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The role of the carbohydrate residues of fibronectin concerning the specificities of that glycoprotein to interact with fibroblastic cell surfaces, gelatin, and heparin was examined. Tunicamycin was used to produce carbohydrate-depleted fibronectin; it was synthesized by cultured fibroblasts. Unglycosylated and glycosylated fibronectins were analyzed for their ability to bind gelatin and heparin, using affinity columns. Fibronectin-coated surfaces were used to quantitatively measure cell adhesion and spreading. The results showed that the lack of carbohydrates significantly increased the interaction of the protein with gelatin and markedly enhanced its ability to promote adhesion and spreading of fibroblasts. In contrast, the binding of fibronectin to heparin was not influenced by glycosylation. The composite data indicate that the Asn-linked oligosaccharides of fibronectin act as modulators of biological functions of the glycoprotein. 相似文献
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Yury V. Matsuka Deborah A. Dilts Susan Hoiseth Rasappa Arumugham 《The protein journal》1998,17(7):719-728
An outer membrane PIA protein fromNeisseria gonorrhoeae strain FA19 was expressed inEscherichia coli and refoldedin vitro in the presence of zwitterionic detergent. Its proper folding and subunit organization was confirmed by comparison with the
native counterpart. The unfolding of PIA has been investigated using fluorescence spectroscopy and analytical size-exclusion
chromatography methods. Analysis of the denaturation pathway of the PIA revealed that it forms an unusually labile quaternary
structure. In the presence of 1 M guanidinium chloride (GdmCl) or upon heating up to 50°C, dissociation of the PIA oligomer
was observed resulting in the formation of folded monomeric intermediates. Unfolding of monomers occurs at 80°C or in the
presence of 4.3 M GdmCl, indicating high intrinsic stability toward both GdmCl and elevated temperatures. Both oligomeric
and monomeric forms of PIA exhibited affinity to the hydrophobic probe 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid (ANS) and bind
withK
d=80 and 130 μM, respectively. Denaturation of the PIA completely abolished affinity to ANS, suggesting that hydrophobicity
is a property of the folded state of the porin. 相似文献
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Arumugham Raghunathan Harley R. Ferguson Jr. Carole J. Bornarth Wanmin Song Mark Driscoll Roger S. Lasken 《Applied microbiology》2005,71(6):3342-3347
Genomic DNA was amplified about 5 billion-fold from single, flow-sorted bacterial cells by the multiple displacement amplification (MDA) reaction, using 29 DNA polymerase. A 662-bp segment of the 16S rRNA gene could be accurately sequenced from the amplified DNA. MDA methods enable new strategies for studying nonculturable microorganisms. 相似文献
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A presolubilization procedure with the use of glycerol is shown to be applicable for the structural analysis of polysaccharides. Neutral, acidic, high-molecular-weight and low-molecular-weight polysaccharides were solubilized in glycerol prior to methylation and subsequent linkage analysis by GC-MS. All four types of polysaccharides showed significant increases in derivatization following presolubilization as measured by recovery of partially methylated alditol acetates. 相似文献
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Swainsonine inhibits macrophage receptor-mediated uptake and degradation of a mannosyl-oligosaccharide 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Rat pulmonary macrophages were incubated in the presence of a radiolabeled mannosyl-oligosaccharide obtained from ovalbumin. Receptor-mediated endocytosis and degradation of this ligand by the cells was followed in the presence or absence of swainsonine, an inhibitor of alpha-mannosidases. The results indicated that at higher concentrations (greater than 1 microgram/ml) of swainsonine, both the internalization and degradation of the radiolabeled ligand were inhibited. At a concentration of 0.1 microgram/ml of swainsonine, only the degradation was inhibited while the uptake was unaltered. The degradation of the oligosaccharide was blocked due to the inhibition of lysosomal alpha-mannosidase. However, the inhibition of lysosomal alpha-mannosidase was reversible upon withdrawal of swainsonine. 相似文献
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Michael J. Fiske Ross A. Fredenburg Karl R. VanDerMeid John C. McMichael Rasappa Arumugham 《Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences》2001,753(2)
The UspA2 protein from the bacterium Moraxella catarrhalis is a potential vaccine candidate for preventing human diseases caused by this organism. Before a vaccine can be administered parentally, the level of endotoxin must be reduced as much as possible. However, in this case the endotoxin was very tightly complexed with the UspA2 protein and could not be dissociated with Triton X-100. It was found that it dissociated from the protein with the zwitterionic detergents Zwittergent 3-12 and Zwittergent 3-14. The endotoxin could then be separated from the protein by either ion-exchange or gel filtration chromatography. Using the limulus amoebocyte lysate assay for quantitation, the endotoxin was reduced approximately 20 000-fold. The removal of residual endotoxin from UspA2 preparations had no detrimental effect on the immunological properties of the protein. Mouse antisera raised against UspA2 prior to, and following endotoxin reduction exhibited comparable antibody and bactericidal titers against the tested strains. Further, mice immunized with both preparations, followed by pulmonary challenge with either a homologous or a heterologous isolate, exhibited comparable levels of clearance. 相似文献
