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Zhuravleva IY, Karpova EV, Dokuchaeva AA, Kuznetsova EV, Vladimirov SV, Ksenofontov AL, Nichay NR. Bovine jugular vein conduit: What affects its elastomechanical properties and thermostability? J Biomed Mater Res A 2021; 110:394-408. [PMID: 34390309 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.37296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The aim of this study was to compare the mechanical properties and thermal stability of the venous wall depending on the treatment method used, and, accordingly, on those structural changes in the tissue that this treatment causes. Bovine jugular vein walls (BJVWs) cross-linked with glutaraldehyde (GA), ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (DE), and Contegra commercial conduit were evaluated using uniaxial stretching [with and without pre-conditioning (PreC)], differential scanning calorimetry, amino acid analysis, and attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy. Fresh BJVW was used as a control. It was shown that failure stress in non-PreC GA-treated and DE-treated materials was lower than that in fresh and Contegra counterparts. Contegra samples were the stiffest among the tested materials. Cyclic preloading leads to distortion of the mechanical behavior of this material, which is heterogeneous in composition and structure. The denaturation temperatures (Td ) of all cross-linked BJVWs were higher than the Td of the fresh vein. The microstructures of the tested BJVWs did not exhibit any differences, but the cross-linking density and hydration of the DE-vein were the highest. GA-cross-linking or DE-cross-linking and isopropanol exposure (Contegra) changed the protein secondary structures of the tested materials in different ways. We hypothesized that the protein secondary structure and hydration degree are the main causes of differences in the mechanical properties and thermal stability of BJVW.
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- Irina Yu Zhuravleva
- E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center of the RF Ministry of Health, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center of the RF Ministry of Health, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center of the RF Ministry of Health, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center of the RF Ministry of Health, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- A. Belozersky Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology MSU, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center of the RF Ministry of Health, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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Samouillan V, Tang R, Dandurand J, Lacabanne C, Lacoste-Ferré MH, Villaret A, Nadal-Wollbold F, Schmitt AM. Chain dynamics of human dermis by Thermostimulated currents: A tool for new markers of aging. Skin Res Technol 2018; 25:12-19. [PMID: 29797593 DOI: 10.1111/srt.12588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND/PURPOSE The purpose of this clinical study was to identify dielectric markers to complete a previous thermal and vibrational study on the molecular and organizational changes in human dermis during intrinsic and extrinsic aging. METHODS Sun-exposed and non-exposed skin biopsies were collected from 28 women devised in two groups (20-30 and ≥60 years old). The dielectric relaxation modes associated with localized and delocalized dynamics in the fresh and dehydrated state were determined by the Thermostimulated currents technique (TSC). RESULTS Intrinsic and extrinsic aging induced significant evolution of some of the dielectric parameters of localized and delocalized dynamics of human skin. With photo-aging, freezable water forms a segregated phase in dermis and its dynamics is close to free water, what evidences the major role of extrinsic aging on water organization in human skin. Moreover, TSC indicators highlight the restriction of localized mobility with intrinsic aging due to glycation, and the cumulative effect of chronological aging and photo-exposition on the molecular mobility of the main structural proteins of the dermis at the mesoscopic scale. CONCLUSION TSC is a well-suited technique to scan the molecular mobility of human skin. It can be uses as a relevant complement of vibrational and thermal characterization to follow human skin modifications with intrinsic and extrinsic aging.
