@article{ChipmanFerrierBrenaetal.2014, author = {Chipman, Ariel D. and Ferrier, David E. K. and Brena, Carlo and Qu, Jiaxin and Hughes, Daniel S. T. and Schroeder, Reinhard and Torres-Oliva, Montserrat and Znassi, Nadia and Jiang, Huaiyang and Almeida, Francisca C. and Alonso, Claudio R. and Apostolou, Zivkos and Aqrawi, Peshtewani and Arthur, Wallace and Barna, Jennifer C. J. and Blankenburg, Kerstin P. and Brites, Daniela and Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador and Coyle, Marcus and Dearden, Peter K. and Du Pasquier, Louis and Duncan, Elizabeth J. and Ebert, Dieter and Eibner, Cornelius and Erikson, Galina and Evans, Peter D. and Extavour, Cassandra G. and Francisco, Liezl and Gabaldon, Toni and Gillis, William J. and Goodwin-Horn, Elizabeth A. and Green, Jack E. and Griffiths-Jones, Sam and Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J. P. and Gubbala, Sai and Guigo, Roderic and Han, Yi and Hauser, Frank and Havlak, Paul and Hayden, Luke and Helbing, Sophie and Holder, Michael and Hui, Jerome H. L. and Hunn, Julia P. and Hunnekuhl, Vera S. and Jackson, LaRonda and Javaid, Mehwish and Jhangiani, Shalini N. and Jiggins, Francis M. and Jones, Tamsin E. and Kaiser, Tobias S. and Kalra, Divya and Kenny, Nathan J. and Korchina, Viktoriya and Kovar, Christie L. and Kraus, F. Bernhard and Lapraz, Francois and Lee, Sandra L. and Lv, Jie and Mandapat, Christigale and Manning, Gerard and Mariotti, Marco and Mata, Robert and Mathew, Tittu and Neumann, Tobias and Newsham, Irene and Ngo, Dinh N. and Ninova, Maria and Okwuonu, Geoffrey and Ongeri, Fiona and Palmer, William J. and Patil, Shobha and Patraquim, Pedro and Pham, Christopher and Pu, Ling-Ling and Putman, Nicholas H. and Rabouille, Catherine and Ramos, Olivia Mendivil and Rhodes, Adelaide C. and Robertson, Helen E. and Robertson, Hugh M. and Ronshaugen, Matthew and Rozas, Julio and Saada, Nehad and Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro and Scherer, Steven E. and Schurko, Andrew M. and Siggens, Kenneth W. and Simmons, DeNard and Stief, Anna and Stolle, Eckart and Telford, Maximilian J. and Tessmar-Raible, Kristin and Thornton, Rebecca and van der Zee, Maurijn and von Haeseler, Arndt and Williams, James M. and Willis, Judith H. and Wu, Yuanqing and Zou, Xiaoyan and Lawson, Daniel and Muzny, Donna M. and Worley, Kim C. and Gibbs, Richard A. and Akam, Michael and Richards, Stephen}, title = {The first myriapod genome sequence reveals conservative arthropod gene content and genome organisation in the centipede Strigamia maritima}, series = {PLoS biology}, volume = {12}, journal = {PLoS biology}, number = {11}, publisher = {PLoS}, address = {San Fransisco}, issn = {1545-7885}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.1002005}, pages = {24}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Myriapods (e. g., centipedes and millipedes) display a simple homonomous body plan relative to other arthropods. All members of the class are terrestrial, but they attained terrestriality independently of insects. Myriapoda is the only arthropod class not represented by a sequenced genome. We present an analysis of the genome of the centipede Strigamia maritima. It retains a compact genome that has undergone less gene loss and shuffling than previously sequenced arthropods, and many orthologues of genes conserved from the bilaterian ancestor that have been lost in insects. Our analysis locates many genes in conserved macro-synteny contexts, and many small-scale examples of gene clustering. We describe several examples where S. maritima shows different solutions from insects to similar problems. The insect olfactory receptor gene family is absent from S. maritima, and olfaction in air is likely effected by expansion of other receptor gene families. For some genes S. maritima has evolved paralogues to generate coding sequence diversity, where insects use alternate splicing. This is most striking for the Dscam gene, which in Drosophila generates more than 100,000 alternate splice forms, but in S. maritima is encoded by over 100 paralogues. We see an intriguing linkage between the absence of any known photosensory proteins in a blind organism and the additional absence of canonical circadian clock genes. The phylogenetic position of myriapods allows us to identify where in arthropod phylogeny several particular molecular mechanisms and traits emerged. For example, we conclude that juvenile hormone signalling evolved with the emergence of the exoskeleton in the arthropods and that RR-1 containing cuticle proteins evolved in the lineage leading to Mandibulata. We also identify when various gene expansions and losses occurred. The genome of S. maritima offers us a unique glimpse into the ancestral arthropod genome, while also displaying many adaptations to its specific life history.