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Sánchez R, Karow M, Schichor C, Masserdotti G, Ortega F, Heinrich C, Gascón S, Khan M, Lie D, Dellavalle A, Cossu G, Goldbrunner R, Götz M, Berninger B. ISDN2012_0255: Direct conversion of pericyte‐derived cells of the adult human brain into functional neurons. Int J Dev Neurosci 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2012.10.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- R. Sánchez
- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
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- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
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- Tumor Biology LabNeurosurgical ClinicKlinikum der Universität München, GroßhadernMarchioninistrasse 15D‐81377MunichGermany
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- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
- Institute for Stem Cell ResearchNational Research Center for Environment and HealthIngolstädter Landstrasse 1D‐85764NeuherbergGermany
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- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
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- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
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- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
- Institute for Stem Cell ResearchNational Research Center for Environment and HealthIngolstädter Landstrasse 1D‐85764NeuherbergGermany
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- Research GroupAdult Neural Stem Cells and NeurogenesisInstitute of Developmental GeneticsNational Research Center for Environment and HealthIngolstädter Landstrasse 1D‐85764NeuherbergGermany
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- Research GroupAdult Neural Stem Cells and NeurogenesisInstitute of Developmental GeneticsNational Research Center for Environment and HealthIngolstädter Landstrasse 1D‐85764NeuherbergGermany
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- Division of Regenerative MedicineSan Raffaele Scientific Institute58 via OlgettinaMilan20132Italy
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- Division of Regenerative MedicineSan Raffaele Scientific Institute58 via OlgettinaMilan20132Italy
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- Tumor Biology LabNeurosurgical ClinicKlinikum der Universität München, GroßhadernMarchioninistrasse 15D‐81377MunichGermany
- Center for NeurosurgeryUniversity Hospital of CologneKerpener Strasse 62D‐50937CologneGermany
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- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
- Institute for Stem Cell ResearchNational Research Center for Environment and HealthIngolstädter Landstrasse 1D‐85764NeuherbergGermany
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- Department of Physiological GenomicsInstitute of PhysiologyLudwig‐Maximilians University MunichSchillerstrasse 46D‐80336MunichGermany
- Institute for Stem Cell ResearchNational Research Center for Environment and HealthIngolstädter Landstrasse 1D‐85764NeuherbergGermany
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Bagella S, Gascón S, Caria M, Sala J, Boix D. Cross-taxon congruence in Mediterranean temporary wetlands: vascular plants, crustaceans, and coleopterans. COMMUNITY ECOL 2011. [DOI: 10.1556/comec.12.2011.1.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Carnicer R, Guillén N, Arbonés-Mainar J, Mourelle M, Arnal C, Navarro M, Barranquero C, Gascón S, Osada J. Abstract: P478 NITRIC OXIDE-RELEASING AGENT, LA419, REDUCES ATHEROGENESIS IN APOLIPOPROTEIN E DEFICIENT MICE. ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPP 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1567-5688(09)70773-1] [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: 10/20/2022]
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Martínez-Jarreta B, Monsó E, Gascón S, Casalod Y, Abecia E, Kolb S, Reichert J, Radon K. e-Learning strategies in occupational legal medicine based on problems solving through “CASUS” system. Leg Med (Tokyo) 2009; 11 Suppl 1:S313-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.02.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2008] [Revised: 02/04/2009] [Accepted: 02/05/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Gascón S, Sobrado M, Roda JM, Rodríguez-Peña A, Díaz-Guerra M. Excitotoxicity and focal cerebral ischemia induce truncation of the NR2A and NR2B subunits of the NMDA receptor and cleavage of the scaffolding protein PSD-95. Mol Psychiatry 2008; 13:99-114. [PMID: 17486105 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4002017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [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: 11/09/2022]
