THE SECONDARY ANTIBODY RESPONSE IN TISSUE CULTURE: II. DIFFERENCES IN THE COURSE OF ANTIBODY SYNTHESIS TO DIPHTHERIA TOXOID AND RAT SERUM ALBUMIN

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 803-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Juhasz ◽  
M. Richter

Lymph node fragments taken from rabbits previously immunized by a single footpad injection of both rat serum albumin and diphtheria toxoid were exposed to a secondary stimulus with either of these two antigens in vitro. The resulting secondary response was followed in tissue culture for a month. A difference was established in the antibody responses to rat albumin and diphtheria toxoid. Anti-diphtheria antibody formation was found to be more sensitive to hydrocortisone and less dependent on the presence of serum in the medium.

1985 ◽  
Vol 230 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Onishi ◽  
S Itoh ◽  
T Yamakawa ◽  
K Isobe ◽  
M Manabe ◽  
...  

It has been stated by McDonagh, Palma & Lightner [(1982) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 104, 6867-6871] that complexing of bilirubin with serum albumin has a marked species-dependent influence on bilirubin photoisomerization in vitro and in vivo. Therefore the kinetics for the quantitatively important reaction: (Formula: see text) of the photochemical interconversion between bilirubin and its photoisomers bound to human or rat serum albumin in aqueous solution, assayed by h.p.l.c., was used to elucidate the observed species-dependent difference. The relative rate constants for bilirubin bound to human serum albumin, except for k4, the rate of interconversion from (ZZ)-bilirubin into (EZ)-bilirubin, proved to be considerably larger than those for bilirubin bound to rat serum albumin. In accordance with these rate constants, the formation of photoisomers of bilirubin bound to human serum albumin, except for (EZ)-bilirubin, is very rapid and much greater than that for bilirubin bound to rat serum albumin.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 2856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Zazeri ◽  
Ana Paula Ribeiro Povinelli ◽  
Marcelo de Freitas Lima ◽  
Marinônio Lopes Cornélio

The bioactive piperine (1-piperoyl piperidine) compound found in some pepper species (Piper nigrum linn and Piper sarmentosum Roxb) has been shown to have therapeutic properties and to be useful for well-being. The tests used to validate these properties were performed in vitro or with small rats. However, in all these assays, the molecular approach was absent. Although the first therapeutic trials relied on the use of rats, no proposal was mentioned either experimentally or computationally at the molecular level regarding the interaction between piperine and rat serum albumin (RSA). In the present study, several spectroscopic techniques were employed to characterize rat serum albumin and, aided by computational techniques, the protein modeling was proposed. From the spectroscopic results, it was possible to estimate the binding constant (3.9 × 104 M−1 at 288 K) using the Stern–Volmer model and the number of ligands (three) associated with the protein applying interaction density function model. The Gibbs free energy, an important thermodynamic parameter, was determined (−25 kJ/mol), indicating that the interaction was spontaneous. This important set of experimental results served to parameterize the computational simulations. The results of molecular docking and molecular dynamics matched appropriately made it possible to have detailed microenvironments of RSA accessed by piperine.


1971 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Spira ◽  
A. Gordon ◽  
J. Gross

ABSTRACT The 3–8S iodocompounds of the rat thyroid were separated by means of electrodialysis on polyacrylamide gel columns into a dialyzable fraction (D) and non-dialyzable fraction (ND). The non-dialyzable fraction consisted of 4 peaks, one of which had the electrophoretic mobility of rat serum albumin. All 4 iodoproteins of the non-dialyzable fraction were shown in vitro to incorporate 3H-Leucine. The dialyzable fraction consisted of 6 iodine containing peaks, all of which incorporated 3H-Leucine. The half life and relative iodine pool size of each compound were determined and compared to the 19S thyroglobulin fraction.


1971 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Judah ◽  
Marion R. Nicholls

1. The labelling of intracellular and extracellular serum albumin was studied in liver slices and in whole rats by using new methods for the purification of the protein. 2. The results suggest that a polypeptide precursor is formed that is converted relatively slowly into serum albumin. 3. The effect of liver cell K+has been examined by a double-label method and it is shown that K+accelerates the rate of conversion of ‘precursor’ into albumin. The rate of transit of albumin across the cell membrane appears to be unrelated to the concentration of K+within the cell. 4. The time-course of incorporation of radioactive amino acid into albumin follows a sigmoidal mode. There is a pronounced time-lag before label starts to appear in intracellular albumin, and a further time-lag before it appears in extracellular albumin. 5. In slices the sum of intra- and extra-cellular label rises steadily from 30min after the start of labelling with a pulse of labelled leucine or valine and continues to rise for at least another 60min. This occurs whether labelling is stopped by addition of excess of carrier amino acid or with cycloheximide (100μm) or both. 6. The intracellular albumin content remains constant whether slices are maintained with low or normal intracellular K+concentrations. 7. Specific radioactivities of intracellular albumin (and fractions thereof) and of extracellular albumin were determined in vitro and in vivo. The results show that the intracellular albumin cannot be a precursor of extracellular albumin, unless a very small compartment is turning over much more rapidly than the bulk of the liver albumin or even of the microsomal albumin.


1972 ◽  
Vol 247 (12) ◽  
pp. 3858-3863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Peters ◽  
James C. Peters

1986 ◽  
Vol 40b ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peder C. Frandsen ◽  
Rolf Brodersen ◽  
Toshiaki Nishida ◽  
Curt R. Enzell ◽  
Synnøve Liaaen-Jensen ◽  
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