{"title":"Lipidomics of Plasma High-Density Lipoprotein: Insights into Anti-Atherogenic Function","authors":"A. Kontush, M. Lhomme","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000133","url":null,"abstract":"Low concentrations of high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) represent a strong, independent risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) disease and atherosclerosis. The association between HDL-C and CV risk is thought to reflect multiple atheroprotective properties of HDL particles. The multiple biological functions of HDL particles are directly related to the presence of key bioactive lipid and protein components. Modern LC/MS/MS lipidomic approaches can be particularly useful to provide insights into molecular determinants of atheroprotective function of HDL. First comprehensive lipidomic studies of HDL particles in healthy subjects and in patients with CV disease or CV risk factors performed using modern lipidomic approaches have provided initial insights into lipid species profiles of human plasma HDL in health and disease. Such structure-function analyses of HDL bear the potential to identify clinically relevant, atheroprotective HDL components, which can contribute to the development of HDL-based therapies specifically designed to target beneficial subspecies of circulating HDL pool. Furthermore, HDL lipidomics can help identify novel biomarkers of HDL function, which may prove useful as biomarkers of cardiovascular risk superior to HDL-C levels.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70232324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qinzhe Wang, Fei Zhao, Xiuxuan Sun, Shisheng Sun, Hanjie Yu, Y. Zhong, Yuan Hu, Zhuo Chen, Peixin Zhang, Zheng Li
{"title":"Glycoproteomic Analysis of Human Hepatoblastoma Cell Lines Using Glycopeptide Capture and Mass Spectrometry","authors":"Qinzhe Wang, Fei Zhao, Xiuxuan Sun, Shisheng Sun, Hanjie Yu, Y. Zhong, Yuan Hu, Zhuo Chen, Peixin Zhang, Zheng Li","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000132","url":null,"abstract":"Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common form of liver tumour in infants and children. The cancer cell line HepG2 and normal hepatocellular cell line L02 are valuable cell models and are already widely used in the world while their glycopeoteome profiles are still unknown. This study focuses on N-linked glycoproteomic analysis of these two cell lines using mass spectrometry. Using two complementary approaches, Hydrazide reaction and hydrophilic affinity solid phase extraction methods, almost 400 glycosylation sites were identified from the two cell lines. Functional annotation suggests that N-glycoproteins with molecular binding ability were enriched in HepG2 cells compared to normal liver cells.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70232200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deciphering Hidden DNA Meta-Codes -The Great Unification & MasterCode of Biology","authors":"Jean-claude Perez","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000131","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents multi-layered basic research culminating in what we call the Master Code of Biology. First, we review the “Formula for Life” discovery. This simple formula unifies all the components of life, structuring them in a kind of “Periodic table of Biology”. These components include bio-atoms, CONHSP, nucleotides, UTCAG, amino acids, DNA and RNA strands, proteins, genes, chromosomes and genomes. This discovery opens the door to powerful insights in exobiology, proposing a specific life-emerging constraint on the tuning and balancing of isotope proportions. Second, we introduce the “Master Code of Biology”, digital language supplying a common alphabet to the three fundamental languages of Genetics, Biology and Genomics. This synthesis goes above and beyond their three representative DNA, RNA and amino acids codes. There is a universal common code which unifies, connects and contains all these three languages. This “Master Code of Biology” provides a great Unification between the Master Code patterned images of Genomics (DNA) and Proteomics (amino acids), which appear highly correlated while RNA images curiously appear flat like a neutral or zero-like code. Third, the functionality of this discovery is evidenced by two examples. Analyzing textures of the Genomic and Proteomic patterned curves reveals the emergence of binary codes and discrete waveforms. These predict the well-known karyotypes- white/grey/black bands overlapping and characterizing the human chromosomes. Mapping “the Master Code of Biology” to SNP genomic areas, we show that SNPs are determined to be more functional by their location within the genome than by their local values– TCAG nucleotide changes. Finally, we demonstrate that a chromosomal DNA sequences systematic reshaping combined with periodic waves highlighted above brings out, at whole chromosome scale, interferometry-like interference fields manifested by resonances, tunings, and even resonances that exhibit Fibonacci number proportions differentiating human and great primates at whole chromosome4 scale.