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Alberto Molano Zhaofeng Huang Melissa G. Marko Angelo Azzi Dayong Wu Elaine Wang Samuel L. Kelly Alfred H. Merrill Jr Stephen C. Bunnell Simin Nikbin Meydani 《PloS one》2012,7(10)
To determine whether changes in sphingolipid composition are associated with age-related immune dysfunction, we analyzed the core sphingolipidome (i.e., all of the metabolites through the first headgroup additions) of young and aged CD4+ T cells. Since sphingolipids influence the biophysical properties of membranes, we evaluated the compositions of immune synapse (IS) and non-IS fractions prepared by magnetic immuno-isolation. Broadly, increased amounts of sphingomyelins, dihydrosphingomyelins and ceramides were found in aged CD4+ T cells. After normalizing for total sphingolipid content, a statistically significant decrease in the molar fraction of glucosylceramides was evident in both the non-IS and IS fractions of aged T cells. This change was balanced by less dramatic increases in the molar fractions of sphingomyelins and dihydrosphingomyelins in aged CD4+ T cells. In vitro, the direct or enzymatic enhancement of ceramide levels decreased CD4+ T cell proliferation without regard for the age of the responding T cells. In contrast, the in vitro inhibition of glucosylceramidase preferentially increased the proliferation of aged CD4+ T cells. These results suggest that reductions in glucosylceramide abundance contribute to age-related impairments in CD4+ T cell function. 相似文献
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Marko MG Ahmed T Bunnell SC Wu D Chung H Huber BT Meydani SN 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2007,178(3):1443-1449
Aging is associated with reduced IL-2 production and T cell proliferation. Vitamin E supplementation, in aged animals and humans, increases cell division and IL-2 production by naive T cells. The immune synapse forms at the site of contact between a T cell and an APC and participates in T cell activation. We evaluated whether vitamin E affects the redistribution of signaling proteins to the immune synapse. Purified CD4(+) T cells, from the spleens of young and old mice, were treated with vitamin E before stimulation with a surrogate APC expressing anti-CD3. Using confocal fluorescent microscopy, we observed that CD4(+) T cells from old mice were significantly less likely to recruit signaling proteins to the immune synapse than cells from young mice. Vitamin E increased the percentage of old CD4(+) T cells capable of forming an effective immune synapse. Similar results were found following in vivo supplementation with vitamin E. When compared with memory cells, naive T cells from aged mice were more defective in immune synapse formation and were more responsive to vitamin E supplementation. These data show, for the first time, that vitamin E significantly improves age-related early T cell signaling events in naive CD4(+) T cells. 相似文献
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Twelve fungi namelyAlternaria alternata, Aspergillus flavus, A niger, A ochraceus, Actinomucor repens, Capnodoium spp., Curvularia lunata, Fusarium
pallidoroseum, F solani, F verticillioides, Penicillium citrinum and Rhizopus stolonifer were recorded from samples ofAegle marmelos, Aesculus indica, Buchanania lanzan andPinus gerardiana. In case ofPrunus amygdalus only Rstolonifer was recorded. A significant variation in pattern of mycoflora incidence was observed in terms of source and season. Fungal
infestation in most of the substrates was found to be highest during monsoon. Aflatoxins were the most common mycotoxins elaborated
by different isolates ofA flavus obtained fromA marmelos, B lanzan andP gerardiana. The amount of aflatoxins produced by the toxigenic isolates ofA flavus was in the range of traces to 0.9–26.0 μg/ml inA marmelos, 0.8–17.5 μg/ml inP gerardiana and 0.65–13.2 μg/ml inB lanzan. The percentage toxigenicity was comparatively lower in the isolates of other mycotoxigenic fungi. Aflatoxins were detected
almost in all the samples analyzed for mycotoxin contamination. However, traces of zearalenone were detected inA marmelos. The concentration of aflatoxin B1 was in the range of 0.13–0.75 μg/g inA marmelos, 0.09–0.60 μg/g inP gerardiana and 0.01–0.20 ug/g inB lanzan. Mycotoxins were not detected inAesculus indica andPrunus amygdalus. 相似文献
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Polyana C Tizioto Jeremy F Taylor Jared E Decker Caio F Gromboni Mauricio A Mudadu Robert D Schnabel Luiz L Coutinho Gerson B Mour?o Priscila SN Oliveira Marcela M Souza James M Reecy Renata T Nassu Flavia A Bressani Patricia Tholon Tad S Sonstegard Mauricio M Alencar Rymer R Tullio Ana RA Nogueira Luciana CA Regitano 《遗传、选种与进化》2015,47(1)
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Age-associated increase in PGE2 synthesis and COX activity in murine macrophages is reversed by vitamin E 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Wu Dayong; Mura Casilda; Beharka Alison A.; Han Sung Nim; Paulson K. Eric; Hwang Daniel; Meydani Simin Nikbin 《American journal of physiology. Cell physiology》1998,275(3):C661
We previouslyshowed that increased macrophage andPGE2 production with age is due toenhanced cyclooxygenase (COX) activity and COX-2 expression. This studydetermined the effect of vitamin E supplementation on macrophagePGE2 synthesis in young and old mice and its underlying mechanism. Mice were fed 30 or 500 parts permillion vitamin E for 30 days. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated macrophages from old mice produced significantly morePGE2 than those from young mice.Vitamin E supplementation reversed the increasedPGE2 production in old mice buthad no effect on macrophage PGE2production in young mice. In both LPS-stimulated and unstimulated macrophages, COX activity was significantly higher in old than in youngmice at all intervals. Vitamin E supplementation completely reversedthe increased COX activity in old mice to levels comparable to those ofyoung mice but had no effect on macrophage COX activity of young miceor on COX-1 and COX-2 protein or COX-2 mRNA expression in young or oldmice. Thus vitamin E reverses the age-associated increase in macrophagePGE2 production and COX activity.Vitamin E exerts its effect posttranslationally, by inhibiting COXactivity. 相似文献
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