508/lsa.202302307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dynamic rearrangements of the F-actin cytoskeleton are a hallmark of tumor metastasis. Thus, proteins that govern F-actin rearrangements are of major interest for understanding metastasis and potential therapies. We hypothesized that the unique F-actin binding and bundling protein SWAP-70 contributes importantly to metastasis. Orthotopic, ectopic, and short-term tail vein injection mouse breast and lung cancer models revealed a strong positive dependence of lung and bone metastasis on SWAP-70. Breast cancer cell growth, migration, adhesion, and invasion assays revealed SWAP-70's key role in these metastasis-related cell features and the requirement for SWAP-70 to bind F-actin. Biophysical experiments showed that tumor cell stiffness and deformability are negatively modulated by SWAP-70. Together, we present a hitherto undescribed, unique F-actin modulator as an important contributor to tumor metastasis.</p>","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11101836/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140958256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life Science AlliancePub Date : 2024-05-16Print Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202302382
Martí Wilson-Verdugo, Brandon Bustos-García, Olga Adame-Guerrero, Jaqueline Hersch-González, Nallely Cano-Domínguez, Maribel Soto-Nava, Carlos A Acosta, Teresa Tusie-Luna, Santiago Avila-Rios, Lilia G Noriega, Victor J Valdes
{"title":"Reversal of high-glucose-induced transcriptional and epigenetic memories through NRF2 pathway activation.","authors":"Martí Wilson-Verdugo, Brandon Bustos-García, Olga Adame-Guerrero, Jaqueline Hersch-González, Nallely Cano-Domínguez, Maribel Soto-Nava, Carlos A Acosta, Teresa Tusie-Luna, Santiago Avila-Rios, Lilia G Noriega, Victor J Valdes","doi":"10.26508/lsa.202302382","DOIUrl":"10.26508/lsa.202302382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diabetes complications such as nephropathy, retinopathy, or cardiovascular disease arise from vascular dysfunction. In this context, it has been observed that past hyperglycemic events can induce long-lasting alterations, a phenomenon termed \"metabolic memory.\" In this study, we evaluated the genome-wide gene expression and chromatin accessibility alterations caused by transient high-glucose exposure in human endothelial cells (ECs) in vitro. We found that cells exposed to high glucose exhibited substantial gene expression changes in pathways known to be impaired in diabetes, many of which persist after glucose normalization. Chromatin accessibility analysis also revealed that transient hyperglycemia induces persistent alterations, mainly in non-promoter regions identified as enhancers with neighboring genes showing lasting alterations. Notably, activation of the NRF2 pathway through NRF2 overexpression or supplementation with the plant-derived compound sulforaphane, effectively reverses the glucose-induced transcriptional and chromatin accessibility memories in ECs. These findings underscore the enduring impact of transient hyperglycemia on ECs' transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiles, emphasizing the potential utility of pharmacological NRF2 pathway activation in mitigating and reversing the high-glucose-induced transcriptional and epigenetic alterations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18081,"journal":{"name":"Life Science Alliance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11099870/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140958254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}