葡萄糖皮质体和上腺素受体在人体器官和组织中的分布:压力转导的地图
Sophia Basarrate1, Anna S Monzel, Janell L M Smith
1From the Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry (Basarrate, Monzel, Smith, Trumpff, Picard), Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York; Department of Psychology (Marsland), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Department of Neurology, H. Houston Merritt Center, Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative (Picard), Columbia University Irving Medical Center; and New York State Psychiatric Institute (Picard), New York, New York.
这项研究绘制了整个人体内的葡萄糖皮质体受体 (GR) 和上腺体受体 (AR) 表达的地图. 研究结果将受体模式与线粒体能量通路联系起来,这可能解释器官系统对压力的脆弱性.
科学领域:
- 内分泌学 在内分泌学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 系统生物学 系统生物学
背景情况:
- 心理社会压力通过荷尔蒙轴 (下丘脑-垂体-上腺和交感-上腺-髓) 影响疾病风险.
- 葡萄糖皮质激素和上腺激素以及组织敏感性决定压力反应.
- 了解压力转导途径需要绘制激素受体表达的地图.
研究的目的:
- 创建葡萄糖皮质体受体 (GR) 和上腺体受体 (AR) 表达的定量全身图.
- 研究压力激素受体表达与线粒体基因表达之间的关系.
- 探索GR激活和AR表达之间的功能相互作用.
主要方法:
- 在55个器官中使用人类蛋白质图谱和人类蛋白质组图数据对GR和AR亚型 (AR-α1B,AR-α2B,AR-β2,AR-β3) 的系统基因表达分析.
- 利用人类蛋白质地图和MitoCarta3.0数据将受体表达与线粒体基因表达联系起来.
- 在人类纤维细胞中进行功能性测试,以测试GR激活和AR表达相互作用.
主要成果:
- GR表现出无处不在的表达;AR亚型显示出局部化的模式.
- 确定了GR和AR-α1B之间的共同调节,以及AR-α1B和AR-α2B之间的共同调节.
- 纤维细胞中的GR激活增加了AR-β2和AR-α1B的表达;GR和AR的表达与线粒体通路正相关.
结论:
- 提供了人体GR和AR表达的全面地图.
- 压力诱导的GR和AR信号激活了能源密集的线粒体通路.
- 组织特异性受体表达和共同表达模式可能决定器官系统的弹性或对压力的脆弱性.
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