467 results on '"Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics"'
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252. Diacylglycerol kinase K variants impact hypospadias in a California study population.
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Carmichael SL, Mohammed N, Ma C, Iovannisci D, Choudhry S, Baskin LS, Witte JS, Shaw GM, and Lammer EJ
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- California, Case-Control Studies, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Genetic Variation, Hypospadias genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Purpose: A recent genome wide association study demonstrated the novel finding that variants in DGKK are associated with hypospadias. Our objectives were to determine whether this finding could be replicated in a more racially/ethnically diverse study population of California births and to provide a more comprehensive investigation of variants., Materials and Methods: We examined the association of 27 DGKK single nucleotide polymorphisms with hypospadias relative to population based nonmalformed controls born in selected California counties from 1990 to 2003. Analyses included a maximum of 928 controls and 665 cases (mild in 91, moderate in 336, severe in 221 and undetermined in 17). Results for mild and moderate cases were similar, so they were grouped together., Results: For mild and moderate cases OR for 15 of the 27 single nucleotide polymorphisms had p values less than 0.05, with 2 less than 1 and the others ranging from 1.3 to 1.8. Among severe cases ORs tended to be closer to 1, and none of the p values were less than 0.05. Due to high linkage disequilibrium across the single nucleotide polymorphisms, haplotype analyses were conducted and 2 blocks were generated. These analyses identified a set of 8 variants associated with a threefold to fourfold increased risk relative to the most common haplotype, regardless of severity of the phenotype (OR 4.1, p <10(-4) for mild to moderate cases and 3.3, p = 0.001 for severe cases)., Conclusions: This study confirms that DGKK variants are associated with hypospadias. Additional studies are needed to allow a more thorough investigation of DGKK variability and to delineate the mechanism by which DGKK contributes to urethral development., (Copyright © 2013 American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2013
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253. Induction of filopodia-like protrusions in N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells by diacylglycerol kinase γ independent of its enzymatic activity: potential novel function of the C-terminal region containing the catalytic domain of diacylglycerol kinase γ.
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Tanino F, Maeda Y, Sakai H, and Sakane F
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- Animals, Catalytic Domain, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Membrane enzymology, Culture Media, Serum-Free, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase physiology, Gene Expression, Isoenzymes metabolism, Mice, Neuroblastoma, Protein Transport, Sequence Deletion, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Pseudopodia enzymology
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Type I diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) isozymes (α, β, and γ) contain recoverin homology domains and calcium-binding EF-hand motifs at their N-termini. The γ-isoform of DGK is abundantly expressed in retinal and Purkinje cells; however, its function in neuronal cells remains unknown. Here, we report that the mRNA and protein levels of DGKγ, but not DGKα or β, were markedly increased in N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells upon cellular differentiation by serum starvation. Interestingly, overexpression of wild-type DGKγ, which was partially located at the plasma membrane, considerably induced the formation of slender, filopodia-like cytoplasmic projections from N1E-115 cell bodies. Deletion of the recoverin homology domain and the EF-hand motifs, which potentiated the plasma membrane localization of the isozyme, significantly enhanced the formation of the filopodia-like protrusions. Intriguingly, the catalytic activity of the isozyme is not essential for the protrusion formation. The N-terminal half of the catalytic domain and a short stretch of amino acid residues at the C-terminus are responsible for plasma membrane localization and filopodia-like process formation. Taken together, we have described a potentially novel morphological function of the C-terminal DGKγ catalytic region that is independent of its enzymatic activity.
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254. Diacylglycerol kinase θ: regulation and stability.
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Tu-Sekine B, Goldschmidt H, Petro E, and Raben DM
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- Animals, Cations, Divalent, Cell Line, Tumor, Central Nervous System cytology, Central Nervous System drug effects, Diacylglycerol Kinase antagonists & inhibitors, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Enzyme Inhibitors pharmacology, Enzyme Stability drug effects, Gene Expression Regulation drug effects, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Isoenzymes antagonists & inhibitors, Isoenzymes genetics, Magnesium metabolism, Mice, NIH 3T3 Cells, Neurons cytology, Neurons drug effects, Phosphatidylserines pharmacology, Pyrimidinones pharmacology, Signal Transduction drug effects, Thiazoles pharmacology, Zinc metabolism, Central Nervous System enzymology, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Diglycerides metabolism, Isoenzymes metabolism, Neurons enzymology, Phosphatidic Acids metabolism
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Given the well-established roles of diacylglycerol (DAG) and phosphatidic acid (PtdOH) in a variety of signaling cascades, it is not surprising that there is an increasing interest in understanding their physiological roles and mechanisms that regulate their cellular levels. One class of enzymes capable of coordinately regulating the levels of these two lipids is the diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs). These enzymes catalyze the transfer of the γ-phosphate of ATP to the hydroxyl group of DAG, which generates PtdOH while reducing DAG. As these enzymes reciprocally modulate the relative levels of these two signaling lipids, it is essential to understand the regulation and roles of these enzymes in various tissues. One system where these enzymes play important roles is the nervous system. Of the ten mammalian DGKs, eight of them are readily detected in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS): DGK-α, DGK-β, DGK-γ, DGK-η, DGK-ζ, DGK-ι, DGK-ε, and DGK-θ. Despite the increasing interest in DGKs, little is known about their regulation. We have focused some attention on understanding the enzymology and regulation of one of these DGK isoforms, DGK-θ. We recently showed that DGK-θ is regulated by an accessory protein containing polybasic regions. We now report that this accessory protein is required for the previously reported broadening of the pH profile observed in cell lysates in response to phosphatidylserine (PtdSer). Our data further reveal DGK-θ is regulated by magnesium and zinc, and sensitive to the known DGK inhibitor R599022. These data outline new parameters involved in regulating DGK-θ., (Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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255. Bacterial expression strategies for several Sus scrofa diacylglycerol kinase alpha constructs: solubility challenges.
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Petro EJ and Raben DM
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- Animals, Catalysis, Diacylglycerol Kinase chemistry, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Recombinant Proteins biosynthesis, Solubility, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Escherichia coli enzymology, Escherichia coli genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial physiology, Protein Engineering methods, Sus scrofa metabolism
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We pursued several strategies for expressing either full-length Sus scrofa diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) alpha or the catalytic domain (alphacat) in Escherichia coli. Alphacat could be extracted, refolded, and purified from inclusion bodies, but when subjected to analytical gel filtration chromatography, it elutes in the void volume, in what we conclude are microscopic aggregates unsuitable for x-ray crystallography. Adding glutathione S-transferase, thioredoxin, or maltose binding protein as N-terminal fusion tags did not improve alphacat's solubility. Coexpressing with bacterial chaperones increased the yield of alphacat in the supernatant after high-speed centrifugation, but the protein still elutes in the void upon analytical gel filtration chromatography. We believe our work will be of interest to those interested in the structure of eukaryotic DGKs, so that they know which expression strategies have already been tried, as well as to those interested in protein folding and those interested in chaperone/target-protein interactions.
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256. Simultaneous diagnosis and gene therapy of immuno-rejection in rat allogeneic heart transplantation model using a T-cell-targeted theranostic nanosystem.
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Guo Y, Chen W, Wang W, Shen J, Guo R, Gong F, Lin S, Cheng D, Chen G, and Shuai X
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- Animals, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Ferric Compounds chemistry, Graft Rejection genetics, Graft Rejection immunology, Immunotherapy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nanostructures chemistry, Nanostructures toxicity, Polyethylene Glycols chemistry, Polyethyleneimine chemistry, Rats, Single-Chain Antibodies chemistry, Single-Chain Antibodies pharmacokinetics, Single-Chain Antibodies therapeutic use, Time Factors, Transfection, Transplantation, Homologous adverse effects, Genetic Therapy methods, Graft Rejection diagnosis, Graft Rejection therapy, Heart Transplantation adverse effects, Nanostructures therapeutic use, T-Lymphocytes metabolism
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As the final life-saving treatment option for patients with terminal organ failure, organ transplantation is far from an ideal solution. The concomitant allograft rejection, which is hardly detectable especially in the early acute rejection (AR) period characterized by an intense cellular and humoral attack on donor tissue, greatly affects the graft survival and results in rapid graft loss. Based on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-visible and T-cell-targeted multifunctional polymeric nanocarrier developed in our lab, effective co-delivery of pDNA and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles into primary T cells expressing CD3 molecular biomarker was confirmed in vitro. In the heart transplanted rat model, this multifunctional nanocarrier showed not only a high efficiency in detecting post-transplantation acute rejection but also a great ability to mediate gene transfection in T cells. Upon intravenous injection of this MRI-visible polyplex of nanocarrier and pDNA, T-cell gathering was detected at the endocardium of the transplanted heart as linear strongly hypointense areas on the MRI T(2)*-weighted images on the third day after cardiac transplantation. Systematic histological and molecular biology studies demonstrated that the immune response in heart transplanted rats was significantly suppressed upon gene therapy using the polyplex bearing the DGKα gene. More excitingly, the therapeutic efficacy was readily monitored by noninvasive MRI during the treatment process. Our results revealed the great potential of the multifunctional nanocarrier as a highly effective imaging tool for real-time and noninvasive monitoring and a powerful nanomedicine platform for gene therapy of AR with high efficiency.
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- 2012
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257. Dual regulation of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK)-θ: polybasic proteins promote activation by phospholipids and increase substrate affinity.
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Tu-Sekine B and Raben DM
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- Animals, Cattle, Cell Membrane enzymology, Cell Membrane genetics, Coenzymes genetics, Coenzymes metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Enzyme Activation physiology, HEK293 Cells, Histones genetics, Humans, Phospholipids genetics, tau Proteins genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Histones metabolism, Phospholipids metabolism, tau Proteins metabolism
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Diacylglycerol kinases are important mediators of lipid signaling cascades, and insight into their regulation is of increasing interest. Using purified DGK-θ, we show that this isoform is subject to dual regulation and that the previously characterized stimulation by acidic phospholipids is dependent on the presence of a positively charged protein or peptide. Polybasic cofactors lowered the K(m) for diacylglycerol at the membrane surface (K(m)((surf))), and worked synergistically with acidic phospholipids to increase activity 10- to 30-fold, suggesting that the purified enzyme is autoinhibited. Vesicle pulldown studies showed that acidic phospholipids recruit polybasic cofactors to the vesicle surface but have little effect on the membrane association of DGK-θ, suggesting that a triad of enzyme, acidic lipid and basic protein are necessary for interfacial activity. Importantly, these data demonstrate that the interfacial association and catalytic activity of DGK-θ are independently regulated. Finally, we show that DGK-θ directly interacts with, and is activated by, basic proteins such as histone H1 and Tau with nm affinity, consistent with a potential role for a polybasic protein or protein domain in the activation of this enzyme.
