TY - JOUR
T1 - Acidic and neutral sialidase in the erythrocyte membrane of type 2 diabetic patients
AU - Venerando, Bruno
AU - Fiorilli, Amelia
AU - Croci, Gianluigi
AU - Tringali, Cristina
AU - Goi, Giancarlo
AU - Mazzanti, Laura
AU - Curatola, Giovanna
AU - Segalini, Giovanni
AU - Massaccesi, Luca
AU - Lombardo, Adriana
AU - Tettamanti, Guido
PY - 2002/2/1
Y1 - 2002/2/1
N2 - The behavior of the 2 sialidase forms present in the erythrocyte membrane was investigated in 117 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus versus 95 healthy controls. A significant increase of the acidic form of sialidase, which is anchored to the membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol bridge, was observed in erythrocyte resealed membranes. On the contrary, the neutral form of the enzyme, the only one capable of removing lipid- and protein-bound sialic acid from endogenous and exogenous sialoderivatives, was significantly reduced with a consequent increase of erythrocyte membrane total sialic acid content. Disease duration, therapy, glycemia, parameters of metabolic control, and presence of complications, except nephropathies, had no influence on the tested enzyme activities. Diabetic subjects showed a different erythrocyte age distribution, with an almost double proportion of young red cells and only one quarter of senescent ones compared with controls. In young erythrocytes, diabetic and control subjects had the same distribution of the 2 enzymes, while in senescent cells the acidic enzyme was increased 3.5-fold and the neutral form was reduced by half in the diabetic subjects. The increase of both acidic sialidase and total membranebound sialic acid, together with an overpresence of young red cells in diabetics, suggests that in this pathological condition there might be an altered aging process with a diminished expression of the neutral form of the enzyme and an increase of bound sialic acid. It has been suggested that the expression of the neutral enzyme requires some activation mechanism that is impaired in diabetes.
AB - The behavior of the 2 sialidase forms present in the erythrocyte membrane was investigated in 117 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus versus 95 healthy controls. A significant increase of the acidic form of sialidase, which is anchored to the membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol bridge, was observed in erythrocyte resealed membranes. On the contrary, the neutral form of the enzyme, the only one capable of removing lipid- and protein-bound sialic acid from endogenous and exogenous sialoderivatives, was significantly reduced with a consequent increase of erythrocyte membrane total sialic acid content. Disease duration, therapy, glycemia, parameters of metabolic control, and presence of complications, except nephropathies, had no influence on the tested enzyme activities. Diabetic subjects showed a different erythrocyte age distribution, with an almost double proportion of young red cells and only one quarter of senescent ones compared with controls. In young erythrocytes, diabetic and control subjects had the same distribution of the 2 enzymes, while in senescent cells the acidic enzyme was increased 3.5-fold and the neutral form was reduced by half in the diabetic subjects. The increase of both acidic sialidase and total membranebound sialic acid, together with an overpresence of young red cells in diabetics, suggests that in this pathological condition there might be an altered aging process with a diminished expression of the neutral form of the enzyme and an increase of bound sialic acid. It has been suggested that the expression of the neutral enzyme requires some activation mechanism that is impaired in diabetes.
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U2 - 10.1182/blood.V99.3.1064
DO - 10.1182/blood.V99.3.1064
M3 - Article
C2 - 11807014
AN - SCOPUS:0036464654
VL - 99
SP - 1064
EP - 1070
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
SN - 0006-4971
IS - 3
ER -