Raman spectroscopic characteristics of microcosmic and photosensitive damage on space structure of liposomes sensitized by hypocrellin and its derivatives

Ｈｙｐｏｃｒｅｌｌａｂａｍｂｕｓａｅ(Ｂ.ｅｔＢｒ)Ｓａｃｃ.,ｏｎｅｋｉｎｄｏｆｆｕｎｇｕｓ,ｉｓｐａｒａｓｉｔｉｚｅｄｏｎｔｈｅＳｉｎａｒｕｎｄｉｎａｒｉａｓｐ.ＩｔｇｒｏｗｓａｂｕｎｄａｎｔｌｙｉｎｔｈｅｎｏｒｔｈｗｅｓｔｅｒｎｒｅｇｉｏｎｏｆＹｕｎｎａｎＰｒｏｖｉｎｃｅｏｆＣｈｉｎａ,ａｎｄｈａｓａｌｏｎｇｈｉｓｔｏｒｙｏｆｗｏｒｋｉｎｇａｓａｔｒａｄｉｔｉｏｎａｌｍｅｄｉｃｉｎａｌａｇｅｎｔ[1].Ｉｔｓｐｒｏｍｉｓｉｎｇａｎｔｉｃａｎｃｅｒａｎｄａｎｔｉｖｉｒａｌｆｕｎｃｔｉｏｎｓｈａｖｅｌｅｄ…     

Raman spectroscopic study on structure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hypericin-induced photosensitive damage of HIV

Viruses are agents of some of the most destruc- tive diseases afflicting plants and animals[1]. Viruses also play a central role in experimental methods of molecular and cellular biology, especially in modern genetic engineering[1]. Raman spectroscopy is a pow-erful tool for studying the structure of the whole virion. A number of researches are limited to the conforma-tion of viruses, involving only nucleic acid (RNA or DNA) and its coat protein[1]. Literatures can be found concerning Raman…     

Raman spectroscopic study on structure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hypericin-induced photosensitive damage of HIV

The first Raman spectra of HIV1-HIV2 in human sera and hypericin-induced photosensitive damage of the virus have been obtained. The prominent Raman lines in the spectra are assigned respectively to the carbohydrates of viral glycoprotein, RNA, protein and lipid. The spectra are dominated by Raman scattering of the carbohydrates. The lines of D-Mannose and N-acetylglucosamine in carbohydrates are obvious and there is a β-configuration in the anomeric C1 position in D-Mannose. The viral RNA duplexes bound assumes an A-form geometry. The lines of backbone phosphate group, bases (involving interbase hydrogen bonding) and ribose of the RNA are complete and distinct. The secondary structure of the viral protein maintains α-helix, β-sheet, β-turn and random coil. Its side chains are rich and vary from tryptophan, phenylalanine and “buried” tyrosine; the stable conformation of the S-S bond of gauche-gauche-gauche; the two forms of C-S bonds of gauche and trans; to sulfhydrl group and ionized and unionized carboxyl groups. The viral lipid bilayer molecules are probably in the liquid ordered phase or the gel phase. It was observed that the hypericin-induced photosensitive damage of HIV1-HIV2 in human sera changed various components of HIV1-HIV2 in different degrees: The orderly A-form viral RNA would become a disordered viral RNA. There were a breakage of interbase hydrogen bonds and disruption of vertical base-base stacking interactions. In addition, the groups of ribos and four bases were damaged obviously. A decrease in ordered structure (α-helix and β-sheet) of viral protein is accompanied by an increase in random coil. The Tyr buried in the three-dimensional structure of protein was damaged, but it was still “buried” and the damage of C-S bond of trans form was stronger. The groups of carbohydrates, including D-Mannos and N-acetyl glucosamine, in viral envelope glycoprotein had also been changed. The hydrophilic C-N bond of choline in viral lipid was damaged, which was the possible binding site to hypericin, whereas the viral lipids bilayers were still probably in the liquid ordered phase or the gel phase. So the space structure of HIV1-HIV2 was damaged under the experimental conditions, which might block viral infection and inhibit its growth and breeding. It is apparent that the laser Raman spectra have provided certain direct evidence at the molecular level for photosensitive damage of HIV1-HIV2.     

Interaction of antiviral and antitumor photoactive drug hypocrellin A with human serum albumin.

Absorption, resonance Raman, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and differential scanning microcalorimetry were employed to study the interaction of hypocrellin A with human serum albumin. The identification of the binding place for hypocrellin A as well as the model for the albumin-hypocrellin A complex are proposed. In this model hypocrellin A interacts with albumin through more than one binding site placed on the protein surface. This model of non-specific interaction could explain why the absorption spectrum of hypocrellin A does not change in the presence of albumin and why the presence of the drug does not change significantly the thermodynamic parameters of the protein, while the Raman spectra show evident changes concerning both the protein and the drug structure. Even if hypocrellin A does not interact with an interior binding site, it can affect deeply the general albumin structure.     

