Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis.
Augmenter of Liver Regeneration (ALR) is a sulfhydryl oxidase carrying out fundamental functions facilitating protein disulfide bond formation. In mammals, it also functions as a hepatotrophic growth factor that specifically stimulates hepatocyte proliferation and promotes liver regeneration after l...
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| author | Yan Li Muhammad Farooq Donglai Sheng Chanchal Chandramouli Tian Lan Nilesh K Mahajan R Manjunatha Kini Yunhan Hong Thomas Lisowsky Ruowen Ge |
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| description | Augmenter of Liver Regeneration (ALR) is a sulfhydryl oxidase carrying out fundamental functions facilitating protein disulfide bond formation. In mammals, it also functions as a hepatotrophic growth factor that specifically stimulates hepatocyte proliferation and promotes liver regeneration after liver damage or partial hepatectomy. Whether ALR also plays a role during vertebrate hepatogenesis is unknown. In this work, we investigated the function of alr in liver organogenesis in zebrafish model. We showed that alr is expressed in liver throughout hepatogenesis. Knockdown of alr through morpholino antisense oligonucleotide (MO) leads to suppression of liver outgrowth while overexpression of alr promotes liver growth. The small-liver phenotype in alr morphants results from a reduction of hepatocyte proliferation without affecting apoptosis. When expressed in cultured cells, zebrafish Alr exists as dimer and is localized in mitochondria as well as cytosol but not in nucleus or secreted outside of the cell. Similar to mammalian ALR, zebrafish Alr is a flavin-linked sulfhydryl oxidase and mutation of the conserved cysteine in the CxxC motif abolishes its enzymatic activity. Interestingly, overexpression of either wild type Alr or enzyme-inactive Alr(C131S) mutant promoted liver growth and rescued the liver growth defect of alr morphants. Nevertheless, alr(C131S) is less efficacious in both functions. Meantime, high doses of alr MOs lead to widespread developmental defects and early embryonic death in an alr sequence-dependent manner. These results suggest that alr promotes zebrafish liver outgrowth using mechanisms that are dependent as well as independent of its sulfhydryl oxidase activity. This is the first demonstration of a developmental role of alr in vertebrate. It exemplifies that a low-level sulfhydryl oxidase activity of Alr is essential for embryonic development and cellular survival. The dose-dependent and partial suppression of alr expression through MO-mediated knockdown allows the identification of its late developmental role in vertebrate liver organogenesis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e8718446ba8344fe9255bd58b4a8f4ae2025-08-20T02:43:54ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0171e3083510.1371/journal.pone.0030835Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis.Yan LiMuhammad FarooqDonglai ShengChanchal ChandramouliTian LanNilesh K MahajanR Manjunatha KiniYunhan HongThomas LisowskyRuowen GeAugmenter of Liver Regeneration (ALR) is a sulfhydryl oxidase carrying out fundamental functions facilitating protein disulfide bond formation. In mammals, it also functions as a hepatotrophic growth factor that specifically stimulates hepatocyte proliferation and promotes liver regeneration after liver damage or partial hepatectomy. Whether ALR also plays a role during vertebrate hepatogenesis is unknown. In this work, we investigated the function of alr in liver organogenesis in zebrafish model. We showed that alr is expressed in liver throughout hepatogenesis. Knockdown of alr through morpholino antisense oligonucleotide (MO) leads to suppression of liver outgrowth while overexpression of alr promotes liver growth. The small-liver phenotype in alr morphants results from a reduction of hepatocyte proliferation without affecting apoptosis. When expressed in cultured cells, zebrafish Alr exists as dimer and is localized in mitochondria as well as cytosol but not in nucleus or secreted outside of the cell. Similar to mammalian ALR, zebrafish Alr is a flavin-linked sulfhydryl oxidase and mutation of the conserved cysteine in the CxxC motif abolishes its enzymatic activity. Interestingly, overexpression of either wild type Alr or enzyme-inactive Alr(C131S) mutant promoted liver growth and rescued the liver growth defect of alr morphants. Nevertheless, alr(C131S) is less efficacious in both functions. Meantime, high doses of alr MOs lead to widespread developmental defects and early embryonic death in an alr sequence-dependent manner. These results suggest that alr promotes zebrafish liver outgrowth using mechanisms that are dependent as well as independent of its sulfhydryl oxidase activity. This is the first demonstration of a developmental role of alr in vertebrate. It exemplifies that a low-level sulfhydryl oxidase activity of Alr is essential for embryonic development and cellular survival. The dose-dependent and partial suppression of alr expression through MO-mediated knockdown allows the identification of its late developmental role in vertebrate liver organogenesis.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030835&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Yan Li Muhammad Farooq Donglai Sheng Chanchal Chandramouli Tian Lan Nilesh K Mahajan R Manjunatha Kini Yunhan Hong Thomas Lisowsky Ruowen Ge Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis. PLoS ONE |
| title | Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis. |
| title_full | Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis. |
| title_fullStr | Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis. |
| title_short | Augmenter of liver regeneration (alr) promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis. |
| title_sort | augmenter of liver regeneration alr promotes liver outgrowth during zebrafish hepatogenesis |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030835&type=printable |
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