Background: The naked mole-rat (NMR) is a long-lived and cancer resistant species. Identification of potential anti-cancer and age related mechanisms is of great interest and makes this species
eminent to investigate anti-cancer strategies and understand aging mechanisms. Since it is known that the NMR expresses higher liver mRNA-levels of alpha 2-macroglobulin than mice, nothing is known about its structure, functionality or expression level in the
NMR compared to the human A2M.
Results: Here we show a comprehensive analysis of NMR- and human plasma-A2M, showing a different prediction in glycosylation of NMR-A2M, which results in a higher molecular weight compared to human A2M. Additionally, we found a higher concentration of A2M (8.3±0.44 mg/mL vs. and 4.4±0.20 mg/mL) and a lower total plasma protein content (38.7±1.79 mg/mL vs. 61.7±3.20 mg/mL) in NMR compared to human. NMR-A2M can be transformed by
methylamine and trypsin resulting in a conformational change similar to human A2M. NMRA2M is detectable by a polyclonal antibody against human A2M. Determination of tryptic and anti-tryptic activity of NMR and human plasma revealed a higher anti-tryptic activity of the NMR plasma. On the other hand, less proteolytic activity was found in NMR plasma compared to human plasma.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:13417 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Thieme, René, Kurz, Susanne, Kolb, Marlen, Debebe, Tewodros, Holtze, Susanne, Morhart, Michaela, Huse, Klaus, Szafranski, Karol, Platzer, Matthias, Hildebrandt, Thomas B., Birkenmeier, Gerd |
| Contributors | Universität Leipzig, Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V., Leibniz-Institut für Altersforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut e.V. (FLI), PLoS |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | PLoS one 10(6): e0130470 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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