Targeting Circulating Labile Heme as a Defense Strategy Against Malaria
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Project description:Severe presentations of malaria emerge as parasites from Plasmodium spp. proliferate and lyse red blood cells (RBC), producing extracellular hemoglobin (HB). The heme prosthetic groups are released upon HB oxidation generating circulating labile heme. Here we asked whether scavenging of extracellular HB and/or labile heme, by haptoglobin (HP) and/or hemopexin (HPX), respectively, is protective against severe presentations of malaria. We found that circulating labile heme is an independent risk factor for cerebral and non-cerebral severe presentations of P. falciparum malaria. Labile heme was negatively correlated with HP and HPX, which were however, not risk factors for severe P. falciparum malaria. Genetic HP and/or HPX deletion in mice led to accumulation of labile heme in plasma and kidneys in response to Plasmodium (chabaudi chabaudi) infection. This was associated with increased mortality and acute kidney injury (AKI) in ageing but not adult mice, corroborated in P. falciparum malaria by a an inverse correlation between HPX and heme with serological markers of AKI. In conclusion, HP and HPX exert an age-dependent protective effect against malaria that counters the pathogenesis of AKI in mice and presumably in humans.
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2021-12-31 | E-MTAB-10935 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2023-05-10 | PXD037165 | Pride
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2012-08-22 | GSE37006 | GEO
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2020-11-26 | GSE150479 | GEO
Project description:Red meat consumption is associated with an increased colon cancer risk. Heme, present in red meat, injures the colon surface epithelium by luminal cytotoxicity and reactive oxygen species. This surface injury is overcompensated by hyperproliferation and hyperplasia of crypt cells. Transcriptome analysis of mucosa of heme-fed mice showed, besides stress- and proliferation-related genes, many upregulated lipid metabolism-related PPARM-NM-1 target genes. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of PPARM-NM-1 in heme-induced hyperproliferation and hyperplasia. Male PPARM-NM-1 KO and WT mice received a purified diet with or without heme. As PPARM-NM-1 is proposed to protect against oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation, we hypothesized that the absence of PPARM-NM-1 leads to more surface injury and crypt hyperproliferation in the colon upon heme-feeding. Heme induced luminal cytotoxicity and lipid peroxidation and colonic hyperproliferation and hyperplasia to the same extent in WT and KO mice. Transcriptome analysis of colonic mucosa confirmed similar heme-induced hyperproliferation in WT and KO mice. Stainings for alkaline phosphatase activity and expression levels of Vanin-1 and Nrf2-targets indicated a compromised antioxidant defense in heme-fed KO mice. Our results suggest that the protective role of PPARM-NM-1 in antioxidant defense involves the Nrf2-inhibitor Fosl1, which is upregulated by heme in PPARM-NM-1 KO mice. We conclude that PPARM-NM-1 plays a protective role in colon against oxidative stress, but PPARM-NM-1 does not mediate heme-induced hyperproliferation. This implies that oxidative stress of surface cells is not the main determinant of heme-induced hyperproliferation and hyperplasia. Wild type and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARM-NM-1) knockout mice were fed a Westernized high fat diet, or the same diet supplemented with 0.5 M-BM-5mol heme/g diet. After 14 days of intervention, mice were killed and gene expression was profiled in colon.
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