Introduction: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that cause various inflammatory conditions in the body. The pathogenesis of this disease is yet unknown, and the diversity within the patients bring on major obstacle to clinical research for specific diagnostic markers. As a biomarker of SLE, both Interferon Regulatory Factor-5 (IRF5) and Microparticles (MP) have been suggested. Recently a study demonstrated higher concentration of IRF5+ MP in a small number of SLE patients compared to controls.  Aim: The purpose of this study was to validate and analyze IRF5+ MPs in a larger number of SLE patients and compare the results to known SLE subgroup based on IRF5 concentration.  Materials and methods: Totally 50 plasma samples from a larger cohort of SLE-patients (n=35) was analyzed together with population-based controls(n=15). Three different antibodies (in-house and commercial) were used for detection of IRF5+ MP with flow cytometry. Students t-test was used to investigate significant differences between SLE subgroup, controls and compared to the previous values. Results and Conclusion: The concentration of IRF5+ MP in SLE subgroup was significantly higher compared to controls (p<0,05). However, there were no correlations between our results and the values from the previous study, suggesting that both methods measure various forms of IRF5. These results imply that IRF5+ MP could be a possible biomarker for pathogenesis in SLE, but further studies are needed for a better understanding of IRF5, as well as of MP.

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京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(農学) / 甲第22495号 / 農博第2399号 / 新制||農||1076(附属図書館) / 学位論文||R2||N5275(農学部図書室) / 京都大学大学院農学研究科応用生命科学専攻 / (主査)教授 栗原 達夫, 教授 小川 順, 教授 木岡 紀幸 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

Crosslinkable and pH-sensitive amphiphilic block copolymers are promising candidates to establish pH-stable and permeable vesicles for synthetic biology. Here, we report the fabrication of crosslinked and pH-stable polymersomes as swellable vesicles for the pH-dependent loading and release of small dye molecules. / Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-enclosed nanoparticles containing proteins and nucleic acid cargo. These vesicles are released by almost all cell types and provide an effective and ubiquitous path for intercellular communication and transmission of pathogenic and signaling molecules among cells. Research into potential biomarkers isolated from EV has been propelled by the development of methods and tools to acquire them by minimally and non-invasive means, which reinforces their great diagnostic potential. In the context of cancer, this opens the door to apply EV based liquid biopsy for early detection prior to alternate, more prevailing diagnostic tools like imaging studies. In autoimmune diseases, EVs play a crucial role in immune responses and as immunomodulatory agents as they can modulate the function of a wide variety of immune cells, especially in antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Several efforts have been made to study EVs and their cargo in numerous disease models, but very few in autoimmunity. Autoimmune diseases are chronic, have been underexplored especially in the omics area, and their diagnosis and treatment rely on traditional therapy. Therefore, there is a need for efficient methods to elucidate biomarkers that could provide additional layers of information for treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis. Additionally, protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as phosphorylation, glycosylation, and acetylation, are involved in multiple essential cellular processes and represent an important mechanism of regulation for cellular physiological functions, leading to the development of effective and targeted therapeutics. Discovery and profiling PTMs have established the relevance of PTMs in EVs and associated EV functions and novel applications. This dissertation proposes integrated proteomic strategies to efficiently isolate and analyze EVs in human plasma from different types of pathologies like cancer and autoimmune diseases. The main focus is the development of the platforms, to not only isolate the proteome from EVs, but also PTMs including phosphorylation, glycosylation and acetylation, simultaneously. Chapter one, which is the core of this dissertation, describes the platform to sequentially isolate and analyze the EV proteome, phosphoproteome and glycoproteome from human plasma. Chapters two and three focus on the ongoing application of this platform with slight modifications into different disease models, in this case breast cancer subtypes and autoimmune diseases.