应用基因组改组技术选育竹红菌甲素高产菌株

以紫外(UV)与亚硝基胍诱变的竹黄菌(Shiraia bambusicola)菌株NU12和UV4为出发菌株,60℃处理5 min、紫外(距离30 cm,30 W)照射90s进行双亲原生质体灭活,通过30％聚乙二醇PEG6000介导原生质体融合20 min.结合平板初筛和高效液相色谱( HPLC)分析进行复筛,通过3轮重组融合操作,筛选出6株高产竹红菌甲素的融合株.其中融合菌株FIII - 21的竹红菌甲素产量达到80.4 mg/L,比原始出发菌株提高了58.9％～167.1％,且遗传稳定,具有较高的医药及工业应用价值.     

竹黄菌液体培养下产竹红菌素的研究

先对不同产地采集的竹黄菌进行筛选,得到优产竹红菌素的菌株,然后采用单因子和3因素3水平正交试验法对竹红菌素液体发酵条件进行优化,在优化培养基的基础上,选用不同浓度的Cr3+、Fe3+、Cu2+和Ca2+对竹红菌素进行离子调控研究。结果表明:从休宁所采集的菌株不仅生长速度最快,发酵所产的竹红菌素含量也最高;竹红菌素最佳发酵碳源是葡萄糖,最佳发酵氮源是硝酸钠,最佳培养基组合为2%葡萄糖,0.2%硝酸钠,pH7.5;Cr3+和Fe3+浓度为0.005%时竹红菌素含量均最高;0.05%的Ca2+最有利于竹红菌素的分泌;Cu2+为0.03%时竹红菌素含量达到最大值。     

原生质体紫外诱变选育竹红菌甲素高产菌株

采用原生质体紫外诱变技术选育竹红菌甲素高产菌株。结果表明:以竹黄菌Shiraia sp.S8为出发菌株,当使用混合酶系(5 mg/mL纤维素酶和10 mg/mL蜗牛酶)在30℃处理菌丝2 h,获得菌丝原生质体3.24×106个/mL。以竹黄菌原生质体在距离15 W紫外灯30 cm处照射诱导,获得诱变菌株C6。其竹红菌甲素产量达到28.1 mg/L,比原始出发菌株提高了53.7%,且遗传稳定,具有较高的医药与工业应用价值。     

苝醌类化合物的杀线虫活性*

采用液体浸泡方法首次测定了菌寄生菌属Hypomyces sp.的次级代谢物苝醌类化合物竹红菌甲素和痂囊羟菌素对松材线虫的致病率。结果表明竹红菌甲素对松材线虫的半致病率为18小时50g/mL,痂囊羟菌素对松材线虫的半致病率为18小时15g/mL,对比(啊维菌素)对松材线虫的半致病率为18小时0.8g/mL。在红外光照射下竹红菌甲素和痂囊羟菌素具有良好的光敏杀伤松材线虫的作用。     

安徽省三种产地竹黄菌培养的初步研究

首次对安徽省三种产地的竹黄菌进行了组织分离培养和液体发酵,比较了该菌固体生长状况和液体发酵形成的竹红菌素产量。结果显示,广德卢村的菌种平皿生长速度为0．31cm／d,液体发酵产生的竹红菌素吸光度为0．21;宁国板桥菌种平皿生长速度为0．30cm／d,液体发酵产生的竹红菌素吸光度为0．30;休宁武城的竹黄菌平皿生长速度为1．85cm／d,菌株液体发酵产生的竹红菌素吸光度为O．39。结论表明,休宁武城菌种无论是平皿生长速度还是发酵形成的竹红菌素量都明显优于其它两地的菌株。     

Lack of adverse effect of smoking habit on DNA strand breakage and base damage, as revealed by the alkaline comet assay

In our preceding papers [M. Wojewódzka, M. Kruszewski, T. Iwanenko, A.R. Collins, I. Szumiel, Application of the comet assay for monitoring DNA damage in workers exposed to chronic low dose irradiation: I. Strand breakage, Mutat. Res., 416 (1998) 21-35; M. Kruszewski, M. Wojewódzka, T. Iwanenko, A.R. Collins, I. Szumiel, Application of the comet assay for monitoring DNA damage in workers exposed to chronic low dose irradiation: II. Base damage, Mutat. Res. , 416 (1998) 37-57.], we evaluated the DNA breakage and base damage with the use of comet assay in a group of 49 workers chronically exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation. There was a statistically significant difference in the damage levels between the hazard and control group. In this paper we describe a confounding lack of effect of the smoking habit on the DNA damage in the tested groups. The genotoxic effect of the smoking habit, as well as its modifying effect on genome damage inflicted by other agents, have been firmly established. However, no statistically significant effect of smoking was found in our study, neither in the control nor in the hazard group. This lack of effect was seen in all DNA damage determinations, both direct (DNA strand breakage and alkali-labile lesions) and enzyme-combined (base damage) and did not depend on the comet parameters, which were taken as damage indicators.     

