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Attri P, Kaushik NK, Kaushik N, Hammerschmid D, Privat-Maldonado A, De Backer J, Shiratani M, Choi EH, Bogaerts A. Plasma treatment causes structural modifications in lysozyme, and increases cytotoxicity towards cancer cells. Int J Biol Macromol 2021; 182:1724-1736. [PMID: 34051258 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.05.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Bacterial and mammalian proteins, such as lysozyme, are gaining increasing interest as anticancer drugs. This study aims to modify the lysozyme structure using cold atmospheric plasma to boost its cancer cell killing effect. We investigated the structure at acidic and neutral pH using various experimental techniques (circular dichroism, fluorescence, and mass spectrometry) and molecular dynamics simulations. The controlled structural modification of lysozyme at neutral pH enhances its activity, while the activity was lost at acidic pH at the same treatment conditions. Indeed, a larger number of amino acids were oxidized at acidic pH after plasma treatment, which results in a greater distortion of the lysozyme structure, whereas only limited structural changes were observed in lysozyme after plasma treatment at neutral pH. We found that the plasma-treated lysozyme significantly induced apoptosis to the cancer cells. Our results reveal that plasma-treated lysozyme could have potential as a new cancer cell killing drug.
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- Pankaj Attri
- Center of Plasma Nano-interface Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan; Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan; Research Group PLASMANT, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
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- Department of Electrical and Biological Physics, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering, University of Suwon, Hwaseong 18323, Republic of Korea
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- Research Group PPES, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Research Group PPES, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Center of Plasma Nano-interface Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan; Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Electrical and Biological Physics, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea
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- Research Group PLASMANT, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Li FF, Yan P, Zhao ZX, Liu Z, Song DW, Zhao XW, Wang XS, Wang GY, Liu SL. Polymorphisms in the CHIT1 gene: Associations with colorectal cancer. Oncotarget 2018; 7:39572-39581. [PMID: 27153562 PMCID: PMC5129954 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.9138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2016] [Accepted: 04/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common solid tumors worldwide, often associated with inflammation. The microbes in the human intestine have a key role in inflammations and CRC. Chitotriose renders growth advantage to some bacteria, especially some pathogens, and thus has a role in inflammations. The enzyme chitotriosidase, encoded by the CHIT1 gene of the host, may degrade chitotriose with different efficiencies depending on the alleles. We sequenced the CHIT1 gene for 320 Chinese Han CRC patients and 404 normal controls, and focused on variations rs61745299 and rs35920428 within the CHIT1 gene for their possible roles in CRC. Statistical analyses were conducted using Chi-Square Tests as implemented in SPSS (version 19.0). Multiple sequence alignment was conducted using the Vector NTI, and protein expression levels were analyzed by western blotting. The two variations, rs61745299 and rs35920428 within the CDS region of CHIT1 gene, were associated with the risk of CRC (both with P values < 0.001). Western blotting analysis showed that the variations increased the expression levels of the CHIT1 and C-reaction protein genes in the cancer tissue. We conclude that the two variations of CHIT1, rs61745299 and rs35920428, increase expression of the gene and are associated with CRC in Chinese Han populations.
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- Fei-Feng Li
- Genomics Research Center, State-Province Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.,Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.,Department of Colorectal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center, State-Province Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.,Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Ginsburg I. The role of bacteriolysis in the pathophysiology of inflammation, infection and post-infectious sequelae. APMIS 2002; 110:753-70. [PMID: 12588416 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0463.2002.1101101.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The literature dealing with the biochemical basis of bacteriolysis and its role in inflammation, infection and in post-infectious sequelae is reviewed and discussed. Bacteriolysis is an event that may occur when normal microbial multiplication is altered due to an uncontrolled activation of a series of autolytic cell-wall breaking enzymes (muramidases). While a low-level bacteriolysis sometimes occurs physiologically, due to "mistakes" in cell separation, a pronounced cell wall breakdown may occur following bacteriolysis induced either by beta-lactam antibiotics or by a large variety of bacteriolysis-inducing cationic peptides. These include spermine, spermidine, bactericidal peptides defensins, bacterial permeability increasing peptides from neutrophils, cationic proteins from eosinophils, lysozyme, myeloperoxidase, lactoferrin, the highly cationic proteinases elastase and cathepsins, PLA2, and certain synthetic polyamino acids. The cationic agents probably function by deregulating lipoteichoic acid (LTA) in Gram-positive bacteria and phospholipids in Gram-negative bacteria, the presumed regulators of the autolytic enzyme systems (muramidases). When bacteriolysis occurs in vivo, cell-wall- and -membrane-associated lipopolysaccharide (LPS (endotoxin)), lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and peptidoglycan (PPG), are released. These highly phlogistic agents can act on macrophages, either individually or in synergy, to induce the generation and release of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, cytotoxic cytokines, hydrolases, proteinases, and also to activate the coagulation and complement cascades. All these agents and processes are involved in the pathophysiology of septic shock and multiple organ failure resulting from severe microbial infections. Bacteriolysis induced in in vitro models, either by polycations or by beta-lactams, could be effectively inhibited by sulfated polysaccharides, by D-amino acids as well as by certain anti-bacteriolytic antibiotics. However, within phagocytic cells in inflammatory sites, bacteriolysis tends to be strongly inhibited presumably due to the inactivation by oxidants and proteinases of the bacterial muramidases. This might results in a long persistence of non-biodegradable cell-wall components causing granulomatous inflammation. However, persistence of microbial cell walls in vivo may also boost innate immunity against infections and against tumor-cell proliferation. Therapeutic strategies to cope with the deleterious effects of bacteriolysis in vivo include combinations of autolysin inhibitors with combinations of certain anti-inflammatory agents. These might inhibit the synergistic tissue- and- organ-damaging "cross talks" which lead to septic shock and to additional post-infectious sequelae.
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- Isaac Ginsburg
- Department of Oral Biology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Iron-exposed murine macrophages have a modified bactericidal activity as shown by previous observations. In order to assess the role of iron in macrophage activation, as measured by free radical production and by intracellular bacterial killing, murine peritoneal macrophages were cultivated in the presence of various sources of iron, human iron-saturated transferrin and ammonium ferric citrate, or iron chelators, Desferal, and human Apo-transferrin, and were infected with an enteropathogenic strain of E. coli. The release of nitrite (NO2-), and the production of superoxide anion (O2-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by the phagocytes were measured and compared to the production by uninfected macrophages. The synergistic action with murine r.IFN-gamma was also studied in the radical production reaction and for the bactericidal activity of macrophages. Our results show that in vitro phagocytosis of E. coli induced elevated production of NO2- and H2O2 by macrophages, and that oxygen derivatives were released independently of the presence of added iron or chelator. Despite a phagocytosis-related enhancement of NO2- release, reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI) are not directly involved in the bactericidal mechanism, as revealed by increased intracellular killing owing to RNI inhibitors. Moreover, bacterial killing may depend on oxygen derivatives, as suggested by the effect of the antioxidant sodium ascorbate leading to both a diminished H2O2 production and a decreased bactericidal activity of macrophages.
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- Y P Gauthier
- Unité de Microbiologie, Centre de Recherche du Service de Santé des Armées, La Tronche, France
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Sellak H, Franzini E, Hakim J, Pasquier C. Mechanism of lysozyme inactivation and degradation by iron. Arch Biochem Biophys 1992; 299:172-8. [PMID: 1332614 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(92)90259-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The site-specific lysozyme damage by iron and by iron-catalysed oxygen radicals was investigated. A solution of purified lysozyme was inactivated by Fe(II) at pH 7.4 in phosphate buffer, as tested on cleavage of Micrococcus lysodeikticus cells; this inactivation was time- and iron concentration-dependent and was associated with a loss of tryptophan fluorescence. In addition, it was reversible at pH 4, as demonstrated by lysozyme reactivation and by the intensity of the 14.4-kD-band on SDS-PAGE. Desferal (1 mM) and Detapac (1 mM) added before iron, prevented lysozyme inactivation, while catalase (100 micrograms/ml), superoxide dismutase (100 micrograms/ml) and bovine serum albumin (100 micrograms/ml) gave about 30 to 40% protection by competing with lysozyme for iron binding. The denaturing effect of iron on lysozyme was studied in the presence of H2O2 (1 mM) and ascorbate (1 mM); under these conditions the enzyme underwent partly irreversible inactivation and degradation different to that produced by gamma radiolysis-generated .OH. Catalase almost fully protected lysozyme; in contrast, mannitol (10 mM), benzoate (10 mM), and formate (10 mM) provided no protection because of their inability to access the site at which damaging species are generated. In this system, radical species were formed in a site-specific manner, and they reacted essentially with lysozyme at the site of their formation, causing inactivation and degradation differently than the hydroxyl radical.
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- H Sellak
- INSERM U294, Faculté de Médecine Xavier Bichat, Paris, France
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Bellamy W, Takase M, Yamauchi K, Wakabayashi H, Kawase K, Tomita M. Identification of the bactericidal domain of lactoferrin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1121:130-6. [PMID: 1599934 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(92)90346-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 598] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We report the existence of a previously unknown antimicrobial domain near the N-terminus of lactoferrin in a region distinct from its iron-binding sites. A single active peptide representing this domain was isolated following gastric pepsin cleavage of human lactoferrin, and bovine lactoferrin, and sequenced by automated Edman degradation. The antimicrobial sequence was found to consist mainly of a loop of 18 amino acid residues formed by a disulfide bond between cysteine residues 20 and 37 of human lactoferrin, or 19 and 36 of bovine lactoferrin. Synthetic analogs of this region similarly exhibited potent antibacterial properties. The active peptide of bovine lactoferrin was more potent than that of human lactoferrin having effectiveness against various Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria at concentrations between 0.3 microM and 3.0 microM, depending on the target strain. The effect of the isolated domain was lethal causing a rapid loss of colony-forming capability. Our studies suggest this domain is the structural region responsible for the bacterial properties of lactoferrin.
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- W Bellamy
- Nutritional Science Laboratory, Morinaga Milk Industry Company Limited, Zama City, Japan
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Effect of lysozyme on glucose fermentation, cytoplasmic pH, and intracellular potassium concentrations in Streptococcus mutans 10449. Infect Immun 1991; 59:638-44. [PMID: 1987080 PMCID: PMC257805 DOI: 10.1128/iai.59.2.638-644.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Several previous findings have suggested that the cationic nature of lysozyme is a major factor in its bactericidal activity. Since a number of cationic proteins or peptides have been reported to cause membrane damage in bacteria, we investigated the effect of lysozyme on glucose fermentation and intracellular pH and K+ in Streptococcus mutans under conditions in which lysis does not occur. Results showed that lysozyme and poly-D-lysine (PDL) cause inhibition of glucose fermentation at pH 5.5 in a dose-dependent manner. Human placental lysozyme and hen egg-white lysozyme exhibited similar inhibitory potency on glucose fermentation. Both lysozyme and PDL caused a marked acidification of the cytoplasm of S. mutans. However, when cytoplasmic pH was examined as a function of fermentation rate, the relationship was similar regardless of the presence or absence of lysozyme or PDL. Therefore, acidification of the cytoplasm appeared to not depend specifically on lysozyme or PDL. In contrast, the same relationship between the profound loss of intracellular K+, when fermenting cells were exposed to either lysozyme or PDL, and the fermentation rate was not exhibited in the controls. These results indicate that lysozyme and PDL specifically affected the ability of the cells to maintain intracellular K+. We concluded that lysozyme and PDL indeed perturb membrane function, perhaps in a selective manner. Furthermore, the similarity in action of lysozyme and the cationic homopolypeptide PDL supports the notion that the cationic property of lysozyme indeed plays a significant role in its antibacterial activity.
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