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Strojan P, Plavc G, Kokalj M, Mitrovic G, Blatnik O, Lezaic L, Socan A, Bavec A, Tesic N, Hartman K, Svajger U. Post-radiation xerostomia therapy with allogeneic mesenchymal stromal stem cells in patients with head and neck cancer: study protocol for phase I clinical trial. Radiol Oncol 2023; 57:538-549. [PMID: 38038413 PMCID: PMC10690747 DOI: 10.2478/raon-2023-0052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Xerostomia is a common side effect of radiotherapy in patients with head and neck tumors that negatively affects quality of life. There is no known effective standard treatment for xerostomia. Here, we present the study protocol used to evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of allogeneic mesenchymal stromal stem cells (MSCs) derived from umbilical cord tissue. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten oropharyngeal cancer patients with post-radiation xerostomia and no evidence of disease recurrence 2 or more years after (chemo)irradiation (intervention group) and 10 healthy volunteers (control group) will be enrolled in this nonrandomized, open-label, phase I exploratory study. MSCs from umbilical cord tissue will be inserted under ultrasound guidance into both parotid glands and both submandibular glands of the patients. Toxicity of the procedure will be assessed according to CTCAE v5.0 criteria at days 0, 1, 5, 28, and 120. Efficacy will be assessed by measuring salivary flow and analyzing its composition, scintigraphic evaluation of MSC grafting, retention, and migration, and questionnaires measuring subjective xerostomia and quality of life. In addition, the radiological, functional, and morphological characteristics of the salivary tissue will be assessed before, at 4 weeks, and at 4 months after the procedure. In the control group subjects, only salivary flow rate and salivary composition will be determined. DISCUSSION The use of allogeneic MSCs from umbilical cord tissue represents an innovative approach for the treatment of xerostomia after radiation. Due to the noninvasive collection procedure, flexibility of cryobanking, and biological advantages, xerostomia therapy using allogeneic MSCs from umbilical cord tissue may have an advantage over other similar therapies.
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- Primoz Strojan
- Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Blood Transfusion Center of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Blood Transfusion Center of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Smerkolj J, Stojan J, Bavec A, Goličnik M. Substrate-dependent inactivation of recombinant paraoxonase 1 during catalytic dihydrocoumarin turnover and the protective properties of surfactants. Chem Biol Interact 2023; 382:110563. [PMID: 37286155 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2023.110563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Human paraoxonase-1 (PON1) is the most studied member of the paraoxonases (PONs) family and catalyzes the hydrolysis of various substrates (lactones, aryl esters, and paraoxon). Numerous studies link PON1 to oxidative stress-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection, autism, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's, where the kinetic behavior of an enzyme is characterized by initial rates or by modern methods that obtain enzyme kinetic parameters by fitting the computed curves over the entire time-courses of product formation (progress curves). In the analysis of progress curves, the behavior of PON1 during hydrolytically catalyzed turnover cycles is unknown. Hence, progress curves for enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of the lactone substrate dihydrocoumarin (DHC) by recombinant PON1 (rePON1) were analyzed to investigate the effect of catalytic DHC turnover on the stability of rePON1. Although rePON1 was significantly inactivated during the catalytic DHC turnover, its activity was not lost due to the product inhibition or spontaneous inactivation of rePON1 in the sample buffers. Examination of the progress curves of DHC hydrolysis by rePON1 led to the conclusion that rePON1 inactivates itself during catalytic DHC turnover hydrolysis. Moreover, human serum albumin or surfactants protected rePON1 from inactivation during this catalytic process, which is significant because the activity of PON1 in clinical samples is measured in the presence of albumin.
