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Antinuclear antibodies with nucleosome-restricted specificity for targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic agents. Ther Deliv 2012; 1:257-72. [PMID: 22816132 DOI: 10.4155/tde.10.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Circulating antinuclear autoantibodies (ANAs) are well known to accompany various pathological conditions and can be artificially induced by immunization. Research and clinical data permit us to hypothesize a definite connection between cancer and ANAs. Based on the available data, my group's research suggested that exogenous ANAs may be used as anticancer therapeutics. Among these ANAs, nucleosome-specific ANAs may be particularly useful. Advances in cancer immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies re-emphasized the role of humoral immunity in neoplasia control. The development of a universal antibody targeting diverse cancers is of clear importance. We showed that certain natural ANAs recognize the surface of numerous tumor cells but not normal cells via cell surface-bound nucleosomes originating from the apoptotically dying neighboring tumor cells, mediate antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity of tumor cells in vitro and inhibit the development of murine tumor in syngeneic mice. A single monoclonal antinuclear nucleosome-specific autoantibody, mAb 2C5, specifically recognizes multiple unrelated human tumor cell lines and accumulates at a high tumor-to-normal cell ratio in various human tumors in nude mice. Immunotherapy with mAb 2C5 resulted in significant suppression of the growth of several human tumors. In addition, mAb 2C5, when used in subtherapeutic quantities, can serve as a highly efficient specific ligand to target various drug- or diagnostic agent-loaded pharmaceutical nanocarriers, such as liposomes and polymeric micelles, to various tumors. Here, the data (accumulated predominantly in our laboratory over several years) on mAb 2C5-mediated tumor targeting of chemotherapeutic agents is reviewed.
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The prospect of developing transport systems using histones for site-specific delivery of therapeutic agents that have poor penetration characteristics through cellular membranes and tissue barriers has been investigated. Histones immobilized on microspheres can also be used to modify surfaces intended for cell cultivation, facilitating adhesion, proliferation and network formation by interactions of cells through contacts with several microspheres. They can be applied to three-dimensional pore matrices that are designed for producing tissue-like structures in vitro.
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Guimarães AJ, de Cerqueira MD, Nosanchuk JD. Surface architecture of histoplasma capsulatum. Front Microbiol 2011; 2:225. [PMID: 22121356 PMCID: PMC3220077 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 10/25/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The dimorphic fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum is the most frequent cause of clinically significant fungal pneumonia in humans. H. capsulatum virulence is achieved, in part, through diverse and dynamic alterations to the fungal cell surface. Surface components associated with H. capsulatum pathogenicity include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and melanins. Here, we describe the various structures comprising the cell surface of H. capsulatum that have been associated with virulence and discuss their involvement in the pathobiology of disease.
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- Allan J Guimarães
- Department of Microbiology and Imunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Bronx, NY, USA
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Reynolds F, Panneer N, Tutino CM, Wu M, Skrabal WR, Moskaluk C, Kelly KA. A functional proteomic method for biomarker discovery. PLoS One 2011; 6:e22471. [PMID: 21811618 PMCID: PMC3139652 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2011] [Accepted: 06/22/2011] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The sequencing of the human genome holds out the hope for personalized medicine, but it is clear that analysis of DNA or RNA content alone is not sufficient to understand most disease processes. Proteomic strategies that allow unbiased identification of proteins and their post-transcriptional and -translation modifications are an essential complement to genomic strategies. However, the enormity of the proteome and limitations in proteomic methods make it difficult to determine the targets that are particularly relevant to human disease. Methods are therefore needed that allow rational identification of targets based on function and relevance to disease. Screening methodologies such as phage display, SELEX, and small-molecule combinatorial chemistry have been widely used to discover specific ligands for cells or tissues of interest, such as tumors. Those ligands can be used in turn as affinity probes to identify their cognate molecular targets when they are not known in advance. Here we report an easy, robust and generally applicable approach in which phage particles bearing cell- or tissue-specific peptides serve directly as the affinity probes for their molecular targets. For proof of principle, the method successfully identified molecular binding partners, three of them novel, for 15 peptides specific for pancreatic cancer.