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258. Diacylglycerol kinase regulates tyrosinase expression and function in human melanocytes.
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Kawaguchi M, Valencia JC, Namiki T, Suzuki T, and Hearing VJ
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- Adenoviridae genetics, Animals, Cell Line, Tumor, Diacylglycerol Kinase antagonists & inhibitors, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Endoplasmic Reticulum enzymology, Enzyme Inhibitors pharmacology, Epidermal Cells, Flavonoids pharmacology, Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic drug effects, Hormones metabolism, Hormones pharmacology, Humans, Indoles pharmacology, Maleimides pharmacology, Melanins biosynthesis, Melanins metabolism, Melanocytes cytology, Melanoma, Experimental, Membrane Glycoproteins genetics, Membrane Glycoproteins metabolism, Mice, Oxidoreductases genetics, Oxidoreductases metabolism, Piperidines pharmacology, Protein Kinase Inhibitors pharmacology, Protein Processing, Post-Translational drug effects, Protein Processing, Post-Translational physiology, Quinazolinones pharmacology, Skin Neoplasms, alpha-MSH metabolism, alpha-MSH pharmacology, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic physiology, Melanocytes enzymology, Monophenol Monooxygenase genetics
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Diacylglycerol (DAG) increases the melanin content of human melanocytes in vitro and increases the pigmentation of guinea pig skin in vivo, but the mechanism(s) underlying those effects remain unknown. In this study, we characterized the role of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK), which phosphorylates DAG to generate phosphatidic acid, in the regulation of pigmentation. Ten isoforms of DGK have been identified, and we show that DGKζ is the most abundant isoform expressed by human melanocytic cells. Melanin content, tyrosinase activity, and tyrosinase protein levels were significantly reduced by a DGK inhibitor, but tyrosinase and microphthalmia-associated transcription factor messenger RNA (mRNA) levels were not changed by that inhibition, and there were no effects on the expression of other melanogenesis-related proteins. Isoform-specific small interfering RNAs showed that knockdown of DGKζ decreased melanin content and tyrosinase expression in melanocytic cells. Overexpression of DGKζ increased tyrosinase protein levels, but did not increase tyrosinase mRNA levels. Glycosidase digestion revealed that inhibition of DGK reduced only the mature form of tyrosinase, and the decrease of tyrosinase resulting from DGK inhibition could be blocked partially by protease inhibitors. These results suggest that DGK regulates melanogenesis via modulation of the posttranslational processing of tyrosinase, which may be related with the protein degradation machinery.
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259. Transcriptional regulator early growth response gene 2 (Egr2) is required for T cell anergy in vitro and in vivo.
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Zheng Y, Zha Y, Driessens G, Locke F, and Gajewski TF
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- Analysis of Variance, Animals, Base Sequence, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, DNA Primers genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Early Growth Response Protein 2 genetics, Flow Cytometry, Gene Expression Regulation genetics, Humans, Immunoblotting, In Vitro Techniques, Luciferases, Mice, Molecular Sequence Data, Promoter Regions, Genetic genetics, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Clonal Anergy immunology, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Early Growth Response Protein 2 immunology, Gene Expression Regulation immunology, T-Lymphocytes immunology
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T cell receptor engagement in the absence of costimulation results in a hyporesponsive state termed anergy. Understanding the transcriptional regulation of other T cell differentiation states has provided critical information regarding the biology of T cell regulation in vivo. However, the transcriptional regulation of T cell anergy has been poorly understood. Using the key anergy target gene diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) α as a focal point, we identified early growth response gene 2 (Egr2) as a central transcription factor that regulates the anergic state. Conditional Egr2 deletion in peripheral T cells abolishes induced expression of DGK-α and other anergy genes and restores Ras/MAPK signaling, IL-2 production, and proliferation upon attempted anergy induction. Using superantigen- and tumor-induced anergy models, we found that Egr2 is necessary for anergy induction in vivo. Collectively, our results implicate Egr2 as an essential transcriptional regulator of the T cell anergy program.
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260. FoxO-dependent regulation of diacylglycerol kinase α gene expression.
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Martínez-Moreno M, García-Liévana J, Soutar D, Torres-Ayuso P, Andrada E, Zhong XP, Koretzky GA, Mérida I, and Ávila-Flores A
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- Animals, Binding Sites, Cell Line, Forkhead Box Protein O1, Forkhead Box Protein O3, Humans, Interleukin-2 pharmacology, Lymphocyte Activation physiology, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Phosphorylation, Receptors, Interleukin-2, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Forkhead Transcription Factors metabolism, Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, T-Lymphocytes enzymology
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Diacylglycerol kinase α (DGKα) regulates diacylglycerol levels, catalyzing its conversion into phosphatidic acid. The α isoform is central to immune response regulation; it downmodulates Ras-dependent pathways and is necessary for establishment of the unresponsive state termed anergy. DGKα functions are regulated in part at the transcriptional level although the mechanisms involved remain poorly understood. Here, we analyzed the 5' end structure of the mouse DGKα gene and detected three binding sites for forkhead box O (FoxO) transcription factors, whose function was confirmed using luciferase reporter constructs. FoxO1 and FoxO3 bound to the 5' regulatory region of DGKα in quiescent T cells, as well as after interleukin-2 (IL-2) withdrawal in activated T cells. FoxO binding to this region was lost after complete T cell activation or IL-2 addition, events that correlated with FoxO phosphorylation and a sustained decrease in DGKα gene expression. These data strongly support a role for FoxO proteins in promoting high DGKα levels and indicate a mechanism by which DGKα function is downregulated during productive T cell responses. Our study establishes a basis for a causal relationship between DGKα downregulation, IL-2, and anergy avoidance.
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261. Calcium negatively regulates an intramolecular interaction between the N-terminal recoverin homology and EF-hand motif domains and the C-terminal C1 and catalytic domains of diacylglycerol kinase α.
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Takahashi M, Yamamoto T, Sakai H, and Sakane F
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- Amino Acid Motifs, Animals, COS Cells, Chlorocebus aethiops, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions, Mutation, Swine, Calcium chemistry, Catalytic Domain, Diacylglycerol Kinase chemistry
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The type I diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) isozymes (α, β and γ) contain a shared recoverin homology (RVH) domain, a tandem repeat of Ca2+-binding EF-hand motifs, two cysteine-rich C1 domains, and the catalytic domain. We previously reported that a DGKα mutant lacking the RVH domain and EF-hands was constitutively active, implying that the N-terminal region (NTR) of DGKα, consisting of the RVH domain and EF-hand motifs, intramolecularly interacts with and masks the activity of the C-terminal region (CTR), containing the C1 and catalytic domains. In this study, we demonstrate that a glutathione S-transferase (GST)-fused DGKα-NTR construct physically binds to a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-fused DGKα-CTR construct. Moreover, co-precipitation of GFP-DGKα-CTR with GST-DGKα-NTR was clearly attenuated by the addition of 1 μM Ca2+. This result indicates that Ca2+ induces dissociation of the physical interaction between DGKα-NTR and DGKα-CTR. In addition to previously reported calcium-dependent changes in the hydrophobicity and net surface charge, Ca2+ also appeared to induce a decrease in the α-helical content of DGKα-NTR. These results suggest that Ca2+-induced conformational changes in the NTR release the intramolecular association between the NTR and the CTR of DGKα., (Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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262. Diacylglycerol kinase alpha enhances hepatocellular carcinoma progression by activation of Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK pathway.
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Takeishi K, Taketomi A, Shirabe K, Toshima T, Motomura T, Ikegami T, Yoshizumi T, Sakane F, and Maehara Y
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- Animals, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular epidemiology, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular pathology, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular surgery, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Disease Models, Animal, Disease Progression, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Hepatectomy, Humans, Liver Neoplasms epidemiology, Liver Neoplasms pathology, Liver Neoplasms surgery, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Nude, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local epidemiology, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local metabolism, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local pathology, Neoplasm Transplantation, Postoperative Complications epidemiology, Postoperative Complications metabolism, Postoperative Complications pathology, Prognosis, Risk Factors, Transplantation, Heterologous, raf Kinases metabolism, ras Proteins metabolism, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Liver Neoplasms metabolism, MAP Kinase Signaling System physiology
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Background & Aims: Diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs) were recently recognized as key regulators in cell signaling pathways. We investigated whether DGKα is involved in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression., Methods: We silenced or overexpressed DGKα in HCC cells and assessed its effect on tumor progression. DGKα expression in 95 surgical samples was analyzed by immunohistochemistry, and the expression status of each sample was correlated with clinicopathological features., Results: DGKα was detected in various HCC cell lines but at very low levels in the normal liver. Knockdown of DGKα significantly suppressed cell proliferation and invasion. Overexpression of wild type (WT) DGKα, but not its kinase-dead (KD) mutant, significantly enhanced cell proliferation. DGKα knockdown impaired MEK and ERK phosphorylation, but did not inhibit Ras activation in HCC cells. In a xenograft model, WT DGKα overexpression significantly enhanced tumor growth compared to the control, but KD DGKα mutant had no effect. Immunohistochemical studies showed that DGKα was expressed in cancerous tissue, but not in adjacent non-cancerous hepatocytes. High DGKα expression (≥20%) was associated with high Ki67 expression (p<0.05) and a high rate of HCC recurrence (p=0.033) following surgery. In multivariate analyses, high DGKα expression was an independent factor for determining HCC recurrence after surgery., Conclusions: DGKα is involved in HCC progression by activation of the MAPK pathway. DGKα could be a novel target for HCC therapeutics as well as a prognostic marker., (Copyright © 2012 European Association for the Study of the Liver. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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263. Inhibition of lipid signaling enzyme diacylglycerol kinase epsilon attenuates mutant huntingtin toxicity.
