Bridging the gap between protein-tyrosine phosphorylation networks, metabolism and physiology in liver-specific PTP1b deletion mice
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Miraldi, Emily R. (Emily Rae)
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Forest M. White.
Date Issued
2012
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Metabolic syndrome describes a complex set of obesity-related disorders that enhance diabetes, cardiovascular, and mortality risk. Studies of liver-specific protein-tyrosine phosphatase lb (PTPlb) deletion mice (L-PTPlb-/-) suggests that hepatic PTPlb inhibition would mitigate metabolic syndrome progression through amelioration of hepatic insulin resistance, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and whole-body lipid metabolism. However, the network alterations underlying these phenotypes are poorly understood. Mass spectrometry was used to quantitatively discover protein phosphotyrosine network changes in L-PTP lb-/- mice relative to control mice under both normal and high-fat diet conditions. A phosphosite set enrichment analysis was developed to identify numerous pathways exhibiting PTPlb- and diet-dependent phosphotyrosine regulation. Detection of PTP lb-dependent phosphotyrosine sites on lipid metabolic proteins initiated global lipidomics characterization of corresponding liver samples and revealed altered fatty acid and triglyceride metabolism in L-PTPlb-/- mice. Multivariate modeling techniques were developed to infer molecular dependencies between phosphosites and lipid metabolic changes, resulting in quantitatively predictive phenotypic models.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computational and Systems Biology Program, 2012.
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Computational and Systems Biology Program.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program
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