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Glutamate is the main excitatory amino acid, but its presence in the extracellular milieu has deleterious consequences. It
may induce excitotoxicity and also compete with cystine for the use of the cystine–glutamate exchanger, blocking glutathione
neosynthesis and inducing an oxidative stress-induced cell death. Both mechanisms are critical in the brain where up to 20%
of total body oxygen consumption occurs. In normal conditions, the astrocytes ensure that extracellular concentration of glutamate
is kept in the micromolar range, thanks to their coexpression of high-affinity glutamate transporters (EAATs) and glutamine
synthetase (GS). Their protective function is nevertheless sensitive to situations such as oxidative stress or inflammatory
processes. On the other hand, macrophages and microglia do not express EAATs and GS in physiological conditions and are the
principal effector cells of brain inflammation. Since the late 1990s, a number of studies have now shown that both microglia
and macrophages display inducible EAAT and GS expression, but the precise significance of this still remains poorly understood.
Brain macrophages and microglia are sister cells but yet display differences. Both are highly sensitive to their microenvironment
and can perform a variety of functions that may oppose each other. However, in the very particular environment of the healthy
brain, they are maintained in a repressed state. The aim of this review is to present the current state of knowledge on brain
macrophages and microglial cells activation, in order to help clarify their role in the regulation of glutamate under pathological
conditions as well as its outcome. 相似文献
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Naima Maouche Nadia Ktari Idriss Bakas Najla Fourati Chouki Zerrouki Mahamadou Seydou François Maurel Mohammed Mehdi Chehimi 《Journal of molecular recognition : JMR》2015,28(11):667-678
A surface acoustic wave sensor operating at 104 MHz and functionalized with a polypyrrole molecularly imprinted polymer has been designed for selective detection of dopamine (DA). Optimization of pyrrole/DA ratio, polymerization and immersion times permitted to obtain a highly selective sensor, which has a sensitivity of 0.55°/mM (≈550 Hz/mM) and a detection limit of ≈ 10 nM. Morphology and related roughness parameters of molecularly imprinted polymer surfaces, before and after extraction of DA, as well as that of the non imprinted polymer were characterized by atomic force microscopy. The developed chemosensor selectively recognized dopamine over the structurally similar compound 4‐hydroxyphenethylamine (referred as tyramine), or ascorbic acid,which co‐exists with DA in body fluids at a much higher concentration. Selectivity tests were also carried out with dihydroxybenzene, for which an unexpected phase variation of order of 75% of the DA one was observed. Quantum chemical calculations, based on the density functional theory, were carried out to determine the nature of interactions between each analyte and the PPy matrix and the DA imprinted PPy polypyrrole sensing layer in order to account for the important phase variation observed during dihydroxybenzene injection. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Replicative helicases unwind double-stranded DNA in front of the polymerase and ensure the processivity of DNA synthesis. In Escherichia coli, the helicase loader DnaC as well as factors involved in the formation of the open complex during the initiation of replication and primosomal proteins during the reactivation of arrested replication forks are required to recruit and deposit the replicative helicase onto single-stranded DNA prior to the formation of the replisome. dnaC2 is a thermosensitive allele of the gene specifying the helicase loader; at non-permissive temperature replication cannot initiate, but most ongoing rounds of replication continues through to completion (18% of dnaC2 cells fail to complete replication at non-permissive temperature). An assumption, which may be drawn from this observation, is that only a few replication forks are arrested under normal growth conditions. This assumption, however, is at odds with the severe and deleterious phenotypes associated with a null mutant of priA, the gene encoding a helicase implicated in the reactivation of arrested replication forks. We developed an assay that involves an abrupt inactivation of rounds of synchronized replication in a large population of cells, in order to evaluate the ability of dnaC2 cells to reactivate arrested replication forks at non-permissive temperature. We compared the rate at which arrested replication forks accumulated in dnaC2 priA(+) and dnaC2 priA2 cells and observed that this rate was lower in dnaC2 priA(+) cells. We conclude that while replication cannot initiate in a dnaC2 mutant at non-permissive temperature, a class of arrested replication forks (PriA-dependent and DnaC-independent) are reactivated within these cells. 相似文献