}, language = {en} } @article{EichelmannSellemWittenbecheretal.2022, author = {Eichelmann, Fabian and Sellem, Laury and Wittenbecher, Clemens and J{\"a}ger, Susanne and Kuxhaus, Olga and Prada, Marcela and Cuadrat, Rafael and Jackson, Kim G. and Lovegrove, Julie A. and Schulze, Matthias Bernd}, title = {Deep lipidomics in human plasma: cardiometabolic disease risk and effect of dietary fat modulation}, series = {Circulation}, volume = {146}, journal = {Circulation}, number = {1}, publisher = {Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins}, address = {Philadelphia}, issn = {0009-7322}, doi = {10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056805}, pages = {21 -- 35}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Background: In blood and tissues, dietary and endogenously generated fatty acids (FAs) occur in free form or as part of complex lipid molecules that collectively represent the lipidome of the respective tissue. We assessed associations of plasma lipids derived from high-resolution lipidomics with incident cardiometabolic diseases and subsequently tested if the identified risk-associated lipids were sensitive to dietary fat modification. Methods: The EPIC Potsdam cohort study (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) comprises 27 548 participants recruited within an age range of 35 to 65 years from the general population around Potsdam, Germany. We generated 2 disease-specific case cohorts on the basis of a fixed random subsample (n=1262) and all respective cohort-wide identified incident primary cardiovascular disease (composite of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke; n=551) and type 2 diabetes (n=775) cases. We estimated the associations of baseline plasma concentrations of 282 class-specific FA abundances (calculated from 940 distinct molecular species across 15 lipid classes) with the outcomes in multivariable-adjusted Cox models. We tested the effect of an isoenergetic dietary fat modification on risk-associated lipids in the DIVAS randomized controlled trial (Dietary Intervention and Vascular Function; n=113). Participants consumed either a diet rich in saturated FAs (control), monounsaturated FAs, or a mixture of monounsaturated and n-6 polyunsaturated FAs for 16 weeks. Results: Sixty-nine lipids associated (false discovery rate<0.05) with at least 1 outcome (both, 8; only cardiovascular disease, 49; only type 2 diabetes, 12). In brief, several monoacylglycerols and FA16:0 and FA18:0 in diacylglycerols were associated with both outcomes; cholesteryl esters, free fatty acids, and sphingolipids were largely cardiovascular disease specific; and several (glycero)phospholipids were type 2 diabetes specific. In addition, 19 risk-associated lipids were affected (false discovery rate<0.05) by the diets rich in unsaturated dietary FAs compared with the saturated fat diet (17 in a direction consistent with a potential beneficial effect on long-term cardiometabolic risk). For example, the monounsaturated FA-rich diet decreased diacylglycerol(FA16:0) by 0.4 (95\% CI, 0.5-0.3) SD units and increased triacylglycerol(FA22:1) by 0.5 (95\% CI, 0.4-0.7) SD units. Conclusions: We identified several lipids associated with cardiometabolic disease risk. A subset was beneficially altered by a dietary fat intervention that supports the substitution of dietary saturated FAs with unsaturated FAs as a potential tool for primary disease prevention.}, language = {en} } @article{SellemAntoniKoutsosetal.2022, author = {Sellem, Laury and Antoni, Rona and Koutsos, Athanasios and Ozen, Ezgi and Wong, Gloria and Ayyad, Hasnaa and Weech, Michelle and Schulze, Matthias Bernd and Wernitz, Andreas and Fielding, Barbara A. and Robertson, M. Denise and Jackson, Kim G. and Griffin, Bruce A. and Lovegrove, Julie A.}, title = {Impact of a food-based dietary fat exchange model for replacing dietary saturated with unsaturated fatty acids in healthy men on plasma phospholipids fatty acid profiles and dietary patterns}, series = {European journal of nutrition}, volume = {61}, journal = {European journal of nutrition}, number = {7}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {1436-6207}, doi = {10.1007/s00394-022-02910-2}, pages = {3669 -- 3684}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Purpose UK guidelines recommend dietary saturated fatty acids (SFAs) should not exceed 10\% total energy (\%TE) for cardiovascular disease prevention, with benefits observed when SFAs are replaced with unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs). This study aimed to assess the efficacy of a dietary exchange model using commercially available foods to replace SFAs with UFAs. Methods Healthy men (n = 109, age 48, SD 11 year) recruited to the Reading, Imperial, Surrey, Saturated fat Cholesterol Intervention-1 (RISSCI-1) study (ClinicalTrials.Gov n degrees NCT03270527) followed two sequential 4-week isoenergetic moderate-fat (34\%TE) diets: high-SFA (18\%TE SFAs, 16\%TE UFAs) and low-SFA (10\%TE SFAs, 24\%TE UFAs). Dietary intakes were assessed using 4-day weighed diet diaries. Nutrient intakes were analysed using paired t-tests, fasting plasma phospholipid fatty acid (PL-FA) profiles and dietary patterns were analysed using orthogonal partial least square discriminant analyses. Results Participants exchanged 10.2\%TE (SD 4.1) SFAs for 9.7\%TE (SD 3.9) UFAs between the high and low-SFA diets, reaching target intakes with minimal effect on other nutrients or energy intakes. Analyses of dietary patterns confirmed successful incorporation of recommended foods from commercially available sources (e.g. dairy products, snacks, oils, and fats), without affecting participants' overall dietary intakes. Analyses of plasma PL-FAs indicated good compliance to the dietary intervention and foods of varying SFA content. Conclusions RISSCI-1 dietary exchange model successfully replaced dietary SFAs with UFAs in free-living healthy men using commercially available foods, and without altering their dietary patterns. Further intervention studies are required to confirm utility and feasibility of such food-based dietary fat replacement models at a population level.}, language = {en} }