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Quinones may be toxic by a number of mechanisms. including arylation and oxidative stress caused by redox cycling. Using isolated hepatocytes, we have studied the cytotoxicity of four quinones. with differing abilities to arylate cellular nucleophiles and redox cycle. in relation to their effects on cellular pyridine nucleotides. High concentrations of menadione (redox cycles and arylates). 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (neither arylates nor redox cycles via a one electron reduction) 2.3-dimethoxy-1.4-naphthoquinone (a pure redox cycler) and p-benzoquinone (a pure arylator) caused an initial decrease in NAD+ and loss of viability, which was not prevented by 3-aminobenzamide. an inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase. In contrast. 3-aminobenzamide inhibited the loss of NAD' and viability caused by dimethyl sulphate so implicating poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase in its toxicity but not that of the quinones. Non-toxic concentrations of menadione. 2.3-dimethoxy-1.4-naphthoquinone and 2-hydroxy-1.4-naphthoquinone all caused markedly similar changes in cellular pyridine nucleotides. An initial decrease in NAD+ was accompanied by a small. transient increase in NADP+ and followed by a larger. prolonged increase in NADPH and total NADP+ + NADPH. Nucleotide changes were not observed with non-toxic concentrations of p-benzoquinone. Our findings suggest that a primary event in the response of the cell to redox cycling quinones is to bring about an interconversion of pyridine nucleotides. in an attempt to combat the effects of oxidative stress 相似文献
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D Wang CR Stockard L Harkins P Lott C Salih K Yuan 《Biotechnic & histochemistry》2013,88(3-4):179-189
Angiogenesis, or neovascularization, is known to play an important role in the neoplastic progression leading to metastasis. CD31 or Factor VIII-related antigen (F VIII RAg) immunohistochemistry is widely used in experimental studies for quantifying tumor neovascularization in immunocompromised animal models implanted with transformed human cell lines. Quantification, however, can be affected by variations in the methodology used to measure vascularization including antibody selection, antigen retrieval (AR) pretreatment, and evaluation techniques. To examine this further, we investigated the microvessel density (MVD) and the intensity of microvascular staining among five different human tumor xenografts and a mouse syngeneic tumor using anti-CD31 and F VIII RAg immunohistochemical staining. Different AR methods also were evaluated. Maximal retrieval of CD31 was achieved using 0.5 M Tris (pH 10) buffer, while maximum retrieval of F VIII RAg was achieved using 0.05% pepsin treatment of tissue sections. For each optimized retrieval condition, anti-CD31 highlighted small vessels better than F VIII RAg. Furthermore, the MVD of CD31 was significantly greater than that of F VIII RAg decorated vessels (p<0.001). The choice of antibody and AR method has a significant affect on immunohistochemical findings when studying angiogenesis. One also must use caution when comparing studies in the literature that use different techniques and reagents. 相似文献
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Xiaoxiao Cheng Vaclav Veverka Anand Radhakrishnan Lorna C. Waters Frederick W. Muskett Sara H. Morgan Jiandong Huo Chao Yu Edward J. Evans Alasdair J. Leslie Meryn Griffiths Colin Stubberfield Robert Griffin Alistair J. Henry Andreas Jansson John E. Ladbury Shinji Ikemizu Mark D. Carr Simon J. Davis 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2013,288(17):11771-11785
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Chris CR Smith Lisa K Snowberg J Gregory Caporaso Rob Knight Daniel I Bolnick 《The ISME journal》2015,9(11):2515-2526
To explain differences in gut microbial communities we must determine how processes regulating microbial community assembly (colonization, persistence) differ among hosts and affect microbiota composition. We surveyed the gut microbiota of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from 10 geographically clustered populations and sequenced environmental samples to track potential colonizing microbes and quantify the effects of host environment and genotype. Gut microbiota composition and diversity varied among populations. These among-population differences were associated with multiple covarying ecological variables: habitat type (lake, stream, estuary), lake geomorphology and food- (but not water-) associated microbiota. Fish genotype also covaried with gut microbiota composition; more genetically divergent populations exhibited more divergent gut microbiota. Our results suggest that population level differences in stickleback gut microbiota may depend more on internal sorting processes (host genotype) than on colonization processes (transient environmental effects). 相似文献
