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Wang F, Liu W, Jin Y, Dai J, Zhao H, Xie Q, Liu X, Yu W, Ma J. Interaction of PFOS and BDE-47 co-exposure on thyroid hormone levels and TH-related gene and protein expression in developing rat brains. Toxicol Sci 2011; 121:279-91. [PMID: 21436126 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfr068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and 2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47) are two persistent environmental contaminants that are toxic to developing nervous systems, particularly via their disruption of thyroid hormone (TH) function. To investigate whether an interaction existed between PFOS and BDE-47 on TH-mediated pathways, adult female Wistar rats were exposed to 3.2 and 32 mg/kg of PFOS or BDE-47 in their diet and co-exposed to a combination of each chemical (3.2 mg/kg) from gestational day 1 to postnatal day (PND) 14. Serum and brain tissues from both male and female neonates were collected on PNDs 1, 7, and 14 to examine TH-regulated gene and protein expression. The results revealed that (1) a significant accumulation difference occurred between the two chemicals; (2) On a equimolar basis, BDE-47 and PFOS affected serum total triiodothyronine and total thyroxine differently in adults and offspring; (3) there were region-specific and exposure- and time-dependent alterations in TH concentrations and tested gene and protein expression levels; and (4) interaction for the combined chemicals was only observed for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which exhibited a synergistic effect on PND 1 in the cortex and an antagonistic effect on PND 14 in the hippocampus. Our results suggest a complex TH-mediated gene and protein response to BDE-47 and/or PFOS exposure that seems little related to TH homeostasis and that little combined interaction of co-exposures was observed except on BDNF. The underlying mechanisms remain uncertain but seem to involve more actions than just TH-regulated pathway.
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- Faqi Wang
- School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering, MOE, Dalian 116024, China
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Yan LJ, Sohal RS. Gel electrophoretic quantitation of protein carbonyls derivatized with tritiated sodium borohydride. Anal Biochem 1998; 265:176-82. [PMID: 9866722 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1998.2868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A method for the quantitation of protein carbonyls, which have been widely employed as markers of protein oxidative damage, is described. Protein carbonyls were derivatized with tritiated sodium borohydride and the tritiated proteins were separated on SDS-PAGE. Protein bands, visualized by Coomassie blue staining, were then excised and incubated in 30% H2O2 at 60 degrees C for 48 h. Tritium, incorporated into the proteins, was quantitated by liquid scintillation counting after gel solubilization by H2O2. This method can be applied to the measurement of carbonylation of specific proteins as it employs SDS-PAGE and has the advantage that unreacted NaB3H4 in the labeling reaction mixture need not be removed. The present method, when combined with immunochemical detection of protein carbonyls, should be very useful in the quantitation of oxidative damage to individual proteins.
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- L J Yan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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Schreyer DJ, Andersen PL, Williams K, Kosatka I, Truong TN. Quantitative analysis of GAP-43 expression by neurons in microcultures using cell-ELISA. J Neurosci Methods 1997; 72:137-45. [PMID: 9133577 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0270(96)02171-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A cell-ELISA technique is described which allows the quantification of GAP-43 protein in a large number of microcultures of adult dorsal root ganglion neurons. GAP-43 is measured in the 1-10 ng range, corresponding to the amount of GAP-43 present in fewer than 500 DRG neurons. Specificity of the assay is confirmed using Western blotting and immunocytochemistry. The GAP-43 content of adult DRG microcultures rises during 2 weeks in culture, although the number of surviving neurons decreases. The GAP-43 content of cultured adult DRG neurons is not increased by chronic exposure to added nerve growth factor after 7 days in vitro. However, GAP-43 is increased in DRG taken from animals with prior peripheral nerve injury, and is decreased by chronic exposure to dibutyryl cyclic AMP after 7 days in vitro. The method affords the sensitivity and statistical power to document modest changes in GAP-43 protein abundance in complex cultures.
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- D J Schreyer
- Department of Physiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
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Toribio F, Martínez-Lara E, Pascual P, López-Barea J. Methods for purification of glutathione peroxidase and related enzymes. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS 1996; 684:77-97. [PMID: 8906467 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4347(95)00504-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The different preparative techniques and related analytical methods used for purification of glutathione peroxidase, glutathione transferase and glutathione reductase, described in papers published in the last ten years, have been reviewed in this article. Among the different purification techniques, chromatography has played a relevant role, being reported in all the papers reviewed, whereas other preparative techniques such as electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing were less employed and have been reported in only ca. 3% of cases. Frequently, several different chromatographic modes and several rechromatography steps have been employed. The use of at least three different chromatographic modes has been reported in 53% of total reviewed papers, whereas 41% of them employed two differents modes and in only 6% a single preparative chromatographic step was used. To evaluate losses and improve recovery, analytical methods for quantitation of protein and assay of enzymatic activity must be used in each purification step. Among these analytical techniques, gel electrophoresis, under denaturing conditions, has been widely used to assess purity of enzyme preparation. A discussion of the different activity assay methods used for these three enzymes is also presented in this article.
