New paramagnetic derivative of iodoacetic acid

1974 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1822-1823
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Misharin ◽  
L. M. Vinokurov ◽  
O. L. Polyanovskii
Keyword(s):  
Iodoacetic Acid ◽  
Paramagnetic Derivative

Fibrinolytic Activity of Lung and Spleen Extracts Observed in Conventional but not in Germ-Free Rats

1979 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 726-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Utako Okamoto ◽  
Jun-ichiro Yamamoto ◽  
Yoko Nagamatsu ◽  
Noboru Horie
Keyword(s):  
Serine Protease ◽  
Plasminogen Activator ◽  
Fibrinolytic Activity ◽  
Iodoacetic Acid ◽  
Thrombin Inhibitor ◽  
Rat Tissues ◽  
Germ Free ◽  
Neutral Ph ◽  
Tissue Extracts

SummaryProtease-like activity which split plasminogen-free fibrin was demonstrated in 2 M KSCN extracts of the lung and spleen of conventional rats. The activity was virtually undetectable in tissue extracts from germ-free rats. The extracts from the conventional rat tissues split fibrin and fibrinogen remarkably at neutral pH, but not casein, when examined using fibrin, fibrinogen-agar and casein-agar plates. The fibrinolytic activity was inhibited by STI and DFP, indicating a serine protease nature. The activity was not inhibited by TLCK, t-AMCHA or dansyl-L-arginine-methylpiperidine amide (a selective synthetic thrombin inhibitor, OM189). It was neither activated nor inhibited by cysteine, KCN or iodoacetic acid. The results obtained indicate that the protease-like activity of the lung and spleen extracted with 2 M KSCN from conventional rats has properties which differ from those of trypsin, plasmin, plasminogen-activator, thrombin, and cathepsin A, B and C.

PLATELET ACTIVATION BY HUMAN CANCER CELLS GROWN “IN VITRO” OR DISSOCIATED FROM TUMOUR TISSUES

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Grignani ◽  
L Pacchiarini ◽  
M Zucchella ◽  
L Dezza ◽  
S C Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Aggregation ◽  
Platelet Activation ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Iodoacetic Acid ◽  
Tumour Cells ◽  
Human Cancer Cells ◽  
Human Tumour Cells ◽  
Dissociated Cells ◽  
Lymphoblastic Cells

The mechanisms of platelet activation by human tumour cells grown “in vitro” or freshly dissociated from tumour tissues have been investigated.MoCCL human T-lymphoblastic cells cultured “in vitro” induced platelet aggregation through the production of ADP, as evidenced by inhibition of the effect by apyrase. The maximum of ADP production by tumour cells was reached after 1 hour and was 225 p moles/106 cells.On the contrary, platelet aggregation induced by 5637 human bladder carcinoma cells was not inhibited by apyrase, but was abolished by hirudin, indicating the important role of thrombin in this effect.Tumour cells dissociated from 3 breast carcinomas showed a very high platelet aggregating activity, which was not inhibited by hirudin or apyrase, but was abolished by iodoacetic acid, suggesting a role for a cystein-protease in platelet activation.These results confirm that platelets can be activated by tumour cells through different mechanisms; they also suggest that the methods employed to obtain the tumour cells can influence the results, probably because of the different cell populations which are present in the dissociated tumour tissues.Informations obtained with freshly dissociated cells are interesting, because this method has been used seldom so far and because it provides a more physiological approach to the study of the interactions of tumours and platelets.

Outward current and repolarization in hypoxic rat myocardium

1983 ◽  
Vol 244 (3) ◽  
pp. H341-H350
Author(s):  
C. H. Conrad ◽  
R. G. Mark ◽  
O. H. Bing
Keyword(s):  
Action Potential ◽  
Action Potentials ◽  
Outward Current ◽  
Iodoacetic Acid ◽  
Mechanical Activity ◽  
Potential Range ◽  
Papillary Muscles ◽  
Rat Myocardium ◽  
Cable Properties ◽  
Sucrose Gap

We studied the effects of brief periods (20-30 min) of hypoxia in the presence of 5 and 50 mM glucose and of glycolytic blockade (10(-4) M iodoacetic acid, IAA) on action potentials, membrane currents, and mechanical activity in rat ventricular papillary muscles using a single sucrose gap voltage-clamp technique. Steady-state outward current (iss) was determined at the end of a 500-ms clamp to the test potential following a 600-ms clamp to a holding potential of -50 mV. In the presence of 5 mM glucose, hypoxia resulted in a decrease in action potential duration (APD) and an increase in iss (on the order of 60% at 0 mV) over the potential range studied. The increase in iss did not appear to be due to an increase in leakage current or to a change in the cable properties of the preparation. Addition of 50 mM glucose prevented the change in both APD and iss with hypoxia. In addition, glycolytic blockade with IAA did not alter iss in the presence of oxygen. We conclude that an increase in iss appears to be a major factor in the abbreviation of rat ventricular action potential seen with hypoxia. Glycolysis appears to be a sufficient (with 50 mM glucose) but not necessary source of energy for the maintenance of normal iss.

scholarly journals A manometric analysis of the metabolism in avian ontogenesis―II. The effects of fluoride, Iodoacetate, and other reagents on the respiration of blastoderm, embryo, and yolk-sac

1932 ◽  
Vol 112 (775) ◽  
pp. 114-138 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intact Cell ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Iodoacetic Acid ◽  
Embryonic Cells ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Cell Respiration ◽  
Cell Interior ◽  
Cellular Mechanisms ◽  
Differential Attack ◽  
Biological Methods

