Low-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, circular dichroism and two-component redox titration have previously provided evidence for two different ascorbate-reducible heme centers in cytochrome b(561) present in chromaffin granule membranes. These species have now been observed by room and liquid nitrogen temperature absorption spectroscopy. The visualization of these heme centers becomes possible as a consequence of utilizing chromaffin granule membranes prepared by a mild procedure. Additionally, a new redox center, not reducible by ascorbate, was discovered by both EPR and absorption spectroscopy. It constitutes about 15% of the heme absorbance of chromaffin membranes at 561 nm and has EPR characteristics of a well-organized highly axial low-spin heme center (thus making it unlikely that it is a denatured species). This species is either an alternative form of one of the hemes of cytochrome b(561) that has a very low redox potential or a b-type cytochrome distinct from b(561). 相似文献
The purpose of this study was to evaluate photobleaching of the genetically encoded photosensitizer KillerRed in tumor spheroids upon pulsed and continuous wave (CW) laser irradiation and to analyze the mechanisms of cancer cell death after the treatment. We observed the light‐dose dependent mechanism of KillerRed photobleaching over a wide range of fluence rates. Loss of fluorescence was limited to 80% at light doses of 150 J/cm2 and more. Based on the bleaching curves, six PDT regimes were applied for irradiation using CW and pulsed regimes at a power density of 160 mW/cm2 and light doses of 140 J/cm2, 170 J/cm2 and 200 J/cm2. Irradiation of KillerRed‐expressing spheroids in the pulsed mode (pulse duration 15 ns, pulse repetition rate 10 Hz) induced predominantly apoptotic cell death, while in the case of CW mode the cancer cells underwent necrosis. In general, these results improve our understanding of photobleaching mechanisms in GFP‐like proteins and show the importance of appropriate selection of treatment mode for PDT with KillerRed.
Representative fluorescence image of two KillerRed‐expressing spheroids before and immediately after CW irradiation. 相似文献
Adrenal cytochrome b(561) (cyt b(561)), a transmembrane protein that shuttles reducing equivalents derived from ascorbate, has two heme centers with distinct spectroscopic signals and reactivity towards ascorbate. The His54/His122 and His88/His161 pairs furnish axial ligands for the hemes, but additional amino acid residues contributing to the heme centers have not been identified. A computational model of human cyt b(561) (Bashtovyy, D., Berczi, A., Asard, H., and Pali, T. (2003) Protoplasma 221, 31-40) predicts that His92 is near the His88/His161 heme and that His110 abuts the His54/His122 heme. We tested these predictions by analyzing the effects of mutations at His92 or His110 on the spectroscopic and functional properties. Wild type cytochrome and mutants with substitutions in other histidine residues or in Asn78 were used for comparison. The largest lineshape changes in the optical absorbance spectrum of the high-potential (b(H)) peak were seen with mutation of His92; the largest changes in the low-potential (b(L)) peak lineshape were observed with mutation of His110. In the EPR spectra, mutation of His92 shifted the position of the g=3.1 signal (b(H)) but not the g=3.7 signal (b(L)). In reductive titrations with ascorbate, mutations in His92 produced the largest increase in the midpoint for the b(H) transition; mutations in His110 produced the largest decreases in DeltaA(561) for the b(L) transition. These results indicate that His92 can be considered part of the b(H) heme center, and His110 part of the b(L) heme center, in adrenal cyt b(561). 相似文献
Human alpha-galactosidase A (alpha-Gal A) is the lysosomal glycohydrolase
that cleaves the terminal alpha-galactosyl moieties of various
glycoconjugates. Overexpression of the enzyme in Chinese hamster ovary
(CHO) cells results in high intracellular enzyme accumulation and the
selective secretion of active enzyme. Structural analysis of the N -linked
oligosaccharides of the intracellular and secreted glycoforms revealed that
the secreted enzyme's oligosaccharides were remarkably heterogeneous,
having high mannose (63%), complex (30%), and hybrid (5%) structures. The
major high mannose oligosaccharides were Man5-7GlcNAc2 species.
Approximately 40% of the high mannose and 30% of the hybrid
oligosaccharides had phosphate monoester groups. The complex
oligosaccharides were mono-, bi- , 2,4-tri-, 2,6-tri- and tetraantennary
with or without core-region fucose, many of which had incomplete outer
chains. Approximately 30% of the complex oligosaccharides were mono- or
disialylated. Sialic acids were mostly N -acetylneuraminic acid and
occurred exclusively in alpha2, 3-linkage. In contrast, the intracellular
enzyme had only small amounts of complex chains (7.7%) and had
predominantly high mannose oligosaccharides (92%), mostly Man5GlcNAc2 and
smaller species, of which only 3% were phosphorylated. The complex
oligosaccharides were fucosylated and had the same antennary structures as
the secreted enzyme. Although most had mature outer chains, none were
sialylated. Thus, the overexpression of human alpha-Gal A in CHO cells
resulted in different oligosaccharide structures on the secreted and
intracellular glycoforms, the highly heterogeneous secreted forms
presumably due to the high level expression and impaired glycosylation in
the trans- Golgi network, and the predominately Man5-7GlcNAc2 cellular
glycoforms resulting from carbohydrate trimming in the lysosome.
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