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The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) is central to physiological and pathological functioning of neurons. Although promising results are beginning to be obtained in the treatment of dementias, clinical trials with NMDAR antagonists for stroke, trauma and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Hungtinton's disease, have failed before. In order to design effective therapies to prevent excitotoxic neuronal death, it is critical to characterize the consequences of excessive NMDAR activation on its expression and function. Previous data have reported partial downregulation of the NR1 and NR2B receptor subunits in response to excitotoxicity and cerebral ischemia. However, the effect of NMDAR overactivation on NR2A, a subunit fundamental to synaptic transmission and neuronal survival, is still elusive. In this study, we report the rapid and extensive proteolytic processing of NR2A, together with the scaffolding protein postsynaptic density-95 (PSD-95), induced by excitotoxic stimulation of cortical neurons in vitro and by transient focal cerebral ischemia. Processing of the C terminus of NR2A is irreversibly induced by brief agonist exposure of NR2B-containing receptors, and requires calcium influx and the activity of calpain, also responsible for PSD-95 cleavage. The outcome is a truncated NR2A subunit that is stable and capable to interact with NR1 at the surface of neurons, but lacking the structural domains required for association with scaffolding, downstream signaling and cytoskeletal proteins. Therefore, a rapid and significant uncoupling of synaptic NMDARs from downstream survival pathways is expected to occur during ischemia. This novel mechanism induced by excitotoxicity helps to explain the failure of most therapies based on NMDAR antagonists.
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- S Gascón
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Arturo Duperier, Madrid, Spain
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Ruiz Moral R, Aguado C, Amian M, Baena F, Bueno JM, Fernández Fernández MJ, Fernández MA, Fernández JA, Gascón S, Gavira J, González Lama J, Hidalgo A, López Casaseca C, Martínez de la Iglesia J, Merino J, Mínguez J, Muñoz M, Ortega Millán C, Pérula de Torres L, Del Pozo R, Ruiz Moruno J, Serrano P, Sierra Duque F, Yun A. [Pilot study for the inclusion of the portfolio of the family medicine specialist book in training]. Aten Primaria 2007; 39:479-83. [PMID: 17919400 PMCID: PMC7659574 DOI: 10.1157/13109498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2006] [Accepted: 03/21/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Spanish Family Medicine National Commission is proposing a new portfolio-type Specialist Training Book (STB). OBJECTIVE To pilot its contents, structure, and implementation strategies. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING A Provincial Family Medicine Teaching Unit. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-eight tutors and 36 residents. METHODS For 9 months the participants conducted a training assessment on diverse areas of competence by means of tasks at work. Tutors recorded information on the quality of reflection achieved by residents and the tasks they performed by means of the card model proposed in the STB. Residents filled in an ad hoc survey. A univariate analysis of quantitative data was conducted. RESULTS Thirty-three surveys were received from residents; 21 tutors handed in 67 evaluation reports (average: 3 per tutor). They dealt with all the areas of competence, particularly those of communication, teaching, and ethics. Tasks most used were clinical sessions, critical incidents and video-recording. Both tutors and residents thought that the new method could be useful for reflecting on clinical practice, understanding their own areas of competence better and for strengthening the tutor-trainee relationship, especially if some suggestions to improve its practical use and reduce time and effort involved were taken into account. CONCLUSIONS The new STB in its current version or with some modifications is a useful tool for residents' training assessment and is probably accepted well in our ambit.
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- Roger Ruiz Moral
- Unidad Docente de Medicina de Familia de Córdoba, Blanco Soler 4, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.
