Ergothioneine is a natural amino acid with powerful antioxidant activity.Previous studies have demonstrated that ergothioneine can increase the lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans,and enhanc...Ergothioneine is a natural amino acid with powerful antioxidant activity.Previous studies have demonstrated that ergothioneine can increase the lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans,and enhance telomerase activity.In present study,the metagenomics sequencing and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis were employed to characterize the composition and diversity of gut microbiome in aging flies.And the alterations in the gut barrier,gut morphology,and other gut physiological indicators of aging flies were evaluated.Here,the results showed that ergothioneine induced little variations in gut microbiota composition in flies at mid-life,and significant alterations in the gut microbiota populations were only observed in flies at late-life.And ergothioneine attenuated age-related gut injuries,including decreasing reactive oxygen species levels in intestinal enterocytes,reduction of intestinal cells death,and preservation of gut integrity in aging flies.Ergothioneine also improved the gut morphology by preserving the structure and shape of cell organelles and inducing the intestinal autophagy.And activation of intestinal autophagy also contributed to the longevity effect mediated by ergothioneine in an unidentified mechanism.展开更多
Ergothioneine,Ovothiol,and Selenoneine are sulfur/selenium-containing histidine-derived natural products widely distributed across different organisms.They exhibit significant antioxidant properties,making them as pot...Ergothioneine,Ovothiol,and Selenoneine are sulfur/selenium-containing histidine-derived natural products widely distributed across different organisms.They exhibit significant antioxidant properties,making them as potential lead compounds for promoting health.Increasing evidence suggests that Ergothioneine is positively correlated with healthy ageing and longevity.The mechanisms underlying Ergothioneine's regulation of the ageing process at cellular and molecular levels are beginning to be understood.In this review,we provide an in-depth and extensive coverage of the anti-ageing studies on Ergothioneine and discuss its possible intracellular targeting pathways.In addition,we highlight the recent efforts in elucidating the biosynthetic details for Ergothioneine,Ovothiol,and Selenoneine,with a particular focus on the study of their pharmacophore-forming enzymology.展开更多
A novel selenium-containing compound,selenoneine,has been isolated as the major form of organic selenium in the blood and tissues of tuna.Selenoneine harbors a selenium atom in the imidazole ring,2-selenylNα,Nα,Nα-...A novel selenium-containing compound,selenoneine,has been isolated as the major form of organic selenium in the blood and tissues of tuna.Selenoneine harbors a selenium atom in the imidazole ring,2-selenylNα,Nα,Nα-trimethyl-L-histidine,and is a selenium analog of ergothioneine.This selenium compound has strong antioxidant capacity and binds to heme proteins,such as hemoglobin and myoglobin,to protect them from iron auto-oxidation,and it reacts with radicals and methylmercury(MeHg) .The organic cations/carnitine transporter OCTN1 transports selenoneine and MeHg,regulates Se-enhanced antioxidant activity,and decreases MeHg toxicity.Thus,the dietary intake of selenoneine,by consuming fish,might decrease the formation of reactive oxygen radicals that could oxidize nucleotides in DNA,and thereby inhibit carcinogenesis,chronic diseases,and aging.展开更多
Gene regulation by trans-acting small RNAs(sRNAs)has considerable advantages over other gene regulation strategies.However,synthetic sRNAs mainly take natural sRNAs(MicC or SgrS)as backbones and comprise three functio...Gene regulation by trans-acting small RNAs(sRNAs)has considerable advantages over other gene regulation strategies.However,synthetic sRNAs mainly take natural sRNAs(MicC or SgrS)as backbones and comprise three functional elements folding into two or more stem-loop structures:an mRNA base pairing region,an Hfq-binding structure,and a rho-independent terminator.Due to limited numbers of natural sRNAs and complicated backbone structures,synthetic sRNAs suffer from low activity programmability and poor structural modularity.Moreover,natural sRNA backbone sequences may increase the possibility of unwanted recombination.Here,we present a bottom-up approach for creating structure defined single-stem loop small non-coding RNAs(ssl-sRNAs),which contain a standardized scaffold of a 7 bp-stem-4 nt-loop-polyU-tail and a 24 nt basing pairing region covering the first eight codons.Particularly,ssl-sRNA requires no independent Hfq-binding structure,as the polyU tail fulfills the roles of binding Hfq.A thermodynamic-based scoring model and a web server sslRNAD(http://www.kangzlab.cn/)were developed for automated design of ssl-sRNAs with well-defined structures and programmable activities.ssl-sRNAs displayed weak polar effects when regulating polycistronic mRNAs.The ssl-sRNA designed by sslRNAD showed regulatory activities in both Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.A streamlined workflow was developed for the construction of customized ssl-sRNA and ssl-sRNA libraries.As examples,the E.coli cell morphology was easily modified and new target genes of ergothioneine biosynthesis were quickly identified with ssl-sRNAs.ssl-sRNA and its designer sslRNAD enable researchers to rapidly design sRNAs for knocking down target genes.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32072646,31772373,and 32001832).
