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Sampietro M, Cassina V, Salerno D, Barbaglio F, Buglione E, Marrano CA, Campanile R, Scarfò L, Biedenweg D, Fregin B, Zamai M, Díaz Torres A, Labrador Cantarero V, Ghia P, Otto O, Mantegazza F, Caiolfa VR, Scielzo C. The Nanomechanical Properties of CLL Cells Are Linked to the Actin Cytoskeleton and Are a Potential Target of BTK Inhibitors. Hemasphere 2023; 7:e931. [PMID: 37492437 PMCID: PMC10365208 DOI: 10.1097/hs9.0000000000000931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is an incurable disease characterized by an intense trafficking of the leukemic cells between the peripheral blood and lymphoid tissues. It is known that the ability of lymphocytes to recirculate strongly depends on their capability to rapidly rearrange their cytoskeleton and adapt to external cues; however, little is known about the differences occurring between CLL and healthy B cells during these processes. To investigate this point, we applied a single-cell optical (super resolution microscopy) and nanomechanical approaches (atomic force microscopy, real-time deformability cytometry) to both CLL and healthy B lymphocytes and compared their behavior. We demonstrated that CLL cells have a specific actomyosin complex organization and altered mechanical properties in comparison to their healthy counterpart. To evaluate the clinical relevance of our findings, we treated the cells in vitro with the Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors and we found for the first time that the drug restores the CLL cells mechanical properties to a healthy phenotype and activates the actomyosin complex. We further validated these results in vivo on CLL cells isolated from patients undergoing ibrutinib treatment. Our results suggest that CLL cells' mechanical properties are linked to their actin cytoskeleton organization and might be involved in novel mechanisms of drug resistance, thus becoming a new potential therapeutic target aiming at the normalization of the mechanical fingerprints of the leukemic cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marta Sampietro
- School of Medicine and Surgery, BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
- Unit of Malignant B cells biology and 3D modelling, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
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- Unit of Malignant B cells biology and 3D modelling, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
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- Unit B Cell Neoplasia, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
- Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
- Strategic Research Program on CLL, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Klinik für Innere Medizin B, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Fleischmannstr, Germany
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- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung e.V., Standort Greifswald, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Fleischmannstr, Germany
- Zentrum für Innovationskompetenz: Humorale Immunreaktionen bei kardiovaskulären Erkrankungen, Universität Greifswald, Fleischmannstr, Germany
- Institute of Physics, Universität Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse, Germany
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit B Cell Neoplasia, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
- Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
- Strategic Research Program on CLL, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung e.V., Standort Greifswald, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Fleischmannstr, Germany
- Zentrum für Innovationskompetenz: Humorale Immunreaktionen bei kardiovaskulären Erkrankungen, Universität Greifswald, Fleischmannstr, Germany
- Institute of Physics, Universität Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse, Germany
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
- Experimental Imaging Center, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Malignant B cells biology and 3D modelling, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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Portela M, Jimenez-Carretero D, Labrador V, Andreu MJ, Arza E, Caiolfa VR, Manzanares M. Chromatin dynamics through mouse preimplantation development revealed by single molecule localisation microscopy. Biol Open 2022; 11:275915. [PMID: 35876820 PMCID: PMC9346283 DOI: 10.1242/bio.059401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Most studies addressing chromatin behaviour during preimplantation development are based on biochemical assays that lack spatial and cell-specific information, crucial during early development. Here, we describe the changes in chromatin taking place at the transition from totipotency to lineage specification, by using direct stochastical optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM) in whole-mount embryos during the first stages of mouse development. Through the study of two post-translational modifications of Histone 3 related to active and repressed chromatin, H3K4me3 and H3K9me3 respectively, we obtained a time-course of chromatin states, showing spatial differences between cell types, related to their differentiation state. This analysis adds a new layer of information to previous biochemical studies and provides novel insight to current models of chromatin organisation during the first stages of development. SUMMARY: We have applied super-resolution microscopy to analyse changes in the state of chromatin during the first stages of mouse development, from the two-cell stage to the blastocyst.
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- Marta Portela
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Madrid 28049, Spain.,Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Bioinformatics Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain.,Center for Experimental Imaging, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan 20132, Italy
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Madrid 28049, Spain.,Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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Barbaglio F, Belloni D, Scarfò L, Sbrana FV, Ponzoni M, Bongiovanni L, Pavesi L, Zambroni D, Stamatopoulos K, Caiolfa VR, Ferrero E, Ghia P, Scielzo C. Three-dimensional co-culture model of chronic lymphocytic leukemia bone marrow microenvironment predicts patient-specific response to mobilizing agents. Haematologica 2021; 106:2334-2344. [PMID: 32732361 PMCID: PMC8409046 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2020.248112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) cells disseminate into supportive tissue microenvironments. To investigate the mechanisms involved in leukemic cell tissue retention we developed a 3D bone marrow (BM) microenvironment that recreates CLL - BM-stromal cells interactions inside a scaffold within a bioreactor. Our system allows the parallel analysis of CLL cells retained inside the scaffold and those released in the presence/absence of pharmacological agents, mimicking tissue and circulating cell compartments, respectively. CLL cells can be retained within the scaffold only in the presence of microenvironmental elements, which through direct contact down-regulate the expression of HS1 cytoskeletal protein in CLL cells. Consist with this, the expression of HS1 was lower in CLL cells obtained from patients' BM versus CLL cells circulating in the PB. Moreover, we demonstrate that CLL cells with inactive-HS1, impaired cytoskeletal activity and a more aggressive phenotype are more likely retained within the scaffold despite the presence of Ibrutinib, whose mobilizing effect is mainly exerted on those with active-HS1, ensuing dynamic cytoskeletal activity. This differential effect would not otherwise be assessable in a traditional 2D system and may underlie a distinctive resistance of single CLL clones. Notably, CLL cells mobilized in the peripheral blood of patients during Ibrutinib therapy exhibited activated HS1, underscoring that our model reliably mirrors the in vivo situation. The 3D model described herein is suitable to reproduce and identify critical CLL-BM interactions, opening the way to pathophysiological studies and the evaluation of novel targeted therapies in an individualized manner.