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Structures of the asparagine-linked sugar chains of laminin 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
This investigation describes the isolation and characterization of oligosaccharides of the basement membrane glycoprotein, laminin. Pronase-released glycopeptides of isolated laminin, from a mouse Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor, were fractionated using a combination of gel permeation chromatography and Con A-Sepharose affinity chromatography. The glycopeptides were analyzed for sugar linkage patterns by methylation analysis. Glycopeptides and hydrazine-released oligosaccharides were further analyzed using endo-beta-galactosidase, endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H and specific exoglycosidases in conjunction with calibrated gel permeation chromatography. Based on these experiments, murine tumor laminin was shown to contain asparagine-linked oligosaccharides with the following structures: bi-, tri- and tetraantennary complex-type oligosaccharides; polylactosaminyl side chains containing Gal(beta 1----4)GlcNAc(beta 1----3) repeating units attached to the trimannose core portion of the bi-, tri- and tetraantennary complex-type oligosaccharides; unusual complex-type oligosaccharides terminated at the nonreducing end with sialic acid, alpha-galactose, beta-galactose and beta-N-acetylglucosamine; alpha-galactosyl residues linked to N-acetyllactosamine sequences; high-mannose-type oligosaccharides. These results, in conjunction with analytical data, indicate that most of the carbohydrate of this laminin is N-linked to asparagine and that there are about 43 such N-linked oligosaccharides per laminin molecule. 相似文献
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Yury V. Matsuka Deborah A. Dilts Susan Hoiseth Rasappa Arumugham 《Journal of Protein Chemistry》1998,17(7):719-728
An outer membrane PIA protein fromNeisseria gonorrhoeae strain FA19 was expressed inEscherichia coli and refoldedin vitro in the presence of zwitterionic detergent. Its proper folding and subunit organization was confirmed by comparison with the
native counterpart. The unfolding of PIA has been investigated using fluorescence spectroscopy and analytical size-exclusion
chromatography methods. Analysis of the denaturation pathway of the PIA revealed that it forms an unusually labile quaternary
structure. In the presence of 1 M guanidinium chloride (GdmCl) or upon heating up to 50°C, dissociation of the PIA oligomer
was observed resulting in the formation of folded monomeric intermediates. Unfolding of monomers occurs at 80°C or in the
presence of 4.3 M GdmCl, indicating high intrinsic stability toward both GdmCl and elevated temperatures. Both oligomeric
and monomeric forms of PIA exhibited affinity to the hydrophobic probe 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid (ANS) and bind
withK
d=80 and 130 μM, respectively. Denaturation of the PIA completely abolished affinity to ANS, suggesting that hydrophobicity
is a property of the folded state of the porin. 相似文献
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Genomic DNA amplification from a single bacterium 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Raghunathan A Ferguson HR Bornarth CJ Song W Driscoll M Lasken RS 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2005,71(6):3342-3347
Genomic DNA was amplified about 5 billion-fold from single, flow-sorted bacterial cells by the multiple displacement amplification (MDA) reaction, using phi 29 DNA polymerase. A 662-bp segment of the 16S rRNA gene could be accurately sequenced from the amplified DNA. MDA methods enable new strategies for studying non-culturable microorganisms. 相似文献
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Malini Krishnamoorthy Brian A. Gerwe Christopher D. Scharer Vanita Sahasranaman Carmen D. Eilertson Rachel J. Nash Sümeyra Naz Usta Shasmine Kelly Matthew Rose Rene Peraza Jagan Arumugham Bethany Stewart Steven L. Stice Rodney J. Nash 《Birth defects research. Part B, Developmental and reproductive toxicology》2013,98(3):283-295
Ethanol is a powerful substance and, when consumed during pregnancy, has significant psychoactive and developmental effects on the developing fetus. These abnormalities include growth retardation, neurological deficits, and behavioral and cognitive deficiencies, commonly referred to as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The effect of ethanol has been reported to affect cellular development on the embryonic level, however, not much is known about mutations contributing to the influence of ethanol. The purpose of our study was to determine if mutation contribute to changes in differentiation patterning, cell‐cycle regulatory gene expression, and DNA methylation in human embryonic stem cells after ethanol exposure. We exposed human embryonic stem cells (with and without know DNA mutations) to a low concentration (20 mM) of ethanol and measured neurosphere proliferation and differentiation, glial protein levels, expression of various cell‐cycle genes, and DNA methylation. Ethanol altered cell‐cycle gene expression between the two cell lines; however, gene methylation was not affected in ether lines.. Birth Defects Res (Part B) 98:283–295, 2013. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 相似文献