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Halter M, Antia M, Vogel V. Fibronectin conformational changes induced by adsorption to liposomes. J Control Release 2005; 101:209-22. [PMID: 15588906 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2004.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2004] [Accepted: 07/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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One of the major drawbacks of drug delivery techniques that utilize liposomes as carriers is that they are often cleared from the body before they can deliver their therapeutic cargo. It is well known that serum proteins can adsorb to these drug delivery vehicles and influence their uptake by phagocytic cells. For this reason, protein adsorption to liposomes has been extensively quantified, and strategies have been developed to minimize protein adsorption to improve drug delivery. However, the conformation of proteins on surfaces can play an even greater role in controlling cell behavior than the quantity of adsorbed protein. We have therefore used fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to measure changes in the structure of fibronectin (Fn)--a key serum protein involved in phagocytosis--upon interaction with phosphatidylcholine (PC) liposomes. Our experiments reveal that fibronectin opens up from its inactive, compact conformation upon interaction with gel phase PC liposomes. We also used FRET to estimate a physiologically relevant dissociation constant, KD=1.1 nM, for the interaction. Conformational changes in serum proteins may result in the exposure of otherwise concealed recognition sites and therefore influence the interaction of liposomes with phagocytic cells.
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- Michael Halter
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Szule JA, Coorssen JR. Revisiting the role of SNAREs in exocytosis and membrane fusion. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2003; 1641:121-35. [PMID: 12914953 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(03)00095-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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For over a decade SNARE hypotheses have been proposed to explain the mechanism of membrane fusion, yet the field still lacks sufficient evidence to conclusively identify the minimal components of native fusion. Consequently, debate concerning the postulated role(s) of SNAREs in membrane fusion continues. The focus of this review is to revisit original literature with a current perspective. Our analysis begins with the earliest studies of clostridial toxins, leading to various cellular and molecular approaches that have been used to test for the roles of SNAREs in exocytosis. We place much emphasis on distinguishing between specific effects on membrane fusion and effects on other critical steps in exocytosis. Although many systems can be used to study exocytosis, few permit selective access to specific steps in the pathway, such as membrane fusion. Thus, while SNARE proteins are essential to the physiology of exocytosis, assay limitations often prevent definitive conclusions concerning the molecular mechanism of membrane fusion. In all, the SNAREs are more likely to function upstream as modulators or priming factors of fusion.
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- Joseph A Szule
- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Research Group, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1.
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Coorssen JR, Blank PS, Albertorio F, Bezrukov L, Kolosova I, Backlund PS, Zimmerberg J. Quantitative femto- to attomole immunodetection of regulated secretory vesicle proteins critical to exocytosis. Anal Biochem 2002; 307:54-62. [PMID: 12137779 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2697(02)00015-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Although immunoblotting (Western blotting) is widely used for the detection of specific proteins, it is often thought to be an inadequate technique for accurate and precise measurements of protein concentration. However, an accurate and precise technique is essential for quantitative testing of hypotheses, and thus for the analysis and understanding of proposed molecular mechanisms. The analysis of Ca(2+)-triggered exocytosis, the ubiquitous eukaryotic process by which vesicles fuse to the plasma membrane and release their contents, requires such an unambiguous identification and a quantitative assessment of the membrane surface density of specific molecules. Newly refined immunoblotting and analysis approaches permit a quantitative analysis of the SNARE protein complement (VAMP, SNAP-25, and syntaxin) of functional secretory vesicles. The method illustrates the feasibility of the routine quantification of femtomole to attomole amounts of known proteins by immunoblotting. The results indicate that sea urchin egg secretory vesicles and synaptic vesicles have markedly similar SNARE densities.
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- Jens R Coorssen
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1855, USA.