Next-generation sequencing offers new insights into DNA degradation

The processes underlying DNA degradation are central to various disciplines, including cancer research, forensics and archaeology. The sequencing of ancient DNA molecules on next-generation sequencing platforms provides direct measurements of cytosine deamination, depurination and fragmentation rates that previously were obtained only from extrapolations of results from in vitro kinetic experiments performed over short timescales. For example, recent next-generation sequencing of ancient DNA reveals purine bases as one of the main targets of postmortem hydrolytic damage, through base elimination and strand breakage. It also shows substantially increased rates of DNA base-loss at guanosine. In this review, we argue that the latter results from an electron resonance structure unique to guanosine rather than adenosine having an extra resonance structure over guanosine as previously suggested.     

Effect of radiomodifying agents on the ratios of X-ray-induced lesions in cellular DNA: use in lethal lesion determination

The effect of three radiomodifying agents, cysteamine, hyperthermia, and hypoxia, on the induction of the major classes of X-ray-induced DNA lesions, was studied using mouse L cells and Chinese hamster V79 cells. The use of filter elution techniques allowed most of these studies to be conducted at X-ray doses within the survival-curve range. Cysteamine was found to protect against DNA single-strand breakage (ssb), DNA base damage, and DNA-protein crosslinkage. Hyperthermia had no effect on the level of DNA ssb or DNA base damage, but in L cells (but not in V79 cells) it increased the level of DNA-protein crosslinkage relative to DNA ssb. Hypoxia protected against DNA ssb, had no significant effect on the level of DNA base damage, and enhanced the level of DNA-protein crosslinkage relative to DNA ssb. These results support the previous suggestion that the X-ray-induced lethal lesion is DNA double-strand breakage. Implications of these findings for the mechanisms of formation of X-ray-induced DNA lesions are also discussed.     

Quenching of fluorescence in membrane protein by hypocrellin B

The hypocrellin B (HB) was used as a fluorescence quencher to study the basic physical characteris-tics of HB in membrane systems, including the diffusion speed of quencher from aqueous phase into membrane phase, the partition coefficient (P) of quencher between membrane and water, and the fluorescence quenching constant of protein (Ksv; Kq). The experimental results show that the quenching of fluorescence in membrane protein by HB can be determined by the principle of dynamic quenching. The experimental process of fluorescence quenching was ob-served in detail by using the ESR technique. The signal of HB" was found to arise from an electron transfer from ex-cited trytophan to HB.     

DNA damage induced by catechol derivatives

We investigated the effect of catechol derivatives, including dopa, dopamine, adrenaline and noradrenaline, on DNA damage and the mechanisms of DNA strand breakage and formation of 8-hydroxyguanine (8HOG). The catechol derivatives caused strand breakage of plasmid DNA in the presence of ADP-Fe(3+). The DNA damage was prevented by catalase, mannitol and dimethylsulfoxide, suggesting hydroxyl radical (HO..)-like species are involved in the strand breakage of DNA. Iron chelators, such as desferrioxamine and bathophenanthroline, and reduced glutathione also inhibited the DNA damage. Deoxyribose, a molecule that is used to detect HO,, was not degraded by dopa in the presence of ADP-Fe(3+). By adding EDTA, however, dopa induced the marked deoxyribose degradation in the presence of ADP-Fe(3+), indicating that EDTA may extract iron from ADP-Fe(3+) to catalyze HO. formation by dopa. Thus, EDTA was a good catalyst for HO.-generation, whereas it did not promote the strand breakage of DNA. However, calf thymus DNA base damage, which was detected as 8-HOG formation, was caused by dopa in the presence of EDTA-Fe(3+), but not in the presence of ADP-Fe(3+). The 8HOG formation was also inhibited by catalase and HO. scavengers, indicating that HO&z.rad; was involved in the base damage. These results suggest that DNA strand breakage is due to ferryl species rather than HO., and that 8HOG formation is due to HO. rather than ferryl species.     