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- Janez Smerkolj
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov trg 2, SI 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov trg 2, SI 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov trg 2, SI 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov trg 2, SI 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Anti-Sporotrichotic Activity, Lambert-W Inhibition Kinetics and 3D Structural Characterization of Sporothrix schenckii Catalase as Target of Glucosinolates from Moringa oleifera. Sci Pharm 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/scipharm90040070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Most human fungal infections exhibit significant defensive oxidative stress responses, which contribute to their pathogenicity. An important component of these reactions is the activation of catalase for detoxification. To discover new antifungal chemicals, the antifungal activity of methanol extracts of Moringa oleifera from two commercial products (Akuanandi and Mas Lait) was investigated. The methanolic extracts’ activity against Sporothrix schenckii was determined using an assay for minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum lethal concentration (MLC). The MIC concentrations varied between 0.5 μg/mL and 8 μg/mL. Akuanandi extract had the lowest MIC (0.5 μg/mL) and MLC (1 μg/mL) values. M. oleifera methanolic extracts were tested for catalase inhibition. The Ki values of the M. oleifera extract against S. schenckii catalase (SsCAT) was found to be 0.7 μg/mL for MOE-AK and 0.08 μg/mL for MOE-ML. Catalase’s 3D structure in SsCAT is unknown. The homology of SsCAT was modeled with an in silico study using a 3D structure from SWISS MODEL and validation the predicted 3D structure was carried out using PROCHECK and MolProbity. Docking simulations were used to analyze protein interactions using Pymol, PoseView, and PLIP. The results revealed that M. oleifera glucosinolates interacts with SsCAT. A molecular interaction analysis revealed two inhibitor compounds (glucosinalbin and glucomoringin) with high binding affinity to key allosteric-site residues. The binding energies revealed that glucosinalbin and glucomoringin bind with high affinity to SsCAT (docking energy values: −9.8 and −9.0 kcal/mol, respectively). The findings of this study suggest that glucosinolates derived from M. oleifera could be used instead of synthetic fungicides to control S. schenckii infections. We hope that the findings of this work will be valuable for developing and testing novel natural anti-sporothrix therapeutic agents in the future.
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The Removal of Time-Concentration Data Points from Progress Curves Improves the Determination of Km: The Example of Paraoxonase 1. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27041306. [PMID: 35209091 PMCID: PMC8874660 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27041306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Several approaches for determining an enzyme's kinetic parameter Km (Michaelis constant) from progress curves have been developed in recent decades. In the present article, we compare different approaches on a set of experimental measurements of lactonase activity of paraoxonase 1 (PON1): (1) a differential-equation-based Michaelis-Menten (MM) reaction model in the program Dynafit; (2) an integrated MM rate equation, based on an approximation of the Lambert W function, in the program GraphPad Prism; (3) various techniques based on initial rates; and (4) the novel program "iFIT", based on a method that removes data points outside the area of maximum curvature from the progress curve, before analysis with the integrated MM rate equation. We concluded that the integrated MM rate equation alone does not determine kinetic parameters precisely enough; however, when coupled with a method that removes data points (e.g., iFIT), it is highly precise. The results of iFIT are comparable to the results of Dynafit and outperform those of the approach with initial rates or with fitting the entire progress curve in GraphPad Prism; however, iFIT is simpler to use and does not require inputting a reaction mechanism. Removing unnecessary points from progress curves and focusing on the area around the maximum curvature is highly advised for all researchers determining Km values from progress curves.
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Cao X, Cao Z, Ou C, Zhang L, Chen Y, Li Y, Zhu B, Shu H. Combination of serum paraoxonase/arylesterase 1 and antithrombin-III is a promising non-invasion biomarker for discrimination of AFP-negative HCC versus liver cirrhosis patients. Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol 2021; 45:101583. [PMID: 33756265 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinre.2020.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE α-fetoprotein is often used in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, there are currently less efficient and highly specific biomarkers to distinguish AFP-negative HCC from liver cirrhosis (LC) patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the data of patients who were treated in our hospitals. iTRAQ coupled with mass spectrometry was used to identify candidate serum proteins in a discovery set (n = 36) including AFP-negative HCC and LC patients. After Western blot detection, potential serum biomarkers were confirmed using ELISA in a validation set (n = 90). The diagnostic performance of the selected proteins was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC). RESULTS PON1 and ATIII were selected as target proteins and were significantly higher in LC than those in AFP-negative HCC patients as validated by Western blot and ELISA, which was consistent with the result of iTRAQ. The AUC was 0.848 as PON1 and ATIII were combined (sensitivity: 80.0%; specificity: 73.3%), and performed much better than that of a single biomarker. CONCLUSION These findings suggest that PON1 and ATIII have the potential to serve as effective biomarkers for distinguishing AFP-negative HCC from cirrhosis.
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- Xinyi Cao
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, PR China; Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, PR China
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- Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, PR China.
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, PR China; Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, and Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, PR China.
