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Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) and cannabinoid receptors are G-protein coupled receptors which have shown synaptic co-operation through small lipid messengers in the central nervous system (CNS). A functional interaction between these two receptor families could have a relevant potential in the treatment of CNS disorder... |
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized clinically by resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability due to progressive and selective loss of dopamine neurons in the ventral substantia nigra, with the presence of ubiquitinated protein deposits called Lewy bodies in the neurons. The pathoetiology of c... |
While it is possible to interpret microarray experiments a single gene at a time, most studies generate long lists of differentially expressed genes whose interpretation requires the integration of prior biological knowledge. This prior knowledge is stored in various public and private databases and covers several aspe... |
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma) and retinoic acid X-receptor (RXR) heterodimer, which regulates cell growth and differentiation, represses the TGFbeta1 gene that encodes for the protein involved in cancer biology. This review will introduce the novel mechanism associated with the inhibition... |
Cholangiocarcinoma is a predominantly fatal cancer, which can be difficult to treat. It has been reported that the administration of pioglitazone temporarily improved not only diabetic control, but also bile duct carcinoma-induced cholangiohepatitis. Pioglitazone is considered to have both direct and indirect mechanism... |
Using free and immobilized whole cells of Pichia pastoris, the biocatalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol was investigated in different two-phase systems. This reaction was strongly influenced by both the substrate and product inhibitions, and the production rate of benzaldehyde in the aqueous system became maximum at th... |
For the commercial exploitation of lipase biocatalysis to be successful, it is essential that effective supports are selected for lipase immobilization. In this study hydrophobic controlled-pore glasses have been used as model systems for the immobilization of Rhizomucor miehei lipase. The effect of pore diameter and s... |
Water-in-oil microemulsion systems have been studied in recent years for a number of applications in protein separation and enzymology. Although it is well established that reversed micelle systems provide an excellent medium for nonaqueous biocatalytic studies, there is still much speculation as to the interaction of ... |
Although protein fractionation by selective membrane filtration has numerous potential applications in both the downstream processing of fermentation broths and the purification of plasma proteins, the selectivity for proteins with only moderately different molecular weights has generally been quite poor. We have obtai... |
Mixing solutions of polymers dissolved in chloroform resulted in turbid solutions that parted into two separate phases upon standing. Each phase consisted primarily of one of the two polymers and contained only small amounts of the other. An enzyme (alpha-chymotrypsin) added to the two-phase system partitioned preferen... |
The physicochemical mechanism of protease-catalyzed peptide synthesis in heterogenous etuectic mixtures of substrates has been examined by a combination of microscopic techniques. Using a number of model reactions of dipeptide amide synthesis, it was determined that liquid phase catalysis was mostly, if not exclusively... |
A systematic study of enzymatic peptide synthesis in heterogeneous substrate mixtures was carried out, with the aim of establishing the preparative scope of this methodology. Semiliquid eutectics were obtained with various combinations of neutral, acidic, and basic amino acid derivatives, in the presence or absence of ... |
The influence of the long chain alcohols, hexanol, octanol, and decanol, as cosurfactants of the reverse micellar system of tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide on the alpha-chymotrypsin-mediated AcPheLeuNH(2) synthesis was studied. The effect of temperature, buffer molarity, pH, and substrate concentration was also eva... |
The pathway of poly-beta-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) exhibits a mode of transcriptional control induced by environmental stress. A new cybernetic model for coordinated regulation of stress-induced metabolism was developed to predict the growth and the synthesis of PHB in Alcaligenes eutrophus. A plausible objective for t... |
