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Bijani C, Arnarez C, Brasselet S, Degert C, Broussaud O, Elezgaray J, Dufourc EJ. Stability and structure of protein-lipoamino acid colloidal particles: toward nasal delivery of pharmaceutically active proteins. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:5783-5794. [PMID: 22394194 DOI: 10.1021/la300222v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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To circumvent the painful intravenous injection of proteins in the treatment of children with growth deficiency, anemia, and calcium insufficiency, we investigated the stability and structure of protein-lipoamino acid complexes that could be nasally sprayed. Preparations that ensure a colloidal and structural stability of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO), and salmon calcitonin (sCT) mixed with lauroyl proline (LP) were established. Protein structure was controlled by circular dichroism, and very small sizes of ca. 5 nm were determined by dynamic light scattering. The colloidal preparations could be sprayed with a droplet size of 20-30 μm. The molecular structure of aggregates was investigated by all-atom molecular dynamics. Whereas a lauroyl proline capping of globular proteins rhGH and rhEPO with preservation of their active structure was observed, a mixed micelle of sCT and lipoamino acids was formed. In the latter, aggregated LP constitutes the inner core and the surface is covered with calcitonins that acquire a marked α-helix character. Hydrophobic/philic interaction balance between proteins and LP drives the particles' stability. Passage through nasal cells grown at confluence was markedly increased by the colloidal preparations and could reach a 20 times increase in the case of EPO. Biological implications of such colloidal preparations are discussed in terms of furtiveness.
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- Christian Bijani
- Institute of Chemistry & Biology of Membranes & Nanoobjects, UMR 5248, CNRS, Université Bordeaux, Institut Polytechnique Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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de Mendonça F, de Oliveira JE, Bartolini P, Ribela MTCP. Two-step chromatographic purification of recombinant human thyrotrophin and its immunological, biological, physico-chemical and mass spectral characterization. J Chromatogr A 2005; 1062:103-12. [PMID: 15679148 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2004.10.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A purification strategy for rapidly obtaining recombinant human thyrotropin (rhTSH) was designed based on size exclusion and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis, carried out on hTSH-secreting CHO cell conditioned medium. These analyses permitted the identification of the main contaminants to be eliminated. Considering that hTSH is highly hydrophobic and elutes only with the addition of organic solvents, hydrophobic interaction chromatography was adopted as the first purification step; this resulted in the elimination of, among others, the major contaminant. A second purification step, based on size exclusion chromatography, was then utilized, being effective in the elimination of other previously identified contaminating proteins. Useful purity, as high as 99% at the chemical reagent level, and recoveries (37%) were obtained by adopting this two step strategy, which also provided adequate material for physico-chemical, immunological and biological characterization. This included matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectral analysis (MALDI-TOF-MS), Western blotting analysis, in vivo biological assay, size-exclusion HPLC (HPSEC) and reversed-phase HPLC (RP-HPLC) analysis, which confirmed the integrity and bioactivity of our rhTSH in comparison with the only two reference preparations available at the milligram level of native (hTSH-NIDDK) and recombinant (Thyrogen) hTSH. Thyrogen and rhTSH-IPEN, when compared to pit-hTSH-NIDDK, presented more than twice as much biological activity and about 7% increased molecular mass by MALDI-TOF-MS analysis, an accurate heterodimer mass determination providing the Mr values of 29,611, 29,839 and 27,829, respectively. The increased molecular mass of the two recombinant preparations was also confirmed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and HPSEC analysis. Comparing the two recombinant preparations, minor though interesting physico-chemical and biological differences were also observed.
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- Fernanda de Mendonça
- Biotechnology Department, IPEN-CNEN, Cidade Universitária, 05508-900 São Paulo, Brazil
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Bellini MH, Peroni CN, Bartolini P. Increases in weight of growth hormone‐deficient and immunodeficient (lit/scid) dwarf mice after grafting of hGH‐ secreting, primary human keratinocytes. FASEB J 2003; 17:2322-4. [PMID: 14525947 DOI: 10.1096/fj.03-0018fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Primary human keratinocytes, stably transduced with the human growth hormone (hGH) gene (under control of the retroviral LTR promoter) and selected via geneticin secreted as much as 7 microg hGH/106 cells/day. Their grafting onto immunodeficient dwarf mice (lit/scid) led to hGH levels in the circulation that did not go below 0.2-0.3 ng/ml during a 12 day period (peak value, 1.5 ng/ml at 4 h). This phenomenon was associated with a body weight increase of the grafted animals (0.060 g/animal/day) significantly higher (P<0.01) than that of controls (0.023 g/animal/day). This is the first report describing successful utilization of immunodeficient dwarf mice (lit/scid) in keratinocyte-based hGH gene therapy.