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- Federica Barbaglio
- IIRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Division of Experimental Oncology, Milan Italy
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Division of Experimental Oncology, Milan Italy
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Division of Experimental Oncology, Milan Italy
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Division of Experimental Oncology, Milan Italy
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Centre for Experimental Imaging, Milan Italy
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- Hematology Department and HCT Unit, G. Papanicolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Centre for Experimental Imaging, Milan Italy
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Division of Experimental Oncology, Milan Italy
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Division of Experimental Oncology, Milan Italy
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- IRCCS, Ospedale San Raffaele, Division of Experimental Oncology, Milan Italy
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Sampietro M, Zamai M, Díaz Torres A, Labrador Cantarero V, Barbaglio F, Scarfò L, Scielzo C, Caiolfa VR. 3D-STED Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Distinct Nanoscale Organization of the Hematopoietic Cell-Specific Lyn Substrate-1 (HS1) in Normal and Leukemic B Cells. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:655773. [PMID: 34277604 PMCID: PMC8278786 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.655773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
HS1, the hematopoietic homolog of cortactin, acts as a versatile actin-binding protein in leucocytes. After phosphorylation, it is involved in GTPase and integrin activation, and in BCR, TCR, and CXCR4 downstream signaling. In normal and leukemic B cells, HS1 is a central cytoskeletal interactor and its phosphorylation and expression are prognostic factors in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients. We here introduce for the first time a super-resolution imaging study based on single-cell 3D-STED microscopy optimized for revealing and comparing the nanoscale distribution of endogenous HS1 in healthy B and CLL primary cells. Our study reveals that the endogenous HS1 forms heterogeneous nanoclusters, similar to those of YFP-HS1 overexpressed in the leukemic MEC1 cell line. HS1 nanoclusters in healthy and leukemic B cells form bulky assemblies at the basal sides, suggesting the recruitment of HS1 for cell adhesion. This observation agrees with a phasor-FLIM-FRET and STED colocalization analyses of the endogenous MEC1-HS1, indicating an increased interaction with Vimentin at the cell adhesion sites. In CLL cells isolated from patients with poor prognosis, we observed a larger accumulation of HS1 at the basal region and a higher density of HS1 nanoclusters in the central regions of the cells if compared to good-prognosis CLL and healthy B cells, suggesting a different role for the protein in the cell types analyzed. Our 3D-STED approach lays the ground for revealing tiny differences of HS1 distribution, its functionally active forms, and colocalization with protein partners.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marta Sampietro
- Malignant B Cells Biology and 3D Modeling Unit, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.,Nanomedicine Center NANOMIB, School of Medicine and Surgery, Università di Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.,Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Malignant B Cells Biology and 3D Modeling Unit, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- B-Cell Neoplasia Unit and Strategic Research Program on CLL, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.,School of Medicine, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Malignant B Cells Biology and 3D Modeling Unit, Division of Experimental Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.,Experimental Imaging Center, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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Zamai M, Trullo A, Arza E, Cavallaro U, Caiolfa VR. Oligomerization Dynamics of Cell Surface Receptors in Living Cells by Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy Combined with Number and Brightness Analysis. J Vis Exp 2019. [PMID: 31762461 DOI: 10.3791/60398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite the importance and ubiquity of receptor oligomerization, few methods are applicable for detecting clustering events and measuring the degree of clustering. Here, we describe an imaging approach to determine the average oligomeric state of mEGFP-tagged-receptor homocomplexes in the membrane of living cells. The protocol is based on Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy combined with Number and Brightness (N&B) analysis. N&B is a method similar to fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and photon counting histogram (PCH), which are based on the statistical analysis of the fluctuations of the fluorescence intensity of fluorophores diffusing in and out of an illumination volume during an observation time. In particular, N&B is a simplification of PCH to obtain information on the average number of proteins in oligomeric mixtures. The intensity fluctuation amplitudes are described by the molecular brightness of the fluorophore and the average number of fluorophores within the illumination volume. Thus, N&B considers only the first and second moments of the amplitude distribution, namely, the mean intensity and the variance. This is, at the same time, the strength and the weakness of the method. Because only two moments are considered, N&B cannot determine the molar fraction of unknown oligomers in a mixture, but it only estimates the average oligomerization state of the mixture. Nevertheless, it can be applied to relatively small time series (compared to other moment methods) of images of live cells on a pixel-by-pixel basis, simply by monitoring the time fluctuations of the fluorescence intensity. It reduces the effective time-per-pixel to a few microseconds, allowing acquisition in the time range of seconds to milliseconds, which is necessary for fast oligomerization kinetics. Finally, large cell areas as well as sub-cellular compartments can be explored.
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- Moreno Zamai
- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain;
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- Centro di Imaging Sperimentale, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Gynecological Oncology Research, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain; Centro di Imaging Sperimentale, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy;
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Zamai M, Trullo A, Giordano M, Corti V, Arza Cuesta E, Francavilla C, Cavallaro U, Caiolfa VR. Number and brightness analysis reveals that NCAM and FGF2 elicit different assembly and dynamics of FGFR1 in live cells. J Cell Sci 2019; 132:jcs.220624. [PMID: 30478195 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.220624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Both fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF2) and neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) trigger FGF receptor 1 (FGFR1) signaling; however, they induce remarkably distinct receptor trafficking and cellular responses. The molecular basis of such a dichotomy and the role of distinct types of ligand-receptor interaction remain elusive. Number of molecules and brightness (N&B) analysis revealed that FGF2 and NCAM promote different FGFR1 assembly and dynamics at the plasma membrane. NCAM stimulation elicits long-lasting cycles of short-lived FGFR1 monomers and multimers, a behavior that might reflect a rapid FGFR1 internalization and recycling. FGF2, instead, induces stable dimerization at the dose that stimulates cell proliferation. Reducing the occupancy of FGFR1 in response to low FGF2 doses causes a switch towards cyclically exposed and unstable receptor dimers, consistently with previously reported biphasic response to FGF2 and with the divergent signaling elicited by different ligand concentrations. Similar instability was observed upon altering the endocytic pathway. Thus, FGF2 and NCAM induce differential FGFR1 clustering at the cell surface, which might account for the distinct intracellular fate of the receptor and, hence, for the different signaling cascades and cellular responses.
