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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are known to play an important role in glutamate-induced neuronal cell death. In the present study, we examined whether NADPH oxidase serves as a source of ROS production and plays a role in glutamate-induced cell death in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells. Stimulation of the cells with glutamate (100 mM) induced apoptotic cell death and increase in the level of ROS, and these effects of glutamate were significantly suppressed by the inhibitors of the NADPH oxidase, diphenylene iodonium, apocynin, and neopterine. In addition, RT-PCR revealed that SH-SY5Y cells expressed mRNA of gp91phox, p22phox and cytosolic p47phox, p67phox and p40phox, the components of the plasma membrane NADPH oxidase. Treatment with glutamate also resulted in activation and translocation of Rac1 to the plasma membrane. Moreover, the expression of Rac1N17, a dominant negative mutant of Rac1, significantly blocked the glutamate-induced ROS generation and cell death. Collectively, these results suggest that the plasma membrane-bound NADPH oxidase complex may play an essential role in the glutamate-induced apoptotic cell death through increased production of ROS. 相似文献
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Emilya D. Ivanova Nadya I. Ivanova Margarita D. Apostolova Sevdalina C. Turmanova Ivaylo V. Dimitrov 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2013,23(14):4080-4084
Stable, nanosized polyelectrolyte complexes between rationally designed thermally sensitive block copolymers and plasmid DNA (polyplexes) were formed and their in vitro transfection efficiency was tested. The polyplexes were further stabilized through encapsulation into a biodegradable polymer shell. Although reduced as compared to that of the corresponding polyplexes, the encapsulated systems still show acceptable transfection efficiency. That opens the possibility to tune the balance between the safe transport and efficient delivery of DNA into the cells. 相似文献
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Iliev I Petkov G Lukavsky J Furnadzhiev S Andreeva R 《Zeitschrift für Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences》2011,66(5-6):267-276
Fatty acids of twelve species of cyanobacteria grown under different photoautotrophic conditions were studied and their composition was compared with literature data of many other species. We have come to the conclusion that the lipids of cyanobacteria do not contain fatty acids with a chain longer than 18 carbon atoms. In our opinion, omission of an analytical procedure, i.e. purification of fatty acid methyl esters before gas chromatography, leads to incorrect interpretation of the results. Absence or presence of fatty acids was suggested as a useful taxonomic marker and a proper diagnostic indicator in the commercial application of cyanobacterial biomass. 相似文献
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Grimaldi S Arias-Cartin R Lanciano P Lyubenova S Szenes R Endeward B Prisner TF Guigliarelli B Magalon A 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2012,287(7):4662-4670
Escherichia coli nitrate reductase A (NarGHI) is a membrane-bound enzyme that couples quinol oxidation at a periplasmically oriented Q-site (QD) to proton release into the periplasm during anaerobic respiration. To elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying such a coupling, endogenous menasemiquinone-8 intermediates stabilized at the QD site (MSQD) of NarGHI have been studied by high-resolution pulsed EPR methods in combination with 1H2O/2H2O exchange experiments. One of the two non-exchangeable proton hyperfine couplings resolved in hyperfine sublevel correlation (HYSCORE) spectra of the radical displays characteristics typical from quinone methyl protons. However, its unusually small isotropic value reflects a singularly low spin density on the quinone carbon α carrying the methyl group, which is ascribed to a strong asymmetry of the MSQD binding mode and consistent with single-sided hydrogen bonding to the quinone oxygen O1. Furthermore, a single exchangeable proton hyperfine coupling is resolved, both by comparing the HYSCORE spectra of the radical in 1H2O and 2H2O samples and by selective detection of the exchanged deuterons using Q-band 2H Mims electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy. Spectral analysis reveals its peculiar characteristics, i.e. a large anisotropic hyperfine coupling together with an almost zero isotropic contribution. It is assigned to a proton involved in a short ∼1.6 Å in-plane hydrogen bond between the quinone O1 oxygen and the Nδ of the His-66 residue, an axial ligand of the distal heme bD. Structural and mechanistic implications of these results for the electron-coupled proton translocation mechanism at the QD site are discussed, in light of the unusually high thermodynamic stability of MSQD. 相似文献
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Lyubenova L Götz C Golan-Goldhirsh A Schröder P 《International journal of phytoremediation》2007,9(6):465-473