The study of cell-respiration by means of agents with a known action upon some one part of the cellular mechanisms has in recent years been much pursued, and it has to some extent been possible to make a differential attack upon the various co-operating processes which are so efficiently integrated in the intact cell. These methods suffer, it is true, from the disadvantage that the addition of an ion such as fluoride to the cell-interior may not merely inhibit a certain reaction which normally goes on there, but may also bring into being a number of distinctively pathological reactions which have no place in the normal cell. It is not surprising, therefore, that the results of experiments on cell-respiration are difficult to interpret. But difficulties of interpretation are no ground for failing to make use of any methods. which are available, and the possibility of complicated secondary effects is, after all, common to all biological methods in which the normal course of events within the organism is interfered with. Up to the present time, the study of the effect of agents such as fluoride, cyanide, iodoacetic acid, triphenylmethane dyes, sulphides, pyrophosphates, etc., has been confined to the cells of adult tissues ( cf . Dixon, 1929; wurmser, 1930) or to bacteria ( e. g ., Haldane, Cook and Mapson, 1931). But it would obviously be of much interest to observe their effects upon cells of early embryonic stages for we might hope in this way to discover something of the way in which the chemical machinery of the cell is laid down. To what extent, for instance, do the cells of a somite in a two-day old chick embryo resemble adult muscle cells in their reactions to the glycolysis-inhibiting action of iodoacetic acid ? Moreover, a good deal of evidence exists that embryos in the earlier stages of development combust carbohydrate molecules exclusively, and that later on the combustion of protein and fat sets in. What will happen then, to the metabolism of embryonic cells in the carbohydrate stage if their glycolysing power is artificially inhibited? Is the power of deaminating and combusting amino-acids already present and not used, or has it not yet developed ? In the former case the respiratory quotient should betray a change over to protein combustion; in the latter case the cells should cease to respire altogether. It was to answer questions such as these that the work described in the present paper was undertaken.

scholarly journals Chemical modification of serine at the active site of penicillin acylase from Kluyvera citrophila

1991 ◽  
Vol 280 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Martín ◽  
A Slade ◽  
A Aitken ◽  
R Arche ◽  
R Virden
Keyword(s):  
Active Site ◽  
Tertiary Structure ◽  
Thiol Group ◽  
Iodoacetic Acid ◽  
Penicillin Acylase ◽  
Protein Product ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Serine Residue ◽  
Conserved Sequence ◽  
Ester Substrate

The site of reaction of penicillin acylase from Kluyvera citrophila with the potent inhibitor phenylmethanesulphonyl fluoride was investigated by incubating the inactivated enzyme with thioacetic acid to convert the side chain of the putative active-site serine residue to that of cysteine. The protein product contained one thiol group, which was reactive towards 2,2′-dipyridyl disulphide and iodoacetic acid. Carboxymethylcysteine was identified as the N-terminal residue of the beta-subunit of the carboxy[3H]methylthiol-protein. No significant changes in tertiary structure were detected in the modified penicillin acylase using near-u.v. c.d. spectroscopy. However, the catalytic activity (kcat) with either an anilide or an ester substrate was decreased in the thiol-protein by a factor of more than 10(4). A comparison of sequences of apparently related acylases shows no other extensive regions of conserved sequence containing an invariant serine residue. The side chain of this residue is proposed as a candidate nucleophile in the formation of an acyl-enzyme during catalysis.

Swelling, reductive stress, and cell death during chemical hypoxia in hepatocytes

1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (2) ◽  
pp. C347-C354 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Gores ◽  
C. E. Flarsheim ◽  
T. L. Dawson ◽  
A. L. Nieminen ◽  
B. Herman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Injury ◽  
Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Iodoacetic Acid ◽  
Cell Killing ◽  
Cell Swelling ◽  
Reductive Stress ◽  
Chemical Hypoxia ◽  
Hydroperoxide Formation ◽  
Bleb Formation ◽  
The Relationship

In rat hepatocytes, we examined the relationship between cell volume, bleb formation, and loss of cell viability during chemical hypoxia with KCN plus iodoacetic acid. In hypotonic media (150-200 mosmol/kgH2O), cells swelled to a greater extent during chemical hypoxia than in isotonic media, but rates of cell killing were identical. Sucrose (300 mM) added to isotonic media prevented early cell swelling but actually accelerated cell killing. In contrast, mannitol (300 mM) improved cell survival but did not prevent cell swelling. Bleb formation occurred regardless of buffer tonicity. The antioxidants desferrioxamine and cyanidanol but not superoxide dismutase +/- catalase delayed lethal cell injury. Cell killing was greater during aerobic compared with anaerobic chemical hypoxia. Hydroperoxide formation was measured using a dichlorofluorescin assay and was accelerated during aerobic but not anaerobic chemical hypoxia. The results indicate that cell swelling is not the driving force for bleb formation or lethal cell injury. We conclude that “reductive stress” caused by respiratory inhibition favors formation of toxic oxygen species and may contribute to lethal cell injury during intermittent or incomplete oxygen deprivation.

Iodoacetic Acid and Sulfur Metabolism

Science ◽  
1937 ◽  
Vol 86 (2243) ◽  
pp. 588-588
Author(s):  
Abraham White
Keyword(s):  
Sulfur Metabolism ◽  
Iodoacetic Acid
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