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Fredericia PM, Siragusa M, Köster U, Severin G, Groesser T, Jensen M. Cs-131 as an experimental tool for the investigation and quantification of the radiotoxicity of intracellular Auger decays in vitro. Int J Radiat Biol 2023; 99:39-52. [PMID: 32600084 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2020.1787541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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PURPOSE In this work, we set out to provide an experimental setup, using Cs-131, with associated dosimetry for studying relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of Auger emitters. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cs-131 decays by 100% electron capture producing K- (9%) and L- (80%) Auger electrons with mean energies of 26 keV and 3.5 keV, respectively, plus ≈ 9.4 very low energy electrons (<0.5 keV) per decay. Cs-131 accumulates in the cells through the Na+/K+-ATPase. By this uptake mechanism and the alkali chemistry of Cs+, we argue for its intracellular homogeneous distribution. Cs-131 was added to the cell culture medium of HeLa and V79 Cells. The bio-kinetics of Cs-131 (uptake, release, intracellular distribution) was examined by measuring its intracellular activity concentration over time. Taking advantage of the 100% confluent cellular monolayer, we developed a new and robust dosimetry that is entrusted to a quantity called SC-value. RESULTS The SC-values evaluated in the cell nucleus are almost independent of the nuclear size and geometry. We obtained dose-rate controlled RBE-values for intracellular Cs-131 decay. Using the γH2AX assay, the RBE was 1 for HeLa cells. Using the clonogenic cell survival, it was 3.9 for HeLa cells and 3.2 for V79 cells. CONCLUSION This experimental setup and dosimetry provides reliable RBE-values for Auger emitters in various cell lines.
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- Department of Chemistry, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
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- The Hevesy Laboratory, DTU-Nutech, Roskilde, Denmark
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Liu W, Mirzoeva S, Yuan Y, Deng J, Chen S, Lai B, Vogt S, Shah K, Shroff R, Bleher R, Jin Q, Vo N, Bazak R, Ritner C, Gutionov S, Raha S, Sedlmair J, Hirschmugl C, Jacobsen C, Paunesku T, Kalapurkal J, Woloschak GE. Development of Fe3O4 core–TiO2 shell nanocomposites and nanoconjugates as a foundation for neuroblastoma radiosensitization. Cancer Nanotechnol 2021; 12:12. [PMID: 34777621 PMCID: PMC8550682 DOI: 10.1186/s12645-021-00081-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Background
Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid malignancy in childhood which, despite the current progress in radiotherapy and chemotherapy protocols, still has a high mortality rate in high risk tumors. Nanomedicine offers exciting and unexploited opportunities to overcome the shortcomings of conventional medicine. The photocatalytic properties of Fe3O4 core-TiO2 shell nanocomposites and their potential for cell specific targeting suggest that nanoconstructs produced using Fe3O4 core-TiO2 shell nanocomposites could be used to enhance radiation effects in neuroblastoma. In this study, we evaluated bare, metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) and 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) coated Fe3O4@TiO2 as potential radiosensitizers for neuroblastoma in vitro.
Results
The uptake of bare and MIBG coated nanocomposites modestly sensitized neuroblastoma cells to ionizing radiation. Conversely, cells exposed to DOPAC coated nanocomposites exhibited a five-fold enhanced sensitivity to radiation, increased numbers of radiation induced DNA double-strand breaks, and apoptotic cell death. The addition of a peptide mimic of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) to nanoconjugates coated with MIBG altered their intracellular distribution. Cryo X-ray fluorescence microscopy tomography of frozen hydrated cells treated with these nanoconjugates revealed cytoplasmic as well as nuclear distribution of the nanoconstructs.