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García Campayo J, Martínez Jarreta B, Alda Díez M, Gascón S. [The "false mobbing" syndrome: difficulties of diagnosis in primary care]. Aten Primaria 2005; 35:269-70. [PMID: 15802117 PMCID: PMC8207894 DOI: 10.1157/13072795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Figuerola I, Gascón S. [The Lazaretto of Barcelona (1709-1823)]. Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) 2001; 44:60-1. [PMID: 11618718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- I Figuerola
- Unitat d'Historia de la Farmacia, Facultat de Farmacia, Barcelona, Espana
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Asensi V, Parra F, Fierer J, Valle E, Bordallo C, Rendueles P, Gascón S, Carton JA, Maradona JA, Arribas JM. Bactericidal effect of ADP and acetic acid on Bacillus subtilis. Curr Microbiol 1997; 34:61-6. [PMID: 8939804 DOI: 10.1007/s002849900145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Bacillus subtilis is a ubiquitous soil bacterium used for measuring the beta-lysin activity and in other bioassays. We observed a complete bactericidal effect of ADP on B. subtilis at concentrations of 50-100 microM at pH values <5.5, which disappeared at pH values above 6. The effect was also found for acetic acid at concentrations >17.4 microM and similar pH values. ATP, adenosine, and HCl were not bactericidal. We used BCECF-AM, a pH-sensitive probe, and found that the killing of B. subtilis was due to a change in the intracellular pH caused by the passage across the cell membrane of these weak organic acids when incubated with B. subtilis at pH values near the pK. More experiments are needed to determine the biological meaning of these in vitro findings.
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- V Asensi
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Covadonga Hospital, Oviedo University Medical School, Calle Celestino Villamil s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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Sallés J, Gascón S, Badia A. Sustained increase in rat myocardial alpha 1A-adrenoceptors induced by 6-hydroxydopamine treatment involves a decelerated receptor turnover. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 1996; 353:408-16. [PMID: 8935707 DOI: 10.1007/bf00261437] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The biochemical mechanisms involved in the alpha 1-adrenoceptor up-regulation and possible changes in subtypes of adrenoceptors in the rat heart after chemical denervation were investigated. The effects of acute 6-hydroxydopamine treatment (two increasing doses 24 h apart) on the pseudo-steady state densities and turnover rates of alpha 1-adrenoceptors were studied in ventricular myocardium of the rat. We have assessed the repopulation kinetics of [3H]prazosin binding sites after irreversible inactivation of alpha 1-adrenoceptors induced by a single dose of phenoxybenzamine (1 mg/kg i.p.) in rats acutely treated either with 6-hydroxy-dopamine or with vehicle (control animals). Seven days after the last administration of 6-hydroxydopamine an enhanced density of [3H]prazosin binding sites (Bmax 58.7 +/- 3.6 fmol/mg protein vehicle-treated rats versus 82.6 +/- 5.3 fmol/mg protein 6-hydroxydopamine-treated rats) was observed. This was not accompanied by changes in the dissociation constant value. Furthermore, the proportion of high affinity sites for WB-4101 was altered (21 +/- 2% versus 72 +/- 3% for animals treated with vehicle and 6-hydroxydopamine, respectively). In rat myocardium, alpha 1-adrenoceptor turnover, evaluated during the 6-hydroxydopamine-induced up-regulation (7-19 days after the completion of treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine) revealed an increase in the half-life of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor (t1/2 of 67.2 h versus 38.7 h in control animals). The present study confirms an increase in alpha 1-adrenoceptors in rat myocardium after chemical denervation and reveals that the effect is almost completely confined to the alpha 1A-adrenoceptor subtype. Furthermore, the up-regulation of alpha 1A-adrenoceptors is the result of a decrease in the cellular processes that control the rate of receptor degradation.