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Rains TM, Shay NF. Increased protein intake during recovery from zinc deficiency is accompanied by alterations in hypothalamic growth hormone releasing factor and somatostatin. Nutr Neurosci 2002; 4:273-81. [PMID: 11842894 DOI: 10.1080/1028415x.2001.11747368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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To determine if alterations in growth hormone releasing factor (GRF) and somatostatin (SRIF) occur during recovery from zinc deficiency and to examine the relationship between these peptides and the increased protein intake observed during zinc repletion, both the hypothalamic release and mRNA levels of GRF and SRIF were measured during zinc deficiency and zinc repletion. Groups of male rats (n = 4-8 each) were provided 3-choice macronutrient diets made either zinc adequate (Zn+) or deficient (Zn-; 30 vs. 1 mg Zn/kg diet). Pair fed, calorie restricted (PF) rats were also maintained. After 28 days, Zn- rats were repleted with Zn+ diets for 2 days and one PF group was allowed free access to the same Zn+ diets for 2 days. Additionally, groups of Zn- and PF rats were repleted 2 days with Zn+ carbohydrate and fat diets but no protein. Hypothalamic GRF and SRIF release was measured in vitro. Basal GRF secretion was not significantly different between Zn-, PF, or Zn+ groups although there was a significant increase (P<0.05) during zinc repletion. PF and Zn- rats repleted 2 days with diets devoid of protein had highest GRF secretion (P<0.01) compared to other groups. There were no differences in GRF mRNA levels among groups. Basal SRIF secretion was significantly lower in Zn- and PF groups compared to Zn+, and SRIF mRNA levels were significantly higher in zinc repleted groups compared to Zn-. These results demonstrate that during zinc repletion, GRF and SRIF secretion and SRIF gene expression are altered concomitantly with protein intake. The present data support involvement of GRF in protein intake changes during zinc repletion.
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- T M Rains
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Teresa M, Ribela CP, Camargo IM, Oliveira JE, Bartolini P. Single-step purification of recombinant human growth hormone (hGH) directly from bacterial osmotic shock fluids, for the purpose of (125)I-hGH preparation. Protein Expr Purif 2000; 18:115-20. [PMID: 10686141 DOI: 10.1006/prep.1999.1184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A good quality tracer, to be used in the radioimmunoassay of human growth hormone, was prepared by applying the chloramine-T iodination technique to the recombinant product obtained after a single-step high-performance size-exclusion chromatography purification of a bacterial osmotic shock fluid. The labeling reaction presented a yield of about 65% and the purified tracer exhibited an antibody binding of approximately 50% (NIDDK reference antiserum diluted 1:600,000). These values are very similar to those obtained by radioiodinating highly purified clinical-grade recombinant human growth hormone obtained from the same periplasmic extract after the regular six-step purification process. Both tracers provided the same accuracy, when evaluated with the use of commercial-quality control samples in a classical radioimmunoassay methodology, their stability being practically identical: about 18% decrease in antibody binding after 2 months of storage at -20 degrees C. The novel approach permits the utilization of transformed Escherichia coli strains as a source of freshly prepared, radioiodination-grade recombinant proteins, capable of providing better reproducibility and reagent continuity.
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- M Teresa
- Department of Application of Nuclear Techniques in Biological Sciences, IPEN-CNEN, São Paulo, 05508, Brazil
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de Oliveira JE, Soares CR, Peroni CN, Gimbo E, Camargo IM, Morganti L, Bellini MH, Affonso R, Arkaten RR, Bartolini P, Ribela MT. High-yield purification of biosynthetic human growth hormone secreted in Escherichia coli periplasmic space. J Chromatogr A 1999; 852:441-50. [PMID: 10481982 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(99)00613-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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A six-step, high-yield purification procedure for the preparation of clinical grade recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) secreted in bacterial periplasmic space is described. Particular emphasis is given to hormone recovery yields and maximum contaminant host cell elimination. The strategy adopted, in addition to using one precipitation and five chromatographic steps in a particularly efficient sequence, was also based on running E. coli proteins - immunoradiometric assay profiles right after each chromatographic elution. Thus, an overall rhGH recovery higher than 40%, with a final concentration of E. coli proteins below 10 ppm is described for the first time. The accuracy of hGH and total protein quantification, especially in the early steps of the process, and the maximum elimination of hGH-related forms were also studied in detail. For these purposes size-exclusion and reversed-phase HPLC were found to be extremely valuable analytical tools.