Conclusions
The intracellular distribution pattern of different nanoconjugates used in this study was different for different nanoconjugate surface molecules. Cells exposed to DOPAC covered nanoconjugates showed the smallest nanoconjugate uptake, with the most prominent pattern of large intracellular aggregates. Interestingly, cells treated with this nanoconjugate also showed the most pronounced radiosensitization effect in combination with the external beam x-ray irradiation. Further studies are necessary to evaluate mechanistic basis for this increased radiosensitization effect. Preliminary studies with the nanoparticles carrying an EGF mimicking peptide showed that this approach to targeting could perhaps be combined with a different approach to radiosensitization – use of nanoconjugates in combination with the radioactive iodine. Much additional work will be necessary in order to evaluate possible benefits of targeted nanoconjugates carrying radionuclides.
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Biological Applications of Short Wavelength Microscopy Based on Compact, Laser-Produced Gas-Puff Plasma Source. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10238338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Over the last decades, remarkable efforts have been made to improve the resolution in photon-based microscopes. The employment of compact sources based on table-top laser-produced soft X-ray (SXR) in the “water window” spectral range (λ = 2.3–4.4 nm) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) plasma allowed to overcome the limitations imposed by large facilities, such as synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), because of their high complexity, costs, and limited user access. A laser-plasma double stream gas-puff target source represents a powerful tool for microscopy operating in transmission mode, significantly improving the spatial resolution into the nanometric scale, comparing to the traditional visible light (optical) microscopes. Such an approach allows generating the plasma efficiently, without debris, providing a high flux of EUV and SXR photons. In this review, we present the development and optimization of desktop imaging systems: a EUV and an SXR full field microscope, allowing to achieve a sub-50 nm spatial resolution with short exposure time and an SXR contact microscope, capable to resolve internal structures in a thin layer of sensitive photoresist. Details about the source, as well as imaging results for biological applications, will be presented and discussed.
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Torrisi A, Wachulak P, Bartnik A, Węgrzyński Ł, Fok T, Fiedorowicz H. Development and optimization of a “water window” microscope based on a gas-puff target laser-produced plasma source. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2018. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201816703002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A laser-plasma double stream gas-puff target source coupled with Fresnel zone plate (FZP) optics, operating at He-like nitrogen spectral line λ=2.88nm, is capable of acquire complementary information in respect to optical and electron microscopy, allowing to obtain high resolution imaging, compared to the traditional visible light microscopes, with an exposition time of a few seconds. The compact size and versatility of the microscope offers the possibility to perform imaging experiments in the university laboratories, previously restricted to large-scale photon facilities. Source and microscope optimization, and examples of applications will be presented and discussed.
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Li YF, Zhao J, Gao Y, Chen C, Chai Z. Advanced Nuclear and Related Techniques for Metallomics and Nanometallomics. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2018; 1055:213-243. [PMID: 29884967 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90143-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Metallomics, focusing on the global and systematic understanding of the metal uptake, trafficking, role, and excretion in biological systems, has attracted more and more attention. Metal-related nanomaterials, including metallic and metal-containing nanomaterials, have unique properties compared to their macroscale counterparts and therefore require special attention. The absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion (ADME) behavior of metal-related nanomaterials in the biological systems is influenced by their physicochemical properties, the exposure route, and the microenvironment of the deposition site. Nanomaterials not only may interact directly or indirectly with genes, proteins, and other molecules to bring genotoxicity, immunotoxicity, DNA damage, and cytotoxicity but may also stimulate the immune responses, circumvent tumor resistance, and inhibit tumor metastasis. Because of their advantages of absolute quantification, high sensitivity, excellent accuracy and precision, low matrix effects, and nondestructiveness, nuclear and related analytical techniques have been playing important roles in the study of metallomics and nanometallomics. In this chapter, we present a comprehensive overview of nuclear and related analytical techniques applied to the quantification of metallome and nanometallome, the biodistribution, bioaccumulation, and transformation of metallome and nanometallome in vivo, and the structural analysis. Besides, metallomics and nanometallomics need to cooperate with other -omics, like genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, to obtain the knowledge of underlying mechanisms and therefore to improve the application performance and to reduce the potential risk of metallome and nanometallome.