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- J Sallés
- Departament de Farmacologia i Psiquiatria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, Spain
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The rate of recovery of rat myocardial alpha 1-adrenoceptor density and responsiveness after in vivo block with phenoxybenzamine (1 mg/kg, i.p.) have been investigated by measuring [3H]prazosin binding, and noradrenaline-stimulated [3H]inositol phosphate production. Repopulation of alpha 1-adrenoceptors was monoexponential, with a t1/2 of 33 h; functional recovery was also monoexponential, with t1/2 of 28 h. Furthermore, our results clearly demonstrate the absence of a receptor reserve for alpha 1-adrenoceptors mediating noradrenaline-stimulated phosphoinositide breakdown in rat myocardial tissue. These observations indicate a close relationship between the density of [3H]prazosin binding sites and the ability of alpha 1-adrenoceptors to respond to noradrenaline. Moreover, based on competition curves for inhibition of specific [3H]prazosin by WB-4101 to rat myocardial membranes 48 h and 7 days after the administration of phenoxybenzamine, the results suggest that rat myocardial membranes contain both alpha 1-adrenoceptors subtypes, i.e., alpha 1A and alpha 1B, in an approximate ratio of 20:80, and this relative ratio does not seem to be altered during the recovery process.
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- J Sallés
- Departament de Farmacologia i Psiquiatria, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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The effects of ageing on alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes have been examined in heart ventricular muscle of young (2-3 months) and middle-aged (18 months) Sprague-Dawley rats. Radioligand binding studies with [3H]prazosin revealed an age-related loss of binding sites (Bmax 56.7 +/- 1.93 fmol (mg protein)-1 age 2 months vs 31.7 +/- 2.45 fmol (mg protein)-1 age 18 months) not followed by changes in the dissociation constant value (Kd 0.16 +/- 0.03 nM age 2 months and 0.10 +/- 0.03 nM age 18 months). Competition curves with WB 4101 showed two distinct sites with different affinities, the proportion of sites with high affinity being similar for both age groups (22.2 +/- 1.89% vs 17.8 +/- 1.96% for animals aged 2 and 18 months, respectively). Agonist displacement curves of [3H]prazosin indicate the existence of two different affinity sites for the agonist, that are maintained regardless of the ageing process (R(high) = 16.2 +/- 1.54% and R(low) = 83.8 +/- 1.89% in rats aged 2 months and R(high) = 16.3 +/- 3.23% and R(low) = 83.7 +/- 3.95% in rats aged 18 months). The fractional inactivation of alpha 1-adrenoceptors by chloroethylclonidine resulted in a loss of [3H]prazosin specific binding, and a percentage of 22.5 +/- 0.95 and 22.6 +/- 4.2 of remaining binding sites for the groups of 2 and 18 months of age, respectively. The percentage of chloroethylclonidine-insensitive [3H]prazosin binding sites was similar to those with high affinity for WB4101. The present study confirms a decline of alpha 1-adrenoceptors with increasing age and reveals that the equilibrium of the expression of the two existing subpopulations of the receptor is maintained during ageing.
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- S Gascón
- Departament de Farmacologia i Psiquiatria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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To study potential cardiac alpha 1-adrenoceptor changes in the stage of established hypertension, [3H]prazosin binding characteristics and norepinephrine (NE) stimulated production of inositol phosphates in the ventricular tissue of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and age-matched Wistar-Kyoto control rats (WKY) were determined. The maximum number of cardiac [3H]prazosin binding sites was significantly reduced in SHR as compared with WKY rats, but the Kd values were similar in both groups of animals. Distribution of the [3H]prazosin-labeled high- and low-affinity binding sites for WB 4101 was similar in SHR and WKY rats. Pretreatment of ventricular heart membranes with the irreversible alpha 1B-adrenoceptor-selective antagonist chloroethylclonidine resulted in the same percentage of loss of specific [3H]prazosin binding in both groups of rats. Together, these results showed a similar ratio of alpha and alpha 1B-adrenoceptor subtypes in SHR and WKY rats. In addition, [3H]inositol phosphate accumulation in response to cardiac alpha 1-adrenoceptor stimulation by NE was significantly reduced in SHR as compared with WKY rats although the EC50 values were not significantly different in the two strains of animals. Thus, we conclude that in an established stage of hypertension there is a specific loss in the number of cardiac alpha 1-adrenoceptors with consequently reduced inositol phosphate turnover. These results are compatible with the reported decrease in the positive inotropic effect mediated through myocardial alpha 1-adrenoceptors in spontaneous hypertension.