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Catanoinic systems spontaneously form micelles and vesicles, which are self-assembled spherical structures made up by surfactants. In the core of the micelle a drug, or other organic substance, can be kept to stabilize it when placed in an aqueous environment. The micelle-to-vesicle transition corresponds to the moment when the drug is releases, and understanding which factors that trigger this transition is thus of great interest for the pharmaceutical industry. In this study the micelle-to-vesicle transition in water and the effect of salt were studied for the systems 95 mol% SDS/DDAB and 95 mol% SDeS/DDAB with different total concentrations. The static light scattering measurements showed that the micelle-to-vesicle transition for the system 95 mol% SDS/DDAB was shifted to lower total concentrations both when 50 mM NaBr and 100 mM NaBr were added, and that the transition was unaffected by changing the anionic surfactant from SDS to SDeS when no salt had been added. A phase separation was observed when 50 mM NaBr was added to 95 mol% SDeS/DDAB (the Krafft point was probably reached), and when 100 mM NaBr was added to the same system the sample remained opaque one week after mixing the sample and also after heating it to 40°C in a water bath. The curve for sample 95 mol% SDS/DDAB 1/8192 mM + 100 mM NaBr was oscillating implying possible defects in the vesicle membrane. The cryo-TEM images confirmed the light scattering results and additionally showed that at higher total concentrations agglomeration occurred, while whenever salt was added less vesicles seemed to appear, while both discs and broken vesicles were present suggesting that the disc structure is preferred over the spherical structure when salt is present. Also a vesicle inside another vesicle was discovered for the sample 0.95 SDS/DDAB 3.75 mM + 50 mM NaBr. The mole fraction of anionic surfactant in the aggregates (x) was calculated using a MATLAB code based on the Poisson-Boltzmann theory. The results from the calculations showed that a higher amount of SOS was needed for the system 0.95 SOS/CTAB than the amount of SDS and SDeS needed for the systems 0.95 SDS/DDAB and 0.95 SDeS/DDAB when forming aggregates, indicating that a shorter chain of the anion and the higher spontaneous curvature of the cation leads to a higher curvature. Also a larger amount of cation was needed when the tail was single than when it was double in order to form stable spherical structures. Finally, as the total concentration decreased the x value also decreased in all cases, thus the spontaneous curvature was decreased.

La présente étude visait à identifier, en explorant la fraction protéique des laits de camélidés provenant de plusieurs régions du Kazakhstan, des molécules originales (peptides, protéines) potentiellement responsables des propriétés attribuées au lait de chamelle. Près de 180 échantillons de lait de 2 espèces de camélidés (Camelus bactrianus, C. dromedarius et leurs hybrides) ont été collectés à différents stades de lactation, âge et nombre de vêlages, et soumis à différentes techniques analytiques et approches protéomiques (SDS-PAGE, LC-MS/MS et LC-ESI-MS). Cinquante molécules protéiques correspondant à des variants génétiques, des isoformes issues de modifications post-traductionnelles et d'épissages différentiels, appartenant à 9 familles de protéines (κ-, αs1-, αs2-, β- et γ-CN, WAP, α-LAC, PGRP, CSA / LPO) ont été caractérisées. L’existence de deux isoformes inconnues (i1 et i2) de la caséine αs2 a été observée dans les deux esèces. Ces isoformes sont des variants d'épissage consécutif pour l’un à l’intégration d'une séquence de 27 nucléotides « in frame », codant pour le nonapeptide ENSKKTVDM, dont la présence a été confirmée au niveau génomique, flanquée de motifs canoniques définissant une structure exonique. La seconde isoforme, présente à différents niveaux de phosphorylation compris entre 8P et 12P, comporte un décapeptide supplémentaire (VKAYQIIPNL), révélé par LC-MS/MS, codé par une extension 3 'de l'exon 16. En outre, nous rapportons, pour la première fois à notre connaissance, l’existence d'une isoforme de phosphorylation de la caséine αs2 présentant au moins un résidu S/T phosphorylé n’appartenant pas à la séquence canonique habituelle (S/T-X-A) reconnue par la kinase mammaire, suggérant ainsi l'existence de deux systèmes impliqués dans la phosphorylation des caséines, dans la glande mammaire.S’agissant de la WAP, nous avons identifié chez C. bactrianus un nouveau variant génétique (B), issue d'une transition G => A conduisant à un changement de codon (GTG/ATG) dans la séquence nucléotidique de l’ARNm, qui entraine un changement d’acide aminé en position 12 de la protéine mature (V12M). Un variant résultant de l’usage du site d'épissage canonique, reconnu comme tel chez les autres mammifères exprimant la WAP dans leur lait, a été identifié. La forme majoritaire de la WAP cameline, décrite pour la première fois par Beg et al. (1986) qui présente une insertion de 4 résidus d'acides aminés (56VSSP59) dans le segment peptidique reliant les deux domaines 4-DSC, résulte de l'utilisation d'un site d'épissage cryptique intronique improbable, prolongeant l'exon 3 du gène de 12 nucléotides sur son extrémité 5 '. De plus, nous confirmons que chez les camélidés, l'intron 3 du gène spécifiant la WAP, est un intron rare de type GC-AG, avec un site donneur faible qui s’accompagne d’un effet compensatoire au site consensus de l'exon accepteur.Finalement, en utilisant un protocole optimisé, nous avons isolé les vésicules extracellulaires (VE) dérivés du lait de camélidés présentant les caractéristiques morphologiques, de taille et de contenu en protéines des exosomes. Nous avons identifié un millier de protéines différentes représentant le premier protéome des VE dérivés du lait de chamelle qui semble plus étendu que le protéome du lait de chamelle, incluant notamment les marqueurs associés aux VEs, tels CD63, CD81, HSP70, HSP90, TSG101 et ADAM10. Nous avons également identifié des protéines présentes dans d'autres compartiments du lait. C'est notamment le cas pour les protéines apparentées à Ras, MFG-E8, ou CD9 qui sont également présentes dans les globules gras du lait. Nos résultats suggèrent par ailleurs fortement que les VEs dérivés du lait de chamelle ont des origines cellulaires différentes. / The present study aimed to identify, in exploring the protein fraction of camelid milks from several regions of Kazakhstan, original molecules (peptide, proteins) potentially responsible for the properties attributed to camel milk. Nearly 180 milk samples from two camel species (Camelus bactrianus and C. dromedarius, and their hybrids) we collected at different lactation stage, age and calving number, and submitted to different proven analytical techniques and proteomic approaches (SDS-PAGE, LC-MS/MS and LC-ESI-MS). A detailed characterization of 50 protein molecules, relating to genetic variants, isoforms arising from post-translational modifications and alternative splicing events, belonging to 9 protein families (κ-, αs1-, αs2-, β-; and γ-CN, WAP, α-LAC, PGRP, CSA/LPO) was achieved. We reported the occurrence of two unknown isoforms (i1 and i2) of camel αs2-CN arising from alternative splicing events. Using cDNA-sequencing, i1 was characterized as a splicing-in variant of an in-frame 27-nucleotide sequence, of which the presence at the genome level, flanked by canonic motifs defining an exon 13 encoding the nonapeptide ENSKKTVDM, was confirmed. Isoform i2, which appeared to be present at different phosphorylation levels ranging between 8P and 12P, was shown to include an additional decapeptide (VKAYQIIPNL), revealed by LC-MS/MS, encoded by a 3’-extension of exon 16. In addition, we reported, for the first time to our knowledge, the occurrence of a αs2-CN phosphorylation isoform with at least one phosphorylated S/T residue that does not match with the usual canonic sequence (S/T-X-A) recognized by the mammary kinase, suggesting thereby the existence of two kinase systems involved in the phosphorylation of caseins in the mammary gland.As far as camel WAP is concerned, we identified in C. bactrianus a new genetic variant (B), originating from a transition G => A, leading to a codon change (GTG/ATG) in the nucleotide sequence of cDNA, which modifies a single amino acid residue at position 12 of the mature protein (V12M). In addition, we describe the existence of a splicing variant of camel WAP, arising from an alternative usage of the canonical splice site recognized as such in the other mammalian species expressing WAP in their milk. We also report that the WAP isoform predominantly present in camelids milk, first described by Beg et al. (1986) as displaying an additional sequence of 4 amino acid residues (56VSSP59) in the peptide segment connecting the two 4-DSC domains, results from the usage of an unlikely intron cryptic splice site, extending camel exon 3 on its 5’ side by 12-nucleotides. In addition, we confirm that in the camel gene encoding WAP, intron 3 is a GC-AG intron, with a GC donor site showing a compensatory effect in terms of a dramatic increase in consensus at the acceptor exon position.Finally, using an optimized protocol, we isolated camel milk-derived EVs satisfiying the typical requirements for exosomal morphology, size and protein content. We identified a thousand of different proteins representing the first comprehensive proteome of camel milk-derived EVs that appears wider than camel milk proteome, including markers associated with small extracellular vesicles, such as CD63, CD81, HSP70, HSP90, TSG101 and ADAM10. We also identified proteins present in other milk components. This is particularly the case for lactadherin/MFG-E8, Ras-related proteins or CD9 that have been reported to occur in MFG. Our results strongly suggest that milk-derived exosomes have different cellular origin.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第21018号 / 医博第4364号 / 新制||医||1028(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 小川 誠司, 教授 柳田 素子, 教授 江藤 浩之 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM