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Kenworthy AK, Schmieder SS, Raghunathan K, Tiwari A, Wang T, Kelly CV, Lencer WI. Cholera Toxin as a Probe for Membrane Biology. Toxins (Basel) 2021; 13:543. [PMID: 34437414 PMCID: PMC8402489 DOI: 10.3390/toxins13080543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Cholera toxin B-subunit (CTxB) has emerged as one of the most widely utilized tools in membrane biology and biophysics. CTxB is a homopentameric stable protein that binds tightly to up to five GM1 glycosphingolipids. This provides a robust and tractable model for exploring membrane structure and its dynamics including vesicular trafficking and nanodomain assembly. Here, we review important advances in these fields enabled by use of CTxB and its lipid receptor GM1.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anne K. Kenworthy
- Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; (A.T.); (T.W.)
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA;
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- Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; (A.T.); (T.W.)
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- Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; (A.T.); (T.W.)
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Menzyanova NG, Pyatina SА, Nikolaeva ED, Shabanov AV, Nemtsev IV, Stolyarov DP, Dryganov DB, Sakhnov EV, Shishatskaya EI. Screening of biopolymeric materials for cardiovascular surgery toxicity-Evaluation of their surface relief with assessment of morphological aspects of monocyte/macrophage polarization in atherosclerosis patients. Toxicol Rep 2018; 6:74-90. [PMID: 30581762 PMCID: PMC6297908 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2018.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The micro- and nano-relief of substrates from heteropolymeric samples of PHAs varies because to their monomeric composition. Substrates surface reliefs determine variability of cell morphology, mothing activity, and fusion into multynucleous cells. Biological activity of polymers surface reliefs depends on status of Mn-population (cells isolated before or after stenting).
The morphotypes of human macrophages (MPh) were studied in the culture on nano-structured biopolymer substrates, made from polyhydroxyalcanoates (PHAs) of five various monomer compositions, followed by the solvent evaporation. Its surface relief, which was further in direct contact with human cells in vitro, was analyzed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It was shown, that the features of the micro/nano relief depend on the monomeric composition of the polymer substrates. Monocytes (MN) of patients with atherosclerosis and cardiac ischemia, undergoing stenting and conventional anti-atherosclerotic therapy, were harvested prior and after stenting. MN were isolated and cultured, with the transformation into MPh in direct contact with biopolymer culture substrates with different monomer composition and nano-reliefs, and transformed into MPh, in comparison with the same process on standard culture plastic. Sub-populations of cells with characteristic morphology in each phenotypic class were described, and their quantitative ratios for each sample of polymers were counted as an intermediate result in the development of “smart” material for cardiovascular devices. The results obtained allow us to assume, that the processes of MPh differentiation and polarization in vitro depend not only on the features of the micro/nano relief of biopolymer substrates, but also on the initial state of MN in vivo and general response of patients.
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Key Words
- AFM, atomic force microscopy
- Atherosclerosis
- Cell morphology
- Intravascular stenting
- MN, monocytes
- MOC, mononuclear cells
- MPh, macrophages
- MUC, multinucleated cells
- Macrophages
- Monocytes
- P(3HB), poly-3-hydroxybutyrate
- P(3HB/3HV), copolymers of 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyvalerate
- P(3HB/3HV/3HHx), copolymers of 3-hydroxybutyrate, 3-hydroxyvalerate and 3-hydroxyhexanoate
- P(3HB/3HV/4HB/3HHx), copolymers of 3-hydroxybutyrate, 3-hydroxyvalerate, 4-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyhexanoate
- P(3HB/4HB), copolymers of 3-hydroxybutyrate and 4-hydroxybutyrate
- PHAs, polyhydroxyalcanoates
- Polyhydroxyalkanoates
- SEM, scanning electron microscopy
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- Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 50/50 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 50/38 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Federal Research Center Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 50 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, 45 Karaulnaya, Krasnoyarsk, 660020, Russia
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- Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, 45 Karaulnaya, Krasnoyarsk, 660020, Russia
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- Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, 45 Karaulnaya, Krasnoyarsk, 660020, Russia
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- Siberian Federal University, 79, Svobodny av., Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia
- Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 50/50 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
- Corresponding author at: Siberian Federal University, 79, Svobodny av., Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia.
