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Rock, Blue Genes, and Rock, Blue Genes, and Getting High Getting High
How we cope when Oxygen is scarce How we cope when Oxygen is scarce
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Pumori (7162m): 1998
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Early atmosphere
Composition of volcanic gases
- Water (95-97%)
- CO2 (1.1-1.9%)
- Sulphur Dioxide (1.5-2.3%)
- Hydrogen Sulphide (0.07-0.08%)
- Hydrochloric Acid (0.004-0.006%)
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The Cradle?
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CYANOBACTERIA
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Photolysis generates ozone
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Catatumbo river empties into Lake Maracaiebo (Venezuela)
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Red Bands and Red Beds
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Eukaryotes 2bn years ago
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0.85–0.54 3.85–2.45Gyr 2.45–1.85 1.85–0.85 0.54-
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Complex life uses ATP as energy currency, and mints it using Oxygen.
Adenosine P P P
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...AND COMPLEX LIFE IS COSTLY
Making, maintaining and using multiple complex proteins, and their genes, is very expensive!
THIS REPRESENTED AN THIS REPRESENTED AN EVOLUTIONARY BOTTLENECK EVOLUTIONARY BOTTLENECK
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Prokaryote Power Production is via Plasma Membranes
Surface area = 4πr2 Volume = 4/3 πr3 SA/V = 3/r r 1µm -> 6µm SA/V ↓ 3 -> 0.5
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Rickettsia prowazekii (epidemic typhus) Nature 396, 133 - 140 (12 November 1998
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Pyruvate Dehydrogenase
KREBS CYCLE
OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION
PYRUVATE
Mitochondrion Proton shuttle H+ H+
GLUCOSE
H+ H+ H+ H+
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The electron transport chain in mitochondrial membranes
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A series of protein complex located at the inner mitochondrial membrane
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H+
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H+ H+
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H+ H+
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H+ H+
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H+ H+
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H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+
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H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ H+
Adenosine P P P
Oxygen Oxygen Water Water
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Power…with control
with control.
VAST POWER!
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H+ H+ H+ H+
UNCOUPLING PROTEINS (UCPs)
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0.85–0.54 3.85–2.45Gyr 2.45–1.85 1.85–0.85 0.54-
...DEPENDENT UPON O2 AVAILABILITY
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BUT THIS RISE WASN’T SO SMOOTH
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5 10 15 20 25 30 35
- 600
- 500
- 400
- 300
- 200
- 100
Now
Devonian Hypoxic events
Pacific 5-6ml/l now, 0-1 then
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Data from Budyko, Ronov and Yanshin (1987) The Journal of Experimental Biology 201, 1223–1232 (1998)
Superimposed anoxic events -> mass extinctions. Ocean current collapses from polar melts
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Elasmobranchs survived
Arose in Silurian-Devonian (400m years ago)
Sharks, Rays, Skates, Sawfish Shovelnose Ray
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 155 (2010) 417–434
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As did our ancestors......
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THEY FACED RECURRENT HYPOXIA AGAIN
Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium Oscellatum)
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Turtle
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Amazonian Oscar Fish
Astronotus Occellatus
Oyster Toadfish
Opasnus Tau
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Crucian Carp
Carassius carassius
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..and
- Massive glycogen reserves…..because
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WE ALSO FACED RECURRENT HYPOXIA.....AND STILL DO
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And this can be a matter of life-or-death
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SO...ARE THEY (AND WE) ‘GENTICALLY EQUIPPED’ FOR HYPOXIC SURVIVAL? And, if so, how?
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Many genes ‘sense’ oxygen and respond to it
HIF HIF-
- 1 consists of 2 subunits:
1 consists of 2 subunits: HIF HIF-
- 1
1α α and HIF and HIF-
- 1
1β β/ARNT /ARNT
This occurs through the action of
- xygen-sensing transcription
factors: HIF-1
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Hypoxia protects HIF Hypoxia protects HIF-
- 1
1α α from degradation from degradation
OH OH
HIF-alpha prolyl hydroxylase (HPH) HIF-alpha proloyl hydroxylase (HPH)
pVon Hippel Lindau Protein (pVHL) pVon Hippel Lindau Protein (pVHL)
Ub E3 lig Ub E3 lig
Degradation through ubiquisome- proteosome pathway NORMOXIA
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HIF-1α: NORMOXIA
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HYPOXIA
Phosphorylation
Nucleus
HIF-1 B
HRE
(5′-RCGTG-3′)
GENE TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATED
CREBBP/ EP300
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Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 August; 37(14): 4587–4602.
81 HIF1-responsive genes suggested so far
?
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Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 August; 37(14): 4587–4602.
81 HIF1-responsive genes suggested so far
?
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You breathe harder
‘It’s all about increasing delivery’
RBC mass increases ERYTHROPOETIN
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And increasing the reservoir but lowering its height doesn’t help delivery much!!
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100 75 50 25 100 80 60 40 20 SATURATION PaO2 (mmHg)
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You breathe harder
It’s all about increasing delivery???
RBC mass increases The heart pumps harder ? Capillary density rises ? Mitochondria numbers rise ?
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Stanyon R et al Journal of Biology 2009, 8:18
So is Oxygen Content That Important?