Four proteins with different physicochemical properties have been partitioned in reversed micelle systems: thaumatin, ribonuclease A, soybean trypsin inhibitor, and alpha-lactalbumin. The organic phase was formed by sodium salt (AOT) in isooctane, and the aqueous phase contained KCl, KBr, MgCl(2), or NaCl. Aqueous phas... |
Subtilisin Carlsberg adsorbed on silica particles has been used to catalyze the transesterification of CBZ-Ala-ONp and CBZ-Leu-ONp with 1-butanol in organic systems preequilibrated to water activity of 0.93. Initial reaction rates are conveniently followed by extraction of the released nitrophenol into an alkaline aque... |
N-(Benzyloxycarbonyl)-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester (Z-AspPheOMe), a precursor of the aspartame, and N-(benzyloxycarbonyl)-L-phenylalanyl-Lphenylalanine methyl ester (Z-PhePheOMe) were synthesized from the respective amino acid derivatives with an immobilized thermolysin (EC 3.4.24.4) in ethyl acetate. Variou... |
N-(Benzyloxycarbonyl)-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester (Z-AspPheOMe), a precursor of the synthetic sweetner asparatame, was synthesized from N-(benzyloxycarbolyl)-L-aspartic acid (Z-Asp) and L-phenylalanine methyl ester (PheOMe) with an immobilized thermolysin in various organic solvents. We found that in tert-a... |
A dynamic model for two microbial species immobilized in a gel matrix is presented and validated with experiments. The model characterizes the nitrification of ammonia with Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter agilis co-immobilized in K-carrageenan gel beads. The model consists of kinetic equations for the microorgani... |
The production of ethanol from carob pod extract by free and immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells in batch and fed-batch culture was investigated. Fed-batch culture proved to be a better fermentation system for the production of ethanol than batch culture. In fed-batch culture, both free and immobilized S. cerevi... |
A new composite membrane was designed and studied for permselectivity of various molecular weight proteins. The membrane is composed of a porous substrate membrane [Durapore; poly(vinylidene fluoride)] coated with a thin dense layer of regenerated cellulose. This composite membrane was fabricated by spin coating a cell... |
Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy is used to characterize the active site dynamics of alpha-chymotrypsin solubilized in reversed micelles. Of particular interest is the behavior of the enzyme when the micellar system is subjected to enhanced gas pressures and low temperatures. At specific thermodynamic condi... |
An extracellular proteinase from Thermus strain Rt41A was immobilized to controlled pore glass (CPG) beads. The properties of the free and CPG-immobilized enzymes were compared using both a large (azocasein) and a small (peptidase) substrate. The specific activity of the immobilized proteinase was 5284 azoU/mg with azo... |
Lipases from Candida cyclindracea (L-1754) and wheat germ (L-3001) have been used to hydrolyze esters to their corresponding alcohols and acids in reverse micelles. Alcohol dehydrogenase from baker's yeast (YADH) was subsequently used to reduce the alcohol products to aldehydes. Cofactor recycling in the redox reaction... |
A potentially implantable glucose biosensor for continuous monitoring of glucose levels in diabetic patients has been developed. The glucose biosensor is based on an amperometric oxygen electrode and glucose oxidase immobilized on carbon powder held in a form of a liquid suspension. The enzyme material can be replaced ... |
Screening and design of immobilized biocatalysts (IMBs) is a time-consuming process. An ideal process should be universal, fast, convenient, precise, and reproducible. Many of these requirements are met by enzymic flow microcalorimeters, also known as enzyme thermistors (ETs) or thermal assay probes (TAPs). Adaptation ... |
In this article, we describe a novel type of affinity matrix which was prepared by covalently binding Protein A to crystalline cell surface layers (S-layers) from the gram-positive Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum L111-69. S-layers were used in the form of cell wall fragments, which were obtained by breaking whole cel... |
A liquid-liquid bubble column apparatus allows exposure of enzyme solutions to water-immiscible organic solvents with a known total interfacial area and welldefined time scales and flow. It allows clear distinction of the different classes of inactivation mechanism. With urease as a model enzyme, octan-2-one and butylb... |
