Oxysterol-binding protein-related protein (ORP) 4L acts as a scaffold protein assembling CD3-«, G-a q/11 , and PLC-b3 into a complex at the plasma membrane that mediates inositol (1,4,5)-trisphosphate (IP 3 )-induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca 2+ release and oxidative phosphorylation in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells. Here, we offer new evidence that ORP4L interacts with the carboxyl terminus of the IP 3 receptor type 1 (ITPR1) in Jurkat T cells. ORP4L enables IP 3 binding to ITPR1; a truncated construct that lacks the ITPR1-binding region retains the ability to increase IP 3 production but fails to mediate IP 3 and ITPR1 binding. In association with this ability of ORP4L, it enhances Ca 2+ release from the ER and subsequent cytosolic and mitochondrial parallel Ca 2+ spike oscillations that stimulate mitochondrial energetics and thus maintains cell survival. These data support a novel model in which ORP4L is a cofactor of ITPR1, which increases ITPR1 sensitivity to IP 3 and enables ER Ca 2+ release.
Leukemia stem cells (LSCs) propagate leukemia and are responsible for the high frequency of relapse of treated patients. The ability to target LSCs remains elusive, indicating a need to understand the underlying mechanism of LSC formation. Here, we report that miR-31-5p is reduced or undetectable in human LSCs compared to hematopoietic stem progenitor cells (HSPCs). Inhibition of miR-31-5p in HSPCs promotes the expression of its target gene
FIH
, encoding FIH [factor inhibiting hypoxia-inducing factor 1α (HIF-1α)], to suppress HIF-1α signaling. Increased FIH resulted in a switch from glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) as the predominant mode of energy metabolism and increased the abundance of the oncometabolite fumarate. Increased fumarate promoted the conversion of HSPCs to LSCs and initiated myeloid leukemia-like disease in NOD-Prkdc
scid
IL2rg
tm1
/Bcgen (B-NDG) mice. We further demonstrated that miR-31-5p inhibited long- and short-term hematopoietic stem cells with a high frequency of LSCs. In combination with the chemotherapeutic agent Ara-C (cytosine arabinoside), restoration of miR-31-5p using G7 poly (amidoamine) nanosized dendriplex encapsulating miR-31-5p eliminated LSCs and inhibited acute myeloid leukemia (AML) progression in patient-derived xenograft mouse models. These results demonstrated a mechanism of HSC malignant transformation through altered energy metabolism and provided a potential therapeutic strategy to treat patients with AML.
Lipid remodeling is crucial for malignant cell transformation and tumorigenesis, but the precise molecular processes involved and direct evidences for these in vivo remain elusive. Here, we report that oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP)-related protein 4 L (ORP4L) is expressed in adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) cells but not normal T-cells. In ORP4L knock-in T-cells, ORP4L dimerizes with OSBP to control the shuttling of OSBP between the Golgi apparatus and the plasma membrane (PM) as an exchanger of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate [PI(4)P]/cholesterol. The PI(4)P arriving at the PM via this transport machinery replenishes phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P2] and phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5) trisphosphate [PI(3,4,5)P3] biosynthesis, thus contributing to PI3K/AKT hyperactivation and T-cell deterioration in vitro and in vivo. Disruption of ORP4L and OSBP dimerization disables PI(4)P transport and T-cell leukemogenesis. In summary, we identify a non-vesicular lipid transport machinery between Golgi and PM maintaining the oncogenic signaling competence initiating T-cell deterioration and leukemogenesis.
At present, learning-based citrus blossom recognition models based on deep learning are highly complicated and have a large number of parameters. In order to estimate citrus flower quantities in natural orchards, this study proposes a lightweight citrus flower recognition model based on improved YOLOv4. In order to compress the backbone network, we utilize MobileNetv3 as a feature extractor, combined with deep separable convolution for further acceleration. The Cutout data enhancement method is also introduced to simulate citrus in nature for data enhancement. The test results show that the improved model has an mAP of 84.84%, 22% smaller than that of YOLOv4, and approximately two times faster. Compared with the Faster R-CNN, the improved citrus flower rate statistical model proposed in this study has the advantages of less memory usage and fast detection speed under the premise of ensuring a certain accuracy. Therefore, our solution can be used as a reference for the edge detection of citrus flowering.
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