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Emon B, Bauer J, Jain Y, Jung B, Saif T. Biophysics of Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Metastasis - A Mini Review. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2018; 16:279-287. [PMID: 30128085 PMCID: PMC6097544 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2018.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2018] [Revised: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/21/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The role of tumor microenvironment in cancer progression is gaining significant attention. It is realized that cancer cells and the corresponding stroma co-evolve with time. Cancer cells recruit and transform the stromal cells, which in turn remodel the extra cellular matrix of the stroma. This complex interaction between the stroma and the cancer cells results in a dynamic feed-forward/feed-back loop with biochemical and biophysical cues that assist metastatic transition of the cancer cells. Although biochemistry has long been studied for the understanding of cancer progression, biophysical signaling is emerging as a critical paradigm determining cancer metastasis. In this mini review, we discuss the role of one of the biophysical cues, mostly the mechanical stiffness of tumor microenvironment, in cancer progression and its clinical implications.
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Key Words
- ADAMs, Adamalysins
- ANGPT2, Angiopoietin 2
- Activin/TGFβ
- CAF, Cancer associated fibroblast
- CSF-1, Colony stimulating factor 1
- CTGF, Connective tissue growth factor
- CYR61/CCN1, Cysteine-rich angiogenic inducer 61/CCN family member 1
- Cancer
- ECM stiffness
- ECM, Extracellular matrix
- EGF, Epidermal growth factor
- EMT, Epithelial to mesenchymal transition
- FGF, Fibroblast growth factor
- Growth factors
- HGF/SF, Hepatocyte growth factor/Scatter factor
- IGFs, Insulin-like growth factors
- IL-13, Interleukin-13
- IL-33, Interleukin-33
- IL-6, Interleukin-6
- KGF, Keratinocyte growth factor, also FGF7
- LOX, Lysyl Oxidase
- MMPs, Matrix metalloproteinases
- Metastasis
- NO, Nitric oxide
- SDF-1/CXCL12, Stromal cell-derived factor 1/C-X-C motif chemokine 12
- TACs, Tumor-associated collagen signatures
- TGFβ, Transforming growth factor β
- TNF-α, Tumor necrosis factor-α
- Tumor biophysics
- VEGF, Vascular endothelial growth factor
- α-SMA, α-Smooth muscle actin
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- Bashar Emon
- Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
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- Department of Architecture, BRAC University, Dhaka
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
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- Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
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Begemann I, Viplav A, Rasch C, Galic M. Stochastic Micro-Pattern for Automated Correlative Fluorescence - Scanning Electron Microscopy. Sci Rep 2015; 5:17973. [PMID: 26647824 PMCID: PMC4673610 DOI: 10.1038/srep17973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
Studies of cellular surface features gain from correlative approaches, where live cell information acquired by fluorescence light microscopy is complemented by ultrastructural information from scanning electron micrographs. Current approaches to spatially align fluorescence images with scanning electron micrographs are technically challenging and often cost or time-intensive. Relying exclusively on open-source software and equipment available in a standard lab, we have developed a method for rapid, software-assisted alignment of fluorescence images with the corresponding scanning electron micrographs via a stochastic gold micro-pattern. Here, we provide detailed instructions for micro-pattern production and image processing, troubleshooting for critical intermediate steps, and examples of membrane ultra-structures aligned with the fluorescence signal of proteins enriched at such sites. Together, the presented method for correlative fluorescence – scanning electron microscopy is versatile, robust and easily integrated into existing workflows, permitting image alignment with accuracy comparable to existing approaches with negligible investment of time or capital.
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- Isabell Begemann
- DFG Cluster of Excellence 'Cells in Motion', (EXC 1003).,Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Münster, Germany
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- DFG Cluster of Excellence 'Cells in Motion', (EXC 1003).,Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Münster, Germany
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- DFG Cluster of Excellence 'Cells in Motion', (EXC 1003).,Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Münster, Germany
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