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Affiliation(s)
- Moreno Zamai
- Centro di Imaging Sperimentale (CIS), Ospedale San Raffaele, IRCCS, Milan 20132, Italy.,Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Centro di Imaging Sperimentale (CIS), Ospedale San Raffaele, IRCCS, Milan 20132, Italy
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- Unit of Gynecological Oncology Research, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan 20141, Italy
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- Centro di Imaging Sperimentale (CIS), Ospedale San Raffaele, IRCCS, Milan 20132, Italy
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- Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Division of Molecular and Cellular Functions, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Unit of Gynecological Oncology Research, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan 20141, Italy
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- Centro di Imaging Sperimentale (CIS), Ospedale San Raffaele, IRCCS, Milan 20132, Italy .,Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid 28029, Spain
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Bello-Arroyo E, Roque H, Marcos A, Orihuel J, Higuera-Matas A, Desco M, Caiolfa VR, Ambrosio E, Lara-Pezzi E, Gómez-Gaviro MV. MouBeAT: A New and Open Toolbox for Guided Analysis of Behavioral Tests in Mice. Front Behav Neurosci 2018; 12:201. [PMID: 30245618 PMCID: PMC6137138 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Animal behavioral tests are essential to understand the bases of neurologic and psychological disorders, which can be evaluated by different methodological and experimental models. However, the quantification of behavioral tests results is limited by the considerable amount of time needed for manual evaluation and the high costs of automated analysis software. To overcome these limitations, we describe here a new, open source toolbox for ImageJ, called Mouse Behavioral Analysis Toolbox (MouBeAT), designed to analyze different behavioral tests in rodents semi-automatically. These tests include Open Field (OF), Elevated Plus Maze (EPM), Y-maze (YM) test and Morris Water Maze (MWM). MouBeAT showed a high correlation with manual evaluation in all the parameters analyzed for all the behavioral tests, reinforcing its value as an accurate analysis tool. This new tool is freely available online.
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- Unidad de Microscopía e Imagen Dinámica, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicobiología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicobiología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicobiología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Experimental, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.,Departamento de Bioingeniería e Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, Spain.,Unidad de Imagen Avanzada, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Microscopía e Imagen Dinámica, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.,Ospedale San Raffaele, Centro di Immagine Sperimentale, Milan, Italy
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- Departamento de Psicobiología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain.,National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Experimental, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain
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Menzian MC, Cocchi M, De Benedetti PG, Gilbert RG, Richards WG, Zamai M, Caiolfa VR. A theoretical study of the structure of big endothelin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/jcp/1991882687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Zaldo C, Serrano MD, Han X, Cascales C, Cantero M, Montoliu L, Arza E, Caiolfa VR, Zamai M. Efficient up-conversion in Yb:Er:NaT(XO4)2 thermal nanoprobes. Imaging of their distribution in a perfused mouse. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0177596. [PMID: 28542327 PMCID: PMC5436681 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Yb and Er codoped NaT(XO4)2 (T = Y, La, Gd, Lu and X = Mo, W) disordered oxides show a green (Er3+ related) up-conversion (UC) efficiency comparable to that of Yb:Er:β-NaYF4 compound and unless 3 times larger UC ratiometric thermal sensitivity. The similar UC efficiency of Yb:Er doped NaT(XO4)2 and β-NaYF4 compounds allowed testing equal subcutaneous depths of ex-vivo chicken tissue in both cases. This extraordinary behavior for NaT(XO4)2 oxides with large cutoff phonon energy (ħω≈ 920 cm-1) is ascribed to 4F9/2 electron population recycling to higher energy 4G11/2 level by a phonon assisted transition. Crystalline nanoparticles of Yb:Er:NaLu(MoO4)2 have been synthesized by sol-gel with sizes most commonly in the 50-80 nm range, showing a relatively small reduction of the UC efficiency with regards to bulk materials. Fluorescence lifetime and multiphoton imaging microscopies show that these nanoparticles can be efficiently distributed to all body organs of a perfused mouse.
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- Carlos Zaldo
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICMM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICMM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICMM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICMM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Celular, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
- CIBERER, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Celular, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
- CIBERER, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Microscopía e Imagen Dinámica, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Microscopía e Imagen Dinámica, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
- Centro di Imaging Sperimentale, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
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- Unidad de Microscopía e Imagen Dinámica, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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Cohen A, Lerner-Yardeni J, Meridor D, Zamai M, Caiolfa VR, Kasher R, Nathan I, Parola AH. The Mechanism of Inhibition of Necrosis by Humanin Derivatives: A Potential Treatment for Ischemia and Related Diseases. Biophys J 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.11.847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Trullo A, Corti V, Arza E, Caiolfa VR, Zamai M. Application limits and data correction in number of molecules and brightness analysis. Microsc Res Tech 2013; 76:1135-46. [PMID: 23934660 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.22277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2013] [Revised: 07/01/2013] [Accepted: 07/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Number of molecules and Brightness (N&B) has been proposed for measuring the molecular brightness and number of fluorophores in time-sequence of images, in live cells. If the fluorescently tagged-proteins are mobile in the illumination volume, the stoichiometry of their oligomers can be derived from the increase of the brightness of the fluorescent dyes due to clustering. We examine aspects concerning extra-fluctuation effects induced by cell shifts and photobleaching, which yield large overestimates of the clusters size and sub-unit counts. We develop an offline corrective approach consisting in frame re-alignment and boxcar filtering for recovering precision of the analysis. Using simulations we derive general criteria for approaching this analysis, and assess the application limits of the corrective procedure. We tested the approach in extreme experimental conditions (few pixels, large extra-variance perturbations), in which we analyzed the minimal increases of brightness as that expected between a monomeric and dimeric GPI-mEGFP constructs. We show how most of the perturbing effects can be abolished, and obtain the correct the brightness of GPI-mEGFP monomers and dimers.