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Zhang N, Li B, Al-Ramahi I, Cong X, Held JM, Kim E, Botas J, Gibson BW, and Ellerby LM
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- Animals, Caspase 3 genetics, Caspase 3 metabolism, Caspase 7 genetics, Caspase 7 metabolism, Cell Line, Corpus Striatum metabolism, Corpus Striatum pathology, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Humans, Huntingtin Protein, Huntington Disease genetics, Huntington Disease pathology, Mice, Mice, Transgenic, Nerve Tissue Proteins genetics, Nuclear Proteins genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Huntington Disease metabolism, Lipid Metabolism, Mutation, Nerve Tissue Proteins metabolism, Nuclear Proteins metabolism, Signal Transduction
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Huntington disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by a polyglutamine expansion in the protein huntingtin (Htt). Striatal and cortical neuronal loss are prominent features of this disease. No disease-modifying treatments have been discovered for HD. To identify new therapeutic targets in HD, we screened a kinase inhibitor library for molecules that block mutant Htt cellular toxicity in a mouse HD striatal cell model, Hdh(111Q/111Q) cells. We found that diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) inhibitor II (R59949) decreased caspase-3/7 activity after serum withdrawal in striatal Hdh(111Q/111Q) cells. In addition, R59949 decreased the accumulation of a 513-amino acid N-terminal Htt fragment processed by caspase-3 and blocked alterations in lipid metabolism during serum withdrawal. To identify the diacylglycerol kinase mediating this effect, we knocked down all four DGK isoforms expressed in the brain (β, γ, ε, and ζ) using siRNA. Only the knockdown of the family member, DGKε, blocked striatal Hdh(111Q/111Q)-mediated toxicity. We also investigated the significance of these findings in vivo. First, we found that reduced function of the Drosophila DGKε homolog significantly improves Htt-induced motor dysfunction in a fly model of HD. In addition, we find that the levels of DGKε are increased in the striatum of R6/2 HD transgenic mice when compared with littermate controls. Together, these findings indicate that increased levels of kinase DGKε contribute to HD pathogenesis and suggest that reducing its levels or activity is a potential therapy for HD.
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264. Inhibition of thrombin-induced Ca²⁺ influx in platelets by R59949, an inhibitor of diacylglycerol kinase.
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Marumo M, Nakano T, Takeda Y, Goto K, and Wakabayashi I
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- Blood Platelets metabolism, Butanols pharmacology, Calcium Channel Blockers pharmacology, Cell Membrane metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase antagonists & inhibitors, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Hemostatics pharmacology, Humans, Imidazoles pharmacology, Phosphatidic Acids metabolism, Plant Extracts pharmacology, Platelet Aggregation drug effects, Propranolol pharmacology, RNA, Messenger metabolism, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Thapsia chemistry, Blood Platelets drug effects, Calcium metabolism, Cell Membrane drug effects, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Piperidines pharmacology, Quinazolinones pharmacology, Thapsigargin pharmacology, Thrombin pharmacology
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Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) is involved in transplasmalemmal Ca²⁺ influx of platelets., Methods: Effects of R59949, an inhibitor of diacylglycerol kinase, on intracellular Ca²⁺ concentration ([Ca²⁺](i) ) and mRNA expression of DGK isozymes were investigated using washed human platelet suspensions., Key Findings: Thrombin-induced increase in [Ca²⁺](i) was significantly inhibited by pretreatment of platelets with R59949, while thapsigargin-induced increase in [Ca²⁺](i) was comparable in platelets with and without R59949 pretreatment. Thapsigargin-induced increase in [Ca²⁺](i) was markedly attenuated in the presence of SKF-96365. In the presence of SKF-96365, thrombin-induced increase in [Ca²⁺](i) was significantly attenuated, and additional treatment with R59949 caused a further decrease in [Ca²⁺](i) . Pretreatment of platelets with 1-butanol significantly attenuated thrombin-induced increase in [Ca²⁺](i) , while thrombin-induced increase in [Ca²⁺](i) was augmented in the presence of propranolol. mRNA expression of DGK-α and DGK-γ, which are known to be inhibited by R59949, in platelets was confirmed by RT-PCR analysis., Conclusions: R59949 inhibited a store-depletion-insensitive component of transplasmalemmal Ca²⁺ entry induced by thrombin, while store-operated Ca²⁺ entry was not affected by R59949. The results of this study suggest that phosphatidic acid is involved in thrombin-induced Ca²⁺ influx of platelets., (© 2012 The Authors. JPP © 2012 Royal Pharmaceutical Society.)
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265. Regulation of hippocampal long-term potentiation and long-term depression by diacylglycerol kinase ζ.
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Seo J, Kim K, Jang S, Han S, Choi SY, and Kim E
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- Animals, CA1 Region, Hippocampal enzymology, Dendritic Spines enzymology, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diglycerides metabolism, Disks Large Homolog 4 Protein, Estrenes pharmacology, Guanylate Kinases metabolism, Indoles pharmacology, Male, Membrane Proteins metabolism, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Neuronal Plasticity physiology, Phosphatidic Acids metabolism, Protein Kinase C antagonists & inhibitors, Pyramidal Cells enzymology, Pyramidal Cells physiology, Pyrrolidinones pharmacology, Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate metabolism, Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate metabolism, Synapses metabolism, Type C Phospholipases antagonists & inhibitors, CA1 Region, Hippocampal physiology, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Long-Term Potentiation, Long-Term Synaptic Depression
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Diacylglycerol (DAG) is an important signaling molecule at neuronal synapses. Generation of synaptic DAG is triggered by the activation of diverse surface receptors including N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors and metabotropic glutamate receptors. The action of DAG is terminated by enzymatic conversion of DAG to phosphatidic acid (PA) by DAG kinases (DGKs). DGKζ, one of many mammalian DGKs, is localized to synapses through direct interaction with the postsynaptic scaffolding protein PSD-95, and regulates dendritic spine maintenance by promoting DAG-to-PA conversion. However, a role for DGKζ in the regulation of synaptic plasticity has not been explored. We report here that Schaffer collateral-CA1 pyramidal synapses in the hippocampus of DGKζ-knockout (DGKζ(-/-) ) mice show enhanced long-term potentiation (LTP) and attenuated long-term depression (LTD). The attenuated LTD at DGKζ(-/-) synapses involves both NMDA receptors and metabotropic glutamate receptors. These changes in LTP and LTD were reversed by phospholipase C inhibition, which blocks DAG production. Similar reversals in both LTP and LTD were also induced by inhibition of protein kinase C, which acts downstream of DAG. These results suggest that DGKζ regulates hippocampal LTP and LTD by promoting DAG-to-PA conversion, and establish that phospholipase C and protein kinase C lie upstream and downstream, respectively, of DGKζ-dependent regulation of hippocampal LTP and LTD., (Copyright © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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266. DGKζ is involved in LPS-activated phagocytosis through IQGAP1/Rac1 pathway.
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Okada M, Hozumi Y, Iwazaki K, Misaki K, Yanagida M, Araki Y, Watanabe T, Yagisawa H, Topham MK, Kaibuchi K, and Goto K
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- Animals, Cells, Cultured, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Humans, Lipopolysaccharides immunology, Macrophage Activation, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, rac1 GTP-Binding Protein, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Macrophages immunology, Neuropeptides metabolism, Phagocytosis, rac GTP-Binding Proteins metabolism, ras GTPase-Activating Proteins metabolism
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Diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) plays an important role in phosphoinositide signaling cascade by regulating the intracellular level of diacylglycerol and phosphatidic acid. The DGK family is involved in various pathophysiological responses that are mediated through unique binding partners in different tissues and cells. In this study, we identified a small GTPase effector protein, IQGAP1, as a novel DGKζ-associated complex protein. A bacterial endotoxin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), facilitated the complex formation in macrophages. Both proteins co-localized at the edge and phagocytic cup of the cell. Furthermore, RNA interference-mediated knockdown of DGKζ or IQGAP1 impaired LPS-induced Rac1 activation. Primary macrophages derived from DGKζ(-/-) mice attenuated LPS-induced phagocytosis of bacteria. These results suggest that DGKζ is involved in IQGAP1/Rac1-mediated phagocytosis upon LPS stimulation in macrophages., (Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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267. Catalytic activity and acyl-chain selectivity of diacylglycerol kinase ɛ are modulated by residues in and near the lipoxygenase-like motif.
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D'Souza K and Epand RM
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- Amino Acid Motifs, Amino Acid Sequence, Catalytic Domain, Cholesterol chemistry, Cholesterol genetics, Cholesterol metabolism, Consensus Sequence, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diglycerides chemistry, Diglycerides genetics, Diglycerides metabolism, Humans, Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions, Lipoxygenase genetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Substrate Specificity, Diacylglycerol Kinase chemistry, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Lipoxygenase chemistry, Lipoxygenase metabolism
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Diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) ɛ plays an important role in the resynthesis of phosphatidylinositol by mediating the phosphorylation of diacylglycerol to phosphatidic acid. DGKɛ is unique among mammalian DGK isoforms in that it is the only one that shows acyl-chain selectivity, preferring diacylglycerols with an sn-2 arachidonoyl group. The region responsible for this arachidonoyl specificity is the lipoxygenase (LOX)-like motif found in the accessory domain, adjacent to DGKɛ's catalytic site. Many mutations within the LOX-like motif result in a loss of enzyme activity. However, the few mutants that retain significant activity exhibit some decrease in selectivity for the arachidonoyl chain. In the present work, we have explored mutations in a region adjacent to the LOX-like motif, which is also contained within the same hydrophobic segment of the protein. This adjacent region also contains a cholesterol recognition/interaction amino acid consensus motif. Being outside of the LOX-like motif, this region likely has less direct contact with the substrate, and more activity is retained with mutations. This has allowed us to probe in more detail the relationship between this region of the protein and substrate specificity. We demonstrate that this cholesterol recognition/interaction amino acid consensus domain also plays a role in acyl-chain selectivity. Despite the high degree of conservation of the amino acid sequence in this region of the protein, certain mutations result in proteins with higher activity than the wild-type protein. These mutations also result in a selective gain of acyl-chain preferences for diacylglycerols with different acyl-chain profiles. In addition to the LOX-like motif, adjacent residues also contribute to selectivity for diacylglycerols with specific acyl-chain compositions, such as those found in the phosphatidylinositol cycle., (Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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268. Effect of variation in diacylglycerol kinase η (DGKH) gene on brain function in a cohort at familial risk of bipolar disorder.