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Schilders G Raijmakers R Malmegrim KC Vande Walle L Saelens X Vree Egberts W van Venrooij WJ Vandenabeele P Pruijn GJ 《Arthritis research & therapy》2007,9(1):R12
Recent studies have implicated the dying cell as a potential reservoir of modified autoantigens that might initiate and drive
systemic autoimmunity in susceptible hosts. A number of subunits of the exosome, a complex of 3'→5' exoribonucleases that
functions in a variety of cellular processes, are recognized by the so-called anti-PM/Scl autoantibodies, found predominantly
in patients suffering from an overlap syndrome of myositis and scleroderma. Here we show that one of these subunits, PM/Scl-75,
is cleaved during apoptosis. PM/Scl-75 cleavage is inhibited by several different caspase inhibitors. The analysis of PM/Scl-75
cleavage by recombinant caspase proteins shows that PM/Scl-75 is efficiently cleaved by caspase-1, to a smaller extent by
caspase-8, and relatively inefficiently by caspase-3 and caspase-7. Cleavage of the PM/Scl-75 protein occurs in the C-terminal
part of the protein at Asp369 (IILD369↓G), and at least a fraction of the resulting N-terminal fragments of PM/Scl-75 remains associated with the exosome. Finally,
the implications of PM/Scl-75 cleavage for exosome function and the generation of anti-PM/Scl-75 autoantibodies are discussed. 相似文献
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CR Taylor 《Biotechnic & histochemistry》2014,89(6):419-423
The traditional microscope, together with the “routine” hematoxylin and eosin (H & E) stain, remains the “gold standard” for diagnosis of cancer and other diseases; remarkably, it and the majority of associated biological stains are more than 150 years old. Immunohistochemistry has added to the repertoire of “stains” available. Because of the need for specific identification and even measurement of “biomarkers,” immunohistochemistry has increased the demand for consistency of performance and interpretation of staining results. Rapid advances in the capabilities of digital imaging hardware and software now offer a realistic route to improved reproducibility, accuracy and quantification by utilizing whole slide digital images for diagnosis, education and research. There also are potential efficiencies in work flow and the promise of powerful new analytical methods; however, there also are challenges with respect to validation of the quality and fidelity of digital images, including the standard H & E stain, so that diagnostic performance by pathologists is not compromised when they rely on whole slide images instead of traditional stained tissues on glass slides. 相似文献
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Interactions of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 3 with the red blood cell membrane skeleton 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Waller KL Stubberfield LM Dubljevic V Nunomura W An X Mason AJ Mohandas N Cooke BM Coppel RL 《Biochimica et biophysica acta》2007,1768(9):2145-2156
Plasmodium falciparum parasites express and traffick numerous proteins into the red blood cell (RBC), where some associate specifically with the membrane skeleton. Importantly, these interactions underlie the major alterations to the modified structural and functional properties of the parasite-infected RBC. P. falciparum Erythrocyte Membrane Protein 3 (PfEMP3) is one such parasite protein that is found in association with the membrane skeleton. Using recombinant PfEMP3 proteins in vitro, we have identified the region of PfEMP3 that binds to the RBC membrane skeleton, specifically to spectrin and actin. Kinetic studies revealed that residues 38-97 of PfEMP3 bound to purified spectrin with moderately high affinity (K(D(kin))=8.5 x 10(-8) M). Subsequent deletion mapping analysis further defined the binding domain to a 14-residue sequence (IFEIRLKRSLAQVL; K(D(kin))=3.8 x 10(-7) M). Interestingly, this same domain also bound to F-actin in a specific and saturable manner. These interactions are of physiological relevance as evidenced by the binding of this region to the membrane skeleton of inside-out RBCs and when introduced into resealed RBCs. Identification of a 14-residue region of PfEMP3 that binds to both spectrin and actin provides insight into the potential function of PfEMP3 in P. falciparum-infected RBCs. 相似文献
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Pedro LC Pinheiro João CR Cardoso Ana S Gomes Juan Fuentes Deborah M Power Adelino VM Canário 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):373