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- J E de Oliveira
- Department of Application of Nuclear Techniques in Biological Sciences, IPEN-CNEN, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil
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Bellini MH, Mathor MB, De Luca M, Cancedda R, Bartolini P. Ultrasensitive in vivo bioassay detects bioactive human growth hormone in transduced primary human keratinocytes. J Endocrinol Invest 1998; 21:1-6. [PMID: 9633015 DOI: 10.1007/bf03347278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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An improved in vivo body weight gain bioassay for the potency determination of human growth hormone (hGH) has been set up in "little" mice (lit/lit), a mutant derived from the C57BL/6J strain. This improved assay now has a detection limit of the order of 0.05 micrograms/mouse/day, which corresponds to a sensitivity about 20-fold higher than that of the most sensitive in vivo assay reported up to now: the tibia test in hypophysectomized rats or mice. This sensitivity was achieved mainly by introduction of a careful pre-assay selection and of a three injections per day schedule. The utilization of these conditions in a 2x2 factorial assay design allowed the potency determination of recombinant DNA-derived hGH (rec-hGH) in bacterial extracts with acceptable accuracy and precision, together with the greatest economy of material, only 0.24 mg of unknown and standard hormone preparation being sufficient for an entire 10-animal assay. This contrasts to a minimum of 2.7 mg that are necessary for an economical assay in hypophysectomized rats. The same assay procedure was also used to demonstrate the in vivo bioactivity of hGH secreted into a culture medium from transduced human primary keratinocytes. The growth curve constructed with n = 8 little mice presented a highly significant correlation (r = 0.939, p < 0.001) and a slope = 0.016 g/mouse/day. It was thus possible to prove, for the first time, the in vivo bioactivity of rec-hGH secreted by transplantable human epidermal cells, utilized as an experimental model for somatic gene therapy.
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- M H Bellini
- Department of application of Nuclear Techniques in Biological Sciences, IPEN-CNEN/SP, Brazil
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Dalmora S, de Oliveira JE, Affonso R, Gimbo E, Ribela MT, Bartolini P. Analysis of recombinant human growth hormone directly in osmotic shock fluids. J Chromatogr A 1997; 782:199-210. [PMID: 9368400 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(97)00493-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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An isocratic reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for the determination of human growth hormone (hGH) directly in osmotic shock fluids is described. This methodology allows an initial rapid evaluation of the quality and quantity of hGH being secreted in the bacterial periplasmic space right after, or even during fermentation. Considering that RP-HPLC does not identify size isomers, these were determined via a parallel run of the same osmotic shock fluid on high-performance size-exclusion chromatography, coupled with radioimmunoassay, of the eluted fractions. The methodology provides a complete picture, within 24 h from the beginning of the fermentation process, of the recombinant protein being produced with respect to its activity, identity, yield, and hGH-related contaminants. These latter include sulfoxide and desamido derivatives, dimer and high-molecular-mass forms.
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- S Dalmora
- Department of Application of Nuclear Techniques in Biological Sciences, IPEN-CNEN, São Paulo, Brazil
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Martínez-Barberá JP, Pendón C, Martí-Palanca H, Calduch-Giner JA, Rodríguez RB, Valdivia MM, Pérez-Sánchez J. The use of recombinant gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) growth hormone for radioiodination and standard preparation in radioimmunoassay. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. PART A, PHYSIOLOGY 1995; 110:335-40. [PMID: 7669108 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(94)00178-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A gilthead sea bream growth hormone (sbGH) obtained by cloning and expression of sbGH cDNA was used to develop a sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay (RIA). Iodination of recombinant sbGH (rsbGH) was performed by the classical Chloramine-T method. Specific antiserum, raised in rabbits, was added in a final dilution of 1/36,000. The minimum detectable dose was 30 pg, and the midrange of the assay (ED50) was 275 pg. Intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation (CV) were 3.3 and 5.8% at ED50 levels. Human GH (hGH), ovine GH (oGH), carp gonadotropin (cGtH), chinook salmon gonadotropin (sGtH), ovine prolactin (oPRL) and recombinant tilapia prolactin (rtiPRL) did not show cross-reactivity. Serial dilutions of chinook salmon GH (sGH) and recombinant rainbow trout GH (rtGH) showed a low but significant cross-reactivity. A good parallelism between rsbGH standard and serial dilutions of native sbGH, plasma and pituitary extracts was observed. In addition, when plasma and pituitary samples were analyzed for GH quantification, non-significant differences were observed within this and previous RIA for native sbGH. Therefore, it appears conclusive that our rsbGH can be used successfully as a standard and radioiodinated hormone in GH assays for gilthead sea bream, which is extensively cultured in the Mediterranean area.
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- J P Martínez-Barberá
- Sección Departamental de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
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