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Whalley HC, Papmeyer M, Romaniuk L, Johnstone EC, Hall J, Lawrie SM, Sussmann JE, and McIntosh AM
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- Adolescent, Adult, Bipolar Disorder epidemiology, Brain physiopathology, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease epidemiology, Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Risk Factors, Young Adult, Bipolar Disorder enzymology, Bipolar Disorder genetics, Brain enzymology, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genetic Variation genetics
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Several lines of evidence indicate that the diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH) gene is implicated in the etiology of bipolar disorder (BD). However, the functional neural mechanisms of DGKH's risk association remain unknown. Therefore, we examined the effects of three haplotype-tagging risk variants in DGKH (single nucleotide polymorphisms rs9315885, rs1012053, and rs1170191) on brain activation using a verbal fluency functional magnetic resonance imaging task. The subject groups consisted of young individuals at high familial risk of BD (n=81) and a comparison group of healthy controls (n=75). Individuals were grouped based on risk haplotypes described in previous studies. There was a significant risk haplotype*group interaction in the left medial frontal gyrus (BA10, involving anterior cingulate BA32), left precuneus, and right parahippocampal gyrus. All regions demonstrated greater activation during the baseline condition than sentence completion. Individuals at high familial risk for BD homozygous for the DGKH risk haplotype demonstrated relatively greater activation (poor suppression) of these regions during the task vs the low-risk haplotype subjects. The reverse pattern was seen for the control subjects. These findings suggest that there are differential effects of the DGKH gene in healthy controls vs the bipolar high-risk group, which manifests as a failure to disengage default-mode regions in those at familial risk carrying the risk haplotype.
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269. Differential regulation of primary and memory CD8 T cell immune responses by diacylglycerol kinases.
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Shin J, O'Brien TF, Grayson JM, and Zhong XP
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- Animals, Antiviral Agents antagonists & inhibitors, Antiviral Agents metabolism, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes virology, Cell Differentiation genetics, Cell Differentiation immunology, Cell Line, Clone Cells, Cricetinae, Cytokines antagonists & inhibitors, Cytokines biosynthesis, Diacylglycerol Kinase deficiency, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Disease Models, Animal, Down-Regulation genetics, Down-Regulation immunology, Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte immunology, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis genetics, Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus immunology, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Mice, Transgenic, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes enzymology, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes immunology, Diacylglycerol Kinase physiology, Immunologic Memory genetics, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis immunology, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis pathology
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The manipulation of signals downstream of the TCR can have profound consequences for T cell development, function, and homeostasis. Diacylglycerol (DAG) produced after TCR stimulation functions as a secondary messenger and mediates the signaling to Ras-MEK-Erk and NF-κB pathways in T cells. DAG kinases (DGKs) convert DAG into phosphatidic acid, resulting in termination of DAG signaling. In this study, we demonstrate that DAG metabolism by DGKs can serve a crucial function in viral clearance upon lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. Ag-specific CD8(+) T cells from DGKα(-/-) and DGKζ(-/-) mice show enhanced expansion and increased cytokine production after lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection, yet DGK-deficient memory CD8(+) T cells exhibit impaired expansion after rechallenge. Thus, DGK activity plays opposing roles in the expansion of CD8(+) T cells during the primary and memory phases of the immune response, whereas consistently inhibiting antiviral cytokine production.
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270. Altered expression of diacylglycerol kinase isozymes in regenerating liver.
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Nakano T, Hozumi Y, Iwazaki K, Okumoto K, Iseki K, Saito T, Kawata S, Wakabayashi I, and Goto K
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- Animals, Cell Proliferation, Cells, Cultured, Cytoplasm enzymology, Cytoplasm metabolism, DNA biosynthesis, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Gene Expression Profiling, Hepatectomy, Hepatocytes cytology, Hepatocytes enzymology, Hepatocytes metabolism, Immunohistochemistry, Isoenzymes genetics, Isoenzymes metabolism, Liver cytology, Rats, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic genetics, Liver enzymology, Liver Regeneration genetics
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The liver possesses the capacity to restore its function and mass after injury. Liver regeneration is controlled through complicated mechanisms, in which the phosphoinositide (PI) cycle is shown to be activated in hepatocytes. Using a rat partial hepatectomy (PH) model, the authors investigated the expression of the diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) family, a key enzyme in the PI cycle, which metabolizes a lipid second-messenger diacylglycerol (DG). RT-PCR analysis shows that DGKζ and DGKα are the major isozymes in the liver. Results showed that in the process of regeneration, the DGKζ protein, which is detected in the nucleus of a small population of hepatocytes in normal liver, is significantly increased in almost all hepatocytes. However, the mRNA levels remain largely unchanged. Double labeling with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), an S phase marker, reveals that DGKζ is expressed independently of DNA synthesis or cell proliferation. However, DGKα protein localizes to the cytoplasm in normal and regenerating livers, but immunoblot analysis reveals that the expected (80 kDa) and the lower (70 kDa) bands are detected in normal liver, whereas at day 10 after PH, the expected band is solely recognized, showing a different processing pattern of DGKα in liver regeneration. These results suggest that DGKζ and DGKα are involved, respectively, in the nucleus and the cytoplasm of hepatocytes in regenerating liver.
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271. Negative feedback regulation of Gq signaling by protein kinase C is disrupted by diacylglycerol kinase ζ in COS-7 cells.
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Litosch I
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- Animals, COS Cells, Chlorocebus aethiops, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diglycerides metabolism, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11 genetics, Humans, Phospholipase D metabolism, Protein Kinase C antagonists & inhibitors, Protein Kinase C beta, Receptor, Muscarinic M1 genetics, Transfection, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Feedback, Physiological, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11 metabolism, Protein Kinase C metabolism, Receptor, Muscarinic M1 metabolism
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Cellular response to G(q)-linked agonists is shaped by regulatory inputs which determine signal strength and duration. Stimulation of phospholipase C-β (PLC-β) lipase activity results in an increase in the levels of diacylglycerol (DAG) and activation of protein kinase C (PKC) activity. PKC has been implicated in the feedback regulation of G(q) signaling through actions on PLC-β and phospholipase D (PLD) lipase activity. As PKC activity is modulated by multiple layers of regulation, the physiological impact of PKC on G(q) signaling is unclear. PKC signaling can be terminated by diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs) which are regulated in a cell-specific manner. The present studies investigated the contribution of the ubiquitously expressed DGKζ isoform in the regulation of PKC signaling and G(q) response in transfected COS-7 cells. Genetic depletion of DGKζ protein with antisense oligonucleotides dramatically reduced DAG metabolism. The sustained increase in PKC signaling was associated with a pronounced inhibition of carbachol-stimulated lipase activity in cells co-transfected with m1 muscarinic receptor, Gα(q) and either with or without PLC-β(1). The data also reveal that sustained activation of PKC alone does not increase cellular PLD1 activity. Therefore, G(12)-activated RhoA is physiologically important for adequate stimulation of PLD1 activity. These data show that the impact of PKC on G(q) signal transduction is determined by the background of cell-specific processes., (Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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272. Regulation of diacylglycerol kinase by phosphorylation.
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Shirai Y, Ikeda M, and Saito N
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- Animals, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Humans, Models, Biological, Phosphorylation genetics, Phosphorylation physiology, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism
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273. Analysis of the genotype of diacylglycerol kinase delta single-nucleotide polymorphisms in Parkinson disease in the Han Chinese population.
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Song W, Chen YP, Huang R, Chen K, Pan PL, Li J, Yang Y, and Shang HF
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- Adult, Age of Onset, Aged, Asian People ethnology, Asian People genetics, Female, Gene Frequency, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Odds Ratio, Severity of Illness Index, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Parkinson Disease genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
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Numerous Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) of the Diacylglycerol Kinase Delta (DGKD) isoform 1 gene have been associated with Parkinson Disease (PD) in the genome-wide association studies of Caucasian population. This association has not been proven in the Han Chinese PD patients. This study included 376 unrelated Han Chinese PD patients from West China and 273 unrelated healthy controls from the same region. Five SNPs (rs2971859, rs1550532, rs2305539, rs2034762, and rs2242102) were genotyped using the Sequenom iPLEX Assay technology. No significant differences were observed in genotype frequencies and in the Minor Allele Frequency (MAF) in the five SNPs between PD patients and controls, early-onset PD and controls, late-onset PD and controls, and between early-onset and late-onset PD patients. The present study is the first to report on the lack of association of DGKD SNPs with PD in the Han Chinese population. More related studies involving larger numbers of participants are necessary to confirm the present finding.
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274. Diacylglycerol kinase β knockout mice exhibit attention-deficit behavior and an abnormal response on methylphenidate-induced hyperactivity.
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Ishisaka M, Kakefuda K, Oyagi A, Ono Y, Tsuruma K, Shimazawa M, Kitaichi K, and Hara H
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- Akathisia, Drug-Induced genetics, Akathisia, Drug-Induced metabolism, Akathisia, Drug-Induced pathology, Akathisia, Drug-Induced physiopathology, Animals, Central Nervous System Stimulants pharmacology, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Methylphenidate pharmacology, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3 genetics, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3 metabolism, Nerve Tissue Proteins metabolism, Phenotype, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity genetics, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity metabolism, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity pathology, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity physiopathology, Central Nervous System Stimulants adverse effects, Corpus Striatum enzymology, Corpus Striatum metabolism, Corpus Striatum pathology, Corpus Striatum physiopathology, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, MAP Kinase Signaling System drug effects, MAP Kinase Signaling System genetics, Methylphenidate adverse effects, Nerve Tissue Proteins genetics
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Background: Diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) is an enzyme that phosphorylates diacylglycerol to produce phosphatidic acid. DGKβ is one of the subtypes of the DGK family and regulates many intracellular signaling pathways in the central nervous system. Previously, we demonstrated that DGKβ knockout (KO) mice showed various dysfunctions of higher brain function, such as cognitive impairment (with lower spine density), hyperactivity, reduced anxiety, and careless behavior. In the present study, we conducted further tests on DGKβ KO mice in order to investigate the function of DGKβ in the central nervous system, especially in the pathophysiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)., Methodology/principal Findings: DGKβ KO mice showed attention-deficit behavior in the object-based attention test and it was ameliorated by methylphenidate (MPH, 30 mg/kg, i.p.). In the open field test, DGKβ KO mice displayed a decreased response to the locomotor stimulating effects of MPH (30 mg/kg, i.p.), but showed a similar response to an N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, MK-801 (0.3 mg/kg, i.p.), when compared to WT mice. Examination of the phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), which is involved in regulation of locomotor activity, indicated that ERK1/2 activation induced by MPH treatment was defective in the striatum of DGKβ KO mice., Conclusions/significance: These findings suggest that DGKβ KO mice showed attention-deficit and hyperactive phenotype, similar to ADHD. Furthermore, the hyporesponsiveness of DGKβ KO mice to MPH was due to dysregulation of ERK phosphorylation, and that DGKβ has a pivotal involvement in ERK regulation in the striatum.
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275. RIC-7 promotes neuropeptide secretion.