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Boubekeur S Boute N Pagesy P Zilberfarb V Christeff N Issad T 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2011,286(22):19373-19380
PTP1B is a protein tyrosine-phosphatase located on the cytosolic side of the endoplasmic reticulum that plays an important role in the regulation of the insulin receptor (IR). Replacement of the conserved Asp-181 by alanine is known to convert PTP1B into a substrate-trapping protein that binds to but cannot dephosphorylate its substrates. In this work, we have studied the effect of an additional mutation (Y46F) on the substrate-trapping efficiency of PTP1B-D181A. We observed that this mutation converts PTP1B-D181A into a highly efficient substrate-trapping mutant, resulting in much higher recovery of tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins coimmunoprecipitated with PTP1B. Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) experiments were also performed to compare the dynamics of interaction of the IR with these mutants. Basal BRET, which mainly reflects the interaction of PTP1B with the IR precursor during its biosynthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum, was markedly increased with the PTP1B-D181A-Y46F mutant. In contrast, insulin-induced BRET was markedly reduced with PTP1B-D181A-Y46F. I(125) insulin binding experiments indicated that PTP1B-D181-Y46F reduced the expression of IR at the plasma membrane. Reduced expression at the cell surface was associated with higher amounts of the uncleaved IR precursor in the cell. Moreover, we observed that substantial amounts of the uncleaved IR precursor reached the Tris-phosphorylated, fully activated form in an insulin independent fashion. These results support the notion that PTP1B plays a crucial role in the control of the activity of the IR precursor during its biosynthesis. In addition, this new substrate-trapping mutant may be a valuable tool for the identification of new PTP1B substrates. 相似文献
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El Hadj Driche Saïd Belghit Christian Bijani Abdelghani Zitouni Nasserdine Sabaou Florence Mathieu Boubekeur Badji 《Annals of microbiology》2015,65(3):1341-1350
An actinomycete strain designated G60 was isolated from a Saharan soil sample in Ghardaïa, Algeria, by a dilution agar plating method using chitin-vitamin agar medium supplemented with penicillin. Morphological and chemical studies indicated that this strain belonged to the genus Streptomyces. Analysis of the 16S rDNA sequence showed an identity level within Streptomyces species, with S. coerulescens ISP 5146T and S. bellus ISP 5185T the most closely related (100 % for each). However, the comparison of the morphological and physiological characteristics of the strain with those of the two nearest species showed significant differences. Strain G60 had a very strong activity against pathogenic staphylococci, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ATCC 43300, other clinical isolates of MRSA and vancomycin resistant S. aureus (VRSA) S1. One antimicrobial compound was extracted by n-hexane from the ISP2 culture medium at 5 days of fermentation culture and purified by HPLC. The chemical structure of the compound was determined after spectroscopic (1H NMR, 13C NMR, 1H-1H COSY and 1H-13C HMBC spectra), and spectrometric (mass spectrum) analyses. The bioactive compound was identified as di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate. 相似文献
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The diagnostic interpretation of medical images is a complex task aiming to detect potential abnormalities. One of the most used features in this process is texture which is a key component in the human understanding of images. Many studies were conducted to develop algorithms for texture quantification. The relevance of fractal geometry in medical image analysis is justified by the proven self-similarity of anatomical objects when imaged with a finite resolution. Over the last years, fractal geometry was applied extensively in many medical signal analysis applications. The use of these geometries relies heavily on estimation of the fractal features. Various methods were proposed to estimate the fractal dimension or multifractal spectrum of a signal. This article presents an overview of these algorithms, the way they work, their benefits and limits, and their application in the field of medical signal analysis. 相似文献
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Boudinot P Boubekeur S Benmansour A 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2002,169(11):6244-6252
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Claudine Tardy Marine Goffinet Nadia Boubekeur Guy Cholez Rose Ackermann Gavin Sy Constance Keyserling Narendra Lalwani John F. Paolini Jean-Louis Dasseux Ronald Barbaras Rudi Baron 《PloS one》2015,10(9)