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- Yu-Feng Li
- CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, and Laboratory for Metallomic and Nanometallomics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, and Laboratory for Metallomic and Nanometallomics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, and Laboratory for Metallomic and Nanometallomics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, and Laboratory for Metallomic and Nanometallomics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Dučić T, Carboni E, Lai B, Chen S, Michalke B, Lázaro DF, Outeiro TF, Bähr M, Barski E, Lingor P. Alpha-Synuclein Regulates Neuronal Levels of Manganese and Calcium. ACS Chem Neurosci 2015; 6:1769-79. [PMID: 26284970 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.5b00093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Manganese (Mn) may foster aggregation of alpha-synuclein (αSyn) contributing to the pathogenesis of PD. Here, we examined the influence of αSyn overexpression on distribution and oxidation states of Mn in frozen-hydrated primary midbrain neurons (PMNs) by synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy (XANES). Overexpression of αSyn increased intracellular Mn levels, whereas levels of Ca, Zn, K, P, and S were significantly decreased. Mn oxidation states were not altered. A strong correlation between Cu-/Mn-levels as well as Fe-/Mn-levels was observed in αSyn-overexpressing cells. Subcellular resolution revealed a punctate or filament-like perinuclear and neuritic distribution of Mn, which resembled the expression of DMT1 and MnSOD. While overexpression of αSyn did not significantly alter the expression patterns of the most-expressed Mn transport proteins (DMT1, VGCC, Fpn1), it attenuated the Mn release from Mn-treated neurons. Thus, these data suggest that αSyn may act as an intracellular Mn store. In total, neurotoxicity in PD could be mediated via regulation of transition metal levels and the metal-binding capacity of αSyn, which could represent a promising therapeutic target for this neurodegenerative disorder.
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- Tanja Dučić
- CELLS
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del Vallès a Sant Cugat del Vallè, km. 33, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès,
Barcelona, Spain
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- Department
of Neurology, University Medicine Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
- DFG-Research Center
for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- Advanced
Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States,
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- Advanced
Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States,
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department
of Neurodegeneration and Restorative Research, University Medicine Göttingen, Waldweg 33, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department
of Neurodegeneration and Restorative Research, University Medicine Göttingen, Waldweg 33, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department
of Neurology, University Medicine Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
- DFG-Research Center
for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department
of Neurology, University Medicine Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department
of Neurology, University Medicine Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
- DFG-Research Center
for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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Yuan Y, Chen S, Paunesku T, Gleber SC, Liu WC, Doty CB, Mak R, Deng J, Jin Q, Lai B, Brister K, Flachenecker C, Jacobsen C, Vogt S, Woloschak GE. Epidermal growth factor receptor targeted nuclear delivery and high-resolution whole cell X-ray imaging of Fe3O4@TiO2 nanoparticles in cancer cells. ACS NANO 2013; 7:10502-17. [PMID: 24219664 PMCID: PMC3919441 DOI: 10.1021/nn4033294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Sequestration within the cytoplasm often limits the efficacy of therapeutic nanoparticles that have specific subcellular targets. To allow for both cellular and subcellular nanoparticle delivery, we have created epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-targeted Fe3O4@TiO2 nanoparticles that use the native intracellular trafficking of EGFR to improve internalization and nuclear translocation in EGFR-expressing HeLa cells. While bound to EGFR, these nanoparticles do not interfere with the interaction between EGFR and karyopherin-β, a protein that is critical for the translocation of ligand-bound EGFR to the nucleus. Thus, a portion of the EGFR-targeted nanoparticles taken up by the cells also reaches cell nuclei. We were able to track nanoparticle accumulation in cells by flow cytometry and nanoparticle subcellular distribution by confocal fluorescent microscopy indirectly, using fluorescently labeled nanoparticles. More importantly, we imaged and quantified intracellular nanoparticles directly, by their elemental signatures, using X-ray fluorescence microscopy at the Bionanoprobe, the first instrument of its kind in the world. The Bionanoprobe can focus hard X-rays down to a 30 nm spot size to map the positions of chemical elements tomographically within whole frozen-hydrated cells. Finally, we show that photoactivation of targeted nanoparticles in cell nuclei, dependent on successful EGFR nuclear accumulation, induces significantly more double-stranded DNA breaks than photoactivation of nanoparticles that remain exclusively in the cytoplasm.