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Soriani M, Spaans MC, Tobler M, Freiburghaus AU. Nucleoside phosphatase activities on pig pancreas zymogen granule membranes analyzed by non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 1995; 27:1043-54. [PMID: 7496994 DOI: 10.1016/1357-2725(95)00076-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The membrane of the pancreatic zymogen granule plays an important part in the sequence of storage, transport and exocytosis of digestive enzymes. While much is known on stimulus-secretion coupling, very little is understood about how the storage organelles move in the cytoplasm to the luminal plasma membrane and why and how they fuse with it to release the contents. It is assumed that nucleoside phosphatases are involved in these energy consuming processes. Pancreatic zymogen granule membranes contain one major glycoprotein, GP-2, and a few minor proteins all with unknown functions. In order to identify functions we have purified zymogen granule membranes from pig pancreas, solubilized the proteins under non-denaturing conditions with the detergent CHAPS and characterized the extracted proteins by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, histochemistry and lectins. Three major protein bands, often fused in one broad band, revealed enzymatic activity for adenosine-, cytidine-, inositol- and guanidine- di- and triphosphates by the precipitation of liberated phosphate by Pb(NO3)2. This activity was sensitive to known ATP diphosphohydrolase inhibitors. The band with activity arises from a 92 kDa glycoprotein. A different narrow band showed monophosphatase activity for AMP, GMP, IMP and CMP. Some of the activities were inhibited by different lectins, indicating glycosyl groups near the active site. Electron microscopical cytochemistry confirmed a nucleoside phosphatase activity on granule membranes. Our results show for the first time that the nucleoside phosphatase activity of the zymogen granule membranes is carried by a 92 kDa glycoprotein, probably the known self-associating form of GP-2. The hydrolysis of tri- and diphosphate nucleotides could provide the energy required by exocytosis.
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- M Soriani
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
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Helm CA, Israelachvili JN, McGuiggan PM. Role of hydrophobic forces in bilayer adhesion and fusion. Biochemistry 1992; 31:1794-805. [PMID: 1737032 DOI: 10.1021/bi00121a030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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With the aim of gaining more insight into the forces and molecular mechanisms associated with bilayer adhesion and fusion, the surface forces apparatus (SFA) was used for measuring the forces and deformations of interacting supported lipid bilayers. Concerning adhesion, we find that the adhesion between two bilayers can be progressively increased by up to two orders of magnitude if they are stressed to expose more hydrophobic groups. Concerning fusion, we find that the most important force leading to direct fusion is the hydrophobic attraction acting between the (exposed) hydrophobic interiors of bilayers; however, the occurrence of fusion is not simply related to the strength of the attractive interbilayer forces but also to the internal bilayer stresses (intrabilayer forces). For all the bilayer systems studied, a single basic fusion mechanism was found in which the bilayers do not "overcome" their short-range repulsive steric-hydration forces. Instead, local bilayer deformations allow these repulsive forces to be "bypassed" via a mechanism that is like a first-order phase transition, with a sudden instability occurring at some critical surface separation. Some very slow relaxation processes were observed for fluid bilayers in adhesive contact, suggestive of constrained lipid diffusion within the contact zone.
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- C A Helm
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
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Zolese G, Curatola G, Amati S, Giambanco I, Donato R. S-100b protein regulates aggregation and fusion of cardiolipin vesicles. Cell Calcium 1990; 11:35-46. [PMID: 2311120 DOI: 10.1016/0143-4160(90)90047-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We have recently shown that S-100b protein interacts with the polar surface of cardiolipin vesicles [6]. This interaction produces changes in the secondary structure of S-100b as well as changes in the structural organization of cardiolipin vesicles. We report here on the effects of S-100b on cardiolipin vesicles as investigated by turbidity, terbium-dipicolinate fluorescence and freeze-fracture. Experiments were carried out in the absence and in the presence of Ca2+. In the absence of Ca2+ (0.1 mM EDTA), S-100b favors the aggregation and fusion of vesicles to some extent. Under these conditions, electron microscope analyses reveal the presence of fused vesicles along with particles similar to those observed in protein reconstituted systems or to lipid particles observed during fusional processes. In the presence of Ca2+, S-100b counteracts the Ca2(+)-dependent tendency of vesicles to aggregate and fuse. Under these conditions, bilayer phases along with hexagonal phases can be observed by electron microscopy. The latter effects of S-100b are not due to chelation of Ca2+ because of the relative concentrations of S-100b and Ca2+ under our experimental conditions and since much larger concentrations of EDTA are required to produce the S-100b effects. We propose that the dimeric nature of S-100b plays a major role in these events. In the absence of Ca2+, the S-100b molecules probably cross-link adjacent vesicles, one subunit contacting one vesicle and the other subunit contacting another vesicle through electrostatic bonds. In the presence of Ca2+, due to the large changes occurring in the conformation of the protein (which loses about 52% of its alpha-helical content), S-100b associates strongly with the polar surface of individual vesicles, thus generating some kind of physical barrier to aggregation and fusion of vesicles.