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- Fred Reynolds
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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Han J, Gu J, Chi C. Possible role of histone H1 in the regulation of furin-dependent proprotein processing. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2007; 39:173-80. [PMID: 17342255 PMCID: PMC7109942 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7270.2007.00267.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Histone H1 and its C-terminal lysine rich fragments were recently found to be potent inhibitors of furin, a mammalian proprotein convertase. However, its role in the regulation of furin-dependent proprotein processing remains unclear. Here we report that histone H1 efficiently blocks furin-dependent pro-von Willebrand factor (pro-vWF) processing in a dose-dependent manner. Coimmunoprecipitation and immunofluorescence studies confirmed that histone H1 could interact with furin, and the interaction mainly took place on the cell surface. We noted that histone H1 was released from cells undergoing necrosis and apoptosis induced by H2O2. Our findings suggested that histone H1 might be involved in extracellular and/or intracellular furin regulation.
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- Jinbo Han
- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of SciencesShanghai 200031, China
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- Gene Research Center, Medical Center of Fudan UniversityShanghai 200032, China
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of SciencesShanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Protein Research, Tongji UniversityShanghai 200092, China
- Corresponding author: Tel, 86-21-54921165; Fax, 86-21-54921011; E-mail,
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Han J, Zhang L, Shao X, Shi J, Chi C. The potent inhibitory activity of histone H1.2 C-terminal fragments on furin. FEBS J 2006; 273:4459-69. [PMID: 16956366 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05451.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Many physiologically important proproteins, pathogenic bacterial exotoxins and viral envelope glycoproteins are activated by the proprotein convertase furin, which makes furin inhibitor a hot target for basic research and drug design. Although synthetic and bioengineered inhibitors of furin have been well characterized, its endogenous inhibitor has not been directly purified from mammalian tissues to date. In this study, three inhibitors were purified from the porcine liver by using a combination of chromatographic techniques, and identified to be the C-terminal truncated fragments with different sizes of histone H1.2. The gene of porcine histone H1.2 was cloned and sequenced, further confirming the determined sequences. These three C-terminal fragments inhibited furin with Ki values around 2 x 10(-7) m while the full-length histone H1.2 inhibited it with a lesser activity, suggesting that the inhibitory activity relies on the C-terminal lysine-rich domain. Though the inhibition was temporary, these inhibitors were specific, and the reactive site of one C-terminal fragment was identified. A 36 amino acid peptide around the reactive site was synthesized, which could still inhibit furin with a Ki of 5.2 x 10(-7) m.
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- Jinbo Han
- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Zhu G, Chen H, Choi BK, Del Piero F, Schifferli DM. Histone H1 proteins act as receptors for the 987P fimbriae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:23057-65. [PMID: 15840569 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m503676200] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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The tip adhesin FasG of the 987P fimbriae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli mediates two distinct adhesive interactions with brush border molecules of the intestinal epithelial cells of neonatal piglets. First, FasG attaches strongly to sulfatide with hydroxylated fatty acyl chains. This interaction involves lysine 117 and other lysine residues of FasG. Second, FasG recognizes specific intestinal brush border proteins that migrate on a sodium-dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel like a distinct set of 32-35-kDa proteins, as shown by ligand blotting assays. The protein sequence of high performance liquid chromatography-purified tryptic fragments of the major protein band matched sequences of human and murine histone H1 proteins. Porcine histone H1 proteins isolated from piglet intestinal epithelial cells demonstrated the same SDS-PAGE migration pattern and 987P binding properties as the 987P-specific protein receptors from porcine intestinal brush borders. Binding was dose-dependent and shown to be specific in adhesion inhibition and gel migration shift assays. Moreover, mapping of the histone H1 binding domain suggested that it is located in their lysine-rich C-terminal domains. Histone H1 molecules were visualized on the microvilli of intestinal epithelial cells by immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. Taken together these results indicated that the intestinal protein receptors for 987P are histone H1 proteins. It is suggested that histones are released into the intestinal lumen by the high turnover of the intestinal epithelium. Their strong cationic properties can explain their association with the negatively charged brush border surfaces. There, the histone H1 molecules stabilize the sulfatide-fimbriae interaction by simultaneously binding to the membrane and to 987P.
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MESH Headings
- Adhesins, Escherichia coli/chemistry
- Animals
- Antigens, Bacterial/chemistry
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Cations
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Fatty Acids/metabolism
- Fimbriae Proteins/chemistry
- Fimbriae, Bacterial/metabolism
- Genotype
- Histones/chemistry
- Histones/genetics
- Histones/metabolism
- Immunohistochemistry
- Intestinal Mucosa/metabolism
- Intestines/microbiology
- Ligands
- Lysine/chemistry
- Microscopy, Electron
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Microvilli/metabolism
- Microvilli/microbiology
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Protein Binding
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Swine
- Trypsin/pharmacology
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- Guoqiang Zhu
- Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
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Nimrichter L, Rodrigues ML, Rodrigues EG, Travassos LR. The multitude of targets for the immune system and drug therapy in the fungal cell wall. Microbes Infect 2005; 7:789-98. [PMID: 15823515 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2004] [Revised: 12/28/2004] [Accepted: 12/30/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Recent studies on fungi revealed that several cytosolic and membrane components migrate to the cell wall together with secreted proteins and biosynthetic polysaccharides to build a dynamic immunoreactive structure. New aspects of fungal cell wall assembly and biosynthesis, focusing on the potential of glycolipids, melanin, heat-shock proteins, histone and surface antigens as targets of drugs and antifungal antibodies are discussed.
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- Leonardo Nimrichter
- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, CCS, Bloco I, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941590, Brazil
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Tucker RM, Roark CL, Santiago-Raber ML, Izui S, Kotzin BL. Association between nuclear antigens and endogenous retrovirus in the generation of autoantibody responses in murine lupus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 50:3626-36. [PMID: 15529369 DOI: 10.1002/art.20623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE (NZB x NZW)F(1) (NZB/NZW) mice and other strains of mice with experimental lupus frequently produce autoantibodies to both chromatin constituents and murine leukemia virus envelope gp70. These autoantibody responses are involved in the glomerulonephritis that develops in these mice. This study was undertaken to explore possible connections between these 2 antigen systems. METHODS We used monoclonal antibodies (mAb) derived from unmanipulated NZB/NZW mice to investigate the specificity of anti-gp70 and antichromatin autoantibodies for chromatin constituents, recombinant gp70, NZB retroviruses, and retrovirally infected cells. NZB mice were also immunized with retroviral particles and followed up for study of autoantibody responses. RESULTS Spontaneous autoantibody production in NZB/NZW mice reflects high-level autoimmune responses to nuclear antigens and gp70 that do not cross-react with the other antigen. However, both types of autoantibodies have the capability to bind to the endogenous xenotropic virions NZB-X1 or NZB-X2. The mAbs to recombinant gp70 cross-reacted only with the NZB-X2 virus, whereas the antichromatin mAb frequently bound to both retroviruses. The binding of antichromatin autoantibodies was mediated by nuclear material complexed to the retrovirus, and studies showed that this material can be acquired through the budding process. Immunization with NZB-X1 or NZB-X2 virions induced strong responses to gp70 and was much more effective than chromatin at inducing autoantibody responses to chromatin and double-stranded DNA in NZB mice. CONCLUSION These studies suggest that retroviral virions may harbor nuclear antigens and may link together the autoimmune responses to the disparate antigens, chromatin and gp70.
