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Akhtar MJ, Ahamed M, Alhadlaq HA. Challenges facing nanotoxicology and nanomedicine due to cellular diversity. Clin Chim Acta 2018; 487:186-196. [PMID: 30291894 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2018.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This review examines the interaction of nanomaterials (NMs) with cells from the perspective of major cellular differentiations. The structure and composition of cells reflect their role and function in a particular organ or environment. The normal differentiated-state and diseased cells may respond to NMs very differently. This review progresses with due care on nanotoxicology while emphasizing the potential of NMs in treating stress-associated disorders, including cancer and degeneration. The striking potential of NMs in inducing ROS, scavenging ROS, depleting cellular antioxidants, replenishing antioxidants, mimicking antioxidant enzyme activity, and modulating the immune system all show their considerable potential in treating cancer and other aging-associated disorders. It is now clear that NMs become more active and versatile when they come into contact with biological machinery, surprisingly in some cases, in a manner dependent on cell type. The mechanisms leading to the contrasting bioresponse of NMs ranging from toxicity to anticancer and from cell survival to carcinogenicity followed by their immuno-modulating potential show NMs to be a highly promising agent in biomedical therapy. This first-of-its-kind article seeks the challenges to be addressed that could provide a solid rationale in translating the promises of nanomedicine. A thorough understanding of normal and cancer biology could help to minimize the gap between basic and translational research in nanotechnology-based therapy.
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- Mohd Javed Akhtar
- King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia..
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- King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Maheshwari S, Singh AK, Arya RK, Pandey D, Singh A, Datta D. Exosomes: Emerging Players of Intercellular Communication in Tumor Microenvironment. Discoveries (Craiova) 2014; 2:e26. [PMID: 32309554 PMCID: PMC6941565 DOI: 10.15190/d.2014.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2014] [Revised: 09/24/2014] [Accepted: 09/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Seminal discoveries have established the role of complex tumor microenvironment (TME) in cancer progression; and later on also uncovered that vesiculation is an integral part of intercellular communication among various cell types in coordinating the tumor assembly in a dynamic manner. Exosomes are small membrane bound endosomal vesicles, which are classically known for their role in discarding cellular wastes; however, recent reports underlined their novel role in malignancy by their release from cells into the TME. Since then, the role of exosomes have been a subject of increasing interest, as exosome mediated intercellular communications offer a novel reciprocal relationship between cancer and stromal cells within the TME and modulate the fate and function of the recipient cells to finally shape the tumor progression. Exosomes are characterised by different features including size, content and mode of delivery; and its cargo delivers interesting bioactive components in the form of proteins, miRNAs or other molecules to the target cell. In the pursuit of further study of exosomes, it was found that with the help of its distinct bioactive components, exosomes specifically regulate tumor growth, angiogenesis, metastasis as well as drug resistance properties. In fact, it acts as a bridge between different signaling networks, present inside the spatially distant cells of the heterogeneous tumor population. In the current endeavour, we have highlighted the role of exosomes in modulating the intercellular crosstalk during tumor growth and progression, and proposed certain novel roles of exosomes to address the few enigmatic questions of cancer cell biology.
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- Shrankhla Maheshwari
- Biochemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow-226031, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi, India
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- Biochemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow-226031, India
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- Biochemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow-226031, India
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- Biochemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow-226031, India
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- Biochemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow-226031, India
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- Biochemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow-226031, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi, India
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Secretion of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides is mediated by exocytosis of distinct secretory organelles, synaptic vesicles (SVs) and dense core vesicles (DCVs) respectively. Relatively little is known about factors that differentially regulate SV and DCV secretion. Here we identify a novel protein RIC-7 that is required for neuropeptide secretion in Caenorhabditis elegans. The RIC-7 protein is expressed in all neurons and is localized to presynaptic terminals. Imaging, electrophysiology, and behavioral analysis of ric-7 mutants indicates that acetylcholine release occurs normally, while neuropeptide release is significantly decreased. These results suggest that RIC-7 promotes DCV–mediated secretion. Neuropeptides produce prolonged changes in circuit activity that are associated with changes in behavioral states (e.g. mood or appetite); consequently, there is great interest in identifying molecules that are required for neuropeptide secretion. Here we show that a novel neuronal protein RIC-7 promotes neuropeptide secretion in C. elegans but has only subtle effects on neurotransmitter secretion. RIC-7 is conserved in several other nematodes; however, homologous proteins are not found in other sequenced genomes. These results suggest that the machinery responsible for neuropeptide secretion evolved more recently than factors that are required for both neurotransmitter and neuropeptide secretion.