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- Antonio Trullo
- Experimental Imaging Centre, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Vascular Biology and Inflammation Department, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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Hellriegel C, Caiolfa VR, Corti V, Sidenius N, Zamai M. Number and brightness image analysis reveals ATF-induced dimerization kinetics of uPAR in the cell membrane. FASEB J 2011; 25:2883-97. [PMID: 21602447 DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-181537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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We studied the molecular forms of the GPI-anchored urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR-mEGFP) in the human embryo kidney (HEK293) cell membrane and demonstrated that the binding of the amino-terminal fragment (ATF) of urokinase plasminogen activator is sufficient to induce the dimerization of the receptor. We followed the association kinetics and determined precisely the dimeric stoichiometry of uPAR-mEGFP complexes by applying number and brightness (N&B) image analysis. N&B is a novel fluctuation-based approach for measuring the molecular brightness of fluorophores in an image time sequence in live cells. Because N&B is very sensitive to long-term temporal fluctuations and photobleaching, we have introduced a filtering protocol that corrects for these important sources of error. Critical experimental parameters in N&B analysis are illustrated and analyzed by simulation studies. Control experiments are based on mEGFP-GPI, mEGFP-mEGFP-GPI, and mCherry-GPI, expressed in HEK293. This work provides a first direct demonstration of the dimerization of uPAR in live cells. We also provide the first methodological guide on N&B to discern minor changes in molecular composition such as those due to dimerization events, which are involved in fundamental cell signaling mechanisms.
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- Christian Hellriegel
- Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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Barreiro O, Zamai M, Yáñez-Mó M, Tejera E, López-Romero P, Monk PN, Gratton E, Caiolfa VR, Sánchez-Madrid F. Endothelial adhesion receptors are recruited to adherent leukocytes by inclusion in preformed tetraspanin nanoplatforms. J Exp Med 2008. [DOI: 10.1084/jem20512oia27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Barreiro O, Zamai M, Yáñez-Mó M, Tejera E, López-Romero P, Monk PN, Gratton E, Caiolfa VR, Sánchez-Madrid F. Endothelial adhesion receptors are recruited to adherent leukocytes by inclusion in preformed tetraspanin nanoplatforms. J Cell Biol 2008; 183:527-42. [PMID: 18955551 PMCID: PMC2575792 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200805076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2008] [Accepted: 09/09/2008] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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VCAM-1 and ICAM-1, receptors for leukocyte integrins, are recruited to cell-cell contact sites on the apical membrane of activated endothelial cells. In this study, we show that this recruitment is independent of ligand engagement, actin cytoskeleton anchorage, and heterodimer formation. Instead, VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 are recruited by inclusion within specialized preformed tetraspanin-enriched microdomains, which act as endothelial adhesive platforms (EAPs). Using advanced analytical fluorescence techniques, we have characterized the diffusion properties at the single-molecule level, nanoscale organization, and specific intradomain molecular interactions of EAPs in living primary endothelial cells. This study provides compelling evidence for the existence of EAPs as physical entities at the plasma membrane, distinct from lipid rafts. Scanning electron microscopy of immunogold-labeled samples treated with a specific tetraspanin-blocking peptide identify nanoclustering of VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 within EAPs as a novel mechanism for supramolecular organization that regulates the leukocyte integrin-binding capacity of both endothelial receptors during extravasation.
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- Olga Barreiro
- Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Malengo G, Andolfo A, Sidenius N, Gratton E, Zamai M, Caiolfa VR. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and photon counting histogram on membrane proteins: functional dynamics of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored urokinase plasminogen activator receptor. J Biomed Opt 2008; 13:031215. [PMID: 18601539 PMCID: PMC2718687 DOI: 10.1117/1.2940570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The oligomerization of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins is thought to regulate their association with membrane microdomains, subcellular sorting, and activity. However, these mechanisms need to be comprehensively explored in living, unperturbed cells, without artificial clustering agents, and using fluorescent protein-tagged chimeras that are fully biologically active. We expressed in human embryo kidnay 293 (HEK293) cells a biologically active chimera of the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR), the uPAR-mEGFP-GPI. We also produced HEK293/D2D3-mEGFP-GPI cells expressing the truncated form of the receptor, lacking biological activity. We studied the dynamics and oligomerization of the two proteins, combining fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and photon counting histogram (PCH) analyses, and using subclones with homogenously low expression levels. Overall, the mobile fractions of the two proteins, constituted by monomers and dimers, had comparable diffusion coefficients. However, the diffusion coefficient decreased in monomer-enriched fractions only for the active receptor, suggesting that uPAR monomers might be preferentially engaged in multiprotein transmembrane signaling complexes. Our approach helps in limiting the alteration of the data due to out-of-focus effects and in minimizing the overestimation of the molecular brightness. In addition to a careful design of the cellular model, it gives reliable estimates of diffusion coefficients and oligomerization of GPI-anchored proteins, in steady-state conditions, at low expression levels, and in live, unperturbed cells.
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- Gabriele Malengo
- Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
- Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
- IFOM, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano, Italy
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- Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
- Italian Institute of Technology Network Research, Unit of Molecular Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
- Italian Institute of Technology Network Research, Unit of Molecular Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
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Digman MA, Caiolfa VR, Zamai M, Gratton E. The phasor approach to fluorescence lifetime imaging analysis. Biophys J 2008; 94:L14-6. [PMID: 17981902 PMCID: PMC2157251 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.120154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 695] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2007] [Accepted: 09/17/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Changing the data representation from the classical time delay histogram to the phasor representation provides a global view of the fluorescence decay at each pixel of an image. In the phasor representation we can easily recognize the presence of different molecular species in a pixel or the occurrence of fluorescence resonance energy transfer. The analysis of the fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) data in the phasor space is done observing clustering of pixels values in specific regions of the phasor plot rather than by fitting the fluorescence decay using exponentials. The analysis is instantaneous since is not based on calculations or nonlinear fitting. The phasor approach has the potential to simplify the way data are analyzed in FLIM, paving the way for the analysis of large data sets and, in general, making the FLIM technique accessible to the nonexpert in spectroscopy and data analysis.