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- Rebecca M Tucker
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado
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Nakano T, Kawamoto S, Lai CY, Sasaki T, Aki T, Shigeta S, Goto T, Sato S, Goto S, Chen CL, Ono K. LIVER TRANSPLANTATION-INDUCED ANTIHISTONE H1 AUTOANTIBODIES SUPPRESS MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION. Transplantation 2004; 77:1595-603. [PMID: 15239628 DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000123079.10650.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND In a rat model of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), recipient serum after OLT (post-OLT serum) has been reported to prevent allograft rejection. However, the molecular identities of immunosuppressive factors, which are in the early stage of post-OLT, remain elusive. This study was aimed to identify immunodominant suppressive factors present in early post-OLT serum. METHODS The immunosuppressive activities of post-OLT serum, immunoglobulin (Ig) G-depleted serum, and purified IgG were evaluated in vitro by inhibition of the mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR). Autoantigens recognized by the MLR-inhibitory IgG in early post-OLT serum were identified by the internal protein sequencing. RESULTS Recipient post-OLT serum inhibited MLR, and its immunosuppressive activity vanished by means of the elimination of OLT-inducible IgG. IgG from post-OLT sera (2-3 weeks) specifically reacted to 31-, 34-, and 73-kDa autoantigens on splenic cells. The internal sequences of the doublet 31- and 34-kDa antigens coincided completely with those of histone H1 molecules. The levels of histone H1-specific antibodies were transiently increased to a plateau around 2 to 3 weeks after OLT but decreased in the later tolerogenic phase. Immunodepletion of antihistone H1 autoantibodies from early post-OLT serum abolished the MLR-inhibitory activity. Furthermore, rabbit polyclonal antibody-directed histone H1 not only suppressed MLR but also prolonged allograft survival. CONCLUSIONS In this article, the authors provide evidence that autoreactive antibodies against histone H1, which are transiently induced at the early stage by liver transplantation, are a major OLT-induced graft survival factor.
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- Toshiaki Nakano
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
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Nosanchuk JD, Steenbergen JN, Shi L, Deepe GS, Casadevall A. Antibodies to a cell surface histone-like protein protect against Histoplasma capsulatum. J Clin Invest 2003; 112:1164-75. [PMID: 14561701 PMCID: PMC213494 DOI: 10.1172/jci19361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A protective role for antibodies has not previously been described for host defense against the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum (Hc). Mouse mAb's were generated from mice immunized with Hc yeast that binds the cell surface of Hc. Administration of mAb's before Hc infection reduced fungal burden, decreased pulmonary inflammation, and prolonged survival in a murine infection model. Protection mediated by mAb's was associated with enhanced levels of IL-4, IL-6, and IFN-gamma in the lungs of infected mice. The mAb's increased phagocytosis of yeast by J774.16 cells through a CR3-dependent process. Ingestion of mAb-opsonized Hc by J774.16 macrophage-like cells was associated with yeast cell growth inhibition and killing. The mAb's bound to a 17-kDa antigen expressed on the surface of Hc. The antigen was identified as a histone H2B-like protein. This study establishes that mAb's to a cell surface protein of Hc alter the intracellular fate of the fungus and mediate protection in a murine model of lethal histoplasmosis, and it suggests a new candidate antigen for vaccine development.
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- Joshua D Nosanchuk
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10461, USA.
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Kim HS, Yoon H, Minn I, Park CB, Lee WT, Zasloff M, Kim SC. Pepsin-mediated processing of the cytoplasmic histone H2A to strong antimicrobial peptide buforin I. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 165:3268-74. [PMID: 10975843 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.6.3268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The intestinal epithelium forms a first line of innate host defense by secretion of proteins with antimicrobial activity against microbial infection. Despite the extensive studies on the antimicrobial host defense in many gastrointestinal tracts, little is known about the antimicrobial defense system of the stomach. The potent antimicrobial peptide buforin I, consisting of 39 aa, was isolated recently from the stomach tissue of an Asian toad, Bufo bufo gargarizans. In this study we examined the mechanism of buforin I production in toad stomach tissue. Buforin I is produced by the action of pepsin isozymes, named pepsin Ca and Cb, cleaving the Tyr39-Ala40 bond of histone H2A. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that buforin I is present extracellularly on the mucosal surface, and unacetylated histone H2A, a precursor of buforin I, is localized in the cytoplasm of gastric gland cells. Furthermore, Western blot analysis showed that buforin I is also present in the gastric fluids, and immunoelectron microscopy detected localization of the unacetylated histone H2A in the cytoplasmic granules of gastric gland cells. The distinct subcellular distribution of the unacetylated histone H2A and the detection of the unacetylated buforin I both on the mucosal surface and in the lumen suggest that buforin I is produced from the cytoplasmic unacetylated histone H2A secreted into the gastric lumen and subsequently processed by pepsins. Our results indicate that buforin I along with pepsins in the vertebrate stomach may contribute to the innate host defense of the stomach against invading microorganisms.