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- Ye Yuan
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Northwestern Synchrotron Research Center, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Yuan Y, Chen S, Gleber SC, Lai B, Brister K, Flachenecker C, Wanzer B, Paunesku T, Vogt S, Woloschak GE. Mapping the subcellular localization of Fe 3O 4@TiO 2 nanoparticles by X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 463. [PMID: 26413134 DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/463/1/012020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The targeted delivery of Fe3O4@TiO2 nanoparticles to cancer cells is an important step in their development as nanomedicines. We have synthesized nanoparticles that can bind the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, a cell surface protein that is overexpressed in many epithelial type cancers. In order to study the subcellular distribution of these nanoparticles, we have utilized the sub-micron resolution of X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy to map the locationof Fe3O4@TiO2 NPs and other trace metal elements within HeLa cervical cancer cells. Here we demonstrate how the higher resolution of the newly installed Bionanoprobe at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory can greatly improve our ability to distinguish intracellular nanoparticles and their spatial relationship with subcellular compartments.
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- Y Yuan
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Zvereva VV, Trunova VA. Determination of the elemental composition of tissues of the cardiovascular system by atomic spectrometry, mass spectrometry and X-ray spectrometry methods. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s1061934812070064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Jensen MP, Aryal BP, Gorman-Lewis D, Paunesku T, Lai B, Vogt S, Woloschak GE. Submicron hard X-ray fluorescence imaging of synthetic elements. Anal Chim Acta 2012; 722:21-8. [PMID: 22444530 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2012.01.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2011] [Revised: 01/20/2012] [Accepted: 01/26/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM) using hard X-rays focused into sub-micron spots is a powerful technique for elemental quantification and mapping, as well as microspectroscopic measurements such as μ-XANES (X-ray absorption near edge structure). We have used XFM to image and simultaneously quantify the transuranic element plutonium at the L(3) or L(2)-edge as well as Th and lighter biologically essential elements in individual rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells after exposure to the long-lived plutonium isotope (242)Pu. Elemental maps demonstrate that plutonium localizes principally in the cytoplasm of the cells and avoids the cell nucleus, which is marked by the highest concentrations of phosphorus and zinc, under the conditions of our experiments. The minimum detection limit under typical acquisition conditions with an incident X-ray energy of 18 keV for an average 202 μm(2) cell is 1.4 fg Pu or 2.9×10(-20) moles Pu μm(-2), which is similar to the detection limit of K-edge XFM of transition metals at 10 keV. Copper electron microscopy grids were used to avoid interference from gold X-ray emissions, but traces of strontium present in naturally occurring calcium can still interfere with plutonium detection using its L(α) X-ray emission.
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- Mark P Jensen
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
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McDermott G, Le Gros MA, Larabell CA. Visualizing cell architecture and molecular location using soft x-ray tomography and correlated cryo-light microscopy. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2012; 63:225-39. [PMID: 22242730 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032511-143818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Living cells are structured to create a range of microenvironments that support specific chemical reactions and processes. Understanding how cells function therefore requires detailed knowledge of both the subcellular architecture and the location of specific molecules within this framework. Here we review the development of two correlated cellular imaging techniques that fulfill this need. Cells are first imaged using cryogenic fluorescence microscopy to determine the location of molecules of interest that have been labeled with fluorescent tags. The same specimen is then imaged using soft X-ray tomography to generate a high-contrast, 3D reconstruction of the cells. Data from the two modalities are then combined to produce a composite, information-rich view of the cell. This correlated imaging approach can be applied across the spectrum of problems encountered in cell biology, from basic research to biotechnological and biomedical applications such as the optimization of biofuels and the development of new pharmaceuticals.