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Caiolfa VR, Zamai M, Malengo G, Andolfo A, Madsen CD, Sutin J, Digman MA, Gratton E, Blasi F, Sidenius N. Monomer dimer dynamics and distribution of GPI-anchored uPAR are determined by cell surface protein assemblies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 179:1067-82. [PMID: 18056417 PMCID: PMC2099195 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200702151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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To search for functional links between glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) protein monomer–oligomer exchange and membrane dynamics and confinement, we studied urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) receptor (uPAR), a GPI receptor involved in the regulation of cell adhesion, migration, and proliferation. Using a functionally active fluorescent protein–uPAR in live cells, we analyzed the effect that extracellular matrix proteins and uPAR ligands have on uPAR dynamics and dimerization at the cell membrane. Vitronectin directs the recruitment of dimers and slows down the diffusion of the receptors at the basal membrane. The commitment to uPA–plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1–mediated endocytosis and recycling modifies uPAR diffusion and induces an exchange between uPAR monomers and dimers. This exchange is fully reversible. The data demonstrate that cell surface protein assemblies are important in regulating the dynamics and localization of uPAR at the cell membrane and the exchange of monomers and dimers. These results also provide a strong rationale for dynamic studies of GPI-anchored molecules in live cells at steady state and in the absence of cross-linker/clustering agents.
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- Valeria R Caiolfa
- Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, Unit of Molecular Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milano, Italy.
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Zamai M, Hariharan C, Pines D, Safran M, Yayon A, Caiolfa VR, Mariani M, Pines E, Cohen-Luria R, Parola AH. Interaction between basic fibroblast growth factor and the anti-angiogenic drug PNU145156E. J Mol Struct 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.03.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Agresti A, Scaffidi P, Riva A, Caiolfa VR, Bianchi ME. GR and HMGB1 interact only within chromatin and influence each other's residence time. Mol Cell 2005; 18:109-21. [PMID: 15808513 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2004] [Revised: 01/14/2005] [Accepted: 03/08/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Most nuclear proteins reside on a specific chromatin site only for seconds or less. The hit-and-run model of transcriptional control maintains that transcription complexes are assembled in a stochastic fashion from freely diffusible proteins; this contrasts to models involving stepwise assembly of stable holo complexes. However, the chances of forming a productive complex improve if the binding of one factor promotes the binding of its interactors. We prove here that in living cells, the glucocorticoid receptor and HMGB1 interact only within chromatin and not in the nucleoplasm and decrease each other's mobility. Thus, the formation of a GR-HMGB1-chromatin complex is more likely than one would expect from independent binding to chromatin of GR and HMGB1. Remarkably, this complex is potentially stable, and its disassembly is effected by active, ATP-consuming processes. We propose that kinetic cooperativity among transcription factors in chromatin binding may be a common feature in transcription and DNA transactions.
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Chirico G, Collini M, Olivini F, Zamai M, Frigerio E, Caiolfa VR. Aggregation properties of a HPMA-camptothecin copolymer in isotonic solutions. Biophys Chem 2004; 110:281-95. [PMID: 15228964 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2004.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2004] [Revised: 03/02/2004] [Accepted: 03/05/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Copolymers of camptothecin (CPT) and [N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide] (HPMA) are novel anticancer drugs that show improved pharmacological profile in animal models as compared to the free drug CPT. We investigate here the aggregation properties of a HPMA-glycyl-6-aminohexanoyl-glycyl-CPT copolymer ( approximately 20,000 Da). The molecular size of HPMA-copolymer CPT is followed over 5 orders of magnitudes of concentration in isotonic buffer by measuring either the time resolved fluorescence anisotropy (FA) of CPT or the autocorrelation function of the light scattered by the copolymer. A detailed analysis of these data suggests the presence of elongated structures with axial ratio approximately 3 in the range 0.1-0.5 microg/ml and aggregates with association number higher than 2 in more concentrated solutions (up to 10 mg/ml). The binding affinity of HPMA-copolymer CPT for serum albumin is inversely dependent on the degree of aggregation of the copolymer. We also show that the copolymer concentration in plasma from mice treated with an active, non-toxic, dose of HPMA-copolymer CPT, decreases from 3 to 0.01 mg/ml in 72 h. In the same range of concentrations in vitro, we do not detect hydrophobic aggregates of polymers with high (>3) association number. Our study indicates that the circulating HPMA-copolymer CPT in mice should not undergo extensive aggregation and should interact with serum albumin more weakly than free CPT.
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- Giuseppe Chirico
- Department of Physics, Università di Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milan, Italy.
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Zamai M, VandeVen M, Farao M, Gratton E, Ghiglieri A, Castelli MG, Fontana E, D'Argy R, Fiorino A, Pesenti E, Suarato A, Caiolfa VR. Camptothecin poly[n-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide] copolymers in antitopoisomerase-I tumor therapy: intratumor release and antitumor efficacy. Mol Cancer Ther 2003; 2:29-40. [PMID: 12533670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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Soluble copolymers of camptothecin (CPT), based on poly[N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide] (pHPMA), were obtained by conjugation through the degradable spacers -Gly-Phe-Leu-Gly- or -Gly-6-aminohexanoyl-Gly-. We investigated to what extent passive accumulation and retention of hydroxypropyl methacrylamide copolymer of CPT (pHPMA-CPT) in tumors and modulation of the drug release influence efficacy. Release of CPT in vivo was detected by time-resolved phase-shift fluorescence imaging on tumor specimens, based on the evidence that free and bound drug had different fluorescence lifetimes in solution. HT-29 murine specimens, obtained at several times after treatment with (3)H-labeled free CPT, pHPMA-Gly-Phe-Leu-Gly-CPT, or pHPMA-Gly-6-aminohexanoyl-Gly-CPT, were either imaged for time-resolved phase-shift fluorescence or subjected to autoradiography. Phase shifts of CPT conjugates were equal or longer than those of free CPT, indicating the presence of both free and polymer-bound drug in the tumor, in agreement with autoradiograms. pHPMA-Gly-Phe-Leu-Gly-CPT underwent relevant intratumor hydrolysis during the first 24 h, whereas the hydrolysis of pHPMA-Gly-6-aminohexanoyl-Gly-CPT was slow. The latter showed antitumor activity at doses from 10 to 22.5 mg/kg/day against s.c. HT-29, A2780, M14, and A549 s.c. xenografts. Moreover, inhibition of tumor growth lasted for up to 73-88 days, and cures were observed on mice with orthotopic implanted HT-29; pHPMA-Gly-Phe-Leu-Gly-CPT was 2-fold more potent than pHPMA-Gly-6-aminohexanoyl-Gly-CPT but less tolerated. Our data suggest that the efficacy of pHPMA-CPT copolymers is related to their intratumor accumulation, and in vivo properties of releasing CPT by esterolytic and proteolytic degradation.
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- Moreno Zamai
- Discovery Research Oncology, Pharmacia Corporation, 20014 Nerviano (MI), Italy.
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Zamai M, Hariharan C, Pines D, Safran M, Yayon A, Caiolfa VR, Cohen-Luria R, Pines E, Parola AH. Nature of Interaction between basic fibroblast growth factor and the antiangiogenic drug 7,7-(carbonyl-bis[imino-N-methyl-4,2-pyrrolecarbonylimino[N-methyl-4,2-pyrrole]-carbonylimino])-bis-(1,3-naphtalene disulfonate). II. Removal of polar interactions affects protein folding. Biophys J 2002; 82:2652-64. [PMID: 11964252 PMCID: PMC1302054 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(02)75607-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Fibroblast growth factor-2 (basic FGF), a potent inducer of angiogenesis, and the naphthalene sulfonic distamycin A derivative, 7,7-(carbonyl-bis[imino-N-methyl-4,2-pyrrolecarbonylimino[N-methyl-4,2-pyrrole]-carbonylimino])-bis-(1,3-naphtalene disulfonate) (PNU145156E), which exhibits in vivo antiangiogenic activity, form a tight reversible (1:1) complex. PNU145156E binds to the heparin and the selenate-binding sites on bFGF. The cis bFGF-heparin (2:1) complex, essential for the activation of the angiogenic process, is thus prevented. The nature of the forces involved in bFGF:PNU145156E complex, using the wild-type and the K128Q, K138Q, K134Q, and K128Q-K138Q point mutated bFGFs was sought. Based on thermodynamic analysis of the complexation constants, protein temperature stability profiles by ultraviolet absorption, circular dichroism measurements, fluorescence Förster energy-transfer, and anisotropy studies, in harmony with the published x-ray crystallographic structure, the following molecular interactions are proposed: reduced coulombic interactions, hence loosening of the complex by the removal of charged polar groups from the bFGF-heparin binding cleft resulted in decreased binding constants and in a change in the binding mode from polar to nonpolar. Concomitantly, upon mutation, the protein was rendered more compact, less flexible, and less aqueously exposed compared with the wild type. These were further pronounced with the double mutant: weaker dominantly nonpolar protein-drug interactions were accompanied by conspicuous folding. With heparin, however, wild-type bFGF forms a tighter complex with a more compact structure.
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- Moreno Zamai
- Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
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Knapp S, Zamai M, Volpi D, Nardese V, Avanzi N, Breton J, Plyte S, Flocco M, Marconi M, Isacchi A, Caiolfa VR. Thermodynamics of the high-affinity interaction of TCF4 with beta-catenin. J Mol Biol 2001; 306:1179-89. [PMID: 11237626 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The formation of a complex between beta-catenin and members of the TCF/LEF family of high-mobility group proteins is a key regulatory event in the wnt-signaling pathway, essential for embryonal development as well as the growth of normal and malignant colon epithelium. We have characterized the binding of TCF4 to human beta-catenin by steady-state intrinsic fluorescence quenching experiments, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Binding studies in solution and in heterogeneous phase showed that TCF4 binds reversibly to beta-catenin with an affinity (KB) of 3(+/-1) 10(8) M(-1). Site-directed mutagenesis, together with calorimetric measurements, revealed that residue D16 in TCF4 plays a crucial role in high-affinity binding. Mutation of this residue to alanine resulted in a decrease of KB by two orders of magnitude as well as a significant reduction in binding enthalpy. Binding of TCF4 to beta-catenin gave rise to a large negative enthalpy change at 25 degrees C (-29.7 kcal/mol). Binding enthalpies were strongly temperature dependent, which resulted in the determination of a large heat capacity change upon binding of -1.5 kcal/(mol K). The molecular events that take place upon complex formation are discussed using the measured thermodynamic data together with the crystal structure of the beta-catenin arm repeat region/TCF complex.
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- S Knapp
- Department of Structural Chemistry, Pharmacia Corporation, Discovery Research Oncology, Nerviano, Italy.
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Caiolfa VR, Zamai M, Fiorino A, Frigerio E, Pellizzoni C, d'Argy R, Ghiglieri A, Castelli MG, Farao M, Pesenti E, Gigli M, Angelucci F, Suarato A. Polymer-bound camptothecin: initial biodistribution and antitumour activity studies. J Control Release 2000; 65:105-19. [PMID: 10699275 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-3659(99)00243-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Camptothecin (CPT) is a potent, antitumour drug acting mainly through inhibition of topoisomerase I during the S-phase of the cell cycle. Despite its impressive antitumour activity, clinical development was halted for unpredictable toxic events. Two soluble N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymers were synthesised to contain CPT (5 wt.% and 10 wt.%). CPT was covalently linked at its alpha-hydroxyl group to the polymers through a Gly-Phe-Leu-Gly- spacer. In-vitro, CPT-conjugates were fairly resistant to hydrolysis in plasma as in buffer at neutral pH (0.2-0. 4% free CPT/h), while elastase and cysteine-proteases were able to release the active drug. Plasma levels in mice after intravenous administration of CPT-conjugates confirmed the modest hydrolysis in plasma. Plasma levels were approximately 5-fold lower than those observed at the highest tolerated dose of CPT administered in classical vehicles. Biodistribution in HT29 human colon carcinoma bearing mice was carried out after i.v. injection of [3H]CPT-conjugate and free [3H]CPT. Radioactivity uptake in tumour was evident only after [3H]CPT-conjugate treatment. Repeated intravenous administration of CPT-conjugates to HT29-bearing mice gave more than 90% tumour inhibition, some complete tumour regressions and no toxic deaths. The improved pharmacological profile on HT29 human colon carcinoma xenografts of the first poly(HPMA)-CPT conjugates might be ascribed to their prolonged intra-tumour retention and sustained release of the active drug.
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- V R Caiolfa
- Discovery Research Oncology, Pharmacia & Upjohn, V.le Pasteur 10, 20014, Nerviano, Italy.
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Parola AH, Caiolfa VR, Ben-Shooshan I, Cohen-Luria R. Regulatory role of adenosine deaminase complexing protein (dipeptidyl peptidase IV = CD26) on the malignancy marker adenosine deaminase: Effect of membrane cholesterol and phase-transition. Drug Dev Res 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/1098-2299(200007/08)50:3/4<537::aid-ddr37>3.0.co;2-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Zamai M, Caiolfa VR, Pines D, Pines E, Parola AH. Nature of interaction between basic fibroblast growth factor and the antiangiogenic drug 7,7-(Carbonyl-bis[imino-N-methyl-4, 2-pyrrolecarbonylimino[N-methyl-4,2-pyrrole]-carbonylimino] )bis-(1, 3-naphthalene disulfonate). Biophys J 1998; 75:672-82. [PMID: 9675169 PMCID: PMC1299742 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(98)77557-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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PNU145156E (7,7-(carbonyl-bis[imino-N-methyl-4, 2-pyrrolecarbonylimino[N-methyl-4,2-pyrrole]-carbonylimino]) -bis-(1, 3-naphthalene disulfonate)) is a naphthalene sulfonic distamycin A derivative that interacts with heparin-binding growth factors. Because PNU145156E inhibits tumor angiogenesis, it was selected for clinical development. Picosecond time-resolved fluorescence emission and anisotropy were used to characterize the binding of PNU145156E to the basic fibroblast growth factor (a protein associated with tumor angiogenesis). A decrease in PNU145156E fluorescence lifetime was observed as a function of human basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) concentration. Nonlinear least-squares fitting of the binding isotherm yielded Kd = 145 nM for a single class of binding sites. Time-resolved anisotropy gave Kd = 174 nM. Kd = 150 nM was independently verified by quantitative high-performance affinity chromatography. The displaced volume of the complex, calculated from its rotational correlation time, fitted a sphere of 1:1 stoichiometry. These results account for the formation of a tight yet reversible PNU145156E:bFGF complex. An evaluation of PNU145156E fluorescence lifetimes in various solvents has highlighted the forces involved in stabilizing the complex. These are mostly electrostatic-hydrophobic in nature, with a relatively low contribution from hydrogen bonding. Both polar and nonpolar groups are involved on the protein-binding site within a largely hydrophobic cleft. A potential binding trajectory, based on a combination of these results with site-directed chemical modification and known bFGF x-ray structure, is suggested.
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- M Zamai
- Department of Oncology, Preclinical Research, Pharmacia & Upjohn, 20014 Nerviano, Milan, Italy
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The adenine analog erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine, EHNA, a tight reversible inhibitor (KI = 1.6 x 10(-9) M) of adenosine deaminase (EC 3.5.4.4) (ADase), was modified into the fluorescent etheno derivative epsilon-EHNA. The latter is a competitive inhibitor of adenosine deaminase [KI = (2.80 +/- 0.01)10(-6) M], having the fluorescent properties of epsilon-adenines. Affinity to the active site, monitored by both steady-state and dynamic fluorescence polarization, was confirmed by competition experiments with 2'-deoxycoformycin, the substrate adenosine and EHNA. The epsilon-adenine moiety of epsilon-EHNA librates at the shallow active site of ADase. The low absorptivity of epsilon-EHNA required the measurement of fluorescence excitation spectra. Computer subtraction of fluorescence excitation spectrum of ADase from that of its equimolar complex with epsilon-EHNA revealed the corrected excitation spectrum of epsilon-EHNA at the active site of the enzyme. This spectrum mimics that of epsilon-EHNA at pH 5.5 in buffer solution, implying its protonation at the active site of the enzyme. These results are in agreement with the presence of acidic amino acids that are essential to the catalytic mechanism.
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- V R Caiolfa
- Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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The conversion of big endothelin to endothelin by alpha-chymotrypsin was determined by following its single Trp fluorescence polarization. This provides a novel, simple, fast, and sensitive identifying assay in the search for a native endothelin-converting enzyme.
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- S Hazan
- Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Zamai M, Caiolfa VR. Sequence-directed recognition peptides: inhibition of endothelin generation via a substrate-depletion mechanism. Biochim Biophys Acta 1993; 1202:337-40. [PMID: 8399398 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(93)90025-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Sequence-directed recognition peptides (SDRPs) were constructed on the basis of their hydropathic complementarity for big-endothelin (bigET). These peptides can inhibit in vitro the proteolytic cleavage that generates endothelin (ET) from its bigET precursor. Comparison of dissociation constants of the complexes SDRP:bigET with kinetic constants obtained for the cleavage of bigET by alpha-chymotrypsin (taken as a model proteinase) provides evidence of the potential of SDRPs. This is a novel application of SDRPs used as inhibitors of a proteolytic reaction.
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- M Zamai
- Research Laboratories, Farmitalia-Carlo Erba, Milano, Italy
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Fabbrini MS, Vitale A, Pedrazzini E, Nitti G, Zamai M, Tamburin M, Caiolfa VR, Patrono C, Benatti L. In vivo expression of mutant preproendothelins: hierarchy of processing events but no strict requirement of Trp-Val at the processing site. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:3923-7. [PMID: 8483912 PMCID: PMC46418 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.9.3923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a 21-residue vasoconstrictor peptide, originates in human cells from a 212-amino acid precursor (preproET-1). Big ET-1, an intermediate form of 38 amino acids, is generated by cleavage at basic-pair residues of proET-1, while a specific "ET-converting enzyme" was proposed to process the unusual Trp-Val site at positions 21 and 22 of big ET-1. We have previously shown that expression of synthetic RNA encoding human preproET-1 in Xenopus oocytes results in secretion of putative ET-1 and big ET-1. Here, to further dissect the processing pathway of preproET-1, we designed and expressed in oocytes a set of preproET-1 mutants. Four mutants affecting the Trp-Val site always originated putative ET-1(s) at levels comparable to the wild type, suggesting that there is only a conformational requirement for cleavage at this site. An Arg-->Ile mutation at the basic-pair site after the C terminus of big ET-1 fully inhibited the formation of both big ET-1 and ET-1, indicating that processing at this site is an early event and that big ET-1 is an obligate intermediate for the synthesis of ET-1 in vivo. Also, a truncated mutant bearing a stop codon after the C terminus of the big ET-1 sequence was totally stable and further processed into mature big ET-1 and ET-1, indicating that the second part of the precursor is not necessary for maturation.
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- M S Fabbrini
- Istituto Biosintesi Vegetali, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy
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Benatti L, Cozzi L, Zamai M, Tamburin M, Vaghi F, Caiolfa VR, Fabbrini MS, Sarmientos P. Human preproendothelin-1 is converted into active endothelin-1 by baculovirus-infected insect cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1992; 186:753-9. [PMID: 1497664 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(92)90810-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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To investigate biochemical and biological parameters involved in preproendothelin-1 (preproET-1) maturation we infected Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf21) cells with a suitable engineered baculovirus vector carrying the cDNA encoding the entire human 212 amino acids precursor. Culture supernatants were tested by RIA using an anti-ET-1 serum, ET-1-like immunoreactive material (IRM) was detected in the infected Sf21 cells but not in control, wild-type or mock-infected cells. Fractionation of the culture supernatant by RP-HPLC coupled to an ET-1 specific RIA yielded two main peaks corresponding to the retention times of human bigET-1 and ET-1. Furthermore, culture supernatant of preproET-1 expressing Sf21 cells elicited a characteristic dose-response vasoconstrictive activity on rabbit vena cava, consistent with the amount of ET-1 as estimated by RP-HPLC coupled to RIA. These results suggest that insect cells possess the enzymatic activities necessary for human preproET-1 full maturation even though no such peptide has ever been found in insect cells.
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- L Benatti
- Biotechnology Department, Farmitalia Carlo Erba Research Laboratories, Nerviano, Italy
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Galvani AP, Zamai M, Nitti GP, Curatolo L, Ciavolella A, Caiolfa VR. Big endothelin-converting enzyme activities in subcellular fractions of bovine aortic endothelial cells. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1991; 17 Suppl 7:S47-51. [PMID: 1725415 DOI: 10.1097/00005344-199100177-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A combination of HPLC elution patterns and peptide sequencing has been used to characterize two distinct activities present in subcellular fractions of bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs) capable of converting human big endothelin-1 (big ET-1) to mature (ET-1). A pepstatin-inhibitable activity with an acidic pH optimum present in a lysosome-enriched fraction cleaved big ET-1 at positions 18 and 21 at similar rates. A neutral pH activity present in a postlysosomal organelles subfraction was also able to convert big ET-1, and was inhibited by EDTA, but not by 1-chloro-3-tosylamido-4-phenyl-2-butanone (TPCK), an inhibitor of chymotrypsin-like serine proteases.
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- A P Galvani
- Farmitalia Carlo Erba Research Laboratories, Milan, Italy
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Caiolfa VR, Gill D, Parola AH. The protonated form of 1-N6-etheno-[erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)] adenine is identified at the active site of adenosine deaminase. FEBS Lett 1990; 260:19-22. [PMID: 2153576 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80055-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A novel fluorescent competitive inhibitor of adenosine deaminase (EC 3.5.4.4) (ADA), 1-N6-etheno-[erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)] adenine (epsilon-EHNA), is protonated at the active site of the enzyme. In epsilon-EHNA [K1 = (4.06 +/- 1.00) 10(-6) M] part of the competitive inhibition of EHNA is combined with spectroscopic properties of etheno-adenines. Computer subtraction of the fluorescence excitation spectrum of ADA from that of its equimolar complex with epsilon-EHNA yielded the corrected excitation spectrum of epsilon-EHNA at the active site of the enzyme. This spectrum mimics that of epsilon-EHNA at pH 5.5 in buffer solution and is suggested to indicate a shift in protonation equilibrium at the active site.
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- V R Caiolfa
- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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The enzyme adenosine deaminase (adenosine aminohydrolase EC 3.5.4.4) from calf intestinal mucosa is commercially available at high purity grade yet, at the sensitivity at which fluorescence studies may be undertaken, a nonpeptidic fluorescence is detectable at lambda exmax = 350 nm and lambda emmax = 420 nm. A sevenfold decrease of this nonpeptidic fluorescence was obtained upon irradiation by the third harmonic (355 nm) of a Nd:YAG laser for 16 min, at 5 mJ/pulse, with a pulse width of 6 ns at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The decline of fluorescence was accompanied by a negligible loss of enzymatic activity. Moreover, the integrity of the protein was ascertained by (i) its fluorescence (lambda exmax = 305 nm, lambda emmax = 335 nm) and lifetime distribution and (ii) its kinetics in the presence of the substrate adenosine and two inhibitors, all of which remained essentially unaltered. Laser photobleaching is a simple way to achieve a fluorescence grade adenosine deaminase.
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- A H Parola
- Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Weisman MI, Caiolfa VR, Parola AH. Adenosine deaminase-complexing protein from bovine kidney. Isolation of two distinct subunits. J Biol Chem 1988; 263:5266-70. [PMID: 2895766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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We have isolated a complex of two proteins from bovine kidney that bind to adenosine deaminase immobilized on Sepharose 4B. One protein, with Mr = 110,000, comigrates on both PAGE and SDS-PAGE gels with complexing protein isolated from rabbit kidney by the method of Schrader et al. (Schrader, W.P., Harder, C. M., and Schrader, D. K. (1983) Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B Comp. Biochem. 75, 119-126). The second protein has a Mr = 70,000. Both proteins bind to the adenosine deaminase-Sepharose but not to a control resin of bovine serum albumin bound to Sepharose. Based on a comparison of partial and complete denaturation on SDS-PAGE the two proteins appear to be bound to each other. At adenosine concentrations of 0.5-1 mM the isolated complexing protein increases small subunit adenosine deaminase catalytic activity by 20-30%. There may be some inhibition of catalytic activity at low adenosine concentrations. We have designated the 110,000 Mr protein CP-I, the 70,000 Mr protein CP-II and the complex of these two CP.
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- M I Weisman
- Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Isreal
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