Protein phosphatase inhibition and in vivo hepatotoxicity of microcystins

1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (2) ◽  
pp. G224-G230 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Runnegar ◽  
S. Kong ◽  
N. Berndt

Administration of microcystin (MCYST)-YM or -LR (peptide hepatotoxins produced by the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa) to mice resulted in the inhibition of liver protein phosphatase 1 and 2A activity. In all cases significant inhibition preceded or accompanied clinical changes due to MCYST intoxication. Fifteen minutes after intraperitoneal injection of lethal doses of MCYST-YM protein phosphatase activity was already decreased to 44% of controls, and by 60 min was further decreased to 22% of controls. The inhibition was dose dependent: intraperitoneal injection with 84 nmol/kg of MCYST-YM and 48 nmol/kg of MCYST-LR were the minimum doses required for significant inhibition at 60 min. Pretreatment of mice with 200 mumol/kg of rifamycin prevented the inhibition of liver protein phosphatase. The inhibition was tissue specific, with none detected in the kidneys, an organ that, unlike the liver, does not accumulate MCYST. In contrast to MCYST intoxication, lethal doses of phalloidin, a peptide hepatotoxin that produces clinical and pathological changes similar to MCYST, did not cause any inhibition of protein phosphatases.

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 556-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takatoshi Sorimachi ◽  
Thaddeus S. Nowak

Ischemic preconditioning models have been characterized in brain, heart, and other tissues, and previous pharmacologic studies have suggested an involvement of adenosine and ATP dependent potassium (KATP) channels in such tolerance phenomena. This question was reexamined in a reproducible gerbil model in which the duration of ischemic depolarization defined the severity of preconditioning and test insults. Agents studied were glibenclamide, a blocker of KATP channels; 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (DPCPX), an adenosine A1 receptor antagonist; and N6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA), an A1 agonist. Intraventricular glibenclamide injections aggravated neuron damage after brief priming insults, in parallel with a dose-dependent prolongation of ischemic depolarization. However, the depolarization thresholds for ischemic neuronal injury were identical in vehicle- and glibenclamide-treated animals, and glibenclamide did not affect preconditioning when equivalent insult severity was maintained during priming insults. Neither DPCPX nor CPA had any effect on the onset or duration of depolarization after intraperitoneal injection in this model, and neither drug affected neuron damage. In the case of CPA, it was necessary to maintain temperature for 4 to 6 hours of recirculation to avoid significant confounding hypothermia. These results fail to support a direct involvement of A1 receptors or KATP channels during early stages in the development of ischemic tolerance in vivo, and emphasize the need for robust, well-controlled, and quantitative models in such studies.


Author(s):  
Margaux R. Audett ◽  
Erin L. Johnson ◽  
Jessica M. McGory ◽  
Dylan M. Barcelos ◽  
Evelin Oroszne Szalai ◽  
...  

KNL1 is a large intrinsically disordered kinetochore (KT) protein that recruits spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) components to mediate SAC signaling. The N-terminal region (NTR) of KNL1 possesses two activities that have been implicated in SAC silencing: microtubule (MT) binding and protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) recruitment. The NTR of D. melanogaster KNL1 (Spc105) has never been shown to bind MTs nor to recruit PP1. Furthermore, the phospho-regulatory mechanisms known to control SAC protein binding to KNL1 orthologues is absent in D. melanogaster. Here, these apparent discrepancies are resolved using in vitro and cell based-assays. A phospho-regulatory circuit, which utilizes Aurora B kinase (ABK), promotes SAC protein binding to the central disordered region of Spc105 while the NTR binds directly to MTs in vitro and recruits PP1-87B to KTs in vivo. Live-cell assays employing an optogenetic oligomerization tag, and deletion/chimera mutants are used to define the interplay of MT- and PP1-binding by Spc105 and the relative contributions of both activities to the kinetics of SAC satisfaction. [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text] [Media: see text]


1961 ◽  
Vol 201 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Cascarano ◽  
A. D. Rubin ◽  
A. K. Neumann ◽  
B. W. Zweifach

The in vivo inhibition of liver and kidney succinic dehydrogenase by administration of lethal doses of bacterial endotoxin ( Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhosa) was investigated. Quantitative determinations conducted on tissue homogenates revealed significant inhibition of activity only in liver of rabbits injected with E. coli lipopolysaccharide. The histochemical distribution of succinic dehydrogenase in fresh frozen sections of kidney was the same in both control and experimental animals. However, the centrolobular areas of liver appeared considerably depressed in activity in both E. coli and S. typhosa endotoxin-treated animals. These data, along with those presented by other studies in the literature, suggest that the action of endotoxin appears to be restricted to certain cells.


