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Functional Characterization of Peroxisomes in the Heart and the Role of Pex11α and Pex14 in Cardiomyocytes Functional characterization of peroxisomes in the heart and the role of Pex11α and Pex14 in cardiomyocytes Inaugural Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Medicine in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree of the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine of the Justus Liebig University Giessen By Chen, Jiangping of Zhejiang, China Giessen 2017 From the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology II of the Faculty of Medicine of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen Director / Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Eveline Baumgart-Vogt First Supervisor and Committee Member: Prof. Dr. Eveline Baumgart-Vogt Second Supervisor and Committee Member: Prof. Dr. Christiane Herden Examination chair and Committee Member: Prof. Dr. Norbert Weißmann Committee Member: Declaration “I declare that I have completed this dissertation single-handedly without the unauthorized help of a second party and only with the assistance acknowledged therein. I have appropriately acknowledged and referenced all text passages that are derived literally from or are based on the content of published or unpublished work of others, and all information that relates to verbal communications. I have abided by the principles of good scientific conduct laid down in the charter of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen in carrying out the investigations described in the dissertation.” Date: Place: 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 1 1.1. The peroxisome and its functions in cellular metabolism ............................. 1 1.1.1. The history of peroxisomes ........................................................................... 1 1.1.2. Peroxisome metabolic pathways ................................................................... 1 1.1.2.1. Peroxisomal β-oxidation of fatty acids ..................................................... 2 1.1.2.2. Cellular redox mechanisms ..................................................................... 3 1.1.3. Peroxisome biogenesis ................................................................................. 3 1.1.4. Metabolic link between peroxisomes and mitochondria ................................ 5 1.1.5. Link between peroxisomes and the endoplasmic reticulum........................... 6 1.1.6. Peroxisome proliferators and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors .... 7 1.1.6.1. Peroxisome proliferators ......................................................................... 7 1.1.6.2. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors ............................................ 8 1.1.7. Peroxisomal dysfunction and its associated diseases ................................... 8 1.1.7.1. Disorders of peroxisome biogenesis ....................................................... 9 1.1.7.2. Peroxisomal single enzyme deficiencies ............................................... 10 1.1.7.3. Peroxisomal disease management ....................................................... 11 1.2. Peroxisomes and the heart ............................................................................. 12 1.2.1. The heart and cardiovascular diseases ....................................................... 12 1.2.2. Metabolic function of the heart .................................................................... 12 1.2.2.1. Fatty acid utilization ............................................................................... 12 1.2.2.2. Glucose utilization ................................................................................. 13 1.2.2.3. Shift from glycolysis and lactate oxidation (fetal) to fatty acid oxidation (adult) in postnatal development ........................................................................ 13 1.2.3. Heart disease markers ................................................................................ 13 1.2.3.1. Natriuretic peptides ............................................................................... 13 1.2.3.2. Myosin heavy chains ............................................................................. 14 1.2.3.3. Extracellular matrix surrounding cardiomyocytes .................................. 14 1.2.4. Potential metabolic causes of heart diseases .............................................. 15 1.2.4.1. Fatty acid metabolic dysfunction affects cardiac structure and function 15 1.2.4.2. ROS and cardiac diseases .................................................................... 15 1.2.5. Peroxisome discovery in the heart .............................................................. 15 1.2.6. Peroxisomal morphology in the heart .......................................................... 16 1.2.7. Functions of peroxisomes in the heart ......................................................... 17 1.2.8. Potential role of peroxisomes in heart ischemia .......................................... 17 1.2.9. Regulation by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors.......................... 18 1.2.10. Tools to study heart function and heart disease ........................................ 20 1.2.10.1. Cell lines and models to study peroxisomes in cardiomyocytes .......... 20 1.2.10.2. Knockout mouse models of peroxisome deficiency ............................. 20 1.2.10.3. Analysis of heart function in peroxisomal deficiency models ............... 21 1.2.11. Peroxisomes as targets for the treatment of cardiac diseases .................. 21 2. OUTLINE AND AIMS OF THE STUDY ............................................. 22 3. MATERIALS, METHODS AND LABORATORY ANIMALS .............. 23 3.1. Materials used in the laboratory ..................................................................... 23 3.1.1. Chemicals and reagents .............................................................................. 23 3.1.2. Laboratory instruments ................................................................................ 24 3.1.2.1. General equipment and facilities ........................................................... 24 3.1.2.2. Measurement of cell contraction parameters (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University) ................................................... 26 3.1.3. Materials and chemicals for cell culture ....................................................... 27 3.1.3.1. Materials for HL-1 cell culture and analysis ........................................... 27 3.1.3.2. Chemicals for HL-1 cell culture ............................................................. 27 3.1.3.3. Solutions for the preparation of mouse primary cardiomyocytes ........... 29 3.1.4. Proteins and enzymes ................................................................................. 29 3.1.5. Kits .............................................................................................................. 30 3.1.6. Primary and secondary antibodies .............................................................. 30 3.2. Software used for recording and analyzing data .......................................... 32 3.3. Bioinformatics tools ........................................................................................ 32 3.3.1. GenBank ..................................................................................................... 32 3.3.2. Databases of expressed sequence tags ..................................................... 32 3.3.3. UniGene ...................................................................................................... 33 3.4. Mice ................................................................................................................... 33 3.4.1. Wild-type mice ............................................................................................. 33 3.4.2. Pex11α knockout mice ................................................................................ 33 3.5. Methods ............................................................................................................ 34 3.5.1. Data mining ................................................................................................. 34 3.5.2. HL-1 cells .................................................................................................... 34 3.5.2.1. HL-1 cell culture .................................................................................... 34 3.5.2.2. Transfection of HL-1 cardiomyocytes with Pex14 siRNA ...................... 35 3.5.3. Cardiomyocyte cell shorting measurements ................................................ 35 3.5.3.1. Isolation of adult mouse ventricular cardiomyocytes ............................. 35 3.5.3.2. Cell shorting measurements .................................................................. 36 3.5.4. Ischemia-reperfusion model in male Wister rat hearts ................................ 36 3.5.5. Catalase activity assay on mouse heart homogenates and cell lysates ...... 37 3.5.6. Fluorimetric hydrogen peroxide assay ......................................................... 38 3.5.7. Methylthiazole tetrazolium (MTT) assay ...................................................... 39 3.5.8. Trypan blue exclusion test ........................................................................... 39 3.6. Molecular biological and morphological experiments on mouse tissue and cells.......................................................................................................................... 40 3.6.1. Molecular biological experiments for gene expression analysis .................. 40 3.6.1.1. RNA isolation from heart tissue and HL-1 cells
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