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- D Ivorra
- Departament de Farmacologia i Psiquiatria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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Fernández MT, Zitko V, Gascón S, Torreblanca A, Novelli A. Neurotoxic effect of okadaic acid, a seafood-related toxin, on cultured cerebellar neurons. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1993; 679:260-9. [PMID: 8099773 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1993.tb18306.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- M T Fernández
- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
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Novelli A, Fernández-Sánchez MT, Kispert J, Torreblanca A, Gascón S, Zitko V. The amnesic shellfish poison domoic acid enhances neurotoxicity by excitatory amino acids in cultured neurons. Amino Acids 1992; 2:233-44. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00805945] [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] [Received: 08/20/1991] [Accepted: 09/20/1991] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A group of 11 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) raised against transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) was used to study the antigenic structure of the virus nucleoprotein (N). To identify the regions recognized by MAbs, DNA fragments derived from the N-coding region of the TGEV strain FS772/70 were cloned into pUR expression plasmids and the antigenicity of the resulting fusion proteins was analyzed by immunoblotting. A major antigenic domain was identified, covering the first 241 amino acid residues of N, within which an epitope (residues 57-117) was also found. A second antigenic domain extended from residues 175 to 360 of the nucleoprotein, within which a subsite was characterized within the region covering residues 241-349. MAb DA3 recognized a linear epitope which mapped within residues 360 and 382 at the carboxy terminus of the nucleoprotein. The binding of the majority of the MAbs (8 out of 11) to large fusions, but not to smaller fragments included in them, suggests a conformational dependence of the MAb binding sites. Our data show that the use of fusions in Western blot experiments is a useful approach to map not only linear epitopes but more complex antigenic structures found in the nucleoprotein of the TGEV.
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- J M Martín Alonso
- Departamento de Biología Funcional (Area de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
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Dierssen M, Màrmol F, Vivas NM, Clos MV, Gascón S, Badia A. Acute effects of tetrahydroaminoacridine on beta-adrenoceptor-linked cyclic AMP accumulation in brain of young and middle-aged rats. Neurosci Lett 1991; 132:51-4. [PMID: 1724070 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(91)90431-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The effects of acute treatment with 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-9-aminoacridine (THA), a 4-aminopyridine derivative clinically effective in Alzheimer's disease, on beta-adrenoceptor-linked cyclic AMP accumulation have been investigated in cortical and hippocampal structures of young and middle-aged rats. In a first series of experiments, pretreatment with 2.5 mg/kg THA decreased basal cyclic AMP accumulation. When a phosphodiesterase inhibitor was added to the preparation, THA again decreased cyclic AMP levels in young rats, but failed to significantly modify cyclic AMP accumulation in middle-aged animals. Finally, in isoprenaline-stimulated conditions, acute treatment with tacrine was able to diminish cyclic AMP accumulation in every group of rats. It is suggested that the neurochemical action of THA in mammalian brain is more complex than earlier has been anticipated and may involve an action on beta-adrenoceptors.
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- M Dierssen
- Departament de Farmacologia i Psiquiatria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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A Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomic DNA encoding vacuolar carboxypeptidase yscS was cloned from a yeast YEp13 library by complementation of the previously characterized mutation cps1-1 [(1981) J. Bacteriol. 147, 418-426], by means of staining carboxypeptidase activity in yeast colonies. The nucleotide sequence of the cloned gene was determined. The open reading frame of CPS1 consists of 576 codons and therefore encodes a protein of 64961 molecular weight. A stretch of 19 residues near the N-terminus of the deduced polypeptide sequence contains characteristics common to known hydrophobic leader sequences. CPS1 was determined by DNA blot analysis to be a single copy gene located on chromosome X. The cloned fragment was used to identify a 2.1 kb mRNA. A transcriptional activation of CPS1 occurs when cells grow on a substrate of carboxy-peptidase yscS as sole nitrogen source.
