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J. De Kok C. Van Der Schoot M. Veldhuizen H. Th. Wolterbeek 《Biological trace element research》1993,38(1):13-26
The in vitro uptake of zinc by erythrocytes was measured under near-physiological conditions, using65Zn as a radioactive tracer. Because of the presence of serum albumin—a strong zinc ligand—a low concentration of medium free
zinc was maintained. Under these conditions a high-affinity carrier for zinc transport over the cell membrane was identified.
With human erythrocytes, a Michaelis constant (K
m
) of 0.2 nM with respect to free medium zinc was measured and aV
max
of 4.5 nmoles Zn transported per h/g dry wt. TheK
m
for medium Zn increases when the size of the internal erythrocytic Zn pool is augmented, whereasV
max
remains virtually unchanged. A model to explain this phenomenon is proposed. It is suggested that this phenomenon could underlie
observations, confirmed here, that the in vitro uptake of Zn by animal erythrocytes depends on the Zn status of the animal. 相似文献
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The uptake of dietary selenium (about 3.5 mg/kg AF dry wt) as selenomethionine, selenocystine, selenite, selenate, and fish selenium in the plasma and red blood cells (RBC) of the oystercatcher has been investigated. The birds received the various selenium compounds subsequently, for at least 9 wk. After dietary supplementation of selenocystine, selenite, and selenate, plasma selenium was about 350 μg/L and RBC selenium 2.1 mg/kg dry wt. After supplementation of selenomethionine, the plasma concentration increased to 630 μg/L, and the RBC concentration to 4.1 mg/kg dry wt. When the fodder contained 3.1 mg/kg fish Se, an average plasma and RBC concentration of 415 μg/L and 14.4 mg/kg dry wt, respectively, was measured. The maximal increase of the selenium concentration in the plasma was attained at first sampling, 14 d after a change in dietary selenium (selenomethione or fish Se); the uptake seemed to be a concentration-regulated process. RBC concentrations (γ in mg/kg dry wt) increased with time (X in d) according toY=a?be?cX . Fifty percent of the total increase was attained within 17d, suggesting that diffusion into the RBC played a role. The selenium concentration in the plasma was positively correlated with the (fish) Se concentration in the fodder; the RBC concentration (60 d after the change in diet) was positively correlated with the plasma concentration. When the diet contained fish Se, the blood selenium concentrations of the captive birds were similar to the concentrations measured in field birds. Fish Se is a yet undetermined selenium compound. The present experiment showed that fish Se differed from selenomethionine, selenocystine, selenite, or selenate in uptake from the food and uptake in the RBC. 相似文献
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Experiments were carried out to investigate the uptake and accumulation of Zn in rat hepatoma HTC cells, as affected by interfering metals (Cd, Cu), metallothionein synthesis inhibiting compounds (Actinomycin D, cycloheximide) and metallothionein synthesis stimulating compounds (dexamethasone, dibu-cAMP). Cell viability was tested under all experimental conditions by the measurement of LDH leakage, K+ uptake and total cell protein. Determinations of Zn were performed by AAS (total Zn) or by gamma-ray spectrometry (65Zn). Metallothionein analysis was carried out by Cd-saturation tests. The results indicate that cellular responses in rat hepatoma HTC cells with respect to the uptake and accumulation of 65Zn are fully comparable with literature data existing for 65Zn accumulation in rat hepatocytes, under all experimental conditions applied. Cu2+ and dibutyryl-cAMP did not significantly affect rates of 65Zn accumulation. Cd2+, Actinomycin D and cycloheximide reduced 65Zn uptake, but dexamethasone additions resulted in increased 65Zn accumulation in the cells. Effects on 65Zn were shown both in cytosolic and in the membranes/organelles cell fractions. HPLC chromatography in control cells suggested that newly accumulated cytosolic 65Zn was predominantly MT-associated. Dexamethasone-induced 65Zn accumulation could not be related to elevated cellular MT levels, nor were the total cytosolic Zn levels significantly affected. Non-specific attenuations in MT levels (Actinomycin D, cycloheximide and dibu-cAMP) yielded linear relations between cytosolic 65Zn and MT levels, without any change in cytosolic Zn (AAS). Combined addition of Cd and dexamethasone yielded elevated MT levels, but severely reduced total cytosolic Zn and 65Zn concentrations. The results further indicate the non-Zn-specific nature of dexamethasone-action and suggest the relatively easy Zn-complexing and Zn-release of MT. The simultaneous determinations of total cytosolic zinc and cytosolic 65Zn levels showed that the application and sole measurement of radiotracers may yield only one-sided views of what is actually present or occurring in the cells. 相似文献
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G.C. Krijger H.A. Claessens H. Th. Wolterbeek 《Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability》2013,25(1-2):29-36