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Cells synthesize and store within membranous sacs products such as hormones, growth factors, neurotransmitters, or digestive enzymes, for release on demand. As recently as just 15 years ago, it was believed that during cell secretion, membrane-bound secretory vesicles completely merge at the cell plasma membrane resulting in the diffusion of intravesicular contents to the cell exterior and the compensatory retrieval of the excess membrane by endocytosis. This explanation, however, failed to explain the generation of partially empty vesicles observed in electron micrographs following secretion. Logically therefore, in a 1993 News and Views article in the journal Nature, Prof. Erwin Neher wrote "It seems terribly wasteful that, during the release of hormones and neurotransmitters from a cell, the membrane of a vesicle should merge with the plasma membrane to be retrieved for recycling only seconds or minutes later." The discovery of permanent secretory portals or nanomachines at the cell plasma membrane called POROSOMES, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to release intravesicular contents to the cell exterior, has finally resolved this conundrum. Following this discovery, the composition of the porosome, its structure and dynamics visualized with high-resolution imaging techniques atomic force and electron microscopy, and its functional reconstitution into artificial lipid membrane have provided a molecular understanding of cell secretion. In agreement, it has been demonstrated that "secretory granules are recaptured largely intact after stimulated exocytosis in cultured endocrine cells" (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:2070-2075, 2003); that "single synaptic vesicles fuse transiently and successively without loss of identity" (Nature 423:643-647, 2003); and that "zymogen granule exocytosis is characterized by long fusion pore openings and preservation of vesicle lipid identity" (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:6774-6779, 2004). It made no sense all these years to argue that mammalian cells possess an "all or none" mechanism of cell secretion resulting from complete vesicle merger at the cell plasma membrane, when even single-cell organisms have developed specialized and sophisticated secretory machinery, such as the secretion apparatus of Toxoplasma gondii, contractile vacuoles in paramecium, and different types of secretory structures in bacteria. The discovery of the porosome and its functional reconstitution in artificial lipid membrane, and an understanding of its morphology, composition, and dynamics, has resulted in a paradigm shift in our understanding of the secretory process in cells.
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- Bhanu P Jena
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
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Wang X, Liu W, Du K. Palaeontological evidence of membrane relationship in step-by-step membrane fusion. Mol Membr Biol 2011; 28:115-22. [PMID: 21190428 PMCID: PMC3038465 DOI: 10.3109/09687688.2010.536169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2010] [Revised: 10/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Studies on membrane fusion in living cells indicate that initiation of membrane fusion is a transient and hard to capture process. Despite previous research, membrane behaviour at this point is still poorly understood. Recent palaeobotanical research has revealed snapshots of membrane fusion in a 15-million-year-old fossil pinaceous cone. To reveal the membrane behaviour during the fusion, we conducted more observations on the same fossil material. Several discernible steps of membrane fusion have been fixed naturally and observed in the fossil material. This observation provides transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of the transient intermediate stage and clearly shows the relationship between membranes. Observing such a transient phenomenon in fossil material implies that the fixing was most likely accomplished quickly by a natural process. The mechanism behind this phenomenon is clearly worthy of further enquiry.
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- Xin Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, P R China.
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Brunner Y, Schvartz D, Couté Y, Sanchez JC. Proteomics of regulated secretory organelles. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2009; 28:844-867. [PMID: 19301366 DOI: 10.1002/mas.20211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Regulated secretory organelles are important subcellular structures of living cells that allow the release in the extracellular space of crucial compounds, such as hormones and neurotransmitters. Therefore, the regulation of biogenesis, trafficking, and exocytosis of regulated secretory organelles has been intensively studied during the last 30 years. However, due to the large number of different regulated secretory organelles, only a few of them have been specifically characterized. New insights into regulated secretory organelles open crucial perspectives for a better comprehension of the mechanisms that govern cell secretion. The combination of subcellular fractionation, protein separation, and mass spectrometry is also possible to study regulated secretory organelles at the proteome level. In this review, we present different strategies used to isolate regulated secretory organelles, separate their protein content, and identify the proteins by mass spectrometry. The biological significance of regulated secretory organelles-proteomic analysis is discussed as well.