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- Gerry McDermott
- Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, 94158, USA
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Krejci MR, Wasserman B, Finney L, McNulty I, Legnini D, Vogt S, Joester D. Selectivity in biomineralization of barium and strontium. J Struct Biol 2011; 176:192-202. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2011] [Revised: 08/05/2011] [Accepted: 08/05/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Yuan Y, Paunesku T, Arora H, Ward J, Vogt S, Woloschak G. Interrogation of EGFR Targeted Uptake of TiO 2 Nanoconjugates by X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy. AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 2011; 1365:423-426. [PMID: 25284907 DOI: 10.1063/1.3625393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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We are developing TiO2 nanoconjugates that can be used as therapeutic and diagnostic agents. Nanoscale TiO2 can be surface conjugated with various molecules and has the unique ability to induce the production of reactive oxygen species after radiation activation. One way to improve the potential clinical usefulness of TiO2 nanoparticles is to control their delivery to malignant cells by targeting them to cancer cell specific antigens. Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor is one potential target that is enriched in epithelial cancers and is rapidly internalized after ligand binding. Hence, we have synthesized TiO2 nanoparticles and functionalized them with a short EGFR binding peptide to create EGFR-targeted NCs. X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy was used to image nanoconjugates within EGFR positive HeLa cells. Further labeling of fixed cells with antibodies against EGFR and Protein A nanogold showed that TiO2 nanoconjugates can colocalize with receptors at the cell's plasma membrane. Interestingly, with increased incubation times, EGFR targeted nanoconjugates could also be found colocalized with EGFR within the cell nucleus. This suggests that EGFR-targeted nanoconjugates can bind the receptor at the cell membrane, which leads to the internalization of NC-receptor complexes and the subsequent transport of nanoconjugates into the nucleus.
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- Ye Yuan
- Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago IL, USA
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- Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago IL, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratories, 9700 S Cass Ave., Argonne IL, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratories, 9700 S Cass Ave., Argonne IL, USA
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- Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago IL, USA
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Sun H, Chai ZF. Metallomics: An integrated science for metals in biology and medicine. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1039/b920672h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Reagan McRae
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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Gianoncelli A, Kaulich B, Alberti R, Klatka T, Longoni A, de Marco A, Marcello A, Kiskinova M. Simultaneous soft X-ray transmission and emission microscopy. NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A: ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT 2009. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.06.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Ortega R, Devès G, Carmona A. Bio-metals imaging and speciation in cells using proton and synchrotron radiation X-ray microspectroscopy. J R Soc Interface 2009; 6 Suppl 5:S649-58. [PMID: 19605403 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0166.focus] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The direct detection of biologically relevant metals in single cells and of their speciation is a challenging task that requires sophisticated analytical developments. The aim of this article is to present the recent achievements in the field of cellular chemical element imaging, and direct speciation analysis, using proton and synchrotron radiation X-ray micro- and nano-analysis. The recent improvements in focusing optics for MeV-accelerated particles and keV X-rays allow application to chemical element analysis in subcellular compartments. The imaging and quantification of trace elements in single cells can be obtained using particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE). The combination of PIXE with backscattering spectrometry and scanning transmission ion microscopy provides a high accuracy in elemental quantification of cellular organelles. On the other hand, synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence provides chemical element imaging with less than 100 nm spatial resolution. Moreover, synchrotron radiation offers the unique capability of spatially resolved chemical speciation using micro-X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The potential of these methods in biomedical investigations will be illustrated with examples of application in the fields of cellular toxicology, and pharmacology, bio-metals and metal-based nano-particles.
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- Richard Ortega
- Cellular Chemical Imaging and Speciation Group, CNAB, CNRS UMR 5084, University of Bordeaux, 33175 Gradignan, France.
