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Quality measures of imaging mass spectrometry aids in revealing long-term striatal protein changes induced by neonatal exposure to the cyanobacterial toxin ?-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA).

ABSTRACT: Many pathological processes are not directly correlated to dramatic alterations in protein levels. The changes in local concentrations of important proteins in a subset of cells or at specific loci are likely to play a significant role in disease etiologies, but the precise location might be unknown, or the concentration might be too small to be adequately sampled for traditional proteomic techniques. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is a unique analytical method that combines analysis of multiple molecular species and of their distribution in a single platform. As reproducibility is essential for successful biomarker discovery, it is important to systematically assess data quality in biologically relevant MALDI IMS experiments. In the present study, we applied four simple tools to study the reproducibility for individual sections, within-group variation, and between-group variation of data acquired from brain sections of 21 animals divided into three treatment groups. We also characterized protein changes in distinct regions of the striatum from six-month-old rats treated neonatally (postnatal days 9-10) with the cyanobacterial toxin ?-N-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), which has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases. The results showed that optimized experimental settings can yield high-quality MALDI IMS data with relatively low variation (14% to 15% coefficient of variance) that allow the characterization of subtle changes in protein expression in various subregions of the brain. This was further exemplified by the dose-dependent reduction of myelin basic protein in the caudate putamen and the nucleus accumbens of adult rats neonatally treated with BMAA (150 and 460 mg/kg). The reduction in myelin basic protein was confirmed through immunohistochemistry and indicates that developmental exposure to BMAA may induce structural effects on axonal growth and/or directly on the proliferation of oligodendrocytes and myelination, which might be important for the previously shown BMAA-induced long-term cognitive impairments.

SUBMITTER: Karlsson O

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3879633 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Quality measures of imaging mass spectrometry aids in revealing long-term striatal protein changes induced by neonatal exposure to the cyanobacterial toxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA).

Karlsson Oskar O Bergquist Jonas J Andersson Malin M

Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 20131014 1

Many pathological processes are not directly correlated to dramatic alterations in protein levels. The changes in local concentrations of important proteins in a subset of cells or at specific loci are likely to play a significant role in disease etiologies, but the precise location might be unknown, or the concentration might be too small to be adequately sampled for traditional proteomic techniques. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is a unique ...[more]

PMID: 24126143

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Project description:Non-proteinogenic neurotoxic amino acid β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) is synthesized by cyanobacteria, diatoms, and dinoflagellates, and is known to be a causative agent of human neurodegenerative diseases. Different phytoplankton organisms' ability to synthesize BMAA could indicate the importance of this molecule in the interactions between microalgae in nature. We were interested in the following: what kinds of mechanisms underline BMAA's action on cyanobacterial cells in different nitrogen supply conditions. Herein, we present a proteomic analysis of filamentous cyanobacteria Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 cells that underwent BMAA treatment in diazotrophic conditions. In diazotrophic growth conditions, to survive, cyanobacteria can use only biological nitrogen fixation to obtain nitrogen for life. Note that nitrogen fixation is an energy-consuming process. In total, 1567 different proteins of Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 were identified by using LC-MS/MS spectrometry. Among them, 123 proteins belonging to different functional categories were selected-due to their notable expression differences-for further functional analysis and discussion. The presented proteomic data evidences that BMAA treatment leads to very strong (up to 80%) downregulation of α (NifD) and β (NifK) subunits of molybdenum-iron protein, which is known to be a part of nitrogenase. This enzyme is responsible for catalyzing nitrogen fixation. The genes nifD and nifK are under transcriptional control of a global nitrogen regulator NtcA. In this study, we have found that BMAA impacts in a total of 22 proteins that are under the control of NtcA. Moreover, BMAA downregulates 18 proteins that belong to photosystems I or II and light-harvesting complexes; BMAA treatment under diazotrophic conditions also downregulates five subunits of ATP synthase and enzyme NAD(P)H-quinone oxidoreductase. Therefore, we can conclude that the disbalance in energy and metabolite amounts leads to severe intracellular stress that induces the upregulation of stress-activated proteins, such as starvation-inducible DNA-binding protein, four SOS-response enzymes, and DNA repair enzymes, nine stress-response enzymes, and four proteases. The presented data provide new leads into the ecological impact of BMAA on microalgal communities that can be used in future investigations.

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Quality measures of imaging mass spectrometry aids in revealing long-term striatal protein changes induced by neonatal exposure to the cyanobacterial toxin ?-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA).

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Quality measures of imaging mass spectrometry aids in revealing long-term striatal protein changes induced by neonatal exposure to the cyanobacterial toxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA).

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