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The effects of membrane depolarization and divalent cations on histamine release have been studied in sensitized mast cells. Membrane potential of these cells has been measured with intracellular microelectrodes. Our results show that mast cells have a large resting potential (-61 +/- 12 mV) however they do not generate active membrane electrical responses when are depolarized by passing current through the recording microelectrode. High external K+ does not increase histamine release. Histamine secretion is supported by alkali-earth divalent cations (Ca2+ greater than Sr2+ greater than Ba2+) but strongly inhibited by transition metals. Ca2+ concentrations above 1 mM inhibit histamine release, however, this effect is not mimicked by Sr2+ and Ba2+. 相似文献
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Properties of calcium and potassium currents of clonal adrenocortical cells 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
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The ionic currents of clonal Y-1 adrenocortical cells were studied using the whole-cell variant of the patch-clamp technique. These cells had two major current components: a large outward current carried by K ions, and a small inward Ca current. The Ca current depended on the activity of two populations of Ca channels, slow (SD) and fast (FD) deactivating, that could be separated by their different closing time constants (at -80 mV, SD, 3.8 ms, and FD, 0.13 ms). These two kinds of channels also differed in (a) activation threshold (SD, approximately -50 mV; FD, approximately -20 mV), (b) half-maximal activation (SD, between -15 and -10 mV; FD between +10 and +15 mV), and (c) inactivation time course (SD, fast; FD, slow). The total amplitude of the Ca current and the proportion of SD and FD channels varied from cell to cell. The amplitude of the K current was strongly dependent on the internal [Ca2+] and was almost abolished when internal [Ca2+] was less than 0.001 microM. The K current appeared to be independent, or only slightly dependent, of Ca influx. With an internal [Ca2+] of 0.1 microM, the activation threshold was -20 mV, and at +40 mV the half-time of activation was 9 ms. With 73 mM external K the closing time constant at -70 mV was approximately 3 ms. The outward current was also modulated by internal pH and Mg. At a constant pCa gamma a decrease of pH reduced the current amplitude, whereas the activation kinetics were not much altered. Removal of internal Mg produced a drastic decrease in the amplitude of the Ca-activated K current. It was also found that with internal [Ca2+] over 0.1 microM the K current underwent a time-dependent transformation characterized by a large increase in amplitude and in activation kinetics. 相似文献
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Salicylic acid is an important signalling molecule involved in both locally and systemically induced disease resistance responses. Recent advances in our understanding of plant defence signalling have revealed that plants employ a network of signal transduction pathways, some of which are independent of salicylic acid. Evidence is emerging that jasmonic acid and ethylene play key roles in these salicylic acid-independent pathways. Cross-talk between the salicylic acid-dependent and the salicylic acid-independent pathways provides great regulatory potential for activating multiple resistance mechanisms in varying combinations. 相似文献
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The single superoxide dismutase of Rhodobacter capsulatus is a cambialistic,manganese-containing enzyme
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Tabares LC Bittel C Carrillo N Bortolotti A Cortez N 《Journal of bacteriology》2003,185(10):3223-3227
The phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus contains a single, oxygen-responsive superoxide dismutase (SOD(Rc)) homologous to iron-containing superoxide dismutase enzymes. Recombinant SOD(Rc), however, displayed higher activity after refolding with Mn(2+), especially when the pH of the assay mixture was raised. SOD(Rc) isolated from Rhodobacter cells also preferentially contains manganese, but metal discrimination depends on the culture conditions, with iron fractions increasing from 7% in aerobic cultures up to 40% in photosynthetic cultures. Therefore, SOD(Rc) behaves as a Mn-containing dismutase with cambialistic properties. 相似文献
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de Bedout C Ayabaca J Vega R Méndez M Santiago AR Pabón ML Tabares A Arango M Restrepo A Newell V 《Biomédica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud》2003,23(1):31-37
Infections caused by yeasts belonging to the genus Candida have increased dramatically in the last decades, especially in hospital settings. Concomittantly, antimycotic resistance has emerged, as well as the appearance of non-Candida albicans isolates. To standardize in vitro antifungal susceptibility tests, the agar diffusion test was developed using disks impregnated with the antimycotic compound. Electronic recording of the inhibition zone (BIOMIC), furnishes objective values for the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC). The fluconazole susceptibility patterns were determined for Candida species isolated from 2.139 patients seen in outpatient clinics or in health-care centers in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Candida albicans was the species most frequently isolated (62%), followed at a distance by Candida parapsilosis (11%), Candida tropicalis (8.5%), Candida glabata (3.5%) and Candida krusei (2.2%). MIC determinations showed that 88.1% of these isolates were susceptible to fluconazole, 5.1% were susceptible-dose-dependant and 6.8% resistant. An important proportion (92.1%) of the C. albicans isolates proved susceptible while resistance predominated in the remaining species. These results indicate that the BIOMIC method is rapid and simple, constituting a suitable tool for the epidemiologic surveillance of resistance in Candida species. 相似文献
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Synaptic vesicles are acidified by a proton pump (vATPase), which allows vesicular uptake of neurotransmitters. After vesicle exocytosis, continued operation of the vATPase would seem to serve no useful function. In this issue of Neuron, however, Zhang and colleagues show that continued pumping alkalinizes the cytoplasm, accelerating endocytosis. 相似文献
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Chintamani Pranjal Kulshreshtha Anurupa Chakraborty LC Singh Ashwani K Mishra Dinesh Bhatnagar Sunita Saxena 《World journal of surgical oncology》2010,8(1):1-9
Voltage gated potassium channels have been extensively studied in relation to cancer. In this review, we will focus on the role of two potassium channels, Ether à-go-go (Eag), Human ether à-go-go related gene (HERG), in cancer and their potential therapeutic utility in the treatment of cancer. Eag and HERG are expressed in cancers of various organs and have been implicated in cell cycle progression and proliferation of cancer cells. Inhibition of these channels has been shown to reduce proliferation both in vitro and vivo studies identifying potassium channel modulators as putative inhibitors of tumour progression. Eag channels in view of their restricted expression in normal tissue may emerge as novel tumour biomarkers. 相似文献
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Low levels of the Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein produce Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a severe monogenetic disease in infants characterized by muscle weakness and impaired synaptic transmission. We report here severe structural and functional alterations in the organization of the organelles and the cytoskeleton of motor nerve terminals in a mouse model of SMA. The decrease in SMN levels resulted in the clustering of synaptic vesicles (SVs) and Active Zones (AZs), reduction in the size of the readily releasable pool (RRP), and the recycling pool (RP) of synaptic vesicles, a decrease in active mitochondria and limiting of neurofilament and microtubule maturation. We propose that SMN is essential for the normal postnatal maturation of motor nerve terminals and that SMN deficiency disrupts the presynaptic organization leading to neurodegeneration. 相似文献
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Challenge of Rhodobacter capsulatus cells with the superoxide propagator methyl viologen resulted in the induction of a diaphorase activity identified as a member of the ferredoxin (flavodoxin)-(reduced) nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP(H)) reductase (FPR) family by N-terminal sequencing. The gene coding for Rhodobacter FPR was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Both native and recombinant forms of the enzyme were purified to homogeneity rendering monomeric products of approximately 30 kDa with essentially the same spectroscopic and kinetic properties. They were able to bind and reduce Rhodobacter flavodoxin (NifF) and to mediate typical FPR activities such as the NADPH-driven diaphorase and cytochrome c reductase. 相似文献
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Hitoshi?YoshidaEmail author Masayasu?Nagata Koji?Saito Kevin?LC?Wang Joseph?R?Ecker 《BMC plant biology》2005,5(1):14