scholarly journals Use of Novel Mutant Galactosyltransferase for the Bioconjugation of Terminal N-Acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) Residues on Live Cell Surface

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Mercer ◽  
Boopathy Ramakrishnan ◽  
Elizabeth Boeggeman ◽  
Luke Verdi ◽  
Pradman K. Qasba
Keyword(s):  
Small ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1012-1012
Author(s):  
Ramesh Ramji ◽  
Cheong Fook Cheong ◽  
Hiroaki Hirata ◽  
Abdur Rub Abdur Rahman ◽  
Chwee Teck Lim

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (22) ◽  
pp. 4180-4183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Schroeder ◽  
Bernhard Ellinger ◽  
Christian F. W. Becker ◽  
Herbert Waldmann ◽  
Christof M. Niemeyer

2009 ◽  
Vol 297 (4) ◽  
pp. L715-L728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Lee ◽  
Reuben Reich ◽  
Fang Xu ◽  
Pravin B. Sehgal

Although the administration of monocrotaline (MCT) into experimental animals is in widespread use today in investigations of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the underlying cellular and subcellular mechanisms that culminate in vascular remodeling are incompletely understood. Bovine pulmonary arterial endothelial cells (PAECs) in culture exposed to monocrotaline pyrrole (MCTP) develop “megalocytosis” 18–24 h later characterized by enlarged hyperploid cells with enlarged Golgi, mislocalization of endothelial nitric oxide synthase away from the plasma membrane, decreased cell-surface/caveolar nitric oxide (NO), and hypo- S-nitrosylation of caveolin-1, clathrin heavy chain, and N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor. We investigated whether MCTP did in fact affect functional intracellular trafficking. The NO scavenger (4-carboxyphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide (c-PTIO) and the NO donor diethylamine NONOate were used for comparison. Both MCTP and c-PTIO produced distinctive four- to fivefold enlarged PAECs within 24–48 h with markedly enlarged/dispersed Golgi, as visualized by immunostaining for the Golgi tethers/matrix proteins giantin, GM130, and p115. Live-cell uptake of the Golgi marker C5 ceramide revealed a compact juxtanuclear Golgi in untreated PAECs, brightly labeled enlarged circumnuclear Golgi after MCTP, but minimally labeled Golgi elements after c-PTIO. These Golgi changes were reduced by NONOate. After an initial inhibition during the first day, both MCTP and c-PTIO markedly enhanced anterograde secretion of soluble cargo (exogenous vector-expressed recombinant horseradish peroxidase) over the next 4 days. Live-cell internalization assays using fluorescently tagged ligands showed that both MCTP and c-PTIO inhibited the retrograde uptake of acetylated low-density lipoprotein, transferrin, and cholera toxin B. Moreover, MCTP, and to a variable extent c-PTIO, reduced the cell-surface density of all receptors assayed (LDLR, TfnR, BMPR, Tie-2, and PECAM-1/CD31). In an important distinction, c-PTIO enhanced mitosis in PAECs but MCTP inhibited mitosis, even that due to c-PTIO, despite markedly exaggerated Golgi dispersal. Taken together, these data define a broad-spectrum Golgi and subcellular trafficking dysfunction syndrome in endothelial cells exposed to MCTP or NO scavenging.


2018 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 20a ◽  
Author(s):  
Joydeb Majumder ◽  
Gaurav Chopra
Keyword(s):  

Hyomen Kagaku ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 313-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroki IDA ◽  
Yasufumi TAKAHASHI ◽  
Hitoshi SHIKU ◽  
Tomokazu MATSUE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassio Pedroso ◽  
Victor Mann ◽  
Kathrin Zuberbühler ◽  
Markus-Frederik Bohn ◽  
Jessica Yu ◽  
...  

Inorganic nanocrystals such as quantum dots (QDs) and upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) are uniquely suited for quanti-tative live-cell imaging and are typically functionalized with ligands to study specific receptors or cellular targets. Antibod-ies (Ab) are among the most useful targeting reagents owing to their high affinities and specificities, but common nanocrys-tal labeling methods may orient Ab incorrectly, be reversible or denaturing, or lead to Ab-NP complexes too large for some applications. Here, we show that SpyCatcher proteins, which bind and spontaneously form covalent isopeptide bonds with cognate SpyTag peptides, can conjugate engineered Ab to nanoparticle surfaces with control over stability, orientation, and stoichiometry. Compact SpyCatcher-functionalized QDs and UCNPs may be labeled with short-chain variable fragment Ab (scFv) engineered to bind urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptors (uPAR) that are overexpressed in many human can-cers. Confocal imaging of anti-uPAR scFv-QD conjugates shows the Ab mediates specific binding and internalization by breast cancer cells expressing uPAR. Time-lapse imaging of photostable scFv-UCNP conjugates show that Ab binding caus-es uPAR internalization with a ∼20-minute half-life on the cell surface, and uPAR is internalized to endolysosomal com-partments distinct from general membrane stains and without significant recycling to the cell surface. The controlled and stable conjugation of engineered Ab to NPs enables targeting of diverse receptors for live-cell study of their distribution, trafficking, and physiology.


2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (65) ◽  
pp. 9681-9684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin-Bin Chen ◽  
Xiao-Yuan Wang ◽  
Ruo-Can Qian

In this work, we design sticky, furry and fluorescent “wool-balls” based on p-benzoquinone/ethylenediamine polymer nanoclusters, which provide a convenient, fast labeling strategy for the imaging of cell surface sialic acids.


Cytotherapy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. S69-S70
Author(s):  
W.A. Bova ◽  
V.R. Mantripragada ◽  
V. Luangphakdy ◽  
G.F. Muschler

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