We have investigated the effect of pressure on structural properties of subtilisin solubilized in reversed micelles of Tween-85/isopropanol in hexane. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of spin-labeled enzyme indicate a reduction in spin-label mobility when the enzyme is transferred from aqueous solution to ... |
Over the past 10 years, the baculovirus-insect cell system has become a powerful and versatile tool for the expression of a variety of heterologous proteins. In order to simplify separation of a cloned protein from the baculovirus-insect expression system, we have cloned a gene encoding for the protein of interest, a s... |
The effect of solvent on the activity of mushroom tyrosinase toward three substrates was studied at a constant water activity of either 0.74 or 0.86. No simple correlation was observed between enzyme activity and log P, but partition coefficients of substrate (P(s)) and product (P(p)) gave systematic relations with enz... |
Details of the mechanism for ribosome synthesis have been incorporated in the single-cell Escherichia coli model, which enable us to predict the amount of protein synthesizing machinery under different environmental conditions. The predictions agree quite well with available experimental data. The model predicts that r... |
A model that describes induction of protein synthesis from lac-based promoters has been developed and incorporated into the single-cell model of Escherichia coli with transcriptional and translational modifications. Unlike previous models of lac-based promoters, this model allows a priori prediction of the intracellula... |
The present study deals with kinetic modeling of enzyme-catalyzed reactions by integral progress curve analysis, and shows how to apply this technique to kinetic resolution of enantiomers. It is shown that kinetic parameters for both enantiomers and the enantioselectivity of the enzyme may be obtained from the progress... |
The N-linked glycosylation of the recombinant protein mouse placental lactogen-I (mPL-I) expressed by Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells under nongrowth conditions was inhibited by increasing levels of ammonium chloride (3 and 9 mM) in a serum-free, protein expression medium. The effect of ammonia on glycosylation was d... |
Chymotrypsin is easily extracted from an aqueous solution into isooctane containing the anionic surfactant aerosol OT (AOT). The concentration of AOT needed to efficiently extract 0.5 mg/mL CMT is as low as 1 mM and as low as 0.2 mM AOT was sufficient to extract the protein into isooctane. The extraction process was un... |
As part of our attempt to develop a hybrid artificial liver support system using cultured hepatocytes, we investigated the long-term metabolic function of hepatocytes incubated in a packed-bed type reactor using reticulated polyvinyl formal (PVF) resin as a supporting material. Long-term (up to 1 week) perfusion cultur... |
A perfusion system based on a 4-L stirred tank bioreactor and a custom-designed tangential (cross-flow) filter was assembled to realize a scaleup of the Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS). When perfused with 1 to 1.5 vol/day, Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf-9) insect cell cultures grew from 4 x 10(6) to 15 x 10(6) c... |
Abnormalities of microtubule-associated protein tau play a central role in neurofibrillary degeneration in several neurodegenerative disorders that collectively called tauopathies. Six isoforms of tau are expressed in adult human brain, which result from alternative splicing of pre-mRNA generated from a single tau gene... |
To clarify the effects of the recombinant protein of Lysophospholipase from Clonorchis sinensis (CsLysoPLA) on the hepatic stellate cells (HSC) and oval cells of rat. |
To construct a prokaryotic expression vector of human SUMO-2, purify GST-SUMO2-SUMO2 fusion protein produced by the expression system, and prepare its antiserum. |
To prepare specific antibodies against human PIWIL3 protein of Argonaute family and study its expression and distribution in human tumors. |
Monocytes/macrophages and lymphocytes have a key role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis through the production of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. We evaluated mRNA expression and protein production of CCL2, CXCL8, CXCL9, CXCL10, IFN-gamma and IL-10 in vitro as well as the expression of the CCR2 and C... |