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- F Toribio
- Departamento de Bioquímica v Biología Molecular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
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Toribio F, Alhama J, López-Barea J. Methods for chromatographic and electrophoretic separation and assay of NADP oxidoreductases. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS 1996; 684:1-23. [PMID: 8906463 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4347(95)00453-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The different techniques described in purification protocols for pyridine nucleotide-dependent enzymes have been reviewed, covering mainly the papers published in the past six years. Chromatography was reported in 100% of reviewed papers and among the chromatographic techniques, affinity chromatography was the most used (ca. 92%), followed by ion-exchange chromatography (ca. 79%), size-exclusion chromatography (ca. 64%) and hydrophobic chromatography (ca. 24%). Other chromatographic techniques were used infrequently. Each chromatographic technique has a different specific capacity and chemical selectivity and, therefore, the order of selection should be based on a precise knowledge of the nature of the sample and the amount of the target enzyme that it contains. Analytical electrophoresis was used in about 95% of the reviewed papers, with denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) being the most widely used mode (ca. 92%), followed by native PAGE (ca. 48%). The use of isoelectric focusing was reported in 14% of the papers, while preparative gel electrophoresis was used in only 8% of the cases. The use of other electrophoretic techniques was reported in only a few papers. The use of continuous enzymatic activity assay methods (spectrophotometric) was found in most papers, while high-performance liquid chromatography-based methods (discontinuous assays) were reported in only 11% of the reviewed articles.
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- F Toribio
- Departmento de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecuiar, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Córdobo, Spain
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Wagner T, Borg-v. Zepelin M, Rüchel R. pH-dependent denaturation of extracellular aspartic proteinases fromCandidaspecies. Med Mycol 1995. [DOI: 10.1080/02681219580000551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Küllertz G, Meyer S, Fischer G. Differentiation by preparative continuous free flow-isoelectric focusing of cyclosporin A inhibitable peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase of human erythrocytes. Electrophoresis 1994; 15:960-7. [PMID: 7813402 DOI: 10.1002/elps.11501501140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Preparative continuous free flow-isoelectric focusing has been used to separate at least three different components of intrinsic peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase (PPIase) activity from erythrocytes lysate. By adding chemical spacer molecules like glycine and Bicine to commercial carrier ampholyte mixtures the resulting pH profile was predictably influenced. With an applied field strength of 125-170 V/cm a residence time of less than 15 min was sufficient for the separation of PPIases with isoelectric points of 5.4, 5.7 and 5.9 from the bulky hemoglobin. The recovery of the overall PPIase activities was about 100%. The purification factor has been determined as 20- to 100-fold. For each isoform of the enzyme the peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase activity of the separated proteins was inhibited by cyclosporin A but was resistant toward FK 506.
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- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Arbeitsgruppe Enzymologie der Peptidbindung, Halle/Saale, Germany
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Tomomura A, Fukushige T, Noda T, Noikura T, Saheki T. Serum calcium-decreasing factor (caldecrin) from porcine pancreas has proteolytic activity which has no clear connection with the calcium decrease. FEBS Lett 1992; 301:277-81. [PMID: 1577166 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)80256-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We purified a serum calcium-decreasing factor, which showed chymotrypsin-like protease activity, from porcine pancreas to homogeneity. The factor administered to mice intravenously at a dose of 20 micrograms/kg b.w. decreased serum calcium by 15%. Treatment of the factor with the serine protease inhibitor, PMSF, caused a leftward shift in the dose-response curve, showing strengthened activity. It also caused a decrease in serum calcium and hydroxyproline levels in rats. At a dose of 10 ng/ml, the factor inhibited 45Ca release from cultured fetal long bone stimulated by parathyroid hormone (PTH) and PTH-related protein, but not by interleukin-1 alpha, prostaglandin E1 and 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3. No other well-known pancreatic proteases had these effects. In view of the results of experiments using protease inhibitor and pancreatic proteases, and in view of the specificity of this factor in vitro, we propose that the factor exerts its serum calcium-decreasing activity most probably not through proteolytic degradation of PTH, but through an inhibition of PTH action on bones by a yet undefined mechanism.