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- H S Kim
- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea
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Watson K, Gooderham NJ, Davies DS, Edwards RJ. Nucleosomes bind to cell surface proteoglycans. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:21707-13. [PMID: 10419482 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.31.21707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Material on the surface of activated T-cells was displaced following incubation with a sulfated polysaccharide, dextrin 2-sulfate (D2S), and purified by anion-exchange chromatography. This revealed a complex comprising histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 and DNA fragmented into 180-base pair units characteristic of mono-, di-, tri, and polynucleosomes, a pattern of fragmentation similar to that found in apoptotic cells. An antibody raised against the purified nucleosome preparation bound to the plasma membrane of activated T-cells confirming the surface location of nucleosomes. The interaction of sulfated polysaccharides with nucleosomes was investigated using a biotinylated derivative of D2S. It was found that sulfated polysaccharides bound to nucleosomes via the N termini of histones, especially H2A and H2B. Treatment of T-cells with either heparinase or heparitinase abolished nucleosome binding to plasma membranes. This suggests that nucleosomes are anchored to the surface of T-cells by heparan sulfate proteoglycans through an ionic interaction with the basic N-terminal residues in the histones. Furthermore, nucleosomes bound to the cell surface in this manner are then able to bind other sulfated polysaccharides, such as D2S, heparin, or dextran sulfate, through unoccupied histone N termini forming a complex comprising cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans, nucleosomes, and sulfated polysaccharides.
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- K Watson
- Section on Clinical Pharmacology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, DuCane Road, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
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Servais G, Guillaume MP, Dumarey N, Duchateau J. Evidence of autoantibodies to cell membrane associated DNA (cultured lymphocytes): a new specific marker for rapid identification of systemic lupus erythematosus. Ann Rheum Dis 1998; 57:606-13. [PMID: 9893572 PMCID: PMC1752489 DOI: 10.1136/ard.57.10.606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Autoantibodies to cell membrane associated DNA are described in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The specificity of these antibodies differ from antibodies to nuclear DNA. METHODS Using indirect immunofluorescence, a specific IgG was detected giving a characteristic pattern of continuous peripheral membrane fluorescence on cultured B-lymphocytes. RESULTS This pattern was observed in 53 of 80 serum samples of SLE patients but absent in the serum samples of the control populations: 15 rheumatoid arthritis, 38 ankylosing spondylarthritis, 17 non-inflammatory osteopenic patients, and 224 blood donors. In 34 Sjögren syndrome's patients one only showed a positive test. The cmDNA specificity of these antibodies was confirmed by pattern extinction with DNAse but not RNase or protease pre-treatment of the cells. IgG to cmDNA, separated by absorption/elution from purified cmDNA immobilised on DEAE-nitrocellulose reproduced the immunofluorescence pattern pictures. Extensive serum depletion of anti-double strand or single strand DNA antibodies by absorption to cellulose bound ds- or ss-DNA affected marginally the pericellular fluorescence revealing some minor cross reactivity with nuclear DNA. Moreover, in SLE patients without detectable antibody to ds-DNA, pericellular fluorescence could be visible. CONCLUSION This novel rapid immunofluorescence method may serve as an identification test of SLE patients. Given its positive (97.1%) and negative (92.9%) predictive value, sensitivity (66%) and specificity (99.5%), it improves on other diagnostic tests such as the detection of antibodies to Sm.