文摘Ergothioneine is a natural amino acid with powerful antioxidant activity.Previous studies have demonstrated that ergothioneine can increase the lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans,and enhance telomerase activity.In present study,the metagenomics sequencing and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis were employed to characterize the composition and diversity of gut microbiome in aging flies.And the alterations in the gut barrier,gut morphology,and other gut physiological indicators of aging flies were evaluated.Here,the results showed that ergothioneine induced little variations in gut microbiota composition in flies at mid-life,and significant alterations in the gut microbiota populations were only observed in flies at late-life.And ergothioneine attenuated age-related gut injuries,including decreasing reactive oxygen species levels in intestinal enterocytes,reduction of intestinal cells death,and preservation of gut integrity in aging flies.Ergothioneine also improved the gut morphology by preserving the structure and shape of cell organelles and inducing the intestinal autophagy.And activation of intestinal autophagy also contributed to the longevity effect mediated by ergothioneine in an unidentified mechanism.
基金supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFA0903200 to C.Z.)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32270032 and 32070038 to C.Z.,No.32000029 to L.C.).
文摘Ergothioneine,Ovothiol,and Selenoneine are sulfur/selenium-containing histidine-derived natural products widely distributed across different organisms.They exhibit significant antioxidant properties,making them as potential lead compounds for promoting health.Increasing evidence suggests that Ergothioneine is positively correlated with healthy ageing and longevity.The mechanisms underlying Ergothioneine's regulation of the ageing process at cellular and molecular levels are beginning to be understood.In this review,we provide an in-depth and extensive coverage of the anti-ageing studies on Ergothioneine and discuss its possible intracellular targeting pathways.In addition,we highlight the recent efforts in elucidating the biosynthetic details for Ergothioneine,Ovothiol,and Selenoneine,with a particular focus on the study of their pharmacophore-forming enzymology.
基金Supported by In part grants from the Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry,and Fisheries of Japan(Rural Biomass Research Project,BM-D2300)and Fisheries Research Agency
文摘A novel selenium-containing compound,selenoneine,has been isolated as the major form of organic selenium in the blood and tissues of tuna.Selenoneine harbors a selenium atom in the imidazole ring,2-selenylNα,Nα,Nα-trimethyl-L-histidine,and is a selenium analog of ergothioneine.This selenium compound has strong antioxidant capacity and binds to heme proteins,such as hemoglobin and myoglobin,to protect them from iron auto-oxidation,and it reacts with radicals and methylmercury(MeHg) .The organic cations/carnitine transporter OCTN1 transports selenoneine and MeHg,regulates Se-enhanced antioxidant activity,and decreases MeHg toxicity.Thus,the dietary intake of selenoneine,by consuming fish,might decrease the formation of reactive oxygen radicals that could oxidize nucleotides in DNA,and thereby inhibit carcinogenesis,chronic diseases,and aging.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFC2100800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970085)the Jiangsu Province Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (BK20200025).
文摘Gene regulation by trans-acting small RNAs(sRNAs)has considerable advantages over other gene regulation strategies.However,synthetic sRNAs mainly take natural sRNAs(MicC or SgrS)as backbones and comprise three functional elements folding into two or more stem-loop structures:an mRNA base pairing region,an Hfq-binding structure,and a rho-independent terminator.Due to limited numbers of natural sRNAs and complicated backbone structures,synthetic sRNAs suffer from low activity programmability and poor structural modularity.Moreover,natural sRNA backbone sequences may increase the possibility of unwanted recombination.Here,we present a bottom-up approach for creating structure defined single-stem loop small non-coding RNAs(ssl-sRNAs),which contain a standardized scaffold of a 7 bp-stem-4 nt-loop-polyU-tail and a 24 nt basing pairing region covering the first eight codons.Particularly,ssl-sRNA requires no independent Hfq-binding structure,as the polyU tail fulfills the roles of binding Hfq.A thermodynamic-based scoring model and a web server sslRNAD(http://www.kangzlab.cn/)were developed for automated design of ssl-sRNAs with well-defined structures and programmable activities.ssl-sRNAs displayed weak polar effects when regulating polycistronic mRNAs.The ssl-sRNA designed by sslRNAD showed regulatory activities in both Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.A streamlined workflow was developed for the construction of customized ssl-sRNA and ssl-sRNA libraries.As examples,the E.coli cell morphology was easily modified and new target genes of ergothioneine biosynthesis were quickly identified with ssl-sRNAs.ssl-sRNA and its designer sslRNAD enable researchers to rapidly design sRNAs for knocking down target genes.