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Petrič B, Kunej T, Bavec A. A Multi-Omics Analysis of PON1 Lactonase Activity in Relation to Human Health and Disease. OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2020; 25:38-51. [PMID: 33306925 PMCID: PMC8045895 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2020.0160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) enzyme has antioxidative properties and is present in mammalian blood and several other body fluids. In blood, PON1 is usually integrated into the high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. PON1 is a highly versatile enzyme displaying diverse functions such as arylesterase, lactonase, and paraoxonase, among others. PON1 activities are usually investigated with artificial substrates, for example, dihydrocoumarin and thiobutyl butyrolactone for lactonase activity. The PON1 enzyme activities measured with different substrates tend to be falsely assumed as being equivalent in the literature, although there are poor or weak correlations among the PON1 enzyme activities with different substrates. In addition, and despite our knowledge of the factors influencing PON1 paraoxonase and arylesterase activities, there is little knowledge of PON1 lactonase activity variations and attendant mechanisms. This is important considering further that the lactonase activity is the native activity of PON1. We report here a multi-omics analysis of PON1 lactonase activity. The influence of genetic variations, particularly of single nucleotide polymorphisms and epigenetic, proteomic, and lipidomic variations on PON1 lactonase activity are reviewed. In addition, the influence of various environmental, clinical, and demographic variables on PON1 lactonase activity is discussed. Finally, we examine the associations between PON1 lactonase activity and health states and common complex diseases such as atherosclerosis, dementias, obesity, and diabetes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first multi-omics analysis of PON1 lactonase activity with an eye to future applications in basic life sciences and translational medicine and the nuances of critically interpreting PON1 function with lactones as substrates.
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- Boštjan Petrič
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Animal Science, Domžale, Slovenia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Sierra-Campos E, Valdez-Solana M, Avitia-Domínguez C, Campos-Almazán M, Flores-Molina I, García-Arenas G, Téllez-Valencia A. Effects of Moringa oleifera Leaf Extract on Diabetes-Induced Alterations in Paraoxonase 1 and Catalase in Rats Analyzed through Progress Kinetic and Blind Docking. Antioxidants (Basel) 2020; 9:antiox9090840. [PMID: 32911700 PMCID: PMC7555439 DOI: 10.3390/antiox9090840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Revised: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In our study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of Moringa oleifera leaves extract on rat paraoxonase 1 (rPON1) and catalase (rCAT) activities in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Our study included three groups; group C (control, n = 5); group D (diabetic, n = 5); and group DM (M. oleifera extract-supplemented diabetic rats, n = 5). Daily oral administration of M. oleifera extract at 200 mg/kg doses produced an increase in endogenous antioxidants. Serum rPON1 (lactonase) and liver cytosol catalase activities were determined by a spectrophotometric assay using progress curve analysis. We found a decrease in the Vm value of rPON1 in diabetic rats, but dihydrocoumarin (DHC) affinity (Km) was slightly increased. The value of Vm for the DM group was found to be reduced approximately by a factor of 3 compared with those obtained for group C, whereas Km was largely changed (96 times). Catalase activity was significantly higher in the DM group. These data suggest that the activation of rPON1 and rCAT activities by M. oleifera extracts may be mediated via the effect of the specific flavonoids on the enzyme structure. In addition, through molecular blind docking analysis, rPON1 was found to have two binding sites for flavonoids. In contrast, flavonoids bound at four sites in rCAT. In conclusion, the data suggest that compounds from M. oleifera leaves extract were able to influence the catalytic activities of both enzymes to compensate for the changes provoked by diabetes in rats.
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- Erick Sierra-Campos
- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Campus Gómez Palacio, Avenida Artículo 123 S/N, Fracc, Filadelfia, Gómez Palacio 35010, Mexico; (M.V.-S.); (I.F.-M.)
- Correspondence: (E.S.-C.); (A.T.-V.)
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Campus Gómez Palacio, Avenida Artículo 123 S/N, Fracc, Filadelfia, Gómez Palacio 35010, Mexico; (M.V.-S.); (I.F.-M.)
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- Facultad de Medicina y Nutrición, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Avenida Universidad y Fanny Anitúa S/N, Durango 34000, Mexico; (C.A.-D.); (M.C.-A.)
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- Facultad de Medicina y Nutrición, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Avenida Universidad y Fanny Anitúa S/N, Durango 34000, Mexico; (C.A.-D.); (M.C.-A.)
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Campus Gómez Palacio, Avenida Artículo 123 S/N, Fracc, Filadelfia, Gómez Palacio 35010, Mexico; (M.V.-S.); (I.F.-M.)
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- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Campus, Gómez Palacio 35010, Mexico;
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- Facultad de Medicina y Nutrición, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Avenida Universidad y Fanny Anitúa S/N, Durango 34000, Mexico; (C.A.-D.); (M.C.-A.)
- Correspondence: (E.S.-C.); (A.T.-V.)
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