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AB Kane RP Stanton EG Raymond ME Dobson ME Knafelc JL Farber 《The Journal of cell biology》1980,87(3):643-651
The relationship between intracellular lysosomal rupture and cell death caused by silica was studied in P388d(1) macrophages. After 3 h of exposure to 150 μg silica in medium containing 1.8 mM Ca(2+), 60 percent of the cells were unable to exclude trypan blue. In the absence of extracellular Ca(2+), however, all of the cells remained viable. Phagocytosis of silica particles occurred to the same extent in the presence or absence of Ca(2+). The percentage of P388D(1) cells killed by silica depended on the dose and the concentration of Ca(2+) in the medium. Intracellular lyosomal rupture after exposure to silica was measured by acridine orange fluorescence or histochemical assay of horseradish peroxidase. With either assay, 60 percent of the cells exposed to 150 μg silica for 3 h in the presence of Ca(2+) showed intracellular lysosomal rupture, was not associated with measureable degradation of total DNA, RNA, protein, or phospholipids or accelerated turnover of exogenous horseradish peroxidase. Pretreatment with promethazine (20 μg/ml) protected 80 percent of P388D(1) macrophages against silica toxicity although lysosomal rupture occurred in 60-70 percent of the cells. Intracellular lysosomal rupture was prevented in 80 percent of the cells by pretreatment with indomethacin (5 x 10(-5)M), yet 40-50 percent of the cells died after 3 h of exposure to 150 μg silica in 1.8 mM extracellular Ca(2+). The calcium ionophore A23187 also caused intracellular lysosomal rupture in 90-98 percent of the cells treated for 1 h in either the presence or absence of extracellular Ca(2+). With the addition of 1.8 mM Ca(2+), 80 percent of the cells was killed after 3 h, whereas all of the cells remained viable in the absence of Ca(2+). These experiments suggest that intracellular lysosomal rupture is not causally related to the cell death cause by silica or . Cell death is dependent on extracellular Ca(2+) and may be mediated by an influx of these ions across the plasma membrane permeability barrier damaged directly by exposure to these toxins. A23187相似文献
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Victoria?BrankinEmail author Marcus?RP?Mitchell Bob?Webb Morag?G?Hunter 《Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E》2003,1(1):55
Oocyte control of granulosa and theca cell function may be mediated by several growth factors via a local feedback loop(s)
between these cell types. This study examined both the role of oocyte-secreted factors on granulosa and thecal cells, cultured
independently and in co-culture, and the effect of stem cell factor (SCF); a granulosa cell derived peptide that appears to
have multiple roles in follicle development. Granulosa and theca cells were isolated from 2–6 mm healthy follicles of mature
porcine ovaries and cultured under serum-free conditions, supplemented with: 100 ng/ml LR3 IGF-1, 10 ng/ml insulin, 100 ng/ml
testosterone, 0–10 ng/ml SCF, 1 ng/ml FSH (granulosa), 0.01 ng/ml LH (theca) or 1 ng/ml FSH and 0.01 ng/ml LH (co-culture)
and with/without oocyte conditioned medium (OCM) or 5 oocytes. Cells were cultured in 96 well plates for 144 h, after which
viable cell numbers were determined. Medium was replaced every 48 h and spent medium analysed for steroids. 相似文献
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Vella P Hussein WM Leung EW Clayton D Ollis DL Mitić N Schenk G McGeary RP 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2011,21(11):3282-3285
The emergence of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) capable of hydrolysing a broad spectrum of β-lactam antibiotics is particularly concerning for the future treatment of bacterial infections. This work describes the discovery of lead compounds for the development of new inhibitors using a competitive colorimetric assay based on the chromogenic cephalosporin CENTA, and a 500 compound Maybridge™ library suitable for fragment-based screening. The interactions between identified inhibitory fragments and the active site of the MBL from Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were probed by in silico docking studies. 相似文献
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RP Tucker K Drabikowski JF Hess J Ferralli R Chiquet-Ehrismann JC Adams 《BMC evolutionary biology》2006,6(1):60-17
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Tenascins are a family of glycoproteins found primarily in the extracellular matrix of embryos where they help to regulate cell proliferation, adhesion and migration. In order to learn more about their origins and relationships to each other, as well as to clarify the nomenclature used to describe them, the tenascin genes of the urochordate Ciona intestinalis, the pufferfish Tetraodon nigroviridis and Takifugu rubripes and the frog Xenopus tropicalis were identified and their gene organization and predicted protein products compared with the previously characterized tenascins of amniotes. 相似文献5.