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- G Servais
- Department of Immunology, Centres Hospitaliers Universitaires Brugmann-Huderf, Brussels, Belgium
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Brix K, Summa W, Lottspeich F, Herzog V. Extracellularly occurring histone H1 mediates the binding of thyroglobulin to the cell surface of mouse macrophages. J Clin Invest 1998; 102:283-93. [PMID: 9664069 PMCID: PMC508886 DOI: 10.1172/jci1614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Thyroglobulin is the major secretory protein of thyroid epithelial cells. Part of thyroglobulin reaches the circulation of vertebrates by transcytosis across the epithelial wall of thyroid follicles. Clearance of thyroglobulin from the circulation occurs within the liver via internalization of thyroglobulin by macrophages. Here we have analyzed the interaction of thyroglobulin with the cell surface of J774 macrophages with the aim to identify the possible thyroglobulin-binding sites on macrophages. Binding of thyroglobulin to J774 cells was saturated at approximately 100 nM thyroglobulin with a Kd of 50 nM, and it was competed by the ligand itself. Preincubation of J774 cells with thyroglobulin resulted in downregulation of thyroglobulin-binding sites, indicating internalization of thyroglobulin and its binding proteins. By affinity chromatography, two proteins from J774 cells were identified as thyroglobulin-binding proteins with an apparent molecular mass of approximately 33 kD. Unexpectedly, both proteins were identified as histone H1 by protein sequencing. The occurrence of histone H1 at the plasma membrane was further proven by biotinylation or immunolabeling of J774 cells. The in vitro interaction between histone H1 and thyroglobulin was analyzed by surface plasmon resonance that revealed a Kd at 46 nM. In situ, histone H1 was colocalized to FITC-Tg-containing endocytic compartments of Kupffer cells, i.e., liver macrophages. We conclude that histone H1 is detectable at the cell surface of macrophages where it serves as a thyroglobulin-binding protein and mediates thyroglobulin endocytosis.
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- K Brix
- Institut für Zellbiologie and Bonner Forum Biomedizin, Universität Bonn, D-53121 Bonn, Germany.
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A new approach to obtain antiserum specific for Lyb5.2 allotype, was developed. Mice of DBA/2 inbred strain, bearing Lyb5.1 allotype, were made unresponsive to cellular antigens of Lyb5-CBA/N mice by specific tolerance induction. These tolerant recipients were further immunized with suspensions of splenocytes from CBA mice which contain Lyb5.2 + B lymphocytes. Thus obtained Lyb5.2-specific antiserum was cytotoxic for 25-30% of CBA or BALB/c (both Lyb5.2 + allotype) but not for CBA/N spleen cells. When splenocytes of BALB/c mice preimmunized with polyvinylpyrrolidone (T-independent type 2 antigen) were treated with this antiserum, 50% decrease in numbers of antibody-forming and antigen-induced non-specific immunoglobulin-forming cells was documented. We conclude that, during humoral immune response to T-independent type 2 antigen, not only antibody-forming cells but also non-specific immunoglobulin-forming cells are recruited from the Lyb5 + B cell pool.
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Currie JR, Chen-Hwang MC, Denman R, Smedman M, Potempska A, Ramakrishna N, Rubenstein R, Wisniewski HM, Miller DL. Reduction of histone cytotoxicity by the Alzheimer beta-amyloid peptide precursor. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1355:248-58. [PMID: 9060996 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(96)00139-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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In a search for Alzheimer beta-amyloid peptide precursor ligands, Potempska et al. (Arch. Biochem. Biophys. (1993) 304, 448) found that histones bind with high affinity and specificity to the secreted precursor. Because exogenous histones can be cytotoxic, we compared the effects of histones on the viability of cells which produce little beta-amyloid peptide precursor (U-937) to those on cells that produce twenty times as much precursor (COS-7). Addition of purified histones caused necrosis of U-937 cells (histone H4, LD50 = 1.5 microM). Extracellular A beta precursor in the submicromolar range prevented histone-induced U-937 cell necrosis. Cell-surface precursor also reduced histone toxicity: COS-7 cells were less sensitive to the toxic effects of histone H4 (LD50 = 5.4 microM). COS-7 cells in which the expression of an APP mRNA-directed ribozyme reduced the synthesis of the protein by up to 80% were more sensitive to histone H4 (LD50 = 3.2 microM) than cells that expressed the vector alone. Histone H4 binds to cell-associated A beta precursor. Cells expressing the A beta precursor-directed ribozyme bound less 125I-labeled histone H4 than those expressing the vector alone. In the limited extracellular space of tissues in vivo, both secreted and cell-surface A beta precursor protein may play significant roles in trapping chromatin or histones and removing them from the extracellular milieu.
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- J R Currie
- Laboratory of Developmental Neuromorphology, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, USA.