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70232524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free Amino Acids Glycine and Glutamic Acid Inhibit Angiogenesis Induced by AGE in Bovine Retinal Endothelial Cells","authors":"B. Devi, K. Coral, K. Sulochana, N. Angayarkanni","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000130","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies from our lab have shown that amino acids act as antiglycating agents and can be beneficial in diabetes mellitus. Accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGE) in uncontrolled diabetes mellitus can induce microvascular complications such as diabetic retinopathy that results in neovascularization in the retina. This study explored the effect of amino acids Glycine and Glutamic acid ( 0.5–2.5 mM) in mitigating the AGE (100 μg/ml) induced angiogenic effects in primary bovine retinal endothelial cells (BREC) cultured in vitro. Tube formation induced by AGE in the BREC cells were reduced by glycine and glutamic acid (p=0.05, p=0.008). Transwell migration assay revealed signficant inhibition of migration by glycine. Expression of actin cytoskelatal filaments that promotes migration was reduced predominantly by glycine than glutamic acid as seen by immuofluorescence. Leukocyte adhesion promoted by AGE treatment was reduced significantly by glycine (p=0.03) and glutamic acid (p=0.02). The mechanism was delineated in terms of AGE-RAGE/VEGF axis. The receptor for AGE (RAGE) and the VEGF expression was found to be decreased both at protein level and at mRNA level by glycine and glutamic acid treatment. mRNA expression of RAGE by qPCR revealed a maximal decrease of 60% by glycine at 2.5 mM but by glutamic acid at 0.5 mM and VEGF mRNA level showed maximal inhibition by glutamic acid at 2.5 mM. Western blot analysis showed that VEGF expression was predominantly reduced by glycine. This is the A¯Â¬Ârst study showing the anti angiogenic potential of the amino acids in an in vitro model of primary bovine retinal endothelial cell implying therapeutic potential in the management of diabetic retinopathy.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70232119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protein Folding and Misfolding: A Perspective from Theory","authors":"A. Naeem, T. Khan, N. A. Fazili","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000128","url":null,"abstract":"The understanding of folding of proteins into their compact three-dimensional structures, example of complex biological self-assembly process, will provide an insight into the way in which evolutionary selection has influenced the properties of a molecular system for functional advantage. Once regarded as a grand challenge, protein folding has seen much progress in recent years. Protein folding pathways are of great interest not only in themselves, but also because understanding them is important for both protein structure predictions and for de novo protein design. Protein misfolding is a ubiquitous phenomenon associated with a wide range of diseases. Aggregation of misfolded proteins that escape the cellular quality-control mechanisms is a common feature of a wide range of highly debilitating and increasingly prevalent diseases. We hope that this review will stimulate further research in this area and catalyze increased collaboration at the interface of chemistry and biology to decipher the mechanisms and roles of protein folding, misfolding and aggregation in the fields of health and disease.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70232003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protein Glycation: A Firm Link to Cause Metabolic Disease and their Complications","authors":"Saheem Ahmad, Z. Siddiqui","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000127","url":null,"abstract":"Glycation of proteins starts with the formation of Schiff base, followed by intermolecular rearrangement and conversion into Amadori products. When large amounts of Amadori products are formed, they undergo cross linkage to form a heterogeneous group of protein-bound moieties, termed as Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs). The formation of AGEs is irreversible process, causing structural and functional changes in protein. This results in generation of free radicals which play an important role in pathophysiology of ageing and diabetes. The rates of these reactions are quite slow and proteins with large amounts of lysine residues undergo glycation with significant amounts of AGEs. The unwanted consequences of protein glycation may lead to several metabolic disorders like diabetes, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s disease etc. and their complications. This commentary reviews the glycation of proteins which have already been demonstrated by us and others.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70231796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lipidomics in Health and Diseases - Beyond the Analysis of Lipids","authors":"Mingming Li, Pengcheng Fan, Yu Wang","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000126","url":null,"abstract":"The role of lipids in human health and disease is taking the center stage. In the last decades, there has been an intense effort to develop suitable methodologies to discover, identify, and quantitatively monitor lipids in biological systems. Recent advancement of mass spectrometry technology has provided a variety of tools for global study of the lipid “Omes”, including the quantification of known lipid molecular species and the identification of novel lipids that possess pathophysiological functions. Lipidomics has thus emerged as a discipline for comprehensively illuminating lipids, lipidderived mediators and lipid networks in body fluids, tissues and cells. However, owing to the complexity and diversity of the lipidome, lipid research is challenging. Here, the experimental strategies for lipid isolation and characterization will be presented, especially for those who are new to the field of lipid research. Because lipids are known to participate in a host of protein signaling and trafficking pathways, the review emphasizes the understanding of interactions between cellular components, in particular the lipid-protein interrelationships. Novel tools for probing lipid-protein interactions by advanced mass spectrometric techniques will be discussed. It is expected that by integrating the approaches of lipidomics, transcriptomics and proteomics, a clear understanding of the complex functions of lipids will eventually be translated into human diseases.