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- G Zolese
- Institute of Biochemistry, Medical School, Ancona, Italy
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Farías RN, López Viñals AE, Posse E, Morero RD. Relationship between isoelectric point of native and chemically modified insulin and liposomal fusion. Biochem J 1989; 264:285-7. [PMID: 2690824 PMCID: PMC1133574 DOI: 10.1042/bj2640285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Native insulin causes fusion of negatively charged liposomes in the pH range from 3.0 to 5.5. In marked contrast, insulin with all three amino groups succinylated did not show fusion ability at any pH. On the other hand, insulin amidated with glycine methyl ester with all six carboxyl groups blocked shifted its activity to higher pH, showing a pH range of activity from 3.0 to 7.4. When the carboxyl groups were recovered by hydrolysis of methoxyl groups from glycine methyl ester-treated insulin, the protein obtained (glycyl-insulin with six free carboxyl groups) behaved as native insulin. A good correlation between the isoelectric point values of insulin and its derivatives and their fusion properties was found.
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- R N Farías
- Departamento de Bioquímica de la Nutrición, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (INSIBIO) (CONICET-UNT), San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
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Martinez-Bazenet C, Audigier-Petit C, Frot-Coutaz J, Got R, Nicolau C, Létoublon R. Protein-mediated fusion of liposomes with microsomal membranes of Aspergillus niger: evidence for a complex mechanism dealing with membranous and cytosolic fusogenic proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 943:35-42. [PMID: 3401470 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(88)90344-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Membrane fusion is a fundamental and wide-spread phenomenon in the functioning of cells. Many studies were carried out concerning fusion of plasma membranes as for example cell-cell fusions or uptake by cells of lipid-enveloped viruses. The present study deals with the interaction of intracellular membranes of Aspergillus niger with artificial membranes (liposomes). Association is monitored by the uptake of radioactive liposomes by fungal microsomal membranes. The discrimination between aggregation and pure fusion is done by layering the liposomes-microsomes mixture on a continuous sucrose gradient. The accurate quantitation of the fusion phenomenon is monitored with a fluorescent assay based on resonance energy transfer (Struck, D.K. et al. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 4093-4099). Both methods show that, at physiological pH, there is a spontaneous fusion of microsomes with cholesterol-free liposomes. This phenomenon is protein dependent as trypsinized microsomal membranes are no longer able to fuse with liposomes. Biological significance of the fusion process has been demonstrated using microsomal intrinsic protein mannosylation assay; the enhancement of the lipid to protein ratio due to the fusion of liposomes with microsomes of A. niger results in an increase in the rate of endogenous proteins mannosylation. Moreover, cytosolic proteins of A. niger promote the fusion of any kind of liposomes with microsomes.
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Le Bel D. Labeling of the proteins at the surface of the pancreatic zymogen granule using diazotized [125I]iodosulfanilic acid. Biochimie 1988; 70:291-5. [PMID: 3134954 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(88)90074-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Purified pig and rat pancreatic zymogen granules have been covalently labeled with the membrane impermeant agent diazotized [125I]iodosulfanilic acid. Following alkaline lysis, the radioactivity was almost entirely (92%) recovered in a dense protein pellet designated as the 1 M sucrose pellet. The rest (8%) of the label was recovered in the membrane fraction. The specificity of this procedure in labeling the cytoplasmic aspect of the granule is demonstrated by the absence of label from granule content proteins and by the removal of iodinatable proteins following protease treatment of intact granules. No characteristic integral membrane proteins were labeled. In the pig, four major protein bands were labeled in both subfractions at Mr of 15,000, 33,000, 35,000 and 38,000. In the rat, a similar set of protein bands was labeled except for that of 15,000 Mr which was poorly labeled. Due to their location, it is suggested that these proteins may play an important role in the recognition between the granule membrane and the cell membrane and thereby the control of the exocytosis process.
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- D Le Bel
- Centre de Recherche sur les Mécanismes de Sécrétion, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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Harvey PR, Somjen G, Gilat T, Gallinger S, Strasberg SM. Vesicular cholesterol in bile. Relationship to protein concentration and nucleation time. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 958:10-8. [PMID: 3334858 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(88)90240-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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A study was done to determine whether the nucleation time was related to the amount of cholesterol carried in vesicles. Bile was obtained from cholesterol gallstone patients and controls. Gel-exclusion chromatography was used to separate vesicles and micelles in the native bile using an eluting buffer containing 10 mM sodium cholate. The percent of total cholesterol carried in vesicles in gallbladder bile of stone patients was significantly greater than that in control patients. Total cholesterol concentration in gallbladder bile of stone patients was significantly greater than in controls. This difference was due to the fact that vesicular cholesterol concentration was significantly greater in the gallbladder bile of stone patients compared to controls. Micellar cholesterol concentrations were similar in the two groups. Nucleation time was related significantly to vesicular cholesterol concentration in correlation analysis and, as previously shown, so was total protein concentration. This study supports the importance of vesicular cholesterol in solid crystal formation and demonstrates for the first time that the rate of cholesterol monohydrate crystal formation is directly related to the amount of cholesterol transported in vesicles.
