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Chip-based sensing of the intercellular transfer of cell surface proteins: Regulation by the metabolic state.
Biomedicines 9:1452 (2021)
Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins (GPI-APs) are anchored at the surface of mammalian blood and tissue cells through a carboxy-terminal GPI glycolipid. Eventually, they are released into incubation medium in vitro and blood in vivo and subsequently inserted into neighboring cells, potentially leading to inappropriate surface expression or lysis. To obtain first insight into the potential (patho)physiological relevance of intercellular GPI-AP transfer and its biochemical characterization, a cell-free chip-and microfluidic channel-based sensing system was introduced. For this, rat or human adipocyte or erythrocyte plasma membranes (PM) were covalently captured by the TiO2 chip surface operating as the acceptor PM. To measure transfer between PM, donor erythrocyte or adipocyte PM were injected into the channels of a flow chamber, incubated, and washed out, and the type and amount of proteins which had been transferred to acceptor PM evaluated with specific antibodies. Antibody binding was detected as phase shift of horizontal surface acoustic waves propagating over the chip surface. Time-and temperature-dependent transfer, which did not rely on fusion of donor and acceptor PM, was detected for GPI-APs, but not typical transmembrane proteins. Transfer of GPI-APs was found to be prevented by α-toxin, which binds to the glycan core of GPI anchors, and serum proteins in concentration-dependent fashion. Blockade of transfer, which was restored by synthetic phosphoinositolglycans mimicking the glycan core of GPI anchors, led to accumulation in the chip channels of full-length GPI-APs in association with phospholipids and cholesterol in non-membrane structures. Strikingly, efficacy of transfer between adipocytes and erythrocytes was determined by the metabolic state (genotype and feeding state) of the rats, which were used as source for the PM and sera, with upregulation in obese and diabetic rats and counterbalance by serum proteins. The novel chip-based sensing system for GPI-AP transfer may be useful for the prediction and stratification of metabolic diseases as well as elucidation of the putative role of intercellular transfer of cell surface proteins, such as GPI-APs, in (patho)physi-ological mechanisms.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Cell Surface Protein Expression ; Cell-free Chip-based Assay ; Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (gpi)-anchored Proteins (gpi-aps) ; Gpi-specific Phospholipase D (gpld1) ; Insulin Resistance ; Protein Transfer; Gpi-anchored Proteins; Decay-accelerating Factor; Camp-binding Ectoprotein; Alkaline-phosphatase; Phospholipase-d; Membrane-proteins; Rat Adipocytes; Sulfonylurea Drug; Apical Surface; Extracellular Vesicles
ISSN (print) / ISBN
2227-9059
e-ISSN
2227-9059
Journal
Biomedicines
Quellenangaben
Volume: 9,
Issue: 10,
Article Number: 1452
Publisher
MDPI
Publishing Place
Basel, Switzerland
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Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (IDO)
Grants
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
European Research Services
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
European Research Services
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft