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ACE I/D Polymorphism as a Quantitative Trait Locus for ACE Expression in the Blood, but Not in the Lung Other spin-off media give contradictory versions of Ace's eventual fate. The comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine has Ace killed off just prior to the events of the 1996 television movie ( Ground Zero, DWM #238-#242). In the webcast audio play Death Comes to Time, Ace inherits the mantle of the Time Lords when they become extinct. Using this genotype-dependent expression pattern as a tracer, we tested if the primary source of circulating ACE is the lung in humans. To do so, we tested ACE levels in serum and lung samples of the same patients in parallel, using techniques developed in our laboratory in the past years [ 17, 18, 20, 27, 28]. Patients with the DD genotype had significantly higher circulating ACE concentrations and activities than patients with the ACE II genotype, while patients with the ACE ID genotype showed intermediate values confirming earlier reports. However, we did not find any correlation of lung tissue ACE expression or activity with the ACE I/D genotype. This finding suggests that ACE expression in the lungs is independent of ACE I/D genotype, and consequently, the genotype-dependent serum ACE secretion must have an alternative source of ACE. Another finding of this study is the endogenous regulation of ACE activity by inhibitors. The first results on potential endogenous inhibitors of ACE were reported as early as 1979 [ 35]. Later human results also suggested the existence of endogenous ACE inhibitors in the heart [ 36] as well as in the serum by identifying C-type natriuretic peptide [ 37]. Moreover, it was also shown that dilution can be a valuable tool to investigate the endogenous inhibition of ACE [ 38], suggesting that ACE is generally inhibited in rat tissues. Our previous reports on the endogenous inhibition of circulating ACE activity [ 17] by serum albumin [ 18] were confirmed in the present study. Applying the same technique, we observed a significantly higher endogenous inhibition (approximately 70%) in lung tissue than in blood. These ACE inhibitory levels were comparable in patients with and without ACE inhibitory medications, suggesting a negligible effect of the drug on tissue ACE activities. The concentration of human serum albumin is too low in the lung tissue samples to provide significant ACE inhibition [ 18], and thus, this implicates an alternative mechanism for ACE inhibition in the present study. These findings were in accordance to that found in the rat, suggesting at least 85% endogenous ACE inhibition in the lung [ 38]. Further studies are required to identify the molecular nature of the endogenous ACE inhibitor in human lung tissue.

Wennberg, R.P.; Ahlfors, C.E.; Bhutani, V.K.; Johnson, L.H.; Shapiro, S.M. Toward understanding kernicterus: A challenge to improve the management of jaundiced newborns. Pediatrics 2006, 117, 474–485. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]Ace states in Dragonfire that a time storm sends her to Svartos after she failed her O levels; she states in the same serial that she is 16 years old. Ace is a 16-year-old human who first appears in the 1987 serial Dragonfire, where she is working as a waitress in the frozen food retail complex of Iceworld on the planet Svartos. [8] She had been a troubled teen on Earth, having been expelled from school for blowing up the art room as a "creative statement". Gifted in chemistry (despite failing the subject at O-level), she was in her room experimenting with the extraction of nitroglycerin from gelignite when an explosion (later revealed to be a time-storm created by Fenric) swept her up and transported her to Iceworld, many years in the future. [6] There, she meets the Doctor and his companion Mel. When Mel leaves the Doctor at the conclusion of the serial, he offers to take Ace with him in the TARDIS, and she happily accepts. In 2020, BBC Books published At Childhood's End ( ISBN 9781785944994), a novel by Aldred featuring Ace, decades after her travels with the Doctor and now running the "A Charitable Earth" charity. The novel also features the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions. Like the charity, the title of the novel forms the acronym "ACE". Kost, O.A.; Grinshtein, S.V.; Nikolskaya, I.; Shevchenko, A.; Binevski, P.V. Purification of soluble and membrane forms of somatic angiotensin-converting enzyme by cascade affinity chromatography. Biochemistry 1997, 62, 321–328. [ Google Scholar] Dumoulin, M.; Kumita, J.R.; Dobson, C.M. Normal and aberrant biological self-assembly: Insights from studies of human lysozyme and its amyloidogenic variants. Acc. Chem. Res. 2006, 39, 603–610. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

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Kumagai, A.; Ando, R.; Miyatake, H.; Greimel, P.; Kobayashi, T.; Hirabayashi, Y.; Shimogori, T.; Miyawaki, A. A bilirubin-inducible fluorescent protein from eel muscle. Cell 2009, 153, 1602–1611. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Molecular Operating Environment (MOE), 2019.0101; Chemical Computing Group Inc.: Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019. Hooper, N.; Keen, J.; Pappin, D.; Turner, A. Pig kidney angiotensin converting enzyme. Purification and characterization of amphipatic and hydrophilic forms of the enzyme establishes C-terminal anchorage to the plasma membrane. Biochem. J. 1987, 247, 85–93. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Popova, I.A.; Lubbe, L.; Petukhov, P.A.; Kalantarov, G.F.; Trakht, I.N.; Chernykh, E.R.; Leplina, O.Y.; Lyubimov, A.V.; Garcia, J.G.; Dudek, S.M.; et al. Epitope mapping of novel monoclonal antibodies to human angiotensin I-converting enzyme. Protein Sci. 2021, 30, 1577–1593. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] This prospective study was done involving patients with lung surgeries at the clinical ward of the University of Debrecen and patients undergoing heart transplantation at the Heart and Vascular Center at Semmelweis University, Budapest. The study was authorized by the Medical Research Council of Hungary (20753-7/2018/EÜIG for patients undergoing lung surgery and ETT TUKEB 7891/2012/EKU (119/PI/12.) for patients with heart transplantation). Tissue and blood samples were obtained from patients undergoing thoracic-surgical interventions (lung samples) or heart transplantation (pseudonymized explanted heart samples from the left ventricular anterior wall and blood plasma samples were obtained from the Transplantation Biobank of the Heart and Vascular Center at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary). All enrolled patients gave their individual informed consents according to the Declaration of Helsinki.