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Carmona A, Devès G, Ortega R. Quantitative micro-analysis of metal ions in subcellular compartments of cultured dopaminergic cells by combination of three ion beam techniques. Anal Bioanal Chem 2008; 390:1585-94. [PMID: 18246461 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-008-1866-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2007] [Revised: 12/28/2007] [Accepted: 01/09/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Quantification of the trace element content of subcellular compartments is a challenging task because of the lack of analytical quantitative techniques with adequate spatial resolution and sensitivity. Ion beam micro-analysis, using MeV protons or alpha particles, offers a unique combination of analytical methods that can be used with micrometric resolution for the determination of chemical element distributions. This work illustrates how the association of three ion beam analytical methods, PIXE (particle induced X-ray emission), BS (backscattering spectrometry), and STIM (scanning transmission ion spectrometry), allows quantitative determination of the trace element content of single cells. PIXE is used for trace element detection while BS enables beam-current normalization, and STIM local mass determination. These methods were applied to freeze-dried cells, following a specific cryogenic protocol for sample preparation which preserves biological structures and chemical distributions in the cells. We investigated how iron accumulates into dopaminergic cells cultured in vitro. We found that the iron content increases in dopaminergic cells exposed to an excess iron, with marked accumulation within distal ends, suggesting interaction between iron and dopamine within neurotransmitter vesicles. Increased iron content of dopaminergic neurons is suspected to promote neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease.
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- A Carmona
- Groupe d'Imagerie Chimique Cellulaire et Spéciation, Chemin du solarium, Laboratoire de Chimie Nucléaire Analytique et Bioenvironnementale, Universités de Bordeaux 1 & 2, 33175, Gradignan, France
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Metallomics is an emerging and promising research field which has attracted more and more attention. However, the term itself might be restrictive. Therefore, the term "elementomics" is suggested to encompass the study of nonmetals as well. In this paper, the application of state-of-the-art analytical techniques with the capabilities of high-throughput quantification, distribution, speciation, identification, and structural characterization for metallomics and elementomics is critically reviewed. High-throughput quantification of multielements can be achieved by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and neutron activation analysis (NAA). High-throughput multielement distribution mapping can be performed by fluorescence-detecting techniques such as synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence (SR-XRF), XRF tomography, energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX), proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE), laser ablation (LA)-ICP-MS, and ion-detecting-based, secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), while Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) and Raman microspectroscopy are excellent tools for molecular mapping. All the techniques for metallome and elementome structural characterization are generally low-throughput, such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), NMR, and small-angle X-ray spectroscopy (SAXS). If automation of arraying small samples, rapid data collection of multiple low-volume and -concentration samples together with data reduction and analysis are developed, high-throughput techniques will be available and in fact have partially been achieved.
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Ortega R, Cloetens P, Devès G, Carmona A, Bohic S. Iron storage within dopamine neurovesicles revealed by chemical nano-imaging. PLoS One 2007; 2:e925. [PMID: 17895967 PMCID: PMC1976597 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2007] [Accepted: 08/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Altered homeostasis of metal ions is suspected to play a critical role in neurodegeneration. However, the lack of analytical technique with sufficient spatial resolution prevents the investigation of metals distribution in neurons. An original experimental setup was developed to perform chemical element imaging with a 90 nm spatial resolution using synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence. This unique spatial resolution, combined to a high brightness, enables chemical element imaging in subcellular compartments. We investigated the distribution of iron in dopamine producing neurons because iron-dopamine compounds are suspected to be formed but have yet never been observed in cells. The study shows that iron accumulates into dopamine neurovesicles. In addition, the inhibition of dopamine synthesis results in a decreased vesicular storage of iron. These results indicate a new physiological role for dopamine in iron buffering within normal dopamine producing cells. This system could be at fault in Parkinson's disease which is characterized by an increased level of iron in the substantia nigra pars compacta and an impaired storage of dopamine due to the disruption of vesicular trafficking. The re-distribution of highly reactive dopamine-iron complexes outside neurovesicles would result in an enhanced death of dopaminergic neurons.
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- Richard Ortega
- Cellular Chemical Imaging and Speciation Group, Chimie Nucléaire Analytique Bioenvironnementale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Bordeaux 1, Gradignan, France.