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Hao Y, Hu Z, Sieburth D, and Kaplan JM
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- Acetylcholine metabolism, Aldicarb, Animals, Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins genetics, Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Drug Hypersensitivity genetics, Exocytosis, Muscle, Skeletal drug effects, Mutation, Nerve Tissue Proteins genetics, Nerve Tissue Proteins metabolism, Neurons cytology, Secretory Vesicles genetics, Secretory Vesicles metabolism, Synaptic Vesicles genetics, Synaptic Vesicles metabolism, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid pharmacology, Caenorhabditis elegans genetics, Caenorhabditis elegans metabolism, Neurons metabolism, Neuropeptides genetics, Neuropeptides metabolism, Presynaptic Terminals metabolism
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Secretion of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides is mediated by exocytosis of distinct secretory organelles, synaptic vesicles (SVs) and dense core vesicles (DCVs) respectively. Relatively little is known about factors that differentially regulate SV and DCV secretion. Here we identify a novel protein RIC-7 that is required for neuropeptide secretion in Caenorhabditis elegans. The RIC-7 protein is expressed in all neurons and is localized to presynaptic terminals. Imaging, electrophysiology, and behavioral analysis of ric-7 mutants indicates that acetylcholine release occurs normally, while neuropeptide release is significantly decreased. These results suggest that RIC-7 promotes DCV-mediated secretion., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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276. Prokaryotic diacylglycerol kinase and undecaprenol kinase.
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Van Horn WD and Sanders CR
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- Catalytic Domain, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Escherichia coli metabolism, Gram-Positive Bacteria enzymology, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) chemistry, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) metabolism, Plants enzymology, Protein Folding, Diacylglycerol Kinase chemistry, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Escherichia coli enzymology
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Prokaryotic diacylglycerol kinase (DAGK) and undecaprenol kinase (UDPK) are the lone members of a family of multispan membrane enzymes that are very small, lack relationships to any other family of proteins-including water soluble kinases-and exhibit an unusual structure and active site architecture. Escherichia coli DAGK plays an important role in recycling diacylglycerol produced as a by-product of biosynthesis of molecules located in the periplasmic space. UDPK seems to play an analogous role in gram-positive bacteria, where its importance is evident because UDPK is essential for biofilm formation by the oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans. DAGK has also long served as a model system for studies of membrane protein biocatalysis, folding, stability, and structure. This review explores our current understanding of the microbial physiology, enzymology, structural biology, and folding of the prokaryotic DAGK family, which is based on over 40 years of studies.
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277. Diacylglycerol kinase ζ controls diacylglycerol metabolism at the immunological synapse.
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Gharbi SI, Rincón E, Avila-Flores A, Torres-Ayuso P, Almena M, Cobos MA, Albar JP, and Mérida I
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- CD28 Antigens metabolism, Cell Line, Cell Membrane, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase immunology, Humans, Jurkat Cells, Phorbol Esters pharmacology, Phosphatidic Acids biosynthesis, RNA Interference, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell metabolism, Signal Transduction, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Diglycerides metabolism, Immunological Synapses metabolism, T-Lymphocytes immunology
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Diacylglycerol (DAG) generation at the T cell immunological synapse (IS) determines the correct activation of antigen-specific immune responses. DAG kinases (DGKs) α and ζ act as negative regulators of DAG-mediated signals by catalyzing DAG conversion to phosphatidic acid (PA). Nonetheless, the specific input of each enzyme and their spatial regulation during IS formation remain uncharacterized. Here we report recruitment of endogenous DGKα and DGKζ to the T cell receptor (TCR) complex following TCR/CD28 engagement. Specific DGK gene silencing shows that PA production at the activated complex depends mainly on DGKζ, indicating functional differences between these proteins. DGKζ kinase activity at the TCR is enhanced by phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate cotreatment, suggesting DAG-mediated regulation of DGKζ responsiveness. We used GFP-DGKζ and -DGKα chimeras to assess translocation dynamics during IS formation. Only GFP-DGKζ translocated rapidly to the plasma membrane at early stages of IS formation, independent of enzyme activity. Finally, use of a fluorescent DAG sensor confirmed rapid, sustained DAG accumulation at the IS and allowed us to directly correlate membrane translocation of active DGKζ with DAG consumption at the IS. This study highlights a DGKζ-specific function for local DAG metabolism at the IS and offers new clues to its mode of regulation.
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278. Regulation and functions of diacylglycerol kinases.
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Shulga YV, Topham MK, and Epand RM
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- Alternative Splicing, Animals, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Subcellular Fractions enzymology, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism
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279. Enzymatic activity and gene expression of diacylglycerol kinase isozymes in developing retina of rats.
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Sato S, Hozumi Y, Saino-Saito S, Yamashita H, and Goto K
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- Animals, Enzyme Activation, Eye enzymology, Gene Expression, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Isoenzymes genetics, Isoenzymes metabolism, Male, RNA, Messenger metabolism, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Retina enzymology
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Photoreceptors contain highly specialized structures for phototransduction, which is mediated by rhodopsins and heterotrimeric G-proteins. The signal is transmitted through the cGMP cascade, which controls cGMP-gated cation channels in mammals, while in flies it is operated by phosphoinositide (PI) cascade through a second messenger diacylglycerol (DG), which engenders the opening of Ca2+ channels. Recent studies suggest that PI-related signaling cascade is also involved in the phototransduction in mammalian retina. This study examined whether one PI-related enzyme, diacylglycerol kinase (DGK), which is regarded as a regulator of the DG signal through its metabolism, is expressed in mammalian retina. Enzymatic assay, Northern blot and RT-PCR analyses, and in situ hybridization histochemistry were performed to assess the expression profile of DGK isozymes and their cellular localization. In rat retina DGKε, DGKζ, and DGKι are the dominant species with distinct patterns of expression. At the cellular level, DGKε is the only one detected intensely in the photoreceptor layer, although DGKι and DGKζ are observed in bipolar and ganglion cell layers. These results suggest that each DGK isozyme plays a different role in the signal transduction in distinct cell types and that DGKε is a candidate involved in the photoreceptor PI signaling machinery.
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280. Integrated genomic profiling identifies loss of chromosome 11p impacting transcriptomic activity in aggressive pituitary PRL tumors.
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Wierinckx A, Roche M, Raverot G, Legras-Lachuer C, Croze S, Nazaret N, Rey C, Auger C, Jouanneau E, Chanson P, Trouillas J, and Lachuer J
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- Acetyltransferases genetics, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cell Cycle genetics, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, DNA-Binding Proteins genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Down-Regulation genetics, Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport genetics, Female, Gene Expression Profiling methods, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Humans, Hyaluronan Receptors genetics, Hyaluronan Receptors metabolism, Male, Middle Aged, Phosphoproteins genetics, Signal Transduction genetics, Transcription Factor TFIIH, Transcription Factors genetics, Transcription Factors, TFII genetics, Chromosome Aberrations, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, Pituitary Neoplasms genetics, Prolactinoma genetics
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Integrative genomics approaches associating DNA structure and transcriptomic analysis should allow the identification of cascades of events relating to tumor aggressiveness. While different genome alterations have been identified in pituitary tumors, none have ever been correlated with the aggressiveness. This study focused on one subtype of pituitary tumor, the prolactin (PRL) pituitary tumors, to identify molecular events associated with the aggressive and malignant phenotypes. We combined a comparative genomic hybridization and transcriptomic analysis of 13 PRL tumors classified as nonaggressive or aggressive. Allelic loss within the p arm region of chromosome 11 was detected in five of the aggressive tumors. Allelic loss in the 11q arm was observed in three of these five tumors, all three of which were considered as malignant based on the occurrence of metastases. Comparison of genomic and transcriptomic data showed that allelic loss impacted upon the expression of genes located in the imbalanced region. Data filtering allowed us to highlight five deregulated genes (DGKZ, CD44, TSG101, GTF2H1, HTATIP2), within the missing 11p region, potentially responsible for triggering the aggressive and malignant phenotypes of PRL tumors. Our combined genomic and transcriptomic analysis underlines the importance of chromosome allelic loss in determining the aggressiveness and malignancy of tumors., (Brain Pathology © 2011 International Society of Neuropathology. No claim to original US government works.)
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281. Tight regulation of diacylglycerol-mediated signaling is critical for proper invariant NKT cell development.
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Shen S, Wu J, Srivatsan S, Gorentla BK, Shin J, Xu L, and Zhong XP
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- Animals, Blotting, Western, Cell Differentiation genetics, Cell Separation, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Diglycerides immunology, Diglycerides metabolism, Flow Cytometry, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Natural Killer T-Cells cytology, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Signal Transduction genetics, Cell Differentiation immunology, Diacylglycerol Kinase immunology, Natural Killer T-Cells immunology, Signal Transduction immunology
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Type I NKT cells, or invariant NKT (iNKT) cells, express a semi-invariant TCR characterized by its unique Vα14-Jα18 usage (iVα14TCR). Upon interaction with glycolipid/CD1d complexes, the iVα14TCRs transduce signals that are essential for iNKT selection and maturation. However, it remains unclear how these signals are regulated and how important such regulations are during iNKT development. Diacylglycerol (DAG) is an essential second messenger downstream of the TCR that activates the protein kinase C-IκB kinase (IKK)α/β-NF-κB pathway, known to be crucial for iNKT development, as well as the RasGRP1-Ras-Erk1/2 pathway in T cells. DAG kinases play an important role in controlling intracellular DAG concentration and thereby negatively regulate DAG signaling. In this article, we report that simultaneous absence of DAG kinase α and ζ causes severe defects in iNKT development, coincident with enhanced IKK-NF-κB and Ras-Erk1/2 activation. Moreover, constitutive IKKβ and Ras activities also result in iNKT developmental defects. Thus, DAG-mediated signaling is not only essential but also needs to be tightly regulated for proper iNKT cell development.
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282. Cross-disorder analysis of bipolar risk genes: further evidence of DGKH as a risk gene for bipolar disorder, but also unipolar depression and adult ADHD.