2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devyani Swami ◽  
Hitendra N Karade ◽  
Jyotiranjan Acharya ◽  
Pravin Kumar

In vivo antidotal efficacy of new bis- quaternary 2-(hydroxyimino)- N-(pyridin-3yl) acetamide derivatives (HNK series), to counter multiples of lethal doses of nerve agent sarin (GB) and reactivation of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), was evaluated in Swiss albino mice. [Protection index PI; median lethal dose (LD50) of sarin with treatment/LD50 of sarin] was estimated, using 0.05, 0.10, and 0.20 LD50 as treatment doses of all the oximes with atropine against sarin poisoning. Dose-dependent time course study was conducted at 0.2, 0.4 and 0.8 LD50 dose of sarin for estimating maximum AChE inhibition. At optimized time (15 min), in vivo enzyme half inhibition concentration (IC50) was calculated. AChE reactivation efficacy of HNK series and pralidoxime (2-PAM) were determined by plotting shift of log IC50 doses. HNK-102 with atropine showed three fold higher PI compared to 2-PAM. In vivo IC50 of sarin for brain and serum AChE was found to be 0.87 LD50 (139.2 µg/kg) and 0.48 LD50 (77.23 µg/kg), respectively. Treatment with HNK-102 and HNK-111 (equal to their 0.20LD50) significantly reactivated sarin-intoxicated AChE ( p < 0.05) at 2× IC50 dose of sarin, compared to 2-PAM. The study revealed that HNK-102 oxime was three times more potent as antidote, for acute sarin poisoning compared to 2-PAM in vivo.


2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Paterson ◽  
Ian R Kelsall ◽  
Patricia T W Cohen

A prediabetic phenotype of glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and obesity was observed at ∼12 months of age in mice homozygous for a null allele of the major skeletal muscle glycogen-targeting subunit GM of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) and derived from a 129/Ola donor strain. In this study, backcrossing of these mice (termed obese mice) onto two different genetic backgrounds gave rise to lean, glucose-tolerant, insulin-sensitive mice (termed lean mice), indicating that at least one variant gene in the 129/Ola background, not present in the C57BL/6 or 129s2/sV background, is required for the development of the prediabetic phenotype of obese mice. Slightly elevated AMP-activated protein kinase α2 activity in the skeletal muscle of lean C57BL/6 mice was also observed to a lesser extent in the obese mice. Normal or slightly raised in vivo glucose transport in lean C57BL/6 mice compared with decreased glucose transport in the obese mice supports the tenet that adequate transport of glucose may be a key factor in preventing the development of the prediabetic phenotype. The pH 6.8/pH 8.6 activity ratio of phosphorylase kinase was increased in lean C57BL/6 mice compared with controls indicating that phosphorylase kinase is an in vivo substrate of PP1-GM.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Islam M. Sadiqul ◽  
Saimon Mohiful Kabir ◽  
Zannatul Ferdous ◽  
Khan Mst. Mansura ◽  
Rahman Md. Khalilur

AbstractAnin vivostudy was carried out on the freshwater fishBarbonymus gonionotusto evaluate the genotoxic effects of the organophosphate quinalphos. The fish were exposed to sub-lethal doses of quinalphos (0%, 10%, 25%, and 50% of LC50) for a period of 30 days. Analysis of biochemical characteristics (protein and lipid contents of different organs), nuclear abnormalities of erythrocytes (NAE) and morphological abnormalities of erythrocytes (MAE) were performed on peripheral erythrocytes sampled at post-treatment intervals of 0 and 30 days. The biochemical results revealed a significant dose-dependent decline in protein and lipid contents and increase in the frequencies of NAE as well as MAE. Our findings also confirmed that the morphological deformations of erythrocytes in addition to NAE on fish erythrocytesin vivoare effective tools in determining the potential genotoxicity of organophosphates.


2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. S175
Author(s):  
Yosuke Miyazaki ◽  
Yasuhiro Ikeda ◽  
Hidekazu Aoyama ◽  
Koichi Yoshimura ◽  
Masafumi Yano ◽  
...  

1995 ◽  
Vol 216 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Runnegar ◽  
N. Berndt ◽  
S.M. Kong ◽  
E.Y.C. Lee ◽  
L.F. Zhang

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 6064-6074 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Y Tung ◽  
W Wang ◽  
C S Chan

The Ipl1 protein kinase is essential for proper chromosome segregation and cell viability in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have previously shown that the temperature-sensitive growth phenotype of conditional ipl1-1ts mutants can be suppressed by a partial loss-of-function mutation in the GLC7 gene, which encodes the catalytic subunit (PP1C) of protein phosphatase 1, thus suggesting that this enzyme acts in opposition to the Ipl1 protein kinase in regulating yeast chromosome segregation. We report here that the Glc8 protein, which is related in primary sequence to mammalian inhibitor 2, also participates in this regulation. Like inhibitor 2, the Glc8 protein is heat stable, exhibits anomalous electrophoretic mobility, and functions in vitro as an inhibitor of yeast as well as rabbit skeletal muscle PP1C. Interestingly, overexpression as well as deletion of the GLC8 gene results in a partial suppression of the temperature-sensitive growth phenotype of ipl1ts mutants and also moderately reduces the amount of protein phosphatase 1 activity which is assayable in crude yeast lysates. In addition, the chromosome missegregation phenotype caused by an increase in the dosage of GLC7 is totally suppressed by the glc8-delta 101::LEU2 deletion mutation. These findings together suggest that the Glc8 protein is involved in vivo in the activation of PP1C and that when the Glc8 protein is overproduced, it may also inhibit PP1C function. Furthermore, site-directed mutagenesis studies of GLC8 suggest that Thr-118 of the Glc8 protein, which is equivalent to Thr-72 of inhibitor 2, may play a central role in the ability of this protein to activate and/or inhibit PP1C in vivo.


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