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Bacquart T, Devès G, Carmona A, Tucoulou R, Bohic S, Ortega R. Subcellular Speciation Analysis of Trace Element Oxidation States Using Synchrotron Radiation Micro-X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure. Anal Chem 2007; 79:7353-9. [PMID: 17822307 DOI: 10.1021/ac0711135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Identification of chemical species at a subcellular level is a key to understand the mechanisms involved in the biology of chemical elements. When performed with a microbeam, X-ray absorption near-edge structure (micro-XANES) enables the direct speciation analysis of oxidation states in subcellular compartments avoiding cell fractionation and other preparation steps that might modify the chemical species. Here we report the principal characteristics in terms of spatial resolution, detection limit, reproducibility, and repeatability of a micro-XANES experimental setup based on Kirkpatrick-Baez X-ray focusing optics that maintains high flux of incoming radiation (>10(11) photons/s) at micrometric spatial resolution (1.5 x 4.0 microm2). Applications and limitations of this setup are illustrated by examples of iron and arsenic absorption spectra obtained from the cytosol, nucleus, and mitochondrial network of cultured cells. A better repeatability and sensitivity with no oxidation state modification and minimal beam damage is achieved when cells are analyzed in a frozen hydrated state, as compared to freeze-dried cells. This original experimental setup can now be applied for the direct speciation analysis of most trace elements at the subcellular level.
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- Thomas Bacquart
- Cellular Chemical Imaging and Speciation Group, CNAB UMR 5084, CNRS/Université de Bordeaux 1, BP 120 Le Haut Vigneau, 33175 Gradignan cedex, France
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Fahrni CJ. Biological applications of X-ray fluorescence microscopy: exploring the subcellular topography and speciation of transition metals. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2007; 11:121-7. [PMID: 17353139 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.02.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2007] [Accepted: 02/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy (SXRF) is a microanalytical technique for the quantitative mapping of elemental distributions. Among currently available imaging modalities, SXRF is the only technique that is compatible with fully hydrated biological samples such as whole cells or tissue sections, while simultaneously offering trace element sensitivity and submicron spatial resolution. Combined with the ability to provide information regarding the oxidation state and coordination environment of metal cations, SXRF is ideally suited to study the intracellular distribution and speciation of trace elements, toxic heavy metals and therapeutic or diagnostic metal complexes.
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- Christoph J Fahrni
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA.
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Lobinski R, Moulin C, Ortega R. Imaging and speciation of trace elements in biological environment. Biochimie 2006; 88:1591-604. [PMID: 17064836 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2006.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2006] [Accepted: 10/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Mineral elements, often at the trace level, play a considerable role in physiology and pathology of biological systems. Metallogenomics, metalloproteomics, and metallomics are among the emerging disciplines which are critically dependent on spatially resolved concentration maps of trace elements in a cell or tissue, on information on chemical speciation, and on that on metal-binding coordination sites. The mini-review discusses recent progress in analytical techniques for element profiling on the genome scale, biological trace element imaging, and probing, identification and quantification of chemical species in the biological environment. Imaging of the element distribution in cells and tissue sections is becoming possible with sub-micrometer spatial resolution and picogram-level sensitivity owing to advances in laser ablation MS, ion beam and synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence microprobes. Progress in nanoflow chromatography and capillary electrophoresis coupled with element specific ICP MS and molecule-specific electrospray MS/MS and MALDI enables speciation of elements in microsamples in a complex biological environment. Laser ablation ICP MS, micro-SXRF, and micro-PIXE allow mapping of trace element distribution in 1D and 2D proteomics gels. The increasing sensitivity of EXAFS and XANES owing to the use of more intense synchrotron beams and efficient focusing optics provide information about oxidation state, fingerprint speciation of metal sites and metal-site structures.