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Weber H, Kittel-Schneider S, Gessner A, Domschke K, Neuner M, Jacob CP, Buttenschon HN, Boreatti-Hümmer A, Volkert J, Herterich S, Baune BT, Gross-Lesch S, Kopf J, Kreiker S, Nguyen TT, Weissflog L, Arolt V, Mors O, Deckert J, Lesch KP, and Reif A
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- Adult, Aged, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity psychology, Bipolar Disorder psychology, Depressive Disorder psychology, Female, Genetic Variation genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Risk Factors, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity enzymology, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity genetics, Bipolar Disorder genetics, Depressive Disorder genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics
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Recently, several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on bipolar disorder (BPD) suggested novel risk genes. However, only few of them were followed up and further, the specificity of these genes is even more elusive. To address these issues, we genotyped SNPs in ANK3, CACNA1C, CMTM8, DGKH, EGFR, and NPAS3, which were significantly associated with BPD in previous GWAS, in a sample of 380 BPD patients. Replicated SNPs were then followed up in patients suffering from unipolar depression (UPD; n=387) or adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (aADHD; n=535). While we could not confirm an association of ANK3, CACNA1C, and EGFR with BPD, 10 SNPs in DGKH, CMTM8, and NPAS3 were nominally associated with disease, with two DGKH markers surviving correction for multiple testing. When these were followed up in UPD and aADHD, seven DGKH SNPs were also associated with UPD, while one SNP each in NPAS3 and CMTM8 and four in DGKH were linked to aADHD. Furthermore, a DGKH haplotype consisting of rs994856/rs9525580/rs9525584 GAT was associated with all disorders tested, while the complementary AGC haplotype was protective. The corresponding haploblock spans a 27-kb region covering exons coding for amino acids 65-243, and thus might include functional variants yet to be identified. We demonstrate an association of DGKH with BPD, UPD, and aADHD by applying a two-stage design. These disorders share the feature of mood instability, so that this phenotype might be associated with genetic variation in DGKH.
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283. Study of arachidonoyl specificity in two enzymes of the PI cycle.
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Shulga YV, Topham MK, and Epand RM
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- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Arachidonate Lipoxygenases metabolism, COS Cells, Catalytic Domain, Chlorocebus aethiops, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Humans, Immunoblotting, Kinetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation genetics, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) genetics, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Substrate Specificity, Arachidonic Acid metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Diglycerides metabolism, Phosphatidic Acids metabolism, Phosphatidylinositols metabolism, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) metabolism
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We identified a conserved pattern of residues L-X((3-4))-R-X((2))-L-X((4))-G, in which -X((n))- is n residues of any amino acid, in two enzymes acting on the polyunsaturated fatty acids, diacylglycerol kinase epsilon (DGKɛ) and phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate-5-kinase Iα (PIP5K Iα). DGKɛ is the only one of the 10 mammalian isoforms of DGK that exhibits arachidonoyl specificity and is the only isoform with the motif mentioned above. Mutations of the essential residues in this motif result in the loss of arachidonoyl specificity. Furthermore, DGKα can be converted to an enzyme having this motif by substituting only one residue. When DGKα was mutated so that it gained the motif, the enzyme also gained some specificity for arachidonoyl-containing diacylglycerol. This motif is present also in an isoform of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate-5-kinase that we demonstrated had arachidonoyl specificity for its substrate. Single residue mutations within the identified motif of this isoform result in the loss of activity against an arachidonoyl substrate. The importance of acyl chain specificity for the phosphatidic acid activation of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate-5-kinase is also shown. We demonstrate that the acyl chain dependence of this phosphatidic acid activation is dependent on the substrate. This is the first demonstration of a motif that endows specificity for an acyl chain in enzymes DGKε and PIP5K Iα., (Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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284. Improved triacylglycerol production in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 by metabolic engineering.
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Santala S, Efimova E, Kivinen V, Larjo A, Aho T, Karp M, and Santala V
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- Acinetobacter genetics, Acinetobacter growth & development, Bacterial Proteins genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Gene Deletion, Genetic Engineering, Lipase genetics, Lipase metabolism, Phenotype, Acinetobacter metabolism, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Triglycerides biosynthesis
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Background: Triacylglycerols are used in various purposes including food applications, cosmetics, oleochemicals and biofuels. Currently the main sources for triacylglycerol are vegetable oils, and microbial triacylglycerol has been suggested as an alternative for these. Due to the low production rates and yields of microbial processes, the role of metabolic engineering has become more significant. As a robust model organism for genetic and metabolic studies, and for the natural capability to produce triacylglycerol, Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 serves as an excellent organism for modelling the effects of metabolic engineering for energy molecule biosynthesis., Results: Beneficial gene deletions regarding triacylglycerol production were screened by computational means exploiting the metabolic model of ADP1. Four deletions, acr1, poxB, dgkA, and a triacylglycerol lipase were chosen to be studied experimentally both separately and concurrently by constructing a knock-out strain (MT) with three of the deletions. Improvements in triacylglycerol production were observed: the strain MT produced 5.6 fold more triacylglycerol (mg/g cell dry weight) compared to the wild type strain, and the proportion of triacylglycerol in total lipids was increased by 8-fold., Conclusions: In silico predictions of beneficial gene deletions were verified experimentally. The chosen single and multiple gene deletions affected beneficially the natural triacylglycerol metabolism of A. baylyi ADP1. This study demonstrates the importance of single gene deletions in triacylglycerol metabolism, and proposes Acinetobacter sp. ADP1 as a model system for bioenergetic studies regarding metabolic engineering.
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285. Differential regulation of diacylglycerol kinase isoform in human failing hearts.
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Bilim O, Shishido T, Toyama S, Suzuki S, Sasaki T, Kitahara T, Sadahiro M, Takeishi Y, and Kubota I
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- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cardiac Volume genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase biosynthesis, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Heart Failure enzymology, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardium enzymology, Retrospective Studies, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Heart Failure genetics, RNA genetics
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Evidence from several studies indicates the importance of Gαq protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling pathway, which includes diacylglycerol (DAG), and protein kinase C, in the development of heart failure. DAG kinase (DGK) acts as an endogenous regulator of GPCR signaling pathway by catalyzing and regulating DAG. Expressions of DGK isoforms α, ε, and ζ in rodent hearts have been detected; however, the expression and alteration of DGK isoforms in a failing human heart has not yet been examined. In this study, we detected mRNA expressions of DGK isoforms γ, η, ε, and ζ in failing human heart samples obtained from patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Furthermore, we investigated modulation of DGK isoform expression in these hearts. We found that expressions of DGKη and DGKζ were increased and decreased, respectively, whereas those of DGKγ and DGKε remained unchanged. This is the first report that describes the differential regulation of DGK isoforms in normal and failing human hearts.
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286. Common SNPs and haplotypes in DGKH are associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the Chinese Han population.
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Zeng Z, Wang T, Li T, Li Y, Chen P, Zhao Q, Liu J, Li J, Feng G, He L, and Shi Y
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- Bipolar Disorder ethnology, China epidemiology, China ethnology, Female, Gene Frequency, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Odds Ratio, Schizophrenia epidemiology, Schizophrenia ethnology, Bipolar Disorder genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Haplotypes genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Schizophrenia genetics
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287. Streptococcus mutans diacylglycerol kinase homologue: a potential target for anti-caries chemotherapy.
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Shibata Y, Kawada-Matsuo M, Shirai Y, Saito N, Li D, and Yamashita Y
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- Cariostatic Agents pharmacology, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Enzyme Inhibitors pharmacology, Genes, Bacterial, Humans, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Mutation, Piperidines pharmacology, Pyrimidinones pharmacology, Quinazolinones pharmacology, Streptococcus mutans genetics, Streptococcus mutans growth & development, Thiazoles pharmacology, Dental Caries drug therapy, Dental Caries microbiology, Diacylglycerol Kinase antagonists & inhibitors, Streptococcus mutans drug effects, Streptococcus mutans enzymology
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Aciduricity is a major cariogenic characteristic of Streptococcus mutans, and various genes have been implicated in this ability of S. mutans. Sixteen S. mutans mutant strains, each defective in a different gene, were constructed and their aciduricity was assessed. Of the mutants, the diacylglycerol kinase (Dgk) homologue mutant and the glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase mutant strains displayed distinctly attenuated aciduricity when grown at pH 5.5. Considering the delayed growth rate of the latter at neutral pH, the dgk homologue appeared to be a gene responding specifically to pH reduction among the 16 genes tested. Two known eukaryotic Dgk inhibitors, R59949 and R59022, were selected as candidate inhibitors of the S. mutans Dgk homologue. R59949, but not R59022, significantly reduced the growth of S. mutans at pH <5.4. R59949 did not affect either the final pH of the medium or the internal pH of the organism. Furthermore, R59949 inhibited about 20 % of Dgk kinase activity. Novel derivatives of R59949 may be useful for preventing the development of dental caries caused by S. mutans.
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288. Negative regulation of mTOR activation by diacylglycerol kinases.
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Gorentla BK, Wan CK, and Zhong XP
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- Animals, Cell Line, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases metabolism, Immunologic Memory physiology, MAP Kinase Kinase 1 metabolism, MAP Kinase Kinase 2 metabolism, Mice, Mice, Mutant Strains, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases metabolism, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell metabolism, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases genetics, Thymus Gland cytology, Thymus Gland immunology, Thymus Gland metabolism, Transcription Factor AP-1 metabolism, ras Proteins metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Lymphocyte Activation physiology, MAP Kinase Signaling System immunology, T-Lymphocytes enzymology, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases metabolism
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The engagement of TCR induces T-cell activation, which initiates multiple characteristic changes such as increase in cell size, cell division, and the production of cytokines and other effector molecules. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) regulates protein synthesis, transcription, cell survival, and autophagy. Critical roles of mTOR in T-cell activation and effector/memory differentiation have been revealed using chemical inhibitors or by genetic ablation of mTOR in T cells. However, the connection between mTOR signaling and other signaling cascades downstream of TCR is unclear. We demonstrate that diacylglycerol (DAG) and TCR engagement activate signaling in both mTOR complexes 1 and 2 through the activation of the Ras-mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (Mek1/2)-extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (Erk1/2)-activator protein 1 (AP-1), known collectively as the Ras-Mek1/2-Erk1/2-AP-1 pathway. Deficiency of RasGRP1 or inhibition of Mek1/2 activity drastically decreases TCR-induced mTOR activation, whereas constitutively active Ras or Mek1 promotes mTOR activation. Although constitutively active Akt promotes TCR-induced mTOR activation, such activation is attenuated by Mek1/2 inhibition. We demonstrated further that DAG kinases (DGKs) α and ζ, which terminate DAG-mediated signaling, synergistically inhibit TCR-induced mTOR activation by inhibiting the Ras-Mek1/2-Erk/12 pathway. These observations provide novel insights into the regulation of mTOR activation.
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289. Nominal association between a polymorphism in DGKH and bipolar disorder detected in a meta-analysis of East Asian case-control samples.