The protein components of three industrial recombinant expression systems: Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and a mammalian cell culture supernatant of CHO cells were characterized in terms of their molecular weight, isoelectric point, and relative surface hydrophobicity. Identification of individual protein... |
Recombinant proteins were harvested from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells by a controlled release process, which increased the purity and concentration of the harvested protein. Recombinant human melano-transferrin (p97) was expressed linked to the outer surface of CHO cells by a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) me... |
In this article, we describe the use of 1- to 2-mum sized affinity microparticles for the isolation and purification of IgG from artificial IgG-human serum albumin mixtures and clarified hybridoma cell culture supernatants by affinity cross-flow filtration. Affinity microparticles were prepared from cell wall fragments... |
The formation of native disulfide bonds during in vitro protein folding can be limiting in obtaining biologically active proteins. Thus, optimization of redox conditions can be critical in maximizing the yield of renatured, recombinant proteins. We have employed a folding model, that of the beta subunit of human chorio... |
Scanning calorimetry measurements of different amounts of chymotrypsin in water alone gave a temperature of denaturation (T(d)) value of 54 degrees C. However, when high-molecular-weight poly(ethylene glycol) was added to aqueous solutions of chymotrypsin, the thermostability of the enzyme was enhanced. For example, th... |
Steady state sensitivity analysis of a model of carbohydrate metabolism and anaplerotic synthesis of oxalacetate were, in Aspergillus niger under conditions of citric acid accumulation, carried out. The flux and metabolite concentration control structure of the system obtained shows that the hexokinase/substrate transp... |
We studied the effect of organic solvents on the kinetics of porcine pancreatic lipase (pp) for the resolution of racemic glycidol through esterification with butyric acid. We quantified ppl hydration by measuring water sorption isotherms for the enzyme in the solvents/mixtures tested. The determination of initial rate... |
Solubility of a model protein, hen egg-white lysozyme, was investigated in a wide range of neat nonaqueous solvents and binary mixtures thereof. All solvents that are protic, very hydrophilic, and polar readily dissolve more than 10 mg/mL of lysozyme (lyophilized from aqueous solution of pH 6.0). Only a marginal correl... |
An attempt was made to use the phospholipase D (PLD)- containing culture supernatants of actinomycetes directly as catalysts for the transphosphatidylation reaction of phosphatidylcholine (PC) to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) in a biphasic system. Of the five actinomycetes (three Streptomyces sp. and two Streptovertici... |
The specific monoclonal antibody productivity (q(Mab)) of a murine hybridoma (CC9C10) increased with incubation temperature in the range 33 degrees C to 39 degrees C. q(Mab) was constant at each temperature and was independent of the phase of culture. The q(Mab) increased 97% at 39 degrees C and decreased by 21% at 33 ... |
Synechococus sp. strain Miami BG 043511 exhibits very high H(2) photoproduction from water, but the H(2) photoproduction capability is lost rapidly with the age of the batch culture. The decreases of the capability coincides with the decrease of cellular glucose (glycogen) content. However, H(2) photoproduction capabil... |
Subtilisin Carlsberg was covalently attached to five macroporous acrylic supports of varying aquaphilicity (a measure of hydrophilicity). Kinetic parameters of the transesterification of S and R enantiomers of secphenethyl alcohol with vinyl butyrate, catalyzed by various immobilized subtilisins, were determined in anh... |
We have examined the effect of genetically engineered charge modifications on the partitioning behavior of proteins in dextran/polyethylene glycol two-phase systems containing potassium phosphate. By genetically altering a protein's charge, the role of charge on partitioning can be assessed directly without the need to... |
This paper presents a new formulation for the analysis of growth kinetics on multiple nutrients. The baseline for the theory is the concept that a noninteractive growth process occurs among perfectly substitutable nutrients if the locus of points of the substrate concentrations producing equal growth rate is linear. A ... |