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- A Tomomura
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan
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A procedure combining isoelectric focusing (Sephadex IEF) and fast protein liquid chromatography (Superose 12; Mono-Q) removed hemolytic activity (presumably a contaminant) from partially purified preparations of the multicomponent diarrheal enterotoxin produced by Bacillus cereus. However, when the separated fractions were recombined, hemolytic activity was restored, suggesting that hemolysis is a property of the enterotoxin components. Combined fractions exhibited a unique ring pattern in gel diffusion assays in blood agar. During diffusion of the hemolysin from an agar well, the erythrocytes closest to the well were not lysed initially. After diffusion, hemolysis was observed as a sharp ring beginning several millimeters away from the edge of the well. With time the cells closer to the well were also lysed. This novel hemolysin consists of a protein (component B) which binds to or alters cells, allowing subsequent lysis by a second protein (component L). Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing, and Western blot analysis showed that hemolysin BL has properties similar to those described previously for the enterotoxin and that both components are distinct from cereolysin and cereolysin AB.
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- D J Beecher
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
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Lillehoj EP, Malik VS. Protein purification. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 1989; 40:19-71. [PMID: 2515759 DOI: 10.1007/bfb0009827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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This monograph summarizes recent developments in the purification and analysis of natural and recombinant proteins. The basic strategies employed in protein purification are reviewed with regards to the characteristics of the protein of interest that may aid its isolation, choice of the starting material, and use of denaturants. Preparation of cell-free extracts followed by bulk precipitation and/or phase partition constitute the initial steps of many purification schemes. Chromatographic methods (size exclusion, ion exchange, hydroxylapatite, reversed phase, hydrophobic interaction and affinity based) utilizing either traditional, low pressure or high-performance liquid chromatography instrumentation are discussed. Electrophoretic techniques used to analyze the homogeneity of the protein product include SDS-PAGE, isotachophoresis, IEF and two dimensional gel electrophoresis.
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Basi GS, Jacobson RD, Virág I, Schilling J, Skene JH. Primary structure and transcriptional regulation of GAP-43, a protein associated with nerve growth. Cell 1987; 49:785-91. [PMID: 3581170 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(87)90616-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 292] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Nerve regeneration and developmental outgrowth of axons are both correlated with increased synthesis of an axonal membrane protein designated GAP-43. Phosphorylation of an apparently identical protein, present at lower abundance in adult brains, has been correlated with long-term potentiation, a form of synaptic plasticity. We have now isolated a cDNA clone encoding GAP-43 from neonatal rat brain. The amino acid sequence is extremely hydrophilic, with no potential membrane-spanning domains and no sites for N-linked glycosylation, but with a short hydrophobic segment at the protein's amino terminus, consistent with a model in which GAP-43 extends from the cytoplasmic surface of growth cone and synaptic plasma membranes. Among several tissues and cells examined, GAP-43 mRNA is expressed only in neurons. Developmental and regeneration-associated changes in GAP-43 synthesis appear to be mediated largely at the level of transcription of a single gene.
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Rüchel R, Böning B, Borg M. Characterization of a secretory proteinase of Candida parapsilosis and evidence for the absence of the enzyme during infection in vitro. Infect Immun 1986; 53:411-9. [PMID: 3525413 PMCID: PMC260891 DOI: 10.1128/iai.53.2.411-419.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The opportunistic yeastlike fungi of the genus Candida comprise three species which are proteolytic in vitro. Among them, C. albicans and C. tropicalis are of foremost medical importance. However, a strict correlation between extracellular proteolytic activity and virulence is opposed by the low virulence of the third proteolytic species, C. parapsilosis. We purified the secretory acid proteinase of C. parapsilosis (clinical isolate 265). The enzyme is a carboxyl proteinase (EC 3.4.23) like all other secretory Candida proteinases handled so far. Proteinase 265 is distinguished by a lower molecular weight (approximately 33,000); it has increased hydrophobicity, which accounts for inhibition of the enzyme by hemin, and required the presence of nonionic detergent in the initial steps of purification. The enzyme already undergoes alkaline denaturation at neutrality. Its activity is thus confined to the acid microenvironment of the fungal cell wall. Within this range, the enzyme may degrade immunoglobulins like immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1), IgA2, and secretory IgA. No indication was found for glycosylation of proteinase 265 and the related enzyme of C. albicans CBS 2730. However, the comparable proteinase of C. tropicalis 293 was identified as a manno protein. Antiserum against proteinase 265 cross-reacted strongly with corresponding enzymes from other Candida species. Antisera against proteinases of C. albicans and C. tropicalis reacted only weakly with proteinase 265. Thus, secretory Candida proteinases are likely to possess common and species-specific antigenic sites. In contrast to C. albicans, infection of phagocytes by C. parapsilosis 265 was not accompanied by secretion of fungal proteinase. This lack of induction of the enzyme under conditions of infection may account for the low virulence of most isolates of C. parapsilosis.
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Frey MD, Kinzkofer A, Bassim Atta M, Radola BJ. Preparation of rehydratable polyacrylamide gels and their application in ultrathin-layer isoelectric focusing. Electrophoresis 1986. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.1150070104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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