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Three High Altitude Populations Andian Altiplano Ethiopian Highlands Tibetan Plateau
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60,000 years old
Y chromosome D-M174
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Andamanese: earliest settlers of SE Asia D-M174 56.25%
Shi H et al Y chromosome evidence of earliest modern human settlement in East Asia and multiple
- rigins of Tibetan and Japanese populations. BMC Biol 2008, 6:45. (5000 males, 73 populations)
Y chromosome D-M174
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Shi H et al Y chromosome evidence of earliest modern human settlement in East Asia and multiple
- rigins of Tibetan and Japanese populations. BMC Biol 2008, 6:45. (5000 males, 73 populations)
30-40%
<72.3% 30%
D-M174 also prevalent in…
JAPAN 30-40%
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Chusang (Near Lhasa) 20,000 years ago (optical stimulated luminescence dating of travertine stone and hearth)
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PLENTY OF TIME FOR NATURAL SELECTION
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“Prenatal and postnatal mortality rose with increasing elevation and were 3 fold higher across all altitudes in the Han than the Tibetans”
Tibetan protection from intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and reproductive loss at high altitude Am J Human Biol Vol 13 (5): 635-644
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TIBETANS VS HAN
Some alleles are far more frequent than they should be
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TIBETANS VS HAN
Some alleles are more frequent than they should be
Adam17 Adam17 EPAS2 EPAS2
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EPAS1 (encodes HIF2a) 1.8g/dl lower Hb
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Weight loss (Kg)
10.04% WEIGHT LOSS 10.04% WEIGHT LOSS
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In fact, it’s not pathological, but highly regulated
Amino acids Load IGF1 Sarcolemma PLD1 Rheb Phosphatidic acid mTOR Akt EIF3f (scaffold) FoXO
HYPOXIA
Myostatin MURF1
ANABOLISM ANABOLISM CATABOLISM CATABOLISM
TSC1/2 AMP kinase
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BUT WHY? BUT WHY?
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ADVANTAGES OF WEIGHT LOSS IN HYPOXIA?
- Biomechanical efficiency?
- Reduced diffusion distances for oxygen?
- Reduced ‘maintenance’ costs?
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50-95% reduction in muscle/ liver protein synthesis 30-60% reduction in protein synthesis Reduction in protein synthesis Reduction in protein synthesis
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The response to hypoxia isn’t about delivering more, but
USING LESS USING LESS
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Angiotensinogen Renin
Angiotensin II
Angiotensin I
ACE ACE Kinin
#
BP
V/C
Aldosterone
Endocrine RAS
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Local (Paracrine) RAS
- Phylogenetically ancient (millions of years)
- Diverse species
- Diverse human cells and tissues
- Important role in cell growth
- Metabolism
- Inflammation
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The ACE I/D polymorphism
5’ 3’
1 5 8 15 17 21 26 exons
287 bp ALU repeat sequence
Intron 16
Insertion (I) : lower tissue ACE levels Deletion (D) : higher tissue ACE levels
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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 II ID DD
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 II ID DD
Elite UK Mountaineers
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80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 100 DD ID II
%
- MT. BLANC (4810m)
KILIMANJARO (5895m, 4 days)
SUCCESS IN CLIMBING.....
II
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‘Like DD’
‘Like II’
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H+ H+ H+ H+
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ACE regulates UCP expression
ACE, UCP2 and UCP3 are expressed in human endothelial cells
235 bp 228 bp 207 bp
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SO IS HYPOXIC ADAPTATION ACTUALLY
METABOLIC METABOLIC ADAPTATION?
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MITOCHONDRIAL MODELLING
- Reconstructed human mitochondrial metabolic
network
- Optimized with ATP synthesis capacity as objective
function
- Subjected to hypoxia
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Flux heat map
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- Hypothesized that, in hypoxia, positive
selective pressure would be driven by the need to restore ATP-producing capacity toward normoxic levels.
- Found that glucose transport and oxygen
uptake limited ATP synthesis capacity in hypoxia, phospholipid biosynthesis loss would impede.
- Thus predicted that the 25 genes encoding
the glycolysis co-set would be under positive selective, and 15 phospholipid genes under negative selective pressure.
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6-phosphofructokinase (glycolysis) Phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (glycolysis)
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ACADM ACADS ACSL1 CDS2 CHKB CHPT1 CPT1B CPT2 GK GK3P GPAM PISD PPA1 PPA2 SLC25A20
Phospholipid co-set
Mitochondrial acyl-Coenzyme A dehydrogenase (medium chain fatty acid metabolism) Pyrophosphatase
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Modelling can predict elements
- f human evolution
Evidence of selection pressure
- n ‘use’ not ‘delivery’
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Evidence of selection in the mitochondrial genome
- Mitochondrial whole-genome comparison study in 40
Tibetan and 50 Han Chinese
- Of 13 haplogroups, M9 differed: 8 variants, those in 4
genes likely to be associate with greater protein stability
- Comparison of non-synonymous/synonymous variants
- f 13 genes,
- Evidence for ‘adaptive selection for a number of genes’:
Gu M, et al Gene. 2012 Mar 15;496(1):37-44
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tRNA alanine and 12S rRNA genes ATP6 & 8 (ATP synthase subunit 6 & 8) Cyt b (complex III) ND2 (NADH dehydrogenase) COX2 (cytochrome c
- xidase subunit II)
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The yak genome and adaptation to life at high altitude Nature Genetics Published online 01 July 2012
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ETHIOPIA
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ETHIOPIA
Likely populated longer than Andes and Tibet Plausible gene flow via individuals from Sub- Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, and the Middle East
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ETHIOPIANS
- BHLHE41 (DEC2) locus.
- Regulated by HIF-1α
α α α
- Negatively regulates HIF-1α
α α α-induced transcription of VEGF.
- Candidate for hypoxic disruption of the
circadian clock.
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And finally…..
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