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Takata A, Kawasaki H, Iwayama Y, Yamada K, Gotoh L, Mitsuyasu H, Miura T, Kato T, Yoshikawa T, and Kanba S
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- Asian People genetics, Case-Control Studies, Asia, Eastern, Female, Gene Frequency, Genotype, Humans, Male, Membrane Proteins genetics, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Cell Surface genetics, Bipolar Disorder genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics
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Aim: Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of bipolar disorder (BD) have detected new candidate genes, including DGKH, DFNB31 and SORCS2. However, the results of these GWAS were not necessarily consistent, indicating the importance of replication studies. In this study, we tested the genetic association of DGKH, DFNB31 and SORCS2 with BD., Methods: We genotyped 18 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in DGKH, DFNB31 and SORCS2 using Japanese samples (366 cases and 370 controls). We also performed a meta-analysis of four SNP in DGKH, using the previously published allele frequency data of Han-Chinese case-control samples (1139 cases and 1138 controls)., Results: IN the association analysis using Japanese samples, a SNP in SORCS2 (rs10937823) showed nominal genotypic association. However, we could not find any association in an additional analysis of tag SNP around rs10937823. In the meta-analysis of SNP in DGKH, rs9315897, which was not significantly associated with BD in the previous Chinese study, showed nominal association., Conclusion: Although the association was not strong, the result of this study would support the association between DGKH and BD., (© 2011 The Authors. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences © 2011 Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.)
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290. Diacylglycerol kinase alpha regulates globular adiponectin-induced reactive oxygen species.
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Kamio N, Akifusa S, and Yamashita Y
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- Animals, Cell Line, Tumor, Gene Expression, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Humans, Mice, NADPH Oxidase 1, NADPH Oxidases genetics, Nitric Oxide metabolism, Pyrimidinones pharmacology, RNA Interference, RNA, Messenger genetics, RNA, Messenger metabolism, RNA, Small Interfering pharmacology, Signal Transduction, Thiazoles pharmacology, Adiponectin metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Macrophages metabolism, Reactive Oxygen Species metabolism
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It has previously been reported that the globular form of adiponectin (gAd), mature adipocyte-derived cytokine, induced generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO) in the murine macrophage cell line RAW 264. This study investigated whether diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs), enzymes functioning in sub-cellular signalling pathways, had a role on gAd-induced ROS generation in RAW 264 cells. Administration of R59022, a specific inhibitor for DGK, reduced gAd-induced ROS generation and NO release. RAW 264 cell expressed DGKα mRNA. Depression of DGKα mRNA by RNA interference significantly reduced the ROS generation in response to gAd treatment. Interestingly, transfection with the DGKα-specific small interfering RNA attenuated the expression level of Nox1 mRNA in gAd-treated RAW 264 cells. In addition, the DGKα knockdown with siRNA suppressed gAd-induced NO release.
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291. Dual regulation of RA-RhoGAP activity by phosphatidic acid and Rap1 during neurite outgrowth.
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Kurooka T, Yamamoto Y, Takai Y, and Sakisaka T
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- Cell Line, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, GTPase-Activating Proteins genetics, Humans, Phosphatidic Acids genetics, Protein Binding, Protein Structure, Tertiary, rap1 GTP-Binding Proteins genetics, GTPase-Activating Proteins metabolism, Neurites enzymology, Phosphatidic Acids metabolism, rap1 GTP-Binding Proteins metabolism
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During neurite outgrowth, Rho small G protein activity is spatiotemporally regulated to organize the neurite sprouting, extension, and branching. We have previously identified a potent Rho GTPase-activating protein (GAP), RA-RhoGAP, as a direct downstream target of Rap1 small G protein in the neurite outgrowth. In addition to the Ras-associating (RA) domain for Rap1 binding, RA-RhoGAP has the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain for lipid binding. Here, we showed that phosphatidic acid (PA) bound to the PH domain and enhanced GAP activity for Rho. RA-RhoGAP induced extension of neurite in a diacylglycerol kinase-mediated synthesis of the PA-dependent manner. Knockdown of RA-RhoGAP reduced the diacylglycerol kinase-induced neurite extension. In contrast to the effect of the RA domain, the PH domain was specifically involved in the neurite extension, not in the sprouting and branching. These results indicate that PA and Rap1 cooperatively regulate RA-RhoGAP activity for promoting neurite outgrowth.
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292. Decreased diacylglycerol metabolism enhances ERK activation and augments CD8+ T cell functional responses.
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Riese MJ, Grewal J, Das J, Zou T, Patil V, Chakraborty AK, and Koretzky GA
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- Animals, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes enzymology, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Diglycerides genetics, Diglycerides metabolism, Enzyme Activation genetics, Enzyme Activation immunology, Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases genetics, Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases metabolism, Lymphoma enzymology, Lymphoma genetics, Lymphoma therapy, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Neoplasms, Experimental enzymology, Neoplasms, Experimental genetics, Neoplasms, Experimental therapy, ras Proteins immunology, ras Proteins metabolism, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes immunology, Diacylglycerol Kinase immunology, Diglycerides immunology, Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases immunology, Lymphoma immunology, Models, Immunological, Neoplasms, Experimental immunology
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Modulation of T cell receptor signal transduction in CD8(+) T cells represents a novel strategy toward enhancing the immune response to tumor. Recently, levels of guanine exchange factors, RasGRP and SOS, within T cells have been shown to represent a key determinant in the regulation of the analog to the digital activation threshold of Ras. One important for regulating activation levels of RasGRP is diacylglycerol (DAG), and its levels are influenced by diacylglycerol kinase-ζ (DGKζ), which metabolizes DAG into phosphatidic acid, terminating DAG-mediated Ras signaling. We sought to determine whether DGKζ-deficient CD8(+) T cells demonstrated enhanced in vitro responses in a manner predicted by the current model of Ras activation and to evaluate whether targeting this threshold confers enhanced CD8(+) T cell responsiveness to tumor. We observed that DGKζ-deficient CD8(+) T cells conform to most predictions of the current model of how RasGRP levels influence Ras activation. But our results differ in that the EC(50) value of stimulation is not altered for any T cell receptor stimulus, a finding that suggests a further degree of complexity to how DGKζ deficiency affects signals important for Ras and ERK activation. Additionally, we found that DGKζ-deficient CD8(+) T cells demonstrate enhanced responsiveness in a subcutaneous lymphoma model, implicating the analog to a digital conversion threshold as a novel target for potential therapeutic manipulation.
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293. DGK1-encoded diacylglycerol kinase activity is required for phospholipid synthesis during growth resumption from stationary phase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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Fakas S, Konstantinou C, and Carman GM
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- Cerulenin pharmacokinetics, Choline pharmacokinetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diglycerides metabolism, Gene Deletion, Phosphatidate Phosphatase genetics, Phosphatidate Phosphatase metabolism, Phospholipids metabolism, Repressor Proteins genetics, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Phospholipids biosynthesis, Repressor Proteins metabolism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae enzymology, Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth & development, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins metabolism
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In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, triacylglycerol mobilization for phospholipid synthesis occurs during growth resumption from stationary phase, and this metabolism is essential in the absence of de novo fatty acid synthesis. In this work, we provide evidence that DGK1-encoded diacylglycerol kinase activity is required to convert triacylglycerol-derived diacylglycerol to phosphatidate for phospholipid synthesis. Cells lacking diacylglycerol kinase activity (e.g. dgk1Δ mutation) failed to resume growth in the presence of the fatty acid synthesis inhibitor cerulenin. Lipid analysis data showed that dgk1Δ mutant cells did not mobilize triacylglycerol for membrane phospholipid synthesis and accumulated diacylglycerol. The dgk1Δ phenotypes were partially complemented by preventing the formation of diacylglycerol by the PAH1-encoded phosphatidate phosphatase and by channeling diacylglycerol to phosphatidylcholine via the Kennedy pathway. These observations, coupled to an inhibitory effect of dioctanoyl-diacylglycerol on the growth of wild type cells, indicated that diacylglycerol kinase also functions to alleviate diacylglycerol toxicity.
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294. DGKι regulates presynaptic release during mGluR-dependent LTD.
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Yang J, Seo J, Nair R, Han S, Jang S, Kim K, Han K, Paik SK, Choi J, Lee S, Bae YC, Topham MK, Prescott SM, Rhee JS, Choi SY, and Kim E
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- Animals, Brain ultrastructure, Cell Line, Cells, Cultured, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Dizocilpine Maleate metabolism, Gene Deletion, Gene Expression, Humans, Mice, Neurons metabolism, Neurons ultrastructure, Neurotransmitter Agents metabolism, Protein Kinase C metabolism, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate metabolism, Synaptic Transmission, Brain metabolism, Diacylglycerol Kinase analysis, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Nerve Tissue Proteins metabolism, Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate metabolism, Synapses metabolism
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Diacylglycerol (DAG) is an important lipid second messenger. DAG signalling is terminated by conversion of DAG to phosphatidic acid (PA) by diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs). The neuronal synapse is a major site of DAG production and action; however, how DGKs are targeted to subcellular sites of DAG generation is largely unknown. We report here that postsynaptic density (PSD)-95 family proteins interact with and promote synaptic localization of DGKι. In addition, we establish that DGKι acts presynaptically, a function that contrasts with the known postsynaptic function of DGKζ, a close relative of DGKι. Deficiency of DGKι in mice does not affect dendritic spines, but leads to a small increase in presynaptic release probability. In addition, DGKι-/- synapses show a reduction in metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent long-term depression (mGluR-LTD) at neonatal (∼2 weeks) stages that involve suppression of a decrease in presynaptic release probability. Inhibition of protein kinase C normalizes presynaptic release probability and mGluR-LTD at DGKι-/- synapses. These results suggest that DGKι requires PSD-95 family proteins for synaptic localization and regulates presynaptic DAG signalling and neurotransmitter release during mGluR-LTD.
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295. Common variants in DGKK are strongly associated with risk of hypospadias.