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- J Bordallo
- Departamento de Biología Functional, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
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The tumor promoter okadaic acid (OKA), is a marine toxin of algal origin, identified as a potent inhibitor of protein phosphatases 1 and 2A, and possibly enhancing calcium influx through voltage dependent calcium channels (VSSC). We now report that OKA at concentrations as low as 0.5 nM produced neurotoxicity, characterized first by the desintegration of the neurites and swelling of cell bodies, and later by cellular death. Non-neuronal cells viability and morphology were unaffected up to at least 5 nM OKA. Neurons sensitivity to the toxin changed with age in culture. Maximum neurotoxicity was observed in neurons at 9 DIC, when the OKA concentration producing half of the maximum reduction in neuronal survival (EC50) was approximately 0.65 nM. At 5 DIC or 19 DIC (EC50 approximately 2.5 nM and approximately 4.5 nM respectively), neurons appeared to be less sensitive to OKA. Neurotoxicity by OKA was not reduced by VSCC antagonists such as nifedipine and verapamil, nor by antagonists of excitatory aminoacid (EAA) receptors including APV, MK801 or CNQX. VSCC antagonists and EAA receptors antagonists fully protected from neurotoxicity induced by depolarization with KCl. These results suggest that OKA mechanism of neurotoxicity may not directly involve VSCC, endogenous EAA release and EAA receptors, but may depend upon other neurochemical events.
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- M T Fernández
- Dept. Functional Biology, School of Medicine, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain
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A reversible carbon catabolite inactivation step is described for isocitrate lyase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This reversible inactivation step of isocitrate lyase is similar to that described for fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase. Addition of 2,4-dinitrophenol, nystatin or glucose to cultures, grown in ethanol as carbon source, caused a rapid loss of the isocitrate lyase and fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase activities at pH 5.5 but not at pH 7.5. These results suggest that intracellular acidification and thus a cAMP increase is involved in the catabolite inactivation mechanism of both enzymes. From results obtained by addition of glucose to yeast cultures at pH 7.5 it was concluded that others factors than cAMP can play a role in the catabolite inactivation mechanism of both enzymes.
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Protein kinase C activity has been identified in cytosolic and membrane fractions from rat and rabbit small intestine epithelial cells. The cytosolic fraction comprised about the 75% of total activity. Protein kinase C activity was resolved from other protein kinase activities by ion exchange chromatography. Phosphatidylserine or phosphatidylinositol were required for protein kinase C to be active. In addition, the activity was enhanced by the presence of a diacylglycerol. Diolein and dimyristin were the most effective (13-14 fold activation). In the presence of phosphatidylserine and diolein, the Ka for activation by Ca2+ was 10(-7)M. The phorbol ester TPA substituted for diacylglycerol in activating protein kinase C. Brush border and basolateral membranes contained protein kinase C activity, although the specific activity of the basal lateral membranes was four-fold higher than the specific activity of the brush border membranes. The presence of PKC in small intestine epithelial cells might have important implications in the Ca2+ mediated control of ionic transport in this tissue.
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In a previous paper (Cármenes et al., 1984) we reported that UDP-glucose 4-epimerase from Saccharomyces was inactivated both in vivo and in vitro (crude extracts) by L-arabinose or D-xylose. In this paper, we report that pure epimerase requires the presence of UMP or UDP to be inactivated by sugars and that the inactivation is due to the reduction of the epimerase NAD+, which is essential for epimerase activity. The inactivation rate is directly proportional to epimerase and sugar concentrations and hyperbolically proportional to UMP concentration. In situ experiments made with permeabilized cells showed that epimerase is inactivated in the same way when it is inside the cell. In vivo studies showed that epimerase is inactivated to a smaller extent when 1% D-galactose is present in the culture medium than when 1% ethanol is the main carbon source.