Interactions between heavy metals, glutathione, glutathione S-transferase (GST), and glutathione reductase (GR) are being investigated by many working groups, but evaluation of the direct effect of Cd+ on these enzymes in vitro is lacking. We report here the effect of cadmium (10, 50, 100, 250 microM CdSO4) on partially purified enzymes from Calystegia sepium. Plants were grown under normal field conditions without metals and the enzymes were extracted by Tris buffer and partially purified by ammonium sulphate fractionation and gel filtration. Glutathione S-transferase activity was measured with different substrates, i.e., 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB), p-nitrobenzylchloride (NBC), and the herbicide Fluorodifen. GST activity was significantly lower in leaf compared to stem, flower, and rhizome and the inhibitory effect of Cd was obtained with NBC and Fluorodifen substrates at 250 microM. There was no effect of Cd on GR activity up to 250 microM. 相似文献
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Natalia Ivanova Gergana Gacheva Raina Andreeva Sevdalina Furnadzhieva 《Journal of phycology》2012,48(1):85-93
The effects of different temperatures and light intensities on growth, pigments, sugars, lipids, and proteins, as well as on some antioxidant and proteolytic enzymes of Trachydiscus minutus (Bourr.) H. Ettl, were investigated. The optimum growth temperature and light intensity were 25°C and 2 × 132 μmol photons · m?2 · s?1, respectively. Under these conditions, proteins were the main biomass components (33.45% dry weight [dwt]), with high levels of carbohydrates (29% dwt) and lipids (21.77% dwt). T. minutus tolerated temperatures between 20°C and 32°C, with only moderate changes in cell growth and biochemical composition. Extremely low (15°C) and high (40°C) temperatures decreased chl and RUBISCO contents and inhibited cell growth. The biochemical response of the alga to both unfavorable conditions was an increase in lipid content (up to 35.19% dwt) and a decrease in carbohydrates (down to 13.64% dwt) with much less of a change in total protein content (in the range of 30.51%–38.13% dwt). At the same time, the defense system of T. minutus was regulated differently in response to heat or cold treatments. Generally, at 40°C, the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and proteases were drastically elevated, and three polypeptides were overexpressed, whereas the glutathione reductase (GR) and peroxidase (POD) activities were reduced. In contrast, at 15°C, all these enzymes except GR were suppressed. The effect of light was to enhance or decrease the temperature stress responses, depending on intensity. Our studies demonstrate the broad temperature adaptability of T. minutus as well as the potential for the production of valuable algal biomass. 相似文献
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are known to play an important role in glutamate-induced neuronal cell death. In the present study, we examined whether NADPH oxidase serves as a source of ROS production and plays a role in glutamate-induced cell death in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells. Stimulation of the cells with glutamate (100 mM) induced apoptotic cell death and increase in the level of ROS, and these effects of glutamate were significantly suppressed by the inhibitors of the NADPH oxidase, diphenylene iodonium, apocynin, and neopterine. In addition, RT-PCR revealed that SH-SY5Y cells expressed mRNA of gp91phox, p22phox and cytosolic p47phox, p67phox and p40phox, the components of the plasma membrane NADPH oxidase. Treatment with glutamate also resulted in activation and translocation of Rac1 to the plasma membrane. Moreover, the expression of Rac1N17, a dominant negative mutant of Rac1, significantly blocked the glutamate-induced ROS generation and cell death. Collectively, these results suggest that the plasma membrane-bound NADPH oxidase complex may play an essential role in the glutamate-induced apoptotic cell death through increased production of ROS. 相似文献
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Lyubenova V Ignatova M Salonen K Kiviharju K Eerikäinen T 《Bioprocess and biosystems engineering》2011,34(3):367-374
This study proposes two adaptive control algorithms for the fed-batch production of α-amylase. The first one uses online information
from hardware measuring glucose. Online information of both biomass and glucose concentrations measured with different frequency
is used in the second algorithm. Hardware measuring variables are inputs for software sensors of glucose concentration and
(specific) glucose consumption rate. Either of the algorithms do not require any kinetic coefficients. This is a benefit,
because the kinetic coefficients can vary during cultivation and between cultivations, leading to low process reproducibility
and the non-stationary state of the bioprocess. The results of simulation investigations show good performance of the proposed
control schemes. 相似文献
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Lyudmila Lyubenova Arnd J. Kuhn Agnes Höltkemeier Peter Schröder 《Plant and Soil》2013,370(1-2):187-195