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- P R Harvey
- Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada
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Chernomordik LV, Melikyan GB, Chizmadzhev YA. Biomembrane fusion: a new concept derived from model studies using two interacting planar lipid bilayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 906:309-52. [PMID: 3307918 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(87)90016-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- L V Chernomordik
- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow
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Jain MK, Zakim D. The spontaneous incorporation of proteins into preformed bilayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 906:33-68. [PMID: 3032257 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(87)90004-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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López Vinals AE, Farías RN, Morero RD. Characterization of the fusogenic properties of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase: fusion of phospholipid vesicles. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1987; 143:403-9. [PMID: 3827929 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(87)90680-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A fluorescence assay based on resonance energy transfer has been used to characterize the fusogenic properties of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. The extent of phospholipid vesicles fusion induced by the protein increased with decreasing pH, being maximum at pH 4.5-5.0. Fusion reaction was temperature dependent with an activation energy of 10 Kcal/mol, and virtually completed within 1 min. at pH 5.0. Fusion is most efficient with vesicles bearing negative charge, however uncharged and even positively charged vesicles were fused. The negatively charged and uncharged vesicles showed the same pH dependence. These observations suggest the importance of hydrophobic interaction in the process of fusion, which was supported by a correlation between extent of fusion and exposure of hydrophobic region of the protein.
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Halpern Z, Dudley MA, Lynn MP, Nader JM, Breuer AC, Holzbach RT. Vesicle aggregation in model systems of supersaturated bile: relation to crystal nucleation and lipid composition of the vesicular phase. J Lipid Res 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2275(20)38836-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Purification and pore-forming activity of two hydrophobic polypeptides from the secretion of the Red Sea Moses sole (Pardachirus marmoratus). J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66622-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Holzbach RT. Recent progress in understanding cholesterol crystal nucleation as a precursor to human gallstone formation. Hepatology 1986; 6:1403-6. [PMID: 3793014 DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840060630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Young JD, Cohn ZA, Podack ER. The ninth component of complement and the pore-forming protein (perforin 1) from cytotoxic T cells: structural, immunological, and functional similarities. Science 1986; 233:184-90. [PMID: 2425429 DOI: 10.1126/science.2425429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The ninth component of complement (C9) and the pore-forming protein (PFP or perforin) from cytotoxic T lymphocytes polymerize to tubular lesions having an internal diameter of 100 A and 160 A, respectively, when bound to lipid bilayers. Polymerized C9, assembled by slow spontaneous or rapid Zn2+-induced polymerization, and polyperforin, which is assembled only in the presence of Ca2+, constitute large aqueous pores that are stable, nonselective for solutes, and insensitive to changes of membrane potential. Monospecific polyclonal antibodies to purified C9 and PFP show cross-reactivity, suggesting structural homology between the two molecules. The structural and functional homologies between these two killer molecules imply an active role for pore formation during cell lysis.
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Young JD, Podack ER, Cohn ZA. Properties of a purified pore-forming protein (perforin 1) isolated from H-2-restricted cytotoxic T cell granules. J Exp Med 1986; 164:144-55. [PMID: 2425027 PMCID: PMC2188200 DOI: 10.1084/jem.164.1.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Histocompatibility-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes produce circular lesions on target cell membranes. The pore-forming protein (PFP or perforin 1) that forms these membrane lesions has been purified from lymphocytes. At 37 degrees C, in the presence of Ca2+, this protein polymerizes into a supramolecular tubular complex of Mr greater than 10(6) that partially resists dissociation by SDS and reducing agents. It incorporates spontaneously into planar lipid bilayers during polymerization to form nonselective ion channels, showing heterogeneous size distribution, the smallest conductance per unit being identified as 400 pS in 0.1 M NaCl. PFP/P1 that had been assembled in lipid vesicles before incorporation into planar bilayer show much larger single channel conductance, ranging from 1 to 6 nS in 0.1 M NaCl, suggesting that PFP/P1 may assume multiple functional sizes in proportion to its state of polymerization. The reconstituted channels are relatively voltage-insensitive, with most channels persisting in the open state for seconds to minutes. Nucleated cells are rapidly depolarized by this protein. The purified protein lyses a variety of tumor cells. Polymerization and functional channel activity are absolutely Ca2+-dependent. The activity of this protein may play a direct role in T lymphocyte-mediated cytolysis.
