scholarly journals Integrating Extracellular Flux Measurements and Genome-Scale Modeling Reveals Differences between Brown and White Adipocytes

Cell Reports ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 3040-3048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred K. Ramirez ◽  
Matthew D. Lynes ◽  
Farnaz Shamsi ◽  
Ruidan Xue ◽  
Yu-Hua Tseng ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 931-943
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Dahal ◽  
Jiao Zhao ◽  
Laurence Yang
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2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaobin Xu ◽  
Nicholas Ribaudo ◽  
Xianhua Li ◽  
Thomas K. Wood ◽  
Zuyi Huang

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Höckner ◽  
Claudio Adriano Piechnik ◽  
Birgit Fiechtner ◽  
Birgit Weinberger ◽  
Lars Tomanek

The heavy metal cadmium (Cd) is known to modulate the immune system, challenging soil-dwelling organisms where environmental Cd pollution is high. Since earthworms lack adaptive immunity, we determined Cd-related effects on coelomocytes, the cellular part of innate immunity, which is also the site of detoxification processes. A proteomics approach revealed a set of immunity-related proteins as well as gene products involved in energy metabolism changing in earthworms in response to Cd exposure. Based on these results, we conducted extracellular flux measurements of oxygen and acidification to reveal the effect of Cd on coelomocyte metabolism. We observed a significantly changing oxygen consumption rate, extracellular acidification, as well as metabolic potential, which can be defined as the response to an induced energy demand. Acute changes in intracellular calcium levels were also observed, indicating impaired coelomocyte activation. Lysosomes, the cell protein recycling center, and mitochondrial parameters did not change. Taken together, we were able to characterize coelomocyte metabolism to reveal a potential link to an impaired immune system upon Cd exposure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Wen ◽  
Sufang Zhang ◽  
Chuks Kenneth Odoh ◽  
Mingjie Jin ◽  
Zongbao K Zhao

ABSTRACT The red yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides naturally produces microbial lipids and carotenoids. In the past decade or so, many studies demonstrated R. toruloides as a promising platform for lipid production owing to its diverse substrate appetites, robust stress resistance and other favorable features. Also, significant progresses have been made in genome sequencing, multi-omic analysis and genome-scale modeling, thus illuminating the molecular basis behind its physiology, metabolism and response to environmental stresses. At the same time, genetic parts and tools are continuously being developed to manipulate this distinctive organism. Engineered R. toruloides strains are emerging for enhanced production of conventional lipids, functional lipids as well as other interesting metabolites. This review updates those progresses and highlights future directions for advanced biotechnological applications.


2017 ◽  
Vol 292 (17) ◽  
pp. 7189-7207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shona A. Mookerjee ◽  
Akos A. Gerencser ◽  
David G. Nicholls ◽  
Martin D. Brand

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e110380
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Tsai ◽  
Chuan-Hsiung Chang
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2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. e1002460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trang T. Vu ◽  
Sergey M. Stolyar ◽  
Grigoriy E. Pinchuk ◽  
Eric A. Hill ◽  
Leo A. Kucek ◽  
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