ABSTRACTThe present paper addresses the potential use of capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) as an analytical tool in 99- technetium speciation studies. In order to optimise sampling, storage and analytical procedures, the three marker compounds 99mTcO4-, 99mTc-DTPA and 99mTc-citrate were synthesised and used in test-measurements with CZE. The results underline the superior separation power of the CZE technique, and indicate good CZE performance for the stable 99mTcO4- and 99mTc-DTPA compounds. The data suggest that CZE may be used without problems for various Tc-compounds of intermediate mobilities. The specific data of 99mTc-citrate suggest that with this marker compound a threshold lability is reached for the use of CZE in plant Tc-speciation studies. This result means that CZE cannot be used in analyses of Tc-compounds which are less stable than Tc-citrate. Future CZE work will comprise the synthesis and use of Tc-markers of intermediate mobilities and stabilities; furthermore, effects of marker matrices and the plant matrix on CZE performance will be investigated. 相似文献
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J?Craig CohenEmail author Lennart?KA?Lundblad Jason?HT?Bates Michael?Levitzky Janet?E?Larson 《BMC genetics》2004,5(1):21
Background
Cystic Fibrosis is a pleiotropic disease in humans with primary morbidity and mortality associated with a lung disease phenotype. However, knockout in the mouse of cftr, the gene whose mutant alleles are responsible for cystic fibrosis, has previously failed to produce a readily, quantifiable lung phenotype. 相似文献6.
Iris M Costa Tallybia HT Nasser Marilene Demasi Rafaella MP Nascimento Luis ES Netto Sayuri Miyamoto Fernanda M Prado Gisele Monteiro 《BMC microbiology》2011,11(1):268
Background
The gene YCL047C, which has been renamed promoter of filamentation gene (POF1), has recently been described as a cell component involved in yeast filamentous growth. The objective of this work is to understand the molecular and biological function of this gene.Results
Here, we report that the protein encoded by the POF1 gene, Pof1p, is an ATPase that may be part of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein quality control pathway. According to the results, Δpof1 cells showed increased sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide, tert-butyl hydroperoxide, heat shock and protein unfolding agents, such as dithiothreitol and tunicamycin. Besides, the overexpression of POF1 suppressed the sensitivity of Δpct1, a strain that lacks a gene that encodes a phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase, to heat shock. In vitro analysis showed, however, that the purified Pof1p enzyme had no cytidylyltransferase activity but does have ATPase activity, with catalytic efficiency comparable to other ATPases involved in endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation of proteins (ERAD). Supporting these findings, co-immunoprecipitation experiments showed a physical interaction between Pof1p and Ubc7p (an ubiquitin conjugating enzyme) in vivo.Conclusions
Taken together, the results strongly suggest that the biological function of Pof1p is related to the regulation of protein degradation.7.
Background
We developed a new version of the open source software package Peptrix that can yet compare large numbers of Orbitrap? LC-MS data. The peptide profiling results for Peptrix on MS1 spectra were compared with those obtained from a small selection of open source and commercial software packages: msInspect, Sieve? and Progenesis?. The properties compared in these packages were speed, total number of detected masses, redundancy of masses, reproducibility in numbers and CV of intensity, overlap of masses, and differences in peptide peak intensities. Reproducibility measurements were taken for the different MS1 software applications by measuring in triplicate a complex peptide mixture of immunoglobulin on the Orbitrap? mass spectrometer. Values of peptide masses detected from the high intensity peaks of the MS1 spectra by peptide profiling were verified with values of the MS2 fragmented and sequenced masses that resulted in protein identifications with a significant score.Findings
Peptrix finds about the same number of peptide features as the other packages, but peptide masses are in some cases approximately 5 to 10 times less redundant present in the peptide profile matrix. The Peptrix profile matrix displays the largest overlap when comparing the number of masses in a pair between two software applications. The overlap of peptide masses between software packages of low intensity peaks in the spectra is remarkably low with about 50% of the detected masses in the individual packages. Peptrix does not differ from the other packages in detecting 96% of the masses that relate to highly abundant sequenced proteins. MS1 peak intensities vary between the applications in a non linear way as they are not processed using the same method.Conclusions
Peptrix is capable of peptide profiling using Orbitrap? files and finding differential expressed peptides in body fluid and tissue samples. The number of peptide masses detected in Orbitrap? files can be increased by using more MS1 peptide profiling applications, including Peptrix, since it appears from the comparison of Peptrix with the other applications that all software packages have likely a high false negative rate of low intensity peptide peaks (missing peptides). 相似文献8.