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- Yannick Brunner
- Biomedical Proteomics Research Group, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
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Xu T, Xu P. Searching for Molecular Players Differentially Involved in Neurotransmitter and Neuropeptide Release. Neurochem Res 2008; 33:1915-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s11064-008-9648-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2007] [Accepted: 02/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Wang X, Liu W, Cui J, Du K. Paleontological evidence for membrane fusion between a unit membrane and a half-unit membrane. Mol Membr Biol 2007; 24:496-506. [PMID: 17710653 DOI: 10.1080/09687680701446973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Membrane fusion is of fundamental importance for many biological processes and has been a topic of intensive research in past decades with several models being proposed for it. Fossils had previously not been considered relevant to studies on membrane fusion. But here two different membrane fusion patterns are reported in the same well-preserved fossil plant from the Miocene (15-20 million years old) at Clarkia, Idaho, US. Scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, and traditional studies reveal the vesicles in various states (even transient semi-fusion) of membrane fusion, and thus shed new light on their membrane structure and fusion during exocytoses. The new evidence suggests that vesicles in plant cells may have not only a unit membrane but also a half-unit membrane, and that a previously overlooked membrane fusion pattern exists in plant cells. This unexpected result from an unexpected material not only marks the first evidence of on-going physiological activities in fossil plants, but also raises questions on membrane fusion in recent plants.
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- Xin Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, P. R. China.
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Barnes CA, O'Hagan BMG, Howard CV, McKerr G. Verification of cell viability at progressively higher scanning forces using a hybrid atomic force and fluorescence microscope. J Microsc 2007; 228:185-9. [PMID: 17970918 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2007.01836.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The prudent use of the atomic force microscope as a supra-vital live cell imaging tool requires that cell viability must be determined before and after scanning. Complementary optical techniques in conjunction with the fluorescent dyes rhodamine-123 and ethidium homodimer have been used within this study to determine cell viability after increasing loads are applied in contact mode. Guideline force ranges for five commonly cultured cell lines, human squamous carcinoma (A431), fibroblast, HeLa, Potorous tridactylis (PtK2) and rat intestinal epithelial (RIE) cells are given.
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- C A Barnes
- University of Ulster, Bioimaging, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, UK
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The release of neurotransmitters at the nerve terminal for neurotransmission, release of insulin from β-cells of the endocrine pancreas for regulating blood glucose levels, the release of growth hormone from GH cells of the pituitary gland to regulate body growth, or the expulsion of zymogen from exocrine pancreas to digest food, are only a few examples of key physiological processes made possible by cell secretion. It comes as no surprise that defects in cell secretion are the cause for numerous diseases, and have been under intense investigation for over half century. Only in the last decade, the molecular machinery and mechanism of cell secretion has become clear. Cell secretion involves the docking and transient fusion of membrane-bound secretory vesicles at the base of plasma membrane structures called porosomes, and the regulated expulsion of intravesicular contents to the outside, by vesicle swelling. The discovery of the porosome in live cells, its morphology and dynamics at nanometer resolution and in real time, its isolation, its composition, and its structural and functional reconstitution in lipid membrane, are complete. The molecular mechanism of secretory vesicle fusion at the base of porosomes, and the regulated expulsion of intravesicular contents during cell secretion, are also resolved. In this minireview, the monumental discovery of the porosome, a new cellular structure at the cell plasma membrane, is briefly discussed.
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- L L Anderson
- Section of Physiology, Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture & Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, 2356 Kildee Hall, Ames, IA 50011-3150, USA.
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Sugiya H, Matsuki M. AQPs and control of vesicle volume in secretory cells. J Membr Biol 2006; 210:155-9. [PMID: 16868671 DOI: 10.1007/s00232-005-0853-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of small, hydrophobic, integral membrane proteins. In mammals, they are expressed in many epithelia and endothelia and function as channels that permit water or small solutes to pass. Although the AQPs reside constitutively at the plasma membrane in most cell types, the presence of AQPs in intracellular organelles such as secretory granules and vesicles has currently been demonstrated. The secretory granules and vesicles contain secretory proteins, migrate to particular locations within the cell close to the plasma membrane and release their contents to the outside. During the process, including exocytosis, regulation of secretory granule or vesicle volume is important. This paper reviews the possible role of AQPs in secretory granules and vesicles.
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- H Sugiya
- Department of Physiology and Research Institute of Oral Science, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Chiba 271-8587, Japan.
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