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70232087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George R Bousfield, Vladimir Y Butnev, William K White, Aaron Smalter Hall, David J Harvey
{"title":"Comparison of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Glycosylation Microheterogenity by Quantitative Negative Mode Nano-Electrospray Mass Spectrometry of Peptide-N Glycanase-Released Oligosaccharides.","authors":"George R Bousfield, Vladimir Y Butnev, William K White, Aaron Smalter Hall, David J Harvey","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Glycans from six highly purified hFSH preparations were released by peptide-N-glycanase digestion and analyzed by negative mode nano-ESI mass spectrometry before and after neuraminidase digestion. Pituitary glycan structures were mainly high-mannose, di-, tri-, and tetra-antennary, and their abundance largely paralleled that reported by other investigators using different approaches. For most of the FSH preparations, the differences in glycosylation appeared to be restricted to relative abundances of the major glycan families, as defined by their neutral core oligosaccharide structures. Qualitative differences between glycan populations were largely relegated to those species that were lowest in abundance. Significant qualitative differences were noted in two cases. Recombinant GH<sub>3</sub>-hFSH triantennary glycans appeared to have the third antenna exclusively on the mannose6-branch, in contrast to all pituitary and urinary hFSH triantennary glycans, in which this antenna was exclusively attached to the mannose3-branch. The hypo-glycosylated hFSH preparation isolated from purified hLH was decorated with high mannose glycans that accounted for over 40% of the total in this population. As this preparation was found to be consistently 20-fold more active than hFSH<sup>24</sup> in FSH receptor-binding assays, it appears that both macroheterogeneity and microheterogeneity in FSH preparations need to be taken into account.</p>","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33290934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katerina Matheis, B. Fuchs, Katharina Lemmnitzer, R. Süss, Hans Griesinger, S. Minarik, M. Oberle, M. Schulz, J. Schiller
{"title":"Combining TLC Separation with MS Detection - A Revival of TLC","authors":"Katerina Matheis, B. Fuchs, Katharina Lemmnitzer, R. Süss, Hans Griesinger, S. Minarik, M. Oberle, M. Schulz, J. Schiller","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000E125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000E125","url":null,"abstract":"It is very likely that every natural scientist has at least heard about thin-layer chromatography (TLC) because its fundamentals are taught in all basic courses of chemistry and biochemistry. TLC is widely used in preparative organic chemistry for a first check of a reaction mixture to monitor how many different products were generated. One typical application in biochemistry is the separation of plant dyes; this is particularly simple because the analytes are coloured and, thus, no staining step is necessary.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2153-0637.1000E125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70234052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HemeOxygenase-1: Transducer of Sterol Dys-Regulation in Alzheimer Disease","authors":"J. Hascalovici, Schippers Hm","doi":"10.4172/2153-0637.1000124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2153-0637.1000124","url":null,"abstract":"Cholesterol (CH) and oxysterols have been consistently implicated in brain aging, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and otherhuman neurodegenerative conditions, althoughthe mechanisms underlying these relationships remain poorly understood. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is a highly-inducible stress protein responsible for the catabolism of heme to free iron, carbon monoxide (CO) and biliverdin/bilirubin. HO-1 mRNA and protein levels are augmented in Alzheimer-diseased neural tissues where they may promote pathological iron deposition and oxidative mitochondrial damage characteristic of this disorder. Here, we review evidence derived from cultured rat astroglia, post-mortem human AD brain samples, novel GFAP. HMOX1 transgenic mice and a triple transgenic AD mouse model (3xTg-AD) implicating HO-1 as a pivotal transducer of noxious ambient stimuli into abnormal patterns of brain sterol/oxysterol homeostasis germane to the pathogenesis of AD and other aging-related neurodegenerative disorders.","PeriodicalId":89585,"journal":{"name":"Journal of glycomics & lipidomics","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70231773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}