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The interactions of serum proteins are diverse, complex and can lead to dramatic effects on liposome stability and in vivo behavior; conversely lipids can modify the biological activities of serum proteins. Serum lipoproteins can potentially destabilize bilayer membranes leading to vesicle disruption and loss of contents; irregularities in the lipid bilayer, such as those which exist at phase boundaries, promote the destabilizing effects of lipoproteins. Other serum components such as fibronectin, immunoglobulins and C reactive protein can modify the biological properties of liposomes by promoting interactions with reticuloendothelial cells and/or activation of the complement system. Liposomes can avidly bind certain serum clotting factors, a process which can lead to dramatic effects on the clotting cascade. Thus the interactions of liposomes with serum proteins can reciprocally effect both components involved.
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Halpern Z, Dudley MA, Kibe A, Lynn MP, Breuer AC, Holzbach RT. Rapid vesicle formation and aggregation in abnormal human biles. A time-lapse video-enhanced contrast microscopy study. Gastroenterology 1986; 90:875-85. [PMID: 3949117 DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(86)90863-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Rapid nucleation of cholesterol crystals has previously been shown to provide a sharp discrimination between abnormal (cholesterol gallstone-associated) and normal human gallbladder bile. In the present study, we sought to further clarify the crystal nucleation process by time-lapse microscopy using a novel high-resolution video-enhanced microscopy technique. Using a previously described method for removal of particles from abnormal biles, we found a strikingly rapid rate of de novo formation of unilamellar vesicles, soon followed by massive vesicular aggregation, culminating in crystal formation. In normal biles, by contrast, this rapid aggregation process was not observed and the isolated unilamellar vesicles showed prolonged stability. Morphometric analysis of interval particle counts showed statistically significant differences. The process of cholesterol monohydrate crystal nucleation in supersaturated human bile is characterized by a sequential combination of vesicle formation, vesicle aggregation, and subsequent crystal formation. The primary distinction between abnormal and normal biles resides only in the consistent rapidity of onset and completion of these events in the abnormal biles.
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Functional channel formation associated with cytotoxic T-cell granules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:150-4. [PMID: 2417234 PMCID: PMC322809 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.1.150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Lymphocyte granules from cytotoxic T-lymphocyte lines A2, A11, and R8 were enriched by subcellular fractionation using a Percoll gradient. Granule-enriched fractions showed potent hemolytic activity in the presence of Ca2+. Isolated granules induced rapid Ca2+-dependent membrane depolarization of J774 macrophage-like cells. When tested in planar bilayers, granules induced the formation of Ca2+-dependent functional ion channels of large conductance steps of 1-6 nS in 0.1 M NaCl. Granule-induced channels were resistant to closing by an increase in transmembrane potential, with few channels shifting to the closed state only at voltages of greater than 70 mV, following a Poisson process. These channels showed poor ion selectivity and were permeable to all monovalent and divalent ions (K+, Na+, Li+, Cl-, Ca2+, Mg2+, Zn2+, Ba2+). Ultrastructural examination of soluble granule proteins incubated for 48 hr at 37 degrees C in the presence of Ca2+ revealed ring-like structures of 150-200 A. Structural and functional channel formation may be involved in cytolysis induced by cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
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Gad AE, Bental M, Elyashiv G, Weinberg H, Nir S. Promotion and inhibition of vesicle fusion by polylysine. Biochemistry 1985; 24:6277-82. [PMID: 4084519 DOI: 10.1021/bi00343a035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Polylysine induced rapid aggregation of large unilamellar vesicles composed of phosphatidylcholine-cardiolipin (1:1 molar ratio) but not their fusion. Application of the terbium-dipicolinic acid fusion assay showed that addition of polylysine at nanomolar concentrations enabled a significant lowering of the Ca2+ threshold concentration for vesicle fusion from 9 to 1 mM. Analysis of the kinetics of fusion with a mass-action kinetic model showed that polylysine enhanced significantly the rate of aggregation but affected only slightly the rate of fusion per se. Maximal enhancement of overall fusion rates occurred at a charge ratio (polylysine/cardiolipin) of about 0.5. At larger polylysine concentrations, e.g., at charge ratios greater than 3, polylysine inhibited vesicle fusion.
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