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Dörner T, Hucko M, Mayet WJ, Trefzer U, Burmester GR, Hiepe F. Enhanced membrane expression of the 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) and La(SS-B) antigens by human keratinocytes induced by TNF alpha. Ann Rheum Dis 1995; 54:904-9. [PMID: 7492240 PMCID: PMC1010041 DOI: 10.1136/ard.54.11.904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the membrane expression of the 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) and La(SS-B) antigens in human keratinocytes under the influence of an important mediator of inflammation, TNF alpha. METHODS Keratinocytes, isolated from human skins obtained at circumcision and identified using monoclonal antibodies, were treated with tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and incubated with antibodies to 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) isolated and purified from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus or Sjögren's syndrome, with mouse monoclonal antibody to La(SS-B), and (as controls) with sera from normal healthy blood donors and a mouse monoclonal antibody to U1RNP 68 kDa. Membrane expression of the 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) and La(SS-B) antigens was detected using cyto enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), laser scanning microscopy, and indirect immunofluorescence. RESULTS After the incubation with TNF alpha, cyto ELISA revealed a significantly increased membrane binding of 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) antibodies, with a maximum after two hours, followed by enhanced 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) expression during the subsequent 24 hours. The La(SS-B) antigen was expressed rapidly after TNF alpha treatment (within one hour), with a fast decrease to the preincubation value within three hours. Indirect immunofluorescence with fixed normal human keratinocytes confirmed increased 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) and La(SS-B) antigen expression after the incubation with TNF alpha. CONCLUSIONS TNF alpha mediates 52 kDa Ro(SS-A) and La(SS-B) autoantigen surface expression on human keratinocytes, and may be an important factor both in antibody induction and in the initiation of immunopathogenic processes which occur after antibody binding in autoimmune dermatitis.
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- T Dörner
- Department of Internal Medicine III (Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology), Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
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Watson K, Edwards RJ, Shaunak S, Parmelee DC, Sarraf C, Gooderham NJ, Davies DS. Extra-nuclear location of histones in activated human peripheral blood lymphocytes and cultured T-cells. Biochem Pharmacol 1995; 50:299-309. [PMID: 7646532 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(95)00142-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Dextrin-2-sulphate (D2S) is a sulphated polysaccharide which inhibits human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection of T-cells by binding to the cell surface. During our investigations of the nature of this interaction, a cell membrane fraction was prepared by ultracentrifugation from the T-cell line, HPB-ALL. Separation of membrane proteins by sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and analysis for binding proteins using ligand blotting showed that 3H-D2S bound, in a saturable and displaceable manner, to two regions corresponding to molecular weights of 14,000-18,000 and 28,000-32,000. The N-terminal sequences of two of the major protein components in the 14,000-18,000 region were consistent with those of histones H2B and H3. The presence of histone H2B in the cell membrane preparation was confirmed by immunoblotting and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using a specific antibody. Histone standards were used to determine the level of each histone in the cell membrane fraction. In addition, the binding of 3H-D2S to purified histone standards was quantified. These results show that all of the binding of 3H-D2S to proteins in the 14,000-18,000 region of the cell membrane preparation can be attributed to the histones present. In contrast to HPB-ALL cells, a cell membrane fraction from freshly isolated human peripheral blood lymphocytes contained very low levels of histones. However, after culture with phytohaemagglutinin for 3 days the cell membrane fraction contained greatly increased levels of histones. To exclude the possibility of contamination of the cell membrane preparation with histones derived from the nucleus, cell membranes were also prepared using an affinity-based method using polyethyleneimine-cellulose. Immunoblotting of adsorbed plasma membranes showed the presence of histone H2B. SDS-polyacrylamide gels stained for protein also indicated that the preparation contained histones H1, H2A, H3 and H4. In further experiments whole cells were used to avoid contamination from nuclear proteins. Lactoperoxidase mediated 125I labelling, a method specific for radiolabelling cell surface proteins, confirmed the presence of histones H2B, H3 and H4 on the surface of HPB-ALL cells. Also, incubation of HPB-ALL cells or phytohaemagglutinin-activated peripheral blood lymphocytes with D2S caused displacement of histones from the cell surface into the supernatant without altering cell viability. In addition, immunocytochemistry of freshly isolated peripheral blood lymphocytes showed that histone H2B was located predominantly in the nucleus. However, in phytohaemagglutinin-activated peripheral blood lymphocytes immunoreactive material was also prominent in the endoplasmic reticulum and on the plasma membrane.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- K Watson
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, U.K
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