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- R S Cármenes
- Departamento Interfacultativo de Bioquímica, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
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It has been reported that the addition of glucose, uncouplers and nystatin to yeast cells grown in a sugarfree medium causes trehalase activation; it has been postulated that this activation might be mediated by the depolarization of the plasma membrane. In this article the values of membrane potential and pH gradient across the plasma membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been determined under the same conditions as those in which trehalase is activated. Membrane potential was evaluated from the distribution of triphenylmethylphosphonium, the pH gradient from the distribution of benzoic acid across the plasma membrane. When the effect of several agents on the two components of the electrochemical proton gradient across the plasma membrane of ethanol-grown yeast cells were studied, under trehalase activation conditions, the following observations were made. (a) The addition of glucose activated trehalase and caused internal acidification of the cells, but had practically no effect on the membrane potential. (b) The addition of 200 mM KCl depolarized the cell membrane but did not affect the internal pH, nor trehalase activity. (c) Although carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone depolarized the cells at external pH 6.0 and 7.0, it only activated trehalase at an external pH 6.0, leading to the acidification of the internal medium at this pH. (d) Nystatin caused an increase in the triphenylmethylphosphonium accumulation at external pH 6.0 and 7.0, but only activated trehalase at external pH 6.0, causing acidification of the cell interior at this pH. (e) Activation of trehalase was also observed when the internal acidification was caused by addition of a weak acid such as acetate. It is concluded that trehalase activation is mediated by an intracellular acidification and is independent of the membrane potential.
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de la Peña P, Barros F, Gascón S, Ramos S, Lazo PS. The electrochemical proton gradient of Saccharomyces. The role of potassium. Eur J Biochem 1982; 123:447-53. [PMID: 6281011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1982.tb19788.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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de la Peña P, Barros F, Gascón S, Lazo PS, Ramos S. Effect of yeast killer toxin on sensitive cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1981; 256:10420-5. [PMID: 7026560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Killer toxin from Saccharomyces cerevisiae inhibited the pumping of protons into the medium by metabolically active sensitive cells. Such inhibition coincided with that of the uptake of potassium ions which are thought to be accumulated by yeast cells in order to neutralize the membrane potential created because of the extrusion of protons. The consumption of glucose, however, was identical in killer-treated and untreated cells. These alterations can be explained by the ability of the toxin to reduce the chemical proton gradient across the plasma membrane as measured by the accumulation of the weak permeable [14C]propionic acid. With this method, an internal pH of 6.42 was calculated from normal cells (the external pH was 4.6) while that of toxin-treated cells was decreased as a function of time. The proton concentration gradient was reduced from 66- to 17-fold. It is shown that the toxin-induced alteration of the proton gradient is due to an enhanced proton permeability of the yeast plasma membrane upon binding of the toxin. It is suggested that killer toxin acts as a macromolecular proton conductor similar in some respects to the known proton conductors 2,4-dinitrophenol and carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, since all the described effects are also observed with these substances.
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Bavros F, Del Le Peña P, Gascón S, Ramos S, Lazo PS. Cholera toxin induces changes in the ion permeability of intestinal brush border membranes. Biochim Biophys Acta 1981; 644:143-6. [PMID: 7260066 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(81)90069-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Cholera toxin can alter the ion permeability of brush border membrane vesicles from rabbit small intestine. This alteration is reflected by differences in membrane potential-stimulated, Na-dependent, D-[3H]glucose transport by these vesicles, as well as by an enhancement in the accumulation of the lipophilic cation [3H]tetraphenylphosphonium in response to an artificially imposed membrane potential. Analogous effects were observed when the intact tissue was treated with the toxin and the vesicles subsequently obtained. An important implication of this finding is that cholera toxin does not need to activate adenylate cyclase to induce permeability changes in the cell membrane since the experiments were carried out in conditions where neither ATP nor cyclic AMP was present.