甲基磺酸乙酯诱变选育竹红菌甲素高产菌株

以从短穗竹(Brachystachyum densiflorum)茎秆中分离获得的竹黄菌(Shiraia sp.S8)菌株为出发菌株,以0.5%~2.5%甲基磺酸乙酯(EMS)处理竹黄菌悬浮孢子10~30 min,结合平板初筛和高效液相色谱(HPLC)分析进行复筛。经诱变筛选得到高产菌株10-5,发现其竹红菌甲素产量达到26.8 mg/L,与原始出发菌株相比提高了46.4%,且遗传稳定性良好,具有较高的医药及工业应用价值。     

DNA damage induced by bleomycin in the presence of dibucaine is not predictive of cell growth inhibition

Growth inhibition and cell killing by bleomycin are believed to be related to the ability of this antibiotic to cleave chromosomal DNA. Because bleomycin has an intracellular site of action, its ability to cross biological membranes must be critical to its overall effectiveness as an antitumor agent. The local anesthetic dibucaine acts to enhance membrane fluidity; therefore, the reported ability of this local anesthetic to modulate bleomycin effects on KB cells was investigated. Cells were treated with various bleomycin congeners in the presence or absence of dibucaine for 24 h. Dibucaine enhanced the inhibition of cell growth mediated by bleomycin A2, demethylbleomycin A2, bleomycin B2, and isobleomycin A2. N-Acetylbleomycin A2 did not inhibit cell growth in the absence of dibucaine, but it was inhibitory in the presence of dibucaine. Cells treated simultaneously for analysis of DNA breakage on alkaline sucrose gradients revealed that breakage was also enhanced in the presence of dibucaine. The degree of enhancement varied with dose and bleomycin congener. N-Acetylbleomycin A2 did not induce DNA breakage in either the absence or the presence of dibucaine. While growth inhibition and net DNA breakage correlated reasonably well in the absence of dibucaine for each bleomycin analogue tested, proportionality was lost in the presence of dibucaine, and very little DNA breakage was present when growth inhibition was complete. These observations imply that, at least in the presence of dibucaine, bleomycin may mediate growth inhibition at some locus in addition to chromosomal DNA and, also, that a given net amount of bleomycin analogue induced DNA damage per se does not produce a specific degree of growth inhibition.     

The involvement of singlet oxygen in copper-phenanthroline/H2O2-induced DNA base damage: a chemiluminescent study

Copper in the presence of excess 1,10-phenanthroline, a reducing agent, and H2O2 causes DNA base damage as well as strand breakage. We have reported in previous work that a strong chemiluminescence was followed by DNA base damage in this system, which is characteristic of guanine. In the present work, the mechanism of the chemiluminescence was studied. Results show that the luminescence was inhibited by all three classes of reactive oxygen species (*OH, O2-, (1)O2) scavengers to different degrees. Singlet oxygen scavengers showed the most powerful inhibition while the other two classes of scavengers were relatively weaker. The emission intensity in D2O was 3-fold that in H2O. Comparing the effect of scavengers on the luminescence of DNA with that of dGMP, the ratio of inhibition was similar. On the other hand, DNA breakage analysis showed that inhibition by the singlet oxygen scavenger NaN3 of strand breakage was strong and comparable to that of the scavengers of the two oxygen radicals. The results suggest that singlet oxygen may be a major factor for the chemiluminescence of guanine, while DNA strand breakage may be caused by many active species.     

A novel method for the preparation of amino-substituted hypocrellin B.

A series of amino-substituted hypocrellins derived from hypocrellin B (HB) were synthesized by a novel mild method, in which the peri-hydroxylated perylenequinone structure of hypocrellin was preserved by the reaction of HB with an amine. The red absorption of the resulting products was significantly enhanced relative to the parent hypocrellins, which will significantly improve its photodynamic therapy effectiveness.     

Dependence of the Raman signature of genomic B-DNA on nucleotide base sequence.

The vibrational spectra of four genomic and two synthetic DNAs, encompassing a wide range in base composition [poly(dA-dT). poly(dA-dT), 0% G + C; Clostridium perfringens DNA, 27% G + C; calf thymus DNA, 42% G + C; Escherichia coli DNA, 50% G + C; Micrococcus luteus DNA, 72% G + C; poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC), 100% G + C] (dA: deoxyadenosine; dG: deoxyguanosine; dC: deoxycytidine; dT: thymidine), have been analyzed using Raman difference methods of high sensitivity. The results show that the Raman signature of B DNA depends in detail upon both genomic base composition and sequence. Raman bands assigned to vibrational modes of the deoxyribose-phosphate backbone are among the most sensitive to base sequence, indicating that within the B family of conformations major differences occur in the backbone geometry of AT- and GC-rich domains. Raman bands assigned to in-plane vibrations of the purine and pyrimidine bases-particularly of A and T-exhibit large deviations from the patterns expected for random base distributions, establishing that Raman hypochromic effects in genomic DNA are also highly sequence dependent. The present study provides a basis for future use of Raman spectroscopy to analyze sequence-specific DNA-ligand interactions. The demonstration of sequence dependency in the Raman spectrum of genomic B DNA also implies the capability to distinguish genomic DNAs by means of their characteristic Raman signatures.