Michelle Janssens Jeroen van Smeden Gert S. Gooris Wim Bras Guiseppe Portale Peter J. Caspers Rob J. Vreeken Thomas Hankemeier Sanja Kezic Ron Wolterbeek Adriana P. Lavrijsen Joke A. Bouwstra 《Journal of lipid research》2012,53(12):2755-2766
A hallmark of atopic eczema (AE) is skin barrier dysfunction. Lipids in the stratum corneum (SC), primarily ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol, are crucial for the barrier function, but their role in relation to AE is indistinct. Filaggrin is an epithelial barrier protein with a central role in the pathogenesis of AE. Nevertheless, the precise causes of AE-associated barrier dysfunction are largely unknown. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of ceramide composition and lipid organization in nonlesional SC of AE patients and control subjects was performed by means of mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. In addition, the skin barrier and clinical state of the disease were examined. The level of ceramides with an extreme short chain length is drastically increased in SC of AE patients, which leads to an aberrant lipid organization and a decreased skin barrier function. Changes in SC lipid properties correlate with disease severity but are independent of filaggrin mutations. We demonstrate for the first time that changes in ceramide chain length and lipid organization are directly correlated with the skin barrier defects in nonlesional skin of AE patients. We envisage that these insights will provide a new therapeutic entry in therapy and prevention of AE. 相似文献
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Mette Christoffersen Elizabeth Woodward Anders M Bojesen Stine Jacobsen Morten R Petersen Mats HT Troedsson Henrik Lehn-Jensen 《BMC veterinary research》2012,8(1):1-14
Background
Canine hemangiosarcoma (HSA) is a malignant tumor with poor long-term prognosis due to development of metastasis despite aggressive treatment. The phosphatidyl-inositol-3 kinase/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/Akt/mTOR) pathway is involved in its endothelial pathologies; however, it remains unknown how this pathway plays a role in canine HSA. Here, we characterized new canine HSA cell lines derived from nude mice-xenografted canine HSAs and investigated the deregulation of the signaling pathways in these cell lines.Results
Seven canine HSA cell lines were established from 3 xenograft canine HSAs and showed characteristics of endothelial cells (ECs), that is, uptake of acetylated low-density lipoprotein and expression of canine-specific CD31 mRNA. They showed varied morphologies and mRNA expression levels for VEGF-A, bFGF, HGF, IGF-I, EGF, PDGF-B, and their receptors. Cell proliferation was stimulated by these growth factors and fetal bovine serum (FBS) in 1 cell line and by FBS alone in 3 cell lines. However, cell proliferation was not stimulated by growth factors and FBS in the remaining 3 cell lines. Phosphorylated p44/42 Erk1/2 was increased by FBS stimulation in 4 cell lines. In contrast, phosphorylation of Akt at Ser473, mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) at Ser2448, and eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1 (4E-BP1) at Ser65 was high in serum-starved condition and not altered by FBS stimulation in 6 cell lines, despite increased phosphorylation of these residues in normal canine ECs. This suggested that the mTORC2/Akt/4E-BP1 pathway was constitutively activated in these 6 canine HSA cell lines. After cell inoculation into nude mice, canine HSA tumors were formed from 4 cell lines and showed Akt and 4E-BP1 phosphorylation identical to the parental cell lines.Conclusions
Our findings suggest that the present cell lines may be useful tools for investigating the role of the mTORC2/Akt/4E-BP1 pathway in canine HSA formation both in vivo and in vitro. 相似文献10.
J. M. Montero-Cabezas I. Karalis R. Wolterbeek A. O. Kraaijeveld I. E. Hoefer G. Pasterkamp N. H. Pijls P. A. Doevendans J. Walterberger J. Kuiper A. J. van Zonneveld J. W. Jukema 《Netherlands heart journal》2017,25(9):490-497