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Flórez IG, Lazo PS, Ochoa AG, Gascón S. The specificity of induction of alpha-galactosidase from Saccharomyces carlsbergensis. Biochim Biophys Acta 1981; 674:71-7. [PMID: 6263348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A number of sugars and derivatives have been tested for their ability to induce the synthesis of alpha-galactosidase from Saccharomyces carlsbergensis. Besides galactose and the substrates of the enzyme melibiose, raffinose and stachyose, D-galacturonic acid, L-arabinose, D-tagatose, methyl-alpha-D-galactoside, lactose and isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside were able to act as inducers. Of these, methyl-alpha-D-galactoside, lactose, isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside and L-arabinose have been shown to be gratuitous inducers with which kinetic studies of induction have been carried out. Lactose was the most efficient inducer, giving a maximal differential rate of synthesis of the enzyme of 110 mU/10(7) cells at a concentration of 180 mM, followed by L-arabinose (60 mU/10(7) cells at 40 mM), isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside (43 mU/10(7) cells at 60 mM) and methyl-alpha-D-galactoside (25 mU/10(7) cells at 150 mM). The concentration of inducer required to obtain half-maximal induction was similar for lactose, L-arabinose and isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside and about 5-fold higher for methyl-alpha-D-galactoside. The property of the compounds to act as inducers was compared to their ability to interact with the enzyme and the results discussed in terms of the molecular structures which are recognized by the enzyme and by the induction machinery.
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Lazo PS, Ochoa AG, Gascón S. alpha-Galactosidase (melibiase) from Saccharomyces carlsbergensis: structrual and kinetic properties. Arch Biochem Biophys 1978; 191:316-24. [PMID: 216315 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(78)90094-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The molecular forms of yeast invertase have been studied. It is shown that by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 it is possible to demonstrate the presence not only of a light, carbohydrate-free, invertase, and a heavy invertase containing 50% carbohydrate, but also of a continuous spectrum of molecular forms that probably represent the sequential addition of mannose to the light form during the secretion process, which culminates in the formation on the heavy enzyme that is found outside the cytoplasmic membrane. The elution volume-void volume ratio in Sephadex G-200 varies from 1.75 of the light to 1.05 of the heavy invertase. The separation of invertase has also been achieved by ion-exchange chromatography and by isoelectric focusing and is facilitated by removal of the heavy form by ammonium sulphate precipitation. During the protoplasting process the removal of the cell wall is accompanied by the loss of most of the heavy form. Thintermediate forms are exclusively detected inside the protoplast, together with the light invertase and a small amount of heavy invertase. The effect of 2-deoxy-D-glucose and cycloheximide on the biosynthesis and distribution of molecular forms of yeast invertase has also been studied. In the presence of 10 mM glucose Saccharomyces 303-67 repressed cells readily synthesize invertase during the two-hour incubation period. Upon the addition of 2-deoxy-D-glucose, at a concentration of 75 mu g/ml, the observed inhibition in the cells is 60%, but if the activity is measured after breaking the cells, only a 31% inhibition is found, revealing an accumulation of invertase inside the protoplast. 2-Deoxy-D-glucose originates a pile-up of the light and intermediate forms at the expense of the formation of the heavy enzyme, showing that the inhibition of the glycosilation and, therefore, the secretion process, has taken place. In the absence of de novo invertase synthesis originated by cycloheximide, the glycosilation process still takes place as indicated by the accumulation of the heavy form at the expense of the light, carbohydrate-free, enzyme.
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Gascón S. [Influence of prostaglandin E1 in the hormonal control of lipolysis in birds]. Rev Esp Fisiol 1971; 27:69-72. [PMID: 5565760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Gascón S, Lampen JO. Purification of the internal invertase of yeast. J Biol Chem 1968; 243:1567-72. [PMID: 5647272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Gascón S, Neumann NP, Lampen JO. Comparative study of the properties of the purified internal and external invertases from yeast. J Biol Chem 1968; 243:1573-7. [PMID: 4967422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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