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van der Zanden LF, van Rooij IA, Feitz WF, Knight J, Donders AR, Renkema KY, Bongers EM, Vermeulen SH, Kiemeney LA, Veltman JA, Arias-Vásquez A, Zhang X, Markljung E, Qiao L, Baskin LS, Nordenskjöld A, Roeleveld N, Franke B, and Knoers NV
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- Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Hypospadias genetics
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Hypospadias is a common congenital malformation of the male external genitalia. We performed a genome-wide association study using pooled DNA from 436 individuals with hypospadias (cases) and 494 controls of European descent and selected the highest ranked SNPs for individual genotyping in the discovery sample, an additional Dutch sample of 133 cases and their parents, and a Swedish series of 266 cases and 402 controls. Individual genotyping of two SNPs (rs1934179 and rs7063116) in DGKK, encoding diacylglycerol kinase κ, produced compelling evidence for association with hypospadias in the discovery sample (allele-specific odds ratio (OR) = 2.5, P = 2.5 × 10⁻¹¹ and OR = 2.3, P = 2.9 × 10⁻⁹, respectively) and in the Dutch (OR = 3.9, P = 2.4 × 10⁻⁵ and OR = 3.8, P = 3.4 × 10⁻⁵) and Swedish (OR = 2.5, P = 2.6 × 10⁻⁸ and OR = 2.2, P = 2.7 × 10⁻⁶) replication samples. Expression studies showed expression of DGKK in preputial tissue of cases and controls, which was lower in carriers of the risk allele of rs1934179 (P = 0.047). We propose DGKK as a major risk gene for hypospadias.
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296. Diacylglycerol kinase ζ inhibits ventricular tachyarrhythmias in a mouse model of heart failure.
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Hirose M, Takeishi Y, Niizeki T, Nakada T, Shimojo H, Kashihara T, Horiuchi-Hirose M, Kubota I, Mende U, and Yamada M
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- Animals, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11 genetics, Mice, Mice, Transgenic, Myocytes, Cardiac, TRPC Cation Channels, Tachycardia, Ventricular etiology, Ventricular Premature Complexes etiology, Diacylglycerol Kinase physiology, Heart Failure complications, Tachycardia, Ventricular prevention & control
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Background: Diacylglycerol kinase ζ (DGKζ) inhibited atrial tachyarrhythmias in a mouse model of heart failure (HF) in our study. However, whether DGKζ prevents the HF-induced ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VT) is unknown., Methods and Results: Effects of DGKζ on VT using transgenic mice with transient cardiac expression of activated G protein α(q) (Gα(q)-TG; model of HF) were elucidated and double transgenic mice with cardiac-specific overexpression of both DGKζ and the activated Gα(q) (Gα(q)/DGKζ-TG) were used. Premature ventricular contraction (PVC) and/or VT were frequently observed in Gα(q)-TG mice but not in Gα(q)/DGKζ-TG and wild-type (WT) mice (P<0.01). Protein expressions of canonical transient receptor potential (TRPC) channels 3 and 6 increased in Gα(q)-TG hearts compared with WT and Gα(q)/DGKζ-TG hearts. SK&F96365, a TRPC channel blocker, decreased the number of PVC and prevented VT in anesthetized Gα(q)-TG mice (P<0.05). 1-oleoyl-2-acyl-sn-glycerol (OAG), a diacylglycerol analogue, increased the number of PVC in isolated Gα(q)-TG hearts compared with WT hearts and induced VT in Gα(q)-TG hearts (P<0.01). SK&F96365 decreased the number of PVC and prevented VT in isolated Gα(q)-TG hearts (P<0.01) even in the presence of OAG. Early afterdepolarization (EAD)-induced triggered activity was frequently observed in single Gα(q)-TG ventricular myocytes. Moreover, SK&F96365 prevented the EAD., Conclusions: These results demonstrated that DGKζ inhibited VT in a mouse model of HF and suggest that TRPC channels participate in VT induction in failing hearts.
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297. SNP variations in the 7q33 region containing DGKI are associated with dyslexia in the Finnish and German populations.
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Matsson H, Tammimies K, Zucchelli M, Anthoni H, Onkamo P, Nopola-Hemmi J, Lyytinen H, Leppanen PH, Neuhoff N, Warnke A, Schulte-Körne G, Schumacher J, Nöthen MM, Kere J, and Peyrard-Janvid M
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- Child, Cohort Studies, Female, Finland, Genetic Markers genetics, Genotype, Germany, Haplotypes, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Phenotype, Alleles, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7 genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Dyslexia genetics, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Variation genetics, Genetics, Population, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
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Four genes, DYX1C1, ROBO1, DCDC2 and KIAA0319 have been studied both genetically and functionally as candidate genes for developmental dyslexia, a common learning disability in children. The identification of novel genes is crucial to better understand the molecular pathways affected in dyslectic individuals. Here, we report results from a fine-mapping approach involving linkage and association analysis in Finnish and German dyslexic cohorts. We restrict a candidate region to 0.3 Mb on chromosome 7q33. This region harbours the gene diacylglycerol kinase, iota (DGKI) which contains overlapping haplotypes associated with dyslexia in both Finnish and German sample sets.
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298. The Bacillus subtilis essential gene dgkB is dispensable in mutants with defective lipoteichoic acid synthesis.
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Matsuoka S, Hashimoto M, Kamiya Y, Miyazawa T, Ishikawa K, Hara H, and Matsumoto K
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- Bacterial Proteins genetics, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Genes, Essential, Genes, Lethal, Lipid Metabolism genetics, Protein Transport, Bacillus subtilis enzymology, Bacillus subtilis genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Lipopolysaccharides biosynthesis, Mutation, Teichoic Acids biosynthesis
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The dgkB gene is essential for the growth of Bacillus subtilis. It encodes a diacylglycerol (DG) kinase that converts DG to phosphatidic acid to reintroduce it into the phospholipid synthesis pathway. Repression of the dgkB gene placed under a regulatable promoter causes accumulation of DG and leads to lethality. DG is formed as a byproduct of the synthesis of lipoteichoic acid (LTA), a polyanionic component of the cell envelope. B. subtilis synthesizes LTA by polymerizing the glycerophosphate moiety of phosphatidylglycerol (PG) onto a glucolipid membrane anchor, and releasing the DG moiety of PG. B. subtilis has four genes homologous to Staphylococcus aureus ltaS, which encodes LTA synthase. Disruption of either or both of two genes, yflE and yfnI, whose products show higher homology with S. aureus LtaS among the four homologues, suppressed the lethality caused by dgkB repression. In cells with dgkB repression, DG was accumulated to 43 ± 3% of total lipids, about three times the content of wild type cells (13 ± 1%). Disruption of yfnI in the dgkB-repressed cells reduced the DG content to 15 ± 2%, but yflE-disruption did not (42 ± 1%); this was probably due to efficient LTA synthesis by YfnI in the yflE-disrupted cells. Further introduction of a disrupted allele of ugtP, encoding glucolipid synthase that consumes DG as a substrate, partially lowered the colony forming capacity in strains with yflE-disruption. A disrupted dgkB allele was successfully introduced into strains disrupted for either or both of yflE and yfnI, indicating that the essential gene dgkB is dispensable in mutants defective in LTA synthesis.
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299. Heterogeneity of phosphatidic acid levels and distribution at the plasma membrane in living cells as visualized by a Föster resonance energy transfer (FRET) biosensor.
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Nishioka T, Frohman MA, Matsuda M, and Kiyokawa E
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- Animals, Binding Sites genetics, COS Cells, Cell Line, Cell Membrane drug effects, Cell Membrane metabolism, Chlorocebus aethiops, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Epidermal Growth Factor pharmacology, GTPase-Activating Proteins, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors genetics, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors metabolism, HeLa Cells, Humans, Intercellular Junctions chemistry, Intercellular Junctions metabolism, Luminescent Proteins genetics, Luminescent Proteins metabolism, Mice, Microscopy, Fluorescence, NIH 3T3 Cells, Phosphatidic Acids metabolism, Phospholipase D genetics, Phospholipase D metabolism, Transfection, Biosensing Techniques methods, Cell Membrane chemistry, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer methods, Phosphatidic Acids analysis
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Phosphatidic acid (PA) is one of the major phospholipids in the plasma membrane. Although it has been reported that PA plays key roles in cell survival and morphology, it remains unknown when and where PA is produced in the living cell. Based on the principle of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), we generated PA biosensor, and named Pii (phosphatidic acid indicator). In these biosensors, the lipid-binding domain of DOCK2 is sandwiched with the cyan fluorescent protein and yellow fluorescent protein and is tagged with the plasma membrane-targeting sequence of K-Ras. The addition of synthetic PA, or the activation of phospholipase D or diacylglycerol kinase at the plasma membrane, changed the level of FRET in Pii-expressing cells, demonstrating the response of Pii to PA. The biosensor also detected divergent PA content among various cell lines as well as within one cell line. Interestingly, the growth factor-induced increment in PA content correlated negatively with the basal PA content before stimulation, suggesting the presence of an upper threshold in the PA concentration at the plasma membrane. The biosensor also revealed uneven PA distribution within the cell, i.e. the basal level and growth factor-induced accumulation of PA was higher at the cell-free edges than at the cell-cell contact region. An insufficient increase in PA may account for ineffective Ras activation at areas of cell-cell contact. In conclusion, the PA biosensor Pii is a versatile tool for examining heterogeneity in the content and distribution of PA in single cells as well as among different cells.
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300. Zinc binding drives sheet formation by the SAM domain of diacylglycerol kinase δ.
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Knight MJ, Joubert MK, Plotkowski ML, Kropat J, Gingery M, Sakane F, Merchant SS, and Bowie JU
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- Animals, Binding Sites, COS Cells, Cell Line, Chlorocebus aethiops, Diacylglycerol Kinase analysis, Diacylglycerol Kinase genetics, Humans, Models, Molecular, Mutation, Polymerization, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Diacylglycerol Kinase chemistry, Diacylglycerol Kinase metabolism, Diglycerides metabolism, Zinc metabolism
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The diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) family of enzymes plays critical roles in lipid signaling pathways by converting diacylglycerol to phosphatidic acid, thereby downregulating signaling by the former and upregulating signaling by the latter second messenger. Ten DGK family isozymes have been identified to date, which possess different interaction motifs imparting distinct temporal and spatial control of DGK activity to each isozyme. Two DGK family members, δ and η, contain a sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain. The SAM domain of DGKδ1 forms helical polymers that are important for retaining the enzyme in cytoplasmic puncta, thereby inhibiting activity at the plasma membrane until pathway activation. Because zinc was found to be important for stabilizing the similar SAM polymers of the scaffolding protein Shank-3, we investigated the potential role of zinc in DGKδ SAM domain (DGKδSAM) assembly. We find that DGKδSAM binds zinc at multiple sites, driving the organization of the DGKδSAM into large sheets of polymers. Moreover, a mutant DGKδ containing a SAM domain refractory to zinc binding diminishes the formation of cytoplasmic puncta, shows partially impaired regulation of transport to the plasma membrane, and lacks the ability to inhibit the formation of CopII coated vesicles. These results suggest that zinc may play an important role in the assembly and physiology of the DGKδ isozyme.
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