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Mgat5, a regulator of metabolic homeostasis in mice

2007· dissertation· W7133012910 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Pui Sze Pamela Cheung

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2007
Typedissertation
Language
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicGalectins and Cancer Biology
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsDownregulation and upregulationCell growthPTENMotilityRegulatorProtein kinase BReceptorGrowth factorAutocrine signallingSkeletal muscle
DOInot available

Abstract

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Golgi beta1,6N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase V (Mgat5) produces beta1,6GIcNAc-branched N-glycans on glycoproteins, which increases their affinity for galectins and opposes loss from cell surface to constitutive endocytosis. Oncogenic transformation increases Mgat5 expression, and enhances sensitivities to growth factors, cell motility and tumour metastasis. Therefore, I explored growth and tissue renewal of Mgat5-/- mice, and found that they are hypoglycaemic, resistant to weight-gain, hypersensitive to fasting, display increased oxidative respiration, reduced fecundity and decreased serum leptin. These phenotypes are similar to that of calorie restricted (CR) rodents; however, unlike CR animals, Mgat5-/- mice have accelerated loss of muscle and bone mass and reduced lifespan. CR-induced longevity involve downregulation of the PI3K/Akt/TOR pathway, downstream of many growth factor receptors including EGF, PDGF and IR. In this regard, Mgat5-/- primary MEFs and macrophages are suppressed in MAPK activation in response to EGF, PDGF, IGF, and FCS. However, muscle satellite cells and bone marrow osteoblasts revealed a FCS-induced signalling imbalance, favouring Smad2/3 activation over Erk, which may contribute to reduced growth, self-renewal and longevity of the Mgat5-/- animals. Pten opposes PI3K/Akt signalling and is a potent tumour suppressor. Mgat5 +/- Pten+/- and Mgat5-/- Pten +/- mutant mice showed a small increase in lifespan compared with Pten+/- mice, due to an apparent delay in tumour progression. Primary Pten+/-Mgat5-/- MEFs are normalised for Akt activation and cell spreading, and Pten+/- MEFs have enhanced L-PHA staining, suggesting that Mgat5 structures are regulated by P13K signalling. Aged CR rodents exhibit decreased oxidative damage, implicating either decreased ROS production or elevated antioxidant activity. I demonstrated that Mgat5-/- primary MEFs have decreased glucose uptake and mitochondrial ROS. Unlike WT control, PyMT Mgat5-/- cells fail to down regulate glucose transport, protein synthesis, ROS and activation of Erk and Akt following serum withdrawal. PyMT transformation reveals that Mgat5-deficiency not only impairs positive growth signalling, but also suppresses negative growth regulation, allowing for proliferation and tumourigenicity. Mgat5 participates upstream of PyMT signalling through N-glycan modification of growth factor receptors, but also downstream of Akt signalling through its dependence on glucose uptake for supply of UDP-GlcNAc. Therefore, Mgat5 enhances cellular signalling and growth, and metabolism and longevity in the animal.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.189
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.323 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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