Pretreatment of sugar cane bagasse is essential for a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) process which uses recombinant Klebsiella oxytoca strain P2 and Genencor Spezyme CE. Strain P2 has been genetically engineered to express Zymomonas mobilis genes encoding the ethanol pathway and retains the native... |
Pseudomonas putida PpG786 that contains the inducible enzyme system cytochrome P-450(cam) is considered for use as specialized biomass fore detoxification of hazardous hydrocarbons. The test substrate 1,2-dibromochloropropane (DBCP) is used to assess the organohalide degradation activity of P. Putida PpG786. Activity w... |
A number of novel redox surfactants (based on mixed bipyridine/dipyridylamine complexes of osmium (II) where the dipyridylamine ligands bears a saturated C(8), C(10), C(12), C(14), or C(16) alkyl chain) were synthesized and characterized electrochemically and biochemically as mediators for glucose oxidase (EC 1.1.3.4, ... |
Batch and continuous hydrolysis of olive oil in an organic-aqueous two-phase system using the live whole cell of Pseudomonas putida 3SK as a source of a lipase is investigated. The strain was not only fully viable and grown well, but also produced extracellular lipase simultaneously. The degree of hydrolysis, depending... |
Oxygen and nutrient limitation was investigated in order to identify the origin of a lower specific ajmalicine production in Catharanthus roseus cultures at high cell densities in an induction medium. The effect of oxygen limitation was explored by comparing two identically aerated and agitated high cell density biorea... |
The application of the expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor for the anaerobic treatment of low-strength soluble wastewaters using ethanol as a model substrate was investigated in laboratory-scale reactors at 30oC. Chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency was above 80% at organic loading rates up to12 g CO... |
Foam development and stability in Atropa belladonna suspensions were investigated as a function of culture conditions. Foaming was due mainly to properties of the cell-free broth and was correlated with protein content; effects due to presence of cells increased towards the end of batch culture. Highest foam levels wer... |
A new method for the selective precipitation of proteins is applied to the isolation and purification of an antibody. Ligand-modified phospholipids (LMPs) are solubilized by the nonionic ethoxylated alcohol detergent, resulting in small (50 to 100 A) micellar aggregates of LMPs and surfactant. When introduced into prot... |
We have studied the enzymatic hydrolysis of whey proteins at pH 8 and50 degrees C with two proteases of bacterial origin, MKC Protease 660 L, and one of animal origin, PEM 2500 S. Our results show that a greater degree of hydrolysis is achieved under the same experimental conditions with the bacterial proteases than wi... |
The mechanism of extraction of rat cytochrome b(5) from water into a sodium dioctylsulfosuccinate (AOT) micellar organic phase was studied using protein engineering of surface charged residues. The extraction behavior of native cytochrome b(5) and modified proteins with substitutions of the type glutamic acid --> lysin... |
Hydrolysis reactions of homopolysaccharides, which differ in their degree of branching, and mixtures of linear and branched polymers were carried out with alpha-amylase. The branching structures of both the original amylopectin substrate and the cluster domains of amylopectin, obtained by ethanol precipitation of the p... |
Substrate limited fed batch cultures were used to study growth and overflow metabolism in hybridoma cells. A glucose limited fed batch, a glutamine limited fed batch, and a combined glucose and glutamine limited red batch culture were compared with batch cultures. In all cultures mu reaches its maximum early during gro... |
Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of monoamine oxidase (MAO) have been formed on the surface f a polypropylene membrane using amphiphilic polyelectrolytes. The enzyme activity of such protein-polyelectrolyte films was measured by a Clark electrodes. It was shown that in LB films thus formed the use of amphiphilc polyelectro... |
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was used as a tool for rapid assay of the thermostability of two Bacillus sp. alpha-amylases and horseradish peroxidase as a function of the concentration of glycerol, sorbitol, and sucrose. In this screening study, the DSC peak temperature proved to be a good measure of protein ... |
The inhibition potentials of products and substrate on the growth ofClostridium butyricum and Klebsiella pneumoniae in the glycerol fermentation are examined from experimental data and with a mathematicalmodel. Whereas the inhibition potential of externally added and self-produced 1,3-propanediol is essentially the sam... |
