title: Identification of Proteins Interacting with Cytoplasmic High-Mobility Group Box 1 during the Hepatocellular Response to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury.
abstract: Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) occurs inevitably in liver transplantations and frequently during major resections, and can lead to liver dysfunction as well as systemic disorders. High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) plays a pathogenic role in hepatic IRI. In the normal liver, HMGB1 is located in the nucleus of hepatocytes; after ischemia reperfusion, it translocates to the cytoplasm and it is further released to the extracellular space. Unlike the well-explored functions of nuclear and extracellular HMGB1, the role of cytoplasmic HMGB1 in hepatic IRI remains elusive. We hypothesized that cytoplasmic HMGB1 interacts with binding proteins involved in the hepatocellular response to IRI. In this study, binding proteins of cytoplasmic HMGB1 during hepatic IRI were identified. Liver tissues from rats with warm ischemia reperfusion (WI/R) injury and from normal rats were subjected to cytoplasmic protein extraction. Co-immunoprecipitation using these protein extracts was performed to enrich HMGB1-protein complexes. To separate and identify the immunoprecipitated proteins in eluates, 2-dimensional electrophoresis and subsequent mass spectrometry detection were performed. Two of the identified proteins were verified using Western blotting: betaine-homocysteineS-methyltransferase 1 (BHMT) and cystathionine γ-lyase (CTH). Therefore, our results revealed the binding of HMGB1 to BHMT and CTH in cytoplasm during hepatic WI/R. This finding may help to better understand the cellular response to IRI in the liver and to identify novel molecular targets for reducing ischemic injury.
authors.affiliation: Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 07747 Jena, Germany. Tianjiaozhang@live.cn.
authors.forename: Tianjiao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 07747 Jena, Germany. wei.weiwei@med.uni-jena.de.
authors.forename: Weiwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, 09116 Chemnitz, Germany. Olaf.Dirsch@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Dirsch
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, 07745 Jena, Germany. Thomas.Krüger@leibniz-hki.de.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Krüger
authors.affiliation: Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 07747 Jena, Germany. chuyi.kan@med.uni-jena.de.|Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan 430014, China. chuyi.kan@med.uni-jena.de.
authors.forename: Chunyi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kan
authors.affiliation: Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 07747 Jena, Germany. popxcc@126.com.
authors.forename: Chichi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, 07745 Jena, Germany. olaf.kniemeyer@leibniz-hki.de.
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kniemeyer
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China. fang.haoshu@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Haoshu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 07747 Jena, Germany. Utz.Settmacher@med.uni-jena.de.
authors.forename: Utz
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Settmacher
authors.affiliation: Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 07747 Jena, Germany. uta.dahmen@med.uni-jena.de.
authors.forename: Uta
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Dahmen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism*; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D024243:HMGB1 Protein / Q000378:metabolism*; D022781:Hepatocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D011485:Protein Binding; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000378:metabolism*; D052096:Warm Ischemia
chemical_list: D024243:HMGB1 Protein
keywords: 2-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE); high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1); ischemic damage response; ischemic injury; mass spectrometry (MS)