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- V Samouillan
- CIRIMAT UMR 5085, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Cedex, France
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- CIRIMAT UMR 5085, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Cedex, France
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- CIRIMAT UMR 5085, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Cedex, France
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- CIRIMAT UMR 5085, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Cedex, France
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- CIRIMAT UMR 5085, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Cedex, France
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- Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetique, Toulouse, Cedex, France
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- Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetique, Toulouse, Cedex, France
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Tarakanova A, Huang W, Weiss AS, Kaplan DL, Buehler MJ. Computational smart polymer design based on elastin protein mutability. Biomaterials 2017; 127:49-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.01.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Revised: 01/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Elastin peptides regulate HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cell migration and invasion through an Hsp90-dependent mechanism. Br J Cancer 2014; 111:139-48. [PMID: 24874477 PMCID: PMC4090727 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Revised: 04/04/2014] [Accepted: 04/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The elastin-derived peptides (EDPs) exert protumoural activities by potentiating the secretion of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) and the plasminogen-plasmin activating system. In the present paper, we studied heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) involvement in this mechanism. METHODS HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cell migration and invasion were studied in artificial wound assay and modified Boyden chamber assay, respectively. Heat-shock protein 90 was studied by western blot and immunofluorescence. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 and urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) were studied by gelatin ± plasminogen zymography and immunofluorescence. Heat-shock protein 90 partners were studied by immunoprecipitation. Messenger RNA expression was studied using real-time PCR. Small interfering RNAs were used to confirm the essential role of Hsp90. RESULTS We showed that kappa-elastin and VGVAPG elastin hexapeptide stimulated Hsp90, pro-MMP-2 and uPA secretion within 6 h, whereas AGVPGLGVG and GRKRK peptides had no effect. No increase of mRNA level was observed. Heat-shock protein 90-specific inhibitors inhibit EDP-stimulated HT-1080 cell-invasive capacity and restrained EDP-stimulated pro-MMP-2 and uPA secretions. The inhibitory effect was reproduced by using Hsp90-blocking antibody or Hsp90 knockdown by siRNA. Heat-shock protein 90 interacted with and stabilised uPA and pro-MMP-2 in conditioned culture media of HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cells. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, our results demonstrate that EDPs exert protumoural activities through an Hsp90-dependent mechanism involving pro-MMP-2 and uPA.
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Tamburro AM. A never-ending love story with elastin: a scientific autobiography. Nanomedicine (Lond) 2009; 4:469-87. [PMID: 19505248 DOI: 10.2217/nnm.09.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The author describes, in a quite unconventional way, the most important results achieved in the last 50 years in the field of elastin structure–elasticity relationships, beginning with the first invaluable findings of Partridge on desmosines and isodesmosines until the most recent theories on elastomeric proteins. The author also relates a scientific autobiography characterized by his greatest passion, elastin.
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- Antonio M Tamburro
- University of Basilicata, Department of Chemistry, Via N. Sauro 85, 85100 Potenza, Italy
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Samouillan V, Lamy E, Dandurand J, Foucault-Bertaud A, Chareyre C, Lacabanne C, Charpiot P. Changes in the physical structure and chain dynamics of elastin network in homocysteine-cultured arteries. J Biomed Mater Res A 2009; 93:696-703. [DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.32570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Tamburro AM, Bochicchio B, Pepe A. The dissection of human tropoelastin: from the molecular structure to the self-assembly to the elasticity mechanism. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 53:383-9. [PMID: 16085114 DOI: 10.1016/j.patbio.2004.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2004] [Accepted: 12/07/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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After a historical introduction the authors describe their most recent results on the structure, assembly and elasticity of elastin. Recent results obtained by analyzing the conformation of polypeptide sequences encoded by the single exons of human tropoelastin demonstrated the presence of labile conformations such as poly-proline II helix (PPII) and beta-turns whose stability is strongly dependent on the microenvironment. Stable, periodic structures, such as alpha-helices, are only present in the poly-alanine cross-linking domains. These findings give a strong experimental basis to the understanding of the molecular mechanism of elasticity of elastin. In particular, they strongly support the description of the native relaxed state of the protein in terms of trans-conformational equilibria between extended and folded structures as previously proposed [Int. J. Biochem. Cell. Biol. 31 (1999) 261]. The same polypeptide sequences have been analyzed for their ability to coacervate and to self-assembly. Although the great majority of them were shown to be able to adopt more or less organized structures, only a few were indeed able to coacervate. Studies carried out by transmission electron microscopy showed the polypeptides to adopt a variety of supramolecular structures going from a filamentous organization (typical of elastin) to amyloid-like fibers. On the whole, the results obtained gave significant insight to the roles played by specific polypeptide sequences in self-assembly and possibly in elasticity.
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Debret R, Antonicelli F, Theill A, Hornebeck W, Bernard P, Guenounou M, Le Naour R. Elastin-derived peptides induce a T-helper type 1 polarization of human blood lymphocytes. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2005; 25:1353-8. [PMID: 15860743 DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.0000168412.50855.9f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Increased level of elastin-derived peptides (EDPs) is observed in the serum of patients with manifestations of arterial diseases. We here investigated whether EDPs might exert, at systemic level, a regulatory role for the T-helper type 1 (Th-1)/Th-2 cellular immune response by human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) expressing the spliced-galactosidase (S-gal)-elastin receptor. METHODS AND RESULTS Using flow cytometry and Western blot analysis, we demonstrated that EDPs led to an activation of the S-gal-elastin receptor associated with cytokine production on PBLs and CD4+ T cell subpopulations. The constitutive expression of the S-gal-elastin receptor at the surface of human PBLs was upregulated at the mRNA (RT-PCR) and protein (ELISA) levels on cell activation. In nonactivated and phytohemagglutinin-activated conditions, expressions of the predominant Th-2 cytokine interleukin-5 (IL-5) and IL-10 were reduced, whereas those of the major Th-1 cytokines interferon-gamma and IL-2 were enhanced by EDPs. Furthermore, we evidenced that EDPs could not only potentiate the IL-12-induced Th-1 profile but also could reverse the Th-2 (over Th-1) profile induced by IL-4. Finally, Th-1 cytokine upregulation was associated to an increased activator protein-1 DNA binding and enhanced pro-matrix metalloproteinase-9 secretion. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights the importance of EDPs as stimuli for Th-1 differentiation, whether T cells are in an inactivated state or already orientated toward a Th-1 (IL-12) or Th-2 (IL-4) response.
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- Romain Debret
- Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Virologie et Bactériologie, Reims, France
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Samouillan V, André C, Dandurand J, Lacabanne C. Effect of water on the molecular mobility of elastin. Biomacromolecules 2005; 5:958-64. [PMID: 15132687 DOI: 10.1021/bm034436t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Purified and hydrated elastin is studied by both thermal and dielectric techniques to have insight into the chain dynamics of this protein. By differential scanning calorimetry, the glassy behavior of elastin is highlighted; the glass transition temperature (T(g)) of elastin is found to be widely dependent on hydration, falling from 200 degrees C in the dehydrated state to 30 degrees C for 30% hydration. A limit of T(g) at around 0 degrees C is found when crystallizable water is present in the system, that is, when the formation of ice prevents motions of some 10 nm along the polypeptidic chains. The technique of thermally stimulated currents, carried out in the -180 to 0 degrees C temperature range, is useful to detect localized motions. In this case, too, the localized motions vary considerably according to hydration: a first relaxation mode is observed at -145 degrees C and it is associated with the reorientation of crystallizable water in ice I; a second relaxation mode, more complex and cooperative, occurs at around -80 degrees C and could be attributed to the complex constituted by the dipolar groups of the polypeptidic chain and noncrystallizable water, behaving as a glassy system.
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- Valerie Samouillan
- Laboratoire de Physique des Polymères, CIRIMAT UMR 5085, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
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Dantras E, Dandurand J, Lacabanne C, Caminade AM, Majoral JP. TSC and Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Studies of the α Relaxation in Phosphorus-Containing Dendrimers. Macromolecules 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/ma049955i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Samouillan V, Dandurand J, Lacabanne C, Hornebeck W. Molecular mobility of elastin: effect of molecular architecture. Biomacromolecules 2002; 3:531-7. [PMID: 12005525 DOI: 10.1021/bm015655m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The thermal and dielectric properties of elastin and two soluble derivatives (kappa-elastin and derived elastin peptides from enzymatic elastolysis) were investigated in the freeze-dried state in a wide temperature range (from -180 to +220 degrees C). The glass transition of these amorphous proteins was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The dielectric relaxations of both proteins were followed by thermally stimulated currents (TSC), an isochronal dielectric spectrometry running at variable temperature, analogous to a low-frequency spectroscopy (10(-3)-10(-2) Hz) and by dynamic dielectric spectroscopy (DDS), performed isothermally with the frequency varying from 10(-2) to 3 x 10(6) Hz. The combination of TSC and DDS experiments and the determination of the activation parameters of the relaxation times inform about the molecular mobility of the proteins, both in the glassy state and in the liquid state. Major differences between the relaxation behavior of elastin and its soluble derivatives have been discussed and correlated with the molecular architecture of the proteins.
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- Valerie Samouillan
- Laboratoire de Physique des Polymères, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
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