Expanded bed adsorption is a new downstream processing technique forcapture of proteins directly from unclarified feedstocks. Expanded bed adsorption reduces the number of operations in purification processes by combining clarification, concentration, and capture into one operation. It is based on stable fluidization a... |
A novel metabolic engineering technique involving the redirection ofcellular carbon fluxes was employed to reduce acetate production in an Escherichia coli culture. Metabolic engineering was achieved by cloning E. coli the gene for the Bacillus subtilis acetolactate synthase (ALS), an enzyme capable of catalyzing the c... |
Reduction of acetate excretion using a modified cellular glucose uptake rate was examined. An Escherichia coli strain bearing a mutationin ptsG, a gene encoding enzyme II in glucose phosphotransferase system (PTS), was constructed and characterized. The growth rate of the mutant strain was slower than its parent in glu... |
Specific quantifications of the major cellulolytic components of the Trichoderma reesei enzyme complex, i.e., endoglucanases I and III and cellobiohydrolases I and II, are described and, employing a defined mixture of these four cellulases reconstituted according to the composition of the native Trichoderma cellulase c... |
Several studies have shown that one of the critical factors governing protein fouling of microfiltration membranes is the presence of denaturedand/or aggregated protein in the bulk solutions. Experiments were performed to evaluate the role of intermolecular disulfide interchange reactionson protein aggregation and memb... |
The optical emission process of atomic hydrogen (Halpha, Hbeta, Hgamma), atomic carbon C(2p3s2p2 : lambda = 165.7 nm) and radical CH(A2delta --> X2II: lambda = 420-440 nm) in diamond film growth by electron-assisted chemical vapor deposition (EACVD) from a gas mixture of CH4 and H2 was studied by using Monte-Carlo simu... |
Spectral interferences can have a significant impact on the spectral variation and as a consequence can adversely affect the results of calibration model in spectra analysis. Wavelet transform (WT) and orthogonal signal correction (OSC) were both the popular preprocessing algorithms. It was known that the former can ef... |
To study the binding of rutin and serum albumin (SA) in physiological condition and the quenching mechanism of the fluorescence of SA by rutin, the fluorescence method was used. The results shows that the emission spectra of BSA (HSA) in the presence and absence of rutin are different. The emission spectra of BSA (HSA)... |
The albumin is the richest protein in blood circulatory system, which can combine with many drugs and play an important role in transporing protein. In the present work, the non-covalent interaction between human serum albumin and cinnamic acid was studied by using fluorescence quenching method. The results showed that... |
The interaction between norfloxacin and bovine serum albumin, and the influence of Zinc (II) on the system of norfloxacin and bovine serum albumin was studied under physiological condition by fluorescence method. It was shown that norfloxacin has a powerful ability to quench the BSA fluorescence via a nonradiative ener... |
In the paper, undoped and Pr2O3 doped TiO2 nanoparticles were prepared by a sol-gel process using Ti(OC4H9)4 as raw material and characterized by means of XRD TG-DTA, AFM, UV-Vis and FTIR. The photocatalytic activity of Pr2O3/TiO2 was evaluated by the photocatalytic degradation of acidic fuchsine. The factors affecting... |
For Au-ceria catalysts prepared by deposition-precipitation method, the catalytic performance of water gas shift reaction was studied with different La loadings. In the complete doping range, ceria retains with its cubic fluorite structures. XRD, HRTEM and UV-Vis-DRS, studies showed that La doping can improve the activ... |
Alzheimer's disease is defined pathologically by the presence of senile plaques, which consist primarily of extracellular aggregates of fibrillar Abeta peptide, and neurofibrillary tangles, which are abnormal, intracellular bundles of fibrillar tau protein. The advent of amyloid binding agents as diagnostic imaging pro... |
The midgut of one day old Drosophilia was examined morphometrically at the electron microscopic level. Results suggest that parenchymal cells, with the exception of basal cells, possess identical functions. Drosophilia midgut cells are smaller than those of other insects studied, and the surface densities of the rER wa... |