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- R Lobinski
- Equipe de chimie analytique bio-inorganique, CNRS UMR5034, Hélioparc, 2, avenue Professeur-Angot, 64053 Pau, France
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Leblanc C, Colin C, Cosse A, Delage L, La Barre S, Morin P, Fiévet B, Voiseux C, Ambroise Y, Verhaeghe E, Amouroux D, Donard O, Tessier E, Potin P. Iodine transfers in the coastal marine environment: the key role of brown algae and of their vanadium-dependent haloperoxidases. Biochimie 2006; 88:1773-85. [PMID: 17007992 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2006.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2006] [Accepted: 09/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Brown algal kelp species are the most efficient iodine accumulators among all living systems, with an average content of 1.0% of dry weight in Laminaria digitata, representing a ca. 30,000-fold accumulation of this element from seawater. Like other marine macroalgae, kelps are known to emit volatile short-lived organo-iodines, and molecular iodine which are believed to be a main vector of the iodine biogeochemical cycle as well as having a significant impact on atmospheric chemistry. Therefore, radioactive iodine can potentially accumulate in seaweeds and can participate in the biogeochemical cycling of iodine, thereby impacting human health. From a radioecological viewpoint, iodine-129 (129I, half-life of 1.6 x 10(7) years) is one of the most persistent radionuclide released from nuclear facilities into the environment. In this context, the speciation of iodine by seaweeds is of special importance and there is a need to further understand the mechanisms of iodine uptake and emission by kelps. Recent results on the physiological role and biochemistry of the vanadium haloperoxidases of brown algae emphasize the importance of these enzymes in the control of these processes.
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- Catherine Leblanc
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique, université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris-VI, laboratoire international Associé-Dispersal and Adaptation in Marine Species, unité mixte de recherche 7139, 29682 Roscoff cedex, France.
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- Qiang Zhao
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G3, Canada
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Quantification of Trace Elements in Protein Bands Using Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Fluorescence after Electrophoretic Separation. CHINESE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2040(06)60023-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Waern JB, Harris HH, Lai B, Cai Z, Harding MM, Dillon CT. Intracellular mapping of the distribution of metals derived from the antitumor metallocenes. J Biol Inorg Chem 2005; 10:443-52. [PMID: 15906108 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-005-0649-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2004] [Accepted: 04/11/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The intracellular distribution of transition metals in V79 Chinese hamster lung cells treated with subtoxic doses of the organometallic anticancer complexes Cp(2)MCl(2), where Cp is eta (5) -cyclopentadienyl and M is Mo, Nb, Ti, or V, has been studied by synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence (XRF). While significantly higher concentrations of Mo and Nb were found in treated cells compared with control cells, distinct differences in the cellular distribution of each metal were observed. Analysis of thin sections of cells was consistent with some localization of Mo in the nucleus. Studies with a noncytotoxic thiol derivative of molybdocene dichloride showed an uneven distribution of Mo in the cells. For comparison, the low levels of Ti and V in cells treated with the more toxic titanocene and vanadocene complexes, respectively, resulted in metal concentrations at the detection limit of XRF. The results agree with independent chemical studies that have concluded that the biological chemistry of each of the metallocene dihalides is unique.
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- Jenny B Waern
- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Brehm-Stecher BF, Johnson EA. Single-cell microbiology: tools, technologies, and applications. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2004; 68:538-59, table of contents. [PMID: 15353569 PMCID: PMC515252 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.68.3.538-559.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 297] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The field of microbiology has traditionally been concerned with and focused on studies at the population level. Information on how cells respond to their environment, interact with each other, or undergo complex processes such as cellular differentiation or gene expression has been obtained mostly by inference from population-level data. Individual microorganisms, even those in supposedly "clonal" populations, may differ widely from each other in terms of their genetic composition, physiology, biochemistry, or behavior. This genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity has important practical consequences for a number of human interests, including antibiotic or biocide resistance, the productivity and stability of industrial fermentations, the efficacy of food preservatives, and the potential of pathogens to cause disease. New appreciation of the importance of cellular heterogeneity, coupled with recent advances in technology, has driven the development of new tools and techniques for the study of individual microbial cells. Because observations made at the single-cell level are not subject to the "averaging" effects characteristic of bulk-phase, population-level methods, they offer the unique capacity to observe discrete microbiological phenomena unavailable using traditional approaches. As a result, scientists have been able to characterize microorganisms, their activities, and their interactions at unprecedented levels of detail.
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- Byron F Brehm-Stecher
- Department of Food Microbiology and Toxicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Food Research Institute, 1925 Willow Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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