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Successful reproduction depends on interactions between numerous proteins beyond those involved directly in gamete fusion. Although such reproductive proteins evolve in response to sexual selection pressures, how networks of interacting proteins arise and evolve as reproductive phenotypes change remains an open question. Here, we investigated the molecular evolution of the ‘sex peptide network’ of Drosophila melanogaster, a functionally well‐characterized reproductive protein network. In this species, the peptide hormone sex peptide (SP) and its interacting proteins cause major changes in female physiology and behaviour after mating. In contrast, females of more distantly related Drosophila species do not respond to SP. In spite of these phenotypic differences, we detected orthologs of all network proteins across 22 diverse Drosophila species and found evidence that most orthologs likely function in reproduction throughout the genus. Within SP‐responsive species, we detected the recurrent, adaptive evolution of several network proteins, consistent with sexual selection acting to continually refine network function. We also found some evidence for adaptive evolution of several proteins along two specific phylogenetic lineages that correspond with increased expression of the SP receptor in female reproductive tracts or increased sperm length, respectively. Finally, we used gene expression profiling to examine the likely degree of functional conservation of the paralogs of an SP network protein that arose via gene duplication. Our results suggest a dynamic history for the SP network in which network members arose before the onset of robust SP‐mediated responses and then were shaped by both purifying and positive selection. 相似文献
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Sutrina SL McGeary T Bourne CA 《Journal of molecular microbiology and biotechnology》2007,12(3-4):269-272
This review will examine the connection between the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system and biofilms. We will consider both the primary role of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system in sugar uptake by biofilm cells and its possible role in regulatory processes in cells growing as biofilms, and in establishment and maintenance of these biofilms. 相似文献
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Faridoon Hussein WM Ul Islam N Guddat LW Schenk G McGeary RP 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2012,22(7):2555-2559
Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) are binuclear metallohydrolases that have a multitude of biological functions and are found in fungi, bacteria, plants and animals. In mammals, PAP activity is linked with bone resorption and over-expression can lead to bone disorders such as osteoporosis. PAP is therefore an attractive target for the development of drugs to treat this disease. A series of penicillin conjugates, in which 6-aminopenicillanic acid was acylated with aromatic acid chlorides, has been prepared and assayed against pig PAP. The binding mode of most of these conjugates is purely competitive, and some members of this class have potencies comparable to the best PAP inhibitors yet reported. The structurally related penicillin G was shown to be neither an inhibitor nor a substrate for pig PAP. Molecular modelling has been used to examine the binding modes of these compounds in the active site of the enzyme and to rationalise their activities. 相似文献
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Faridoon Hussein WM Vella P Islam NU Ollis DL Schenk G McGeary RP 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2012,22(1):380-386
The production of β-lactamases is an effective strategy by which pathogenic bacteria can develop resistance against β-lactam antibiotics. While inhibitors of serine-β-lactamases are widely used in combination therapy with β-lactam antibiotics, there are no clinically available inhibitors of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), and so there is a need for the development of such inhibitors. This work describes the optimisation of a lead inhibitor previously identified by fragment screening of a compound library. We also report that thiosemicarbazide intermediates in the syntheses of these compounds are also moderately potent inhibitors of the IMP-1 MBL from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The interactions of these inhibitors with the active site of IMP-1 were examined using in silico methods. 相似文献
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R Rosu A Abdelaal M Andronache G Gusetu L Muresan RP Martins C Bondor D Pop A Malai M Ilea C Pop D Dan M Puschita P Nanu D Zdrenghea 《Indian pacing and electrophysiology journal》2010,10(12):536-546