Immunocytochemical mapping of cholinergic neurones in the CNS of the cockroach Periplaneta americana has been attempted using monoclonal antibodies to choline acetyltransferase (ChAT, acetyl-CoA: choline O-acetyltransferase, EC 2.3.1.6). Monoclonal antibodies 11 255 and 1E6 raised against rat brain ChAT and 1C8 raised ... |
The gizzard of earthworms is definitely of endodermal origin. Contrary to the opinion that tissue of endodermal origin is unable to synthesize chitin, the gizzard epithelium secretes large amounts of chitin-containing material which has special properties. 28.7 +/- 5.7% of the dry weight proved to be chitin; the microf... |
The medulla region of sponges (= mesohyl) is only rarely dispersed with cells (approximately 25% of the total tissue volume). In vivo studies with a series of anti-cytoskeletal drugs revealed that taxol caused a significant contraction of intact specimens. Therefore, we investigated the possibility that microtubules ar... |
Pericardial hemolymph was obtained from American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and the hemocytes characterized by flow cytometry. The cells were found to have a broad unimodal size distribution with a median diameter of 7 micrometers. Total protein measured by flow cytometric fluorescence of dansylated cells also rev... |
The migration behavior of cells from the sponge Geodia cydonium was studied in vitro, applying the 'Tissue Culture Slide Chamber' technique. The homologous lectin caused a directed cell migration with a maximal locomotory rate of 1.6 mum/min. Competition experiments using the solubilized lectin receptor (= antiaggregat... |
Fibronectin (FN)-like protein has been localized by immunoelectron microscopy in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of planaria Dugesia lugubris s.l. The immunolabeling was present in both intercellular spaces of epidermal cells and the basement membrane, however the amount and distribution of gold particles seemed to be s... |
Monoclonal antibodies, 3B9 and 4C9, specific to connectin (also called titin), 3000 kDa elastic filamentous protein of vertebrate skeletal muscle, crossreacted with a high molecular weight protein (500 kDa) of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. However, its crossreactivity was weak to that of the unc-22 gene deficien... |
The fat body of the adult female stick insect Bacillus rossius was examined ultrastructurally with a view to clarifying the secretory pathway. The absence of lipid storage in the tissue allowed visualization of a polarized distribution of all organelles in the cell cytoplasm. Composite granules were distributed along t... |
Glial cells from an adult insect, Periplaneta americana, have been grown in neurone-free cultures. No growth occurred from freshly-excised fragments of abdominal nervous connectives. Vigorous growth was obtained, however, from explants of connectives induced to proliferate by prior exposure to a toxin, ethidium bromide... |
In vitro culture systems were developed for subepidermal adipose tissue (SAT) and ovary of the shrimp Penaeus semisulcatus. Both tissues were cultured in sea water-based media buffered with HEPES to pH 7.4 in an oxygen enriched atmosphere. Various incubation conditions were tested in order to define those supporting op... |
Optical microscope and ultrastructural autoradiography have been used to localise the sites of collagen secretion in the gland zones, and track its cellular synthesis and mode of cellular secretion. Optical microscope observation has been done after (3)H proline injection into the gland. Untrastructural study has been ... |
In order to examine the role of ependymal cells in the spinal cord regeneration of urodele amphibians, procedures were established to identify and culture these cells. Cell isolation and culture conditions were determined for ependymal cells from larval and adult axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum). Dissociated cells prepar... |
The composition and concentration of elements, in particular those of metallic cations, present in the intracapsular matrix and the wall of nematocysts of various cnidarian species have been recorded by means of X-ray microanalysis performed on 100nm thick cryosections. The predominant cation detected in the nematocyst... |
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding proteins provide a layer of complexity to the insulin/IGF signaling system in mammals, but only now, in a recent study in Journal of Biology, has one such protein been functionally characterized in Drosophila. |
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